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April 10, 2003, 10:24 AM
http://www.msnbc.com/news/886517.asp?0cv=CA01
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KIRKUK, Iraq, April 10 — The strategic northern Iraq oil city of Kirkuk fell to U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters on Thursday, reported MSNBC.com’s Preston Mendenhall, one of the first American reporters to enter the city after its fall. Sporadic gunfire could still be heard, but Iraqi positions along the road through the suburbs into the city had been abandoned. Kurdish “peshmerga” guerrillas and U.S. special operations forces advanced without apparent resistance as civilians cheered the fighters and began looting government buildings.
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KIRKUK, Iraq, April 10 — The strategic northern Iraq oil city of Kirkuk fell to U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters on Thursday, reported MSNBC.com’s Preston Mendenhall, one of the first American reporters to enter the city after its fall. Sporadic gunfire could still be heard, but Iraqi positions along the road through the suburbs into the city had been abandoned. Kurdish “peshmerga” guerrillas and U.S. special operations forces advanced without apparent resistance as civilians cheered the fighters and began looting government buildings.