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Residual american force here, iraq wouldnt be where it is today? >> i think it would be different. >> it would be better? >> yes. >> reporter: but for the kurds, the crisis is also an opportunity. they have dreamt of controlling kirkuk for generations, now they do these oil fields are why care cook is strategically important. home to 15% of iraqs known oil serves, so rich, you can smell the gas in the air, now that the fields are controlled by the kurdish people, they are one step closer to fina...

Barzani is given his first televised address since he defied baghdad and held a referendum on kurdish independence of ours on a re in aerated his plan to step down on the first of november in a speech he lamented the fact that quote nobody stood with the kurds excuse the iraqi central government of using the referendum as a pretext to take punitive action against the kurds after they overwhelmingly backed statehood so the vote baghdad has enforced an international flight ban and made military ad...

Disputed north of the country and this follows fast on the heels of their capture of the kurdish held city of kirkuk. a triumph for government forces and their supporters iraqi flags have now been placed kurdish bonus and decision. in just a days time iraqi troops have pushed out the kurdish fighters known as peshmerga from kirkuk an oil rich city claimed both by the iraqi central government and the kurds. many who fled have started to return. were coming back because everybody escaped yesterday...

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Iraqi army and together with the shia militias just fifty people made us out of coke like you know the kurds are increasingly politically isolated on this do they have any backers for their push for independence the only backer is israel and the time yeah ill go the prime minister of israel has said that hes backing the kurdish will for independence but this is about the only otherwise barzani is against the rest of the world everybody is against this because the risk that your wrath falls apart...

Different. >> it would be better? >> yes. >> reporter: but for the kurds, the crisis is also an opportunity. they have dreamt of controlling kirkuk for generations, now they do these oil fields are why care cook is strategically important. home to 15% of iraqs known oil serves, so rich, you can smell the gas in the air, now that the fields are controlled by the kurdish people, they are one step closer to financial and maybe even full independence. the best laid plans of u.s. military commanders ...

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