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Peshmerga Advance Towards Kirkuk (Turkey, Kurds)
ZAMAN ^ | 03-30-03 | editor

Posted on 03/30/2003 7:00:02 AM PST by pkpjamestown

The same Iraqi troops that have displayed such strong resistance to the coalition forces in the south of the country have reportedly shied away from encounters with the Kurdish peshmerga in the north and retreated to their lines around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.

The peshmerga are believed to have advanced approximately 25 kilometers and are nearing Kirkuk, after having begun their operation several days ago. In addition, the Kirkuk-Kurdistan Web site claims that forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) are currently 20 kilometers outside of Kirkuk.

During negotiations conducted with the United States, Turkey had demanded that peshmerga not be used in potential attacks on Mosul and Kirkuk and that control of the region rest totally with U.S. troops. Turkey has warned that it will intervene in northern Iraq in the event that the Kurdish peshmerga enter Mosul and Kirkuk.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqifreedom; kurds; northernfront; peshmerga; puk; turkey; warlist
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To: Orlando
I beleive the Turks were paid-off by Saddam to hold-up the US 4th Army ID from coming in by the North.

We had offered them between 15 and 30 billion plus other incentives. I don't see how a soon to be deposed dictator could match that. LOL.

21 posted on 03/30/2003 10:00:13 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Open the pod bay door HAL.)
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To: Southack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/875588/posts
22 posted on 03/30/2003 10:04:28 AM PST by pkpjamestown
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To: Southack; Travis McGee
>> So is it any surprise that the Kurds are welcoming American troops with open arms as well as willing volunteers ready to fight the Iraqis?

You call pelting your troops with eggs and rocks "welcoming American troops with open arms?"

Whenever you think you've got it figured out, take extra time to think again..
23 posted on 03/30/2003 11:42:04 AM PST by a_Turk (After all the jacks are in their boxes, and the clowns have all gone to bed..)
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To: pkpjamestown
The Turks lost any say in the matter when they decided to refuse to allow our troops to enter into Iraq through Turkey. I've lost all respect for them.
24 posted on 03/30/2003 12:08:12 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: MadIvan
Turkey lost its say when it refused to allow American troops to open a second front from the north.

I couldn't agree more.

25 posted on 03/30/2003 12:09:44 PM PST by libertylover (Republican, because I care.)
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To: a_Turk
Excuse me, but I saw those videos. The egg throwers were in Turkey and not northern Iraq.
26 posted on 03/30/2003 12:44:29 PM PST by goody2shooz
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To: Southack; Travis McGee
(See post 26)
27 posted on 03/30/2003 1:38:06 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: a_Turk
I think 30,000 combat-ready soldiers from the PUK would be considered "welcoming... with open arms." The Iraqi Kurds are our friends.
28 posted on 03/30/2003 1:39:29 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: goody2shooz
>> The egg throwers were in Turkey and not northern Iraq.

Turkish Kurds.
29 posted on 03/30/2003 2:30:01 PM PST by a_Turk (After all the jacks are in their boxes, and the clowns have all gone to bed..)
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To: xm177e2
>> The Iraqi Kurds are our friends.

Only time will tell.
30 posted on 03/30/2003 2:30:32 PM PST by a_Turk (After all the jacks are in their boxes, and the clowns have all gone to bed..)
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To: 4NOMOREGORE
In France!.... DUH?
32 posted on 03/30/2003 3:15:01 PM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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To: MadIvan; a_Turk
The diplomacy here must be intense. I'd post an American battalion across the approaches at a set distance inside Iraq, giving it a buffer, and let it be known that "no hostile force will be allowed to pass."

Let Turkey decide if it wants to go to war with America.

33 posted on 03/30/2003 4:34:33 PM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Orlando
You are right - Turks have never been our friends- they are reviled everywhere they go. Their allegiance is to their mafia drug pushing parastate.

Game's up! Finally this heroic President Bush is dismantling the Turkophiles in the government Perle and next is Wolfowitz -

34 posted on 03/30/2003 4:49:54 PM PST by eleni121
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To: a_Turk; Southack; Travis McGee
To A TURK: Liar Liar pants on fire---Your lying does not make it here on FreeRepublic Turk!

The eggs and rocks were thrown by Turk Muslims.

35 posted on 03/30/2003 4:55:03 PM PST by eleni121
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To: MadIvan
Absloutely...bloody pigs lost any rights whatsoever to have a say in how we conduct this war.

These people cost American LIVES!

Let the Kurds go in, and I say give 'em Kurdistan...they'll be a hell of a lot better allies than the Turks, French or Germans!

Ed
36 posted on 03/30/2003 4:55:50 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: eleni121; Southack; Travis McGee
>> Liar Liar pants on fire---



See the head gear? Ethnic Turks don't wear that..
37 posted on 03/30/2003 5:15:05 PM PST by a_Turk (After all the jacks are in their boxes, and the clowns have all gone to bed..)
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To: a_Turk
I don't care about their ethnicity. It happened in Turkey so Turkey is responsible for this incident. Turkish government probably "set up" this spontaneous expression of hatred
38 posted on 03/30/2003 5:20:31 PM PST by pushforbush
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To: Orlando
I think what Turkey realy wants is the oilfields, and is using the Kurd bs excuse's to invade Northern Iraq. The Turks are not our friends. Watch them

Bingo has been called!!!!

39 posted on 03/30/2003 5:26:04 PM PST by try phecta tom ((Harvey RULES. Paul not the rabbit)
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To: a_Turk
You call pelting your troops with eggs and rocks "welcoming American troops with open arms?"

BS you can't back that up

40 posted on 03/30/2003 5:28:52 PM PST by try phecta tom ((Harvey RULES. Paul not the rabbit)
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