Un Refugee Body Readies For Exodus From Iraq

However, it added that so far there wereno signs of mass movements of civilians.

UNHCR staff in Baghdad, the northern Iraqi city of Arbil and in Sulaymaniya reported that the towns were calm despite US missile strikes on southern Iraq in retaliation for Iraqi military attacks against Kurds in the north.

But the Geneva-based agency expressed concern over the lack of water in Arbil