Reinforcements called to Mosul uprising

The Iraqi government sent reinforcements to the country’s third-largest city, Mosul, today, seeking to quell a militant uprising that US officials fear is in support of the resistance in Fallujah – now said to be under 80% US control.

Police in Mosul largely disappeared from the streets, residents reported, as gangs of armed men brandishing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers roamed the city, 225 miles north of Baghdad.