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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tsigprofit who wrote (11351)	4/9/2003 5:50:43 PM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Heck why wait for tomorrow: story.news.yahoo.com <<Kurds expect to enter Kirkuk by Friday without a fight 2 hours, 1 minute ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! CHAMCHAMAL, Iraq (AFP) - The Kurds expect to enter the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk without a fight on Thursday or Friday, a Kurdish commander fighting Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s forces said. "It will all be over within the next two days. I think we will enter Kirkuk peacefully, without a fight," said General Hamid Rahim Rostam. Another senior Kurdish military official said the US Army would coordinate any advance into Kirkuk, whose capture by the Kurds is a source of concern for neighbouring Turkey. Members of the Republican Guard, regular army, Fedayeen militia and the security services are still holding Kirkuk, according to Rostam, who gave no figures. Kurdish fighters and US special forces, supported by targeted coalition air strikes, have been advancing toward both Kirkuk and Mosul, another major city in northern Iraq (news - web sites), with Iraqi forces pulling back since last week. Turkey is concerned that a Kurdish capture of Kirkuk could help bankroll moves to establish an independent Kurdistan.

To: tsigprofit who wrote (11351)	4/9/2003 5:55:06 PM
From: Mike M	Respond to of 21614

story.news.yahoo.com <<USS Lincoln Released From Duty in Iraq 6 minutes ago EVERETT, Wash. - The Navy confirmed Wednesday that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been released from duty in the Iraq (news - web sites) war and is returning to its home port here. The carrier was relieved of duty by the USS Nimitz, spokesman Rick Huling said. No arrival date had been set, but families of crew members are expecting the ship in about a month and are planning a big welcome. It would be the first homecoming for a large unit involved in the war in Iraq. The Lincoln and its seven-ship battle group have been at sea nearly nine months, longer than any U.S. carrier group now on duty. The Lincoln, with about 5,500 people on board, handles the Navy's newest fighters — the F/A-18E Super Hornets. The carrier also has older fighters and support and surveillance aircraft. After its return, the 1,100-foot, nuclear-powered Nimitz class carrier will go to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton for 10 months of maintenance. The carrier, known to its crew as "Abe," had been headed home to Washington state in December after a six-month Gulf tour when it was ordered to turn around and join up with the carrier USS Constellation and its battle group in the Gulf.