Guess those people were right to leave Kirkuk weeks ago...

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Guess those people were right to leave Kirkuk weeks ago...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/2890403.stm

Sulaymaniyah, Northern Iraq :: Stuart Hughes :: 1502GMT

Command sources from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - the PUK - have claimed a massacre has taken place near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

PUK sources say yesterday evening government forces, loyal to Saddam Hussein, moved into the town of Hawi Jah, near Kirkuk, and tried to persuade members of the Jabbor tribe to fight alongside them on the northern front.

When they refused a clash ensued between the Jabbor tribe and the Iraqi army, from the Jaysh Al-Quds Brigade.

And this morning the Iraqi army allegedly butchered five hundred tribesmen with knives.

These claims come from PUK sources and the BBC has no way of independently verifying them.
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The Kurds might well be exagerating the situation but I don't doubt the Iraqi army is capable of massacring civilians.
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Oh yay, one more lightning strike into the dessicated forest that is "Kurdistan"...
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