To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in Disguise: With historical notices of the Kurdish tribes and the Chaldeans of Kurdistan
EconoSpeak (Free subscription) | 02/03/2009
Now that W. is out and a moderately calm set of provincial elections have been held in Iraq (although none in Kurdistan) that apparently will strengthen the hand of the current, pro-central-authority government, with declining, if not gone, violence more generally, it may well be that there will be little need to post much in the future on Iraq, and hopefully President Obama will be able to proceed...
Citizen Pamphleteer (Free subscription) | 02/03/2009
In last week's elections, Iraqis elected parties dedicated to opposing Kurdish separatism in the north and Iranian backed Shia separatism in the south . The democratic will of the Iraqi people to keep building a unified Iraq stands in stark contrast to Vice President Joe Biden's proposals to break up Iraq into three countries along ethnic and religious lines because he thought the Iraqi people could...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 02/03/2009
Via Today's Zaman . A prosecutor is seeking a sentence of up to 10 years for a man who was taken into custody last November on suspicion of theft but who turned out to be a hacker working for the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Diyarbakır prosecutor has completed his indictment against R.Ç., who admitted in late November that he was a hacker working for the outlawed PKK. The...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
Local media said on Monday that an Italian court has ordered a Kurdish prisoner to pay 25 euros ($32) for damaging pillowcases during a suicide attempt. The Il Piccolo newspaper quoted the judge as saying the prisoner at the jail in the northern Italian city of Trieste had “knowingly attempted to damage state administration property” by [...]
Security Management News & Analysis (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
Tight security in Iraq on Saturday resulted in a modestly successful round of local elections without a significant act of violence, as Iraqis from Kurdistan to Basra voted for provincial councils aimed at better representing Iraq's complex mix of ethnicity and religion. According to the Los Angeles Times : read more
People Daily (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
Twenty people were injured in a clash between supporters of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and members of an Islamist association in southern Turkey, Dogan News Agency reported Monday. The clash began late Sunday after the PKK supporters attacked the building of the Islamist association with stones and Molotov cocktails in the southern Adana province, according to the report. Turkish police...
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
MOSUL, Iraq - In the last major urban battlefield in the fight between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents, a Sunni party opposed to both Kurdish influence and the American military presence has emerged as the likely big winner in provincial voting. Th ...
ABC 7 News - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
In the last major urban battlefield in the fight between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents... a Sunni party opposed to both Kurdish influence and the American military presence has emerged as the likely big winner in provincial voting. from ABC 7 News
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
In the last major urban battlefield in the fight between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents, a Sunni party opposed to both Kurdish influence and the American military presence has emerged as the likely big winner in provincial voting.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
In the last major urban battlefield in the fight between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents, a Sunni party opposed to both Kurdish influence and the American military presence has emerged as the likely big winner in provincial voting.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
In the last major urban battlefield in the fight between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents, a Sunni party opposed to both Kurdish influence and the American military presence has emerged as the likely big winner in provincial voting.
News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Weeks after armed men butchered those attending peace talks between Kurds and Arabs in northern Iraq, Kurdish regional President Mas'oud Barzani called on Arabs to forge a new era of understanding with their Kurdish brothers. The plea was made because of calls by some Arabs for Kurds to be "thrown out" of Kirkuk, which is located in the heart of an oil-rich area. Kurds are pushing for a power-sharing...
Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Obama must not sell out Kurdish Iraq My company, Enterra Solutions, has performed development work inside northern Iraq for close to two years, proving out an economic "connect-up" model we call Development-in-a-Box. That experience leads me to believe that the...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Voting has begun in Iraqi elections everywhere outside the Kurdish-dominated north to fill beefed-up provincial councils that will replace those created in the country's last elections, in 2005
ABC News (Free subscription) | 01/31/2009
Iraqi Christians caught in the middle as Kurdish-Arab tensions rise in Mosul elections
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