domingo, 4 de janeiro de 2004

Iraq faces ethnic conflict on new front after crisis talks fail

telegraph
"Kurds blamed this week's violence on "Arabs faithful to former President Saddam Hussein" and "Turkmen extremists". But Arab leaders have since hit back, with one important tribal sheikh blaming Kurdish "arrogance".

"If Kurds continue to believe that Americans are on their side and just think about achieving maximum gains in the short term, then this will lead to a civil war," Sheikh Ghassan al-Obeidi said.

While the immediate cause of the week's fighting has been the Kurdish vision for Kirkuk, hatreds between the ethnic groups are fuelled by decades-old disputes."

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