Turkish Jets Bomb Northern Iraq
Turkish fighter jets bombed targets in northern Iraq on Monday, the
Turkish
military said, the fifth major strike against Kurdish rebels this year.
In a statement posted on its Web site, the Turkish military said it had
struck 70 targets in the Ava****n and Harkuk districts in a 12-hour bombing
run that began at 3 a.m. The military did not give details on damage or
deaths.
It said that the targets were in 11 different places in the area where it
bombed.
Turkey has been waging a bombing campaign against Kurdish militant targets
in northern Iraq since December, involving both planes and artillery, in
an
American-sanctioned effort to weaken the Kurdish guerrilla group that
hides
there.
Read more here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/world/middleeast/05turkey.html?ex=1359867600&en=663b34f92b6ad851&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Wait a minute -- weren't the Iraqi Kurds supposed to be our friends? The
ones that were so cruelly gassed and otherwise mistreated by bad old
Saddam?
And now we're sitting idly by and allowing another of our friends, Turkey,
use weapons that we sold them to continue Saddam's work? So now it's OK to
bomb Kurds?
I guess Bush will hang next........
