Ex-US diplomat : Independent Kurdistan in 10 years

The referundum card which was given out outside polling station on Sunday, 30th January 2005.
Around 95% of the participants in the informal independence poll in Kurdistan have voted for an independent Kurdistan.
This comes as reports suggest that the Kurdistan Alliance List has won %30 of the votes in the Iraqi Electoins.
The Kurdish-Turkmen-Arabic-Christian Brotherhood has also won %68 of the votes in Kirkuk. In some some neighbourhoods, the original Arabs of Kirkuk have also voted for the Kurdish-Turkmen-Arabic-Christian Brotherhood list.
Kurdish newspapers also reported on 2/2/05 that Jalal Talabani, the PUK leader has been chosen as Iraq's next president.