Comments on: Helping Both Sides?

By: ElamBend

ElamBend — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:16:19 +0000

I suspect both the Turks and the Iraqi Kurds are making too much money developing northern Iraq ne Kurdistan to go beyond this kabuki dance

By: GI

GI — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:55:48 +0000

I’m willing to bet these air strikes are having no real impact on the PKK and is nothing more than PR tool by the Turkish government to show they are doing something. Likewise the Kurds are using the air strikes as a PR tool to claim civilian casualties. So both sides are getting what they want out of it with really nothing happening.

By: ElamBend

ElamBend — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:36:28 +0000

Perhaps the U.S. was feeding them bad intel, because apparently the Turks went around the ‘coordination center’ and wited until things were underway before they let the US know what was up:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071218/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_turkey