Long article from the usually reliable JPost. What got my attention was the second para quoted below. Sunnis voting for Kurdish parties in order to get good governance? Or just good old fashioned horse trading?
The Sunni Arab delegates, some of them in Wahabi habits with long beards, listened to Barzani's speech "We come to begin negotiations on unifying our lines, to put an end our quarrels with the Kurds," said Shiekh Hamid Yousef, head of the Jumeili tribe.
While ostensibly in Irbil to meet Barzani, said the KRG's Director of National Relations, Dr. Muztaz Goran, "they are also here to vote for the Kurdish list on the understanding that once elected we will provide for them in terms of government services." |