摩索尔是当今反叛力量的主要据点，伊拉克军队驻在那里的一位营长阿里说 ： “ 没有美国人，我们根本不可能控制伊拉克。 ”
As Iraqi Colonel Omar Ali, the Iraqi battalion commander in Mosul, the main focus of the insurgency today, recently put it, “Without the Americans, it would be impossible for us to control Iraq.”