If anybody has info on this I am interested -

[Joe for Clark]

I looked and I see nothing -

Those Turkish sp ops sent into Kurdistan - are they still there?

Cause I think this has been more than 72 hours now - and if they are still there it wasn't just a raid.

I want to think they went back - but I see no indication they did.

In fact it looks like they are saying nothing at all at this point - either side.

Joe

[Parche]

1. Turkey

I dont think they made it...........:hi:

[lynnertic]

2. I'll start looking for you. Hang in there

[seemslikeadream]

3. just a little Turkey news

Burst Water Supply Pipe In Ankara Cuts Off All Water to 4 Million Residents


ANKARA - Water supplies to Turkey's capital Ankara, already disrupted by drought, were cut off late on Monday when a major pipe feeding the city of 4 million people burst, authorities said on Tuesday.

Television showed residents wading through a flood in the district where the pipe burst -- in contrast with the rest of the city, where a severe drought has reduced water levels in dams to just four percent of their capacity and forced city authorities to impose water rationing.

Officials told a news conference it would take up to 36 hours to repair the pipe. "We hope this cut in the water supply will end quickly and we will get the water flowing again," said Avni Kavlak, press spokesman for Ankara municipality.

Turkey has been suffering one of its driest summers on record and Ankara, located in the dry, sunbaked interior, has been particularly hard hit because there was almost no snow last winter to fill the reservoirs.


http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/43525/story.htm

[seemslikeadream]

4. I wish I could read this story subscription only

Iraq: 6000 Peshmerga Being Sent To Kirkuk
Stratfor (subscription) - 1 hour ago
The Iraqi government in agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government plans to deploy 6000 Kurdish peshmerga troops to Kirkuk to secure oil and ...

[babylonsister]

5. This is similar:

Iraq: Plan To Deploy Peshmerga To Kirkuk Alarms Minorities
By Mustafa Mahmud
Iraq -- Kurdish peshmerga
Kurdish peshmerga fighters (file photo)
(CTK)
August 8, 2007 -- The Baghdad government plans to send 6,000 Kurdish soldiers -- known as peshmerga -- to help secure oil and electricity installations in the multiethnic region of Kirkuk.

Jabbar Yawir, the undersecretary of the autonomous Kurdistan region's Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, says the Kurdish self-rule government and the federal government in Baghdad have agreed to send the troops to protect sensitive sites in the oil-rich Kirkuk Governorate.

Those sites include power facilities and parts of the oil pipeline that leads from Mosul to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey -- the conduit for most oil exports from northern Iraq’s oil fields.
"These forces are Iraqi before being Kurdish.... They will provide support for the security forces in the governorate,” said one Kirkuk official who backs the plan.

The forces belong to the government of Kurdish-administered northern Iraq, which is pushing for Kirkuk to be incorporated into the Kurdistan region. The plan to deploy peshmerga troops has therefore provoked controversy among minority groups in Kirkuk Governorate, which is under the control of the Baghdad government and outside the current Kurdish region.

more...

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/08/7470e5ad-d81a-444a-8dc9-14508939152c.html

[seemslikeadream]

8. Thanks - here's some videos Turkish/Iraqi tensions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPOdM8qFbMY&mode=related&search=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLAd2Y7xcfk&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkmm8FNxrUs&mode=related&search=

[Joe for Clark]

7. Hmm - Three weeks ago the Kurds pulled two other brigades

- And that is two brigades you are talking about - out of Baghdad and shot them up to the oil fields - SO the Kurds now have four brigades sitting on those oil fields.

Those Turks are there. And Novack is certainly right I think - we are sending our sp ops in there too- just like he said we were.

Shit.

Joe

[lynnertic]

6. Iraqi PM holds talks in Turkey over Kurdish rebel threat

I don't know if 7/8/07 means august 7 (british) or July 8 (us) - guessing the stories are from yesterday

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=25096
Iraqi PM holds talks in Turkey over Kurdish rebel threat
07/08/2007 06:35:00 PM GMT

ANKARA (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki began talks Tuesday in Turkey to discuss ways of dealing with the safe haven enjoyed by separatist Turkish Kurd rebels in Kurdish-run northern Iraq.

[Joe for Clark]

9. I am pretty sure the only people they don't trust more than us at

this point is Al-Maliki.

They are not stupid. They know he doesn't control anything - especially not the Kurds.

Joe