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Barzani has accused Talabani of stealing $14 million from the Kurdish treasury and being a "jash," or donkey, as Kurds label collaborators with Baghdad. Talabani claims Barzani is pocketing cash from customs fees the Kurds levy on the 10,000 bbl. of diesel fuel Iraq secretly ships through Kurd territory to Turkey every...
Nothing is more divisive than power and money. Only four years after the U.S. and its allies set up an enclave in northern Iraq to protect 4 million Kurds from annihilation by Saddam Hussein's 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...
...fighting in Kurdistan provides a useful diversion for Saddam. Relief organizations are becoming increasingly worried that their workers will be caught in the cross fire. The Pentagon is uneasy about its warplanes continuing to guard the Kurd enclave in the designated no-fly zone. "We're supposed to be protecting the Kurds, but to do what--have a civil war?" asks a frustrated Pentagon official. Among his Arab neighbors, Saddam is touting the turmoil in the north as an example of what will happen to the rest of Iraq if he is deposed. "It makes him look less odious," says...
...purge, the plot was to be carried out by major sections of the Iraqi military, with simultaneous attacks mounted in both northern and southern Iraq. First reported by The New York Times this morning, the coup would have united Iraq's main opposition group with army contingents and Kurd and Shiite forces throughout the nation. Instead, during the attempt over the weekend, key Kurdish forces declined to attack, and Samaraii found he had overestimated his influence on army leaders. "They were way ahead of themselves in terms of what they could accomplish," says TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller...
...importer-exporter, worked for years as the German-based link between Tehran and the Lebanese Hizballah, according to the German prosecutors. The indictment identifies him as "an agent of the Iranian intelligence service VEVAK" and a Revolutionary Guards member. His assignment, assert German prosecutors, was to "liquidate" the Kurd leader as part of a "persecution strategy of the Iranian minister for intelligence and security against the Iranian opposition." The other four defendants, all Lebanese, are veterans of the Hizballah and Amal militia...