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To: Joe NYC who wrote (164791)	3/18/2003 6:07:29 PM
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Iraqi forces seek shelter in hospitals -opposition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, March 18 (Reuters) - Elite Iraqi troops and security units have based themselves in Baghdad hospitals to avoid being targeted in U.S. air strikes during a war to oust President Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi Kurdish faction said on Tuesday. A senior official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of two Kurdish groups that control northern Iraq and which says it is in contact with Iraqi military officers, said 18 hospitals had been cleared of patients and staff in recent days to make way for the troops and security units. Eight of the hospitals were military installations, with the remainder public or privately-run facilities, including one set aside to house members of the Iraqi president's personal guard corps, the source said. The United States on Monday gave Saddam 48 hours to step down to avoid a war to strip him of alleged weapons of mass destruction and has called on Iraq's armed forces not to fight. The PUK, which runs the eastern part of the Kurdish north that has been beyond Baghdad's grip since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, is working with U.S. military intelligence officials in northern Iraq in the buildup to war. Its leader said at a summit of Iraqi opposition groups aimed at planning for a post-Saddam government last month that it was communicating with elements of the Iraqi military to limit resistance to any U.S. invasion to bring down Saddam. alertnet.org