The new invasion of Iraq

[kpete]

The new invasion of Iraq

Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region
Patrick Cockburn
Saturday, 23 February 2008


A new crisis has exploded in Iraq after Turkish troops, supported by attack planes and Cobra helicopters, yesterday launched a major ground offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan.


The invading Turkish soldiers are in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas hiding in the mountains. They are seeking to destroy the camps of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) along the border between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. "Thousands of troops have crossed the border and thousands more are waiting at the border to join them if necessary," said a Turkish military source.

"There are severe clashes," said Ahmed Danees, the head of foreign relations for the PKK. "Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and eight wounded. There are no PKK casualties." Turkish television said that the number of Turkish troops involved was between 3,000 and 10,000, and they had moved 16 miles inside Iraq.

But the escalating Turkish attacks are destabilising the Kurdish region of Iraq which is the one peaceful part of the country and has visibly benefited from the US invasion.

more at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-new-invasion-of-iraq-786142.html

[Submariner]

1. Chimpy McFlightsuit will be wanting to invade Turkey soon?

If the blithering idiot studied up on the differences between kurds, shia's, and sunni's, instead of thinking they were all the same thing, maybe he would have thought twice about invading Iraq and destabilizing the ME. Then again, maybe he did not think at all. Others thought for him.