Iraqi insurgents work for hearts and minds in northern city

MOSUL Iraq (Reuters) - It's been a week since Sunni rebels took Iraq's biggest northern city from the army and - with security forces still on the defensive - the fighters in Mosul are settling down and starting to govern their new territory.

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al Qaeda's wayward Iraqi offspring who spearheaded last week's offensive across north and western Iraq, drive around Mosul in stolen police cars and station themselves at banks and government buildings.