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To: Mannie who wrote (27563)	9/13/2003 3:46:02 PM
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U.S. tells Turkey it plans to deal with Kurdish rebels holed up in Iraq ANKARA, Turkey — The United States, which is trying to persuade Turkey to send peacekeeping troops to Iraq, told Turkish leaders yesterday that it would do its best to combat Kurdish rebels holed up in northern Iraq. A U.S. team held talks with Turkish officials on how to deal with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), loathed in Turkey for waging a 15-year insurgency in which some 30,000 people, mainly Kurds, died. The group recently called off a five-year cease-fire. "I think you can say the two sides have a clear plan of action (on the PKK) which we will follow and which we will work on together," the head of the U.S. team, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lynn Pascoe, said after the talks. The Bush administration lists the PKK among groups it considers terrorist organizations. Bush offers Fort Stewart soldiers nation's gratitude for sacrifices in Iraq FORT STEWART, Ga. — President Bush yesterday offered the nation's gratitude to the troops who stormed Baghdad, and urged other countries to send reinforcements. Standing before thousands of U.S. soldiers back from front-line duty, Bush acknowledged their sacrifices. His visit to Fort Stewart, the home of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, also gave him another opportunity to draw a link between the war in Iraq and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Nearly 16,000 soldiers from Fort Stewart served in Iraq and no other military unit suffered as many losses: 38. The 3rd Infantry was one of the first units to arrive in Iraq, and it led the drive to Baghdad. Although there's no evidence that Iraq was involved in the assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Bush again said conflict in Iraq had become "the central front" in the war on terrorism. "We took a pledge that day and we have kept that pledge. We are bringing the guilty to justice," he said. "This undertaking is difficult and it is costly. Yet it is worthy of our country, and it is critical to our future. "No free nation can be neutral in the fight between civilization and chaos. Terrorists in Iraq have attacked representatives of the civilized world, and opposing them and defeating them must be the cause of the civilized world," he said.