Posted on 12/25/2007 3:01:00 AM PST by Wiz
President of Iraq's Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani refused to meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday, protesting against Washington's stance on the Turkish shelling on northern Iraq, the Kurdish government said in its website on Wednesday.
The website quoted the Kurdish Prime Minister Negervan Barzani as saying that President Barzani was originally supposed to head for Baghdad to meet Rice and other officials but he changed his mind at the very last-minute.
Turkish warplanes two days ago shelled outposts of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Kurdistan. In a statement released yesterday, the Kurdistan presidency held the U.S. responsible for the recent Turkish shelling.
Turkey says that it wages operations targeting what is believed to be outposts of the (PKK), outlawed in Turkey, which Kurdish fighters use to start attacks against the Turkish state with the aim of establishing an independent state for the Kurds.
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I agree. The Kurds in Iraq can stay peacefully there. If they support the PKK, we (and the Iraqis) will be happy to support Turkish incursions to defeat them.
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