Yet Another Shoe Dropping in Iraq
Jul 26th, 2006 at 11:24 am by Susie
The dog that hasn’t really barked yet in Iraq is the Turkey-Kurdistan conflict. One of the most-warned-against “things go bad” scenarios before the war was that Iraqi Kurdistan might become a base for anti-Turkish operation in Turkish Kurdistan, prompting Turkey to intervene militarily in Iraq. So far, lots and lots of things have gone bad in Iraq, but this particular scenario has been pretty quiet. Until now, that is, when Newsweek reports that Kurdish separatists operating out of Iraq have killed 15 Turkish soldiers in cross-border raids over the past week and pressure is building in Ankara for retaliation, especially in light of America’s strong support for Israel’s incursion into Lebanon.
