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2003-03-19 Iraq

Cicek: U.S. Requested Us To Permit Transit Passage Of Planes Only

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Posted by Steve 2003-03-19 07:52 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Seems like the Turks are really worried about the Kurds setting themselves up in the North. Good let them be worried.

Posted by bernardz 2003-03-19 08:13:32|| 2003-03-19 08:13:32|| Front Page Top

#2 According to an article in the Wall Street Journal today, Kurdish leader Barzani has been paying the salaries of the Iraqi Vth Army Corps in Kirkuk/Mosul recently. (He is a billionaire from smuggling Saddam's oil out during the sanctions era.) It seems certain they won't fight.

Posted by paj 2003-03-19 09:49:00|| 2003-03-19 09:49:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Someday I'd like to own an Army Corps, too. Park it on my lawn for Memorial Day and other patriotic holidays.

Posted by Chuck 2003-03-19 11:06:21|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-03-19 11:06:21|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe it was the Roman politician Crassus who said you couldn't really call yourself rich unless you could maintain a legion (6000 men) out of petty cash. (Crassus could.)

Posted by Dr. Weevil 2003-03-19 11:48:14|| [www.doctorweevil.org] 2003-03-19 11:48:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Crassus would have met a better fate if he'd maintained several more legions.

Posted by Steve White 2003-03-19 12:10:22|| 2003-03-19 12:10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 or if he'd refrained from attacking the Parthians in the first place

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-19 13:22:23|| 2003-03-19 13:22:23|| Front Page Top

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