Word: mosul
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...that worked before, such as moving their operations into areas where there are relatively few U.S. troops. Al-Qaeda elements driven out of Anbar province by the Marines and a coalition of local tribes began to cluster in Diyala. In recent weeks, bombers have struck even farther north, in Mosul, Kirkuk and long-peaceful Kurdistan. But most groups remained in Baghdad and even called in reinforcements. Many al-Qaeda fighters moved from Anbar to the capital, and the Islamic Army, the largest Iraqi insurgent group, called on its fighters to rally there for a cataclysmic showdown with U.S. and Iraqi...
...opposing the war, and has recently commented that there is "nothing positive" coming out of the situation in Iraq. Of particular concern in Rome is the destiny of the Christian minority in the country. Over the past week, a Catholic Chaldean priest and three deacons were killed in Mosul in northern Iraq, while another Chaldean priest and five parishioners have been abducted in Baghdad. Thousands of Christians are fleeing the war-ravaged country. However, for fear of risking a further deterioration of the situation facing Iraqi ethnic and religious minorities, few clerics are calling for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops...
...rounds. He's met the uniforms from the county sheriff's office, hovered near the the railroad company's booth, peered at the slightly mangy Aflac duck. Nothing offered at this recent job fair resembles his previous occupation, driving and manning guns on a Stryker armored vehicle in Mosul, Iraq. No matter: what he needs is a paycheck with benefits, his first full-time job since separating from the Army in April 2006. He's 25. He's living with his toddler son and pregnant wife in her parents' house. He's getting way too friendly with his Xbox...
...Uncertainty is endemic to the job hunt, and anathema to soldiers like Hughes. He trained for all four posts on the eight-wheeled, tank-like vehicles called Strykers, and deployed to Iraq in October 2004. On his first day in Mosul he was shot at. A few months later, the driver of the Stryker ahead of his was killed by a roadside bomb. Still, he grew to love his work. "I didn't have that feeling until I went to Iraq, that I was good at something," he says. "Things fell into place - everybody depending on me, letting me know...
...great strength of High Tea in Mosul is to reveal that flesh-and-blood world behind the impersonal blur of headlines. O'Donnell, keenly aware of the quotidian reality of life in Iraq, cautions against "knee-jerk anti-Americanism," remarking: "It doesn't do Iraqis any favors. The focus should be on making Iraq a place Iraqis want to live." Today, Pauline and Margaret have both left Mosul. Their stories - of hastily packed suitcases thrown in cars at dawn - are a sad reminder of just how unlivable their former home has become...