Posted on 08/24/2006 12:13:16 PM PDT by jhp
http://www.kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=13085
Turkish F-16 Jets Carry out Strikes Against PKK Targets in N. Iraq
8/24/2006 Cihan News Agency Turkish jet fighters have commenced air strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PPK) bases in northern Iraq.
F-16 jets carried out air strikes against targets in the Kanimasi and Snaht regions in northern Iraq.
Army officials stated that the F-16 jets which took off during the night had inflicted serious casualties on the PKK.
In addition to the air strikes, Turkish security forces are continuing their operations along the Iraqi border.
The U.S. government is looking into allegation of Kurdish reports of a joint Turkish-Iranian operation against the PKK in northern Iraq.
Speaking in Baghdad, spokesman for the U.S. and its allies in Iraq Maj. Gen. William Caldwell stated that there had been shelling in northern Iraq. "I'm not sure exactly where the shelling came from. So I'd be hesitant to say exactly who was responsible for it," the US general said.
- another news item i saw posted on the ME live thread that i think deserves its own thread. Things seem to be heating up in that part of the world
Glad I don't live in Snaht...
Snaht as bad as you think.
"The U.S. government is looking into allegation of Kurdish reports of a joint Turkish-Iranian operation against the PKK in northern Iraq."
That is not good.
Could be kind of sticky and gooey there.
Was it a disproportionate use of force?
Was it a disproportionate use of force?
Not good at all. A NATO(supposed)ally fighting along side Iran?
> That wish ought to be shared by every opponent of jihad who lives in America as well.
I disagree, and here's why: Europe is in decline. IF Europe and the Jihadist forces are goign to tangle... it's in Europe's (and the rest of the West) best interests that they do so as soon as possible. Having Turkey join the EU and dump a large scary force into Germany's lap just might wake them up and spur them to action.
It is a pity the Iraqi people do not seem to appreciate the gift they have received from the United States, the opportunity to break a string of dictators. If they don't get their act together, our response could very well be to let Iran and Turkey have their way. It is hard to justify trying to help someone who does not want to help themselves. This is not to be taken as saying that helping Iraq is not the right thing to do.
Appreciate? Every democracy created has elected extemists...
If PKK attacks Turkey, no skin of my back. I doubt we have troops up that way anyway
If your nose is runny,
And you think it's funny,
It's Snaht.
Damn straight it's not good. The big worry is this kind of thing could cause civil stirfe in the Kirkuk area that would make what is happening in Baghdad look tame.
Do you want to turn Germany into France? Do you want to invest Germany with a rapidly reproducing minority which will act as a fifth column at worst and undermine the political will to fight terrorism, at best?
The Turks here are not assimilating any more than the other Arabs are assimilating in France. They are a growing petri dish, a growing alien culture. So far, the European reaction to any kind of pressure has been to appease it and not to resist it. There will be no reaction of the sort you suggest but only a feckless acquiescence to the more robust race.
If you want to put people like Schroeder back in power so that he can align himself with France and tear Europe away from America in the face of our enemies, you have certainly advocated a good plan to accomplish it. Ultimately isolated, America will turn Blue and follow europe into submission.
Ol' Nathan was my first military hero ever. I believe I was 10 years old. That would be in 1974. One Bad Dude!
Better Europe die than America. Basically we need the islamics to openly start destroying European civilization before the left in this country will get more scared of the terrorist islamics than they hate America and Republicans. To really fight and win this we need the liberals to shut up and they won't shut up until they get mugged by reality. They think this war doesn't touch them....it needs to and a Europe in chaos will touch them.
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