Iraqi Officials: Iran Shells Kurdish Villages in Northern Iraq

[tpsbmam]

Source: VOA News

Iraqi officials say the Iranian military has fired artillery at several villages in northern Iraq where Iran believes Kurdish rebels are based.

Iraqi Kurdish officials say Iranian forces shelled the villages in Iraq's Sulaimaniyah province near the Iranian border Sunday and Saturday.

No casualties were reported....

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Iran has not confirmed the artillery strikes.

The Iranian military has frequently shelled areas of northern Iraq it suspects of harboring members of the Kurdish separatist group PEJAK, the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan. Tehran accuses the group of launching attacks inside Iran from bases in Iraq.

Read more: http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-03-23-voa20.cfm

[IndyOp]

1. Crap. (n/t)

[snappyturtle]

2. Well, whether Iran did this or not ,we know they will be blamed. Doesn't

this give you the sense of deja vu? :scared:

[tpsbmam]

3. Yeah, it does....

which is what freaked me out when this alert hit my inbox. I don't know how much it means or if, as the article suggests, this happens occasionally and it's more of the crappy status quo.....I just know that there are people who will make hay of this and god only knows what they'll do with it.

[PSPS]

4. So Iran is now our ally?

Didn't bush already give Turkey the ok to do the same thing?

[Bright Eyes]

5. How often does this happen?

"The Iranian military has frequently shelled areas of northern Iraq it suspects of harboring members of the Kurdish separatist group PEJAK."

I thought that was just Turkey?

[jimshoes]

6. No one is allowed to bomb Iraq but US

How dare they.

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[Karenina]

15. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the TRUTH.

[uppityperson]

10. To clarify. Are you saying Kurds are treated poorly, racism runs rampant, that they want their own

country but the political countries surrounding them will never give it to them? Or are you saying n****s want a piece of the pie? Please clarify. Soon.

[ForrestGump]

11. Not that I speak for Karenina but, yes, I do beleive that this is what she meant

Sort of how that early '70s John Lennon song used the word in reference to women, in general.

Karenina is a treasure. Na du! :loveya:

[Karenina]

14. Hi Forrest!!!

:hi::loveya::hi: Thank you for covering my back. It's SO disheartening that most Amis cannot "see over their own plates" as the idiom reads in German.

Unlike the two responders who are OUTRAGED, just OUTRAGED at my analogy, I live among, have gone to school with and broken bread with Kurds. We are neighbors and communicate in our common non-native tongue. As such we take great pains to understand each other correctly.

My first day in class, we were all asked to introduce ourselves. A young woman stood up, gave her name and declared in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that she came from KURDISTAN. There were Turks, Iraqis and Persians there (also Russians, Canadians, Cubans, Serbians and Croatians) and you could have heard a pin drop! The air was so thick I had to catch my breath. WHOAAA!!! WHAT IS THIS???

It prompted me to educate myself about the history of the Kurds and ask lots of questions of EVERYONE. WE ENGAGED EACH OTHER AS PEOPLE. I understand the dynamic in a mensch-to-mensch way that the 2 responders to my post can never hope to, unless they decide to dismount their high horses...

[Roland99]

9. But it's A-Ok for Turkey to attack the Kurds...

[WCGreen]

12. To put it quite simply....

The Kurds are in the Way...

[Posteritatis]

13. Is anyone in that region *not* shelling them now? Oy. (nt)