APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from April 2009

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from April 2009

Pax Americana In Iraq Is Changing - Part 34 - The Kurds & Turkey.
April 6, 2009... Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a liberal Kurd, has been among regional leaders preparing Kurdish political groups in Europe, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria and Turkey to meet in late April or early May and appeal to Turkey's rebels of the Marxist...

The Coming Battle For Kirkuk.
April 6, 2009... Maleki has recently ordered Maj Gen 'Abdul-Amir Zaidi to head an Arab government force in the oil-rich but volatile Kirkuk area which borders Kurdistan. Once a Ba'thist, Zaidi is falsely rumoured to be a relative of Maleki. In the 1990s the...

UN For Kirkuk Power-Sharing.
April 6, 2009... Seeking to head off an explosion of ethnic violence, the UN is to call for a power-sharing system of government for Kirkuk. A draft UN plan, reported on March 30 by The Associated Press, aims to defuse dangerous tensions. It is feared that, if...

Gen Odierno's Warning.
April 6, 2009... In an interview published on April 2 by The Christian Science Monitor, the top US military commander in Iraq Army Lt-Gen Raymond Odierno said the American military will not repeat the mistakes of the past and rush withdrawing from areas which...

Obama In Ankara After Gul's Baghdad Visit.(Barack Obama and Abdullah Gul)
April 6, 2009... President Obama has chosen Turkey to be the first foreign country in the state visits of the new US chief executive. He is due in Ankara on April 6. Iraq will be high on the agenda of his talks with the leaders of Turkey, which ruled Iraq and...