Will they invade, won't they invade. They already are!!!
"15 Kurdish rebels killed in clash with Turkish forces" by Suzan Fraser/Associated Press October 29, 2007
ANKARA, Turkey - Attack helicopters buzzed over a hilly region in southeastern Turkey yesterday looking for Kurdish rebels after troops reportedly killed 15 separatist guerrillas in a morning operation far from the increasingly tense border with Iraq.
The fighting occurred in the predominantly Kurdish province of Tunceli.
The top American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said yesterday that the US military was playing a role in trying to defuse the tensions, but he declined to elaborate:
"I am actually not going to say anything about what we may be doing with our longstanding NATO allies [in] Turkey, although we clearly are doing things with them."
We already know, Puke!
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for unity between Turks and his country's minority Kurds yesterday,
After all the threats, and after the murder of some 30k of them these last 20+ years?
Erdogan, in a message ahead of the Oct. 29 celebrations to mark the 84th anniversary of the Turkish republic:
"As long as we are firmly bound together, the treacherous separatist terrorist attacks will never reach their goal. I want to declare this one more time: The struggle we lead against the separatist terrorism that aims to destroy our unity and our constitutional order will continue with belief and determination."
Nothing like boiling that bloodthirsty nationalist fervor to in the march war!
A 9-mile race across Istanbul's Bosporus bridge to the European side of the city turned into an anti-PKK protest yesterday, with thousands of runners waving Turkish flags and shouting slogans denouncing the rebels.
Turkish Hierarchy:
Military.
Civilian government.
Turkmen.
Kurd.
You know how shit rolls, right, reader?
But riot police cracked down quickly on a pro-PKK rally in the poor Okmeydani neighborhood of Istanbul, shooting tear gas and dispersing the 150 demonstrators.
Houston, the SHIT has LANDED.
Repeat, the SHIT has LANDED!
Plop, plop!
Before the fighting in Tunceli, the Turkish military blocked roads into the region with armored personnel carriers and soldiers. By afternoon, long lines of trucks were backed up waiting to get through.
Tunceli is some 340 miles northeast of the province of Sirnak and 400 miles northeast of the province of Hakkari, the places where most of the recent fighting with the rebels has taken place. Sirnak and Hakkari border Iraq."
"Turkey Attacks Kurdish Rebel Positions" by SEBNEM ARSU
ISTANBUL, Oct. 28 — Turkey’s military on Sunday attacked Kurdish rebels in the southeastern province of Tunceli, a mostly Kurdish area that is a base for the separatist Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or P.K.K.
Special forces troops, supported by helicopter gunships, assaulted the rebel positions, according to the state-run Anatolian News Agency. The area was closed to traffic, causing disruptions along local roads, it said. Local news agencies said at least 15 rebels had been killed, though the military declined to confirm that number.
Operations against the P.K.K. have been taking place for several weeks. On Friday, minor clashes occurred between the army and rebels in Bingol, a town in the southeast. The army said in a statement on Saturday that there were no casualties.
Meanwhile, thousands of protesters throughout Turkey marched against Kurdish militancy on Sunday. Government officials have been calling for calm.
Pffffffft!!!! Yeah, after getting the public into a lather!!!
Sick of the MSM lies, reader, I really am!
"Petraeus Says U.S. Seeking Calm in North" by ALISSA J. RUBIN and JAMES GLANZ
Another calm-seeker.
I thought you were helping them out (from above):
"I am actually not going to say anything about what we may be doing with our longstanding NATO allies [in] Turkey, although we clearly are doing things with them."
I love it! A "war-is-peace" man!
CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq, Oct. 28 — With tensions on the border between Iraq and Turkey still running high, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American military’s commander in Iraq, indicated Sunday that behind-the-scenes efforts were under way to calm the situation. But he would not talk about them publicly because the situation was volatile.
General Petraeus: “I am not going to be saying anything about what we may be doing with our longtime NATO ally Turkey, although we clearly are doing things with them. Nor am I saying what we’re doing with our longtime Iraqi partners.”
Sick of this government's SECRECY and LYING!!!!
General Petraeus also made clear that despite reports describing Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia as a largely spent force, he viewed it as a continuing threat.
I thought the surge worked, damn ya!!!!
Really tired of the repetitive bullshit, I really am!!!!!!!!
General Petraeus: “The presence of Al Qaeda in a number of the key neighborhoods that they were in before — Amariya, Adhamiya, Ghazaliya, Dora — has been significantly reduced and its actions degraded. [Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia] remained a very lethal enemy of Iraq, and [the military] must keep the pressure on very, very intensely.”
Translation: We MUST STAY and NEVER LEAVE!
"Al-CIA-Duh" still a "threat."
CUI BONO, readers?
September seems like another lifetime ago, doesn't it?
With Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia’s activity reduced, General Petraeus said, it has been possible to see other problems more clearly, including criminal activities like extortion. He described the criminal influence in some areas of the capital as almost “a mafia-type presence.”
What, ya mean the American troops roaming around?
The vulnerability of Sunnis and Shiites who are working to thwart extremism was clear again on Sunday evening when 10 sheiks, three of them Sunni Arabs and the rest Shiites, were kidnapped as they tried to return to Al Salam in eastern Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province.
The sheiks had gone to Baghdad to meet with a representative of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. It was unclear who was responsible for the kidnapping, which occurred in Shaab, a poor, predominantly Shiite neighborhood.
Well this sure does stink!!!!!
Gee, who could have known where these men were?
"Al-CIA-Duh?" Or these guys? Or these guys? Or these guys?
This event REALLY has a western black-op STINK!!!!!!!!!
On a separate matter, General Petraeus seemed to distance himself from any effort to save Sultan Hashim, the defense minister under Saddam Hussein, from a death sentence.
He's distancing himself from it?
File that away for the next post, see if it matches.
Mr. Hashim, who surrendered to General Petraeus in 2003, has been well treated, the general said Sunday. While in American custody, Mr. Hashim was allowed to visit his family and with an imam, General Petraeus said.
Isn't it amazing that the old guard Saddamist criminals -- the reasons we went to war, right, to liberate? -- get the royal treatment, while average Iraqis get thrown into torture chambers for months on end with no charges?
Something is a-STINKIN' again, and I think I know what it is!
Recently, he has become a symbol to Sunni Arabs of the poor treatment of anyone who worked for Mr. Hussein, even those who served the country.
Now the guy is deserving of pity?
Poor Saddam, he could have used some of that Zionist sympathy!
So what was this guy, a spy for USrael during the 90s and early 2000s?
There has been an outcry in defense of Mr. Hashim primarily from Sunni Arabs, especially those who are former members of the security services.
Like the Mukhbarat? Ugh!!!!
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!
Leading the effort has been Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni Arab who is one of Iraq’s two vice presidents. Mr. Hashimi emphasized that Mr. Hashim had had little choice but to obey Saddam Hussein’s orders and that in all respects Mr. Hashim was viewed as a professional soldier, not a defender of Mr. Hussein’s rule."
That WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH for NAZIS, so why should it be available to anyone?
