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Apr 16 14, 10:07
FSA gets advanced anti tank, while KRG watches :smachhead:
Supplied directly from Turkey, free from cost....Typical :rolleyes:
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Baxwa be sharafn they have all those economic deals with SK and they won't give Peshmerga these weapons, I wonder if Barzani would ask for these weapons some day! And wonder if they turn it down what would Barzanis reaction be after giving turks so much wealth from SK oil and business contracts!!!

Apparently the guy who built our Hewlêr airport was caught swearing at Kurds calling us "mountain turks"
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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Anbar Residents See Kurdish-style Autonomy As Answer to Their Plight

ERBIL, South Kurdistan—A decade of conflict and violence has led many residents of the Iraqi province of Anbar to think that an autonomous region similar to what the Kurds enjoy in the north might be the best solution. Though some believe they have missed the opportunity.

“You cannot compare the status of Anbar with that of the South Kurdistan,” says Salam al-Khalid, a journalist based in Fallujah. “Anbar must be run by qualified elites, academics, and experienced politicians in order to catch up with Kurdistan.”

Al-Khalid laments the situation in his province where indiscriminate arrests, bombings and violence have become part of life. He says that the incompetence of the Sunni leaders isn’t making their situation any better.

“It’s not feasible for Anbar to be governed by clans and armature politics that are unable to solve complex problems the region is suffering from,” he says.

He believes that the ultimate solution is autonomy.

However, says al-Khalid, the first step towards a Sunni autonomous region is to get Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki out of the way as he is a big obstacle for such an ambition.

“The current viable solution is to vote out Maliki in the next election,” he says. “You must get rid of the current political system based on quotas, sectarianism, factionalism then one must think of forming an autonomous region because as long as Maliki is in power it’s hard to make such crucial decision to declare an autonomous region.”


Al-Khalid believes that contrary to some analysis, Anbar wouldn’t be a poor region if it decided to split from the central government.

“We have minerals, human resources, the Euphrates River, natural gas, tourism and oil,” he says.

Some residents blame the dire situation in Anbar on the endless conflict that has been raging the area since the US invasion in 2003. But in the meantime, they criticize their own politicians and representatives who “have acted selfishly and ignored people’s needs.”

Najm Ahmed al-Abdali, 54, a government employee, says that the Islamic Party of Iraq who was supposed to be the voice of Sunnis in Baghdad hasn’t acted efficiently.

“The Islamic Party in Anbar province, showed its selfishness in alliance with Maliki to gain personal interests at the expense of people,” al-Abdali told Rudaw.

Al-Abdali says that during recent tensions with the central government, leaders of the Islamic Party fled the Anbar province and left their people to their own devices.

“They didn’t work for the release of detainees or find real job opportunities, to say the least,” says al-Abdali. “Most of them bought properties and real estate in Europe, Oman, Turkey and the Gulf countries and sold our cause to Maliki who is hell bend on destroying Anbar.”

He believes that the Kurds had seized their opportunity at the right time to draw their political and judicial boundaries with the rest of Iraq.

“If creating an autonomous region is in the interest of the country, solves our problems, triggers economic development and prevents the recurrence of the current crisis or moves us away from the wars and battles with Maliki’s army, I am all for it,” he says.

Al-Abdali says that Iraq’s Sunnis will have many challenges to overcome before they can build an autonomous region of their own.

“In Anbar we live with political duplicity as well as the intolerance of tribal and political backwardness,” he says. “If we get rid of all those destructive and extreme ideas, whether religiously or politically then it is possible to say that we can form a province of Anbar, as did our fellow Kurds.”

Tareq Diab al-Asal, a Ramadi candidate running in this moth’s parliamentary elections agrees that a Sunni autonomous region might be the best solution, but that they have missed the opportunity due political mistakes.

“Supporting voices are rising and still calling for making such political decision, but I find it difficult now to think of forming a region because Maliki has gone out of his way to complicate the situation in Anbar,” al-Asal told Rudaw.

Some residents believe that tribal rivalry is one of the main reasons that a Sunni autonomous region is hard to achieve.

“The formation of Anbar autonomous province does not solve the crisis, but rather flames the current crisis and creates bigger problems,” says Sheikh Hamid al-Hayes, a tribal chief who is criticized for his alliance with the Iraqi prime minister.

http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/19042014#
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ac_1397844307

what the hell???
'' Don't touch me doctor! My death is necessary for the Kurds to wake up''
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Apr 20 14, 9:12
Typical Arab culture
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haha haha haha haha haha haha
http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/syria-s-presidential-elections-on-3-june.htm
Syria's presidential elections on 3 June
Besides being a donkey, he's also a troll in real life. This kak long neck is acting as if Syria is democratic and in peace LOL
Edited by Xoybun, Apr 22 14, 8:45.
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But it is also a good move, the bastard is provoking Jihadists/FSA to attack SAA more. Do you guys know how easily provoked bearded Jihadists, or maybe just Arabs, are? Anyway, good move Bashar, prolong the civil war, so both SAA and the others weaken a lot.
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And there will be more provokation by Bushar after the election...I think 80% of Syria's population is Sunni, excluding Rojava of course.So if he wins, bearded retards, aka Jihadists and FSA, will understand he cheated. Though, the question is which provocation comes, the one that doesn't allow candidates from the Jihadists or Jihadists losing the pres. election :D :D
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Inevitable future of Iraq that no F-100 can stop

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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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50% of entrie Syria's economy and wealth depends on Rojava.
Once Rojava separates from the shithole called Syria, the Arabs will starve.
biji kurd u kurdistan !!
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Apr 22 14, 3:45
Inevitable future of Iraq that no F-100 can stop

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hehehe, the Sunni's will starve to death lol

- Kurdistan in the North, we won't deal with no Ba'ath scum
- Shi'ite Syria on the left
- Shi'te Arabs in the south
- Shi'te Persians in the East

Hehehe, they're so f***ked, ehehe.
biji kurd u kurdistan !!
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Apr 22 14, 8:45
haha haha haha haha haha haha
http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/syria-s-presidential-elections-on-3-june.htm
Syria's presidential elections on 3 June
Besides being a donkey, he's also a troll in real life. This kak long neck is acting as if Syria is democratic and in peace LOL
"Opposition" already showing anger. Things are really escalating in Thyria haha haha haha haha yay yay yay rofl rofl rofl
Can't wait until the war is brought to Damascus, that's when both sides go to hell together, in other words weaken each other so much.

SANA news agency says a pair of mortar shells hit near the parliament building in central Damascus, killing five people

Syria's state-run agency added that the mortars struck some 100 meters from the parliament in the Salihiya area of the Syrian capital on Monday.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack came the day the government announced that presidential elections will be held on 5 June.

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Erdogan confirms ‘aid’ to Turkish military post inside Syria

A Turkish convoy has carried “aid” into Syria, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on April 23, responding to claims that Turkish forces have started an operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) near the tomb of Süleyman Shah, which sits 25 kilometers from the border and remains under Turkish sovereignty under a 1921 treaty.

“Right now, the issue is not about ISIL. The job of our convoy there is to transfer aid to the Süleyman Shah tomb. Our friends in charge are continuing the effort,” Erdoğan told journalists after hosting primary school students in Ankara for national Children’s Day.

Later during an official reception at Parliament, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said the military activity is a "routine change of duty" for the security of the Turkish troops at the tomb, while Land Forces Commander General Hulusi Akar stressed that it is "a planned activity."

Social media accounts regarded as close to ISIL had reported earlier on April 23 that six Turkish tanks, 12 armored vehicles and 300 Turkish soldiers had been deployed 200 meters from ISIL positions in northern Syria, quoting eyewitnesses. Same sources claimed the ISIL also reinforced its own forces.

Davutoğlu reiterated on March 14 that Turkey had the right to “take all precautions to protect the tomb,” following clashes between the Free Syrian Army and ISIL in the area.

Energy Minister Taner Yıldız also said on March 20 that there was “no difference” between the land of the tomb and Ankara.

“The tomb of Süleyman Shah is a rare place, being Turkish land outside of Turkey’s own borders. There is no difference between the tomb and Ankara or Sinop. The soil on which it is located is Turkish soil. Our armed forces are ensuring security and protecting it,” Yıldız said.

The tomb of Süleyman Shah is located in the governorate of Aleppo, and sits 25 kilometers from the Turkey-Syria border. It remains under Turkish sovereignty under a 1921 treaty signed between Turkey and France, which was then the colonial power in Syria. The agreement was renewed after Syria gained independence in 1936.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/erdogan-confirms-aid-to-turkish-military-post-inside-syria.aspx?pageID=238&nID=65477&NewsCatID=352
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Water from Fallujah dam threatens Baghdad

05.05.2014

BasNews, Baghdad

The Deputy Governor of Baghdad Jassim Bokhaty said that water from the Fallujah-based dam is moving towards Baghdad.

According to Bokhaty the dam water, released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), advances five kilometers per day and is threatening to reach Baghdad’s citizens and government offices.

In a press conference Bokhaty said that Baghdad is being flooded by water from Fallujah and threatening to destroy properties and government offices like Baghdad silo, Gas Storage, and the electricity networks.

Bokhaty explained that the water has submerged several villages around Baghdad, and has reached the Ibrahim Ben Ali and Zewbaa districts.

He criticized the government for remaining silence regarding this issue.

Awn Ziyab, a consultant for the Iraqi Water Resources Ministry said that because of the measures taken by the ministry the water has not reached the districts of Shoala, Ghazaliya, Akrkof, and Karkh.

Clashes between the Iraqi army and ISIS have been ongoing since December, however they have not been able to stop ISIS from controlling the dam in Fallujah.

http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Water-from-Fallujah-dam-threatens-Baghdad/19552
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Coming soon :thumbs:

Credit goes to Mashxal
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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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May 13 14, 11:45
Coming soon :thumbs:

Credit goes to Mashxal
Independence???
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Water from Fallujah dam threatens Baghdad

05.05.2014

BasNews, Baghdad

The Deputy Governor of Baghdad Jassim Bokhaty said that water from the Fallujah-based dam is moving towards Baghdad.

According to Bokhaty the dam water, released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), advances five kilometers per day and is threatening to reach Baghdad’s citizens and government offices.

In a press conference Bokhaty said that Baghdad is being flooded by water from Fallujah and threatening to destroy properties and government offices like Baghdad silo, Gas Storage, and the electricity networks.

Bokhaty explained that the water has submerged several villages around Baghdad, and has reached the Ibrahim Ben Ali and Zewbaa districts.

He criticized the government for remaining silence regarding this issue.

Awn Ziyab, a consultant for the Iraqi Water Resources Ministry said that because of the measures taken by the ministry the water has not reached the districts of Shoala, Ghazaliya, Akrkof, and Karkh.

Clashes between the Iraqi army and ISIS have been ongoing since December, however they have not been able to stop ISIS from controlling the dam in Fallujah.

http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Water-from-Fallujah-dam-threatens-Baghdad/19552
Just for fun, SK and WK should build dams, this will make Arabs buy our water that comes from Wan and Elazig for a very high price. At the same time the average temperature in these desert countries will increase :D
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I support your idea.
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Zagros
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Water from Fallujah dam threatens Baghdad

05.05.2014

BasNews, Baghdad

The Deputy Governor of Baghdad Jassim Bokhaty said that water from the Fallujah-based dam is moving towards Baghdad.

According to Bokhaty the dam water, released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), advances five kilometers per day and is threatening to reach Baghdad’s citizens and government offices.

In a press conference Bokhaty said that Baghdad is being flooded by water from Fallujah and threatening to destroy properties and government offices like Baghdad silo, Gas Storage, and the electricity networks.

Bokhaty explained that the water has submerged several villages around Baghdad, and has reached the Ibrahim Ben Ali and Zewbaa districts.

He criticized the government for remaining silence regarding this issue.

Awn Ziyab, a consultant for the Iraqi Water Resources Ministry said that because of the measures taken by the ministry the water has not reached the districts of Shoala, Ghazaliya, Akrkof, and Karkh.

Clashes between the Iraqi army and ISIS have been ongoing since December, however they have not been able to stop ISIS from controlling the dam in Fallujah.

http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Water-from-Fallujah-dam-threatens-Baghdad/19552
Just for fun, SK and WK should build dams, this will make Arabs buy our water that comes from Wan and Elazig for a very high price. At the same time the average temperature in these desert countries will increase :D
Oil will run dry, but water won't (well, it obviously can, but it would takes thousands of years before the water in Kurdistan runs dry, who knows what happens to humanity in those thousands of years xD ).

Next war will be over water. Kurdistan should make secret basins to store fresh water, and also make dams and fortified these dams. And in case of foreign occupation, blow up all infrastructure.

:D

biji kurd u kurdistan !!
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Iraq's Maliki wins at least 94 parliament seats in national election

By AHMED RASHEED and ISRA' AL-RUBE'II, Reuters

May 20, 2014 2:01am

BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri Maliki won the largest share of Iraqi parliamentary seats in last month's national elections, dealing a blow to Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish rivals who opposed his serving a third term.

Preliminary results on Monday showed Maliki won at least 94 seats, far more than his two main Shi'ite rivals, the movement of Muqtada Sadr, which picked up 28 seats, and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), which won 29 seats.

The size of Maliki's victory, with 1,074,000 votes for his list in Baghdad alone, will make it much harder for any of his opponents to argue he is not the choice of the country's Shi'ite majority.

It is particularly important to him because his government is fighting a war with armed Sunni groups, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which holds territory in Syria and holds sway around central Iraq.

His supporters' celebratory gunfire was heard in central Baghdad late Monday afternoon.

Maliki picked up 92 seats on his formal State of Law blocs, and another two seats through minority candidates affiliated with him who ran their own campaigns.

Kurds gained a total of 62 parliament seats, while Sunnis won at least 33 seats between their two main coalitions. A secular bloc, headed by former prime minister Iyad Allawi, took 21 seats.

Final results are expected in the coming weeks after the electoral commission rules on complaints of voter fraud and irregularities. The federal court then certifies the results.

"Maliki's position is strong," said former national security adviser, Muwafak al Rubaie, a candidate on Maliki's political slate, who emphasized the prime minister's experience as commander in chief.

"Because of Syria and regional polarization, security will be very important for the next four years."

Maliki will now start a period of bargaining to see if he can bring on board his Shi'ite rivals, who have rejected his candidacy.

The government is formed as a package deal with the 328-member parliament approving the president by a two-thirds majority. He then asks the prime minister to form his cabinet. It could take anywhere from three months to the end of the year, one member of Maliki's list said.

If a two-thirds majority cannot be reached, political parties argue that the parliament could approve the president by a simple majority, ending any effort to block a new government from being formed.

Maliki's critics accuse him of leading the country to ruin. They say that four more years will turn the government into a despotic regime and risk Iraq's breakup.

They fault him for his prosecution of his war on ISIL in western Anbar province that has raged for five months, displaced over 420,000 Sunnis and failed to put a dent in violence around the country.

ISCI and the Sadrists have made clear they want a prime minister chosen from within the Shi'ite majority - what they refer to as the National Alliance.

In the weeks since the April 30 election, as news leaked of Maliki's anticipated victory margin, ISCI and the Sadrists' best hope appeared to be pressuring the prime minister to choose a successor from his State of Law coalition.

But Monday's results make it highly unlikely Maliki will feel any need to step aside. Smaller Shi'ite parties, whom ISCI and the Sadrists sought to woo are already lining up behind the prime minister.

"The will of the voter imposes a certain reality on the ground," said Ammar Tuma, a leader of the Fadila (Virtue) party, which picked up six seats. "We have to respect the will of the people."

Maliki's Sunni and Kurdish rivals, who have indicated their readiness to stand with ISCI and the Sadrists against Maliki, are unsure if their potential Shi'ite allies will buckle.

"Things will change when negotiations begin," said one current Sunni lawmaker, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The National Alliance will choose him."

If ISCI and the Sadrists choose to break from their Shi'ite political partners, it is far from certain they could cobble together a ruling coalition with Sunnis and Kurds, who remain a fragmented opposition.

Despite a strained relationship, the Kurds are far from committed to pushing Maliki out. The president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masoud Barzani, criticised Maliki while speaking to Reuters last week, but cautioned the Kurds would wait to see the electoral results.

Barzani has stressed the Kurds would want as the price of their participation in any government iron-clad guarantees on the passage of a national oil law, a timeframe for resolving the status of disputed territories in KRG, and a resolution to budget disputes.

Barzani has threatened the Kurds could boycott the national government and parliament if their demands are not met.

In private, some Kurdish officials say they are willing to accept Maliki for another four years, if it buys them time to advance their long-term dream of an independent Kurdistan. — Reuters

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/361731/news/world/iraq-s-maliki-wins-at-least-94-parliament-seats-in-national-election
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Nothing special Kurds have 62 seats alone
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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Milki gear in Fallujah
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The humvee looks better that way in Iraq
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Milky chopped shot down in Falujah haha

This is against ISIS imagine if iraqis were to fight Peshmerga who use to give hell to their king, saddam with just Ak47s :yes:
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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I think this is the new ones they bought recently
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