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June 12, 2009 6:17 pm

Policing Kirkuk

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As the American military readies itself to pull out of Iraq, the frontline between Iraq’s Arabs and Kurds could be set alight in Kirkuk. Thrust onto a battlefield the Americans are desperate to vacate, Kirkuk’s policemen are the heirs to a conflict that may yet tear Iraq apart.

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Neil Arun is based in Iraq as an editor for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Kamaran Najm is a freelance photojournalist based in Iraq.

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