March 3: The Peshmerga, Kurdistan soldiers known as "those who face death," man mountaintop outpost bunkers in northern Iraq. They are locked in a standoff with Islamic extremists who are linked to Osama Bin Laden. Enemies of Saddam Hussein, they live by the saying, "the Kurds have no friends but the mountains."

Audio: Reporter Paul McEnroe describes the Kurds waiting for war

Richard Sennott
Star Tribune
Published March 13, 2003
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