May 28, 2007

THERE IS NO IRAQ:

Iraqi Kurdish region to take charge of own security (AFP, 5/28/07)

Iraqi Kurdistan's autonomous government will take charge of security in its mountainous northern region this week in a transfer of command from the US-led coalition, officials said.

At a ceremony Wednesday in the regional capital Arbil the commanders of the peshmerga - former anti-Baghdad guerrillas and now staunch US allies - will be handed responsibility for three northern provinces.

"This week, the responsibility for security in the Kurdistan region will be officially transferred from multinational forces to the peshmerga affiliated with the regional government," said Jabar Yawar, a Kurdish military spokesman.


One would hope the President has had Jim Baker drop a quiet word to the Turks about the consequences if they were to intervene in Kurdistan.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 28, 2007 5:42 PM
Comments

I hope they've been supplied with adequate heavy armaments from Hussein's stash plus some advanced equipment of our own.

Posted by: Genecis at May 29, 2007 1:06 PM

P.S. And it's about time.

Posted by: Genecis at May 29, 2007 1:09 PM

Thus the Kurds are the new Montengnards. Will there be yet another Dolchstoss?

Posted by: Lou Gots at May 29, 2007 4:58 PM

I am beginning to think that Turkey's raison d'etre is to fight Greeks, Kurds, and Armenians. And 'fight' is a generous word, in this context.

Lou:

The Kurds already got one from Dr. Kissinger in 1975, although the violence wasn't primarily from the Turks.

Posted by: ratbert at May 30, 2007 1:55 AM

The Dolchstoss,/i> yet-to-come would be the third for the Kurds. Let us not forget the treachery perpetrated at the end of Gulf War One.

Cowardice is a base motive, and produces base effects.

Posted by: Lou Gots at May 30, 2007 4:02 AM
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