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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: BigBull who wrote (37002)8/12/2002 9:37:19 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi BigBull; Re observer article: "In what may be the opening battle of the war for Iraq, the Kurds are preparing to crush an Islamic fundamentalist group which has seized territory on the Iraqi-Iranian border and which some claim provides evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden."

This would be quite the reversal. Did you wonder how it was that the Islamic Fundamentalists got a foothold in Kurdistan? Read on:

The Longest War
The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict
Dilip Hiro, 1991
(page 150)
In its anti-Baathist drive the KDP [Kurd freedom fighters] had begun providing refuge to the Shia activists of Al Daawa in the territory it controlled. Al Daawa claimed that about a thousand of its members were active in Kurdistan. More disturbingly for the Baghdad authorities, these parties had become magnets for army deserters. Fearful of execution, the deserters joined the KDP or Al Daawa, which organized them into armed autonomous units. They operated in rural areas, focusing on economic and military targets. Although membership of the Tehran-based SAIRI did not inhibit Al Daawa from pursuing its activities, independently, inside and outside Iraq, it was beholden to the Islamic Republic of Iran and its leader, Ayatollah Khomeini.

Also see:

The US and UK are reluctant to help the two Shi'a groups that command real followings inside Iraq, largely because Daawa and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq are Islamic fundamentalist.
zmag.org

-- Carl
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