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| Kurds Say "No American’s Here!" |
| 2002-12-18 |
| There is a diplomatic flurry in Ankara after Turkey's NTV reported on Dec. 16 that 50 trucks have carried weapons from Turkey through the Habur border crossing to 2,000 Kurdish fighters. The TV report added that they are currently being trained by 500 U.S. intelligence personnel. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Prime Minister Barham Saleh denied it, asserting that there was no American presence in the area controlled by the PUK, and insisting that no weapons had been delivered. A second denial came from Safeen Dizayee, the Ankara representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which controls the remaining parts of northern Iraq. But NTV is sticking to its story, claiming that American liaison officers transferred the weaponry from the Incirlik air base to the Pesh Merga Kurdish militia. The United States sent a defense and intelligence mission into northern Iraq last February to evaluate the area's capabilities in the event of war with Iraq. A second U.S. military mission was subsequently sent to the region to assess the capabilities of the Kurdish forces and estimate the necessary logistic support that will be needed for an attack on Iraq. The louder the denials, the more it sounds true |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Sean Penn?? Isn't he French, I thought I heard that he had already surrendered to IRAQ |
| Posted by: Rick 2002-12-19 05:08:55 |
| #4 Maybe it's Sean Penn and a film crew... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2002-12-18 16:36:24 |
| #3 "...Alabama?" "Um, no, we mean, um... Georgia?" "Oh, Russians? Oh, okay, never mind then..." "Whew, that was a close one!" "What was that?" "Nothing! Nothing at all..." |
| Posted by: Just John 2002-12-18 16:31:03 |
| #2 Perhaps its a group of well armed militant Canadians. Us North Americans all look alike. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-12-18 15:10:25 |
| #1 "No, no! They ain't Merkins! They're from, um... someplace else." "Where's that?" "Ummm... Alabama." |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-12-18 14:16:38 |