BAGHDAD, June 5, 2008
Report: Iran, Turkey Strike Rebels In Iraq
Turkish TV Says Two Countries Have Been Sharing Intel, And Plan More Attacks Inside Iraq
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Fighters of anti-Iranian Kurdish rebel group PEJAK sit at their camp in Qandil mountains in Iraq, Sunday, May 4, 2008. Turkish television reported Thursday, June 5, 2008 that Turkish and Iranian forces had conducted joint strikes against rebels operating in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)
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CNN-Turk television reports that Gen. Ilker Basbug has confirmed for the first time that the two countries share intelligence against the rebels.
He said the two countries plan to launch more coordinated operations against the rebel group in the future.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has been fighting for self-rule in southeastern Turkey since 1984 from bases in northern Iraq.
The Iranian army frequently shells villages in the mountains of northern Iraq, where it alleges that rebels from PEJAK, or the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, are based.
CBS News producer Randall Joyce said Iraqi officials would not immediately confirm the strikes Thursday, but there have been recent reports that the various Kurdish factions fighting cross border insurgencies might be trying to unite in some fashion.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military said Thursday it had captured two Shiite militia suspects south of Baghdad.
A military statement says one of the men is an Iranian-trained "special groups" leader, and the other is a top weapons smuggler and financier. It says both men surrendered when American soldiers stormed their homes in separate raids early Thursday.
The U.S. uses the label "special groups" to describe Shiite fighters who are defying a cease-fire order by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Many of them are believed to have fled recent fighting in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City.
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See all 52 CommentsEventually Iraq will be a Shia state,closely allied with Iran, regardless of who becomes the next president. The sooner we get out, the better. Wasted lives, wasted money, wasted effort. WHY?
Bush has dug this huge hole, McSame wants a bigger shovel.
Posted by omnibus66 at 07:46 AM : Jun 05, 2008
155,000 US hostages are being held in Iraq by Bush/Cheney cartel...
backstabber bush administration take a lesson !!!
Iran and Turkey stands against terrorism and their supporters !!!!
backstabber bush administration take a lesson !!!
Iran and Turkey stands against terrorism and their supporters !!!!
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Posted by kretos at 08:11 AM : Jun 05, 2008
Are you really that stupid??? The only reason Iran is helping is so it will be easier to walk into Iraq if Osama Obama get elected and withdraws our troops; In which case at some point in the future we will have to go back in. Not only that but anyone who really thinks that Iran is against terrorism is really living with their head up where the sun never shines!!!
Iran and Syria.
The militias for the two main Shiite parties that make up Maliki''s Iraqi government were both created in Iran. Iran ALREADY has strong and intimate connections to the current Iraqi government, even though people like flyboy like to pretend otherwise.
never let on.
A magic potion to erase that first
night of bombing a quiet, defensless
capital would have them scrambling
for it.
Merciful dems allow their game of
"forgeting" that it was all over that
very first night and that there is some
sub-something here and now to be argued,
and that the winning or losing of which
argument could today make Bush a war
criminal or a liberator.
Sorry, Bush took care of that himself
six years ago.
The only true answer is someone who will hold to the Constitution... But of course the sheeple want to told what to do and not live like Free men in this country....
The US should support those efforts by diplomacy, not military means. Israel is much safer when there is peace into the region, not war. After 60 years, there is no chance Israel is going to be dismantled. Most of its population is resigned to the fate of giving up some of its claims to establish peace.
The whole region is tired of the costs of war. Only a small minority want to continue the fighting. Those few minority should be ignored, pushed aside and left to howl their dire warning of death and destruction, as if that has not been happening and has not been proven a failure to establish long term peace.
The problems of the middle east are unique to that region and only they can solve them. It is way past time for the west to pull its armies out. Every other country has realized this and has done so.
Only shrub remains as blindly stubborn now as ever. A permenent reminder of what happens when the wrong person it put in power and allowed to run rampent.
Hmmmm...
Turkey is an ally. That is going to be a primary problem in framing any kind of response. shrub can''t attack Iran, claiming it is invading Iraq without addressing what the hell Turkey is doing working with Iran on the PKK problem.
My guess, and it is based on extensive reading outside the mainstream US press, is nothing. There are several reasons for this.
1. As I said, Turkey is an ally. Can''t afford to interfere.
2. Our troops are already stretched thin and have their hands full.
3. The election is in 5 months. To interfere by sending troops to defend the Iraq border, will send the US troop death rate back up and cause untold more problems leading to more US troop death.
4. Petraeus has an eye on his possible political future and since he is now over all the mediterrean operations, he won''t do anything to bring calamity on himself.
No, this is a situation where the best course is to do nothing.
So far the US has had very little diplomatic effect in keeping its Turkish ally from pursuing terrorists and rebels from using the Iraqi boarder as a safe haven, similar to what the Afghanistan Taliban is doing in the boarders of Pakistan.
Main article: Iraqi revolt against the British
Britain imposed a H%u0101shimite monarchy on Iraq and defined the territorial limits of Iraq without taking into account the politics of the different ethnic and religious groups in the country, in particular those of the Kurds and the Assyrians to the north. During the British occupation, the Shi''ites and Kurds fought for independence
THE SURGE IS WORKING! THE SURGE IS WORKING! THE SURGE IS WORKING!
Now our ally Turkey is working with Iran to fight Kurds in Iraq.
WHAT NEXT?
We are only Reaping what we have sown since before 1920.
Please tell me you really don''t believe the C R A P you post. No one can really be that ignorant can they?
My Dad actually said he would divorce my Mom if she didn''t vote for Bush. She didn''t vote for him (thankfully) but he did and got the divorce! As far as Im concerned though, he fought for this country and he can vote to ruin it as he pleases. Doesn''t mean I don''t blame people like him for this *****!
We the taxpayers are paying for all this murder and the inside deals of the GOP war criminals and the corporate war profiteers. Gas at $4 a gallon. Mission Accomplished!
Please tell me you really don''''t believe the C R A P you post. No one can really be that ignorant can they?
Posted by skyhawk761
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Isn''t that the same thing people ask you?
Regards,
Posted by Nancy_Naive
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Winning what?
Iraq was carved out of the Ottoman Empire by the French and British as agreed in the Sykes-Picot Agreement. On 11 November 1920 it became a League of Nations mandate under British control with the name "State of Iraq".
Main article: Iraqi revolt against the British
Britain imposed a Hashimite monarchy on Iraq and defined the territorial limits of Iraq without taking into account the politics of the different ethnic and religious groups in the country, in particular those of the Kurds and the Assyrians to the north. During the British occupation, the Shiites and Kurds fought for independence
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Posted by bhoogren at 02:11 PM : Jun 05, 2008"
I''ll be sure to pass the question on to MAgoo - he''s the one who claimed you''re winning
The whole region is tired of the costs of war. Why should Israel care we pay for everything for them.
Posted by dmw1167
EXACTLY !!!
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Posted by Smirk5 at 06:20 PM : Jun 05, 2008
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Uh that war has been going on now for 1500 years hasn''t it??? LOL Ah Iraq! The LIE that just keeps on giving!!
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Posted by bhoogren at 02:09 PM : Jun 05, 2008
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Strange but ONLY Nazi''s ask him that? Oop''s guess I let it out of the bag huh??? Well since it''s out let''s give everyone a big SIEG HEIL!! GOOD LITTLE FACIST!! Say what did you think about yet ANOTHER report saying your fuhrer LIED us into this mess.. YEP and TWO REPUBLICAN''s... you know there are a few of them left, they voted for the report. NOT GOOD FOR THE "PARTY" huh??? Oh well... sieg heil y''all
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Posted by MCVet at 09:57 PM : Jun 05, 2008
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And they''re not done yet. Knowing they face War Crimes Trials after the Democratic Sweep in November, I''m looking for a massive False Flag Attack, that''ll give the Little Drunken AWOL/Deserter the reason he needs to declare a "National Emergency", suspend the Elections, Congress, and consolidate power under a
Martial Law Police State Dictatorship. If you haven''t got your guns, ammo, and equipment ready, you better do so pronto, because it''s going to go down sometime real soon. Don''t say nobody told you so.
Take care, JIm
The U.S. learned the wrong lesson from Vietnam. One would think that from that experience, one would think very carefully before going in, and plan for every possible contigency. Instead, the (wrong) lesson it learned is to avoid humiliation, stay and try to "win" at all cost, even when there is nothing to be "won" and no longer a reason to stay there.
Only when the public outcry becomes too great that the U.S. will begin pulling out, victory or not. Of course some people will then find reason to blame the "pacifists", and again the wrong lesson will be learned.
Your commentary was enlightening and frightful, but I think I agree. Never thought quite that way before. I heard that Obama and McCain were ''briefed'' on something of superior classification, and to my knowledge, a Presidential candidate has never been briefed in this way. So, something''s getting ready to happen, something BIG, or they wouldn''t prepare BOTH Presidential candidates who at this time have no control.
If Bush suspends elections for ANY reason, in order to remain in power, I fear MASS CHAOS, the likes we''ve never, ever seen.
We need a new plan for a new democratic government. Like, work on it, a new, updated, simpler plan, and at some point, just do away with the old, and put in the new plan.
friends of Turkey, PEJAK enemies of
Iran and PKK friends of PEJAK . . .
Let them all fight!
Trying to figure out who to shoot
going by "The enemy of my enemy is
my friend" they''ll all be dead.
As for Isreal:JERUSALEM - An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks %u201Cunavoidable%u201D given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert%u2019s deputies said Friday.
%u201CIf Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective,%u201D Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
%u201CAttacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable,%u201D said the former army chief who has also been defense minister.
We will then come to the rescue!
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