NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 6, 1996 - 5 £iurdish guerrillas launch new. atac The Washington Post QALAT CHAWLAN, Iraq - Iraqi- backed Kurdish guerrillas launched a new attack against their Kurdish rivals in northern Iraq yesterday and, farther to the north, Turkish warplanes roared across the border to bomb a third Kurdish faction in mountain redoubts. The renewed fighting between assoud Barzani's Kurdish Democratic arty and Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, combined with Turkey's air raid along the border, left the Kurdish-inhabited region of north- ern Iraq mired in conflict with no end in sight despite what President Clinton has described as a successful U.S. interven- tion and the reported pullback of Iraqi army armor and artillery. Barzani's fighters said they attacked *e Talabani-led forces at first light yes- terday morning to expand and consoli- date control of the roads around Irbil, the Kurds' intended capital that Barzani seized last Saturday with help from Iraqi tanks, artillery and troops dispatched by President Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi assault, including an estimated 30,000 troops, prompted Clinton to order two days of missile attacks in southern Iraq. In another retaliatory move to tighten aressure on the Iraqi leader, Clinton kpanded northward - from the 32nd parallel to the 33rd - the "no-fly" zone that has been enforced in southern Iraq since shortly after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But France, which helps patrol the zone from a base in Saudi Arabia, rebuffed an attempt by Secretary of State Warren Christopher in Paris yesterday to persuade the French to participate in enforcement of e enlarged portion of the zone. The French reluctance reflected opposition in principle to Clinton's attacks on Iraq and irritation at being asked to join in carrying out a decision made only in Washington. But at the same time, President Jacques Chirac's government pledged to continue its role in keeping Iraqi planes out of the rest of the zone, south of the 32nd parallel, and U.S. officials said American and British warplanes could *atrol the new territory by themselves. The Turkish Foreign Ministry in Ankara described Turkey's air attacks in northern Iraq as "limited" and gave no I France refuses to extend patrol zone AP PHOTO A Kurdistan Democratic Party fighter fires his machine gun yesterday at forces held by the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the Delaga area, about 25 km southeast of the city of Irbil, captured by KDP and Iraqi forces last Saturday. The Washington Post PARIS - Secretary of State Warren Christopher ran head-on yesterday into France's determination to play an inde- pendent role in the Middle East as he failed to win French participation in an expanded air-patrol zone over Iraq. No sooner had Christopher finished a meeting with President Jacques Chirac than the French issued a state- ment saying they would resume partici- pation in "no-fly" enforcement as of Monday, but only within the previous boundaries. Christopher and his aides did not see the French statement before it was issued, and U.S. officials disputed some of its interpretation of Christopher's conversations here. The terse French communique said France agreed to resume enforcement of rules barring Iraqi overlights as far north as the 32nd parallel in southern Iraq, but not to the 33rd parallel, just south of Baghdad, where the United States moved the line Tuesday in response to Iraq's military incursion into the protected Kurdish zone in the north. The French said they consented to participate in enforcement after Christopher "confirmed the end of (cruise missile) 'Desert Strike' opera- tions in Iraq. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, however, said Christopher told Chirac and Foreign Minister Herve de Charette in separate meetings that the United States retains the option to strike again at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's forces if necessary. Citing President Clinton's statement Wednesday that "our mission has been achieved" by Tuesday's cruise-missle strikes, Burns said future "American policy and American action will be based very much on what Saddam Hussein does. The United States does retain every option to counter the actions of Saddam Hussein...." "There was no quid pro quo," Burns said. "The secretary of state did not make a pledge" to refrain from further military action. By announcing they would wait until Monday to resume participation in enforcing the "no-fly" rules - which are aimed at protecting the Kurds of Iraq's north and the Shiites of Iraq's far south from oppression by Saddam - the French implied they had halted par- ticipation when the U.S. missile strikes began, contrary to what U.S. officials have been saying. French Foreign Ministry officials confirmed that as of now the French are flying only in a narrow band along the Saudi border, and not at all in the north- ern zone. While Christopher and de Charette said Paris and Washington are in accord on many aspects of Middle East peace policy, including the need to resume substantive negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, there was clearly a sharp difference in policy toward Iraq. U.S. officials struggled to put the best face on the outcome of yesterday's meetings. One senior aide in Christopher's party said there was no direct request to the French to take part in the expanded flights, and therefore no direct refusal. "We each have our own positions on these things and always have," another U.S. official said. "France and the United States have a very similar approach to what should hap- pen in the Middle East. That doesn't mean were are going to merge our diplomacies." estimate of damage or casualties. Officials said they were designed to prevent guerrillas of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, from launching raids into Turkey from a dozen havens set up in the northern Iraqi border mountains inhabited by sympathetic Iraqi Kurds. Turkish officials said they also intend to establish a "security zone" on Iraq's side of the troubled border, in effect asserting the right for the Turkish army to Talabani, at his headquarters in Qalat Chawlan, near the Iranian border 20 miles east of Sulaymaniyah, declared that 30 Iraqi tanks and 30 armored per- sonnel carriers, along with heavy artillery, took part in Barzani's assault on his forces near Irbil. He called on the United States to intervene in the fighting again and warned that, if Washington sits idly by, he will seek help elsewhere, even from "the devil himself." "And that means operate in Iraqi territory whenever it decides to strike against PKK guer- rillas there. This was the first time Turkey has announced such a zone, although Turkish troops fre- quently have crossed the border since the Gulf War in pursuit of the PKK guerrillas fighting to set up Turkey, Iran, Syria, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia," it w an . . I AN 30 fOr being it 14 ..the Iraq military h down" the ti e he said, chewing on a cigar as he oks like spoke with cor- respondents. qi "We have some cards to play" as stood Iran's inter- vention last month on behalf of - JohnDeutch Talabani's CIA director forces, in another round of fighting, was a key factor in an appeal from Barzam to Saddam that led to the Iraqi army's move on Irbil. By threatening to go to Iran for help again, Talabani seemed clearly to be seeking a way to pressure the Clinton administration to get involved militarily in Kurdish factional battles - something Washington has pledged to avoid. Kurdish officials from both factions said most of the fighting took place about 12 miles southeast of Irbil, cen- tered on a road that passes just east of Irbil on a route between Qoshteppe and Degala. Barzani's forces, in control of Irbil since Saturday, attacked in an effort to link up with Koisanjak, their nearest other stronghold 20 miles east, they said. Clinton administration officials said that, despite Talabani's claims, U.S. intelligence found no Iraqi army partici- pation in the fighting around Irbil. Reporters in the region said they saw Iraqi tanks standing by near the clashes, but not taking part. But the U.S. officials supported reports from the region that Barzani's KDP guerrillas had launched a significant assault on Talabani's PUK forces in several areas of northern Iraq. "We have credible information that the PUK and the KDP are really going at each other," an administration official said. The U.S. director of central intelli- gence, John Deutch, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that the armored and mechanized Iraqi units that participated in the capture of Irbil have been pulling back "fairly systemat- ically" to their garrisons outside the Kurdish region that has been protected by U.S. and allied planes since the Gulf War. Deutch also told the committee that Iraqi warplanes and air-defense batter- ies have been complying with the "no- fly" zone, mounting no resistance to U.S. aircraft patrolling the newly expanded area. "So, for the time being, it looks like ... the Iraqi military has stood down," he added. an independent Kurdish state in Turkey. The United States, allied to Turkey in NATO, expressed no objections to the Turkish plans, which officials in Ankara said have been explained in a letter to Christopher from Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller. The U.S. stand toward Turkey contrasted sharply with Washington's attitude toward Iraq, whose attack on Irbil also was directed at Kurdish separatists. 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Joseph Lopez said an attack yesterday on British troops by Bosnian Serb police and an accompa- nying mob in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka was "dangerous and irre- sponsible behavior" that would not be tolerated. The confrontation was defused only when a British sergeant fired a warning .hot into the air, NATO officials said. "But our soldiers are not required to fire warning shots," Lopez said in a statement. "They don't have to fire over anyone's head or into the ground. They are trained and are authorized to shoot to kill in order to defend themselves and others. ... Yesterday, the soldiers chose to fire a warning shot. The next time, the consequences could be fatal." With Bosnia's nationwide elections ,ust eight days away, tensions are on the HURRICANE Continued from Page 1 ing 55 mph. Even 15 miles in from the coast, tree limbs and flooded highways made moving around hazardous, and many people took refuge in hundreds of shel- rs in the Carolinas. Lynn High, owner of Calabash Marina and Storage, pulled boats out of the water, put plywood over windows, then took off - with memories of Hurricane Hugo on her mind. That huge storm caused almost $8 billion in dmaee. mostly in South rise, and international monitors fear an upsurge in violence. Relief workers report new ethnic-based evictions, and groups of Muslims attempting to return to their Serb-captured homes have been attacked or firebombed. The Banja Luka incident began when British soldiers discovered Bosnian Serb police hauling an anti-aircraft gun sys- tem, a rocket launcher, several cannon and other unauthorized military weapons. When the troops tried to con- fiscate the weapons, they were sur- rounded by about 200 angry Bosnian Serbs who attempted to overturn NATO vehicles. A British sergeant dispersed the crowd with a shot into the air, but the troops were a short time later boxed in again by another crowd and Bosnian Serb police, NATO spokespeople said. The dispute dragged on for several hours, ending finally when the Bosnian Serb chief of police for Banja Luka arrived on the scene and calmed the crowd. The weapons, and an additional armored personnel carrier, were later confiscated and moved to a NATO base, spokespeople said. The incident was the second in a week involving Bosnian Serb police. On Aug. 29, U.S. troops detained and disarmed 65 Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry police - a paramilitary force loyal to former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic. The police had tear-gassed and beaten up Muslims returning to war- damaged homes in the town of Mahala. The U.S. troops later released the men after an angry Serb mob surround- ed and blockaded U.N. police monitors in the nearby city of Zvornik. NATO and U.N. officials have repeat- edly protested such actions to Bosnian Serb authorities, some of whom are run- ning for office in the Sept. 14 vote. But the incidents have continued. 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