Kurds which way to the Ba'athists?(Peshmerga enter the Fallujah fight)

Yahoo News ^ | April 7 2004 | NA

[Capt. Tom]

At this mornings press briefing from Iraq with Gen. Kimmitt and Mr. Senor the question was asked about the Peshmergas being involved with the coalition. The General denied the
peshmergas had any part in the ongoing action, he said only the coalition forces wee involved. -Tom

[Happy2BMe]

UP TO 7,000 KILLED INSTANTLY

Experts estimate that between 5,000 and 7,000 residents were killed immediately while tens of thousands more were exposed over the years by drinking contaminated water or eating contaminated food. A photograph of a man shielding an infant with his body -- both were killed by the gas -- has become an icon of Kurdish suffering and a monument here.

Kurds Say Iraq's Attack Serve As A Warning A Statue in Halabja In Memory of 100,000 Kurds Who Perished At The Hands of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Kills Thousands of His Own Citizens – Caution! Poison Gas was used by Saddam in this Kurdish Village. Mothers with their dead children - guilty under Saddam of playing in Halabja [March 1988].

[archy]

Any new info on the Kurds?

Several of the wire services have been reporting a crackdown or pogrom against the Kurds in Syria...which may send some of them fleeing to the relative safety of Iraq, or to other locales where they may become future assets to Kurdish military recruiting and force building efforts.

Kurds make up about a tenth of Syria's population of a bit under 20 million. Two million additional Kurds joining Kurdish nationalists in a homeland carved from former Northern Iraqi territory could indeed change the balance of power in that part of the world. And neither the Turks nor the Iranians would be the least bit happy about it.