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Recently I had the opportunity to interview Bayan Rahman, Chairman of the Kurdistan Development Corporation and High Representative to the United Kingdom for the Kurdistan Regional Government. She is the daughter of a former Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (who, along with her brother, was tragically killed by a suicide bomber) and was a journalist for 16 years working for publications like The Financial Times and The Observer.

Ms. Rahman is currently in the United States meeting with the family and friends of soldiers who have fallen in Iraq to thank them for their loved one's sacrifice for Iraq. She is also promoting the KDC's website called The Other Iraq, which is dedicated to showing the positive things that are going on in Iraq (especially the Kurdish region in Northern Iraq). The website is featuring some commercials with Iraqis thanking America for liberating Iraq. I suggest you check them out.

Bayan had a lot of interesting things to say about the situation in Iraq, from the fact that not one coalition soldier has died in the Kurdistan region (which comprises most of northern Iraq) to her opinions on splitting Iraq into three spearate regions.

If you'd like to listen to the interview click here. If you'd like to read it, a full transcript is below in the extended entry. (more...)