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• n  a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state

• Four Kurdish soldiers, known as peshmerga (those who face death) were saved by their meal break.
• The peshmerga scrambled for cover.
• It is the moment of peace before the carnage, and the peshmerga savor these remaining minutes.

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• Iraq to try Kurdish officer for reporter's murder
  A member of the Kurdish peshmerga force will be tried for the murder over the weekend of a prominent Iraqi journalist at a Baghdad checkpoint, a judicial spokesman said Wednesday. Mohammed Bidaiwi, Baghdad bureau chief for the US-funded Radio Free Iraq, was on his way to work Saturday near the presidential complex when he was shot dead during a heated argument with the officer. "It was decided ...
  March 26, 2014 - AFP via Yahoo! News