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Time

The Religious Militia Muscles In
Ten days after Mahmoud Shakir Mohsen arrested a member of the religious militia, the religious militia arrested him.
[March 1, 2004]

MotherJones.com

Into the Ethnic Divide
If you want to get a sense of the challenges facing a unified Iraq, try convincing a Kurd to accompany you south of Kirkuk.

[April 28, 2003]

The Race, and the Riots
Kirkuk was falling, and every Kurdish figther with a Kalishnikov wanted a piece of the action.

[April 11, 2003]

New York Daily News

U.S. needs hand to get city back on feet
MOSUL, Iraq - As they struggle to bring this oil-rich city under control, American soldiers are turning to the former regime - including people who were trying to kill them only days ago.
[April 21, 2003]

Dr. Germ off & running
The hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq heated up yesterday when U.S. troops raided the Baghdad home of Dr. Germ - the demure microbiologist who headed Saddam Hussein's biological program.
[April 17, 2003]

Poverty stuns Marines
For two Marines in Tikrit who grew up near Hunts Point in the Bronx - but didn't know each other until they met here - Iraq is turning out to be a place of stark haves and have-nots.
[April 16, 2003]

Dead boy a pawn as factions fight
KIRKUK, Iraq - The only sure thing about the death of Hussein Mohsin Jalal is the car he died in.
[April 15, 2003]

Kurds taking names
KIRKUK, Iraq - Like most government buildings here, the registration bureau is a mess
[April 14, 2003].

Troops take Tikrit, too
There was no last stand for Saddam Hussein and his vaunted Republican Guard. U.S. troops faced skirmishes but no organized resistance as they rolled into Saddam's hometown of Tikrit yesterday.
[April 14, 2003]

Without fight, U.S. takes Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq - The city had fallen, but it had not been taken.
[April 12, 2003]

Kurd troops grab Kirkuk
KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish militia seized the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk yesterday as U.S. troops began moving into Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city.
[April 11, 2003]

Kurds king of mountain
U.S. and Kurdish forces dislodged Iraqis from a key mountain stronghold guarding the main northern city of Mosul yesterday, their biggest victory yet.

[April 10, 2003]

Party locals provoked attack, victims say
AIN SIFNI, Iraq - Mayan Khatun was washing her dishes when the kitchen wall exploded.
[April 8, 2003]

U.S. bombs kill 18 Kurds
IRBIL, Iraq - A U.S. war plane mistakenly bombed a convoy of Kurdish fighters and U.S. commandos in northern Iraq yesterday - killing at least 18 Kurds and wounding at least 45 others.
[April 7, 2003]

Blasts from past in north
OUTSIDE KHAZER, Iraq - Using tactics reminiscent of those used in Afghanistan, 10 members of the U.S. Special Forces fought alongside local militia yesterday, taking on a much larger Iraqi force.
[April 6, 2003]

Kurds in north keep up hope -and guard
Sherwan Hussein stopped just outside the village he fled 14 years ago and picked up the remnants of a poster of Saddam Hussein.
[April 2, 2003]

Many Kurds more afraid of Turkey
ERBIL, Iraq - Abdolmotaleb Abdolkarim Hosien has good reason to hate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
[March 3, 2003]

Grim Kurds prepare to suffer in new war
KALAK, Iraq - All that lies between this small Kurdish village and the Iraqi front line is about half a mile of no-man's land and a cemetery holding the bones of those killed when the Iraqi troops came through in 1991.
[March 1, 2003]

Wary Turks stock up - and wait for war
SILOPI, Turkey - With Iraq just 6 miles from this border town - and the fear of a biochemical attack hanging in the air - no one here really wants war.
People are sealing their windows with plastic and digging makeshift bomb shelters
[February 26, 2003]

Turkey paves the way for U.S.invasion force
Turkey signaled its willingness yesterday to allow the U.S. to use its territory
for a northern invasion of Iraq.
[February 7, 2003]

Unpublished article
Soran, Iraq - There are no fences in this prisoner of war camp in
Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. The inmates, former soldiers in
Saddam Hussein's armies - or 'guests' as their half-dozen Kurdish
guards insist on calling them - lie on blankets just yards from the
open road.
[April 4, 2003]


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