... Supreme Council of Iraq which was founded on Iran's initiative in Tehran in 1982. They will be used to Syrian and Iranian security monitoring their activities. Overall, the extent of U.S. surveillance of its Shia and Kurdish allies in Iraq reveals a deep anxiety in Washington that in supporting a government in Baghdad dominated by Shia Islamic parties it has promoted a government that is closer to Iran than the U.S. The career of a ...

... Supreme Council of Iraq which was founded on Iran's initiative in Tehran in 1982. They will be used to Syrian and Iranian security monitoring their activities. Overall, the extent of U.S. surveillance of its Shia and Kurdish allies in Iraq reveals a deep anxiety in Washington that in supporting a government in Baghdad dominated by Shia Islamic parties it has promoted a government that is closer to Iran than the U.S. The career of a ...

... taking out the Caspian Sea oil, to a port in Turkey, Ceyhan. That oil pipeline carries about one percent of the world’s oil supply. Two weeks ago, that pipeline was blown up in a Turkish area by the Kurdish rebels that the Turks are fighting. There were reports that the Russians had bombed this over the weekend. Reports this morning, however, say—suggest that there hasn’t been an interruption, except that Azerbaijan has shut off flow in...

.../ALeqM5i-Ia_Lh33-nLNAtH4huOSxKVd6sA Thai massage for China 's military muscle http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JG11Ad01.html US Senate confirms Petraeus for Middle East command http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1040336020080710 Report: Kurdish rebels wound 9 in attack on Turkish military convoy http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/10/europe/EU-Turkey-Kurds.php Assad Doesn't Want to Make a Military Comeback to Lebanon ...

... pursued biological and chemical weapons.U.N. inspectors have said that Iraq's claims about biological weapons is neither credible nor verifiable. In 1986, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran, and later, against its own Kurdish population. While weapons inspections have been successful in the past, there have been no inspections since the end of 1998. There can be no doubt that Iraq has continued to pursue its goal of obtaining weapons...

... the deal with Kurdistan's semiautonomous government last September. Its chief executive, Ray L. Hunt, a close political ally of President Bush, briefed an advisory board to Mr. Bush on his contacts with Kurdish officials before the deal was signed. In an e-mail message released by the Congressional committee, a State Department official in Washington, briefed by a colleague about the impending deal with the Kurdistan Regional ...

... be represented by a separate glyph.) The boundaries between the three types of segmental scripts are not always clear-cut. For example, Sorani Kurdish is written in the Arabic script, which is normally an abjad. However, in Kurdish, writing the vowels is mandatory, and full letters are used, so the script is a true alphabet. Other languages may use a...

....org/2008/02/24/african-bloggers-the-groundswell-of-opposition-to-africom/ Israel: Defense boom seeks wiggle room http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19021 Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels in Iraq http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gbFNzLCHX_s7l2KuUDMuYdWYAWSAD90V90N88 SAMS_graduates Army's new planners http://www.ftleavenworthlamp.com/articles/2008/05/29/news/news2.txt Selling a war http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/...

... in 2003-4, tho I can't now prove that I was. To prevent further slaughter, Iraq should be legalistically "balkanized." It should be three separate states. Iraq has never been a real country. It was made up of Ottoman leftovers. The Kurds are by far the single largest ethnic group without a country. That said, do you really feel that either Iran or Turkey would accept a Kurdish nation? Hell, they're fighting already. WB Yeats

Fartass Jewad wrote: Kurdish rebels in Iraq threaten to attack Iran 1 day...ago MOUNT QANDIL, Iraq (AFP) - A Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq ... Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the Islamic country. ... villages in an attempt to flush out Kurdish guerrillas, sending residents fleeing from their homes.... of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish rebel movement fighting to carve out an ...