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	Iraqi Kurdistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kurdistan region's economy is dominated by the oil sector, agriculture and tourism.
		The Iraqi Kurdistan is largely mountainous, with the highest point being a 3,611 m (11,847 ft) point known locally as Cheekah Dar (fl tent).
		Iraqi Kurdistan is divided among 6 governorates of which currently three are under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan (3626 words)

	iraqi kurdistan region, the Parliament of Kurdistan
		By Iraqi Kurdistan Region, we mean the southern part of Kurdistan attached to Iraq according to an agreement between Britain.
		Iraqi Kurdistan is comprised of the six governorates of Arbil, Sulaimanya, Dohuk, Kirkuk, parts of Dyala and Nineva.
		Nevertheless the Kurdish revolt flared up again in 1976 in the mountains and valleys of Kurdistan defying deportation campaigns, Arabization and terrorism, and for years, especially in the eighties, the Kurdish people were subjected to brutal military campaigns and genocidal operations by chemical and biological weapons and the ill-famed Anfal operations.
	kurdland.tripod.com /ikr.html (633 words)

	KEO - HUMAN RIGHTS
		An agreement of 11 March 1970 between the Iraqi regime and the Kurdistan Democratic Party accepted an autonomous system for Iraqi Kurdistan, excluding the Kirkuk region and other parts whose future would be decided by a census to be held within one year of the signing of the Agreement.
		These regions are, historically and geographically, a part of Kurdistan and it is, therefore, essential that they be returned to the IKR and that the Arabs settled there as part of the Iraqi regime's policy of ethnic cleansing should be returned to central and southern Iraq from whence they came.
		The policies of successive Iraqi regimes have caused immense suffering for the Kurds, and particularly since 1975 after the collapse of the Kurdish revolt, when the Ba'athist regime embarked on the large-scale relocation of the Kurdish population and the wholesale destruction of their villages as well as its policy of Arabization.
	www.kurdistanica.com /english/legal/articles/legal-article-0002.html (2676 words)

	Iraqi Kurdistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kurdistan federal region is part of Iraq, something that is repeatidly asserted by Iraqi Kurds as well as other Iraqi political forces, and it seems that only the Turks across the border think otherwise.
		The Iraqi people proved to the entire world that they were civilized and put Saddam and his cronies in a court of law to be tried fairly and openly for his numerous crimes.
		Judge Rizgar is in his early fifties, born in Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan, graduated from Baghdad law school in 1980 and attended the Judicial Institute in Baghdad in 1992 before being appointed as a judge.
	iraqikurdistan.blogspot.com (3245 words)

	Kurdistan Regional Government Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By this I mean that there are now some Iraqi and foreign sides that, to some extent, point to the federalism of governorates, which is rejected by the Kurds, because the Kurdish people have not been struggling throughout history for separating the Kurdish governorates from each other.
		The Iraqi issue should not be settled separately from the Kurdish issue, because the Kurdish people, who have a cause, consider that federalism is the best solution for their issue.
		Therefore, all future [Iraqi] governments should avoid the fatal errors that successive Iraqi governments in Baghdad have committed, and not neglect the will of the Kurdish people, because it is a will which is generated from an endless strength.
	old.krg.org /docs/mb-federalism-kurdistan-dec03.asp (1273 words)

	"The Islamist Threat in Iraqi Kurdistan" (December 2001)
		Iraqi Kurdistan is naturally an attractive target for Al-Qa'ida, which has sought to develop havens in inaccessible or politically unstable areas.
		The Kurdistan Workers' Party [PKK], which is waging a violent separatist campaign against Turkey, has often taken refuge in the region's mountains and caves to hide from both Turkish and Iraqi Kurdish militaries.
		Iraqi Kurdistan is also a tempting political target for Islamist destabilization because of its relatively secular and democratic administration.
	www.meib.org /articles/0112_ir1.htm (3920 words)

	Iraqi Kurdistan Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The area of Iraqi Kurdistan is about 80.000 sq km, and thus it forms 18% of the total area of Iraq, (about 435.000 sq km).
		After the Iraqi government troops were stopped by the resistance shown by the peshmarga of Kurdistan, and when the region was declared a safe haven, the people returned to their homes and the KF returned to exercise its authority in the area.
		Their rights are ensured in the fields of culture and learning, and they have their private schools as well as their own information media, like newspapers, radio and TV stations, and their right to assume general posts is observed without any discrimination.
	www.kurdistan-parliament.org /region.htm (529 words)

	Kurdistan
		Born in the den of lions (the village of Barzan, the Iraqi occupied part of Kurdistan) in March of 1903, General Barzani was truly a champion of Kurdish revolution.
		Kurdistan shall survive and the sadistic monsters who preach hatred and fatwa will be guests at the garbage of history like their master, Saddam Hussein.
		In the Spring of 1966, the majestic mountain of Handren, located in the Iraqi occupied part of Kurdistan and overlooking the historic Kurdish town of Rawanduz, was the scence of one of the greatest military battles in the history of Kurdistan.
	www.ekurd.org (2595 words)

	Gendercide Watch: The Anfal Campaign (Iraqi Kurdistan), 1988
		The infrastructure of life in Iraqi Kurdistan, meanwhile, was left almost totally destroyed by the Anfal campaign and its predecessors.
		In August 1990, the Iraqi regime finally overreached with its invasion of neighbouring Kuwait, sparking the Gulf War, in which a U.S.-led coalition succeeded in expelling the Iraqi occupying forces.
		When the Iraqis counterattacked, nearly half a million Kurds fled to Turkey and Iran; the resultant humanitarian crisis led the members of the Allied coalition to declare a "safe haven" in the northern part of Iraqi Kurdistan.
	www.gendercide.org /case_anfal.html (4053 words)

	Kurdistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Encyclopaedia of Islam, Kurdistan covers around 190,000 km² in Turkey, 125,000 km² in Iran, 65,000 km² in Iraq, and 12,000 km² in Syria and the total area of Kurdistan is estimated at approximately 392,000 km².
		Iraqi Kurdistan is divided into 6 governorates which until this time three of them plus parts of other ones are under the control of Kurdistan Regional Government.
		KRG-controlled parts of Iraqi Kurdistan only by itself is estimated to have around 45bn barrels of oil reserves making it 6th largest in the world, mostly recently discovered and its extraction is said to begin within the first three months of the next near (2007?).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurdistan (1776 words)

	Iraqi political groupings and individuals
		This assembly was expanded to a meeting of 234 representatives of Iraqi opposition groups in Salahuddin, Iraqi Kurdistan on 27Oct92, which incorporated SCIRI for the first time, and which ratified the decisions made at Vienna.
		Iraqi National Accord (INA, al-Wifaq): created in December 1990, on the initiative of Saudi Prince Turki ibn Faysal, with the support of the CIA, and Jordanian and British agencies.
		Iraqi National Alliance (al-Tahaluf al-Watani al-Iraqi): a reformist opposition grouping in Iraq that was tolerated under the Ba‘th regime, coming to prominence in Nov02, and with Ba‘thist and Nasirist participants.
	middleeastreference.org.uk /iraqiopposition.html (11453 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Iran shells Iraqi Kurdistan area
		The president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, is the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
		Iraqi Kurdistan is autonomous from the rest of Iraq and is home to most of this country's 5 million Kurds.
		An Iraqi police patrol was ambushed by sniper's fire in Mosul, killing a policeman and wounding another, the police said.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,645194684,00.html (622 words)

	KEO - LEGAL DOCUMENTS
		The Kurds are an ancient people who have lived in their homeland of Kurdistan for thousands of years, a nation with all the attributes that entitle it to practice the right of self-determination similar to other nations and peoples of the world.
		In spite of this, successive Iraqi governments have turned their backs on these obligations to the Kurds and instead have practised a racist and chauvinistic policy of ethnic cleansing and destruction by all political and military means.
		The Kurdistan Region Council of Ministers is the highest executive and administrative authority in the region; it carries out its executive responsibilities under the supervision and guidance of the Kurdistan Regional President.
	www.kurdistanica.com /english/legal/papers/doc-0005.html (4139 words)

	IRAQI KURDISTAN, Landmine Monitor Report 1999
		There is credible evidence that landmines continue to be used in northern Iraq, albeit on a limited scale during the periods of factional fighting that have engulfed the region.
		While mines apparently continue to be used, the numbers are small compared to the vast number of mines laid by the Iraqi government, which remain the mainstay of the problem in Iraqi Kurdistan.
		The four governorates in Iraqi Kurdistan have respectively 1,278 minefields (Sulaymanya governorate), 549 minefields (Erbil governorate: specifically in the districts of Chorman, Soran and Merga Sor), 295 minefields (Dohuk governorate: specifically in the districts of Amedia, Duhok and Zakho), 201 minefields (New Kirkuk governorate: specifically in the districts of Khanqin, Darbanikhan and Chamchamal).
	www.icbl.org /lm/1999/kurdistan.html (1853 words)

	KHRW -- Erbil Office - Iraqi Kurdistan
		From 1993 until 1996 KHRW was involved in humanitarian assistance and rehabilitation of the infrastructure in Kurdistan.
		At the present time, Kurdistan is divided into five parts among the states of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Azerbaijan...
		It is the largest of the three universities in Iraqi Kurdistan.
	www.khrw.com /erbil (238 words)

	Ansar al-Islam in Iraqi Kurdistan (Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, )
		Ansar al-Islam fi Kurdistan (Supporters of Islam in Kurdistan) is one of a number of Sunni Islamist groups based in the Kurdish-controlled northern provinces of Iraq.
		During a mission to Iraqi Kurdistan in September 2002, Human Rights Watch investigated reports of human rights abuses perpetrated by members of Ansar al-Islam in areas under their control.
		Islamist political forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, which are exclusively Sunni Muslim, were represented in the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan (IMK), established in 1987.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/mena/ansarbk020503.htm (3087 words)

	K D P (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The KDP is founded on the most important objectives, to seek and achieve all basic human and national rights including the right of freedom of expression and association and to support all democratic principles for all ethnic, and other, oppressed peoples.
		We give young Kurds an effective voice in the KDP and ensure that their interests and needs are continually at the forefront of party decisionmaking.
		We work hard to strengthen the basis of the Federal state and the Kurdistan National Assembly which was made by the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of our people, and we work hard to mobilize international support for it, today, the energy to help the Kurds is increasing.
	www.kdp.pp.se (557 words)

	ThreatsWatch.Org: RapidRecon: What Works: Iraqi Kurdistan
		The difference between the lives of Iraqi Kurds and the lives of Iraqi Sunnis is essentially al-Qaeda jihadis and allied insurgents and the sapping of safety and liberty.
		The difference between the lives of Iraqi Kurds and the lives of the Iraqi Shi’a is essentially Iran, their supported militia thugs and the sapping of safety and liberty.
		One of the other differences between Iraqi Kurds (Kurdistan) is that the Kurds have a history of their own form of government.
	rapidrecon.threatswatch.org /2006/11/what-works-iraqi-kurdistan (364 words)

	Kurdistan-Regional-Profile
		Iraqi Kurdistan, in (Kermanshah) in Iranian Kurdistan, and in (Siirt) in Turkey’s Kurdistan.
		By Iraqi Kurdistan region, we mean the southern part of Kurdistan attached to Iraq according to an agreement between Great Britain and Turkey and hence the area referred to as the northern part of Iraq.
		Iraqi Kurdistan and its borders, with Iran, Syria, and Turkey, are from 1996, and especially with
	www.geocities.com /kurdistanobserver/report-khasro.htm (7209 words)

	Iraqi Kurdistan says it’s open for business - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		The U.S. ad campaign, which has a counterpart in Europe, is underwritten by the Kurdistan Development Corporation, with offices in London, Berlin and Arbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan.
		In a television commercial, people of all ages are seen building a community — planting trees, driving bulldozers, working in a laboratory — in images meant to convey a model of modernity, an area bustling with industry.
		Iraqi Kurdistan also hopes to increase tourism to its historical attractions — museums, castles, mosques and other architectural sites, some dating to the 12th century.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14689169 (548 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iraqi Kurdistan a world away from war
		Fly into Irbil, the regional capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and you feel that you have arrived in another country.
		It is the Kurdish, not the Iraqi, flag that flutters from Irbil International Airport, Kurdistan's new, glass-fronted "gateway" to the world, which saw its first flights from Dubai, Beirut and Amman arrive last month.
		The airport was built on a former military base once used by Saddam Hussein's regime to bomb the Kurds of Halabja.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4145110.stm (563 words)

	Ansar al-Islam
		It is the most radical group operating in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
		Ansar al-Islam is in a state of war with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
		It was responsible for the assassination in 2001 of a senior official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Franso Hariri, and for the attempted killing of Burhan Salih, head of the PUK-led Iraqi Kurdistan regional government.
	www.iraqinews.com /org_ansar_al-islam.shtml (271 words)

	NORTHERN IRAQ (IRAQI KURDISTAN), Landmine Monitor Report 2001
		The region of northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan) has been autonomous from Baghdad since the 1991 Gulf War.
		A Kurdistan Democratic Party official told media, “According to security experts who have gone to the scene, the first indication is that the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] was responsible for laying the mine....
		The Kurdistan Organisation for Mine Awareness (KOMA) in Erbil/Dohuk and Kurdistan Organisation for Mine Awareness in Suleimaniya are two separate and independent bodies covering the three governates.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2001/kurdistan (2567 words)

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