and putting explosives on the four main bridges and you can guess what they are going to do when iraqi forces enter the city. they are moving to the western side. there you will find the old city, a rabbit warren of narrow alleyways and roads wholly unfit to the types of military vehicles that the iraqis and peshmerga fighters have been using in the plains, the towns and villages on their way to mosul. certainly an upper hand for those who are incumbent in an urban warfare situation. want to tell you some more positive news that comes out of misery, and that is reunions that happened over the last difficult or so. what happened, this is six villages just to the east of mosul that iraqi forces liberated. there were people in there, about 1,000 people, little over 1,000, who had been kept by isis as human shields. that was the plan anyway until the villages were liberated. these people were taken back to a camp for internally displaced people and there, they were not