81.   The reported Iraqi troop movements and the U.S. warning came at a time of significant tensions in the north.

82.   The rebellion failed and the Kurds fled to Turkey and Iran, pursued by attacking Iraqi troops and bombed by Iraqi warplanes.

83.   The statement cited reports of executions of U.S.-backed Iraqi rebels and the entrenchment of Iraqi troops in Kurdish zones under U.S. protection.

84.   The reserve call-up is relatively minor by the standard set a decade ago when the military began preparations for the Persian Gulf War to remove Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

85.   The return of the Kuwaiti captives was one of the conditions of the cease-fire imposed on Iraq after American-led forces drove Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

86.   The U.N. suspended the implementation after Iraqi troops attacked one of the Kurdish groups in late August.

87.   The withdrawal of Iraqi troops would improve the prospects for negotiations with the United Nations to restart a limited sale of Iraqi oil.

88.   The White House said it saw no indication that Iraqi troops were pulling back from the original point of its attack, the Kurdish city of Irbil.

89.   There was also evidence that Iraqi troops were hunting down and killing political opponents in the areas they are seizing.

90.   There were also reports that Iraqi troops were moving against other Kurdish cities, including Chamchamal and Sulaimaniya.