Lux
03-14-2005, 12:35 AM
By EDWARD WONG (http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=EDWARD WONG&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=EDWARD WONG&inline=nyt-per)
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Published: March 14, 2005
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/dropcap/k.gifIRKUK, Iraq - Muhammad Ahmed realized how wide the chasm between Kurds and Arabs here had grown when he recently ran into a former classmate on the serpentine streets of this troubled city.
Mr. Ahmed, a Kurd, and his friend, an Arab, had studied together at Kirkuk's oil institute nearly two decades ago. But shortly after Mr. Ahmed started work at the state-owned North Oil Company in the late 1980's, the government of Saddam Hussein, intent on solidifying Arab control of Kirkuk, forced him out of his job and made him and his family move north, where they joined tens of thousands of other Kurds exiled from this city...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/international/middleeast/14kurds.html?oref=login
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Published: March 14, 2005
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/dropcap/k.gifIRKUK, Iraq - Muhammad Ahmed realized how wide the chasm between Kurds and Arabs here had grown when he recently ran into a former classmate on the serpentine streets of this troubled city.
Mr. Ahmed, a Kurd, and his friend, an Arab, had studied together at Kirkuk's oil institute nearly two decades ago. But shortly after Mr. Ahmed started work at the state-owned North Oil Company in the late 1980's, the government of Saddam Hussein, intent on solidifying Arab control of Kirkuk, forced him out of his job and made him and his family move north, where they joined tens of thousands of other Kurds exiled from this city...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/international/middleeast/14kurds.html?oref=login