Iraqi Army Attacks Village In KRG. 

Iraq Report
14 September 2001, Volume  4, Number  29
By: David Nissman

A source in the Kurdistan Communist Party (the Kurdish branch of the Iraqi Communist
Party) charged that a large Iraqi Army unit had attacked a Kurdish village in the contact
areas with Kurdistan, the London-based Arabic newspaper "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat" reported on
9 September. The army unit was compelled to withdraw after a clash that lasted three hours
in the village of Dawzah Imam in the Kafri district, which is under the control of the
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The Iraqi Army unit was backed up by tanks and
armored personnel carriers. It is also noted that several villages in areas close to the
government's control have been subjected to constant artillery shelling by Iraqi Army units
stationed along the contact lines.

A Communist Party leader told "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat" that "the military operations which the
Iraqi Army carries out against Kurdistan from time to time so as to terrorize and intimidate
the citizens are a desperate attempt by the Iraqi Army command to raise the morale of its
soldiers, keep them in a constant state of alert, and also maintain the atmosphere of tension
in the region."