March 17, 2008
Twenty years on, few Kurds forget that the United States and other Western countries stood idle while a chemical attack killed 5,000
MARK MACKINNON
HALABJA, IRAQ — Rafiq Laiq learned two difficult lessons as he and his family fled the chemical-gas attack Saddam Hussein's army launched on this town 20 years ago.
April 27, 2008 | BEJAN MATUR
Imagine that you live in Diyarbakır. If you did not vote for the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the last election, you must have chosen the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). You did so for a number of reasons.
March 31, 2008 | Author: Greg Bruno
The recent explosion of intra-sect violence (NYT) in Baghdad, Basra, and other Iraqi Shiite strongholds has ominous implications for the U.S. and Iraqi governments. The reemergence of fighters loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatens to reverse security gains since an additional thirty thousand U.S. soldiers flooded Baghdad in 2007.
FORLORN mounds of sun-bleached clothes stretch across the barren field. Traces of the people who died wearing them - a washed-out vertebra near a small canvas shoe, a jawbone by a faded lavender dress - reveal that they mark the shallow graves of 1,200 of Saddam Hussein’s unidentified victims.
April 23, 2007
Lobby groups, TV commercials highlight region as 'the other Iraq'
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
The Washington Post
The 30-second television commercial features stirring scenes of a young Iraqi boy high-fiving a U.S. soldier, a Westerner dining alfresco, and men and women dancing together. "Have you seen the other Iraq?" the narrator asks. "It's spectacular. It's joyful."
"Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan!" the narrator continues. "It's not a dream. It's the other Iraq."
