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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (30066)	3/25/2003 2:12:58 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, Just in case you get bored... I was reading more on the Kurds and there was CBC show on Iraqi oil. Interesting of course one doesn't think about things from 80+ years ago too often. When they divided up the Ottoman Empire and the Kurds didn't get their promised homeland (The Assyrians, great fighters for the Brits were also screwed). Interestingly the Kurd homeland would have included Mosul and Kirkuk ;o) ;o). SURPRISINGLY the Brits put the kaibosh on it in order to better control the guess what.... I suppose.. Yeah the Turks don't want an independent Kurdistan. Guess where lots more traditional Kurdish homeland lies .... The realpolitik of the region has changed little in a century has it ? Oh and Message 18748062 It's replaying now. Anyway g'nite regards Kastel EDIT they all hate Hussein. 3 don't trust the US. The Kudish guy is strongly pro the Coalition not just for ousting Hussein.. Hmmmm! He should read some history. Brittain lied to them and screwed them after WWI and the US, well they just let them down after Gulf I (to be fair the then coalition let them down) when I believe when Wofiwitz was right.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (30066)	3/25/2003 2:23:41 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Al-Jazeera owned by Qatar, the country that's hosting the US Central Command. Quite democratic isn't it? :-) news.ft.com With satellite television stations beaming graphic battlefield images into Arab homes, the resentment and hatred is likely to intensify. Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab channel, shocked audiences with pictures of a child with part of his head blown off by what the station said were raids on the southern Iraqi city of Basra. One broadcaster compared the nightly bombardment of Baghdad to a weapon of mass destruction. The station is, ironically, owned by Qatar, a country whose government is hosting the US Central Command.