October 23, 2007 | Op-Ed Contributor | By PETER W. GALBRAITH Townshend, Vt.
IN a surge of realism, the Senate has voted 75-23 to acknowledge that Iraq has broken up and cannot be put back together. The measure, co-sponsored by Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, and Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, supports a plan for Iraq to become a loose confederation of three regions — a Kurdish area in the north, a Shiite region in the south and a Sunni enclave in the center — with the national government in Baghdad having few powers other than to manage the equitable distribution of oil revenues.
BAGHDAD, Sept 15 (AFP) - 12h54 - Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will likely be tried later this year over the massacre of Kurds unless he is found guilty and hanged immediately at the conclusion of a first case opening in October, a source close to the Iraq's Special Tribunal said Thursday.
ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 3 (AFP) - 16h51 - Iraq's President Jalal Talabani and fellow Kurdish leader Massud Barzani have warned Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari his high-handed running of the government is jeopardizing their support.
Sat Apr 22, 10:16 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament elected incumbent President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, for a second term on Saturday as politicians began putting together a national unity government after four months of deadlock.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
ANKARA - Police arrested 12 members of the Patriotic Forces Unity of Power Movement on charges of setting up a criminal gang and forgery, reported the Anatolia news agency on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (AFP) - 15h07 - Iranian border guards killed one Kurdish rebel and arrested another in clashes in the northwestern province of West Azarbayjan, the student agency ISNA reported Saturday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 1 - The old Kurdish guerrilla leader is savoring his most recent victory, won not on the field of battle but in the arid drawing rooms of Baghdad's constitutional convention.
By The Associated Press
Sat May 20, 200, 2:39 PM ET
Iraq's new 39-position national Cabinet, which includes four women:
Prime minister: Nouri al-Maliki, Shiite.
Deputy prime minister: Barham Saleh, Kurd.
Deputy prime minister: Salam Zikam Ali al-Zubaie, Sunni Arab.
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