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Thats why the letter never should have been moved forward. >> the letter regarding the american people -- >> thank you both for being here. thank you so much. >> well see though if those committees are convened in eight days. >> yeah. >> doesnt seem like they will. >> that would be a lot of scrambling. the fight against isis, lets move on to this. its causing thousands of women, children and the elderly to flood into mosul. cnns arwa damon is in iraq. >> reporter: more reports of isis carrying...

Popping up. then isis went in and rounded up hundreds of people after that happened. we are told that civilians from that group are being released but, again, members of security forces or police and so on have been kept. you have this situation with those 232. most of those were from the security forces. we are hearing now of more former members of security forces. we heard even traffic cops are being pulled aside and kept by isis at the moment, inside mosul. given the fate of those 232, you ca...

States and iraqis. >> reporter: a bit of confusion, mixed messages, if you like. there are still towns and villages yet to be taken before everyone is at mosul. some are close, within a couple kilometers. some are 20-30 kilometers away. american officials said friday the iraqis would pause on some fronts to allow other units to catch up and consolidate their positions, which almost makes sense. almost immediately, iraqi commanders said not so, the u.s. comments were inaccurate. the hush or popul...

Course, they have the capital. thats an important development on the battle front. george? >> what more do you know? what is happening inside the city of mosul, at this point? >> reporter: we do know theres more rounding up of civilians going on there. theres a sort of rule by kara happening at the moment. you get caught with a cell phone in mosul, you will probably die. its that bad. getting information out is getting more difficult. we have heard in the last hour or so, there are accurate coal...

Well stay in touch with you. >> thank you. the battle for mosul. the united nation says isis executed 232 people, 232 civilians just outside the city for being disobedient. they carried out the mass killings on wednesday as iraqi security forces advance on the last urban stronghold. in the meantime, iraq says the troops are making progress in reclaiming mosul. we are learning iraqi paramilitary forlss are beginning an operation to cut isis supply lines to the west of mosul. cnns michael holmes...

Isis has. 90% surrounded. we are told an assault will begin in hours ahead south of mosul. we know iraqi counterterrorism forces are within eye sight of mosul. you have peshmerga fighters to the north. what they are trying to do is bring everyone up closer to mosul and make it a more uniform surrounding before they go in the city it several. obviously intelligence is coming out because there was direct strikes yesterday in particular on three houses there that were housed by 20 or so isis milita...

Surprising, we are not getting fatalities from kurdish forces. this has been a fierce fight at times. we are have seen wounded fighters brought back from the frontlines. it is not a one-way street thats for sure. we did hear this morning from iraqi government official of a town about 25 kilometers south of mosul that has been retaken by iraqi forces that 5,000 to 6,000 civilians were freed during that operation. a place called shiru. those are taken to camps to be processed. it is feared that th...

Bloodier. almost 900 isis fighters have been killed. now the remaining are using civilians as human shields and retreated to the center of the city ready for advance of the coalition forces. we have michael holmes with the latest from erbil, iraq. michael. >> reporter: the push continue , john. i think there is a lot of activity in a couple of towns and villages outside of mosul. you have the peshmerga forces four kilometers outside of the mosul. there is an iraqi counterterrorism unit with eyes...

New this morning, the battle to liberate mosul getting bloodier. 900 isis militants killed in the first 11 days of the mission. the few remaining are using human shields running to the center of the city. cnns michael holmes is monitoring the offensive near mosul. he is inn erbil, i should say. a lot of advancing to the city center. >> reporter: still fighting to be done. john, thats right. those 900 dead isis fighters which is interesting and not

And artillery going in there. that fight continuing. the place where there are a number of foreign fighters is 90% surrounded. we hear an assault will happen there today. further south from there, some better news. iraqi forces have overtaken that place and freed 5,000 to 6,000 civilians from under isis rule. interesting tid bit, we are hearing a lot of iraqi military leadership in places outside of mosul are leaving and leaving fighters to their own device. one piece of bad news from inside mos...