Iran shells Kurds in northern Iraq, Turkey preps for war with Kurds too

[Botany]

President Chuckle Nuts' Iraqi adventure keeps getting better

Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq's northern frontier

Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.

Scores of Kurds have fled their homes in the northern frontier region after four days of shelling by the Iranian army. Local officials said Turkey had also fired a number of shells into Iraqi territory.

Some displaced families have pitched tents in the valleys behind Qandil Mountain, which straddles Iraq's rugged borders with Turkey and Iran.

They told the Guardian yesterday that at least six villages had been abandoned and one person had died following a sustained artillery barrage by Iranian forces that appeared designed to flush out guerrillas linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who have hideouts in Iraq.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1852843,00.html

[cascadiance]

1. Israel and the U.S. have set the precedent!

We can't complain without being called hypocrites!

[Igel]

2. And they can't do anything about it without being

hypocrites.

Except that they were doing it before they complained about Israel. So their criticism was hypocrisy. Not that anybody cared.

[Postman]

3. Wasn't the US supporting a terrorist group "MEK" ?

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kucinich_asks_Bush_about_alleged_US_support_for_armed_insurgency_in_Iran

Maybe the "lebanon" angle of going to war against Iran didn't pan out so now they try to instigate Iran into "attacking" northern Iraq?