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Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq's northern frontier
Michael Howard in Qandil Mountain
Friday August 18, 2006
Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
Giving a voice to victims of Saddam's rule
By Kirk Semple The New York Times
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
BAGHDAD - Beneath the clinical glare of fluorescent lights in a collection of makeshift laboratories here, the victims of mass murder under Saddam Hussein are slowly brought back to life.
Iraqi leader defends his security forces
By Damien Cave The New York Times THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2006
BAGHDAD - President Jalal Talabani defended Iraq's security forces Wednesday against accusations of atrocities and said they would assume control of the country from U.S. troops by the end of the year.
The Next Front
 By Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen
Newsweek International
July
31, 2006 issue - Israel launched airstrikes on Lebanon in response to
attacks by Hizbullah earlier this month, and George W. Bush called it
"self-defense." But what to tell the Turks, who over the last week lost
15 sol-diers to terror attacks launched by sepa-ratist Kurds from
neighboring Iraq?
U.S. promises Turkey to fight against PKK
 Xinhua - Editor: Wang Yan - ANKARA, July 23 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has telephoned Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and promised to do whatever necessary to fight against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.
Questions for Peter W. Galbraith
 July 9, 2006 The Breakup
Compiled by DEBORAH SOLOMON Q: Your new book, "The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without
End," argues that the Bush administration should stop insisting that Iraq can
ever be a unified nation.
Iraq’s salvation lies in letting it break apart
 The Sunday Times July 16, 2006 The partition of Iraq into separate Kurdish, Sunni and Shi’ite areas is the only route to peace, writes Peter Galbraith
Those 5 wives? "I wouldn't do it again"
By Dan Bilefsky International Herald Tribune FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2006
ISIKLAR, Turkey - With his five wives, 55 children, 80 grandchildren, 400 sheep, 500 hectares of land and small army of servants, Aga Mehmet Arslan would seem an unlikely defender of monogamy.
Saddam to go on trial in August for Kurdish genocide
By Ross Colvin - Reuters
Tuesday, June 27, 2006; 10:17 PM
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein and his former top army commanders will go on trial on August 21 on charges of killing tens of thousands of Iraq's Kurds in 1988 in a military operation to force them from their villages.
Saddam's UN links to be aired in court
June 26, 2006 - From James Bone in New York
LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial of a major figure in the Oil-for-Food scandal gets under way today.
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