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Article: US sees no change in its Iraq role Officer says Kurdish attacks on Iraqi police won't force shift in plans
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 27, 1991
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DOHUK, Iraq -- Coalition forces in northern Iraq will not be drawn
deeper into providing security in the region, despite recurring
attacks by Kurds on Iraqi police, a US spokesman said yesterday.
"We don't think the incidents have any dimensions that would
necessitate any revision in our plans," said Lt. Col. Philip
Crowley of the US Air Force, a spokesman for the allied command at
Incirlik, Turkey. "It is really something the Iraqis and Kurds
themselves should work out."
About 2,000 Kurds stormed the police station in the provincial
capital of Dohuk on Saturday. There have been three similar attacks
this month on the police station in Zakho, near the Turkish border.
US Army military ...