[...] U.S. military spokeswoman Capt. Angela Bowman rejected claims by some residents that parts of Mosul had fallen under insurgent control, saying that guerrillas "have not taken any parts of the city. The operations are still ongoing and probably will be for some time until we fully secure the city." [...]
U.S. analysts say the comparison with the insurgency in the Sunni triangle city may be overblown.
"I don't think Mosul will play the same role, in large part because of the significant number of Kurds and Turkomans who have little interest in coddling a Sunni insurgency," said Steven Metz, director of research at the U. S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute.
Unlike the ethnically homogenous cities of the Sunni triangle -- Fallujah, Samarra and Ramadi -- Mosul is in a Kurdish area, though with an Arab majority that is both Shiite and Sunni. There are also Assyrian Christians, Nestorian Christians, Armenians and Turkomans.
Insurgent violence mounting in the north
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Borzou Daragahi, Chronicle Foreign Service
[...] U.S. military spokeswoman Capt. Angela Bowman rejected claims by some residents that parts of Mosul had fallen under insurgent control, saying that guerrillas "have not taken any parts of the city. The operations are still ongoing and probably will be for some time until we fully secure the city." [...]
U.S. analysts say the comparison with the insurgency in the Sunni triangle city may be overblown.
"I don't think Mosul will play the same role, in large part because of the significant number of Kurds and Turkomans who have little interest in coddling a Sunni insurgency," said Steven Metz, director of research at the U. S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute.
Unlike the ethnically homogenous cities of the Sunni triangle -- Fallujah, Samarra and Ramadi -- Mosul is in a Kurdish area, though with an Arab majority that is both Shiite and Sunni. There are also Assyrian Christians, Nestorian Christians, Armenians and Turkomans.
