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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12762-2003Mar11.html
Militants in Iraqi Enclave Tied to al Qaeda Likely to Be Target of War
(Washington Post) Karl Vick - The Halabja Valley, an enclave just inside Iraq and close to the mountainous border with Iran, has been taken over by radical Islamic Kurds, the Ansar al-Islam, who field an estimated 900 fighters, including some 100 Arab extremists who arrived last year from Afghanistan.