The overwhelming majority of Kurds are already packing their bags to
leave the Arab Sunni areas. They already see the coming civil war. Most have
already said goodbye to friends and neighbors in Sunni dominated areas. In, Erbil the capital of the de-facto sovereign Kurdistan Regional
Government is preparing for an influx of Kurds... The US needs to cuts some
realistic deals to create an independent Kurdistan and let the Sunnis fend
for themselves. They deserve whatever they get.
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Shiite party leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim said Khalilzad bore some
responsibility for the Samarra attack because of this warning, and al-Kubaisi
said "without doubt," the ambassador's comments "mobilized all the Shiites"
and "made them ready to go down to the street at any moment."
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Feb
23, 2006
News Snapshot
The National Council of Southern Kurdistan agreed on Wednesday to name
Nechirvan Barzani as Prime Minister of united government. The Council also
named Omar Fattah as deputy, a step seen as a practical move towards the
unification of the two administrations of Southern Kurdistan. Massoud
Barzani, President of Southern Kurdistan asked the two men to form the
government within four months.
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Two television
stations in Amed, Northern Kurdistan have been authorized by the Turkish
regime to begin broadcasting in Kurdish beginning on 21 of March. The
broadcasts will be limited to 30 minutes per day, in accordance with the
Turkish way of "democracy".
The Kurdistan
parliament is due to hold a session today to name the prime minister of
the unified Kurdish government and his deputy. Adnan Mufti, speaker of
the Kurdistan National Assembly called on all MPs to attend the session.
The parliament will discuss Southern Kurdistan's anti-terrorism law
which is due to be approved soon, reported the Kurdistani Nwe
The U.S.
ambassador delivered a blunt warning to Iraqi leaders Monday that they risk
losing American support unless they establish a national unity government
with the police and the army out of the hands of religious parties.
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The Iraqi Deputy head of the integrity commission, Moosa Faraj, said
that the Southern Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani had insisted
that corruption be eliminated in all government offices and that the
Kurdistan region would no longer be a safe haven for corrupt individuals,
reported the Iraqi daily Al-Mashriq
