Saturday, November 13, 2004

Tales from Kurdistan

Lots of stuff from Kurdo.

Updates from Mosul.
Appears to confirm my suspicion that a lot of the Iraqi Security Forces are actually Kurdish Pershmega.
More evidence. Money quote:"Mosul & Kirkuk should have been given to Kurdistan Regional Government just after Arpil the 9th 2003."
I have a feeling that the way the insurgency will be defeated in Mosul and Kirkuk is through the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from the cities.
Note the link to a story about the Arab insugents (whom it appears may in this case legitimately be called "terrorists") terrorizing Christians and making them flee. Of course, I think that the emphasis is a little one-sided in that it negelcts to mention that some Kurds have also been less than friendly to the Assyrian Christians (use Control-F or Apple-F and search for "Kurdish").
More evidence of a Kurdish/Arab divide in Iraq.
And it is hard to read these posts without a concern that a civil war is brewing:
Kirkuk Mayor Escaped Terrorist Attack
Our Wills are Stronger than the Terrorists
A Number of Civilians Were Also Wounded
Kirkuk's Kurdish Mayor was Targeted
And just some random war news:
Fierce Fighting Erupts in Mosul
Finally, there is the implication that Kurdish separatism is not limited to Iraq, in the statement this post. Money quote: "No wonder why Turkey is worried about "developments" in Iraqi Kurdistan. Simply because 'Freedom is like cancer, once infected, it spreads out through all over the body.'"

That is all.

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