Category Archives: Kurds

Curious numbers in Ninevah

BAGHDAD — Ninevah province, home to the mixed city of Mosul and the besieged city of Tal ‘Afar, is see­ing some very strange num­bers. I’ve done back of the Excel enve­lope cal­cu­la­tions and have found this: In the Jan­u­ary elec­tion, which was boy­cotted by Sun­nis, there were 165,934 votes cast, accord­ing to the Inde­pen­dent Elec­toral Com­mis­sion of Iraq.

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Shellings and kidnappings

Today was a bad one. Another friend was kid­napped last night, and this morn­ing a mor­tar shell hit our com­pound. Thank­fully, my friend was released after a day — but he was very lucky.

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Suicide Attacks in Arbil kill dozens

Two sui­cide bomb attacks in Arbil kill at least 140, wound more than 200. Among the dead are Sami Abdul­rah­man, a man I con­sid­ered a friend. Why is this still happening?

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Uh-oh…

The 4th Infantry Divi­sion raided the PUK and KDP offices in Kirkuk on Sat­ur­day, seiz­ing a cache of weapons from the KDP offices and detain­ing a senior level offi­cial from that party.

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Turkomen to be trained by Egypt

TurkishPress.com_ reports that mem­bers of the Iraqi Turk­men Front will be trained by Egypt as part of the new Iraqi Army instead of Turkey.

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