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| Kurdish militia regains positions taken by Islamic fighters |
| 2002-12-05 |
| Dozens of Kurdish fighters and Islamic militants were killed in a battle that saw a remote hilly area of northeastern Iraq change hands twice in 24 hours, Kurdish military officials said Thursday. In an overnight assault, fighters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan regained two hilltops that had been captured by Ansar al-Islam guerrillas a day earlier, said a Patriotic Union commander, Sheik Jaffer Mustafa. This sounds a lot like the Korean War, swapping hill tops. The Ansar had seized the Patriotic Union positions near the city of Halabja as the Kurdish fighters slept, killing nearly 20 and capturing an equal number, Mustafa said. He said he believed the Kurdish prisoners had been killed because villagers reported that Ansar members had asked them to collect their bodies. Killing prisoners being standard procedure. Mustafa said about 15 Ansar were killed in the fighting. He did not know how many were wounded. Thirty fighters from the Patriotic Union suffered wounds, he said. Kurdish officials blamed Wednesday's high casualty toll on a lack of vigilance by their fighters as they prepared for the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, which began Thursday. "It was really our guards' fault," said Mustafa Said Qader, a senior Patriotic Union official. "If the guards had not been martyred, they would have been punished." Sleeping while on guard duty is a big no-no. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 CNN ran some of their videotape that showed them gassing a doggy... |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-12-05 14:30:49 |
| #1 Your mistake can't get worse than fatal. Isn't this the same group that was reported to be doing WMD work? |
| Posted by: Chuck 2002-12-05 14:17:19 |