To: greggy; a_Turk
A_turk posted an article that said Turkey had seized control of a major airbase in the N. Iraq no-fly zone. Interesting.
4 posted on
08/10/2002 9:09:59 PM PDT by
xzins
To: xzins
I saw that too... must've been a trial balloon, but sure was intriguing.
To: xzins
To: xzins; a_Turk
The Turkish military came back and denied that report!
They said!
To: xzins
A_turk posted an article that said Turkey had seized control of a major airbase in the N. Iraq no-fly zone. Interesting.I think Debka is exaggerating actions that would have been carried out in any case wrt defending the no-fly zones, however there might be something to this in a more general sense. I've been wondering for awhile if the one "stratagery" not leaked to the newspapers might be the real thing: A gradual envelopement of Iraq, starting in the no-fly zones, carrying on with further peicemeal incursions. Gathering intelligence along the way, maybe even turning a military unit here and there, making contact with dissident elements, and the like would be geared toward preparing a culminating decapitating strike towards Bahgdad.
57 posted on
08/11/2002 3:26:11 AM PDT by
Stultis
To: xzins
I believe Rumsfeld addressed that report during his last press conference. He said it was not true.
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