Ethnic clashes rock Kirkuk

[Barrett808]

Ethnic clashes rock Kirkuk
By Marwan Ibrahim in Kirkuk
Wednesday, 24 December , 2003, 04:38

Kurdish and Arab students clashed on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk as US troops rounded up suspected anti-US insurgents and radical Islamists.

An Iraqi policeman was wounded during clashes between Kurdish and Arab students in Kirkuk, 255 kilometres (155 miles) north of Baghdad, where ethnic tensions are on the rise.

The policeman was trying to separate the fighting students and three Kurdish students and one Turkman were arrested following the tussle at Kirkuk's Technical College, according to Police Captain Athir Ghazi.

The fight erupted after Kurdish students refused to allow the Iraqi flag to be raised. The college's dean then asked students to lower all Kurdish, Turkmen and Iraqi flags, but the Kurdish students refused and students came to blows.

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. And away we go

Nothing happening in the north of Iraq that wasn't predicted by the anti-war people before the invasion.

[kaitykaity]

2. The Kurds want their payback for capturing Saddam.

An independent state called Kurdistan. I guess civil
war isn't out of the question, is it?

God damn it all to hell anyway.