March 17, 2008
Twenty years on, few Kurds forget that the United States and other Western countries stood idle while a chemical attack killed 5,000
MARK MACKINNON
HALABJA, IRAQ — Rafiq Laiq learned two difficult lessons as he and his family fled the chemical-gas attack Saddam Hussein's army launched on this town 20 years ago.
March 16, 2008 | War Torn | Five Years | By JOHN F. BURNS | LONDON
On the evening of March 19, 2003, a small group of Western journalists had grandstand seats for the big event in Baghdad, the start of the full-scale American bombing of strategic targets in the Iraqi capital. We had forced a way through a bolted door at the top of an emergency staircase leading to the 21st-story roof of the Palestine Hotel, with a panoramic view of Saddam Hussein’s command complex across the Tigris River.
16 december 2008
HALABJA, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi Kurds mourned on Sunday the deaths of around 5,000 villagers from Halabja who were massacred 20 years ago in chemical attacks blamed on Saddam Hussein's forces during the Iran-Iraq war.
Friday, March 14, 2008 | GÖKSEL BOZKURT | ANKARA - TDN Parliament Bureau
The government’s investment program and social initiatives to address the Kurdish problem fail to satisfy the pro-Kurdish DTP in Parliament that calls for constitutional amendments, cultural measures and progressive amnesty.
March 14, 2008 | By Carter Andress
Saddam Hussein’s horrific 1988 genocide of the Kurds is still having repercussions.
Baghdad — This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s massacre of an estimated 5,000 Kurds in the Iraqi town of Halabja. The March 16, 1988 attack, using a lethal air-delivered mixture of mustard gas and nerve agent, killed virtually every man, woman, and child in the town. The destruction of Halabja initiated a campaign of mass murder that Saddam named Al Anfal — “the Spoils of War,” from a passage in the Koran. It was the high-water mark of his regime’s genocide against the Kurds.
March 14, 2008 | BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
WASHINGTON —" A Pentagon review of about 600,000 documents captured in the Iraq war attests to Saddam Hussein's willingness to use terrorism to target Americans and work closely with jihadist organizations throughout the Middle East.
13 March 2008 | AYŞE KARABAT | ANKARA
The Democratic Society Party (DTP) has, in meetings with President Abdullah Gül and Speaker of Parliament Köksal Toptan, requested that the state take the initiative to find a solution to the Kurdish problem, underlining that a new constitution, currently being drafted, is an opportunity for this.
Thursday, March 13, 2008 | By Gareth Jenkins
Recent reports quoting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as announcing $12 billion in new investments in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey have been greeted with considerable skepticism inside the country.
March 13, 2008 | By UCF Staff
At a time when Kurds are becoming known as “the Iraq that works,” the University of Central Florida will receive a $1 million donation to create the first endowed chair in Kurdish Political Studies in the United States.
March 13, 2008 | By JAMES GLANZ
BASRA, Iraq — Several senior Iraqi officials said on Wednesday that the government might soon deploy Iraqi Army troops to seize control of this city’s decrepit but vital port from politically connected militias known more for corruption and inciting terrorism than for their skill in moving freight.
