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Article: Kurds struggle with identification as Iraqis.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2004
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Byline: Deborah Horan
BAGHDAD _ Mohammed Jumaa fought against Arab insurgents in Fallujah long after many of his Arab comrades in the 36th Battalion of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps quit working with U.S. Marines fighting in the Sunni Muslim city.
A Kurd from northern Iraq, Jumaa searched homes for weapons and arrested Arab fighters on the frontlines of the battle, going house to house in neighborhoods where some of the fiercest combat erupted in April and left hundreds of Iraqis dead.
"We were told there were terrorists there," said Jumaa, 27, explaining his decision to remain in the battalion when hundreds of Arabs refused to fight.
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