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> With the encouragement of the Bush administration in 1991, Iraq's northern > Kurds and southern Shiites, both aggrieved minorities in the Sunni > majority state, erupted in armed rebellion after Iraqi forces were > expelled from Kuwait. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein crushed the > uprisings. Re: the Washington Post article above, according to "Iraq: a country study" (Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 4th ed., 1990) the Shia are the majority in Iraq and one of the major accomplishments of the Hussein regime has been to forge a sense of national identity above the ethnic and religious identities that were lumped together in what is now Iraq by the Sykes-Picot agreement. Colin Rowat King's College Cambridge CB2 1ST tel: +44 (0)468 056 984 England fax: +44 (0)1223 335 219 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html