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To walk through that museum yesterday in mosul. he joins us now to give us a sense of what he saw. ben? >> reporter: john, we were there yesterday. it's still very close to the front lines. we heard a lot of incoming mortar rounds while we were there. but yes, it's now firmly in iraqi government hands. now, what is interesting is that isis put out this video in february 2015 with their members smashing those statues with sledge hammers. but many of those statues were cheap copyies. that museum was set for renovation, so many items in the collection were moved to baghdad. and so they did manage...
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