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...Search for the Smoking Gun...
...parties of Iraqi Kurdistan and Islamist groups linked with al-Qaeda, such as Ansar al-Islam. The local government had entered into a covert dialogue with Komal, hoping to draw it out of the Islamist nexus. The bloody checkpoint scene, captured by a Time photographer who arrived during the gun battle, has now thrown that dialogue into disarray. Komal supporters immediately blamed local government forces for the ambush...
...peshmerga are watching and waiting, eager to engage. On the main artery from the Kurdish city of Arbil to Kirkuk, Kurdish fighters man a gun post at Dawla Bakrah. They claim to have recently exchanged fire with the Iraqi heavy guns sighting their position. Taxi drivers, pumped by both sides for intelligence, have warned the peshmerga of recent activity that appears to involve the placing of explosives on the roads. Rumors are trickling in of Saddam's men sealing off Kurdish quarters in Kirkuk at night to bury mysterious barrels. Farther east in the tiny hamlet of Taqtaq, peshmerga deputy...
...take Baghdad, they'll have to roll over the dead body of Muntaha Keithem. The plump, brassy 40-year-old war widow has sent her family's AK-47 assault rifle to be repaired, and fully intends to use it to defend Iraq's capital. As she contemplates deadly gun battles in the streets around her brother's modest two-story home in the middle-class suburb of Bayaa, her leonine eyes blaze fiercely and she throws back her head to thrust out a defiant jaw. "The Americans should be warned that Iraqi women know how to fight...
...resistance to an invading force, he will have the first right to the AK-47. Not only is he the patriarch, he's also a war veteran: as a medic during the Gulf War, Zaki saw active duty in Kuwait. "I know how to use a gun very well," he says, without a trace of bravado. "You won't find an Iraqi man of my age who hasn't experienced...