Kurdistan president off to U.S. to take up politics

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: President of Iraq’s Kurdistan region Massoud al-Barazani led a high-ranking delegation to the United States to discuss the current political situation in Iraq with U.S. officials, a senior source said on Monday. “Barazani will discuss recent political changes in Iraq with U.S. President George W. Bush and other officials,” the head of the president’s office, Fouad Hussein, told IraqiNews.com. The delegation includes the deputy secretary general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), members of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the representative of the regional government in the United States and several other officials, Hussein noted. SS (P) 1