Iraq also helped him, allowing him to build bases along the Iraqi-Turkish border.

The film is set in a Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq.

The goal is to provide one meal a day for 700,000 people, roughly equal to the population of Richmond, but spread out along 206 miles of jagged mountains that define the Iraqi-Turkish border.

Mr. Golhan said the remaining 12,000 troops are now concentrated in the rugged far-eastern end of the Iraqi-Turkish border, where some guerrillas are believed to be still hiding.

UNHCR promoted voluntary repatriation, and by June 1991 all Kurds who stayed at the camps near Iraqi-Turkish border had returned to their towns in northern Iraq.

However, US forces made no effort to incarcerate the Turks, merely detaining them for a day, with food, security and comfort, and then escorting them back to the Iraqi-Turkish border.

Empty a week ago, the rocky hilltop is becoming a logistics base like the bustling Silopi headquarters already established on the Iraqi-Turkish border.

The allies have sought to bring an estimated 800,000 Kurdish refugees out of the mountains along the Iraqi-Turkish border.

Turks' Patience Wears Thin The international relief effort for Kurdish refugees is fraying tempers along the Iraqi-Turkish border as Turkish authorities struggle to keep the situation under control.

Kosiński and the agents cross the Iraqi-Turkish border without trouble or raising suspicions.