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Two rockets fired from Syria land near Turkish airport
[Al Ahram] Two rockets fired Saturday from inside Syria landed near the international airport of Gaziantep, a major Turkish border city, although nobody was hurt, the Turkish news agency Dogan reported.One of the projectiles landed in a residential complex for employees of Oguzeli airport, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) outside the city and another came down in scrubland, according to Dogan. The rockets fell around 10:50 am (0750 GMT), the agency said, adding military officials and the governor of Gaziantep were inspecting the damage. The nearby city of Kilis, just a handful of kilometres from the Syrian border, has been struck several times this year by rockets which Ankara says were fired by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... fighters. Missiles rarely penetrate deeper into Turkish territory. Those attacks have claimed at least 21 lives with more than 70 injured, including five on Friday. Gaziantep lies around 30 km further north away from the border. It was not clear if the rockets were "strays" from fighting in northern Syria or if they constituted a deliberate attack on the airport. Several European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... and European Council President Donald Tusk visited Gaziantep only last month. Turkish forces say they have responded to rocket attacks by bombarding IS positions in northern Syria. Posted by: Fred 2016-05-29 |
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