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Originally posted by Rick Lee
The Kurdish town in question is Halabja and the Iranians most certainly did not occupy it when it was shelled with mustard gas. If they had, I doubt they would have shelled it, since the Kurds hated Saddam as much as anyone did. I don't even think Saddam ever denied this one.
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Rick, I didn't say that the Iranians occupied it when it was shelled, read what I wrote again.
Further, the Kurds hate everyone that's not Kurd; that includes Turks who hold most of the Kurdish land, Iranians who hold a large portion of it, and any non-Kurd Iraqi. Hatred among Kurdish clans is often deadly. One of the past commanders of my hospital was got a rifle butt to the face, and other Kurds were killed, by a Kurd clan that felt it wasn't getting enough of the goodies being spread around in northern Iraq by US occupation forces in 1991-92.