WHAT WE DON’T KNOW

With our media trying to make an isolated peace protest look like a peace movement – and since the media has as much originality as replicating paramecium – one thing we haven’t heard anything about is some typical, everyday, we-hate-each-other-as-much-as-we-hate-you factional friction in Iraq.

It seems the Turkish government has opened up its hospital facilities to treat some seriously wounded Turkmen civilians. Turkmen are yet another tribal group in Iraq; in this case Iraqis who speak Turkish. They are further divided into Sunni and Shiite sects and those are the ones blowing each other up right now in northern Iraq.

These aren’t Kurds, who Iraqis don’t like either (Kurds are the people Saddam Hussein used WMDs – that he “didn’t” have – against), but a separate ethno-religious group.

Naturally, the action happened at a mosque, and it was back in September. But you’ll never hear about it unless you read Arabic or Turkish. Or you can check the English language pages of Aljazeera.