(Telegraph-UK) - Amberin Zaman The U.S. is to send up to 20,000 troops through Turkey and into northern Iraq, allowing it to open up a second front against Saddam Hussein. Under the deal struck between the Turkish military and the Pentagon, Ankara will allow an initial deployment of a mechanized division that would travel through Turkey to Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. In exchange, Washington has agreed to the presence of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, who would halt any influx of Kurdish refugees as well as prevent the creation of an independent Kurdish state.
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