She just admitted that it's over in Baghdad.
Headline: Leader: Kurdish-U.S. Forces Seize Hilltop - AP -- Detail Story
IRBIL, Iraq - U.S. special operations troops and Kurdish peshmerga fighters seized a strategic hilltop near the northern Iraqi-held city of Mosul early Wednesday, a senior Kurdish leader said.
The area called Maqloub had been heavily defended by Iraqi forces and served as a hub for air defenses against coalition air strikes as well as a munitions center, said Hoshyar Zebari, a leading member of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party. It is about 10 miles northeast of the commercial center of Mosul, Iraq (news - web sites)'s third-largest city.
"From our perspective it was the most important gain ... so far," Zebari said. "This shows the crumbling of the northern front."
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