Kurdish leader- Forces would claim oil fields

Sunday, October 20, 2002

SORAN BASE, Iraq -- The top Iraqi Kurdish military commander said Saturday his forces would try to capture nearby oil-rich areas if the United States strikes at Saddam Hussein's regime.

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