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Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 February 2007, 13:15 GMT

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Kurdish view: Baghdad deployments

Mohammed: Kurds don't think the Baghdad violence is their concern
In the first of a series of diary entries from Arbil in northern Iraq, Kurdish journalist Mohammed A Salih records concerns about local troops being sent to Baghdad.
Yesterday, I woke early to go out for my usual reporting job.

The taxi driver tuned the radio to one of the local stations. The main story was about the sending of 1,800 Kurdish troops to Baghdad as part of the new Iraqi-American security plan to stabilise the capital. Bush is saying to these Kurds "Freedom isn't free".



This is in addition to a Kurdish brigade that left for Baghdad a few weeks ago.

I could see the panic and dissatisfaction on the faces of the other taxi passengers.



[American generals and soldiers might argue that they don't really want to be involved with this Arab on Arab problem, and in the end the Kurdish autonomy has been paid for with American lives as well. This shouldn't be such a big surprise, but I am an alarmed by an exclusive Kurdish force rather than a mixed Kurdish and Shiite group at least.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/6404173.stm