.Killer Troop takes pulse of Mosul
"Mosul, Iraq-
We snaked through stone alleys, under marble arches, briefly following a channel of water down the narrow street into the Tigris. Children's heads sprung from doorways to watch the strange sight 3/3 ACR's "killer" squad patrolling apart from their heavy vehicles or Iraqi counterparts.
On one corner was an ancient Assryian church, on the next the curved Al Hadba minaret of the Nurridine Mosque. One man was building a handmade boat whose bow breached his tiny shop as we passed. Children shaved logs on lathes. A fire peaked from a dark tunnel.
We were in medieval Segovia or Florence, only older, in a Biblical land strung with hundreds of low hanging electrical wires. Piles of plastic and trash lay with ancient ruins as the backdrop. A white figure of Mary rose in the sky next to another dome topped with a cresent and star."
IN-iraq
We snaked through stone alleys, under marble arches, briefly following a channel of water down the narrow street into the Tigris. Children's heads sprung from doorways to watch the strange sight 3/3 ACR's "killer" squad patrolling apart from their heavy vehicles or Iraqi counterparts.
On one corner was an ancient Assryian church, on the next the curved Al Hadba minaret of the Nurridine Mosque. One man was building a handmade boat whose bow breached his tiny shop as we passed. Children shaved logs on lathes. A fire peaked from a dark tunnel.
We were in medieval Segovia or Florence, only older, in a Biblical land strung with hundreds of low hanging electrical wires. Piles of plastic and trash lay with ancient ruins as the backdrop. A white figure of Mary rose in the sky next to another dome topped with a cresent and star."
IN-iraq
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