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Qusay
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By
Abdul Raheem Ali, IOL Staff
CAIRO,
April 10 (IslamOnline.net) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's younger
son Qusay, who oversees Iraq's elite Republican Guard, has reportedly
been seen in Baghdad's Al-A'azamia district Thursday, April 10, driving
a black pick-up, Adel Mourad, a member of the politburo of the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan (PUK) told IslamOnline.net.
Mourad
said U.S. Marines cordoned off the area to hunt him down.
Earlier
in the day, Iraqi citizens looted the luxury home of Qusay and his
brother Uday under the watchful eye of U.S. Marines.
On
Wednesday, April 9, Shiite opposition sources told IslamOnlin.net that
Saddam and his top aides had taken shelter
in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, Saddam’s birthplace, just 48
hours after U.S. troops had poured into
Baghdad.
No
Peshmerga In Mosul
Mourad
also denied reports that Kurdish fighters (peshmerga) had swept into the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul, asserting that they were still laying
siege to the southern part of the city where fighters of the Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP), had been deployed.
"The
forces of the PUK are deployed in the northern part (of Mosul)," he
added, noting that the city could be captured if they were given the
go-ahead by the Americans.
The
PUK official asserted that the peshmerga took possession of a number of
cities with majority of Kurdish population.
"They
have taken control of Kirkuk,
Makhmoud, Khanekin and Mandli," he elaborated, adding that the
Turks had nothing to do with Kirkuk, which he recognized as an Iraqi
city.
Mourad
said the Kurdish forces, however, would not remain in Kirkuk.
He
said Kurdish forces could not prevent Kirkuk indigenous people, who fled
the city two decades ago, from returning to their homes and ranches and
force out those who were coerced by Saddam into living there.
"I
hope that Kirkuk would be a crucible for all Kudish, Arab, Turkmen and
Ashorite communities," he said.
