Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Kurds Kidnapping Iraqi Arabs w/US Blessing

From Wash Post: Police and security units, forces led by Kurdish political parties and backed by the US military, have abducted 100s of minority Arabs and Turkmens in this intensely volatile city and spirited them to prisons in Kurdish-held northern Iraq, according to US and Iraqi officials, government documents and families of the victims. Seized off the streets of Kirkuk or in joint US-Iraqi raids, the men have been transferred secretly and in violation of Iraqi law to prisons in Kurdish cities, sometimes with the knowledge of US forces. The detainees, including merchants, members of tribal families and soldiers, have often remained missing for months; some have been tortured, according to released prisoners and the Kirkuk police chief. Nice way to convince more regular- yet pissed off- Iraqis to become insurgents, huh? (So says Major Gen Joseph Taluto) And let's not forget- one helluva nice way to get a civil war started based on ethnic hatred- w/WHO trapped in the middle?... OUR TROOPS.
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