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Said militarily, but we had not solved the political problem that has endured and has created the mess that we're in right now. and by the way, i don't think baghdad is going to fall. the units are coming up, they're predominantly shia, they're going to hold. maliki is going to turn it over to a competent general and we're going to harden the defense of baghdad. once he's got a reasonably strong defense of baghdad, at that point, you leave the fortress and you take back the train that you've lost. but the isis, these guys are coming into territory that's increasingly unfriendly to them. >> unf...

From the u.s. army's third quad run third armored cavalry division are on patrol in mosul, iraq. captain conrad brown is on command. >> mosul was mostly al qaeda insurgents that had been pushed out of the sunni triang until the presurge 2006/2007. they had taken root in mosul. >> it's the sixth straight day of around the clock operations. the men are exhausted. >> we'd been up for about 36 hours at this point, and we're making our way back to our combat outpost. >> the battle worn neighborhood is known as an insurgent hot spot. >> the terrain favored the enemy immeasurably. the bombed out buil...

Also known as roadside bombs, ieds have claimed the lives of 65% of all u.s. casualties in both wars. >> the improvised bomb is the signature weapon of both the iraq and of the afghanistan war. it's the number one killer of soldiers. it's the number one weapon of insurgents. they're also as scary as hell. >> whoa! holy -- >> sometimes the difference between life and death is just seconds on a trigger. >> you just don't see it coming. you can have that gut feeling all day long but i don't know where it's coming from or who it's going to hit or who is going to push the button. >> january 11th, 2...

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