Al-Ubaid

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Al-Ubaid is one of the Arab Tribes in Iraq settled around Kirkuk area. The tribe made a contract with the Iraqi Transitional Government in the 2003 to protect the oil piplines from the Kirkuk fields to the Turkish oil terminal of Ceyhan as a part of Task Force Shield. [link]

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