11.   The latest crisis in Iraq began when Saddam sent troops to help Barzani take control of the Kurdish safe haven in northern Iraq.

12.   Those attacks were in response to an Iraqi military incursion into a Kurdish safe haven in the north.

13.   With Iraqi help, the KDP has established full control over Irbil, the de facto capital of the Kurdish safe haven.

14.   In Baghdad however an Iraqi military official denied government troops were moving towards the Kurdish safe haven and shelling towns there.

15.   Iraqi army tanks have shelled a town in northern Iraq as troops build up on the edge of the Kurdish safe haven, the opposition said Wednesday.

16.   Baghdad meanwhile insisted it had done nothing wrong in entering the Kurdish safe haven and said its tanks and troops had withdrawn from Arbil.

17.   Baghdad, however, insisted it had done nothing wrong in entering the Kurdish safe haven and said its troops had withdrawn.

18.   The United States on Tuesday and Wednesday launched missile strikes against Iraq to punish Baghdad for its raid into Kurdish safe havens.

19.   Iraq on Saturday denied it was moving troops towards the Kurdish safe haven in the north of the country and shelling towns there.

20.   Rashid Abbas, a father of six, was fatalistic about chances of a US attack against Iraq for its offensive into Kurdish safe havens.