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Kurdish Life articles from March 2008
Scholarly journal covering Kurdish and Middle East issues within U.S. foreign policy.
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Kurdish Life archives from March 2008
Places where traces lie.
March 22, 2008... "Kurdish nationalist attempts to map Kurdistan have usually been aimed at both extending territory in general, and also securing key strategic regions, such, as resource rich areas, key cities and communication routes, such as sea access."
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Kirkuk: hostile makeover.
March 22, 2008... "Kurdistan Region-Iraq consists of the governorate of Dahuk in its current administrative borders and the governorates of Kirkuk, Sulaymaniyah, an Erbil, along with the districts of Agra, Shekhan, Sinjar, Tal A 'far, Talkif [Tel Kaif],...
Mosul: hostile takeover.
March 22, 2008... Last October a suicide attack on a KDP office in Mosul killed a party official and a guard, and 5 guards were injured. (10.10.07) This was no isolated incident. And yet much like the violence in Kirkuk, strife in Mosul rarely appears on the...
Passions and petroleum.
March 22, 2008... In an essay titled "The Five Iraqs" former U.S. Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter had this to say on the Kurds in the mix: "The inherent incompatibility between the 'sanctuary' created by the United States through the northern...
What so proudly we hail.
March 22, 2008... "I do not blame those who yearn for power, but those who are willing to submit to them."
Thucydides c 460 BC-c 395 BC)
One day after New Year 2008 the New York Times reported from Baghdad that 30 people were killed in Baghdad when a...
The way it was.(Revisiting Times Past)
March 22, 2008... Flushed with funds from the United States and oil, the Kurdish Regional Government has embarked on an archaeological project to excavate the citadel in the ancient city of Erbil, (Arbil, Irbil) in order to gain UN approval as a World Heritage...
Correction to kurdish life, Number 65.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2008... The date under the masthead should read, "Winter 2008. " Truth be told, the editor noticed, the error before the issue was mailed, but because the title article of Number 65 is "Discovering the Obvious, " chose to have it mailed out for the...