Volume 43, Number 16 · October 17, 1996
The Politics of Betrayal
By Kanan Makiya
I met with Massoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in northern Iraq in October 1991, seven months after the end of the Gulf War. Leaving him, I felt, as I later wrote, that 'Iraqis could not do better than have someone like this preside over the reconstruction of a post-Saddam Iraq.' Barzani told me then that the 'pain was so deep' between his group and the Saddam Hussein government, and even between his own and some of the other Iraqi opposition groups, that it would be 'very difficult to cure it.'
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