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 [The CNN Wire] In Iraq’s Kurdish region, Iranian shells thought to be targeting ...: Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government, which has administrative authority in three provinces, issued a strong denunciation of the Iranian actions and demanded that it end. The actions, it says, stokes “fears among the Kurdish villagers and .

 [Net News Publisher] Iraqi Officials: Iran Shells Kurdish Villages in Northern Iraq: The Iranian military has frequently shelled areas of northern Iraq it suspects of harboring members of the Kurdish separatist group PEJAK, the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan. Tehran accuses the group of launching attacks inside Iran from bases in Iraq.

 [Respectful, Reasonable, Accountable] This Goes Beyond Unreasonable!: A nearly identical denial was sent the same day to another Iraqi Kurdish translator living in this country, according to Thomas Ragland, a lawyer with Maggio and Kattar, the Washington law firm representing both men in court challenges to the denials. The second translator, who worked with U.S. intelligence and Special Forces in Iraq starting several years before the U.S. invasion, declined to discuss his case out of fear for his family in Iraq.

[Obsidian Wings] I Know It's Not News That Our Government Is Nuts. But Still.: To clarify a bit--I've known about that Kurdish civil war in 1996 from when I read the book by two of the Cockburn brothers on Iraq and it seemed a bit odd to me, even given the cynicism that I try to maintain about "freedom fighters", that a group of Kurdish freedom fighters would ally themselves with the man who had killed somewhere between 50,000 and 180,000 Kurds in the previous decade. But there you go--apparently in the all-important attempt to beat the other Kurdish faction in the quest for power, the KDP thought a temporary alliance with Saddam was the way to go.

[SyriaComment - Syrian politics, history, and religion] News Round Up (23 March 2008): Certainly requiring first a democracy in Syria, regardless of its sincerity (and I do believe that you/AIG are sincere), will simply delay peace to a point that may be too late. In the end, the main difference between us, is that I believe time is not on our side, and that therefore we must compromise on what enemy we’re willing to talk to (the free, democratically-elected one, or the dictator), and especially when the offer is on the table as it still is right now.

 [The National Council of Resistance of Iran - NCRI] Iranian regime shells Iraqi Kurdish villages in Nowrouz: The Iranian Resistance expresses its condolences to the local residents and calls on the Multi-National Force-Iraq, the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council as well as all international human rights organizations to condemn the criminal border incursions by the ruling clerics into neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan. It also calls for urgent measures to aid the local citizens affected by the mullahs'

 [opendemocracy -] Halabja: the politics of memory, Joost R Hiltermann: The Kurdish insurgency crumbled overnight, and by 19 March theregime was able to declare, in banner headlines, the collapse of the PUK'sheadquarters in Jafati valley, northeast of Sulaimaniya. News of the Halabjachemical strike spread like wildfire throughout Kurdistan, and the regimecapitalised on this by launching a methodical military campaign to dislodge notonly the peshmergas from thecountryside, but its civilian population as well, to never again have to dealwith a rural-based insurgency.

 [Glory-Ho] Mom, Dad, Don’t Freak Out. We’re in Iraq.: Not Baghdad, Iraq. Northern Iraq. Kurdish Iraq. Kurdistan, if you will. And we found plenty of research, testimonials and even an English-teaching couchsurfer by the name of Josh Overcast before we made our decision to be tourist ...

 [Pajamas Media] A Fighting Chance for Freedom in Iraq: Memory fails those lamenting the catastrophe brought down upon Iraq by a rampant American bull, as if the place had been a peacenik camp run by Saddam. In fact, less than a decade after butchering his way to power in 1968, Saddam and his henchmen turned the place into a museum of cruelty, a pictograph of savagery.

[Enterprise Resilience Management Blog] Turkey Invests in Kurdish Region: "Turkey’s government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country's largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic effort intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. The program is intended to drain support for the militant Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, by improving the lives of Turkey’s impoverished Kurdish minority, Mr.

['Just News' Blog] Stalwart Service for US in Iraq Is Not Enough to Gain Green Card: A U.S. ally, the KDP is now part of the elected government of the Kurdish region and holds seats in the Iraqi parliament. After consulting public Web sites, however, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services determined that KDP forces "conducted full-scale armed attacks and helped incite rebellions against Hussein's regime, most notably during the Iran-Iraq war, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom."

[Patricia Thurston's Radio Weblog] Published on Sunday, March 16, 2008 by The Indepenedent/UK Five ...: The four days of vets' testimony revealed the struggle these young Americans are waging to regain their humanity and morality after having been transformed into callous war-fighters who largely dehumanized Iraqis as a people -- not just "the enemy" or combatants. An objective observer hearing the testimony would have good reason to wonder if U.S. troops -- given the often gratuitous and racist brutality, and the mistreatment of women, children and the elderly -- can ever be a solution in Iraq.

[Wizbang] The Knucklehead of the Day award: After consulting public Web sites, however, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services determined that KDP forces "conducted full-scale armed attacks and helped incite rebellions against Hussein's regime, most notably during the Iran-Iraq war, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom."

 [Anastasiairsedrea's Weblog] Horrific Nineveh Bombing Shows Counterinsurgency Working: I’m absolutely certain that al-Qaeda in Iraq would much rather have killed 250 people in Baghdad (capital of Baghdad province), Ramadi (capital of al Anbar), or Baqouba (capital of Diyala), where our counterinsurgency is actually focused… rather than a pair of villages in Nineveh so tiny, they’re not even represented on most maps of Iraq.  For that matter, al-Qaeda would almost certainly have rather blown up Kirkuk or Mosul…

[noisyroom.net] Iran fires artillery at Kurdish villages in northern Iraq: Iranian officials say security forces killed a number of militants in Iran’s northwestern province of Kordestan during battles Wednesday. The officials accused the militants of trying to disrupt Friday’s elections in the province for the Iranian parliament.

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