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Kirkuk

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Kirkuk

City in northeast Iraq, in the governorate of the same name, 235 km/146 mi north of Baghdad; population (2007 est) 620,300. It is the capital of Kirkuk Province and lies in one of the richest oilfields in Iraq. The city is also the market for an area of sheep farming and grain and fruit growing. Ruins found on the site of the city show that settlement dates back some 3,000 years.

Prior to the Iran–Iraq War, Kirkuk was linked by pipelines to Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. In 1991, 100,000 Kurds were expelled following the failure of the Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein. The population of Kirkuk is now predominantly Sunni Arab with a Turkoman minority.



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Since 2003, the Kurds have been waging a systematic, ugly round of ethnic cleansing, packing Kirkuk with Kurds, kidnapping or driving out Arab residents (many of them settled there by Saddam), and stacking the city council with Kurdish partisans.
Apocalypse not: much of Washington assumes that leaving Iraq will ... by Dreyfuss, Robert / Washington Monthly
Do you have alerts sent to your home and work computers from areas like Kirkuk, Tikrit, Balad or Fallujah so you can worry when there are fatalities, holding your breath until you get a call or e-mail from your child saying, ``They missed me this time.
MR. BUSH, SEND YOUR OWN DAUGHTERS TO IRAQ by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Arbil would serve as an access point for Mosul and the oil-rich region around Kirkuk while the United Nations also planned to establish a major base in the city, Austrian said.
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