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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If those who call themselves the Iraqi resistance desired to contact me, I would welcome them. I would not refuse to meet any Iraqi who wants to meet me. But of course that does not mean I will accept what he says.
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If those who call themselves Iraqi resistance want to make contact with me, I will welcome them. I want to listen to all Iraqis.
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He was always planning to have different places to hide himself from, from the people. Iraq is a wide country. You have many places that some person can hide themselves for awhile. But I don't think he will be able to hide himself forever.
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He -- with two vice presidents and with the prime minister and his deputies and with the speaker of the house -- they are forming a collective leadership,
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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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What do you want us to do, go kiss them?
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There is no basis for the phantom claims that the Kurds intend to form their own independent state.
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There is no excuse or justification for the Sunni brothers to boycott after we accepted all their demands and suggestions without changing a letter in them, ... Their task now is to participate with us and vote 'yes' for the constitution, and cooperate with us to fight terrorism and the people who want to destroy the country.
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There is no excuse for Arab Sunnis to boycott the vote now that we have responded to all their demands and suggestions,
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stand with the Iraqi people as they move forward with the Democratic process.
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Some of our demands were met so the party has endorsed the constitution and is urging people to vote 'Yes',
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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.