Kurdish Weekly Despairs of Iraq
From the USG Open Source Center translation of an editorial by a pro- Kurdistan Democratic Party (led by Massoud Barzani) magazine:
"Iraqi Kurdish Weekly Says Leadership Better Leave Baghdad, Return to Kurdistan
Unattributed commentary: "Three years in Baghdad and a ruined country"
Govari Gulan
Thursday, June 15, 2006 T14:15:29Z
Document Type: OSC Translated Text
. . . it is time to wonder:
We, as Kurds, are not going to discuss the normalization of the Arabized areas and the revenue yet, but we can ask how do Arabic forces see the Kurdish participation in the political process in Baghdad? How do we deal with them three years after the fall of the dictatorship?
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posted by Juan Cole @ 6/15/2006 06:47:00 PM
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i read the first few lines and nearly choked. Humanitarian aid to baghdad? coming from Barzani?
the cheek of some people.
Mixing metaphors, the crazy gorilla in Iraq's basement seems to be stirring itself in anticipation of 07 and secession. Seems that issue has been the subrosa force driving the disintegration of the Iraqi nation - for good or ill.
Independence has been the Kurdish goal from the beginning. The only question is when, and what the physical and ideological boundaries will be. If they're foolish enough to include the aspirations of the PKK and its off-shoots, and the KDP-Iran, they'll be rolled up by joint operations of the Iraqi and Turkish governments with a little help from Iran. Nothing new there. With disavowal of the PKK and the Iranian Kurdish separatists, they'll be embarking on something really new. And it might work. Turkish business is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the KRG territories. The KRG is planning on opening a free trade zone on the Iranian border next to Sulaymaniyah. The KRG last year let out oil concessions on its own. Who says the KRG doesn't control its own foreign policy?? The money might buy a minimalist approach to independence from the leadership, but will it buy it from the constituency?
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