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Article: Kurds cautious on independence; Conferees wary of break with Iraq.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: MIDDLE EAST)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2002
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Byline: Julia Duin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The high point of a conference on Iraqi Kurds held one recent steamy Saturday at American University may have been a lecture by a Jewish journalist to Muslims on how to run their proposed country.
It was late in the afternoon when Jeffrey Goldberg, known for his 18,000-word profile of the Kurds in the March issue of the New Yorker, began to speak.
"There's nothing in the American press about Kurdistan," he began. "When God was handing out enemies, the Kurds should have picked the Jews. They would have gotten a lot more attention."
He then pleaded with Kurds assembled in front of him to emulate ...