Newark Execution Murders

[Thecla]

Let's not forget the Kurds, who are provoking a war with Turkey in order to liberate their compatriots and establish a separate Kurdistan. This will force the US to pick between its most loyal allies in Iraq and its most powerful ally on the borders. I think the Kurds will get the short end of the stick, but you never know.

My impression of Kurdish history is that they've consistently got the really short end of the stick. They must be among the ones most worried by the possibility of a rapid US withdrawal, and they deserve a better fate in the future. While I'm sure there's a huge desire among Kurds for an independent state, my guess is that the majority would settle for some sort of de-facto independence within Iraq and don't want to provoke a war with Turkey at this point. If and when things in Iraq deteriorate further, who knows what will happen.

But it's certainly ironic that the strongest US allies in Iraq, the Kurds, have connections with a terrorist group (the PKK) that is responsible for perhaps 37,000 deaths in Turkey, or that despite claims to promote democracy, the US is supportive of a military dictator like Musharraf (personally, I think they just came up with the "democracy" thing out of desperation when the "WMD" thing didn't work out, so you can hardly blame them).

But, back on topic, I've also heard that the Newark Murderers had PKK connections.