Roads to Iraq

Jan 19, 2008

Kurdish warlords to sue Michael Rubin

Reported, that warlords Talabani and Barazani will sue Michael Rubin for the report he wrote early this month called “Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally?” [read the article], also to sue Kurdish newspaper Hawlati for translating the report from English to Kurdish.

Both warlords started also a court process against Lebanese two-monthly newspaper Al Adab for publishing an article criticizing the situation in Kurdistan called “Criticizing the sense of criticism : Iraq – Kurdistan as a model”.

The document available in Arabic only, you can download it here

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