THE KURDS DON'T PLAY WELL WITH MALIKI

Maliki's promise to do something about the PKK was pure BS considering that he has a hard time traveling in his own capitol and now we learn that the Kurds aren't going to play ball. This could get extremely violent, soon!

Maliki can't stop PKK attacks, officials say
By Bobby Caina Calvan and Yaseen Taha McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Iraqi Kurdish officials indicated that they were unlikely to help in any crackdown, with the regional government's spokesman denying that there are PKK bases in northern Iraq.

"We believe that the statements of Mr. Maliki about closing the centers of the PKK don't apply to us because we do not have any centers," the spokesman, Jamal Abdullah, said.

"If Mr. Maliki knows about any centers of the PKK in areas under the control of the central government, let him close these centers and we will encourage and support him. But in areas under our control, there is not a single center."

The spokesman for the Kurdish region's security force, the peshmerga militia, emphasized that local Kurdish officials, not the government in Baghdad, would decide whether to go after the PKK.

"The peshmerga gets its orders from the presidency of the Kurdistan region, not the Iraqi minister of defense," Maj. Gen. Jabbar Yawir said. He rejected placing the regional army under the direct command of the central government.