Word: kalak
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...Kalak, a village right on the front line of the Kurdish and Iraqi troops, almost all the women and children had already left for safer ground. The men were worried; they couldn't buy plastic for their windows because it got too expensive, and they didn't have tents. "No one is coming to help us, to give us tents, to provide us food," said Karim Hussein. Shepherd Abdul Rahman Yuni dismissed theories that the Iraqis were ready to give up. "They will fight. America creates these rumors that they will run away, but they will fight...
...Wednesday night Kalak was nearly empty. The atmosphere in Erbil was different Thursday morning, somehow lighter. People were happy the war had started, though many of them were worried about people in Baghdad. "Nothing will happen to Erbil," said Ahmed Ali. "We're too far from Baghdad for them to attack...
...scrapes and bruises. The rear cabin was filled with smoke, riddled with stray gunfire and rocked by grenade blasts. "The bullets were flying all around me," recounted one passenger, an Algerian merchant marine captain. "We expected death, we were waiting for the explosion," said another Algerian passenger, Ali Kalak. "We never thought there would be such a successful intervention...
...even the enemy of their enemy would not prove to be their friend, there were only the mountains to run to. The journey ahead was painful and for some nearly impossible. Outside the town of Kalak an elderly woman, wounded in the leg, sat helplessly by the side of the road, sweat pouring from her face. Beyond lay the snowcaps and hunger and the cries of unshod children sobbing from frostbite. But below and behind were worse fates: fire and death and tales of terror...
...Paris, pro-Iraqi Palestinians struck while Arafat was in Havana attending a Cuban-sponsored world youth festival. Storming Arab League headquarters on Boulevard Haussmann, two gunmen shot their way into the offices of the P.L.O. One of them killed Ezzedin Kalak, 40, a close friend of Arafat's, as well as Kalak's assistant, Hammad Adnan...
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