Turks pelt US troops with eggs, stones

The Bahrain Tribune ^ | March 30, 2003 | Reuters

[jwalburg]

SILOPI, Turkey: Turkish villagers showered US soldiers with eggs and stones yesterday when they arrived to recover pieces of a Tomahawk cruise missile which came down in eastern Turkey on Friday.

Scores of people in Urfa province set upon four jeeps carrying some 10 American soldiers, breaking windows and shouting slogans against the US-led war in Iraq, Anatolian news agency reported.

Turkish gendarmes later intervened to break up the demonstration. There were no initial reports of injuries.

Sukru Kocatepe, governor of Urfa province, said on Friday a Tomahawk cruise missile, launched from US navy ships in the Mediterranean, had fallen in the sparsely populated area gouging a deep hole but without exploding.

It was believed to be the third US missile to land in Turkey since the Iraq war began. Two Tomahawks misfired and landed in Turkey last Sunday, a US defence official said.

Some 90 per cent of Turks are against the war and the people of the impoverished east, fearing further falls in living standards, say they have much to lose from the conflict.

Anatolian said the US soldiers handed about $3,600 in cash to five villagers to meet the damage the missile had caused to their crops. - Reuters

[jwalburg]

The last paragraph says it all.

[laz17]

Everyone who is against us has to be treated as the outright enemies they are. God curse them all! They have been driven insane by hatred and evil.

[x1stcav]

Pelted with eggs?

Why doesn't this sound right? Could it be that anyone who has ever spent any time in the Turkish countryside knows that the poor folk value something as ordinary as an egg the same as money?

[AM2000]

Not if they were given eggs in advance, by a party interested in publicly 'humiliating' us.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

How reliable a source is the Bahrain Tribune? Not very, IMHO.

[drlevy88]

But they would want to keep the eggs. Not throw them.

[AM2000]

Not if they were paid enough to do this. It's not uncommon for crowds to be hired in the third world, for the purpose of 'impromptu' demonstrations such as this one.

[AM2000]

a_turk posted a picture of this incident earlier on a different thread. He also indicated that the villagers in question are Turkish Kurds, based on their headgear in the picture.

[xm177e2]

This article doesn't say whethere these were Turkish Turks or Turkish Kurds, but they certainly weren't Iraqi Kurds.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Already been posted

[goodieD]

If it wouldn't make Israel uninhabitable, I'd suggest making the entire middle east a giant parking lot.

[drlevy88]

The stones are also "funny." Unlike eggs that can be seriously dangerous. Stoning troops is asking to get shot to death.

[a_Turk]

Turks, Kurds, Smurfs, who the heck cares.

Just another protest incited by probably Syria, Iran, or some such asshole who wants to put the finishing touches on the falling out between our administrations.

I wouldn't worry about a few "nest" eggs (yuck!)..

Better hope there are some nucular or bilogical weapons of mass destruction to be found, IMO. That's really the lynch pin. Just watch the rats (enemy nations) come out of their holes by the dozens, if you can't produce any..

[MissBaby]

Already been posted

So what. I'm reading (and enjoying) this thread. :)

[a_Turk]

>> The last paragraph says it all.

I know! It must be a part of American culture! /sarc

[Southack]

"Better hope there are some nucular or bilogical weapons of mass destruction to be found, IMO. That's really the lynch pin. Just watch the rats (enemy nations) come out of their holes by the dozens, if you can't produce any.."

Haven't you been paying attention??

Our enemies have already been revealing themselves. NATO is on the ropes. The UN is flatlining. The EU is split.

It is France and Germany that must hope that we find WMD's now, as that would allow their political administrations to "save face" and worm their way back into the U.S.'s good graces (with appropriate apologies, all fake, etc.).

For the U.S., we no longer care. Hussein is being taken out. Next up will be either North Korea, Syria, or Iran.

There is no more "political fallout" that the U.S. can be slammed with by the world community. They shot their wad with Iraq, and the game is about far more countries than just whipping Iraq.

What more can anyone do to the U.S. politically, after all, than what they have done and said over Iraq?!

Moreover, the nations that oppose the U.S. are growing progressively weaker. Afghanistan has fallen. There is no more Taliban. Al Qaeda hasn't had a success in a while, either.

France and Germany have no militaries to speak of, and their economies are in the crapper. China can't even rein in Taiwan, much less deal with India or the U.S.

Soon Iraq will no longer be able to oppose the U.S., either.

The Left has blown it. Their grand plan to cut America down to size has not only failed, but it has backfired so spectacularly that age-old Left-Wing power-bases are now endangered. The Communist-run PFLP in Israel/Palestine, which has sent "martyrs" to help Iraq, is now endangering Arafat's rule by turning the U.S. against the Palestinian cause. Castro is old and Cuba is broke, so there again the Left is in danger of losing yet another Socialist advocate.

The Right has seized political power in Czechoslavkia, Poland, Italy, and Spain. Almost the entire Eastern Bloc has sided with the U.S. instead of with France or Russia.

The Left can't even raise a decent anti-war movement in San Francisco, for crying out loud! They've dropped back to try to re-draft Gore for President, even though he's already dropped out of the race!

So finding WMD's doesn't even matter to the U.S. any longer, and that hasn't mattered ever since Iraq executed 5 to 7 of our POWs and then paraded the other 5 across TV. That act cost them all benefit of the doubt by all fence-sitting Americans. It hardened the resolve of our nation, so that we are no longer going to act like pansies and cry about casualties in war, or even in trying to reduce the number of nations upon which we unleash our war machine.

The game has changed. Alliances have changed. The rules have changed.

Try to keep up.

[Pushi]

These SOBs are getting too big for their britches. Payback is going to be the $hits.

[TheLion]

Couldn't agree with you more.....the jig is up!

[Thorondir]

They have been driven insane by hatred and evil iSLAM.

There. I fixed it for you.

The religion of peace is the Religion of Terror.

Stop the ROT on human civilization!