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When Mosul's Cops Return, Will They Seek Reconciliation¹ Or Revenge? 

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And we turn now to Iraq, where government forces are battling their way through rural areas to try to reach the city of Mosul, which is held by the Islamic State. An array of Iraq's security forces are involved. The fight is perhaps most personal for members of the Mosul police force who are anxious to get back to their city. NPR's Alice Fordham went to meet them.

ALICE FORDHAM, BYLINE³: Mosul's police have been exiled from the city and villages around it since ISIS took over in 2014. To find them now, you drive to a gray dot of a village in an endless desert. It was retaken from ISIS a few months ago, and hundreds of cops are now using it as a base.

(SOUNDBITE OF HELICOPTER)

FORDHAM: Helicopters buzz back and forth⁴ from the frontlines, and every breath is bitter with smoke from oil wells set alight by ISIS.

As-salaam alaikum.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Wa-laikum as-salaam.

FORDHAM: Hi.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: How are you?

FORDHAM: Inside, the mood is upbeat. The police are helping⁵ the army with logistics. Presiding over a bank of radios and several battlefield maps is General Abdulkareem al-Jubouri

ABDULKAREEM AL-JUBOURI: (Through interpreter) Yesterday, they liberated⁶ my village.

FORDHAM: These police were serving in Mosul city, and he's from a tiny hamlet nearby where his mother and sister still live. ISIS held it for more than two years.

JUBOURI: (Through interpreter) I feel great happiness today, first because we liberated our areas and our people from ISIS. Everyone is happy, not just me - the officers, the recruits. Everyone is happy. Today I went to my parents - such great happiness.

FORDHAM: He went with the army and several of his men on a mission to figure out how to hold the village. But he did have time to hug his mother.

JUBOURI: (Through interpreter) She was crying.

FORDHAM: General Jubouri talks a big game. He says, as locals, the police should be forced to secure Mosul once ISIS is forced out. But they've got a bad reputation. Before ISIS took Mosul, people in the city complained the police were infiltrated⁷ by al-Qaida. I asked the police chief, General Wathiq al-Hamdani, about this, and he's pretty blunt.

WATHIQ AL-HAMDANI: (Through interpreter) Yeah, I will talk very clear. Yeah, some of them, they have a relation with the terrorist. And some of the police who stay in Mosul now, they work with ISIS.

FORDHAM: Besides that, people from Mosul said the police were just incompetent⁸ and corrupt⁹. But General Hamdani says the ones that fled Mosul have now had training from Western advisers¹⁰ on things like how to raid a house and deal with suicide bombers¹¹. He says they're ready. But there's another problem. For this police force, the battle against ISIS is personal. They lost friends and family. And their desire for revenge could override¹² their training.

Outside, I meet a young corporal, Muhannad Ahmed.

MUHANNAD AHMED: (Speaking Arabic).

FORDHAM: He, too, is from the village now retaken from ISIS. And he says his relatives there are like people who died and were given life again. And then, he talks about what he'll do to ISIS.

AHMED: (Speaking Arabic).

FORDHAM: "I'm going to go and slaughter¹³ them all," he says. "I won't leave anyone in their family. I will erase¹⁴ from the face of the earth the brother or father of anyone who is with ISIS."

In training, he was taught to hand over suspected ISIS fighters to be dealt with by the courts. But, as the setting sun shines golden on his youthful face, he just says, we feel we have to kill him.

Alice Fordham, NPR News, Mahana village, Iraq.

1 reconciliation   

n.和解，和谐，一致

参考例句：

• He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
• Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

5 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

6 liberated   

a.无拘束的，放纵的

参考例句：

• The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进，解放了那座城市。
• The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应，释放出氧气。

7 infiltrated   

adj.[医]浸润的v.（使）渗透，（指思想）渗入人的心中( infiltrate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies. 总部混入了敌方特务。
• Many Chinese idioms have infiltrated into the Japanese language. 许多中国成语浸透到日语中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

8 incompetent   

adj.无能力的，不能胜任的

参考例句：

• He is utterly incompetent at his job.他完全不能胜任他的工作。
• He is incompetent at working with his hands.他动手能力不行。

9 corrupt   

v.贿赂，收买；adj.腐败的，贪污的

参考例句：

• The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
• This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。

10 advisers   

顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )； （指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
• She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。

11 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 override   

vt.不顾，不理睬，否决；压倒，优先于

参考例句：

• The welfare of a child should always override the wishes of its parents.孩子的幸福安康应该永远比父母的愿望来得更重要。
• I'm applying in advance for the authority to override him.我提前申请当局对他进行否决。

13 slaughter   

n.屠杀，屠宰；vt.屠杀，宰杀

参考例句：

• I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
• Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。

14 erase   

v.擦掉；消除某事物的痕迹

参考例句：

• He tried to erase the idea from his mind.他试图从头脑中抹掉这个想法。
• Please erase my name from the list.请把我的名字从名单上擦去。