Saturday, September 27, 2008

The Swooping Turkeys of Kurdistan

The once-every-three-months mention (agenda-pushing omission otherwise):"

"Warplanes strike Kurd sites in Iraq

ANKARA - Turkish warplanes attacked 16 Kurdish rebel targets in a cross-border raid in northern Iraq, a military spokesman said yesterday. The strikes late Thursday targeted rebel positions on Qandil mountain, Brigadier General Metin Gurak told reporters. The mountain on the Iranian-Iraqi border is where the rebel group's leaders are believed to be based. He said the warplanes took care to spare civilians from harm, but in northern Iraq, spokesman Ahmed Deniz of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, said the air raid had damaged a school and wounded three people (AP)."