BAGHDAD, Oct. 16, 2007
Iraqi Envoy Aims To Avert Turkish Invasion
Sunni Vice President Tries To Convince Turks Military Action Not Necessary Against Kurds
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi shake hands before their meeting in Ankara, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Adem Altan, Pool)
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A U.S soldier helps secure the area in front of a damaged car at the scene where a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007. A parked car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army check point in Saadon street, killing six included four civilians and injuring some 25 others, police said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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A U.S. soldier stands guard as Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, unseen, meets with tribal leaders about 20 miles south of Baghdad on Oct. 15, 2007. Petraeus paid a visit to the village to laud the concerned citizens who have formed to secure the restive area. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Iraqi civilians inspect damaged vehicles at the scene where a car bomb exploded at Eden Square, northwestern Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007. A car bomb parked near a minibus exploded Sunday, killing nine people, including three women and two boys waiting for a ride to a Shiite shrine in Baghdad, a police officer said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Meanwhile, a car bomb and an explosives-laden sewage pump truck struck Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and northern Iraq as at least 17 people were killed in attacks nationwide.
The Iraqi government reiterated its call for Turkey to use diplomacy, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he was dispatching a "high-level" political and security team to Ankara to try to defuse tensions on the Iraqi-Turkish border.
A statement by his office said the decision was made after al-Maliki met with senior aides to discuss the crisis.
Washington has pressed its NATO ally not to enter Iraq, fearing that unilateral Turkish military action could destabilize the autonomous Kurdish region in the north, which is one of Iraq's few relatively stable areas. The Kurds also are a longtime U.S. ally.
The explosives-laden car was parked near a gas station across the street from an Iraqi army checkpoint on Saadoun Street when it blew up just before noon, police and army officials said.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information, said four civilians and two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 25 people were wounded, including 19 civilians.
It was the latest in a series of car bombings in the capital despite stringent security measures in place as part of U.S.-Iraqi military operations and celebrations marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide bomber driving a sewage pump truck detonated his payload as he approached a police station that had been recently rebuilt after four previous attacks, police said.
The blast caused most of the building to collapse, killing at least four policemen, including the station chief, Capt. Ibrahim Mohammed, and wounding 75 people, police said.
Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Waqqa said several nearby shops and cars were damaged as well.
Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, has seen a rise in violence that many blame in part on an influx of militants who fled the Baghdad security crackdown.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attacks, but both bombings bore the hallmarks of Sunni insurgents, particularly al Qaeda in Iraq.
(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
In other developments:
The U.S. military announced the arrest of several militants on both sides of the sectarian divide, including one of five extremists who were believed to be behind last week's rocket attack that killed two U.S. soldiers on Camp Victory, the headquarters for American forces in Iraq.
The suspect was detained along with three known associates early Monday by U.S. soldiers, according to a statement. The alleged militants tried to hide in the Agriculture Ministry compound in eastern Baghdad and the soldiers entered the ministry to detain them, the military said.
"We have reason to believe that, through two intelligence-driven operations over the last few days, we now have detained all of the leadership and the key operatives of the indirect fire cell that attacked Victory Base last week," said Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, the deputy commander of Baghdad operations.
The statement didn't identify the militants, but the Agriculture Ministry -- which was closed for the holiday on Monday -- is run by Shiites with a heavy influence by the Mahdi Army militia that is loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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- Turkey will make an operation to North Iraq, NOT Invade, because unlike US, Turkey''s only goal is to stop terrorism that is killing the troops and civilians. Before questioning 90 years of before, USA should put some resolutions on the table to finish PKK terrorism, which Turkey believes strongly that Iraqi government and USA are suporting this terrorism because of political benefits.
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- IOWEIGN:
How would US feel and even do when we question her black stains in the past? Man, US has a lot more than Turkey, accept that. And it was 93 years ago at the state of war, WW1, when Ottomans were losing and everybody were dying like rats. It was Not just Armenians, that''s the problem. Armenian rebels allied with France and Russia, attacked Muslim civilians with the guns Russia provided them. When the mass killings are two sided it cannot be a "genocide". - Reply to this comment
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Posted by ReV0LuTiOn at 12:39 AM : Oct 17, 2007
Can''t do that. He lost me right there, that is a fools statement and I know it. I don''t care if he does the others those two right there show that he is a fool.
I am sorry for your childs death but I have 8 GrandChildren that I want to grow up in this country with the same chance for a future that I had.- Reply to this comment
- Hmmm. Am I missing something here ?
Posted by farmerbb
Yes, you are. The Iraqis don''t mind Iran selling weapons to help to expel the invaders, (like the US, who are there on the basis of lies) but do mind Turkey becoming just another invader. So difficult to understand? - Reply to this comment
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WAKE UP AMERICA! Will It Be Your Child Who Dies Next, Like Mine Did? - Reply to this comment
- It''s good for a country to stay on their own dirt as well as mind their own business. Greed is what really crosses the border no matter the uniform that''s worn.
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- Jedi08
I''m so ashamed of you - you aren''t bright enough to know what the heck you''re talking about which is why only ***** is all that you spew. - Reply to this comment
- rharrin1 -- AQ in Iraq is NOT related to bin laden - our own military said that they were 2-3% of the insurgency and account for 5% of the violence.
*** are we doing there??? - Reply to this comment
- Iraq is a much worse mess than most of us even know --- there''s a fierce article analysis written by 12 former captains who have first hand knowledge of how bad things are ... and they ask an important question ... it''s over 5 years now - what are we doing there.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/15/AR2007101500841.html?nav=hcmodule
By 12 former Army captains
Tuesday, October 16, 2007; 12:00 AM
Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start. And, five years on, Iraq is in shambles. - Reply to this comment
- U.S. commanders have cited major progress in curtailing al Qaeda operations during an eight-month security crackdown in Baghdad and surrounding areas, but they have been unable to stop the car bombings and suicide attacks usually attributed to the group.
So the claim of winning and success is just another lie.
Thanks general P - Reply to this comment
- Im sooo ashamed of the Democrat Congress. They are purposely trying to hurt are military and President Bush. Pelosi swhould be hung as a traitor!!!!
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- Why Idiot Nancy Pelosi would bring this subject up now
is unbelievable!!!!! What is more sinister is that our
dictator Bushite is not trying to stop it. I will bet idiot Bush put Pelosi up to do this. Nancy (AIPAC) Pelosi would not do anything to get Emperor Bushite mad.
Nazi Nancy is very INCOMPETENT and needs to resign!!!!
Posted by tylenol6 at 05:39 PM : Oct 16, 2007
Only 22 other countries have voted and recognize the killing of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide !
Lets forget about the Holocaust too !! - Reply to this comment
- Let''s see....Iraq is upset that Turkey may send military forces into Iraq....but seems to have no problem with Iran sending military material into Iraq. It''s OK for outsiders to help kill U.S. and other forces in Iraq, but not to come in an attack the Kurdish minority ? Hmmm. Am I missing something here ?
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- Why Idiot Nancy Pelosi would bring this subject up now
is unbelievable!!!!! What is more sinister is that our
dictator Bushite is not trying to stop it. I will bet idiot Bush put Pelosi up to do this. Nancy (AIPAC) Pelosi would not do anything to get Emperor Bushite mad.
Nazi Nancy is very INCOMPETENT and needs to resign!!!! - Reply to this comment
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