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August 24, 2003
Fissures emerging -Circus II
Fighting erupts in Kurdish city
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3176965.stm
Turcomens and Kurds, with US intervention killing Turcomens. Nice, more of panicked soldiers firing into crowds. Also see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37367-2003Aug23.html which contains some very distrubing statements by the Turcomens. WE may be on the edge of some real problems in the North.
Further,
Foreign Islamic Militants Add To Coalition Worries in Iraq
By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 24, 2003; Page A18
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37052-2003Aug23.html
" Syrian spokesmen have reacted angrily to the latest accusations, including a charge by Israeli officials that the truck used to bomb the U.N. compound in Baghdad could have come from Syria. "These are ridiculous and preposterous allegations," said Imad Moustapha, deputy Syrian ambassador to the United States. "We are in favor of a more powerful role for the U.N. in Iraq, so why would we do anything to jeopardize that goal?"
Some American terrorism experts fault the Bush administration for failing to provide basic security in Iraq after the Hussein government was overthrown.
"There is some degree of negligence on all sides," said Jon B. Alterman, director of the Middle Eastern Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "We should have paid much more attention to border security from the start. When the Iraqi regime fell, the borders became insecure. The ability of American troops to identify non-Iraqi Arabs wandering the country was not nearly as great as that of Saddam's government." "
Indeed. Pandora's box is open.
Posted by The Lounsbury at August 24, 2003 05:23 PM
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