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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (5320)	3/24/2003 4:56:29 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Couple of CIA maps: Distribution of Ethnoreligious Groups and Major Tribes lib.utexas.edu taken from the larger wall maps poster lib.utexas.edu

To: Ilaine who wrote (5320)	3/25/2003 5:43:37 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 15987

I said the Kurds say that Kirkuk is Kurdish I realize that. Perhaps you did not have time to notice that I was talking about Kirkuk not being in the Kurdish Zone in Iraq (i.e. Kurdish Autonomous Zone) in my correspondence with E.T., before you decided to jump in. (2) Kirkuk is not even in the Kurdish region, so I wonder what this is about... Message 18744417 You might like to take a look at Page 3 of today's Financial Times for enlightenment on the borders of the Kurdish zone in Iraq. You will (hopefully) see that Mosoul & Kirkuk are not within these borders. That is, incidentally, why American forces are currently demanding that Kurdish forces not TAKE (as in, something they don't already have) Kirkuk while they are fighting Iraqi forces. In fact, the KDP plans to make Kirkuk the capital of the Kurdish state that will be established in post-Saddam Iraq. Great. And Hamas plans to destroy the state of Israel. So what? We were not talking about various aspirations of the parties involved in the Iraqi conflict. We were talking about whether or not Kirkuk (and Mosoul, but you don't seem to be insisting on that) is/are in the Kurdish autonomous region within Iraq. They are not. End of story.