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Rights and wrongs.(DIYALA)
September 22, 2008... Last July when Iraqi army troops headed into Diyala, one of Iraq's "last remaining restive provinces," they were reportedly launching a military operation against al-Qaeda. Iraqi Gen. Abdulkarim Rubilee told reporters, "This is to get rid of what remains of al Qaeda and the insurgents." As...

Mother of all disputes.(KIRKUK)
September 22, 2008... The city of Kirkuk has the dubious distinction of being the most hotly contested city in Iraq, a city accustomed to violence on a daily basis. Kurds are determined to annex the city; Arabs and Turkmen want it to remain under the control of the central government. In late July Kurdish MPs...

The price of possession.(MOSUL)
September 22, 2008... It was but few days into fall when in Baghdad parliamentarian Osama al-Nujaifi of the Iraqi National List accused Kurds of attempting to "Kurdize" Mosul. "Two days ago," he said, "a military force comprising three brigades from the Peshmerga forces entered Mosul city and were stationed in...

Their winning ways.(THE KRG)
September 22, 2008... As this fall issue of Kurdish Life was being completed, winter intervened. So did the following reports on Iraq's provincial elections. "The Kurdish Alliance, an umbrella of major Kurdish factions, is seeking to put off provincial elections in the city of Mosul," Azzaman reported on the first...

The SOFA under the table.(US-IRAQ)
September 22, 2008... "When I first came to the Kurdish region back in 2003, there were pictures of US president George Bush, 'the liberator,' adorning most of the shops in the market at the foot of the citadel. But when I arrived back last month, all I could see were effigies of Kurdish leaders. 'America was not...