Word: jalal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, they called into Saddam's regime on open phone lines, and their networks were easily penetrated. Worse, they could not stop fighting among themselves. The I.N.C. failed completely in its mission to serve as an arbiter between the two main Kurdish factions, led by Barzani and his rival, Jalal Talabani...
...side are the followers of Massoud Barzani in the K.D.P., strong in tribal tradition, who control the lucrative smuggling routes into Turkey. On the other are many urban intellectuals who follow Jalal Talabani and his P.U.K. The two men despise each other and disagree fundamentally on how to achieve self-rule: Barzani would accept autonomy within Iraq, while Talabani would settle only for full independence. Perhaps worse, Talabani, whose territory is squeezed between Iraq and Iran, is jealous of the rich "customs tax" Barzani collects from the truckers surreptitiously ferrying oil and goods between Turkey and Iraq in violation...
...city just beset by Iraq. Banks were open, shops were doing brisk business and, except for several parliament buildings and the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.), the city bore almost no indications of fighting. What little evidence there was, however, spoke volumes. A bust of Jalal Talabani, the P.U.K. leader, was beheaded at a road junction. His picture had also been stripped from the front of the Kurdish parliament. And throughout the town, the P.U.K. flag had been ripped down, replaced by the bright yellow standard of the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party (K.D.P...
...vengeful army, the Kurds are threatening to annihilate themselves--because two rival leaders each hope to establish and control an independent Kurdistan overlapping the borders of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. Massoud Barzani, who leads the western half of the enclave, is shy, soft spoken and uncomfortable around foreigners. Jalal Talabani, who controls the east, is a garrulous jet-setter who mixes well at embassy parties. The only thing the two have in common is a long-standing hatred for each other. In an increasingly bitter showdown that has turned Kurd against Kurd, they are, says a Western diplomat...
...confiscate all but the smallest quantities of food and fuel. At the town of Kifri, 96 miles north of Baghdad, in outposts separated by a tense 500 yards., Iraqi troops confront bearded peshmerga guerrillas in balloon trousers and tightly wrapped turbans. "We have been suffering from two blockades," says Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two leading political groups. "First the U.N. embargo directed at all of Iraq, and second the blockade Saddam is directing just against Kurdistan...