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| ALAN | Feb 21 14, 11:47 Post #1001 |
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Sleman Bag Mayor (at the end): "why cant Dijla control the situation like the Kurdish anti terror did in Kerkûk?" well said http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgrgXAeTB-w |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Feb 22 14, 12:02 Post #1002 |
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Iraq Army Fails to Oust ISIS Fighters from Suleiman Beg, Local Officials Say ERBIL, South Kurdistan – For more than a week Iraqi forces have failed to flush out Islamist extremists from Suleiman Beg, a district in Salaheddin province suffering from insecurity and inadequate security, water, food, electricity and shelter, its director complained. “The situation of Suleiman Beg is the same and the Iraqi army has not achieved any progress,” said district director Talib Ahmed Bayati, referring to the military’s failure to oust militants of the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “It has been a week that the village is under the control of ISIS forces and it seems that the army is unable to control the situation,” he said, adding that residents were struggling to meet daily needs. Islamic militants in Iraq have intensified their war against the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. ISIS fighters reportedly stormed into Suleiman Beg a week ago in a bid to take over government institutions. Intense clashes have been reported, including reports of air raids by Iraq fighter jets. Meanwhile the mayor of the nearby town of Tuz Khurmatu, which administers affairs in Suleiman Beg, said that things had been quieter for the past two days in the area. “So far the Iraqi army has failed to control Suleiman Beg and part of it, the Muradli neighborhood, is under the control of ISIS,” Tuz Khurmatu Mayor Shalal Abdul told Rudaw. “So far, the government has failed to retake control of Suleiman Beg. I think this shows the weakness of the Iraqi army,” he said. He added that, according to his information, the Iraqi forces have asked the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to send in Peshmarga troops to help the army. But Jabar Yawar, head of the Peshmarga ministry, said that was not true. “We have not received any request, neither from the ministry of defense nor from any other forces to participate in any military operations,” he told Rudaw. “Only the president of the South Kurdistan, who is the commander-in-chief of the Peshmarga forces, can decide whether to decline or accept such a request,” Yawar added. http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/21022014 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Feb 22 14, 12:24 Post #1003 |
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Now I know why milky had a heart attack lol |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| Halo | Feb 23 14, 1:38 Post #1004 |
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could Peshmerga help IA to oust ISIS and in return we get some disputed regions? |
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| Zagros | Feb 23 14, 4:14 Post #1005 |
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Instead of fleeing, some of Syria’s Christians will stand their ground Balint Szlanko February 20, 2014 Updated: February 20, 2014 18:31:00 Sitting on plastic chairs outside a wooden caravan by a dusty road on the town’s outskirts, two young men balance AK-47 rifles on their knees. Every now and then, cars or motorcycles chug down the dirt road; recognising their drivers, they mostly just wave them through. But sometimes they get up, check ID cards, study the faces of passengers, ask questions, peek into the boot. Civilian-clothed and rather harmless-looking, the two young volunteers are manning a checkpoint on the edge of the town of Al Malikiyah, not far from the front line of a year-long war between the emerging Kurdish autonomy of north-eastern Syria and Islamist militants, some of them linked to Al Qaeda. “It’s our country, so we have a duty to protect it,” says the 20-year-old Rami. “Dangers? Sure there are dangers. But we don’t care.” There are plenty of checkpoints round these parts. But these youngsters come from Syria’s Christian minority, who have so far been featured in the news mostly as victims in an increasingly vicious and sectarian civil war. Forming about 8 per cent of the country’s population, or some 1.7 million people, they have struggled to find their place in a country that is home to a conflict involving Sunni Arab rebels, extreme Islamist groups, the Assad dictatorship and an expanding Kurdish nationalist movement. Many have given up: some 450,000 Christians have left their homes in two and a half years, according to the patriarch of the country’s Greek Catholic Church, many of them to Europe. Many have been kidnapped by armed groups of one faction or another; their once-thriving community in Aleppo, formerly the country’s commercial capital and now a war zone, has been destroyed. Having long secured a relatively good deal under the Assads’ minority regime, they are now left with practically nothing, the weakest group in a brutal civil war. Many think they may be going the way of their brethren in Iraq, about half of whom left the country due to the war there. But some have decided to resist, forming their own neighbourhood watches – some call them militias – in the north-east of the country. They are assisting the Kurdish security forces in protecting the area from Islamist rebels; some have joined the Kurds outright, wearing uniforms in their police and militia; many are donating blood and handing out aid; and some have joined forces with their Muslim neighbours to rebuild some of the churches that have been damaged in the brutal to and fro of the civil war. “Leaving is wrong,” says Rami of those who have fled. “This is our country. If we leave, who is going to protect it?” Rami and his friend Sharbel are good examples of the ambiguous position their community inhabits. Having taken up arms, they are in effect assisting the Kurdish majority of north-eastern Syria to build an autonomous zone amid the chaos of the war. The Kurds used to have the worst deal under the old regime, with many of them stripped of their Syrian citizenship. Now their areas are some of the safest in Syria, and they have just set up a temporary administration. Treading a careful path between the government and the Sunni Arab rebellion that they have little in common with, the Kurds – and the Christians who have joined them – are in effect contributing to the dismemberment of the Syrian state. Yet these Christian youngsters are no anti-government rebels. They are only helping the Kurds because they are interested in keeping the Islamists out, considering them the biggest threat to their way of life. Even now they are expecting to be called up by the government’s army and, they say, “when the call comes, we’ll go”. But surely they agree that the regime is largely responsible for Syria’s destruction? Not at all. This view seems to be shared by a great many Christians here. Sitting in his small medical equipment factory in Al Malikiyah, where he employs seven men, Afran Danho offers the most extraordinary conspiracy theories to explain the Christian predicament. “Since 1918, there has been a plot against us to make us leave the Middle East,” he says. “Mainly the Zionists and the European governments are behind this. Why else would they offer us asylum in Europe in such big numbers? Surely not because they like us so much.” Persecution theories like these are commonplace among his people, as is the recollection of the well-documented and widely recognised genocide of Armenians and other Christian groups by the Ottomans in 1915. Danho is Assyrian, a Christian community that speaks Syriac, which is related to Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ. They form a unique community within Syria’s Christians, considering themselves a nation and the original inhabitants of this country. “After a few generations, few will remember their language and their culture. In this way, we are dying out,” he laments, pointing to the evils of emigration. To slow the process, he and some friends are running a Christian self-help organisation – one of many – that donates blood, delivers aid and organises programmes for kids. Yet their love for their community leads them down some curious paths. Danho says, for example, echoing many other Christians here, that “Syria used to be a paradise before the war. There were never any sectarian problems here, in fact things were getting better all the time.” Many Christians here think that foreign terrorists – Afghans, Chechens, Saudis – are responsible for the war, parroting the government’s line. Few of the country’s formerly oppressed groups would agree with any of this, least of all the region’s new masters, the Kurds. Danho and many of his fellow Christians also think that government forces will soon return to these areas, from which they withdrew in July 2012. They don’t think the Kurds will come into conflict with them – my Kurdish guides alternately smile and grimace at this – but that there will be a new democratic system, a government of national unity, in which everybody will equally participate: a delusion of extraordinary proportions under Syria’s current circumstances and foreseeable future. Yet it is not totally surprising: many Christians had a good deal under the Assad regime, working in plush government jobs or owning land. Visiting their neighbourhoods and going to their richly adorned churches – the big Syriac Orthodox church of Al Malikiyah was built only a few years ago with their own money – is like stepping into another world from dusty and downtrodden rural Syria. Nice homes, mostly well-groomed men and women, a better, softer life than was the lot of most Syrians. But many Kurds say that the brotherhood the Christians now profess to have with them wasn’t always there, just as the much-vaunted communal diversity of Syria disguises some deep fears and distrusts. One Christian armed volunteer doesn’t even recognise one of my Kurdish guides for a fellow Syrian, thinking him Chinese for his vaguely Asiatic features. “Before the war, the Christians had a good time. The government helped them and did their best to cause problems between them and us,” says a young Kurdish activist and a former student of English at Aleppo University. “They’d tell them we wanted to secede from Syria. Many of the Christians were government informers and took the regime’s side in the 2004 Qamishli uprising,” he adds, referring to the massive Kurdish riots of that year that were violently quelled by the government. “I’m pretty sure that if it comes to war between the regime and us, the Christians will support the regime.” With some of the Christians arming themselves and government forces still ensconced in the regions biggest city, Qamishli, this is not an entirely theoretical question. There are three Christian neighbourhood watches in the region, uniformed groups with their own light weapons and arrest powers. Two of them are run by the Syriac Union Party (SUP), an organisation that wants nothing to do with the regime. Other Christian groups, such as the Assyrian Democratic Organisation (ADO), oppose the government, too, and have joined the Syrian National Coalition, the opposition umbrella group. “We are against the regime, but many Christians are afraid of change, of what comes after the regime, of who will rule Syria,” says Akkad Abdul Ahad, a young, smart-looking man of 23, who edits ADO’s newsletter and helps organise its aid effort. That seems fair enough. And some Christians, while at first voicing very pro-government views, later make it clear that they really don’t care that much who is in charge as long as they don’t threaten their physical safety and identity as some of the radical Islamists do. But with all these armed groups around, the possibility that things could get out of hand can never be discounted. The Christian neighbourhood watch that operates in the city of Qamishli is not under SUP control and has been described by many Christians as being riddled with regime informers and sympathisers. Pictures circulating on social media show the Qamishli group posing with pictures of the dictator Bashar Al Assad and the Syrian government flag. By January this year, they split into a pro-government and an anti-government group. All these Christian militias cooperate with the Kurdish police, running checkpoints and patrolling together. Kurdish commanders say they are relaxed about the Sutoro – the security wing of the SUP – but that wasn’t always the case: a few months ago, when the Sutoro first appeared in Al Malikiyah, the Kurds disarmed them, telling them if they wanted to join the security forces, they were free to join theirs (so far only a very few have). Yet another group, the so-called Syriac Military Council, joined the Kurdish militia on the frontline in its offensives against the Islamists in January. If these developments give some cause for concern – since Lebanon’s devastating intercommunal war in the 1970s and 1980s the term “Christian militias” has taken on fearsome associations in the Middle East – there is also grounds for hope. The areas controlled by Kurdish forces are some of the most ordered and civilised in Syria right now. The towns and villages away from the front line are peaceful, managed by a single authority, and the economy is chugging along, though prices have skyrocketed. In many towns, there is a reliable electricity supply. This does give opportunity for sectarian coexistence and cooperation, and not just in the domain of security, with its obvious scope for misunderstandings. One such example is Mahjoub Abdul Ahad, a Christian glassmaker in the town of Ras Al Ayn, 180 kilometres west of Al Malikiyah. Abdul Ahad (no relation to Akkad) and his Sunni Muslim partner Mahmoud are trying to fix the Orthodox church of Mar Tuma (St Thomas). The church’s two towers have been damaged by rockets launched by the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), according to Abdul Ahad. Since July, opposition forces, including the FSA and the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, have been positioned just outside the town, occasionally firing rockets and mortars against it that have left some people dead or injured. The church’s two crosses came off and are now lying at the bottom of the tower, sadly askew. The dome is riddled with gunfire, as is the gate. The cross inside the church is broken. Many of the windows are shattered, too. “They say they are Muslims, but Islam is not like this,” Abdul Ahad says, shaking his head, referring to the Islamist rebels. Now they are trying to fix the windows, while other people are contributing in different ways. “Some work on the doors, some on the windows, some on other things,” he says, walking about the church, as Mahmoud is trying to pry the broken pieces of glass from the window frame one by one. “People from all the different communities are helping to try and restore this to its original state,” he says again and again. Only then does it occur to him to point out that his partner, Mahmoud, is Muslim. Is he? Mahmoud puts down his tools and nods. “Before the war, people wouldn’t even say he was a Christian and I was a Muslim. It would have been a shame to say such things. And now I’m coming here and he is helping with the mosques,” he says. Such cooperation is encouraging. But out of Ras Al Ayn’s nearly 300 Christian families, now only 30 remain. Out of Al Malikiyah’s 1,000 or so, perhaps 300. The new Syriac church’s facade in Al Malikiyah is adorned with the picture of two bishops who disappeared in Aleppo in April. The text reads: “We are praying for their souls.” Some of the Christians are stubbornly resisting the forces that are trying to uproot them from their land: Islamic radicalism, civil war and, to an extent, modernity itself that has left them with a lower birth rate than their poorer Muslim cousins. In some ways, it is a miracle that they’ve survived for so long: 1,400 years since the coming of Islam. But amid the increasing brutality of Syria’s war, and with their community seemingly so split on where to turn, it is difficult to see what can stop their continuing decline. Balint Szlanko is a freelance journalist with an interest in conflict, Afghanistan and the Middle East. http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/instead-of-fleeing-some-of-syrias-christians-will-stand-their-ground#page1 |
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| ALAN | Feb 23 14, 4:31 Post #1006 |
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After ISIL`s retreat: 4000 families in exile because army demolished most of the houses in Sleman Bag The outcome of clashes between the army and ISIL fighters, which lasted for nearly 5 days, was the exile of the citizens of Sleman Bag to Tikrit, Dooz, and South Kurdistan. And, these people are now residing at the edge of Ghara Mountain where they live in harsh conditions. According to one member of Salahaddin Provincial Council of Brotherhood and Co-existence list, Malla Hassan Germyani, the commander of Dijla Forces Adbul-Amir Zaidi had failed to fulfill his duties properly. In the conflict that broke out in Sleman Bag, the army was equipped with heavy weaponry, tanks, armored vehicles and etc. Still, the operation proved failure to the army in confrontation with terrorists. Currently, more than 4 thousand families of Sleman Bag are in exile, and most of these people cannot go back to their city even after the retreat of the terrorists because the heavy bombardment by the army led to the complete demolition of a huge number of houses in the area. To help the refugees, it is expected that the administration of Salahaddin Province will open a refugee camp for Sleman Bag`s people at Ghara Mountain. “PM Al-Maliki must recognize the failure and interrogate the commander of Dijla Forces Abdul-Amir Zaidi for the incompetence,” the Salahaddin Provincial Council member equipped. PUKmedia |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Feb 26 14, 11:24 Post #1007 |
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Milky boy militia vs ISIS rats https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=466100640182362 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 6 14, 10:49 Post #1008 |
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Nujaifi: What Maliki has done is a military coup Thursday, 06 March 2014 14:23 Shafaq News / The Parliament Speaker , Osama al-Nujaifi described on Thursday, the accusations made by Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki to the parliament as a " military coup " on the democratic experiment and the political process in the country. “Any attempt to overturn the legitimacy of the parliament is a military coup because the parliament which gave legitimacy to Maliki’s government and can withdraw it from him ,”Nujaifi said at a news conference in the parliament to respond to al-Maliki , attended by " Shafaq News “. Nujaifi considered al-Maliki’s accusations as " ignorance in Iraqi constitution and did not in all the countries of the world," adding that “ bypassing this problem caused by Maliki must be through " elections and electing the right person. “The budget is an important financial law and the government cannot spend a penny before its legislation ," adding that " the Council of Ministers can spend the operating budget but and cannot spend the investment budget“. Nujaifi thanked the President of Kurdistan Regional Government , the head of the Islamic Supreme Council , Ammar al-Hakim and other political figures for their rejecting position of Maliki’s accusations that supported the parliament “. “Maliki’s attack is unprecedented and threatens democracy in Iraq and this is not my opinion only but the opinion of all political forces “. The parliament Speaker considered the attack by Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki as a cover to his failure in running the government , threatening to file a lawsuit against him . Osama al-Nujaifi vowed on Thursday to file a lawsuit against the semi-official Iraqi satellite channel to cut broadcast of the press conference that has been held to respond to accusations launched by Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki to the parliament in his weekly speech. Nujaifi answered in a question by a reporter on Iraqi satellite channel cutting of broadcasting his conference, by saying that "if it did that then it won’t be neutral." http://www.shafaaq.com/en/politics/9141-nujaifi-what-maliki-has-done-is-a-military-coup-.html |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 6 14, 11:26 Post #1009 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQmkYJlaIqU |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 7 14, 10:04 Post #1010 |
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EU parliament: "stop selling arms to maliki" "Iraq has declared a coup on its parliament and we request halt of all weapons for Iraq before it uses them on it's own people" http://rudaw.net/sorani/world/070320141 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 9 14, 2:09 Post #1011 |
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Maliki: Saudi and Qatar at war against Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of supporting fighters in Iraq and effectively declaring war on the country. The rare direct attack on the Sunni Gulf powers, comes with Iraq embroiled in its worst prolonged period of bloodshed since 2008, with more than 1,800 people killed already this year, ahead of parliamentary elections due next month. These two countries [Saudi Arabia and Qatar] are primarily responsible for the sectarian and terrorist and security crisis of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi prime minister The bloodletting in the country, which shares a long border with Saudi Arabia, has been driven principally by widespread discontent among the country's Sunni Arab minority and by the civil war in neighbouring Syria. Maliki, a Shia, has in the past blamed unnamed regional countries and neighbours for destabilising Iraq, the AFP news agency reported. But in an interview with France 24 broadcast on Saturday, the Iraqi premier said allegations he was marginalising Sunnis were being pushed by sectarians with ties to foreign agendas, with Saudi and Qatari incitement. "They are attacking Iraq, through Syria and in a direct way, and they announced war on Iraq, as they announced it on Syria, and unfortunately it is on a sectarian and political basis," he said. "These two countries are primarily responsible for the sectarian and terrorist and security crisis of Iraq." Saudi Arabia and Qatar have emerged as regional rivals because, while both have provided support to fighters opposed to embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the two countries have also sparred in recent weeks over Doha's support for the Muslim Brotherhood of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. Saudi Arabia, along with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, withdrew its ambassador to Qatar this month. Baghdad has long complained that support for groups fighting in Syria's civil war finds its way through to Iraq with weapons in particular ending up in the hands of armed groups. Maliki said in the interview that Riyadh and Doha were providing political, financial and media support to fighters and accused them of buying weapons for the benefit of these organisations. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/maliki-saudi-qatar-at-war-against-iraq-20143823436553921.html |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 11 14, 10:35 Post #1012 |
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Anti milky Demo in Baghdad |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 11 14, 5:49 Post #1013 |
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23% of Iraq’s population is living under poverty line 10.03.2014 BasNews, Erbil Despite the efforts of the federal government of Iraq to decrease unemployment and poverty rate, the numbers are still on the rise. According to reports published by the United Nations (UN) and international organization, more than 23% of Iraqi people are living under the poverty line. While 23% is the official figure, other data suggests that poverty in Iraq reaches 35% of the population due to the on-going conflict in the country. The Ministry of Planning had aimed to decrease the rate of unemployment to 10% through a five- year plan that began at the start of 2010 and finish at the end of this year, but this plan has failed to work. http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/23-of-Iraq-s-population-is-living-under-poverty-line/14848 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 11 14, 10:15 Post #1014 |
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maliki thugs vs ISIS rats https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=491821417590648 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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M1A1s sent to Anbar. If ISIS manages to destroy one of those tanks, It would undermine the power of IA and give (to some degree) the same propaganda value as the destroyed Merkava tank by the Salahadin battalion. Iraq is taking a huge political risk by sending those tanks. |
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| ALAN | Mar 12 14, 1:25 Post #1016 |
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Even f16 won't save them just like all those weapons didn't save Assad and he has lost more than 50% of Syrian lands. |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| Deleted User | Mar 12 14, 11:36 Post #1017 |
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Iraq is doing the same mistake Assad was doing in the start of the war; they rely too much on sole armor. One RPG with the right warhead can penetrate the side, back and top armor of M1A1s. The PG-7VR warhead can pretty much destroy or get a M-Kill on any vehicle Iraq uses against ISIS. And ISIS have been noted to wield PG-7VR warheads in Syria; I doubt they would mind sending some to Iraq. Until now the ISIS in Iraq have not shown any ATM that seem to be very dangerous (and thus the large amounts of armor). This might soon change as Iraq is sending more armor. Especially since the American made M1A1 is there now; not only does it represent the power of IA ground forces, It represent US power around the world! |
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| ALAN | Mar 13 14, 4:25 Post #1018 |
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Maliki armed men and Mahdi militia clash in Baghdad (Kurdish) http://radionawa.com/dreja.aspx?=hewal&jmare=8807&Jor=2 (use google translate) http://www.alsumaria.tv/news/95064/ The incident took place after members of Mahdi militia tried to burn a building which belongs to Dawa party of Maliki |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 13 14, 5:23 Post #1019 |
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Iran turns its back on Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki 12.03.2014 Hemin Salih Iran withdraws its support for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and asks the South Kurdistan presidency to find a replacement. A Kurdish MP in Baghdad has suggested for the Kurdistan Alliance List to work with al-Ahrar bloc and al- Iraiqiya List in order to withdraw confidence from Maliki and announce an interim government. A source from the Kurdistan Alliance List told BasNews that Iran has asked to find a replacement for Maliki. The National Iraqi Alliance is currently divided giving the Kurdistan Alliance List an opportunity to ally with al-Iraqiya List and Ahrar bloc and remove Maliki. Kurdistan Alliance List MP, Mulla Ozair Hafiz told BasNews: the Ahrar bloc led by Moqtada al-Sadr now is at odds with Maliki, and has considerable weight in parliament. “Iran wants to withdraw its support for the PM as Maliki has not been successful in his war in Anbar and Fallujah,”added Hafiz. South Kurdistan President, Massoud Barzani tried to withdraw confidence from Maliki by collecting 200 MP’s signature in 2011, as relations with the federal government led by Maliki was deteriorated over various issues. South Kurdistan tensions with Maliki this time warmed up over budget and oil exportation. http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Iran-turns-its-back-on-Iraqi-PM-Nouri-al-Maliki/14993 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| ALAN | Mar 21 14, 10:13 Post #1020 |
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Maliki’s son imitates Saad Hariri in using wealth for political influence![]() 19.03.2014 Hemin Salih Iraqi sources have accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s son of imitating the son of the late Rafiq Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon 1992-98, 2000-04, by embezzling funds and increasing his personal wealth with the support of his father. Various Iraqi sources believe that the Maliki family is becoming richer by the day, and that Ahmad Maliki, son of Nuri Al-Maliki, has bought shares in large Iraqi and international companies. Ahmad Maliki has recently bought 37% of shares in Ahmad Tea, and is expected to use the company to boost his father’s campaign in the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary election. The deal was completed in London, but no information about its value has been disclosed. Sources close to the Maliki family have said that Ahmad Maliki models his business strategy on that of Saad Hariri, son of the late Lebanese Prime Minister, and aims to use wealth as a means of achieving political success. Ali Dabbagh, the former Iraqi Government spokesperson, has accused Nouri Al-Maliki’s son of corruption in a deal with the Russian Government in 2012 to buy arms for the Iraqi military. Dabbagh said that although officials knew about the corruption at the time, they were afraid to disclose the information. According to Falnaktob.net, an Iraqi website, Ahmad Maliki has also bought several famous hotels in Dubai, the most recent being Dubai Grand Hotel, which was purchased for $260 million. The website claims that the money was transferred from Iraq. In a live interview with Baghdadiya TV, Faeq Al-Sheikh, the General Secretary of the Al-Shaab Party, said that under Nouri Al-Maliki’s premiership, the Dawa Party has taken Iraqi money and Maliki’s son, Ahmad, has taken control of all security organizations. The Iraqi media frequently reports that Ahmad uses money for political reasons and likes show off in public. “Ahmad Maliki has publicized sex scandals involving several politicians to scare others against criticizing his father, Nouri Al-Maliki,” said Al-Sheikh. It is worth mentioning that the Hariri family are respected in Lebanon, and are known to have used their wealth to serve their people. http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Maliki-s-son-imitates-Saad-Hariri-in-using-wealth-for-political-influence/15570 |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| Hayder-Kurdistani | Mar 22 14, 2:06 Post #1021 |
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Rebel troops capture Kesab the last bordertown between Syria and Turkey that was under Syrian regime control and advance south and west to the Mediterranean sea capturing the village of Al Samra their first coastal village. |
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| Deleted User | Mar 23 14, 10:06 Post #1022 |
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Is that confirmed? Which rebel group? |
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| Hayder-Kurdistani | Mar 24 14, 9:54 Post #1023 |
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Yes, Al Nusra and Islamic front |
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| Hayder-Kurdistani | Mar 24 14, 9:54 Post #1024 |
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Yes, Al Nusra and Islamic front |
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| Hayder-Kurdistani | Mar 24 14, 10:00 Post #1025 |
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Rebel Troops killed Hilal Al Assad an important figure he is the founder and leader of NDF in Latakia |
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