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Oil-rich Kurdistan still under thumb of Baghdad ministers

The surging price of oil has created a boom in Kurdish northern Iraq and a political struggle over the new nation, as Andrew McFadyen reports.

ANDREW McFADYEN FROM the moment we land at Irbil's plush new airport, it looks and feels like we are in a separate country. Kurdistan's red-white-and-green tricolour flutters over the terminal building and our passports are stamped with Kurdish visas.