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The Kurds are looking to overrun Kirkuk in anticipation of ethnic civil war in Iraq. Both they and the Shiites have, apparently, been using America's training and equipping of Iraqi army to prepare their own militias for the coming battle:

Firas Ahmed, the assistant to the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party office in Mosul, invited a Knight Ridder reporter to inspect the local Peshmerga brigade, motioning to a compound across the street.

It housed the headquarters of the 4th Brigade of the Iraqi army's 2nd Division.
"We cannot openly say they are Peshmerga," Ahmed said. "We will take you to see the Peshmerga, but they will be wearing Iraqi army uniforms."

Kirkuk is a a majority Kurdish town, but only barely. There are large Arab and Turkmen populations there. The threat is that in a coming war they will be forced out of the city at gunpoint, or murdered where they stand.

Our tax dollars at work.