51.   Iraq said it was inviting the military attaches from the Russian and Chinese embassies in Baghdad to travel south to verify the reported Iraqi troop pullback.

52.   Iraqi troops have turned their attention to rounding up dissidents and terrorizing their own population, virtually ignoring the invaders.

53.   Iraqi troops intervened in a dispute between two Kurdish factions in Irbil, northern Iraq, over the weekend.

54.   Iraqi troops invaded the area recently and the U.S. retaliated with attacks on Iraqi air defenses.

55.   It looks like a picture of what cluster bombs did to Iraqi mechanized troops during the Gulf War.

56.   It is deploying a force that could push Iraqi troops well away from the border of Kuwait, if necessary, and keep them away, Pentagon officials said.

57.   Jalal Talabani, the PUK leader, told Reuters news agency Tuesday that Iraqi troops and tanks were still deployed in the region.

58.   Last week, an attack by Iraqi troops in northern areas dominated by the Kurdish minority led to a U.S. response with cruise missiles.

59.   McCaffrey has vigorously denied any wrongdoing, saying Iraqi troops first fired on his soldiers.

60.   On Thursday, the warring Kurdish parties fought one another south of the city as Iraqi troops stood by, U.N. officials reported.