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To: bentway who wrote (192206)7/20/2006 10:29:17 AM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
If memory serves, no Israeli soldier or civilian was killed until Israel started shooting this time around.



To: bentway who wrote (192206)7/20/2006 10:41:48 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Good thing it was Turkey and not Israel, 15 soldiers would demand total war from Israel!

Don't be so quick.. Turkey is massing soldiers on the border of Iraq, and rumours are that they have already crossed over to take out PKK (Kongra-Gel) bases.

antiwar.com

atimes.com

The Kurds are playing a dangerous game by provoking Turkey.

But the PKK and the PUK are also in a running political battle for control over the Kurdish part of Iraq. So it might be that the PUK will decide to let the PKK suffer their fate at the hands of the Turks.

Hawk