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To: marcos who wrote (163153)	5/26/2005 6:37:35 PM
From: Sun Tzu	of 281500

>> certainly stolen property must be restored, but once that is accomplished it would go better with them if/when they take an inclusivist approach to their self-rule ... This is pretty much how it is happening. I know of a few stories on the topic. One of the has to do with this Arab teacher whom Saddam had moved to Kurdistan and moved the owner to some poor neighborhood in Baghdad. After the fall of Baghdad, the guy packed his belongings. Put them in a room. Locked the doors and gave the keys to a neighbor with a note. The note said, "Dear Kurdish brother, welcome back to your home. Please keep an eye on my stuff till I come back for them". So when the original owner came back, there was no fuss and he respected the request. ...at other times it is not so easy. Before Saddam signed papers with Kurdish leaders some 30 years ago, he sent engineers around to look for potential oil fields. He drew the map of Kurdistan such that it excluded most of the oil fields (that were unknown at the time to the Kurds). Not that the Kurds could do much about it if they had known, but still...anyway now the Kurds are stuck with "Arab" lands in Kirkuk and Sulaymania [sp?] and it will not be easy to take them back.

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