Thu Octobter 27 2005 - By Borzou Daragahi and Richard Boudreaux Times Staff Writers

BAGHDAD — They are three lawyers, Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurd, one a poor city kid, another raised on a farm, the third the scion of wealthy landlords.

Monday, 10 December, 2007

ANKARA: Turkey is considering amnesty for Kurdish rebels whose separatist drive has claimed more than 37,000 lives since 1984, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying yesterday.

By KATRIN BENNHOLD International Herald Tribune
November 2, 2006

PARIS— President Jalal Talabani of Iraq said today that American-led troops should remain in Iraq for at least two years to give the country time to build up its security forces.

October 19, 2007 | By Sharon Behn

Kurdish leaders said yesterday the United States is obliged by a U.N. resolution to defend them in the event that Turkish forces invade northern Iraq in pursuit of members of a Kurdish rebel movement.

February 1, 2008 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN

BAGHDAD — As a minority group in Iraq, the Kurds have enjoyed disproportionate influence in the country’s politics since the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003. But now their leverage appears to be declining as tensions rise with Iraqi Arabs, raising the specter of another fissure alongside the sectarian divide between Sunnis and Shiites.

BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov 27, 2006 (AP)— An Iraqi Kurd who said he survived a firing squad of Saddam Hussein's soldiers testified Monday in the former dictator's genocide trial, describing the day nearly two decades ago when he watched as his mother and sisters were shot to death.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam Hussein from his genocide trial on Wednesday and defense lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil.

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Monday, June 4, 2007 | By Christopher Hitchens
A question every American politician needs to address.

I chanced last week to run into a senior staff member of UNAMI, which is the little-known (and somehow not very reassuring) acronym for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. You could read acres of news from that country as it undergoes everything that the death squads of the parties of God can inflict on a society, without ever being reminded that coalition forces are applying a U.N. mandate for the reconstruction and democratization of Iraq. The assaults by the Baathists and the Bin Ladenists on the U.N. presence have been especially vicious: The U.N. headquarters in Baghdad were utterly demolished by military-grade explosives three years ago, murdering among others the heroic Sergio Vieira de Mello, a senior U.N. peacemaker who was explicitly targeted by the Islamists for his role in overseeing the independence of "Christian" East Timor from "Muslim" Indonesia.

BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq predicted in a televised interview that former President Saddam Hussein would be hanged by the end of the year.