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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“The PUK had withdrawn and the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.
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