Mosul simmers

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"There's definitely something going on," says the 23-year-old from Miami, Florida, dispatching four men and a translator to go and take over a nearby home and set up an observation point from the roof.

"Often there'll be guys up there spotting us and directing car bombs over the phone," he explained on Saturday as he led a patrol through an upscale district in northeast Mosul, a city that has been shaken by severe unrest for the past 10 days.

"I would even say that most of the car bombs that have hit us have been detonated near mosques," he said.

As it turns out, the men are merely mounting new speakers on the minaret to amplify the call to prayer. But in a city that has gone from relative calm to the brink of chaos in the space of days, Rodriguez's fears were not out of place.