The temptation to break free; Iraq's Kurds.(Iraq's Kurds in the coming general election)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: January 22, 2005 | Copyright information

As Kurds prepare to vote, we look at their growing sense of independence and, in a second article, at the flashpoint of Kirkuk

HEAD north across the "green line", as the de facto border between the Kurdish-ruled chunk of Iraq and the rest of the country is known, and you feel you are in another country: as the Kurds like to put it, you leave a state of emergency and enter an emerging state. But will it stay that way? It is still unclear whether Kurdistan will willingly s...

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