U.S. puts Kurds on terror list

[sabra]

Source: UPI

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center says it was a mistake to include the symbol of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- the political party headed by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani -- on a list of "terrorist logos" that police should be on the lookout for during traffic stops and other contacts with members of the public.

The PUK, one of the two Kurdish political parties that makes up the regional government in Iraq's Kurdish area, is not on the lists of designated foreign terror groups maintained by the U.S. departments of State or Treasury, and indeed is considered by many in the U.S. government as one of the closest U.S. allies in its war on terrorism.

"After a review, we determined that the PUK logo should not have been included, and we have updated the online version," National Counter-Terrorism Center spokesman Carl Kropf told United Press International Saturday.

Qubad Talabani, Talabani's son and the U.S. spokesman for the Kurdish regional government, called the inclusion of the PUK's logo "egregious" and accused the center, generally called NCTC, of "a gross error."

"I find it quite disturbing," he told UPI.

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Kropf said the center's source for including the PUK was the database maintained by the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism -- a congressionally chartered institution based in Oklahoma City and run by contractors DeticaDFI, headed until last year by retired Lt. Gen. James Clapper, now the undersecretary of defense for intelligence at the Pentagon.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/01/21/analysis_us_puts_kurds_on_terror_list/5622/

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[peacetalksforall]

1. Something seems very fishy. The strategy is to throw one tactic-lie against the other

- both from their own 'sources'.

I think Turkey might be blackmailing us? Turkey wants Northern Iraq. And we've been playing with both factions. We've probably promised them opposing rewards.

Read the latest from Sybil Edmonds by way of a kpete post. Turkey has been a trading facilitator? As in nuclear?

[Bunkie0913]

2. Reminds me of something...

Oh, ya, that report last week that Canada had put the good ole' USA and Qitmo on their torture watch list and then said "oops, our bad". Sometimes the truth just slips out. The Kurds are making the OIL deals with these foreign investors (hint:VP energy board).