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1. We know of only one instant where it was used by Security Forces and that was when Saddam bombed the Kurds in the 1980s with it
2. He ordered a lot more than just one bombing attack and over six years and about 5000 Kurds died
3. Nixon Betrays the Kurds of Iraq
4. The Kurds have been a people without their own country for centuries
5. Ultimately, Nixon's, Kissinger’s, and the Shah's ploy turned out to be a brutal failure anyway, and the Kurds were betrayed for nothing
6. Overlooking the fact that such information emanated from the United Nations and from many other sources of intelligence of other countries such as England, France and Germany, and disregarding furthermore the fact that Saddam had used those very same weapons against his own people killing thousands of Kurds, for example, it is fitting to remember that non-compliance of Resolution 1441 did not limit itself to “weapons of mass destruction” and did not consist, of course, in finding them
7. 's Rescue of the Kurds of Iraq
8. The Number of Lives Saved: Previous attacks by Saddam Hussein on the Kurds had killed as many as 100,000
9. But since Hussein was attacking both Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south, potentially deaths could have been double that or more
10. Up to a million Kurds fled Iraq immediately after the Gulf War
11. 's rescue of the Kurds, and to an extent Iraqis in the south, was noble, but not done for noble reasons
12. It is also unlikely Robert Kennedy would agree to support and then betray the Kurds of Iraq as Nixon did
13. ) However, the Israeli government and the Shah of Iran may still do so, and so the Kurds may still be used cynically as pawns and then die in their uprising
14. The difference is, no betrayal of the Kurds in the early 70s by a US president may not lead to great distrust of the US later on
15. In the UN and US protected zone for Kurds, the death rate was dramatically less, in fact lower than before the Gulf War
16. Rescuing Kurds in Operation Restore Hope I and II
17. Hussein had already killed 100,000 Kurds
18. Both operations provided aid to 700,000 Kurds
19. , rescuing Kurds at the end of the Gulf War
20. In his book Saddam’s Secrets Iraqi Air Force general Georges Sada said at least one hundred and eighty-eight thousand Kurds were killed in 1988
21. want to accept the true identity of the Kurds
22. Technically, the most Turks and Kurds are Muslims
23. There are up to 40 million Kurds scattered throughout
24. of the Kurds, it was to protect the rich oil deposits in
25. However, the Kurds and Shi’a were on their way to finishing the job, but the United States withdrew and failed to provide support
26. In Turkey proper, the military leadership of Ataturk and the help of the USSR secured Turkish state interests against Greeks and Armenians and Kurds
27. The Kurds, being quite tolerant on religious matters, had refused to bend to the assaults and terrorist attacks from the Wahabis and were in fact pushing back hard against them
28. ‘’What benefit, Mister Vice-President? Who would be swept away and destroyed first if ISIS goes back on the march in Iraq and Syria? The answer is simple: the Kurds, the only truly effective ground force facing ISIS right now in Northern Iraq
29. The same Kurds that the Turks have been considering like enemies for generations
30. That’s one benefit of participating in this scheme in the eyes of many in the Turkish government, with ISIS then basically getting rid of the Kurds for them
31. He was initially assigned to a remote village in the northern part of Iraq where his responsibility included repressing the local Kurds
32. capitalists, but Kurds, Shi’a, Sunni's, Talibanists and more
33. Apparently the trouble between the Turks and Kurds in the East was getting worse and military check points were now in force on most roads
34. The locals of course had sunni, shia, kurds every fucker who spoke
35. In a certain district of Damascus, a group of Kurds had arrived and set up residence
36. They were unfamiliar with the harshness of the mountains and if they were to chase the Kurds they would need to be as agile and nimble as mountain goats that easily climb and descend this type of terrain, as indeed were the Kurds
37. He ordered his men to play his own ingenious version of leapfrog! [35]What a brilliant ploy! Our young officer quickly explained to his squad that as the Kurds opened fire they should lie flat on the ground to reload their guns
38. However, he was too late, for our cadet and his squadron had already reached al-Salhiyeh in Damascus and the Kurds could not advance further since they had no control or influence over that area
39. Farther north, the areas are dominated by Kurds, who, though mostly Sunni, have separate traditions and often don’t think of themselves as being part of Iraq
40. Farther north, the areas are dominated by Kurds, who, though mostly Sunni, have separate traditions and often don’t think of themselves as being part of Iraq
41. President Saddam Hussein used gas to murder thousands of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s
