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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53898#.VNsFSyzQrzE Author(s)   Ferdinand Hennerbichler 1 , Bruce P. Montgomery 2   Affiliation(s) 1 The Presidency, Kurdology Center, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq . 2 Director Archives & Special Collections, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA . ABSTRACT More than twenty years after Kurdish forces captured mass quantities of Iraqi secret police files chronicling the Anfal genocide and other events in their March 1991 uprising, a digital copy of these documents has been repatriated to Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the military transport of the documents to the U.S. and their scanning by the Defense Intelligence Agency, both a copy of these digital documents and the original files were acquired by the Archives at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) in 1997. The files were thereafter made available to researc...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49273#.VJEX78nQrzE Author(s)   Ferdinand Hennerbichler Affiliation(s) Kurdology Center, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq . ABSTRACT The toponym “kar-da KI -ka” (“ma-da kar-da KI -ka”) means land of “Karda”, which derives most likely out of Akkadian “qarda” (“qurda”) for heroic, brave, valiant, and warlike (mountain) people. It was geographically located in ancient heartlands of the Guti(ans) in central Zagros east areas in Northwest Iran of today, and was documented in several late Sumerian UrIII sources at the end of the 3 rd millennium B.C.E. from Girsu in south Mesopotamia. Origin and ethnic affiliations of the...