Subject: kurdistan feeling more oats today in new country tripoint derby<br/>
Date: Jul 21, 2005 @ 14:45<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2129846932">recent reports of kurdish developments in turkey as<br/>
well as syria & iran<br/>
topped by todays news of unprecedented iraqi kurdish<br/>
demands for territorial consolidation <br/>
almost clear down to baghdad province in fact <br/>
& yikes even beyond baghdad in the east<br/>
while deepening the disintegration of iraq<br/>
have precipitated a real crisis for the new tricountry<br/>
point pool oddsmakers<br/>
<br/>
on the one hand <br/>
some version of an eventually independent kurdistan is<br/>
now looking more probable than ever<br/>
with odds against her first place showing<br/>
realistically falling to perhaps only 5 to 2 at this<br/>
juncture<br/>
from the previous peg here<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/17794">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/17794</a><br/>
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the great difficulty however is in predicting exactly<br/>
where the new tricountry points will fall<br/>
especially as the latest territorial demands do not<br/>
even appear to follow existing interprovincial borders<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
so kurdistan may be looking like an easy payout now<br/>
for a simple win<br/>
& quite a bargain at that if payment is made for any<br/>
eventual country of this name rather than for naming<br/>
her exact tripoint locations per se<br/>
as was originally envisioned <br/>
but at the same time  <br/>
the utter improbability of nailing her entire<br/>
multifecta would at this point suggest something more<br/>
on the scale of a lottery sweeps than a simple horse<br/>
race<br/>
<br/>
& 10000 to 1 in that case <br/>
or even 100000 to 1 <br/>
might still not make a realistically attractive<br/>
offering<br/>
<br/>
so for this game to be practically playable<br/>
it may be necessary to at least partly suspend the<br/>
tripoint requirement<br/>
& focus more instead on the simple acquisition of a<br/>
seat at the united nations<br/>
<br/>
& i realize that would leave matters slightly off<br/>
kilter for a true multipointing society<br/>
so the entire oddsgiving situation is now under<br/>
intensive reconsideration<br/>
but all existing quotes for oats will still be honored<br/>
in the meantime<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& you probably dont want to read these actual news<br/>
reports <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002396_pf.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002396_pf.html</a><br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=15432">http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=15432</a><br/>
but they are what caused the revaluations<br/>
<br/>
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