Iraq's Kurdish Leader Issues Broadside Against Arab Countries

'Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani, issued a bitter rhetorical broadside against other Arab countries today, saying they had insulted Iraq by not sending diplomats to Baghdad and had not sent condolence letters about the stampede last week in which almost 1,000 Shiite pilgrims were killed.

The president spoke just after two dozen insurgents staged a brazen dawn raid on the heavily guarded offices of Iraq's Interior Ministry in Baghdad, killing two police officers and wounding five, and two British soldiers were killed by a bomb in southern Iraq....

...Iraq's prime minister, Ibrahim Jaafari, hinted at a similar criticism today when he was asked about the emir of Qatar, who donated $100 million to the American victims of Hurricane Katrina but nothing to the victims of the stampede...

...Some Iraqi leaders asked why Mr. Mousa was willing to denounce the new draft constitution now, after the Arab League had been notably silent about Iraq's lack of a constitution or basic human rights under Saddam Hussein."
NYTimes

At least I don't fall into that last category