Saudi Arabia offers Kurds two billion dollars to give up Kirkuk as Capital
dpa German Press AgencyPublished: Tuesday April 3, 2007
dpa German Press AgencyPublished: Tuesday April 3, 2007
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Shiite newspaper published in Baghdad reported Tuesday that Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani had turned down a2-billion-dollar offer from the Saudis in return for giving updemands to have oil-rich Kirkuk as the capital of Kurdistan.Al-Bianh al-Jadidah newspaper said that the Saudi offer was made to Barzani and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Borham Saleh when theyvisited Saudi Arabia last month.
The Saudis asked for a 10-year freeze on the Kurdish demand to incorporate Kirkuk in the north of Iraq into Kurdistan.The newspaper said that an Iraqi government source, who did notwant to be named, said both Barzani and Saleh had declined to give into Saudi pressure to give up the "Kurds' historical rights to thecity.
'US ready to strike Iran on Good Friday'
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF AND AP
The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF AND AP
The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.
According to Russian intelligence sources, the reports said, the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf.
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