Terrorist Forces Routed in Mosul Region of Iraq, Colonel Says

"Civilian population now overwhelmingly opposes terrorists

A U.S. Army brigade commander in Mosul, Iraq, says al-Qaida is reeling from a combination of effective military operations and a local population that actively helps to root them out.

Colonel Robert Brown commands the 1st Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, operating in Mosul and the surrounding region in the northwest part of Iraq. He told journalists at a Pentagon briefing September 14 that 80 percent of the al-Qaida network in northern Iraq "has been devastated. And those are not our figures, those came from the last six leaders in Mosul -- al-Qaida leaders -- that we captured; they informed us of that," he said."
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