"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
"Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different."
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Source: Kurds Organizing Anti-Hussein Forces - Sidebar For a Quiet Colonel, A Moving Role as Santa Claus. Boston Globe, October 25, 1992.
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