QUSHTAPA, Iraq - The Kurdish families arrive with few possessions but laden with stories about why they fled the city of Kirkuk: a tightening noose of searches, harassment and arrests by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s forces in the strategic oil center. "It's terrible," exclaimed Saheed Said, who crossed into the Western-protected Kurdish enclave Friday with his wife and three children, joining a growing exodus of Iraqi Kurds from the northern city. "Saddam has turned it into a military camp."The accounts by the fleeing families cannot be independently verified. But they suggest Iraqi soldiers are fortifying positions at one...