‘Kurds halt army’
; (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) KURDISH FORWARD HEADQUARTERS (Northern Iraq). A Kurdish rebel commander claimed the advance of the Iraqi Army has been halted in this mountainous frontier region of northern Iraq. Commander Mohammed Mahmoud Abdel Rahman, talking to reporters in his sparsely-equipped headquarters in a roadside cave near Ruwanduz as Iraqi MiGs swooped overhead, said: “Now we are not short of ammunition. We have enough supplies to stop them. During the last two weeks there has been a complete halt to their progress. Our shelling has been heavy and accurate.”
Although this is the main front where the rebels face an estimated 300 Iraqi tanks, 200 field guns and 15,000 troops, Commander Abdul Rahman’s headquarters is equipped with a single, ancient field telephone, three foam rubber mattresses and a machine-gun strapped to a brass bedstead on the pitted road which runs beside the sandbagged cave.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33694, 18 November 1974, Page 7
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