LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Iraq: Northern Iraq
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In addition to the inspection regimen, the U.S. and U.K (along with France until 1998) engaged in a low-level conflict with Iraq by enforcing northern and southern Iraqi no-fly zones. These zones were created following the Persian Gulf War to protect Iraqi Kurdistan in the north and the southern Shia areas, and were seen by the Iraqi government as an infringement of Iraq's sovereignty. Iraqi air-defense installations and American and British air patrols regularly exchanged fire during this period.
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The CENTCOM Prime Vendor contract (SPO500-05-D-BP04) currently supports U.S. activities deployed in 24 countries in Northern Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, including Iraq and Kuwait. It has a maximum $1,825,000,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery, and indefinite quantity.
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In reality, the legislation was rushed through the Iraqi parliament in order to appease the Kurds — whose leaders banned the Hussein-era flag — ahead of a pan-Arab conference set to be held in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Only a “slim minority” of Iraq’s parliament actually voted in favor of the law.
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[I]t deported the Kurds to other parts of Iraq, confiscating their land and property, then replacing them with Arabs less likely to resist the regime's methods. Thousands of the deported Kurds live in tents or have no shelter at all.15 In 1997, a report by the United Nations secretary general stated that more than 500,000 Kurds were "internally displaced in the three northern Kurdish provinces."16
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