U.S. official criticizes Iraqi Kurds

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

U.S. official criticizes Iraqi Kurds

By OMAR SINAN, Associated Press Writer
Sat Apr 21, 8:19 PM ET

CAIRO, Egypt - A U.S. official, in a television interview aired
Saturday, blamed Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq for raising
tensions with neighboring Turkey recently.

David Satterfield, senior adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, told the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya that Iraqi Kurds
are not doing enough to stop violence on Iraq's northern border with
Turkey. He said the U.S. was mediating in talks between the Iraqis
and Turks over the feud.

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"We have a dialogue, a trilateral dialogue" going on, to resolve the
crisis, said Satterfield said who spoke from the Saudi capital, Riyadh,

He expressed U.S. concerns over the presence of the insurgent
Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, along the border between Iraq and
Turkey, a close U.S. ally.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_turkey_us_2

[aquart]

1. Yes, lecture the Kurds like foolish children.

unfrickinfuckinbelievable.

[xchrom]

2. now that's ironic. n/t

[anotherdrew]

3. it seems to me the kurds absolutely DESERVE their own state. take some turkey take some Iraq

maybe just take some Iraq, fine. Let them have a country

[Rydz777]

4. Kurdistan

The Kurds are an Indo-european people with their own language and traditions. History has not been kind to them and they have been split up among Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria - where they have been oppressed. It's high time that they have their own Kurdistan.

[Stella_Artois]

5. Maybe so

But its not our place to make that happen.


Western countries redrawing borders in that region is one of the reasons why its such a basket case, that along with a religion that seems to have a clergy that lives in the middles ages.