[lentulusgracchus]

Assyrians first settled Nineveh, one of the major Assyrian cities, in 5000 B.C., which is 5630 years before Arabs came into that area.

Uh, no. The Amoritic Subiru (the original name for the Assyrians) appeared in the second Semitic migration out of Arabia during the middle third millennium BC. Their cousins the Habiru we call Hebrews; as the Bible informs us, the Hebrews settled in Abraham's birthplace, Ur "of the Chaldees" (actually of the Sumerians), and thereabouts.

The Amorites were called by their Semitic bretheren, the Akkadian-speaking Babylonians who arrived a few hundred years earlier in the first wave, "the hateful Amurru". (Thus the Cambridge Ancient History.)

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm

Brief History of the Assyrians

by Peter BetBasoo, (author of the letter to Carly Fiorina.)

Racial Type
Assyrians are a Semitic peoples indigenous to Mesopotamia. They are Mediterranean Caucasoids, and are ethnically distinct from Arabs and Jews.