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To: Ilaine who wrote (43424)	9/12/2002 8:32:31 AM
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>>IRAQI TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQI NORTHERN PROVINCES IN VIEW OF U.S. STRIKES ABU-DHABI, September 10th, 2002 (From RIA Novosti correspondent Igor Kuznetsov) -- Kurdistan's sources confirm that Iraqi troops are being withdrawn from Iraq's northern provinces in view of U.S. military strikes. The 1st corps of the 2nd brigade and the 1st corps of the 5th brigade of the Iraqi army have been withdrawn 13 km south of the city of Erbil (the centre of the province of the same name, led by the head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani). The corps were contacting "peshmerga" (the Kurdish militia). The other units of the 5th brigade have been withdrawn 35 km southwest of the city of Kirkuk. While addressing the local people the committee of the BAAS ruling party said that it had been done to block the roads where goods from the north are being smuggled. The troops left the military station and the check-point situated on the border between the Erbil and Kirkuk provinces, the Saudi Al-Sharq-al-awsat newspaper reports. As Kurdish newspaper commentators write, the same regrouping will occur in other sectors. People here recall that back in the January of 1991, the launch of the Desert Storm operation, thousands of Iraqi servicemen surrendered holding arms to local Kurdish authorities.<< en.rian.ru