[MEG33]

Wish we could have had a northern invasion platform..but alas it was not possible.I hope the peace may be restored ..not Saddam's peace but a multicultural peace.

[Mortimer Snavely]

"Kurdish paramilitary forces have been given an ultimatum: Halt armed patrols around Mosul by Monday, or the U.S. Army will stop them by force. "

And so it begins...

[longjack]

Here's the story the German "Spiegel" got from Reuters:

KURDS IN IRAQ

The End of the Friendship

U.S. forces have started to disarm allied Kurdish fighters in the Northern-Iraq city of Mosul.

Mosul - U.S. soldiers advanced against three street blockades in Mosul which were occupied by Peschmerga fighters of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), as reporters present there observed. At first the Kurds refused to hand in their weapons. Kurds had also moved in reinforcements. Only when U.S. helicopter gunships and massed U.S. forces appeared did the situation ease, said a Reuter's reporter. U.S. soldiers confiscated numerous weapons. Lieutenant-colonel Chris Holden of the 101st air-borne division said: "Our intention is to disarm them. I don't want a confrontation. But, we won't back down". The Peschmerga fighters had to leave the town, Holden said.

Mosul had been taken by the Peschmerga fighters without a fight before U.S. troops moved in later.

"Spiegel-Online"..Das Ende der Freundschaft

Translated by longjack

Sounds like it was a little more than a yes sir, no sir conversation.

longjack