"Turkey Must Take Mosul November 17, 2007 12:00 PM EST
The final showdown in Iraq will occur in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul between two pro-US groups, the Iraqi Sunnis and the Iraqi Kurds. The Sunni-Kurdish fight will be over Mosul’s oil reserves. Moreover, Whoever controls Mosul -- Iraq’s third largest city after Baghdad and Basra -- will control Kirkuk’s oil along with most of northern Iraq. For this reason, Turkey must take Mosul to deter the Kurds and to boost Iraqi Sunni power as a counterweight to Barzani and his PKK allies."
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