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[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] * Frank26 Post: KTF Missions 4/6/10 | Dinar Daddy's Tidbits: Allawi, who won a lot of support from the Sunni Muslim minority that dominated Iraq under ousted leader Saddam Hussein, on March 30 accused neighboring Shiite power Iran of trying to keep him out of office by promoting an alliance between the Shiites and Kurdish parties. Since then, both the Kurds and al- Hakim have called for an inclusive power-sharing government.

[Qur'an - Bible.] Saddam Hussein - US - Iraq and Bushes. « Qur'an - Bible.: Saddam Hussein made grievous mistake of his political career by going into war with Iran with US government blessings which brought destruction and loss of human life for both neighboring countries. The US government considered Saddam Hussein their closest ally with supplying him the raw materials for Chemicals and Biological Weapons.

[Buzzle: What's the Buzz?] Pseudo-Kurdish Talabani and Barzani: Death Squads' Leaders ...: In addition to this, all the Turkmen and Arabs living in the north of Iraq, in general and, in Kirkuk, in particular, opposed the Kurdish Paramilitary groups that have been controlling three Northern provinces after the 1991 Gulf War. However, the Kurds, with the help of the British and the US forces have pressed for the inclusion of Kirkuk in an autonomous Kurdish region within a federal Iraq.[2][3]

[Iraq News and Information] Saddam, America's Good Son : Iraq News and Information: Many factors make the world view us as the â??bad guys.â? For instance, in 1991 when Iraqis rose against Saddam, the United States, afraid that change would put its majority Shi’ites and thus Iran in power, stood by with its forces as the Republican Guard crushed the rebellion. In 1996, the CIA fled and left the INC people in the hands of Saddam as Iraqi tanks moved into the Kurdish-controlled zone to destroy them.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] An American Kurd, Jessica Lagasse will represent Almaden Valley in ...: Their mother, Kurdistana, was killed in March 1991, when Saddam Hussein's forces were bombing the region to suppress a Kurdish rebellion. After his wife's death, the girls' father, Sirdar Muhammed Karem, went door-to-door, asking random families to watch the girls for a few days until he could return.

[Web Concepts] Oil Companies-Some Run by Former Bush Officials-Make a Risky Move ...: Over a spread of goat kebabs and fresh naan, Pire tells me how in 2007, with the draft for an oil law stalled in Baghdad, the Kurdish government went ahead with its own law: It created a standard oil contract, then partitioned the territory into dozens of oil blocks and invited foreign oil companies to bid. "We had a gentleman's agreement" with the central government, Pire says: "If the Iraqis could not finish an oil law by May 2007, then Kurdistan would be authorized to sign the contracts directly." Baghdad officials say no such agreement existed and that the Kurds went ahead with deals unilaterally.

[Support Kurds in Syria] 16 March 1988: Thousands die in Halabja gas attack : Support Kurds ...: Our correspondent says there will be great rejoicing or, at the very least, quiet relief among both Iraq’s Shia and Kurdish communities, which have suffered greatly at his hands.

[LewRockwell.com] Iraq's founding mother by Charles Glass: But for her political engagement in Iraq between Britain's invasion in 1916 and her suicide in 1926, Gertrude Bell would take her place in the parade of English lady travelers, like Lady Hester Stanhope and Jane Digby, who had merely gone to live among the Arabs. As assistant to Sir Percy Cox, Britain's first High Commissioner over the Mandate in Iraq, Miss Bell used her connections in London and among the country's Arab leaders to establish a state that she imagined would benefit its subjects, and her influence on it was probably greater than that of any other British official.

[Dinocrat] Dinocrat » Blog Archive » Saddam killed more people every year ...: Sunni Arab Muslims comprise the overwhelming majority of insurgent forces but account for only 20 percent of Iraq’s population, and the jihadists are mostly foreigners. Neither insurgent movement has any chance of stimulating a broad-based uprising that involves Arab Shiites and Kurds.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » The Tariq Aziz ...: Aziz, the only Christian in Saddam’s mostly Sunni Muslim coterie, became internationally known as the dictator’s defender and a fierce American critic after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent 1991 Gulf War. He was later promoted to deputy prime minister and often represented Iraq at the United Nations and other international forums.

Advice Goddess Blog: I've also heard all of the commentary that falsely conflates Islamic terrorism - a real threat (though far smaller, in practical terms than popularly thought) - with a basic tyrant like Don Rumsfeld's old buddy Saddam. It ain't the same form of nastiness, and the one-size-fits-all approach of bomb 'em and make 'em democracies cause everyone wants freedom is just spectacularly stupid.

[NYTurkishtimes] NYTurkishtimes: IRAQ'S TURKMENS FEEL NEW POLITICAL STRENGTH: The Turkmens' rising political strength highlights what many analysts believe could ultimately be Iraq's toughest hurdle on the way to future stability. That is, how to find a successful power-sharing arrangement in multiethnic, multilingual northern Iraq that can survive the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Allawi vows to work with all parties in Iraq: Iraq election front-runners court possible alliesBAGHDAD ”” With the complete results in Iraq's election just days away, there were signs Monday the two front runners were reaching out to other political parties, signaling the start of the jockeying to form the next ruling coalition. None of the blocs that competed in the March 7 election will take a majority of the seats in the new, 325-member assembly, making an alliance between two or more parties inevitable.

[At War] For Iraqis, Suffering Is a Reason to Vote - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: He was detained for eight years and saw 70 relatives (including many children and women) executed or tortured to death by Saddam’s secret police for being the relatives of opposition leaders exiled in Iran in the 1980s. He himself ws accused of helping to plot the Shiite uprising of 1991.

[Change.org's War and Peace Blog] Will the Execution of Chemical Ali Bring Justice for Kurdish ...: To clarify for those new to the case, in the 1980s, Saddam Hussein feared not only the Kurdish separatist movement, but also the cozy relationship those separatists were having with Iran at a time when Iraq and Iran were at war. At first, the Baathists forced Kurds to leave their homes in deep rural areas and along the Iranian border, but then when the simultaneous Iran-Iraq War and Kurdish rebellion continued, Hussein ordered Ali to "clear" Kurds from the border regions and rebel strongholds.

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