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Chris Smith: “The only place where people are safe is in the Kurdistan region. And the only reason they are safe is because the…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2014
The only place where people are safe is in the Kurdistan region. And the only reason they are safe is because the peshmerga is defending them.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith highlights the safety of the Kurdistan region due to peshmerga forces.

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