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Iraqi troops push back Kurdish rebels
DOH UK Apr 1 Kurdish rebels under a steady onslaught by government forces retreated U, their traditional mountain strongholds Monday after losing at least two urban • enlres. reports Al'
In separate developments the Iraqi government said it captured documents proving the complicity of more than one foreign government In anti government unrest, and accused the United States of ^provocative reconnaissance
Baghdad said Its troops were in control of Dohuk Erbil and Zahko the Uw Lan centres In the north and the most territory the Kurds had ever seized in the decades long struggle for au tonomy
Tur*'cy * reported that government trow recaptured the Habur bwtfer post on the border with
Turkey.
The agency said Habur. the only border crossing between the two countries, was seized after Intense fighting with Kurdish rebels who had held it for about two weeks
In the Syrian capital of Damascus. a spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan denied that government troops had seized Zahko on Monday The spokesman. Kamal Fuad, said Iraqi forces attacked the city but withdrew south when they met resistance
Rebel fighters also said that pockets of resistance were trying to hold out tn Erbil 75 miles (120 kilometers) south east of here
In Dohuk residents took flight in the middle of the night as the government un leashed a devastating artillery barrage on the city of 350.000
Frightened refugees echoed rebel spokesmen tn asking
why US President George Bush and his United Nations allies allowed Iraqi President Sad dam Hussein to use artillery and helicopters to break the Kurdish rebellion
"Why have they abandoned us to Saddam?" was a question addressed repeatedly to West ern reporters
Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fearing government reprisals were fleeing by any means possible Into the mountains along the Iranian and Turkish borders, turning roadways into ribbons of jostling humanity
Many women and children were forced to walk Some, too tired to go on. lay on the roadside without food or water Refugees could be seen camp ing in the mountains without protection from rainstorms
Kurdish fighters known as Pesh Merga of "those who face death." also were in flight.