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are right here. [ speaking foreign language] >> we were given the phone number of a relative who knew more about what had happened. he was too afraid to go on camera so we're just going to call him abu ahamyd. he told us that morning eight to 10 isis fighters jumped over the wall of the house and demanded access to the roof top. the families had begged to be allowed to leave. but they were made to stay as human shields.
and still booby trapped. we've always wondered how isis had so much ammunition in mosul, and it's obvious when you see the weapons fac contributes they had everywhere. they were making everything from scratch, mortars, rockets. in one factory they had fake hum veez that they were making out of wood to use as decoys. >> there's a childish feel to everything, but that's what makes it all the more sinister.
ambush, and the men carry a photograph of one of them. some of the soldiers like this one, they haven't returned. he was sitting up front in our armored vehicle and he got a shrapnel wound in his eye after a grenade exploded. some of the troops who were wounded that day, they got patched up and returned to the front lines. they don't get a break from war. we were snapping selfies and laughing and talking and gunfire broke out a few doors down. >> isis is basically flying one of their drones overhead they're just saying so they're trying to hoot it down, some of the other guys are in a different location. but this is how unphased everybody is because in the middle of all of that they're still trying to take photographs. >> drones loaded with explosives, it's what isis has shifted towards. and it's time for us to leave. when we come back a few days
>> isis had even begun building its own planes, planes not designed to land anywhere but instead to be flying suicide bombs. >> they found this inside the industrial zone in one of the areas used for manufacturing along with some manuals. it is fairly crudely put together, but this would take a certain level of expertise, creakrae eight activity and evening knew witty. they've even used glue to try fix some of the wires into place. >> for commanders like this who has lost eight of his men in the battle for mosul, places like this are a reminder of everything that they have
sacrificed. [ speaking foreign language ] isis can still strike. a few days after our visit multiple car bomb attacks killed well over a dozen people in liberated eastern mosul including an officer. everyone knows that isis can still reach into this part of the city, and that's what's terrifies the population. their nightmare, it's still not over. they keep coming back. you never invited this stubborn little rascal to your patio. so, draw the line. one spray of roundup® max control 365 kills to the root and keeps weeds away for up to 12 months. because patios should be for cooking out and kicking back.
the resilience of the human spirit. the irrepressible smiles of those kids weeks after they emerged from living under isis' rule. and the valor of ordinary soldiers who dream of an end to battle. men like akhmed who promised me his helmet when it was all over. iraq has had so many false starts. its people misled, cheated, manipulated. its history provides no reason for optimism.
when we went fwhak january, people were just beginning to return home, just beginning to rebuild. but the shadow of isis, it just hangs everywhere. even when you see something that looks normal until ordinary areas, it's not. children are out playing in the streets by a home that isis had converted into a prison. while we were filming, we got a call from the soldiers we were with in november where are and they just found a tunnel complex under a shrine. when we got there there were a bunch of militia celebrating that isis had gone. one screamed at us waving his american passport upside down as they drove away. >> i defend the freedom of the
but it's their eyes that tell you that different story. so many of these children witnessed horror that we can't even begin to imagine. so many had to flee their homes. even know they are still hearing explosions and gunfire every day. isis bans all imagery and isis may no longer fully control this part of mosul, but its presence still lingers and we are still looking for answers. kevin, meet your father.
ibthin this stairway. this is the corner that i was sitting in and i would stick this phone out. they remember and i would stick the phone out trying to get reception on it to send messages out. most of them were to our producer who was updating us with the information he had. >> i was waiting right there all night. that's where i parked. >> and i remember thinking back then this is what the population of mosul has to go through, sneaking upstairs to get a little bit of cell phone reception, knowing that they would be executed by isis if they were caught.
united states. >> they were there too always smiling and of course always smoking. there are still explosions in the distance, this constant reminder that isis is never that are far away. the tunnel itself is a huge, gaping hole and the guys laughed when we asked if we can go down. we ended up walking through this ram shackled neighborhood to another entrance that's under the shrine itself. and it's an enormous excavation