Kurdish fighter is backdropped by the black fumes of a burning oil well in the outskirts of Kirkuk (AP)
Coalition Troops Enter Oil Rich Kirkuk Story aired: Thursday, April 10, 2003
Chaotic celebrations erupted this morning after U.S.-backed Kurdish forces took the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
Amid widespread looting, there was also the sound of jubilant fighters firing their weapons at a mural of Saddam Hussein.
WBUR's Michael Goldfarb who's been reporting from northern Iraq, and joins us to report on the situation in Kirkuk.
Guests:
Michael Goldfarb, host, WBUR's Inside Out Documentaries
