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2005-01-29 Iraq-Jordan

Preventing Another Mosul - What Went Wrong?

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Posted by Duke Nukem 2005-01-29 4:11:54 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 a US senior officer who has an intimate knowledge of Mosul said the US forces had long before realised that the local recruits were unreliable but had been unable to replace them with Kurds because of objections by local leaders who were loath to upset the delicate ethnic balance in the town, which is partly Arab and partly Kurdish.

The fiasco in November was enough to cancel out the political objections to the Kurdish militia presence, and now Kurds control all the important security positions in Mosul. - Link

Hope the Sunnis enjoy their new status as part of the Kurdish autonomous region.

Posted by phil_b 2005-01-29 6:07:46 PM|| 2005-01-29 6:07:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 the Kurds have so much to admire about them...they deserve their own state.

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-29 6:14:27 PM|| 2005-01-29 6:14:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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