Kurdish Life articles from June 2007

Kurdish Life archives from June 2007

Dancing on the head of a pin.(Turkish military in Iraqi Kurdistan)
June 22, 2007... Ankara was growing hotter by the day--and it wasn't the weather. PKK guerrillas continued to attack Turkey from bases in Iraqi Kurdistan. And Washington was keeping the Erdogan government from retaliating. First a retired U.S. general was...

An oasis of intrigues.(Party of Free Life of Kurdistan)
June 22, 2007... During his interview with Democracy Now, Reese Erlich gave this summary of Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraqi Kurdistan: "In Northern Iraq there are three Iranian Kurdish groups that operate and that have compounds and do political...

Hiding under Baghdad's bed.(Iraqi Kurdistan)
June 22, 2007... On August 23rd Iranian soldiers attacked several villages in Iraqi Kurdistan. The local chief of police said Iranian troops had been firing artillery since August 10. As if the Iranians were attacking for no reason whatsoever, and even as PJAK...

Taking advantage.(taking advantage of United States and Kurdish friendship)
June 22, 2007... "Jews have so many enemies, we have to take advantage of our friends." Sondra Oster Baras CNN documentary, 10.31.07 Iraqi Kurdistan has been colonized, but not by the U.S. alone. Having established its first strategic outpost in the...

Leaving much to be desired.(regional Kurdish government has accommodated a token number of Iraqi Christians)
June 22, 2007... But there are more important things on Kurdish minds, not least getting control over areas they covet. And they are doing just that with the full support of American and Israeli friends. To convey a positive image for the benefit of Americans...

The biggest oil rig in the Middle East.
June 22, 2007... It is no secret that ninety-five percent of Iraq's national income comes from oil. Nor is it a mystery that non-Iraqi nationals, explorers, drillers, carriers, sellers and suppliers derive their incomes from oil. No wonder Washington, which...

Paying the price of privileges.(Kurds have become targets for armed groups and Kurds' enemies)
June 22, 2007... Barzani and Talabani et al have been given every advantage imaginable over non-Kurdish neighbors in Iraq since 1991. But more than a few Iraqi Kurds have paid the price of their privileges and perquisites. On July 9th the Kurdish Globe...

Dancing with wolves.(IRAN)(Iranian nuclear enrichment poses nuclear holocaust)
June 22, 2007... Three days into summer, Israel's deputy UN ambassador Daniel Carmon sent messages to the UN secretary general and the president of the General Assembly "urging the international community to speak out against human rights abuses in Iran." The...

Do as we say, not as we do.(IRAN)(Kurdish guerrillas who attack Iran, nor did he blame the U.S. and Israel for supporting them)
June 22, 2007... While the U.S. singles out Iran for meddling in Iraq, it is silent while Israel meddles in both Iraq and Iran. As noted in the Kurdish section of this issue, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's Minister of Strategic Threats admitted "extending aid to...

The USS Liberty, a telltale.(IRAN)(Israeli airplanes deliberately attacked USS Liberty naval ship)
June 22, 2007... If ever there was evidence of the perverse attachment between Jerusalem and Washington, it lurks in the tragedy of the USS Liberty, an American Navy ship caught in the crosswinds between the U.S. and Israel during the 1967 war. Time and again...

The remains of summer.(IRAQ)(war casualties)
June 22, 2007... "Iraq is 'unwinnable', a 'quagmire', a 'fiasco': so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may be 'stuck' precisely where Bush et al...

From hero to villain.(IRAQ)(United States Military)
June 22, 2007... But not all Iraqis are victims of sectarian strife or foreign terrorists. More than a few have been killed by the U.S. military. Tomdispatch editor Nick Turse had this to say on the issue: "Does the U.S. military keep the numbers of rockets and...

Past is prologue.(IRAQ)(Brief article)
June 22, 2007... "Read the following strangely prophetic segment from an article published in 1982 by the World Zionist Organization publication Kivunim and penned by Oded Yinon, an Israeli journalist with links to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Yinon's strategy...