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Article: Ethnic split feared over new Iraq government.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2004
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Byline: Jim Landers and Tod Robberson
WASHINGTON _ How much risk is there that Iraq will come apart at its ethnic seams?
"Ever closer," answers former U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith.
Galbraith, once U.S. ambassador to Croatia and a specialist in Kurdish affairs, said Iraq's 4 million Kurds are furious after being snubbed in the June 8 U.N. Security Council resolution that set terms for last week's restoration of Iraqi sovereignty.
Kurdish leaders wrote President Bush threatening to abandon the Iraqi government in Baghdad and bar its representatives from "Kurdistan" if it ignores power-sharing arrangements left out of the U.N. ...