DOHUK, Iraq — U.S.-led forces have started moving early Friday into Mosul -- the largest city northern Iraq -- and military leaders planned to meet with representatives to negotiate the city's surrender.
Kurdish military leaders said remnants of Saddam Hussein's forces had offered to surrender if they were granted amnesty and if coalition bombing stopped.
In Washington, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said small numbers of U.S. and Kurdish forces had started entering Mosul to begin the process of taking weapons from Iraqi forces.
"It is an orderly process and the forces that are entering are being welcomed by the people," he said.
