Kurdish Weekly Despairs Of Iraq From

Juan Cole 06/15/2006

Kurdish Weekly Despairs of Iraq

From the USG Open Source Center translation of an editorial by a pro- Kurdistan Democratic Party (led by Massoud Barzani) magazine:

“Iraqi Kurdish Weekly Says Leadership Better Leave Baghdad, Return to Kurdistan
Unattributed commentary: “Three years in Baghdad and a ruined country”
Govari Gulan
Thursday, June 15, 2006 T14:15:29Z

Document Type: OSC Translated Text

. . . it is time to wonder:

We, as Kurds, are not going to discuss the normalization of the Arabized areas and the revenue yet, but we can ask how do Arabic forces see the Kurdish participation in the political process in Baghdad? How do we deal with them three years after the fall of the dictatorship?

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page