The Disputed territories of Northern Iraq, (click here) or Disputed internal Kurdish–Iraqi boundaries, are regions defined by the article 140 of the Constitution of Iraq as being Arabised during the Baath Party rule in Iraq. Most of these regions had previously been inhabited by non-Arab minorities, most notably Kurds, and were later arabised by transferring and settling Arab tribes in those areas....
This is from Wikipedia and it states it fairly well. Baghdad Kurds should be able to provide more insight to the intelligence.
The reason Daesh is intent on northern Iraq is that it used to belong to the Ba'athists.
Now take a step back in time to the No Fly Zones of Saddam Hussein. The Ba'athists had power. Saddam was a Ba'athist. I think it was a mass grave of Kurds that was discovered. It was a grave that Saddam created. He and the Ba'athists wanted to CLEANSE the country of Shia and minority Arabs.
The North and South No Fly Zones were established by UN resolution to protect these people. It worked. Russia should know the No Fly Zones worked. The Shia and Kurds of the north and south of Iraq thrived under the No Fly Zones.
Baghdad, Iraq, April 4 — The Iraqi court (click here) trying Saddam Hussein announced Tuesday that it had charged him with genocide, saying he sought to annihilate the Kurdish people in 1988, when the military killed at least 50,000 Kurdish civilians and destroyed 2,000 villages....
...The Kurds, who make up a fifth of Iraq's people, tried to fight back, but Mr. Hussein used chemical weapons, including mustard gas and nerve agents....
Today, the Kurds are engaged in taking back these lands from Daesh. Daesh is the same thing as the old Ba'athists by a different name. Now, Daesh has recruited from all over the world to come and fight for a supposed "Caliphate." It is nonsense. This so called war for the Caliphate is nothing more than the continued hate for minorities and Shia in the region.
Currently, the Shia of southern Iraq are the only fighters that are loyal to a goal most major powers consent to in that they concentrated their lives and worship to the south under the No Fly Zones. They had grievances against Hussein as well.
...Six other defendants also face charges. Mr. Hussein is already being tried for the torture and killings of 148 men and boys in the Shiite village of Dujail....
Since the 2003 invasion by the USA the Shia have managed to survive in the reality of "W"s tanks to destroy their mosques and holy men. The Shia of Iraq are strong people through their chronic adversity for centuries. They have the will to fight.
October 1, 2015
Irbil, Iraq (AP) " Kurdish fighters (click here) in northern Iraq drove the Islamic State group from more than 140 sq. kilometers (54 sq. miles) of territory near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and cleared part of a major highway on Wednesday.
Kurdish peshmerga fighters backed by U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the militants beyond Ghara Heights and Mount Batiwa, south of Kirkuk, and secured a stretch of a highway which connects Kirkuk to the central city of Samarra, a statement from the Kurdistan Region Security Council said.
The villages of Meziriya, Gubebe, Seda, Mohammed Khalil, Qows Kurd, Tal Ward, Khalef and Mansouria " all south of Kirkuk " were purged of militants, the statement said.
At least 10 peshmerga fighters died in the operation and another 16 were wounded, according to a senior security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief journalists. The Kurdish government said some militants were seen fleeing toward the contested town of Hawijah.
The IS group swept across northern Iraq in the summer of 2014 and currently holds roughly a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria. Kurdish fighters made significant advances against the militant group early this year, but their progress has stalled around areas the extremists view as strategic " particularly near the border....
The truth is the truth.
This is from Wikipedia and it states it fairly well. Baghdad Kurds should be able to provide more insight to the intelligence.
The reason Daesh is intent on northern Iraq is that it used to belong to the Ba'athists.
Now take a step back in time to the No Fly Zones of Saddam Hussein. The Ba'athists had power. Saddam was a Ba'athist. I think it was a mass grave of Kurds that was discovered. It was a grave that Saddam created. He and the Ba'athists wanted to CLEANSE the country of Shia and minority Arabs.
The North and South No Fly Zones were established by UN resolution to protect these people. It worked. Russia should know the No Fly Zones worked. The Shia and Kurds of the north and south of Iraq thrived under the No Fly Zones.
Baghdad, Iraq, April 4 — The Iraqi court (click here) trying Saddam Hussein announced Tuesday that it had charged him with genocide, saying he sought to annihilate the Kurdish people in 1988, when the military killed at least 50,000 Kurdish civilians and destroyed 2,000 villages....
...The Kurds, who make up a fifth of Iraq's people, tried to fight back, but Mr. Hussein used chemical weapons, including mustard gas and nerve agents....
Today, the Kurds are engaged in taking back these lands from Daesh. Daesh is the same thing as the old Ba'athists by a different name. Now, Daesh has recruited from all over the world to come and fight for a supposed "Caliphate." It is nonsense. This so called war for the Caliphate is nothing more than the continued hate for minorities and Shia in the region.
Currently, the Shia of southern Iraq are the only fighters that are loyal to a goal most major powers consent to in that they concentrated their lives and worship to the south under the No Fly Zones. They had grievances against Hussein as well.
...Six other defendants also face charges. Mr. Hussein is already being tried for the torture and killings of 148 men and boys in the Shiite village of Dujail....
Since the 2003 invasion by the USA the Shia have managed to survive in the reality of "W"s tanks to destroy their mosques and holy men. The Shia of Iraq are strong people through their chronic adversity for centuries. They have the will to fight.
October 1, 2015
Irbil, Iraq (AP) " Kurdish fighters (click here) in northern Iraq drove the Islamic State group from more than 140 sq. kilometers (54 sq. miles) of territory near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and cleared part of a major highway on Wednesday.
Kurdish peshmerga fighters backed by U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the militants beyond Ghara Heights and Mount Batiwa, south of Kirkuk, and secured a stretch of a highway which connects Kirkuk to the central city of Samarra, a statement from the Kurdistan Region Security Council said.
The villages of Meziriya, Gubebe, Seda, Mohammed Khalil, Qows Kurd, Tal Ward, Khalef and Mansouria " all south of Kirkuk " were purged of militants, the statement said.
At least 10 peshmerga fighters died in the operation and another 16 were wounded, according to a senior security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief journalists. The Kurdish government said some militants were seen fleeing toward the contested town of Hawijah.
The IS group swept across northern Iraq in the summer of 2014 and currently holds roughly a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria. Kurdish fighters made significant advances against the militant group early this year, but their progress has stalled around areas the extremists view as strategic " particularly near the border....
The truth is the truth.
