Mosul in Lockdown After U.S. Base Blasted

Reuters reports that Mosul is under 9PM - 5AM curfew and that the 5 bridges accross the Tigris River have been blocked by tanks. Witnesses said U.S. forces, backed by Iraqi National Guards, sealed off neighborhoods in western and southeastern Mosul and raided homes. "They're looking in the areas that are known hotspots," one resident in the west of the city said. Link

AP Reports: There was little apparent sympathy for the dead Americans on Mosul streets Wednesday.

"In fact, what has happened in Mosul yesterday is something expected," said Sattar Jabbar. "When occupiers come to any country (they) find resistance. And this is within Iraqi resistance."

"I prefer that American troops leave the country and go out of cities so that Iraq will be safer and we run its affairs," Jamal Mahmoud, a trade union official. "I wish that 2,000 U.S. soldiers were killed, not 20."

Whether these events will precipitate another Fallujah style offensive in the coming days/weeks remains to be seen.