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To: TigerPaw who wrote (74263)7/26/2006 1:22:56 AM
From: CalculatedRisk  Respond to of 361102
 
Turkey and Kurdistan (aka Northern Iraq) are starting to skirmish ...

The Next Front
Pressure is building on Ankara to deal more harshly with cross-border terrorist attacks from Iraq.
msnbc.msn.com

Israel launched airstrikes on Lebanon in response to attacks by Hizbullah earlier this month, and George W. Bush called it "self-defense." But what to tell the Turks, who over the last week lost 15 sol-diers to terror attacks launched by sepa-ratist Kurds from neighboring Iraq? Many Turkish leaders are pressing for cross-border tactical air assaults on the guerrillas. But Bush, fearing yet another escalation of the Middle East's violence, urged Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to hold off.

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