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A similar battle has been under way on the Iraqi border with Iran. Kurdish guerrillas ambush and kill Iranian forces and retreat to mountain hideouts in north-eastern Iraq. Tehran says Washington aids the Iranian guerrillas, an accusation the US denies. That conflict, like the Turkish one, has explosive potential.
The New York Times on Oct. 22 published an interview with "Salih Shevger, an Iranian Kurdish guerrilla, as he lay flat on a slab of rock atop a 3,000-meter...mountain, with binoculars pressed to his face as he kept watch on Iranian military outposts perched on peaks about six kilometers...away". The paper said: "Shevger and his comrades recounted how they ambushed an Iranian patrol...a few days before, killing three soldiers and capturing another". It quoted "Bayram Gabar, who commanded the raid, and who like all the fighters here uses a nom de guerre", as saying of the Iranian soldiers: "They were sitting and talking on top of a hill, and we approached, hiding ourselves, and fired on them from two sides".
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