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Turkey offers bases for Iraq raids
Turkey says it will open its airbases to U.S. warplanes if the U.N. approves military action against Iraq. The United States already uses Turkish airbases to patrol a "no-fly" zone over northern Iraq, in place since the end of the 1991 Gulf War. "What we mean by cooperation is opening airbases and opening facilities to use," Turkish Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis told an Ankara press conference. Yakis spoke after meeting with U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who was in Turkey to lobby for support of an operation against Iraq.
Turkey and Kuwait are the two essential allies in this operation. Everyone else is just window dressing.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-03
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=8194