>> in falluja, we were able to remove about 90% of people living there. that was not the case in most soul. there still remains 1.2-1.5 million people, about the size of dallas, to give you a sick -- to give you a scale. the potential is there to have the kind of picked -- kind of conditions we are seeing in on one block, you are fighting urban warfare. the next block, you are trying to do peacekeeping, particularly among tribes and groups. the third block, you are trying to do humanitarian assistance, all simultaneously. and the government and police have to be able to move in. the problem in mos greater than it was in places like fallujah and ramadi. >> in those places, when people left the city, we had a major problem with shiite militias primarily an iranian backed that were weeding out sunni men and women, some being executed, revenge being taken on a sunni male population. expect we could have similar problems if there are hundreds of thousands of sunni men, women, and children flowing out of most soul. >> if i may jump in on that, the issue is, unl

faced in falluja in 2004. isis is well dug in, relentless and they have no boundaries. for this kind of war. that's what makes the challenge all that greater. plus, they have absolutely no qualms about using the civilian population. more than once, the soldiers told us about how they'd go into a home that had a white flag in front of it. there would be a family upstairs and isis fighters would be hiding upstairs for them. it was by far much worse than anyone, including the soldiers, expected. as you heard in the piece there, wolf, it's only just the beginning. >> so what's your assessment based on this horrible 24-hour period, where you guys were literally running for your lives? what's your assessment of the iraqi military's capability now going forward and liberating mosul? >> this is going to be, by far, the toughest challenge that they have faced. bearing in mind that they are relatively a new army and, by many accounts, a retrained army. but at the end of the day, there is a lot of confidence amongst the soldiers that, yes, they will be able to eventually win the b

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