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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (43835)	9/14/2002 1:44:22 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Excellent piece, Nadine. Again, no one on the left, here or in Europe, is willing to admit that standing up to Arafat has destroyed him. I just read a long piece on the Kurds. Here is the lead in and the URL. The New York Review of Books September 26, 2002 In Iraqi Kurdistan By Tim Judah >>>With all the debate about whether the United States should go to war with Saddam Hussein's regime, hardly anyone seems to have noticed that the war for Iraq has already begun. A few weeks ago I sat on a mountainside in northern Iraq and watched Kurdish fighters, who are known as peshmergas, trading shellfire with a group that they say is linked to al-Qaeda and that had dug into positions on the mountain opposite. The Kurdish fighters claimed that their opponents, who are mainly Kurds but include some Arabs as well, receive some support from Saddam Hussein and a lot from Iran. As the peshmergas served tea, the otherwise silent landscape reverberated with the shelling, and puffs of smoke and dust twisted and vanished with the evening breeze. This is an overture to the war.<<<<<< nybooks.com