In Iraq, Three Groups Struggle For Control Over Oil-Rich Kirkuk

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In Iraq, Three Groups Struggle For Control Over Oil-Rich Kirkuk

In Iraq, Three Groups Struggle For Control Over Oil-Rich Kirkuk

AMY GOODMAN: Can you first talk about this border that we have not heard very much about, of Iraqi Kurdistan, where how many Turkish soldiers are amassed?

JOHN TIRMAN: It's been reported 250,000, which -- to put that in context, that's twice as many troops as America has in Iraq.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/1411214

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