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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161027:13:44:00

Hour or so. bashika is a strategically important town about 20 kilometers from mosul. as this offensive continues you ve got peshmerga fighters some four kilometers from mosul. you ve also got an iraqi counterintelligence unit we re being told who are within eye shot of mosul. an important town, about 10 or 15 kilometers south of mosul, surrounded by iraqi forces inside we re told foreign fighters from chechnya, from tunisia, from morocco. this is still a hard fight, and not all units are up around mosul. there s still a lot more to be done. inside the city, preparations have been made, suicide bombers, hundreds of them, we re told, have been brought in to the city from syria, and those reports coming from residents inside. also we re told of the positioning of dozens and dozens of truck and car bombs ready for when this assault begins. and even katyusha rocket ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161027:13:45:00

Launchers placed on three sides of the city. all of this, as you said, the defense secretary ash carter pointing out that raqqah in syria is next on the list, and the campaign to take over the isis de facto headquarters could well overlap with the mosul campaign, as well. it s going to be a very different battle. for one thing the two cities are in different countries here in iraq. there is a central government controlling the fight with the help, of course, of the u.s. and others and peshmerga fighters. but in syria, central government not involved. it s going to be up to local fighters to do the hard work with a lot of help from american air power. carol? michael holmes reporting live near mosul, iraq, this morning. a horrific bombing out of southwestern syria. at least 20 children have been killed after preregime warplanes bombed a school complex. 15 adults also died. the toll is expected to rise as crews continue to search through the rubble. activists blame syrian military ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161027:09:54:00

reporter: that s right, louis. this assessment from the defense secretary, this is a typically sanguine statement from a u.s. official when it comes to action on the ground here in iraq. he s right to say this is going according to plan. so far iraqi security forces have managed to move around a siege mentality and a siege strategy around mosul, the second largest city in iraq. they ve managed to take almost a hundred cities and towns all around mosul. but we have to put this into perspective here. most of these cities and towns are void of people. they have no civilians. and when the iraqi security forces, the peshmerga, and the regular army, when they actually try to pierce isis defenses and move into mosul, that s going to be an entirely different story. there s still over a million civilians in that city. just this morning, the associated press and reuters are both reporting that isis is moving into the outskirts of mosul and trying to forcibly move civilians from those areas in ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20161026:14:41:00

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 ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161026:15:39:00

In iraq, turkey, abu dhabi, u.s. troops are not special operatives, are not on the front lines. they re also embedding. that means they re up there with the peshmerga, with iraqi counterterrorism forces. they re working closely but they re insisting they won t be part of a holding force in mosul, tamron. the other story you were able to get secretary carter to respond to is one we ve reported, l.a. times has for some time now, veterans who signed up for wars in iraq and afghanistan, they received bonuses. and then suddenly were told they needed to pay back that money. outrage from both republicans and democrats on this. what did secretary carter say? well, here in brussels, he s just announced he s going to be suspending the payback of these bonuses. that doesn t, however, mean this is totally in the clear. they have a process in place. as secretary carter told me this morning, they do think there may have been a little bit, at least ....

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