Word: duanzasimam
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...Saddam Hussein prepares for a possible U.S. invasion, his troops are quietly jockeying for strategic position in Kurdistan. One example came last week in Duanzasimam, a dust-blown village of about 600 people separated from the Iraqi frontline bunkers by a ripple of dirty brown ridges. On the morning of February 28, Salam Rahim heard the unmistakable, and familiar, crack of explosions skirting the hamlet. He reached for the Kalashnikov he keeps on his sitting room floor as his wife and children ran out the gate. "The women and children were scared and half of the people fled...
...other vantage points dotted along the Iraqi front, the peshmerga near Duanzasimam say they have watched Saddam's forces prepare for American bombers. Bunkers are being reinforced, ammunition is being brought forward andtanks are being deployed around Tuz Khurmatu and, more worrying, mysterious covered vehicles the peshmerga say "are like the ones Colin Powell had pictured at the UN" are supposedly arriving at night at a nearby airfield. Tougher restrictions are being imposed on the civilian traffic passing into Baghdad's territory. At Chamchamal, west of Sulaimaniya, fewer and fewer cars are allowed to cross each day. At Kifri, further...
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