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...change seemed suspicious, so I decided to spend the night in my car, parked within the compound. About 15 minutes later Mam Rostam swept back in followed by a gleaming Mercedes, a Land Cruiser and another luxury vehicle, each accompanied by 10 to 15 bodyguards. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's top brass-and the Kirkuk governor in exile-were assembling for a council of war. The yard was soon crammed with excited, jostling, heavily armed men talking loudly about the need to get to Kirkuk fast, while the Iraqis were off balance...
...finally ended up in Duhok, the biggest city in the region, and at the hotel I met other journalists who had been on their own searches - all futile. I can't say that we covered all the spots the Turks may be hidden, but the rumor mill in Kurdistan can report news faster than CNN. If there had been a Turkish incursion up the road, the people of Barmani, Amedi or Duhok would have heard about...
...Turkish government says they're not here. The Turkish military says they are, and the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan say they aren't and never will be. It's still unclear whether any Turkish troops have entered northern Iraq, in open defiance of the United States and Europe, and if so where they are. So I spent a couple of days this weekend driving around the mountains of far northern Iraq looking for myself...
...Barmani, a village in the northwest of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Turkish presence is blatant. Just on the side of the road, about 20 tanks rest in an abandoned military airport, many covered with tarps. A few bored Turkish soldiers sit watching the cars drive by. But this is not the Turkish invasion the Kurds have been fearing - these troops have been here since 1996, when they came to fight the Kurdish Workers Party, the famed PKK, who had taken refuge here in Iraq. The PKK is long gone from this part of Kurdistan but the Turkish troops have remained...
...deployment takes place, and fears that if it does not cooperate with the U.S. it will lose influence on postwar developments in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. An Istanbul court banned the main pro-Kurdish group, the People's Democracy Party, for aiding the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, which in the 1990s fought for an autonomous Kurdish state. What We Now Know About Nuts BRISTOL It's a medical mystery that has baffled researchers: Why have peanut allergies tripled in the past decade? For those afflicted - between one in 70 and one in 200 people in the U.K. - even...