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Peshmerga parade
According to reports, two brigades of the Iraqi army have been deployed into territory controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). They were moving towards the Syrian border when they were stopped from reaching the village of Cairo by Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
The brigades, 37 and 38, belong to section 10 of the Iraq army. In a statement Peshmerga leader Anwar Haji Osman said these forces had entered Kurdish territory without any prior warning.
This demonstrates that the current Iraqi army, now under Iraqi prime minister Maliki’s control, has really not progressed from its Saddamist past. This mini-invasion is a step by the Baghdad government towards taking control of the Syrian and Turkish borders.
“We have the authority to attack the Iraqi army if they advance any further”, Osman said.
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Let them advance! That is the pretext Kurds have long been in anticipation of!
Most recently, following the exchange of some belligerent rhetoric between KRG president and Al-Maliki-led GOV, 4 brigades totaling roughly 5000 Iraqi troops clandestinely had amassed along Kirkuk boarder, as well. Their intention was unknown but what could not be concealed is that Almaliki had personally issued the order.
They very respectfully retreated for they knew the type of reaction awaiting them from Peshmarga Forces!
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Massoud Barzani asked PKK to lay down arms Jun 21, 2012
The son of Mustafa Barzani of 1975 so smart according to many KDP members, he should lead countries like China, Russia and USA not stupid Kurds whom do not understand strategies of Barzani.
Corrupt Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani took the wealth of Kurdistan with their families and their servants instead building an army for Kurdish people to be protected during wars.
Corrupt Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani were hoping Turkey and Iran will protect them after the US withdrawal !!!
Corrupt Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani were hoping the thieves from the US and Israel will convince their own Governments to protect Kurdish people and oil when they get attacked by Arab, Turks and Sh’a of Iran !!!
Corrupt Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani are alone now. Kurdish people are not going to fight for them anymore. What they are doing with their money now?
Yes the solution is national security council of barzan under Mansoor Masood . This will save us ***** kurds . For kurds there is a single hope , demise of barzani and talabani cult culture and families corruption and monopoly of power and resources . One enemy , one hope and one solution.
All this is just rhetorics. No one cares about the Kurds except the poor Kurds on the streets and the old Peshmargas who have so far refused to sell their souls. The rest of Kurdistan is a bunch of naive stupid people who love to follow anyone ruling them as long as they get free lands and Land Cruisers. THat is the reality: even opposition is corrupted and will never do anything cuz they same and will do same if they come to power. Change has come from street by educating people. We are people still don’t have any contribution to civilization in last 100 years because al we do is fight: fight anyone even our own selves.
The Kurds ( or rather the two reigning powers KDP and PUK), have only themselves to blame. You cannot agree to be part of a united Iraq and at the same time preventing the Iraqi army from doing its job.This is the legacy of agreeing after 2003 to be again a part of state of Iraq, a state which committed crimes of Genocide against innocent kurdish civilians in Halabja and Anfal campaigns. People of Kurdistan are not ready to fight for the selfish interests of kurdish ruling parties. There are one of two solutions or choices: either declare independence and fight a war of independence which every Kurd will join, or put up with the current situation as a province of Iraq and cooperate with the central government of Baghdad!.
Wrong; Britain and France are to blame. Oil was discovered in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans were close to the Germans. Naturally France and Britain (England) did not want Germany taking this mineral wealth and so instigated World War I before toppling the Ottomans through a fake ‘Arab Revolt’. The undivided land was split and carved to serve the whims of outsiders and differences were exploited. It is called ‘divide and rule’ for a reason you know. The people, Kurd and non-Kurd, who had roamed the undivided land freely for millenia both before and during the Ottoman Empire were now blocked off from one another.
The Kurds are one example of this carving up of land by greedy imperialists seeking to create and manipulate people for their own sordid benefits. The Kurds were promised a state but at the last minute the imperialists backed down and withdrew their promise, and that is where the current Kurdish problem comes from. Please look at the root cause. The natives are stupid for falling into the trap, yes, but who created the trap in the first place? By making the Kurds the underdogs, further tension is created between once peaceful neighbours. The question is: who benefits? That’s right: Western imperialists and Zionists. The Zionists use the Kurds (i.e. Barzani) to ensure their illegitimate state, Isra-hell, is not crushed and the Palestinians liberated before the immigrant Jews are sent back to their true ancestral homelands, i.e. Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Ehtiopia etc.
I believe that there should be no borders and all countries in the Middle East should be a massive territory. That is how Allah (created the world) and that is the natural form we as humans should live in. Nationalism is haram and looking at the state the world is currently in, we can see why it is haram. There should be no Iraq, no Kurdistan, no Jordan…just a united people of different cultures and religions living in peace with one another.
Well it seems that Barzani is starting to push for total independence, if he can get the support of Turkey and through them US support. With 3,000 peshmergas facing up to 5,000 Iraqi troops on in the disputed territories and the Iraqi military build up around the city of Kirkuk looks like a tinder box waiting to burst into a huge forest fire.
http://kurdistanfocus.blogspot.fr/2012/07/when-will-kurdish-state-be-established.html
Barzani knows his term is about to end. He is just using the independence music to distract people.
President Barzani is about to be tested on his own terms of democracy. His presidency term ends next February and the constitution doesn’t allow him to rerun. Will he demonstrate a live example of democracy and gracefully step down or will he change the constitution like Adad did or create a permanent state if emergency like Mubarak did just to stay in power. What he chooses to do will determine his legacy in the eyes of the Kurds.
Now that Suleiman will be the acid test to the true nature of the KRG Government. It’s been nearly 20 years since I got my friends at the British Electoral Reform Society’s Ballot Services together with the Kurdish comrades in London that lead to the first elections in Kurdistan. It’s been a long road and next year we will see if democracy has really taken root or whether the Russian road is taken. As Gramsi said, Optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect.
I hope there is no fighting amongst anyone within Iraq. The more the people fight, the more the Western imperialists who seek to exploit petty differences whilst robbing from the people (who are too busy fighting and too stupid to realise who caused the fight or how stupid the fight is, but they keep on fighting anyway just as the British authorities did between Hindus and Muslims in British India before guaranteeing pathetic hostilities between them through partitioning the Raj and creating India and Pakistan) rejoice.
No borders; one Ummah.
Since when do the British care about democracy or the will being of others in the world? Great Britain’s imperialism is the root of most of the problems of the Middle East. Whenever I see a foreigner getting interested in the matters of Kurdistan, I get suspicious because they are interested for one of two reasons: either financial gain or political influence. Now that there is oil in Kurdistan, all of a sudden Kurdistan’s friends will increase in numbers. Typical western hypocricy. You will have no place in Kurdistan.
re: The British. I think you need to separate out the people from the government there. I totally agree with you when you condemn the role of Britain as an imperial power in the Middle East, and else where, my country’s track record is appalling. Same could be said of France, and Turkey- and of course in more modern times the US and Russia.
However that does not mean that every British hand is covered in the blood of every victim of the decisions of the elites, same as not every Kurdish hand is covered in Armenian blood.
Pete,
I agree with you in that not every British citizen should be held accountable for what the government does. In fact many if these citizens actually helped the Kurds. I just hope everyone who claims live for Kurds is doing it out of live and not just financial aspirations.