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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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From: geode001/22/2005 11:40:54 PM
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"...The Americans have largely washed their hands of the Kirkuk problem. An American grant worth $100m to fund the Kirkuk Foundation to promote ethnic harmony remains largely undisbursed. Little of the $180m earmarked to pay for resolving property disputes and to compensate the displaced has been dished out. The Iraqi Property Claims Commission, set up a year ago, has settled only about 120 claims in Kirkuk (out of several thousand lodged), finding it nigh-impossible to find even-handed judges whose verdicts would be accepted by both sides.

For now, the Kurds are on top. They already hold key posts in Kirkuk's provincial government. The governor is a Kurd. So are the heads of the agricultural department (which controls the distribution of state land) and the police. Kurdish-led patrols go as far south as Khanaquin, barely two hours' drive from Baghdad.

For the moment, the conundrum of Kirkuk lies unsolved. The constitution to be written after the election may, perhaps, give it a special status whereby power must be shared. Whatever census is taken (no one seems to know when) is bound to be disputed. The peaceful adjudication of property claims seems far away. The city and its surroundings are a tinderbox.

economist.com

=== If it quacks like civil war......heck, no wonder the Kurds want guarantees of autonomy.
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