The Kurdish National Congress of North America
Date published: Wednesday, January 05, 2005
In late December the dramatic Al-Jazeera posted the provocative article What happened in Kurdish Halabja? by Mohammed al-Obaidi . The article was full of lies, distortions, and pure hate towards the Kurds, and raised the ire of many decent people – Kurds and non-Kurds alike.
Unfortunately, the rabble-rousing style of Anti-Kurdishism displayed in the article, both in tone and in content, has become a hallmark of the rhetoric of many of the Arab UberNationalists and Saddam rehabilitators who are regularly allowed media exposure on Arab television and through the print media.
In the Al-Jazeera piece, al-Obaidi unabashedly denies and belittles the cold-blooded murder of over 5,000 Kurds in Halabja and thousands more in scores of other places as political manipulations and lurid imagination. He further compounds his claims by a slanderous and personal attack on the Washington Kurdish Institute, its Founder, its Board of Directors, and its Executive Director.
The writer s litany of cheap shots and baseless accusations is in reality no more than a collection of standard clich