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Kirkuk in ruins, shows carnage of civil war
KIRKUK (Iraq). April 1: Kirkuk, the gateway to the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq, shows the carnage of civil war but is firmly under the control of troops loyal to President Saddam Hussein, reports AFP.
Correspondents who toured this oil producing city at the invitation of the Ministry of Interior on Sunday, saw military convoys of loyalist troops patrolling Kirkuk in all directions and soldiers camping at the city's outskirts.
The government had announced Thursday that loyalist troops had recaptured Kirkuk about 280 kilometers (175 miles) North of Baghdad from Kurdish guerillas who held the city for six days but appeared to have put up only minimal resistance.
In Baghdad, meanwhile officials said troops had retaken the rebel held cities of Dahuk and Arbll in the heart of Kurdistan.
The report could not be confirmed but a Kurdish opposition group in Damascus said that Arbll had come under heavy fire and that it was possible that rebels had withdrawn from the city.
At the entrance to Kirkuk this correspondent saw the corpses of three civilians including the body of a child less than 10 years old rotting on the side of a street strewn with burned out and ripped up vehicles.
Two bodies were frozen in death In a car caught in the middle of a battle.
The length of an avenue of small unfinished concerte block houses had been pounded by artillery shells but nothing indicated that the rebels had shot back at the army set up under a highway bridge.
In the center of the city, there were signs of fighting in two nearly deserted neighbourhoods. Facades pockmarked by bullets streets filled with debris and stores ripped open.
The attack was called at 10 am Thursday. Two hours later, everything had ended, "the Province s Governor, Hashlmali Al-Majid said .
The Kurdish opposition had announced the fall of Kirkuk on March 19.
The saboteures controlled the city for six days, ransack
ing stealing, destroying everything that they found Al-Majid said.
Two supermarkets appeared to have been looted then set on fire.
According to the governor, the revolt was carried out by gangs of rowdies who came to pillage, as well as deserters, monarchists, and fundamentalists who support an Islamic Republic Kurds and non Kurds have been supported by our neighbours.
Iraqi officials have accused Iran of actively aiding the rebellion throughout Iraq. Opposition Shi’ite religious groups some based in Iran, are leading the revolt in the south.
But Teheran denies direct involvement In the uprising. No casualty toll from the fighting is available, but it isn't high, Al-Majid said.
The whole province has been liberated and the insurgents have withdrawn to 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside of Kirkuk, he added.
In the center of the city, the manager of the Qasr Al-Kfrkuk Hotel whose facade bears several bullet holes, said the rebels had occupied his establishment.
I saw them arrive on March 20 at 5 am. There were a dozen of them, armed. They moved into the hotel, two of them spoke Kurdish. Then there were up to 30 of them here, but they changed all the time, he said.
The manager said that the men left during the fighting while he and his employees went down to the shelter. The army entered the hotel at 1 pm Thursday, he added.
A short distance away the city's Archeological Museum stands devastated, with pamphlet guides strewn at the entrance. windows broken and the Museum's contents stolen.
They took everything, said a guard who showed correspondents holes where bullets had passed through one window.
On the window sill of a restaurant where rebels had holed up three Soviet made rockets have been left.
On the sidewalk outside lies a corpse covered with a blanket. Three children walk by without looking.
Many military convoys travel on the road leaving the city as a shepherd, with Kalashnikov gun In hand, leads his flock.