Rejecting Baker-hamilton report

"Kurdish leader rejects Baker-Hamilton report
12/8/2006 AP
BAGHDAD (AP) - Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, a longtime Washington ally, has angrily rejected the Iraq Study Group recommendations, warning that any delay in deciding the fate of an oil-rich region the Kurds claim would have "grave consequences."
Barzani, president of the 15-year-old autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, also faulted the U.S. bipartisan commission for not visiting his region, saying that was a "major shortcoming that adversely influenced the credibility of the assessment." "We are in no way abiding by this report," Barzani said in an e-mailed statement."
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