Tangent: If you're feeling too upbeat about everything today and need a little grounding and re-orienting, a little tempering of the jubilation, nothing works better than a stop by http://www.michaelmoore.com ... have your barf bag ready. Okay, let me catch up, was busy discussing talking MOABs on another thread.
Mikey's a MOAB in his own way: Mother Of All Bloatedsacksofsaddam.
-Eric
It must be true since this site, english.aljazeera.net, is saying that... ROFLOL!
Kirkuk and surrounding towns fall to US and Kurds
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Kurdish soldiers are in the centre of Kirkuk, a likely source of tension for the Turkish government and another nail in the coffin of Saddam Hussein’s government.
Fawzi Hariri, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, said "We believe the report to be inaccurate." He said KDP officials were making further checks. However, a BBC correspondent claimed that Kurdish troops were in the centre of the city.
Only one oil well is known to have been set alight so far and there are widespread reports of Iraqi soldiers and officers fleeing. The little resistance that still exists is being put up by Baath Party members. Reports of looting in the very centre of the city can not yet be confirmed either.
http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=2297&version=1&template_id=263&parent_id=258