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...move. That might in turn prompt Iran and Syria to seize their own pieces of Iraq. Two weeks ago, Turkish officials met with Iraqi Kurdish leaders for the first time. In exchange for that rare acknowledgment of their legitimacy, the Kurds apparently promised Ankara that they would not foment rebellion among their brethren in Turkey...
...Civil War ended 126 years ago, but the Stars and Bars can still stir racial tension in the old Confederacy. Three years ago, 14 black state legislators in Alabama were arrested for attempting to remove the Confederate flag, symbol of a slaveholders' rebellion, at the state capitol. In 1983 black students at the University of Mississippi succeeded in forcing the school to abandon the flag as its emblem...
Even as the opposition leaders pleaded for outside support for the rebellion against Saddam, their bickering underscored just why such backing has not materialized: with no coherent leadership at its head, the uprising was a prescription for Iraq's unraveling. Thus the U.S. and its allies preferred to remain spectators to the insurrection. They continued to hope for a straightforward coup that would replace Saddam with a member of his establishment flexible enough to reconcile with the allies but steely enough to hold the fraying country intact. "Iraq is a violent political culture," said a senior State Department official...
When Saddam was casting about for someone to put down the worst rebellion he has ever faced, he needed to look no farther than his own family. Cousin Majid ordered a poison-gas attack on restive Kurds in 1988, killing 5,000 and earning him the nickname "the butcher of Kurdistan." Last September, Majid, who like Saddam has a limited education and little sophistication about the outside world, was made governor of occupied Kuwait so that he would suppress the resistance. He was responsible for the summary execution of its members and the abduction of an estimated 2,000 Kuwaitis...
...Rebellion against Saddam smolders in Iraq...