Kurdistan president replaces Iraqi flag (seen as move toward self-rule)

ProSense

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Fri Sep-01-06 08:33 PM
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Kurdistan president replaces Iraqi flag (seen as move toward self-rule)

Kurdistan president replaces Iraqi flag

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SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani has ordered the Iraqi national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish one in his northern autonomous region in what appeared to be another move toward more self-rule in the north, local officials said Friday.

The order was issued Thursday and applies to the Kurdish region, said Beshraw Ahmed, a spokesman for the Sulaimaniyah municipality.

According to Azad Jundiyanim, a member of President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Sulaimaniyah, Barzani issued a formal message asking for the Iraqi flag to be lowered. The message was also broadcast on Kurdish radio.

Iraq's northern Kurdish region has slowly been gaining more autonomy since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

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Sunni Arabs fear that Kurds are pushing for secession under the nation's new federal system, a step which, if imitated by the Shiite majority in the oil-rich south, would leave Sunnis with little more than date groves and sand.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_kurds_1

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Warren Stupidity

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Fri Sep-01-06 09:01 PM
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1. So I'll ask. What is the official definition of 'civil war'?

I'm just thinking that when one region of the country lowers the national flag and raises their own, that just might be a qualifying event.

So how many more years are we supposed to not be able to afford to fail in our Big Iraqi Mission?

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nealmhughes

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Sat Sep-02-06 12:12 AM
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2. It appears that it will be the "Arab Republic of Baghdad" Embassy soon.

Edited on Sat Sep-02-06 12:40 AM by nealmhughes

We had better brush up on our Kurdish, not too much different than other Iranian branch of I-E languages, really...

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Jack Rabbit

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Sat Sep-02-06 02:39 AM
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3. No surprise to me

I always thought when the Sunni and Shia got into a civil war that the Kurds would opt for independence. Why not? It's not their fight.

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clark08

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Sat Sep-02-06 09:54 AM
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4. inevitable

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annabanana

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Sat Sep-02-06 09:57 AM
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5. "No one could have anticipated.... . . . . "

I mean, who'd a thought?
Completely out of the blue....

quelle surprise

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