For calm after Iraqi Government forces seized the Northern City of kirkuk and nearby oil fields from kurdish control. The kurdish flag was pulled down in the centre of the city, where it has flown for the past three years. It comes just three weeks after iraqi kurds voted to split from iraq and take the oil rich city with them, and deals a huge blow to kurdish ambitions for statehood. From kirkuk, our middle east correspondent orla guerin and cameraman duncan stone sent this report. Pledging to defend kirkuk. Peshmerga fighters began the day with defiance, but this small band was no match for iraqi tanks. Nor were the locals, armed with whatever came to hand. We lost 2,000 men fighting is, he says. Were not afraid of the iraqi Prime Minister. But thats not how it looked deeper in the city. A checkpoint on the outskirts now a tense new front line. The kurds, who fought is with iraqi forces, now fearing an attack by theirformer allies. Locals said they were closing in. Shia militia units
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