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To: paul_philp who wrote (88064)	3/30/2003 6:28:32 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 281500

I know. The group relationships are complex. "The Kurds" include the two large groups, the KDP and PUK, plus the smaller Islamist Al-Qaeda related group Ansar al-Islam. In addition, there is another Islamist Kurdish group, apparently a little milder than Ansar, called the Komala. Their small territory adjoins Ansar's. They've been under attack as well. I was reading recently about the Assyrian and Chaldean Christians who live in the area. They are being persecuted by everybody else, the Iraqis and Syrian Muslims, the Kurds, and the Turks. The more I learn the more I see this is a really uncivilized part of the world.