<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" id="mwAQ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>'s troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoud_Barzani" id="mwARA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Masoud Barzani">Masoud Barzani</a> appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotic_Union_of_Kurdistan" id="mwARE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Patriotic Union of Kurdistan">PUK</a>.