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Iraq
Turkish forces barrage border area in northern Iraq as tensions rise
2007-10-16
Kurdish residents in villages along Iraq's border with Turkey called for US intervention after a mountainous area in northern Iraq was hit with artillery and rocket fire over the weekend.

Kurdish authorities were guarded in their response, but residents in the border village of Inshki called on the United States to intervene. Iraqi army Col. Hussein Rashid of the border guard forces said Turkish troops fired more than 250 artillery shells and at least 10 missiles on three areas inside Iraqi territory late Saturday. But, he said, the shelling caused no casualties or damages as it hit only abandoned areas in the mountains. AP Television News footage shot from the village of Inshki, 30 kilometers from the Turkish border, showed a hillside dotted with balls of fire, terrifying residents below.
Posted by:Fred

#6  #4 I don't understand why we can't shut down any PKK operations in the Kurdish section of Iraq.

Who says we haven't? I'm sure the Turks would rather retaliate against Iraq, which is more focused inward against terrorist attacks, than Iran, which is focused on projecting power throughout the area. There are Kurds in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Two of those countries are doing everything they can to stir up unrest and wreck the formation of a stable democratic government in Iraq. Turkey needs to watch its backside - it wouldn't surprise me a bit that part of the problems are being created by Russia, using its muddled east proxies, just to create a wedge between NATO allies. Nobody said the PKK was rational, and nobody truly knows who's pulling the strings - a typical muddled east mess.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-10-16 21:32  

#5  RIAN > Russia believes that a Turkish invasion on the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq is imminent.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-10-16 20:52  

#4  I don't understand why we can't shut down any PKK operations in the Kurdish section of Iraq. One would think that the Kurdish provincial government would have way too much to risk to accomodate these guys. Is Turkey just ginning this up to preemptively cut the nuts off the Kurds? Are they doing this because of the Dem-led Armenian genocide resolution the other day? Who wins in this? I just don't get this one.
Posted by: remoteman   2007-10-16 13:59  

#3  I guess all that advice Bush is giving to the Dhimmicrats presidential candidates is paying off, eh?
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-10-16 12:43  

#2  true, but they are going to see it anyway so they might as well respond.
Posted by: Unutle McGurque8861   2007-10-16 03:57  

#1  FOX NEWS > Approximately 80% of all US airpower supporting US milfors in Iraq-ME stages or flies thru the TUrkish corridor, plus approxi 25% of US oil, ergo few iff anyone in the USG = Washington DC wish to see a Turkic-Kurd-Iraqi-Iranian conflagration in this area.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-10-16 03:49  

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