farquar
04-08-2005, 05:12 AM
CAIRO, EGYPT AND BAGHDAD - Breaking the deadlock over forming Iraq's interim government came down, in the end, to a simple compromise: Kurds dropped their immediate demand that the oil-rich city of Kirkuk be added to their autonomous section of Iraq, and Shiite Arabs said they wouldn't insist on dismantling the Kurds' peshmerga militia. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/csm/20050408/wl_csm/oconsensus