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There are preliminary indications that the leadership within Tikrit is looking for a way to avoid a coalition frontal attack. Kurdistan Democratic Party Peshmerga guerrillas who say they were operating 5 kilometers outside of Tikrit City report they were approached this afternoon by an emissary from the Sheik of the Juburi Clan, one of the largest tribes in the Tikrit area. The Sheik allegedly sent word to Massoud Basani, the leader of the KDP, that he and his supporters wished to surrender, but would only do so on personal assurances from Basani. The officer who received this message...
...Hassan al-Majid, a.k.a. 'Chemical Ali,' the Saddam confidant who was killed in Basra a few weeks ago. The villages around here are peopled by tribes that have close ties to the Saddam regime, but nearly all of them seem to be sending out word to the Peshmerga that they want to talk - not fight...
...Some Kurdish peshmerga soldiers tried to stop men looting an oil refinery office. One orange and white taxi came out with a rusty refrigerator on top. An angry peshmerga demanded he put it back, but the looter had a gun. And so he went on. Other cars continued to stream out of the refinery parking lot, with leather office chairs and air conditioners tied precariously to the tops of their cars...
...Some peshmerga commandeered tanks and drove them through the city, jublilantly shooting off rounds from their Kalashnikovs. One Turkoman man approached reporters in an attempt to get his car back; it had been stolen that morning. A crowd of children picked through the rubble left inside the Ministry for Northern Iraq, while a man outside took the only thing left worth anything: the garden's daffodils...
...many in Kirkuk, the looting was the only blemish on the day they've been dreaming of for years. "Why did the peshmerga let them come?" asked Qasim Khosid, a Kurd. "The leadership is guilty for letting this happen and blackening our face in front of the world. We don't know who is in charge...