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2008-01-14 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2008-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 London (KurdishMedia.com) 13 January 2008: Ten Sunni and Shiia Arab political groups united against Kurds, which includes Ayad Allawiâs group, an old friend of Kurds, reported Kurdish website sbeiy.com on Sunday.

The Arab groups signed an anti Kurdish agreement, called âNational Understanding Projectâ to dissolve the powers that the KRG exercising and cut back the Kurdish rights. Sbeiy.com stated that all the points of this Understanding is against Kurds.

The Arabs united to reduce the KRGâs budged from 17 to 12.5 percent of the Iraqi budget; annual the Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution regarding normalization of areas outside the current Kurdistan Region; bringing the Kurdistanâs natural resources under the central government of Iraq; paying the KRG security forces from the KRG budget.

If these are implemented, the KRG would dissolve.

Mahmud Osman, a Kurdish MP in Baghdad, told sbeiy.com that the Kurdish position is weak; it was stronger a year and two back.

Posted by phil_b 2008-01-14 01:40|| 2008-01-14 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2
Damn. The Kurds deserve better. >:-(

Posted by Seafarious 2008-01-14 02:00|| 2008-01-14 02:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Surprise meter?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-14 05:28|| 2008-01-14 05:28|| Front Page Top

#4 "dissolve the powers that the KRG exercising and cut back the Kurdish rights"

Not gonna happen. 100,000 Peshmerga say the Kurds are going to continue what they are doing.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-01-14 12:21|| 2008-01-14 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 See also STRATEGYPAGE> KURDISH WAR[IRAQ]: ARABS UNITE TO FIGHT. Sunni and Shia Arab/Muslim Pols collude to resist KURDISH CLAIMS OF SOVEREIGNTY, etc. over the city of KIRKUK.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-14 19:53|| 2008-01-14 19:53|| Front Page Top

#6 RIAN > TURKEY TO CONTINUE INDEFINITELY OPERATIONS AGZ KURDISH REBELS, versus TURKEY WILL NOT ATTACK THE KURDS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-14 20:25|| 2008-01-14 20:25|| Front Page Top

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