During a poetry festival in Baghdad aired on Biladi satellite TV, which belongs to Ibrahim al-Jaffari, former Iraqi Prime Minister, poet Samir Sabih took the stage and started reading poems about attacking Kurdish people. “Soon we will burn down Kurds and drive them away from Kirkuk city," read Sabih.
The TV showed Iraqi Turkmen MP Fawzi Akram Tarzi from Sadr bloc continuously applauding and cheering as the poet constantly insulted Kurdish people. The scene, widely reported in Kurdistan Region, angered Kurdish people.
Kurdish MPs in Baghdad immediately demanded MP Tarzi and Sadr bloc apologize, but they haven't. Meanwhile, 32 Kurdish MPs have signed a petition and demanded Iraqi Parliament lift immunity on Tarzi.
After the incident, the Kurdish security agency in Kirkuk issued a statement. The statement read that on February 2, 2009, in a security operation, the agency arrested three insurgents; two of them were the bodyguards of Fawzi Akram Tarzi. Tarzi's bodyguards are responsible for killing U.S. soldiers, Iraqi police, and soldiers in Baghdad and Kirkuk, the statement added. "When we arrested them, they were in possession of sniper rifles and anti-tank weapons," read the statement.
Moreover, it pointed out that the two insurgents were able to pass checkpoints very easily, because they had identification made by the Sadr bloc MP. Biladi TV was established in 2006 and is funded by Iran.
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