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SULAYMANIYAH, IRAQ -- A Kurdish political leader who commands thousands of Peshmerga fighters said Thursday that more than 100 Iraqi army officers and intelligence agents in Kirkuk have responded to his underground letters requesting that they identify the names, locations and assignments of key Iraqi commanders in the city. The campaign to secretly recruit disloyal Iraqi soldiers and agents has resulted in up-to-date intelligence on how well the city and its outlying oil refinery and oil fields are being defended, Muhammad Haji Mahmood said. It also has helped his forces target people for retribution for their roles in ethnic cleansing...