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'Frightened Kurds won't be abandoned'

Only terror keeping Saddam in power, says Bush
NICOSIA. Apr 27: US President George Bush has promised he will not abandon the frightened Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq for whom his troops are creating "safe havens”, reports Reuter.
US soldiers are constructing new camps inside Iraq without Baghdad's consent. Bush said on Friday "troops will stay there as long as it takes to make sure these refugees are being taken care of, and not a minute longer".
The United Nations announced It was sending its first convoy of relief aid to Zakho, the northern Iraq town where a post-Gulf War drama is being played out over the fate of almost two million refugees.
Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said the UN expected to take over the camps within days, as Iraq has asked.
But the world body has no clear instructions from the Security Council because China, which holds a veto, is reluctant to endorse the pres-
ence of US and allied troops.
Diplomats at UN headquarters in New York were sceptical that Perez de Cuellar's timetable could be met.
Saddam, who six weeks ago seemed unlikely to survive long after his army was driven from Kuwait, strengthened his hand this week by negotiating an autonomy pact with leaders of the Kurds' catastrophic post-war revolt
The Kurds want the UN to guarantee their deal with Saddam.
Bush however renewed his calls for Saddam's overthrow. "It's only terror that keeping him In power" he said.
Reuter correspondents who visited Zakho on Friday saw a half-empty town in which the next car up the sun-baked street might carry US or British Marines, Saddam's security police, or Kurdish peshmerga guerillas.
Refugees, thousands of whom died after fleeing in terror from Saddam's army, are mostly waiting to see which
way the political wind blows before taking their chances back in Iraq.
They wait for things to be settled. When they think this is so they will come back." said
Fouad, a farm worker in Zakho whose family is still in the mountains.
The Americans chose a green valley between Zakho and the Turkish border as their "safe haven" site for Kutda this month, ordered out Saddam's army and, later, his heavily armed police.
By Friday all but a token force of uniformed Iraqis were gone, but wary residents said plain clothes police had moved in.
Townsfolk spoke to strangers in whispers and avoided being seen doing it. They asked reporters not to publish their full names.
They (secret police) are dressed like 1 am, in civilian clothes." a 36-year-old teacher told Reuter correspondent.
They arc like the others. They watch us in the street and carry pistols hidden inside their shirts. We are afraid".
A Kurdish driver stopped beside visiting reporters, pointed to another car cruising
nearby and hissed: "police, police".
"We are very happy the American. British and French are here. They will protect us.” said another young Kurd.
Zakho mayor Daoud Hassan Suleiman, whose administration continues to operate despite the western milftary presence, told reporters five policemen were wounded on Thursday night in a guerilla attack on the local police station.
The terrorists would not have done this If the Americans had not been here", he said.