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Iraqi Prime Minister optimistic about Mosul liberation

Mosul will be easier to liberate from ISIS than other cities that have already been recaptured by the Iraqi military, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi predicts. "Mosul is supposed to be easier than these other cities outside Mosul, which we've been liberating -- because these are the outskirts," Abadi told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday […]

Mick Krever reports for CNN:

Mosul will be easier to liberate from ISIS than other cities that have already been recaptured by the Iraqi military, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi predicts.

"Mosul is supposed to be easier than these other cities outside Mosul, which we've been liberating -- because these are the outskirts," Abadi told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday in New York, where he was attending the United Nations General Assembly.

"They're supposed to be more pro-Daesh than the city itself," he added, using another name for ISIS.