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| Axis of Evil |
| Talabani sitting on the fence... |
| 2002-08-09 |
| One of the essential, or at least desirable, players in any U.S. action against Iraq shows signs of being bought... The leader of one of the two Kurdish factions controlling northern Iraq said on Wednesday he would not offer blind support for U.S. military action to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "As to the attack of the United States, we are not yet assured what will be the purpose of this attack," Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), told reporters after meeting Turkish officials in Ankara. Talabani visited Soddy Arabia just about a month ago. Wonder what they offered him? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Like Taliban, it's probably some variation on the Arabic for "religious student". The a/i thing is because Arabic only has three vowel sounds. Haider is even funnier, because Joerg Haider is the name of the Austrian that the EU thought was a neo-Fascist. He's still active in Parliament, too. |
| Posted by: Dan Hartung 2002-08-09 21:03:55 |
| #1 Haider is the Interior Minister of Pakistan, its close but no cigar. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-08-09 15:44:05 |