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• Prometheus 6 | All respect and no restraint: ... fire." Without the language and with his Kurdish features, he was sure he would stand out, he said. He's a Kurd, he said, and he has no reason to become a target in an Arab war. Posted on Fri, Jan. 19, 2007    Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid the conflict in Baghdad By Leila Fadel and Yaseen Taha McClatchy Newspapers SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - As the Iraqi government attempts to secure a capital city ravaged by conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslim Arabs, its decision to bring a third party into ...
• War and Piece: ... mission impossible. Posted by Laura at 03:16 PM McClatchy : Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid conflict in Baghdad. Posted by Laura at 12:10 ...
• INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT: ... cleric Moqtada Al Sadr said in an interview published yesterday in an Italian newspaper that his Mahdi Army militia would not resist the Iraqi prime minister's planned security crackdown during the month of Muharram. Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid the conflict in Baghdad : Kurdish soldiers from northern Iraq, who are mostly Sunnis but not Arabs, are deserting the army to avoid the civil war in Baghdad, a conflict they consider someone else's ...
• Today in Iraq: ... Wanderer Jan 20 2007, 10:02 in "Bush's plan falling apart" at The News Blog read in full… Azzaman: RESIDENTS DESCRIBE LIFE AS 'HELL' IN HAIFA STREET Life is turning into 'hell' for residents of Haifa Street and the surrounding ...
• The Moderate Voice: ... that a major part of Bush’s (new) plan, is that the Iraqi army has to be able to take over, ASAP? Kurds disagree . In short: they seem to be deserting en masse since the Iraqi government announced that it plans on sending Kurdish army brigades to Baghdad. The main problem is that (deserted) Kurds don’t consider the sectarian violence to be ...
• Middle Earth Journal: ... finger election the Iraqis did not vote for democracy but for tribalism. The majority Shia won a majority of the seats because they are, well, the majority. The Kurds want nothing to do with the rest of Iraq as we see in this McClatchy piece: Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid the conflict in Baghdad As the Iraqi government attempts to secure a capital city ravaged by conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslim Arabs, its decision to bring a third party into the mix may cause more problems than peace. Kurdish soldiers from ...
• No More Mister Nice Blog: ... cowards.... --Leila Fadel and Yaseen Taha for McClatchy Newspapers, story published today **** (McClatchy article also available here. ) posted by Steve M. | 10:53 ...
• The American Street: ... make it stop. Because the reality that it’s fubar keeps coming. The coalition of the willing allies is almost completely gone. And even Iraqis want to disassociate themselves from the war, going so far as to deny they’re Iraqis, and risking jail to avoid the fight . Let’s surge! By Surge ...
• PBD - Progressive Blog Digest: ... As they stand up. . . . uh . . . as they step up. . . err. . . as they step forward . . . oh, hell, we just can’t rely on these guys at all http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16502266.htm Kurdish soldiers from northern Iraq, who are mostly Sunnis but not Arabs, are deserting the army to avoid the civil war in Baghdad, a conflict they consider someone else's problem. . . . [NB: And, ...
• Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: ... Fadel and Yaseen Taha of McClatchy--the news-service formerly known as Knight-Ridder--do some real reporting from Iraq, outside the briefings of the Green Zone: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/19/2007 | Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid the conflict in Baghdad : SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - As the Iraqi government attempts to secure a capital city ravaged by conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslim Arabs, its decision to bring a third party into the mix may cause more problems than peace. Kurdish soldiers from ...