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| | Kurds plan to invade South |
 | | Peshmerga leaders said in interviews that they expected the Shiites to create a semi-autonomous and then independent state in the south as they would do in the north. | | | "Kirkuk is Kurdistan; it does not belong to the Arabs," Hamid Afandi, the minister of Peshmerga for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, one of the two major Kurdish groups, said in an interview at his office in the Kurdish city of Irbil. | | | Mosul's population is split between Kurds and Arabs, and any move by Peshmerga units to take it almost certainly would lead to an eruption of Arab violence. |
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11397.htm
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| | Peshmerga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since that time the Peshmerga have assumed a role in the security of the Kurdish areas of Northern Iraq. | | | Newsweek article speculating on Peshmerga involvement against the Iraqi rebellion | | | Peshmerga forces fought side by side with American troops in the 2003 Iraq War in Northern Iraq. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshmerga
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| | Peshmerga Militia May be Key to Iraqi Army’s Success |
| | Like the peshmerga, they say they are committed to being part of the new Iraq, but only if their rights are guaranteed. | | | Officials here say there are some 600 Kurdish troops fighting alongside U.S. and Iraqi forces in Arab regions in Northern Iraq. | | | They're not like many of the others who make up the new national force, because these men are Kurds -- an ethnic minority from Northern Iraq. |
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-07-04-voa48.cfm
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| | The New Yorker: Fact |
| | The peshmerga killed three of the Ansar men; later, the P.U.K. director of security said that two of them had been identified, with the help of Ansar captives in Kurdish prisons, as Afghanistan-trained Jordanians of Palestinian extraction, in the employ of Mussa’ab al-Zarqawi. | | | On Friday night, I was with Talabani, the P.U.K. leader, when Kadir, the peshmerga commander, called him to report that the peshmerga had killed dozens of Ansar men. | | | The Americans fear that the Kurds, and other Iraqis, will take revenge on their Baath Party oppressors when the regime is defeated, but Kadir said, “Revenge isn’t personal.” He went on, “We will be happy just to be rid of Saddam. |
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content?030407fa_fact4
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| | "The peshmerga were loved by the people," she said. | | | Behind them, the peshmerga were putting up a determined defense with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. | | | In this part of Iraqi Kurdistan, in other words, some peshmerga units held out for at least a month after the initial assault of the Fourth Anfal. |
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http://hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/ANFAL6.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Revenge spurs Kurdish women's army |
| | That's when they believe a US attack on Iraq will happen, allowing them to put into practice all they've learned at the training camp for peshmerga - meaning those who face death - outside the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah in the self-rule area of northern Iraq. | | | Led by Jalal Talabani, the PUK has around 25,000 troops under its command, while Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic party, which administers the western part of the Kurdish enclave from Irbil, claims around 35,000. | | | Six years ago her brother, Meriwan, was taken from their house by Iraqi mukhabarat (secret police). |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,847654,00.html
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| | Peshmerga fighting alongside U.S. - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | The peshmerga returned fire, killing the guerrilla; papers found on his body indicated he was from Saudi Arabia, Kurdish authorities said. | | | He said the attack was proposed and planned by the Kurds. | | | Ansar al-Islam guerrillas terrorized this mountainous corner of Iraq for more than 18 months, battling peshmerga of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two political parties that dominate northern Iraq's Kurdish enclave. |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/national/s_126903.html
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| | FRONTLINE/WORLD . IRAQ - The Road to Kirkuk . The Story PBS |
| | During the first 24 hours of liberation, Kirkuk is in chaos as Kurds vent their outrage over the atrocities committed against them by Saddam's regime. | | | Saddam has resettled their city with Arabs from southern Iraq who have taken over their homes, and the peshmerga want the city back. | | | There is great turmoil at the house, which is also being claimed by the peshmerga. |
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http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iraq203/thestory.html
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| | Thousands of Peshmerga drafted into army |
| | Fazil Basharati, a peshmerga soldier and member of the KDP, said they need to show they have the interests of Iraq at heart. | | | The remaining thirty thousand Kurdish troops will come under the control of a planned peshmerga ministry in the regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan, said Mustafa Sayyed Qadir, deputy chief of units belonging to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK. | | | Incorporation of large numbers of peshmerga into national security forces fails to allay concerns of some Iraqis over the militia force. |
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http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=7124
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| | Iraqi Kurds hope against hope / Peshmerga fighters look to U.S. for their long-awaited liberation |
| | But his untrained peshmerga guerrilla fighters with their ancient AK-47 rifles would be no match for the fearsome force Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had dispatched to defend Kirkuk. | | | Iraqi Kurds hope against hope / Peshmerga fighters look to U.S. for their long-awaited liberation | | | As Star Ahmet led his fighters on a careful sweep through the mine-laden fields covered with poppies and daisies that for 12 years had formed the enemy's front line, it pained him more than ever that he could not just push on to the oil-rich northern city that Iraqi Kurds call their Jerusalem. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/31/MN78738.DTL
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| | The Price of Freedom: Peshmerga Uniform |
| | Throughout Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, the Peshmerga are Kurdish guerilla groups who organize and fight against the government and have control over some Kurdish areas. | | | Peshmerga uniform consisting of pants, shirt, sash and scarf. |
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=491
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| | Peshmerga |
| | In 2005 there were between 80,000 and 100,000 peshmerga in the north of Iraq. | | | 2003: Peshmerga fights together with US troops with the US/British-Iraq Invasion of Iraq. | | | The history of the peshmerga goes belongs mainly to the 20th and 21st centuries, and in recent times their fighting groups have been northern Iraq and eastern Turkey. |
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http://lexicorient.com/e.o/peshmerga.htm
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| | Kurds rejoice - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | A few peshmerga in the town of Chiman, the last stop before the new no-man's-land, said yesterday that Iraqi troops had withdrawn to a line around Kirkuk. | | | Other peshmerga pointed to a hillside bunker where they said the Iraqis executed seven of their own soldiers, the bodies now rotting in the sun. | | | Jallal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two dominant Kurdish political parties, pledged that peshmerga will not attack Kirkuk or Mosul unless commanded by U.S. forces. |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/reference/tribune-review/s_126393.html
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| | peshmerga - definition of peshmerga by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Kurd - a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state | | | peshmerga - a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kudish state | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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| | Friends of Democracy - Iraq Election News: Kirkuk is the Quds of Kurdistan, and the Peshmerga is its Kaaba |
| | Afterward they said they hoped to establish federalism between each other – between Arab and Arab – just to contort the Kurdish federalist case which at one time was already accepted. | | | Iraq’s terrorist violence is far away from Kurdistan because of the discipline of the Peshmerga and its loyalty to the nation. | | | After all Iraq was liberated our Iraqi brothers supported the Kurds’ right to live in freedom and peace. |
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http://www.friendsofdemocracy.info/2005/03/kirkuk_is_the_q.html
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| | 25. KERKUK MASSACRE 31ST OF DECEMBER 2003 BY THE KURDISH PESHMERGA |
| | Not surprisingly, the Kurdish push has angered Kirkuk's Arab and Turkmen residents, some of whom have been gunned down by Kurdish militia “Peshmerga” while demonstrating against the Kurdish federation. | | | The Kurds bandits (Peshmerga) killed Turkmen martyrs on the 13/12/2003 in | | | Kurdish terrorist bandits “Peshmerga” opened fire on peaceful unarmed Arab and Turkmen protesters demanding that Kirkuk remain under the administration of a central Iraqi government. |
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| | Peshmerga Advance Towards Kirkuk (Turkey, Kurds) |
| | Turkey has warned that it will intervene in northern Iraq in the event that the Kurdish peshmerga enter Mosul and Kirkuk. | | | The peshmerga are believed to have advanced approximately 25 kilometers and are nearing Kirkuk, after having begun their operation several days ago. | | | During negotiations conducted with the United States, Turkey had demanded that peshmerga not be used in potential attacks on Mosul and Kirkuk and that control of the region rest totally with U.S. troops. |
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| | Handmaiden of the State- by Justin Raimondo |
| | The mysterious Ansar al-Islam group, supposedly a front for Iraqi intelligence, was said to have operated a terrorist training camp at which the 9/11 hijackings were rehearsed: the "camp," however, was located in the midst of Kurdish-held territory, separated from the rest of Iraq by the no-fly-zone and territory controlled by the Kurdish peshmerga. | | | Mohammed Atta's famous Prague meeting with a top Iraqi intelligence officer turned out to have never taken place. | | | When overrun by U.S. troops, the "weapons of mass destruction" located therein turned out to be rat poison and other commonly available substances: no deadly ricin, as previously advertised. |
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| | Watch Out for Kurdistan - by Aaron Glantz |
| | If they see someone who even looks Arab, they stop him as a suspected terrorist. | | | In 2003, when the U.S. military invaded Iraq, Kurdish peshmerga fought alongside U.S. soldiers and kicked the Iraqi army out of Kirkuk. | | | Its peshmerga make up the bulk of the police force and control most of the hiring decisions in the local government and at the country's Northern Oil company. |
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http://www.antiwar.com/glantz?articleid=5373
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| | Irish Anti-War Movement - IRA and the UK Government |
| | Shiite militias in a manner that seems designed to inflame ethnic hatreds. | | | Afar the U.S. army has been deploying Kurdish peshmerga troops and |
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http://irishantiwar.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0002UZ&topic_id=1
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| | Kurd Sellout Watch: Day 355 - Give up the peshmerga? You have to be kidding. By Timothy Noah |
| | You're quietly resigned about giving up some of the freedoms you enjoyed during Saddam's rule—when Iraqi Kurdistan was protected by the "no-fly zone" created by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—in order to help sustain the new Iraqi regime you helped create. | | | Your army, the peshmerga, gave coalition troops their only indigenous military support in last year's overthrow of Saddam Hussein's government. | | | Atrocities against your people—about which the United States raised little fuss when they occurred two decades ago—provided President George W. Bush with the major human-rights justification for intervention. |
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| | John Robb's Weblog |
| | Lieutenant-Colonel Yahia Hamid said the peshmerga had shot guards at the silo and then detained all inside. | | | At least five policemen and two security guards were killed in the fight near the town of Rabia after peshmerga fighters stormed a grain silo building believing the guards there were behind a roadside bomb attack that hit their convoy. | | | He arrived with other police to end the incident, but the peshmerga had attacked the new arrivals. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Guerrilla |
| | This formula was used again, in War on Iraq, against the Iraqi Army by Kurdish Peshmerga guerrillas with the aid of U.S. special forces and the U.S. Air Force. | | | In Afghanistan numerous anti-Taliban militias (consisting of regular soldiers and guerrillas) were aided by US air power. |
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| | Telegraph News Village by village, the peshmerga advance |
| | A brisk exchange of mortar fire between US special forces and the Iraqis forced Waji Barzani, the leader of the peshmerga units in the area, to scramble for cover. | | | Though vastly outnumbered on the ground, the Americans monopolised the fighting. | | | Commanders tried the unfamiliar tactic of restraint to control their jubilation at being on the move. |
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| | A Star from Mosul: Answering some of the previous post's comments |
| | The Kurdistani government then announced that those are not peshmerga who came. | | | They took everything that is stolen (Too many things) and kept it in the mosque, and after that the school's owners and other people came to take their possessions. | | | Dad has too many patients from the north, they regularly come to his clinic and they like him. |
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http://astarfrommosul.blogspot.com/2004/11/answering-some-of-previous-posts.html
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| | Thanks for all the support |
| | i dont know what a peshmerga is, but you sound like good people... | | | I must say that i whole heartedly appreciate all the support the people on this site give to my people. | | | Most of this country really appreciate the Kurdish people, have a real affection for them and strongly support them. |
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| | Search Results for Peshmerga - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | When Saddam refused to leave Iraq, U.S. and allied forces launched an attack on March 20 at 5:34 AM (local time) that began when U.S. aircraft dropped several precision-guided bombs on a bunker... | | | Expand your search on Peshmerga with these databases: |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=Peshmerga
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| | Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey: peshmerga and technical writing |
| | Kurdish is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian group, related to Farsi and Baluchi. | | | Googling for "peshmerga etymology" revealed a single article from four years back called "Science and Technological Glossary: An Issue Facing Technical Writing in Kurdish." [Peshmerga means literally 'those who face death' kind of like the Latin moritori.] | | | An article in Reuters this morning about Turkey not letting US ground troops onto Turkish soil for an invasion of noethern Iraq, lead me searching for the etymology of the Kurdish word peshmerga "Kurdish freedom fighter". |
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| | Departing U.S. Forces Have Faith in Peshmerga |
| | Further, there are about 30,000 peshmerga — Kurdish fighters whose name means “those who face death” — in Sulaymaniyah province and a populace who are as friendly as they are determined to keep the peace. | | | Still, an attack would make “common sense,” said Sonny Sebastian, a contractor working in the province for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. |
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| | The History Guy: The Third Persian Gulf War (2003) |
| | Within days, Kurdish Peshmerga troops of the PUK, along with U.S. special forces units, assaulted the stronghold of the Ansar al-Islam group along the Iranian border. | | | By the tenth day of the war on March 29, U.S. forces had advanced as far north as Karbala, where large battles with Iraqi forces took place. | | | In northern Iraq, approximately 1,000 paratroopers of the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade parachuted onto an airfield in an effort to open a northern front against Iraqi forces. |
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| | Peshmerga Women |
| | It is a photo of Kurdish Peshmerga Women securing the city of Kirkuk two years ago...and they dance the dance of LIBERATION. | | | I sing to them a song of freedom...from the women that came before, to the women who are so brave today. | | | Does it look a bit like a dance of liberation? |
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http://peshmergawomen.blogspot.com
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| | Is the fire in heart of our Peshmerga |
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