baklawa
New member
Atheel al-Najafi, a rival of kurdish thug (and Aghajan pal) Khisro Goran becomes governor of Nineweh province. Hopefully this is the one of many steps that will help reverse the strong-arm tactics of the KDP and its henchmen:
An excerpt:
While in control, Kurdish leaders moved to expand their reach in Nineveh over the past three years.
Today, Kurdish security forces, known as the Peshmerga, patrol many areas of the province. In hundreds of schools, children learn Kurdish curricula from teachers funded by the Kurdish Regional Government, despite the fact that the province is constitutionally under the control of Iraq's central government.
In January's elections, al-Hadbaa candidates ran on a pledge to push out Peshmerga forces and reverse the Kurdish expansion into Nineveh.
Voters apparently liked what they heard, though Kurds fared better than many had expected given their numbers in the province.
Al-Hadbaa won 19 of 37 seats. The Fraternal List took 12. The mostly Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party won three. Under required quotas, Christian, Shabak and Yazidi candidates were given one seat each.
During the new council's first meeting on Sunday, members voted to select five top leaders: a provincial governor, his two deputies, a council speaker and his deputy.
All but one of the positions went to al-Hadbaa. An independent Turkoman, Hasen Mahmoud Ali, was selected as the governor's second deputy, but Fraternal List members want the selections canceled and two of the top three positions given to Kurds.
In an interview broadcast on an Iraqi radio station Monday, Atheel al-Najafi, the head of al-Hadbaa and Nineveh's new governor, said the Fraternal List's requests are unreasonable.
He said he believes that coalition leaders will quickly realize that they lack the numbers to make such demands and give them up.
http://www.heraldonline.com/wire/world/story/1268307.html
An excerpt:
While in control, Kurdish leaders moved to expand their reach in Nineveh over the past three years.
Today, Kurdish security forces, known as the Peshmerga, patrol many areas of the province. In hundreds of schools, children learn Kurdish curricula from teachers funded by the Kurdish Regional Government, despite the fact that the province is constitutionally under the control of Iraq's central government.
In January's elections, al-Hadbaa candidates ran on a pledge to push out Peshmerga forces and reverse the Kurdish expansion into Nineveh.
Voters apparently liked what they heard, though Kurds fared better than many had expected given their numbers in the province.
Al-Hadbaa won 19 of 37 seats. The Fraternal List took 12. The mostly Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party won three. Under required quotas, Christian, Shabak and Yazidi candidates were given one seat each.
During the new council's first meeting on Sunday, members voted to select five top leaders: a provincial governor, his two deputies, a council speaker and his deputy.
All but one of the positions went to al-Hadbaa. An independent Turkoman, Hasen Mahmoud Ali, was selected as the governor's second deputy, but Fraternal List members want the selections canceled and two of the top three positions given to Kurds.
In an interview broadcast on an Iraqi radio station Monday, Atheel al-Najafi, the head of al-Hadbaa and Nineveh's new governor, said the Fraternal List's requests are unreasonable.
He said he believes that coalition leaders will quickly realize that they lack the numbers to make such demands and give them up.
http://www.heraldonline.com/wire/world/story/1268307.html
