Status Updates From Árminius Vambéry, his life ...

"The reader may imagine what the fate of these Persian slaves under their Turkoman masters must have been... The poor man, once a prisoner, has his clothes taken away, and receives instead a few scanty rags barely sufficient to cover his nakedness, and heavy chains are placed upon his limbs, galling his ankles and heels, and causing him cruel pain at every step he takes."

"Upon crossing the Araxes river, we arrived ere long at the frontier of Kurdistan proper, whose inhabitants had already enjoyed, in the age of Herodotus, the unenviable reputation of being thieves and robbers of the worst kind."
And this is the lot Obama et al. want to arm!!!