
An Iraqi Kurdish fighter from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) prepares a mortar
for firing against Ansar-al-Eslam Islamic radicals, believed linked to Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaida, a comrade looks on in the outskirts of Halabja on Friday Jan. 17,
2003. The fighting took place about nine kilometers (six miles) from Halabja, a city
notorious as the scene of a poison gas attack by the Iraqi army in the waning days
of the Iran-Iraq war in March 1988. 5,000 Kurds were killed in the attack.(AP Photo/Hasan
Sarbakhshian)
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