The relatively calm Kurdish northern region was rocked by a massive bomb today. The city of Irbil is a major hub in that northern region of Iraq. The Kurdish state has been relatively autonomous since the early 1990s and has since then experienced relative calm.
Thus far sectarian violence has not struck the region as Kurds are an entirely different ethnicity than that of the dueling Sunni and Shia Arabs.
This bomb blast signifies rifts within the Kurdish people, which may arise as a huge problem as there are now multiple Kurdish parties within Iraq, but also within Turkey, Syria and Northern Iran.
Will this region of Iraq divulge into chaos in the near future?
Oh yea, Dick Cheney was in Iraq when this occured.
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