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■ • T - • " ■! influence in Iraq DOKAN, Iraq (AP)—Kurdish al lies of Saddam Hussein captured the last stronghold of their rebel rivals Monday — a rout that gives the Iraqi leader his greatest influence over north ern Iraq since the Persian Gulf War. As allied Iraqi forces trailed close behind, the Kurdistan Democratic Party claimed control of the city of Sulaymaniyah after the crumbling forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan abandoned their posts, the United Nations said. “The PUK had withdrawn and the KDP walked in,” said Stafford Clarry, the head of a U.N. guard unit in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan’s sec ond-largest city. The city was quiet after die take over, with about 50,000 of its 400,000 residents fleeing since Sunday night, Clarry said. Saddam’s Kurdish allies claimed they entered the city Monday evening after residents rebelled to force out the rival Kurdish faction and its leader, Jalal Talabani. “The KDP is in control of all the three Kurdish provinces qfDahuk, Irbil and Sulaymaniyah,” the KDP said. Sulaymaniyah was the last strong hold left in the hands of the PUK forces after they lost Irbil, the area’s de iacto capital, on Aug. 31 in a KDP offen sive backed by the Iraqi army. The Baghdad-backed KDP’s cap ture of Sulaymaniyah means Saddam effectively wields control ova*, much of northern Iraq for the first time since the U.S.-led forces established a Kurdish “safe haven” after the 1991 Gulf War. The United States, which launched missile strikes against southern Iraq last week, has made clear it has no plans to take sides in the fighting between the Kurdish factions, who frequently have shifted alliances in the course of their conflict. The missile strikes appeared to dis courage Iraqi forces from taking a di rect role in the fighting, but it has not slowed the KDP. The KDP has been fighting its way eastward since and on Monday took Dokan, a strategic town about 60 miles east of Irbil. Dokan is the site of a ma jor dam that controls the water and power supplies to the region. CORRECTION Gov. Ben Nelson was misquoted in Monday’s Daily Nebraskan in the page three continuation of the NASCAR unveil ing stay. Nelson’s offered his “top five reasons why Nebraskans and I like Husker NASCAR racing,” not his “top five list of reasons why Husker NASCAR racing is better than football games,” as the story states. ' 'sgpqf: '*Mgm .m jiiijiimpn. - - * Web Editor: Michelle Collins Night Editor: BethNarans . —Art Director: Aaron Steckelberg Amoc. News Editors: Paula Lavigne General Manager. DanShattil Jeff Randall Advertt*Jr Opinion Editor. Anne Hjersman Man. 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