NP Iraq war news

[pynchonoid]

Latest reports from Debkafile on the US war in Iraq --
 Debkafile has reported some legitimate scoops in the
past but you never know, your mileage may vary:


"[...] The US-Turkish special forces takeover of
northern Iraq with the help of pro-American Kurdish
and Turkmen units is complete. Americans commandos
have been beefed up by US Marines and engineering
units. The stretch of territory now in US hands ranges
from Sinjar near the Syrian border in the west and
runs east as far as 10-15 miles north of the oil town
of Mosul. Then, still further east, US-led forces have
by-passed the friendly Kurdish stronghold of Erbil,
which commands the highway to the second northern oil
city of Kirkuk, to fetch up on a line roughly 20 miles
south of Erbil, 35-40 miles north of Kirkuk. 
DEBKAfile ’s military sources report that Iranian Badr
Force units, a sort of Iranian Revolutionary Guards
foreign legion, have joined the US-Turkish thrust into
the area of the northeastern Iraqi key town of
Sulimaniyeh. Comprising mostly Iraqi and Afghan
exiles, this force has linked up with the US-led
covert offensive in Iraq under a secret Iran-US
military cooperation pact, first revealed in
DEBKA-Net-Weekly No. 78 on September 27. 
B.  In the west, a military standoff has developed
along Iraq’s Jordanian border region, an area
considered the strategic gateway to the Iraqi
heartland - Saddam’s hometown Tikrit and Baghdad. The
military sources of DEBKAfile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly ’s
(No. 79, October 4) reported fierce battles taking
place from late September into the first week of
October, between US special units and Middle East
commandos, around the H-2 and H-3 bases, centers of
command cores, air defense installations, missile
bases and air force facilities. The fight put up by
the Americans prevented Iraqi transporters from
reaching those west Iraqi bases and positioning
several mobile surface missile batteries. But
reinforced Iraqi units fought back and prevented the
American-led assault troops from coming close enough
to those bases to lay them to siege. [...] 

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