After the first Gulf war, the north of Iraq was out of Iraqi government control and there was a kind of* state in the north where the Kurds live (Kurdistan) and they used to have their own government and their own money and also their own stamps.
Anyway with the fall of the Saddam regime and the fact that Iraq has a Kurdish president, I assumed that stamps in the Kurdish region are back to official Iraqi stamps. I'm not sure about this now that I saw a blog entry regarding Kurdish stamps which shows some stamps from 2005???
I wonder, are people still using local stamps in the Kurdish region? Or was that stopped after the elections.
