For top Iraqi commander, Mosul offensive is personal battle

By Michael Georgy JULUKHAN, Iraq (Reuters) - Major General Najm al-Jubbouri, a top commander in the offensive against Islamic State in the Iraqi city of Mosul, peered through binoculars at flames after his men shot dead an Islamic State suicide bomber. “You are heroes,” he said through a walkie talkie as Iraqi forces cleared another village, hoping to open a new route to the militants’ stronghold of Mosul. Last year, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked Jubbouri to return