Iraqi Leader Outlines Plan for Reconciliation
 Amnesty Offered in Effort to Curb Violence
Monday, June 26, 2006; Page A17
By Joshua Partlow and Bassam Sebti
Washington Post Staff Writers
BAGHDAD, June 25 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday invited insurgents to lay down their weapons and join the political process, promising an amnesty for opponents who have not been involved in acts of terrorism.
Solution: Break up Iraq; Reality: It's not so easy
 Dexter Filkins The New York Times - Published: June 25, 2006
Let it break up. It seems a simple enough solution.
Iraq's three main groups - the Shiite Arabs, the Sunni Arabs and the Kurds - are killing each other with greater ferocity than ever, and the Americans are playing referee.
Iraq Refines Its Amnesty Plan
By Joshua Partlow - Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 23, 2006; A19
BAGHDAD, June 22 -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's new plan to promote reconciliation among Iraq's rival factions will offer amnesty to Iraqis who have "carried weapons" but not to those who have committed serious crimes, according to Iraqi politicians who have read the proposal.
Death penalty sought for Saddam
By John F. Burns The New York Times
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2006
BAGHDAD Saddam Hussein uttered only two sarcastic words - "Well done!" - on Monday as the prosecutor demanded that Saddam and three top associates, one of them his half brother, be given the death penalty for their role in the persecution of hundreds of Shiite townspeople after an alleged assassination attempt on Saddam in 1982.
Kurdish Defendants Find Support in Town's Clasp
Refugees in Va. Hamlet Arrested in Oct.
By Karin Brulliard - Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 18, 2006; A01
HARRISONBURG, Va. -- There is a Kurdish section at a cemetery in this Shenandoah Valley town. Four Kurdish babies were born in one recent week. And nearly a decade after the first Kurdish refugees settled here, the community has produced some reluctant celebrities.
Children of the repression
 Turkish Kurd teenagers turn to the PKK after enduring years of brutality
Ian Traynor in Diyarbakir, Turkey - Monday June 5, 2006
Guardian
Sevder is seething. Growing up in poverty and squalor, he has seen schoolmates shot dead by Turkish security forces and had to put up with the vulgar taunts of Turkish policemen towards his mother and sisters. His grudges have been nourished by endless tales of family and friends burnt out of their villages in the hills and decanted into the slums of Diyarbakir.
Outspoken Kurd Is Living on the Edge in Turkey
 From the Los Angeles Times
By Tracy Wilkinson Times Staff Writer May 30, 2006 BATMAN, Turkey — Huseyin Kalkan, the mayor of Batman, pointed to the bullet holes in the pale-yellow wall of his office, little indentations just above the framed photograph of a lavender cactus blossom.
Ethnic tensions could crack Iran`s firm resolve against the world
 By Abbas William Samii
During the last week of May, thousands of Iranians demonstrated in the northwestern city of Tabriz, and the previous week there were protests at universities in five cities. The protests were triggered by the official government newspaper - the Islamic Republic News Agency's Iran - publishing a cartoon which depicts a boy repeating "cockroach" in Persian before a giant bug in front of him asks "What?" in Azeri.
Iraqi Premier, Cabinet Sworn In
Sectarian Bickering Over Unfilled Posts Interrupts Ceremony By Nelson Hernandez and Omar Fekeiki
Washington Post Foreign Service - Sunday, May 21, 2006; A01
BAGHDAD, May 20 -- Iraq's first constitutional government since the fall of Saddam Hussein took office in a televised ceremony Saturday, with unfilled cabinet posts and last-minute sectarian bickering underlining the difficulties it will face in bringing peace and order to the country.
Judge Tosses Saddam Lawyer From Court
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
The Associated Press - Monday, May 22, 2006; 5:58 PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Guards pulled the sole woman on Saddam Hussein's defense team from the court Monday after she had a shouting match with the chief judge, prompting her to throw off her lawyer's robe in rage.
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