Ironhorse
03-17-2003, 12:09 PM
Meanwhile we've been training Kurdish army in Northern Iraq. They are now ready and on the march:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm...ubsection=world (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3250393&thesection=news&thesubsection=world)
Military preparations within the Kurdish safe haven in northern Iraq, long defended by US and British airpower, are increasingly visible and there are signs that war is very close. In the mountain-top town of Salahudin yesterday some 600 soldiers with Kalashnikovs and rockets, who had just completed seven months, training, were marching down the main street. In the front line Pesh Merga are assembling in ever greater numbers.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm...ubsection=world (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3250393&thesection=news&thesubsection=world)
Military preparations within the Kurdish safe haven in northern Iraq, long defended by US and British airpower, are increasingly visible and there are signs that war is very close. In the mountain-top town of Salahudin yesterday some 600 soldiers with Kalashnikovs and rockets, who had just completed seven months, training, were marching down the main street. In the front line Pesh Merga are assembling in ever greater numbers.