Massoud Barzani person
also: Mossad Barzani, Barsani, Barzani
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“down the river on orders from Nixon and Kissinger. Now Barzani made common cause with Iran. Bayer saw the Iranian gear with Barzani's fighters, even Iranian militia guarding Kurdish supply points. His faction seemed already to know of the L…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 51:00
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He found the State Department's regional director already there. The diplomat, dropping by during an area tour, immediately left. That's got to be awkward. Yeah, don't tell us what you're doing, but I'm over here and you just walked into th…
▶ 50:27
that the covert operation had never been sanctioned by the White House, except there was a finding. Do you not review them? Oh, no, because you never met. But Bayer specifically notes approval by Pollack's boss, Senior Director Martin Indyk…
▶ 51:32
Versus the CIA. They don't even like Iran, by the way. They like the CIA even less. At least one faction. At the last moment, Barsani pulled out of the uprising. Talabani, furious, made only small efforts. Shalabi went ahead and his group r…
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Taliban factions switched sides to align with the Iranians while the Barzani forces sided with Saddam himself. The Iraqi army began attacking in August of 1996, the golden anniversary of the date of Barzani's father formed a Kurdish politic…
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Shalabi troops had worked with the CIA retreated to the Turkish border. And let me just tell you, they hate the Kurds. In fact, American diplomats met with Barzani and Turkish officials arranging refugee status for the former U.S. relief em…
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before 9-11. Crazy. As for Iraq, little reason existed to believe the exiles and the Kurds any more capable than they had been at times in the previous. Ironically, today, after George Tenet's CIA spearheaded the Bush attack on Iraq, the pr…