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...world were rightly disturbed by the cartoons of Muhammad. In the name of free speech, Westerners have been insulting our religion for too long. But our reaction should comply with the teachings of the Koran. We should follow the noble ways of Muhammad instead of engaging in violent protest. Jalal Ud Din Lahore...
...Kurds have struggled for their rights as a cultural minority in all of those societies, often suffering vicious repression, but have enjoyed de facto independence in northern Iraq under U.S. protection since the 1991 Gulf War. Although they participate in Iraqi national politics and one of their key leaders, Jalal Talabani, is currently Iraq's president, the vast majority of Iraqi Kurds have signaled their desire for formal independence from Iraq. The Kurds are predominantly Sunni Muslim, although there is a Shiite minority, but Kurdish identity politics are dominated by secular nationalism, although an Islamist party made a surprisingly strong...
...address to the nation in Louisiana on Thursday night, he hoped to close the books on the original debacle so he could pivot toward a more optimistic and unifying message. So on Tuesday, he used the somewhat incongruous setting off an East Room news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to issue what was known in the Nixon years as a "modified limited hangout...
...Saddam deserves a death sentence 20 times a day because he tried to assassinate me 20 times." JALAL TALABANI, Iraqi President and former Kurdish rebel leader, saying on state TV that ex-dictator Saddam Hussein has confessed in jail to ordering the killing of ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s. Saddam's lawyers later denied the claim...
...explosion could be heard two miles away in the Yarmouk Hospital. Dr. Jalal Taha Emad told his crew to prepare to receive the wounded. "I heard the explosion in the distance," he says, "and I guessed that the ER was going to get very busy...