Posted on 12/16/2007 8:40:02 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Turkey launches biggest bombing raid on Kurdish rebels in Iraq
· Woman killed as 50 planes target PKK guerrilla bases
· Prime minister warns of further military action
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Monday December 17, 2007
Guardian
Turkey yesterday launched the biggest attack on Iraq since the US invasion in 2003, sending more than 50 warplanes to bomb suspected Kurdish insurgent bases inside Iraqi territory, accompanied by long-range artillery shelling. Kurdish officials reported at least one civilian fatality, a woman, and two others injured. The strike, carried out in the middle of the night, sent hundreds of families fleeing and added to the volatility of a region once considered Iraq's most peaceful but now threatened with the prospect of a major showdown between Turkish forces and the PKK Kurdish rebels.
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The USAF doesn’t control the airspace over Iraq anymore?
Or did they just “look the other way” this time?
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I wonder how the Turks are on precision bombing.
Is the ‘Lancet’ reporting 650000 dead Kurds yet?
Exactly my thoughts...
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