Kurdistan Observer

Letter to the Washington Post Editor
By: Steve Tataii
August 24, 2005

Suggested Title:
"The news articles on Kurds are unsubstantiated and wrong"

The Kurds having a role in the human rights violations posted/published on your Aug 20-21 news articles titled: "Militia Wresting Control Across Iraq's North and South", 8/20/05 and 8/21/05 are absolutely unsubstantiated". The news has mostly been generated in Basra South.

Those interviewed as witnesses are fabricating their false accusations against the most respected military members in the world "The Peshmagra" or Kurdish national Defense army, who has been wrongfully labeled as "Militia". The article has been cleverly manipulated.

Anthony Shadid and Steve Fainaru have clearly erred in distinguishinh Iraq Arab Security members, Arab Police members from their Mosul and Kirkuk fellow Arabs. The Kurdish Peshmarga are not Militias, they have been the Kurds' Defense Military members for decades.

Karen McLuskie, a British spokeswoman is obviously fabricating the truth without even being in the North or the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk. This doesn't surprise me, because for two years, "Leanne Sanders and Paul Harvey", sent to Kirkik by CPA, have caused irreparable Obstructions of Justice in the implmintation of Article 58 of TAL (Transitional Administrative Law), having wasted more than two years of progress in Reversing the abhorrent "Arabization" of
Saddam's 10,000 dinar Arabs.

It appears; that Great Britain shall continue its destructive path against the S. Kurdistan Kurds for as long as we let them to continue. Washington Post owes a formal apology to all Kurds, having offended our most sacred Army of the great Kurdish nation. Let us not post/publish any unsubstantiated news about Peshmarga. The peshmarga is not militia, and this has already been recognized and respected by all groups in the Iraq's Interim Government, especially by our U.S. Ambassador and members of our military, primarily by most respected General Abisaid.