Iranian jets 'hit' Iraqi Kurd areas

[cali]

Source: Al-Jazeera


Iranian helicopters have attacked three Kurdish villages in northern Iraq in an apparent cross-border raid targeting Kurdish separatists, according to an Iraqi Kurdish border guard official.

There were no immediate reports of casualties after the pre-dawn raid along the Iraqi border province of Sulaymaniya on Saturday.

"At 4 am (0100 GMT) they attacked with artillery the villages of Kani Saif, Jomarasi and Kara Sozi, that belong to the Panjwin district," the border guard official told the AFP news agency.

"After the (initial) attacks, three Iranian helicopters attacked these areas again.

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Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2009/05/200952122842742602.html

[IndianaGreen]

1. Following the same footsteps as Turkey has against Kurdish terrorism

In this particular case, I suspect the CIA has been using the Kurds as they did when the Shah stepped out of line.

[The Magistrate]

2. As A Matter Of Curiousity, Ma'am

Who do you suppose was using the Kurds in this region from, say, 1920 to 1948?

[leveymg]

9. Do you mean the Dhimmis? 1948 was the give-away. You might find this thesis interesting.

I certainly did.

The Jews of Baghdad and Zionism: 1920-1948 The thesis focuses on the 1920-1948 period, and argues that ...... Jews in Iraqi Kurdistan immigrated to Palestine in much larger numbers than their ...
users.ox.ac.uk/~metheses/Alexander.pdf - Similar pages
by A Alexander - 1948

[Barack_America]

3. What can we say about this? We do, after all, support Israel when this is done to Palestinians.

[cali]

4. not exactly analogous though you certainly have a point

but in any case, our gov't won't say much of anything about this.

[shadowknows69]

5. Bush probably would have used it as an excuse to bomb Iran

Luckily we have saner heads in the White House now.

[shadowknows69]

6. How do jets=Attack Helicopters? That's the only aircraft I see mentioned after the header.

[WestSeattle2]

7. WTF?!

WE are the only ones allowed to bomb innocent Iraqi's. Who the hell does Iran think they are?!

I wonder if their president went on national TV to announce mission accomplished?

[pjt7]

8. This is very noteworthy

because Iran very rarely does offical military combat missions.

[WestSeattle2]

10. Agreed, it is very noteworthy. The Kurdish issue

is why Turkey didn't walk out of the forum that was held a few weeks ago, where the Iranian president went off on another unhinged tangent about Jewish people. Turkey, Iran, and Irag, all fear the Kurdish separatist movement. This military mission does not surprise me at all.