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Shiite cleric 'Sadr' rejects the name of
Kurdistan Region
10.12.2006
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The Iraqi Kurds should
not identify themselves as residents of the
Kurdistan Region.
Sheikh Abdul Hadi Darraji, senior advisor in the
Iraqi capital of Baghdad, said the Iraqi Kurds
should not identify themselves as residents of the
Kurdistan Region, and that being a Kurd or an Arab
did not matter. What mattered, he said, was being
Muslim, reported AWENA newspaper last week.
"Kirkuk, Sulaimaniyah, and Erbil should be treated
as being part of Iraq as Misan and Amarra provinces
are," Darraji was quoted as saying. He added that
they reject the idea of dividing Iraq into regions.
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Anti-U.S. Iraqi Shiite
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr |
Regarding the position of the Sadir group on Article
140 of the Iraqi permanent constitution that
embraces the normalization of Kirkuk, Darraji said
they strongly reject the article, adding, "Kurds
intend to use the article to return Kirkuk to within
their own region."
Darraji concluded his statements by saying that
their hostile position stems from inappropriate
actions taken by Kurdish authorities against Iraqi
Arabs who have fled north.
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