GAMA: Iraq-Analysis

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HEAD:   Iraq Intervene in the Kurdish Fighting                              
AUTHOR: S. Suwellam

>>>Reports and News Analysis From London , UK 002 : 31/8/96

The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein military intervention on the
side of Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP,
against  Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK,
who is reported to be  getting support from Iran is a clear signal
that the main Kurdish movement has been divided seriously .

The Iraqi military intervention and the Iraqi forces advance to the
city of Arbil on August 30 which was held by PUK have shown beyond
doubt that there is a strong alliance of interests between  KDP and
the Iraqi regime . The division of the Kurdish movement will lead
to the Kurdish people pay a high prices as their main political
parties PUK allied with Iran and KDP allied with Iraq  .

The USA efforts to settle the differences between the two main
parties in an emergency talks in London held (end of August 96) in
the US Embassy has failed to reach a cease fire among the fighting
factions belonging to the two main parties .
It is no secret that the PUK has got from Iran military  assistanceto  
launch attacks against KDP positions and that Iran was arming
and training Mr. Talabani's forces.

The dilemma facing the Western countries who are managing the
operation Provide Comfort which aim at protecting the Kurds from
possible attack by Saddam Hussein forces is that Saddam Hussein 's
military intervention  to take over Arpil was in response of a call
from one of the major Kurdish movements the KDP .
This call for help from the KDP which led to the Iraqi forces to
take control of Arpil , has put the USA and the major Western
countries managing Operation Comfort in a dilemma as one major
faction of  Kurdish people themselves have invited the Iraqis for
intervention .

Saddam Hussein have shown in his military intervention that he
broke no rules of the Kurdish game being played in the Northern Part
of Iraq where every Kurdish faction has fallen under the influence
of other major Players in the region : Iran , Turkey , Syria
, Iraq .

The dilemma facing the USA and the West who are managing the
Operation Provide Comfort is to which side they will side so long
as the Kurds themselves are divided   .
The fighting among the Kurds will continue and may threaten to bring
in a wider conflict as there are foreign elements playing from behind
the scene . The clear victim of all this conflict is the Kurdish
people themselves who are paying a heavy price for their leaders
division .

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