Kurdish leader threatens Shia prime minister with secession

[Khalid Ali]

Iraqi Kurdish leader accuses country’s PM of ‘dictatorship’ again
Sunday, 08 April 2012


Kurdish Regional Government President Masoud Barzani has accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of ruling the country like a dictator. (Reuters)


By AFP
DUBAI

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is monopolizing power and preparing the ground for a return to dictatorship, Kurdish leader Massud Barzani charged in an interview published on Sunday.

“Iraq is moving towards a catastrophe, a return to dictatorship,” said Barzani in the interview published in pan-Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, adding that it was “unacceptable” that Maliki was also Iraq’s “defense minister, interior minister, intelligence chief and commander of the armed forces.”

Barzani, who was received at the White House on Wednesday, said on his return to Arbil he would call a meeting of Iraqi leaders to “save” Iraq which is facing a political crisis.

Iraq’s political woes deepened after the arrest warrant issued in December against Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a Sunni, accused of running a death squad.

The meeting must come up with “radical solutions... specific timeframe to exit the crisis,” Barzani added.

If the meeting failed “we will take another decision,” he warned, in reference to the possible secession of Kurdistan.

“This is not blackmail or a threat. I’m serious. I will put a referendum to the Kurdish people. Whatever the price, we will never accept a return to dictatorship in Iraq,” Barzani said, referring to Saddam Hussein whose iron-fist rule was staunchly criticized by Iraqi Kurds.

Tensions are high between Iraqi Kurds and Maliki, a Shiite, mainly over the distribution of nation’s oil wealth.

[SahanGalbeed]

There is another potential Somalia all around us .
The more reason to get our sh,it together and shine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marka my words , the world will be taking us as a blueprint . For that we need courage and dedication , not hate and stagnation .

[Khalid Ali]

Shia dominance is unacceptable says kurdish leader

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

Well done Kurdistan
The rafidha in Iraq are getting more arrogant every day.

[Khalid Ali]

[Colonel]

Iraqi Sunni Arabs and Kurds making alliances , time to remind the shi'a that they are the minority.

[Thuganomics]

So you have these countries now threatened with separation
Iraq
Mali
Libya

[Colonel]

So you have these countries now threatened with separation
Iraq
Mali
Libya

Mali and Iraq are legit cases, Somaliland isn't if I am honest.

[abdalla11]

It's always the ones with the smallest land threatening with secession

[Khalid Ali]

Iraqi Sunni Arabs and Kurds making alliances , time to remind the shi'a that they are the minority.

Iraqi sunnies destroyed the lives of the kurds remember sadam hussein and chemical ali in halabja and the crimes mr Ali Hassan al majiid committed against the poor kurds i support an independent kurdistan the people of salahudiin need to be free.

They can never support the sunis the rather support the shiates since both shiates and kurds where marginalized by the Sunis

[SahanGalbeed]

So you have these countries now threatened with separation
Iraq
Mali
Libya

Mali and Iraq are legit cases, Somaliland isn't if I am honest.

Based on what ethnicity ?
how many countries are there in the Arabian gulf ?
how many countries in Nth Africa ?
Your honesty is ill informed to say the least, if we go by the facts , rather than your feelings