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October 21, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&ncid=736&e=10&u=/ap/20021019/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_kurdish_army

Kurds Eye Iraqi Oilfields

(AP) - The top Iraqi Kurdish military commander, Cmdr. Hamid Efendi, said Saturday that his forces would try to capture nearby oil-rich areas if the U.S. strikes at Saddam Hussein's regime. A draft constitution proposed this month envisions the oil center of Kirkuk as the future capital of a Kurdish homeland. Yet Turkey sees the oil-producing areas as a traditional ethnic Turkish zone.

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