Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabaniis an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Karim Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage. He is known as "Mam Jalal" meaning "uncle Jalal" among Kurdish people...
NationalityIraqi
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 November 1933
CountryIraq
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For those who call for an immediate pull-out of American troops, we say that we honor the sacrifices the United States has made,
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My not signing does not mean that I will block the decision of the court,
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My reply was that the Kurdish people welcome the presence of American forces in Kurdistan in order to defend the freedom they enjoy and to prevent being attacked with weapons of mass destruction.
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I will try my best to convince my colleagues that we must have a comprehensive policy towards those who are fighting the regime.
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I wish that all Iraqi Arabs, Kurds and others vote 'Yes' to the draft constitution which represents their ambition to build a democratic, federal, united and independent state,
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he was able to take important confessions from Saddam Hussein and he has signed these confessions and there is video and audio for these confessions.
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He killed people to protect them, ... He put hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves to protect Iraq.
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I think most of the Arab Sunnis have agreed to this constitution. And those who do not agree with it do not represent the Arab Sunnis,
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We are trying to build - as soon as possible - our military forces.
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We must not shy away from this support to eliminate the dictatorship and bring about a democratic, federal, pluralistic rule in Iraq.
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You and your (Kurdish) brothers are the heroes of liberating Iraq,
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We have more than 100,000 (Kurdish resistance fighters), and Syria also has tens of thousands. These forces can liberate Iraq with the support of the United States, with cooperation and coordination with American forces.
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We've done our best to dispel Ankara's concerns over Kurdish independence movements.
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will continue to pursue this endeavor to the end.