Posted on 04/14/2003 5:28:48 AM PDT by Valin
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:38:52 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WEST FARGO, N.D. -- Portraits are mustered in the comfortable living room of Hussein Weled's West Fargo home like a squad of impatient but determined guerrilla fighters. The two largest are portraits of Mustafa Barzani, the legendary Kurdish leader who died in exile in Washington, D.C., in 1979. One is of Barzani's son, Massoud, now president of the Kurdish Democratic Party, political arm of the Peshmerga -- Kurdish for "those who face death."
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