Take a look at the RUBBLE the Turks left HERE and HERE!!
"Turkish planes bomb PKK targets in Iraq" by Suzan Fraser/Associated Press December 17, 2007
ANKARA, Turkey --Turkey said dozens of its warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets as deep as 60 miles inside northern Iraq for three hours Sunday, the largest aerial attack in years against the outlawed separatist group. Turkey's military chief said the U.S. gave intelligence and tacit approval for the raid.
An Iraqi official said the planes attacked several villages, killing one woman. The rebels said two civilians and five rebels were killed.
In the nighttime offensive, the fighter jets hit rebel positions close to the border with Turkey and in the Qandil mountains, which straddle the Iraq-Iran border, the Turkish military said in a statement posted on its Web site. It said the operation was directed against the rebels and not against the local population.
They didn't hit the good Kurd "terrorists," did they?
Sick of the double-dealing games, I'll tell you that!
As many as 50 fighter jets were involved in the airstrikes, private NTV television and other media reported. Turkey has recently attacked the area with ground-based artillery and helicopters and there have been some unconfirmed reports of airstrikes by warplanes.
I'm appalled!
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lauded the operation and suggested Turkey could stage more attacks on PKK hide-outs in northern Iraq:
"This operation, which was carried out under night conditions, was a success. Our struggle (against the PKK) will continue inside and outside Turkey with the same determination."
The pro-Kurdish news agency Firat, citing the PKK, said two civilians and five PKK rebels were killed. The airstrikes destroyed two schools and a hospital, it said, adding that the hospital had been vacated in anticipation of a Turkish attack.
The Kurdish rebels also said they responded to Turkish raids with anti-aircraft artillery units, Firat reported. Turkey has massed tens of thousands of troops along its border with northern Iraq.
Harsh winter conditions in the rugged terrain of northern Iraq reduce the possibility of a large-scale ground offensive, making more airstrikes against the PKK likelier than attacks using tanks or helicopters.
Limited and precise air raids are also less likely to hurt Turkey's alliance with the U.S. and Europe or to affect global oil prices than a protracted land battle.
How offensive to me as a human being!
Playing POLITICS with this shit!
Yup, just ANNIHILATE the Kurds through air bombing!
There are PEOPLE DOWN THERE!!!!!
REAL LIVE PEOPLE, MURDERERS!!!!!!!!!
Didn't you SEE the RUBBLE!!??
STOP the GENOCIDE, Turkey!!!!!
Turkish news reports said a PKK command center in Qandil was hit. The mountain is a base for the PKK's leadership council and the group has a network of camps around the mountain. But news reports in the past weeks have suggested that PKK fighters may have dispersed from camps in northern Iraq, worried about a possible attack from Turkey.
Abdullah Ibrahim, a senior official in the Iraqi administrative center of Sangasar, said Turkish warplanes bombarded 10 Kurdish villages, killing one woman and injuring two others, and acknowledged that there were Kurdish rebel bases in the area, but said they were far from the villages that were hit:
"The villagers are now scared and are hiding in nearby caves. They lost all their properties."
Get that, readers! I CONDEMN the BUTCHERS of TURKEY!!!
Villages are scattered in the Qandil Mountains, some as far as an hour's drive apart over steep roads and paths.
Jamal Abdullah, a spokesman for the regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan, told AP Television News:
"We call on the Turkish army to differentiate between the PKK and the ordinary people. We don't want the conflict between the Turkish troops and the PKK to turn into a conflict between the Turkish forces and the people of Kurdistan."
I call on Turkey to stop all attacks on Kurds!
Enough is enough!
Don't add to your legacy of genocide and murder!
How about showing them some respect instead?!
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq refused to comment Monday on the Turkish general's assertion that American officials had given Turkey permission to enter Iraq's air space. The attack came a month after the United States promised to share intelligence with Turkey to help combat the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, Turkey's military chief, said U.S. intelligence was used, Kanal D television quoted Buyukanit as saying:
"America gave intelligence, but more importantly, America last night opened (the Iraqi) airspace to us. By opening the airspace, America gave its approval to this operation. Even if it's winter, even if there's snow, even if they live in caves, we'll find them and hit them. These operations will continue all the time."
So the U.S. is ONCE AGAIN complicit in MASS-MURDER!
And AMERIKA STABBED the Kurds in the backs again!
No wonder the Kurds want there own country and don't trust anyone!
On Oct. 31, the U.S. Defense Department said it was assisting the Turks in their efforts to combat the PKK by supplying them with "lots of intelligence." The Pentagon had no further comment Sunday on whether it had a role in the airstrikes.
Journalists were barred from entering the stricken areas, but some managed to sneak into the small village of Qlatooka, in Qandil, where bombs had destroyed a school and some homes.
Mukhlis Khadar, 44, said he and his family were woken by the raids and fled their home as soon as the school was hit:
"We left an unbelievable scene behind us. When we climbed the rocks of the nearby mountain ... we saw flames of fire burning our village. ... Our house disappeared."
Saoqo Mohammad, a 30-year-old woman said:
"We are civilians, with no arms or any relation to the PKK, why do they allow such horrible acts against civilians?"
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Monday that the Iraqi government had expected Turkey to coordinate with it before striking the rebels inside Iraq, and also indicated that the fact Iraqi civilians were killed showed Turkey had not hit the right target:
"What happened yesterday was based maybe on misinformation."
Yup, that is U.S. INTEL for you, right?
Why does bogus U.S. intel always lead to the murder of civilians, folks!?
Wars justified on absolute garbage!
In Iraq, Mohammad Hajj Hammoud, a Foreign Ministry undersecretary, summoned the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad and asked that Ankara end raids "that cause harm to innocent people and affect friendly bilateral relations," the ministry said on its Web site.
The ministry said the raids killed one woman, injured four people and displaced several families.
The PKK has been fighting for autonomy in the predominantly Kurdish southeast for more than two decades. Turkish forces have periodically shelled across the Iraqi border, and have sometimes carried out "hot pursuits" -- limited raids on the Iraqi side that sometimes last only a few hours."
Yup, and as an AmeriKan news shit-eater, I rarely ever heard about this.
Like I never hear about these:
U.S. to keep most troops in Baghdad
"In a change of plans, American commanders in Iraq have decided to keep their forces concentrated in Baghdad when the buildup strategy ends next year, removing troops instead from outlying areas of the country.
The change represents the military's first attempt to confront its big challenge in 2008: how to cut the number of troops without sacrificing security.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson, in an interview in his office at the U.S. military headquarters at Camp Victory, outside the capital:
"There are different schools of thought here. Our school of thought is provincial capacity will ultimately lead to enhanced central government capacity. That's our view."
Another senior military officer responsible for Iraq war planning:
"The grass-roots level will force change at the top because if they do not act on it, they will get overrun."
You mean, like a COUP?
So far, military officials have sought to design the troop reduction in a way that avoids creation of security gaps. Military leaders in Washington have been pressing generals in Baghdad to move toward what they call "tactical overwatch."
Under that strategy, Iraqi troops would take the lead in most operations, and U.S. troops would be called in only when problems occur. A faster move toward an overwatch strategy has gained adherents among U.S. officials.
The senior military official in Washington:
"You cannot set zero violence as your standard in Iraq. It is just not attainable. The standard rather is a level of violence that is containable by the Iraqi security forces. And that is largely what we have seen in Basra."
What, were all the women are being killed?
For the Americans, the first real test of how well security can hold up as the drawdown intensifies this spring probably will take place north of Baghdad. Significant violence still racks Diyala province and its provincial capital, Baqubah. Military planners are grappling with a solution to deal with the instability in the region.
Oh, and they sold us the surge success lie!
Some senior commanders believe violence in the northern provinces is the result of a spillover of Sunni radicals linked to the group Al Qaeda in Iraq who have fled their former stronghold of Anbar, where a U.S.-Iraqi alliance has all but shut down their operations. Under such an analysis, additional combat operations may be needed.
Can you say DRAFT in 2009, boys and girls!
Make sure you kiss your parents good-bye!
But one aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the violence appeared more likely to be tied to ongoing sectarian disputes in the region over the eventual boundaries of the Kurdistan region. Such disputes need to be resolved through sectarian reconciliation and not military action, the aide argued.
U.S. military officials insist the focus on Baghdad is not indicative of a lack of success in the capital. Violence is down significantly, they note, and services are being restored.
Well, LIARS INSIST a lot, too!
But American generals also acknowledge that the city is still beset with sectarian tensions."
Yup, but the surge worked, remember that!
Oh, the shitpile of lies told me by the NYT and Boston Globe!
And they continue to lie!
"I want to go home"
CNN and Fox News say Iraqis are happily returning to Baghdad. The cover of the November 20 New York Times had a large photo of a happy wedding party in Baghdad. Inside the newspaper was a photo of smiling adolescents playing foosball, plus a banner headline "Baghdad Exhales As Security Improves."
Author John Ross says this is all a LIE. He says the streets of Baghdad and Mosul remain deadly killing grounds.
Ross says the lies began on November 7th when the Washington Post claimed that Baghdad was now so safe that that over 46,000 refugees had returned in October. The next day, New York Times correspondent Damien Cave wrote, "Iraq families are returning to Baghdad!" Days later, Cave had to admit that it was all lies. Iraqi refugees are living in hovels, or in tents in the desert. Those who “return” to Baghdad only do so to retrieve money, or to seek food or medical care, or to bury a relative.
Bush’s little puppet, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, claimed that in October,1600 families returned to Baghdad every day. In reality, it was 50 or less. Maliki had sent buses to get them, and the refugees took advantage of the free ride to go back to Baghdad for a few hours. Then they left again with all the other refugees that keep streaming out of the city.
Now refugees must sneak into Syria or Jordan or elsewhere. No more are allowed in.
The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) says 4.2 million Iraqis have fled Iraq, which is the largest forced displacement in the Arab world since Jews drove Palestinians out of Palestine in 1948. The Middle East now accounts for half the world's refugees - according to the Swiss-based International Organization on Migration (IOM). Yet the world only cares about places like Darfur, because the refugees there aren’t Arabs.
About 1.5 million Iraqis have fled to Syria; 750,000 to Jordan; and several hundred thousand more to the Gulf States, and to Arab capitals like Cairo and Beirut. If Israel succeeds in triggering a civil war in Lebanon, then Lebanese people will join the flood of misery.
The most vulnerable are not those who flee to other countries, but those who are internally displaced and are still in Iraq. Herded into ragtag desert camps where violence and disease are epidemic, they face a harsh winter with little resources. Half are children. About 4300 families became so desperate that they were forced to take Maliki's offer of $800 USD to return to Baghdad. As they try to find some place to live in Baghdad, many more people leave the city. A third of the returnees return to find someone else living in their homes. Many Sunnis have lost their homes to Shi’ite families.
Incredibly, the Maliki government has charged former CIA asset and convicted embezzler Ahmad Chalabi with addressing the problem of refugees.
The Iraqis in external exile put pressures on the cities and countries where they seek sanctuary. They exacerbate already debilitated infrastructure and precious resources like water. They drive up housing prices. They drive down wages. They are treated with hostility. Their children are not admitted into school. Work permits are impossible to obtain. Iraqi workers are exploited in the underground job market. Deportation back to Iraq is a constant threat. The refugees live in the shadows, constantly fearing they will be arrested and sent home. Deportation often splits families. Women are left alone to raise children in a strange land.
All refugees everywhere long to go home. They think about it nonstop. They dream about it at night. They fondly remember how things were in the past. They focus on memories of simple things like birds in the trees. They are obsessed with going “home” -- but they can’t when there is no food, no electricity, and nothing but violence and death.
"I want only to go to home," says Meha, a 14 year-old Iraqi girl who now sells pickles on the streets of Amman to make ends meet.
When asked what she would like to say to U.S. teenagers, Meha said America must leave her country. Then she can go home.
Back to the MSM shit-shovel with the Zionists lead shit-spewer now:
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s military said it bombed Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq before dawn on Sunday, as part of an American-sanctioned effort to weaken the Kurdish guerrilla group that hides there. An Iraqi official said one woman had been killed.
Yup, STAB the Kurds in the BACK good, U.S.A.!!
How can ANYONE BELIEVE IN US in this world?
Turkish fighter jets struck targets in the Zap, Avashin and Hakurk regions, in Dohuk Province along the border with Iraq, and troops followed up with artillery strikes, the Turkish military said on its Web site.
Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, the commander of the Turkish Army, said the United States had helped the operation by offering intelligence and clearance to enter Iraqi airspace Saturday night:
“Turkish Armed Forces gave one message to Turkish people and rest of the world. It can be winter, snowing or them hiding in caves, but we would ultimately find and hit them.”
And smash their schools and hospitals, hanh?!!!!
The military gave no details about how many planes were involved or the extent of the attacks; Turkish NTV television reported that the mission involved more than 50 planes.
The strikes, which began around 1 a.m. and lasted for about three hours, also hit Qandil, an area farther inside Iraq, where some of the commanders for the Kurdish militant group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the P.K.K., the initials of its Kurdish name, are believed to hide.
The strikes in Qandil hit near eight villages, according to Hassan Ibrahim, a mayor in the area. A woman was killed in Asteawkan, he said, and two were wounded in Leawzhea. Six houses were destroyed in the strikes.
Mr. Ibrahim: “The people of those villages are civilian. They are far away from Turkey borders — hundreds of kilometers.”
In the Qandil area, Mukhlis Khidr, 44, a shepherd, said bombs had destroyed a new school and his house. His sheep and goats were crushed under a collapsed roof, he said, as he and his wife fled with their six children.
Mr. Khidr: “I saw war planes bombing and flying at low level. I saw my house burning and heard my livestock crying underneath the debris.”
You guys MURDERED FARMERS LIVESTOCK and DESTROYED THEIR HOMES!!!
WTF?!?! STOP IT RIGHT NOW, Turkey!!!!
Turkey’s government said it had a right to take unilateral military action against the guerrillas, even if on Iraqi territory.
Mr. Erdogan, on Turkish television Sunday:
“We as the government are determined to use all political, geopolitical and military vehicles against the separatist terror organization in the most effective way.”
Asserting the DOCTRINE of "PREEMPTION" I see!
Just an EXCUSE for MASS-MURDER of FARMERS!!!!
Mr. Erdogan said recently:
“Let’s look together for ways of winning over the people instead of alienating them. If we are to get rid of terrorism, this can become possible by keeping open the door of democratic politics as a way of solving problems.”
The military said helicopters also flew missions along the border after the airstrikes."
Is HE FUCKING SERIOUS?!
WIN them over by AIR BOMBING THEM and KILLING THEM??!!
Sorry, WRONG REACH-OUT, Turkish Genociders!!!!!!!
