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Fear of ethnic conflict charges unrest in Mosul, Iraq.
Byline: Thanassis Cambanis
Nov. 30--MOSUL, Iraq -- After Saddam Hussein was ousted and his security apparatus collapsed, many Iraqis predicted ethnic war. They feared ethnic militias like the Kurdish Peshmerga would fill the security vacuum and engage in a bloody power struggle.
Such dire predictions failed to materialize in the 18 months following Hussein's fall. But the recent explosion of violence in this ethnically divided northern city has deteriorated to the brink of widespread ethnic conflict.
The rising tensions spilled over last week as the corpses of Iraqi soldiers, many of them Kurds, continued to pile up in the streets of Mosul. ...
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- Picture from: Getty Images MUJAHED MOHAMMED September 10, 2009 700+ words
...Images 09-10-2009 An Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga soldier stands at the edge of...Size JPG (3197 KB) An Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga soldier stands at the edge of...southeast of the restive city of Mosul, 370kms from Baghdad. A suicide...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Allam, Hannah March 5, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Hannah Allam TAKYA, Iraq _ A flame from a kerosene heater flickered in the mountain breeze and illuminated the hardened faces of Kurdish militiamen who are the only security force for this northern Iraqi village. Huddling together for warmth in a stark outpost last week, these members of
- Fear of ethnic conflict charges unrest in Mosul, Iraq.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News November 30, 2004 700+ words
...in the Old City on Mosul's west bank. Just...River, a battalion of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters mustered before...Kurdish-controlled east Mosul, presenting arms and...presence of thousands of Kurdish Peshmerga, who don't fall...command, they worry that Mosul's volatile mix ...
- In Mosul, Iraq, Kurdish militia helps keep order.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News November 18, 2004 700+ words
...the insurgent offensive in Mosul that began last week, and...a politician, head of the Mosul bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. In theory, the Kurdish peshmerga militia has been fully absorbed...makes Pire and his soldiers in Mosul an undeniable fact on the ground...
- Mosul's Iraqi defenders are set to surrender.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) April 11, 2003 700+ words
...the area of Dohuk, north of Mosul said: 'I am prepared to...for a political solution in Mosul.' He said the United States...Dohuk, Babakir Zibari, that Kurdish Peshmerga guerrilla fighters must stay on Mosul's outskirts. Zebari said...
- Mosul: in Kurdish sites.(BETWEEN KURD AND ARAB)
- Magazine article from: Kurdish Life June 22, 2008 700+ words
...Kurds never claimed that Mosul was "historically" a Kurdish...militias, much as it was done in Mosul." Two weeks later, with...on defense issues, said the Kurdish Peshmerga were deployed alongside Iraqi...in the regions of Kirkuk and Mosul where we have forces...
- Mosul falls as Kurds walk in.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Dougherty, Hugh April 11, 2003 700+ words
...KEY northern Iraqi city of Mosul fell today, leaving Saddam...Kurdish fighters walked into Mosul unopposed to accept surrender...of the area in the hands of Kurdish peshmerga soldiers. But its fall has...meeting-civic leaders in Mosul to agree the terms of surrender...
- Insurgents carry out suicide bombings in Baghdad, Mosul.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) December 4, 2004 700+ words
...minivan in the northern city of Mosul. Elsewhere in Iraq, two American...fledgling Iraqi security forces from Mosul back to Baghdad after a period...minivan carrying members of the Kurdish peshmerga militia in Mosul, where ethnic tensions have...
