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POPSIraq warns Turkey over incursion "This would be a unilateral decision and that's why people are resisting that. "That's why the whole government of Iraq and the whole people of Iraq are united really not to see their sovereignty, their territorial integrity undermined by a friendly neighbouring country." The BBC's Jim Muir, in Baghdad, says there are fears of a collision between Turkish troops and the Iraqi Kurdish forces which control the area.
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POPSLetter From Kurdistan --<< " It deals with Baghdad but to its misfortune, Baghdad's chief diplomat, foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari just happens to be the uncle of Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan region. It is the progress here that the families of the fallen American soldiers can forever claim that their loved ones did indeed liberate a people from the chains of oppression.
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POPSIraqi Kurdsistan will Defend Itself The leader of the Kurdistan Regional Authority in Iraq, Massoud Barzan, called Friday for talks with Turkey. The call was immediately rejected by Ankara, which accuses Barzani of deliberately harboring 3,000 to 5,000 guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers Party who have been going back over into Turkey and blowing people up or killing them (i.e. engaging in terrorism).
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POPSIraqui Kurdish leader defends oil deals This is a double edged sword. I cannot fault these people for wanting to share the wealth their resources can bring, but on the other side of the coin, petroleum products severely damage the environment. One wonders just how much the "people" will benefit, seeing as how "Washington" (which seems to be how they refer to Oil Mongers) is already salivating. The "Greedy Oil People" aka GOP (my little nickname) certainly are not distributing the wealth anywhere other than their pockets, as far as I can see.
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POPSPolitical progress in Iraq Another blow to the democrats who, after word of the success of the surge, had decided to start pointing fingers at the failed political progress of the Iraqi government.
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