March 24, 2009 (vol. 119, iss. 115) • Page Image 3
…, unleashing a huge fireball that killed at least 23 people in a northern town where Kurds and Arabs are competing for power. Also yesterday, Turkey's visiting president pressed the Iraqi gov- ernment to crack…
… American troop withdrawal by the end of 2011. The attack in Jalula was note- worthy because it points to ris- ing tensions in the north between Kurds and Arabs over control of a swath of territory that the…
… Kurds want to incorporate into their self- ruled region. U.S. officials believe Kurdish- Arab tension is among the major flashpoint issues threatening Iraqi stability now that the threat posed by Sunni…
… and Shiite insurgents has been diminished. Last August a suicide bomber killed 25 people, mostly police volunteers, in Jalula, a predomi- nantly Arab town where the Iraqi army forced out Kurdish…
…, a Sunni Arab orga- nization that typically carries out suicide bombings. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner watches President Obama during a meeting with small business owners at the White House…
… loans, student loans, (and so) that small businesses are able to finance themselves, and we can start get- ting this economy moving again." It was a huge gambit and one that came like a tonic to Wall…
… civilians. His government has been accused of unleashing Arab militiamen known as janjaweed against Darfur civil- ians in a drive to put down a revolt by ethnic Africans in the region. Up to 300,000 people…





