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              Seizure Of Oilfields Fuels Kurd Dreams Of Statehood

   by Henry Ridgwell

   Last week's seizure of two large oil fields in Kirkuk by Kurdish
   fighters from northern Iraq will help their largely autonomous region
   achieve energy self-sufficiency, and is being viewed as another step by
   Kurdistan's regional government toward independence. The oil facilities
   had been abandoned by Iraqi forces, who retreated under an advance by
   militants of the Islamic State. Henry Ridgwell reports for VOA from
   London.
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