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Saddam targets old
allies in new purge
Ailaro/iaiAssociared Press Wrirer
NICOSIA- Saddam Hussein's security forces have
rounded up hundreds of prominent members of his Tikriti
clan and other Sunrii Muslims who have long supported
him, Iraqi rebels and other sources have said. ~
The crackdown against Saddam's own minority sect indicates
that after three years of U.N. sanctions and Iraq's isolation,
even those who have traditionally been a pillar of the
Baghdad regime may be turning against it.
. Secret police are everywhere in Baghdad, and it is diffi.
cult to assess whether Sunni disenchantment with Saddam
has reached a point where it will affect his rule. Saddam is
clearly still in control. But by all accounts, the purge is
Saddam's most extensive since he crushed rebellions by
. Shiite Muslims and Kurdish separatists right after the 1991
GulfWar.
Sunni Muslims fonn 15 percent of Iraq's 18 million peo.
pie, but they have dominated the country for decades.
Travelers from Iraq - mainly.Arabs who move in knowledgeable
Baghdad CIrcles - report deepening disenchantment
among the Sunnis, who fear that Saddam's confrontation
with the United Nations is driving Iraq to ruin .
. U.N. weapo~s i~spectors over the weekend completed an
elgh!-day !l11sslOnIn Baghdad to get more infonnatlOn about
Iraq s malO weapons systems, which are to be destroyed
under Gulf War cease-fire tenns. Punishino economic sanc.
tions against Iraq won't be lifted until the Ô.N. decides Iraq
has complied with the tenns. .
The~e h~ve been reports of several abortive coup plots or
assassmatlOn attempts against Saddam over the last few
weeks, some apparently implicating Sunnis. None of these
upheavals has been independently confinned,
But the current witch-hunt involves Sunnis of consider-
~ble standi~g, a ~tr~tum of Iraqi ~ociety not before targeted
10 Saddam s penodlc purges agalOst people he perceives to
be a threat. Iraqi di~sldents and \he travelers say that the
people roundedup SlOce July include retired anny officers,
fonner government ministers and other influential civilians.
Some sources say many have been executed,
FRt~D1.6S it I ci1i~f.,) l'UR IAFP'-EX7'9
Turquie-Kurdes-Irak
OpèratLön de l'armée turque en Irak du nord: 17 rebelles tués~ selon un
nOiAVeat4 bi:latl
ANKARA~ 11 oct (AFP) - 17 rebelles kurd~s ont été tués lors de l'opération
lancée .jeudi dernier par l'armée turque contre les rebelles kurdes de Turquie
du Parti séparatiste des Travailleurs du Kurdi~tan (PKK)~ selon un nouveau
bilan officiel publié lundi.
Les rebelles, qui s'apprêtaient è s'infiltrer en territoire turc, ont été
tués dans des zones montagneuses du nord de l'Irak~ selon la même source. Il
s'agit de J_a tt~oisièltleclpét'aticlt1 l,ancé(~depLüs début octobt'f:'contt'E~dE.~s
.militants du PKK.
P~r ailleurs, cinq soldats ont été tués et 23 autres blessés, dans la nuit
de dimanche à lundi près de BingoI (est), dans une embuscade tendue par des
rebell~s kurdes contre un véhicule transportant des soldats permis5ionnaires~
a rapporté l'agence turque Anatolie.
YM/M'lo/br
AFP 111209 OCT 93
. Le Nouveau Quotidien - Il octobre 1993
TURQUIE
L'ARMÉE POURCHASSE
LE PKK EN IRAK
L'armée turque a tué 17 maquisards
séparatistes kurdes au
cours d'une incursion en territoire
irakien ce week-end, a rapporté
dimanche l'agence anatolienne.
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