Right now I am comparing the overall tribal population of Ninewah province with that in Mosul. I already did the Kirkuk/Al-Ta'amim data compilation, and will sit back and think about the results after I do Mosul. Since Kirkuk is a serious bone of contention vis a vis Arabs and Kurds, I'd like to find the major tribal influences from both sides of the fence to see if I can make any solid assessments on how events in the large cities that surround Kirkuk affect it. Not sure what I am going to find yet, but that's the plan for today.
I'm interested in how this pans out, as I just came back from Ninewah, outposted at the previously unoccupied airstrip south of Thari Al Ghara, where alliances/allegiances seemed very distinctly fracture along Kurdish/Yezedi lines and Arab ones supporting Sheikh Abdullah. Interesting place.