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Article: Kurdish peshmerga fighters determined to remain military unit.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- March 5, 2004
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Byline: Hannah Allam
TAKYA, Iraq _ A flame from a kerosene heater flickered in the mountain breeze and illuminated the hardened faces of Kurdish militiamen who are the only security force for this northern Iraqi village.
Huddling together for warmth in a stark outpost last week, these members of the peshmerga couldn't imagine why their quiet existence in a remote village is causing so much fuss in Baghdad, more than 250 miles south. The men fought bloody battles against Saddam Hussein's former regime, were the only indigenous force helping the U.S.-led coalition during the war and are heroes to the besieged Kurds they protected.
Now they're ...
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