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By similarly significant majorities, Americans believe the Iraqi incursion has made the nation less, rather than more, secure.

She said she had no doubt that the Iraqi incursion in Ashraf was done "at the demand and at the behest of the Iranian regime," by an Iraqi government with sympathies to Tehran.

Throughout this period, infractions on inspections by the Iraqis, and eventually the withdrawal of the entire inspection regime; and the failure to respond significantly to Iraqi incursions in the Kurdish areas.

But he accepted there were also reports that citizens would be used as human shields to raise the human cost of Iraqi army incursions deeper into the city.

He described a division of labor among the Sunni groups protecting Karmah: a few units based in houses, some stationed at a central office and others positioned on the outskirts of the village to guard against Iraqi army incursions.

"The Turkish incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan is a violation of Iraqi sovereignty," Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan Regional Government, said in an interview on Tuesday.

Iraq's foreign minister, Mohamed Said al-Sahhaf, today accused Turkey of a new incursion into Iraqi territory and called on the Arab League to help stop the "violations".

Although parliamentary approval of a Turkish incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan on Wednesday spiked oil prices on fears that supplies would be disrupted, analysts are skeptical that Turkey will launch a ground invasion sizeable enough to disrupt the modest crude exports from Kirkuk in Iraq to Ceyhan in Turkey.

Two earlier incursions by Iraqi troops into Camp Ashraf led to bloody confrontations, with 11 residents killed in July 2009 and at least 34 in April of this year.

The lawmakers said Iraq's close ties to Iran put the residents of the camp, Camp Ashraf, in danger, pointing to two incursions by Iraqi security forces that left dozens of people dead.

Iraqi officials denied that any incursion had taken place.