IRAQ: KURDISH MILITIA CLEAR IRAQI ARMY MINES FROM QUSHTAPA.

Record ID: 648229

  • Title: IRAQ: KURDISH MILITIA CLEAR IRAQI ARMY MINES FROM QUSHTAPA.
  • Date: 31st March 2003
  • Summary: (EU) QUSHTAPA, KURDISH ZONE-GOVERNMENT FRONTLINE AND 2 KM SOUTH OF QUSHTAPA, IRAQ (ON THE ROAD TO KIRKUK) (MARCH 30, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. GV/PAN: KURDISH PESHMERGA MILITIA TRUCK ENTERS MINED ZONE SOUTH OF QUSHTAPA BORDER CROSSING, SOLDIERS GETTING OUT OF TRUCK 0.22 2. GV/MV: PESHMERGA SOLDIERS MOVING INTO MINED AREA; OTHER PESHMERGA SOLDIERS POINTING TO A POSITION IN THE DISTANCE (2 SHOTS) 0.36 3. VARIOUS: PESHMERGA SOLDIERS REMOVING ANTI-PERSONNEL MINE FROM GROUND; COLLECTION OF RECOVERED ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES (5 SHOTS) 1.29 4. LV/GV: MASSIVE EXPLOSION AND SMOKE AS RECOVERED ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES ARE DESTROYED; PLUME OF SMOKE IN THE AIR FOLLOWING BLAST (2 SHOTS) 1.45 5. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) LOCAL KURDISH PESHMERGA COMMANDER, RIZGAR AZIZ ASSAD, SAYING: "Today we have recovered 400 mines in total, yesterday it was 200." 1.53 6. GV/MV: VARIOUS OF ANTI-TANK MINES RECOVERED BEING PUT IN BACK OF TRUCK (3 SHOTS) 2.10 7. LV/GV: PESHMERGA SOLDIERS AT POSITIONS ABANDONED BY THE IRAQI FORCES; PESHMERGA SOLDIER WALKING NEAR ABANDONED IRAQI POSITIONS (3 SHOTS) 2.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: QUSHTAPA, KURDISH ZONE - GOVERNMENT FRONTLINE AND 2 KM SOUTH OF QUSHTAPA, IRAQ (ON THE ROAD TO KIRKUK)
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAEF4AWBNSPRD9KMMZPQ4NJSLWK
  • Story Text: Northern Iraq's Kurdish militia have been clearing some
    of the thousands of Iraqi army mines from territory they
    seized from government forces, 30 km south of Arbil.



    On Sunday (March 30), the Kurdish militia, known as the
    Peshmerga, were blowing up some of the hundreds of
    anti-personnel and anti-tank mines laid by the retreating
    Iraqi army, in territory south of the front line border
    crossing of Qushtapa.

    The Iraqis are said to have fallen back to new positions
    closer to the oil city of Kirkuk.

    "Today we have recovered 400 mines in total, yesterday it
    was 200," Kurdish Peshmerga Commander Rizgar Aziz Assad told
    Reuters.

    The Peshmerga captured the territory south of Qushtapa
    between Baghdad controlled territory and the Kurdish-ruled
    zone on Saturday (March 29).
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