Why this man caused so much panic among Kurds warlords? And why they tried to bribe him?

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Sappho

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June the 3rd, at press con­fer­ence Tal­a­bani and Barazani announced their rejec­tion of new polit­i­cal front formed in Cairo by promi­nent Kur­dish fig­ures, call­ing them trai­tors of the Kur­dish peo­ple from Saddam’s orphans, accus­ing intel­li­gence ser­vices of for­eign coun­tries behind this “plot”.

For Iraqis there was no puz­zle here, because we directly knew who they meant.

Unknown to the out­side world and he always kept a low pro­file, his name is Arshad Al-Zaibari, a Kurd, life time friend of Sad­dam and chief of his secu­rity team.

The party is not directed against any per­son or another party, except to save the Kurds from the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion because we are Iraqis and we will not aban­don our Iraqi identity.

The party was directly sup­ported by three major Kur­dish tribes in Iraqi Kur­dis­tan [Souraji, Barazan, and Hariki].

Tal­a­bani and Barazani knew they have no chance against the new party for these reasons:

1– Sup­ported by three very pow­er­ful tribes.

2– Arshad Al-Zaibari is a very pop­u­lar per­son in Kurdistan.

3– Sup­ported by Turkey.

Iraqirabita revealed how Tal­a­bani and Barazani tried to bribe Arshad Al-Zaibari:

1– Barzani send an envoy to Arshad res­i­dent in Jor­dan nego­ti­at­ing the halt of announc­ing the new party, Arshad told the envoy : If Masoud Barazani wants to say some­thing, then he must come here and say it by himself.

2-Talabani’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive called Arashad in Jor­dan offer­ing the fol­low­ing [I will not count all the point, just few]:

- Zaibari tribe to return to their [orig­i­nal] region in Sulaymaniyah.

- Zaibari tribe will receive every­thing they request, prop­erty and agri­cul­tural land.

Arshad Al-Zaibari refused this offer because he knew this is another dirty trick by Tal­a­bani, to use Zaibari tribe on his side in his end­less con­flict with Barazani which caused the death of many Kurds.

I will repeat the ques­tion asked by Iraqirabita:

If Arshad Al-Zaibari is “one of Saddam’s orphans” as they called him in the press con­fer­ence, then why bribe him?

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11 Responses to Why this man caused so much panic among Kurds warlords? And why they tried to bribe him?

  1. Dilovan Zebari says:
    June 10, 2007 at 21:37

    I was really inter­ested to read this piece of news about Arshad Zebari.
    How­ever I was really dis­ap­pointed to read that the author has got­ten his infor­ma­tion all wrong. Sorry to say that but any Kur­dish per­son read this piece will not believe a thing about it.

    Whey because of the fol­low­ing:
    Arshad Zebari is a very famous per­son. He is as you know from the Kur­dish tribe of Zebari. Zebar is located in Akre dis­trict (As Arabs call it Aqra). It is adja­cent to Barzan.

    Also, I my self am from Zebar. Almost all Zebari peo­ple were fight­ing Kur­dish Per­sh­merg from1961 unit 1970. Arshad is the son of Ahmed Agha Zebari who was assas­si­nated in 1959 in Mosul by the Shekh Ahmed Barzani, the brother of the late Mustafa Barzani. For that rea­son all Zebari tri­bel joint Iraqi gov­ern­ment to fight Kur­dish upris­ing under Mala Mustafa Barzani the father of Mas­soud Barzani. Ahmed agha Zebari had a few broth­ers one of them was Mah­mod agha who was the father of Hosyar Zebari, Iraqi for­eign affair, and Mah­mod agha is the father of the mother of Mas­soud Barzani.

    There­fore, Hosh­yar Zebari and Arshad Zebari are 100% first cousins. Arshad is sec­ond cousin of Mas­soud Barzani. So now you know how far this per­son who wrote the arti­cle is out of lines.

    The other fact is that 90% of all Zebaris sup­port Mas­soud Barzani. Actu­ally all his best loy­al­ists are from Zebar. The chief of Iraqi join of staff is Zebari and rel­a­tive of Mas­soud Barzani. Also, Arshad Zebari was Sad­dam best sol­dier. The Kurds know, espe­cially in Bah­d­i­nan about the crimes Arshad com­mit­ted against Kur­dish peo­ple from 19961 to 1970.

    Also, how could Harky tri­ble be loyal to Arshad Zebari when Zebaris and Harkey tribes are ene­mies and have killed hun­dreds from each oth­ers for the last 50 year.

  2. LadyBird says:
    June 10, 2007 at 22:05

    Dilo­van

    Arshad from Akra, that is true, but Zebaris from orig­i­nally from Akra, to my infor­ma­tion [I could be wrong, if you are Zaibari then for sure you know bet­ter], I thought they were forced to move to Akra about more than 100 years ago.

    As for the alliance between the Zebari and Harkey I was quot­ing the the Iraqirabita web­site and you can read it there.

    More, as you know and I know, there are many Kurds tribes worked for Sad­dam, Al-baraznji for exam­ple they are really feed up with barazani and tal­a­bani and they are wait­ing for the day to see them gone.

    I would like to add that I am not writ­ing the his­tory of Kur­dish tribes.

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  5. Zeyad says:
    June 11, 2007 at 07:35

    Arshad Zebari is not the same Arshad in the photo who was the body­guard of Sad­dam. Arshad Al-Yassin is not Kur­dish, he was a cousin of Sad­dam and his brother-in-law (he mar­ried one of Saddam’s half sis­ters). He is now in Qatar.

  6. LadyBird says:
    June 11, 2007 at 08:37

    Zeyad

    Arshad Yassin, is not Arshad Yassin Al-Zebari??

    Maybe I am get­ting old, con­fus­ing between the names.

    But thank you and apolo­gies I didn’t meant that.

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