Diary
Charles Glass: In Mosul, 16 December 2004
“... arrested many Communists. Fighting continued, but by now everyone was involved. In an often-quoted passage, Batatu wrote: For four days and four nights Kurds and Yezidis stood against Arabs; Assyrian and Aramaean Christians against Arab Muslims; the Arab tribe of Albu Mutaiwat against the Arab tribe of Shammar; the Kurdish tribe of al-Gargariyyah against Arab ... ”