Reply With QuotePumping oil from Kurdish region of Northern Iraq westwards to Latakia and there to Europe would be good to all parties involved.
President Talabani is apparently keeping good ties with the Alawites and Assad. Why? my personal belief is that the Kurdish leadership is aware of the fact that the Alawites may restore the Alawite State of the French mandate in the mountainous and coastal areas around Latakia. If that is the case, Kurds may have another neighbor to trade with and hence ease the Turkish chain on us, and the fact that the ruling AKP has lost all sympathy in the Syrian Alawite regions just helps the case. The Kurds in Iraq are masters of the divide and conquer tactic and have used it effectively in Iraq since 2003 (Something the US officials admitted in a document on wikileaks).
Pumping oil from Kurdish region of Northern Iraq westwards to Latakia and there to Europe would be good to all parties involved.
All possible scenarios, it could very well go the other way though. Lebanon has good ties with us too which is always a plus side, not to mention that the KRG leadership has kept neutral with Iran which will again aid us when it comes to ties with the Alawites. The fact that Assad withdrew from the Kurdish cities with little resistance may suggest that something like that may arise.Originally Posted by JGXL836
The route to Latakia would probably be shorter. And safer, because Lebanon has her own mess.
I wish a route to Israel (Haifa) through the Golan would be available, but it is even longer and lays through all-Sunni areas in Syria.
Not anymore... they already have backpaddled on that statement after the international reaction.
What I meant it's just a plus side and Latakia would be better. By the way, Mashlokha? Beseder?
http://newspano.com/news/ankara-not-...ia-for-now-F5JThe opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA) has said it would not allow the creation of a Kurdish state within Syria.
“The Kurdish people are on the side of the revolution,” Abdulbaset Sieda, who heads the Syrian opposition’s umbrella group, the Syrian National Council (SNC), told Turkish reporters after talks with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in Ankara on Monday. “We have given orders to make sure that no flag other than the Syrian flag be raised in Syria.”
Sieda also played down prospects for Kurdish separatism, saying the Kurds are part of the “Syrian national fabric” and accused the Syrian administration of willingly turning the border areas over to the PYD.
Al ha'kefak!What I meant it's just a plus side and Latakia would be better. By the way, Ma shlomkha? Beseder?
Is that Arabic? if yes, I don't speak Arabic. I know a couple hebrew words (my grandfather was Jewish), so he taught me some words.Al ha'kefak!
It's the Israeli Hebrew, always mixed with a grain of Arabic.
http://www.nucampaign.org/en/shop/Fu...-Hakefak-.aspx
Ah ok fair enough. ok.
http://www.nucampaign.org/en/shop/Fu...-Hakefak-.aspx
FSA arrogance grows with their confidence. The Kurds have proved to be good and smart people in Syria.
SNC has no power on the ground. What they say does not matter.
I'm use to the talks from the Arabs. They only make these statements at times of desperation (just look at Maliki) and stay quite when they're winning.
Russia warns Syria over usage of CW: http://www.jpost.com/International/A...aspx?id=278746
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