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  • Salih Says 70,000 Kurds Will Fight Alongside U.S. Troops

    03/14/2003 3:01:40 PM PST · by Jean S · 27 replies · 357+ views
    AP ^ | 3/14/03 | Barry Schweid
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A Kurdish leader predicted Friday the quick collapse of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government if war comes. He said 70,000 Kurds were prepared to fight alongside U.S. troops. Barhim Salih, prime minister of the Kurdistan regional government, said the Iraqi army and even some of Saddam's Republican Guard would quit in what he predicted would be a short war. Salih told reporters at the Council on Foreign Relations, a private research group, that Saddam had booby-trapped Iraqi oil fields in Kirkuk and probably elsewhere and would have them blown up as he sought refuge outside the country....