Kurdish Life articles from September 2008

Kurdish Life archives from September 2008

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Adela Khanum.(THE WAY IT WAS)
September 22, 2008... The chief feature of Halebja is, or was till quite recently, Lady Adela. Adela Khanum, to give her her usual title, belongs by birth to the family of viziers of Ardelan, a Kurdish tribe which, though now considerably diminished, was a few...