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He has a sense of urgency about it and there's 2,000 forces of additional commitment as high as 12,000 which would include conventional ground forces, artillery units. you're seeing one being deployed right now. apache helicopters and additional special operation forces. the president has to make a decision about all that and i'm certain once that operation truly commences he'll begin to talk about it to the american people but likely not before that. >> shannon: there's been criticism that president trump has micromanaged and done smaller efforts. do you think it goes bigger and broader with ...

You hear about this. you're about pentagon planners thinking about this and i found the novel a quick mission creep. >> it's not too different than what we are currently doing be frank about it. we have forces there working with the syrian kurds and arabs. with this option as this brings an apache helicopters in there, also some artillery, increase another strike aircraft to loosen up the rules and also increase the special operation forces. in this option, there are no u.s. ground forces. leland: well, we've heard that. president obama was talking about no boots on the ground. they are wearin...

The outskirts of mosul. if you look around mosul, they are still well back. we have been covering one particular strategically important town and surroundingvilsurrounding villag villages. they tried to probe their way in. they were hit by bombs and sniper fire. what is happening today is rockets mainly fired in specific areas. that is from apache helicopters and the like. one presumes that is to eliminate the sniper positions and get rid of the vehicle-born explosive devices. kurds can then move in to that very important city. you know, it is interesting, iraqis put out a number where they ha...

Suicide vehicle bombs and sniper. today, air attacks from apache helicopters. and one of the villages on outside, the peshmerga have been able to get in there and they are making progress to take what is a strategic city from isis. this is an important prize, if you like, for the peshmerga and iraqi forces making gains elsewhere on the battle field. the most forward position is eight miles from the city. they will need to bring others up from different directions before they are settled enough to start thinking about an end to mosul. >> michael holmes following the development in mosul. the ...

So ago and were driven back by car bombs. they still didn't get to go in yesterday, but today, we are seeing more air efforts brought in. rockets fired from apache helicopters. they are trying to identify the problem positions and take them out to the peshmerga can clear out the isis fighters. we think there are no civilians in the city. that is some good news. it is a strategic city because it is a supply route into mosul. if they cut it off and secure it, that's another step on the way to encircling the city. >> michael holmes near mosul. stay safe. authorities are urged to probe a hate cr...