Turkey Warns U.S. That Its Troops Will Fire Back

Bloomberg.Com UK ^ | July 09, 2003 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Turkey warned the U.S. that its troops will fire back at U.S. soldiers if another attempt is made to arrest Turkish soldiers in Iraq, Milliyet daily reported, without saying how it obtained the information.

Turkish Military Chief of Staff Hilmi Ozkok issued the warning during a meeting yesterday with General James Jones, the U.S. commander in Europe, Milliyet said.

[bedolido]

Wow... what's next?

[CCCV]

"Turkey warned the U.S. that its troops will fire back at U.S. soldiers "

Would be a VERY BIG mistake. Before you swing the big stick, you better be sure you HAVE the big stick.....

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[Protagoras]

Quicksand develops rapidly under these conditions.

Foreign adventures never turn out like they are imagined.

[MattinNJ]

The New York Post had a great editorial today written by Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.). I would post a link, but I am technologically challenged. Basically, he proposes dividing Iraq into three seperate nations. One for the Sunnis, one for the Shi'ites, and one for the Kurds. He also wrote that Turkey is no longer a relaible ally and we could use a new Kurdistan for a forward base.

[Cicero]

Turkey has decided to throw its lot in with France.

[CCCV]

"Turkey is no longer a relaible ally "

I had an idea back when they were holding out for more money to let us fly over their country. I thought a good idea would have been to TELL them that we were going to fly over and that if they would pay US we wouldn't drop anything along the way....

Probably a bad idea, but it was fun entertaining it.

[eno_]

Except the French would not have the balls to shoot even once.

[AdA$tra]

As the President would say: "Bring it on!"

[MattinNJ]

Probably a bad idea, but it was fun entertaining it.

I'm with you. I guess it's a good thing we're not in charge ;-)

[AntiGuv]

Here it is: BREAK UP IRAQ NOW!.

[Gunslingr3]

Foreign adventures never turn out like they are imagined.

don't tell it to the crusaders, they'll call you a traitor...

[MattinNJ]

Thanks. One of these days I'm going to go to HTML boot camp.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

So, Kurdistan it is then.

[ASA Vet]

Except the French would not have the balls to shoot even once

The french did fire on US troops coming ashore in North Africa during WW II.

[SGCOS]

Does this look like somebody who will shoot back?

[afuturegovernor]

Interesting, we would get to see what happens when two NATO nations attack each other.

[Poohbah]

It was absolutely amazing how the French were willing to fight anybody, with the notable exception of the Germans and the Japanese.

[Vaduz]

It would be there last shot.