Members of smaller minorities – Christians, Yazidis, Shabak,
Sabean-Mandeans, Bahai and others – seek to remain beneath
the Sunni-Shiite sectarian (or Arab-Kurdish ethnic) radar, hoping
to avert immediate harm due to their otherness or, if necessary
when moving through contested terrain, by concealing their
denominational or ethnic identity. For example, Baghdad-born
Christian professionals working in the relative safety of the
Kurdish region traverse the dangerous Mosul area on their
weekends home by replacing their license plates (to reflect Arab
rather than Kurdish towns of registration) and their identity cards
(to assume Muslim Arab names) once they leave the Kurdish
region. Crisis Group interview, one such professional, an
Assyrian Christian, Dohuk, 26 September 2005.
From Last ICG report on Iraq...
http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/iraq_iran_gulf/52_the_next_iraqi_war_sectarianism_and_civil_conflict.pdf
This demonstrates that we're talking about two different countries! I hope the KRG will be able to stay out the forthcoming civil war...
