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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-24-07 11:57 PM
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Details about Iranian cross-border into Iraqi Kurdistan are sketchy
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2007/8/independentstate1557.htm

Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- Iranian soldiers crossed into Iraq on Thursday and attacked several small villages in the northeastern
Kurdistan region, local officials said.

U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said he couldn't confirm the attacks, but five Kurdish officials said that troops had infiltrated Iraqi territory and fired on villages.

The Iranian military regularly exchanges artillery and rocket fire with Kurdish rebels who've taken refuge across the border, but Iraqi Kurdish officials worried that Iran's willingness to cross the border raises the possibility of a broader confrontation that would draw the Iraqi government and U.S. forces into an unwanted showdown.

One Kurdish legislator said that if reports of the attacks were true, then Iraq must "stand firmly" against future Iranian encroachments.

Details of the incursion were sparse. Abdul Wahid Gwany, the mayor of Choman, a village in Kurdistan region 250 miles north of Baghdad , said Iranian troops crossed the border in 10 places and traveled approximately three miles into the mountainous Iraqi Kurdistan region, bombing rural villages in the process. He didn't say how many Iranian troops were involved.
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More evidence for Bush's plan to attack Iran
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-25-07 12:03 AM
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1. Turkey's Foreign Minister Gül lends support to Iran’s anti-PEJAK operation in Iraq


http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=120351

Gül lends support to Iran’s anti-PEJAK operation in Iraq

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül voiced support for a possible cross-border operation by neighboring Iran into Iraq to fight a wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) there, saying countries have the right to defend their borders.


Some 2,000 families have reportedly fled mountainous northeast Iraq due to the Iranian shelling and have taken shelter in tents outside the mountainous zone. One resident said they left their village after PEJAK members told them there would be massive clashes in the region soon.
"Unfortunately, terrorists have the ability to operate in Iraq's north due to a power vacuum in Iraq," Gül told a press conference after talks with Iraqi Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi in Ankara after he was asked to comment on reports that Iran was preparing for an incursion into Iraq. "They pose a threat to Turkey as well as to other neighbors. Therefore, every country has the right to defend its borders and take legitimate measures for its own security," he said

News reports on Iraqi Kurdish Web sites and Turkish agencies said Iran's army crossed the border into neighboring Iraq and shelled the Kandil Mountain located in northern Iraq, where PEJAK, the Iranian wing of the PKK, has camps.

Iranian troops penetrated five kilometers into Iraqi territory causing massive material damage, the Anatolia news agency said yesterday. Similar reports were released by Iraqi Kurdish Web sites on Thursday, which quoted local officials in the region as saying Iran has launched a "full-scale war."

PEJAK terrorists are hiding in mountain shelters amid intensive shelling by the Iranian army against the group's bases on Kandil Mountain and the Hajj Umran area, Anatolia said. Some 2,000 families fled the region due to the shelling and took shelter in tents they set up outside the mountainous zone.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-25-07 12:07 AM
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2. Turkey has longed to attackIran.Turkey our Ally now moves to Iran
Edited on Sat Aug-25-07 12:13 AM by lovuian
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AH-IjStfVBs

Turkey has one of Nato's largest armies

does Bush know what he is in the middle of???


this is one of my most commented You Tubes

the hatred and anger resonates this video
its something to realize and see
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-25-07 12:12 AM
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3. a military that takes orders from no one!
check your pm :hi:
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-25-07 12:37 AM
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4. thanks it was brilliant
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-25-07 02:30 PM
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5. kick
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