Northern Iraq Kurdistan War (2)

A comprehensive report on the military organisation and political aims of the Kurds who for the past eight years have been fighting to establish an independent state in Northern Iraq. This first inside view of life in the liberated area includes film of the Kurdish stronghold and supply centre (bomb damage and wreckage of an Iraqi MiG fighter), independent law court in night session, mortar attack on Iraqi garrison at Roanduz, Iraqi Hunter attack on bridge, translated interviews with the Kurdish chief General Barzani and Iraqi POWs, forward hospital, administrative and military HQ's, ammunition factory, Radio Free Kurdistan broadcasts (which are jammed by Baghdad) and the production of the Kurdistan News on an ancient German printing press. 25000 strong guerrilla army is equipped with a wide variety of arms and ammunition and apparently has had little difficulty in pinning down the Iraqi Army, although aerial attacks using bombs and napalm against 270 villages have destroyed crops and many civilians. A temporary lull in the fighting accompanies the talks now being held between Barzani and the Iraqi authorities. There is footage of 3 peshmurgas armed with Czech machine guns (which they have never used before), who fail to inflict damage on a Hunter plane which appears to score a direct hit on the bridge. After attacking the bridge for 3 days in a row, however, the Iraqi jets fail to destroy it. The highway which the bridge carries over the Tuwanduz also remains open to ...



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