Time: Losing Mosul?

[NeoConsSuck]

Yea, right, like we ever really 'had it' </sarcasm>
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The northern Iraqi city once hailed as a post-war model is on a perilous backslide

Khalid Moustafa's family has no idea who killed him, or why. Moustafa, a Kurd, was a yogurt seller and taxi driver, the husband of an Arab woman and the father of five children, with a sixth on the way. He was found in pieces, his head near his home, his body left by a highway. "Mosul is a butchery," says the victim's father, asking that his name be withheld to protect the rest of his family.

Moustafa's murder is part of a recent wave of killings that threatens to turn this multiethnic, Arab-dominated northern gateway city into the next Fallujah, as areas of the city are slipping out of the control of U.S. forces and the Iraqi government.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,725055,00.html?cnn=yes