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Kurdish fighters in Northern Iraq

NIQ2003032704 -NORTHERN IRAQ, March 27 (UPI) -- Iraqi Kurd Peshmerga set up a machine gun position near the Iraqi town of Chamchamal, northern Iraq on March 27, 2003. The Kurds took over the hills around the border town of Chamchamal after several US-led bombardments caused Saddam Hussein's soldiers to.retreat. mk/ak/Ali Khaligh UPI

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