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2003-02-19 Iraq

U.S. Lands in Turkish Port Without Permission?

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Posted by Steve 2003-02-19 03:18 pm|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steve-
There is at least one major news outlet reporting on this:

http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/202460.asp?cp1=1

Posted by growler 2003-02-19 17:24:04|| 2003-02-19 17:24:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, if this is a deception operation, it's not working.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-02-19 15:42:40|| 2003-02-19 15:42:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Some news was bound to slip out. Watch the Turkish news outlets and see if the denials continue. The only place I've seen anything was my story from Islam Online, and the pictures Murat posted this morning. There is nothing else out there. Everyone is talking about Turkey stalling. The fix is in.

Posted by Steve 2003-02-19 15:49:21|| 2003-02-19 15:49:21|| Front Page Top

#4 1. The line will be something like: "They are unloading supplies for a previously scheduled NATO exercise. All activities will be performed in a narrow "NATO" exercise corridor, which for the duration of the exercise will be under NATO command. Turkey as a NATO Contingent will be participating in the exercise, and Iraqi military attaches are being invited to observe."

2. If you can tell if they are there or not, its harder to defend yourself against the oncoming threat. Turkey, may just be a "FORTITUDE" operation. ( or maybe not.....)

Civilian Military Interpretation Rule #3: All military strategy is based on deception. What you hear is what you are meant to hear, not whats is necessarily true.

Go back to your lives citizens, theres nothing to see here.

Posted by Frank Martin 2003-02-19 15:52:33|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2003-02-19 15:52:33|| Front Page Top

#5 It's beautiful watching Sun Tzu's teachings in action.

Posted by Dishman 2003-02-19 16:13:38|| 2003-02-19 16:13:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, speaking as military and a vet I will say this. Don't ever discount Fuck-up in your calculations of things. It's real easy for the chaos-factor to slip in and botch everything.

the military is NOT a well oil machine, now matter how it looks, cause there's alwasy some guy (like me) who is in charge and he usually doesn't know what the hell he's doing either.

-DS
"the horns hold up the halo"

Posted by DeviantSaint 2003-02-19 16:18:30|| [www.livejournal.com/~deviantsaint] 2003-02-19 16:18:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Cumhur Ozturkler initially refused them entry to the port facilities, saying they did not have proper permission....just a little misunderstanding, the Turkish shake down custom, either that or the authentic documents completely threw him for a loop. Cumhur was later seen scaping barnicles, wearing a t-shirt that read "my government got 50 billion and all I got was this lousy demotion"

Posted by dsaucer 2003-02-19 19:29:42|| 2003-02-19 19:29:42|| Front Page Top

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