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To: Lane3 who wrote (143569)	10/18/2005 11:54:54 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793990

"A Daily Survey of What the International Online Media Are Saying Posted at 07:00 PM ET, 10/17/2005 'Artificial' Iraq? Abu Khaleel is probably the only farmer-blogger in Iraq. But his hybrid background gives him some authority to talk about "the land between the two rivers." In the most recent post in his thoughtful blog, A Glimpse of Iraq, Khaleel gives the boot to a faddish favorite sound bite of Western pundits: that Iraq is nothing more than an "artificial" creation of 20th-century European colonial powers. The name "Iraq," Khaleel notes, has been around since the 7th century. The term has long referred to the region around the ethnically mixed cities of Basra, Baghdad and Mosul. He reminds non-Iraqis that the country's northern and eastern borders were drawn by centuries of bloody conflict, not outside powers. Only Iraq's southern and western borders were drawn by European powers and those do not divide the country's ethnic or religious groups but a desert with its own hidden history. The only drawback in his discussion is that he does not talk about Kuwait. Saddam Hussein used claims to historical lands in Kuwait as reason for the 1990 invasion of his neighbor. I want to know: Was Kuwait part of historical Iraq or not? By Jefferson Morley" blogs.washingtonpost.com