Brand New Front in Iraq War - Turkey vs Kurdish Guerrillas

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Saturday March 24, 2007 · 12:06 PM PDT

2007/03/24 · 12:06

There are ominous signs that Turkey is ready to open up a new front in the Iraq war by attacking Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) guerrillas on the Iraq-Turkey border. This doesn't bode well for the United States' occupation of Iraq, whose armed forces are already stretched thin across other sections of the country.

Upto now, the Kurdish region of northern Iraq had remained relatively free of confrontations with the populace or with the well-armed local militia known as the peshmerga. In fact, the Kurdish peshmergas had been recruited recently by the Iraqi government to particpate in joint forays with the US army as part of current military operations to pacify and secure parts of Baghdad.

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