Now was there a border infraction or not?

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From the Washington Post:

Iraq says protests against shelling by Turkey

By Waleed Ibrahim
Reuters
Saturday, June 9, 2007; 8:37 AM

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of "intensively shelling" northern Iraq this week and said it had handed the Turkish envoy in Baghdad a protest letter on Saturday.

A Foreign Ministry statement said the shelling caused "huge damage" in the mountainous northern Kurdish provinces of Dahuk and Arbil.

A ministry spokesman said the shelling took place over three hours late on Wednesday and early Thursday.

"This attack caused wide fires and huge damage in the area and made citizens fearful," the ministry statement said, without precisely identifying the damage.

Financial markets were rattled by a report late on Wednesday that Turkey had launched a major incursion across the border into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels.

Turkey denied the report, but a military source said troops had conducted a limited raid, a not unusual incursion into the mountains in northern Iraq where 4,000 rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are said to be hiding...

Grim was part of a conference call about Iraqi Kurdistan where the right (tough) questions were asked, but the right answers don't appear to have been given.

I posted a CNN interview of General Petraeus where he states:

"...But I think that the Turkish military has taken some very prudent steps, they are poised to do what they deem is necessary if it comes to that. But they did not make any moves yesterday as were originally reported...”

Jimbo posted about a Free Kurdistan.

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Now was there a border infraction or not?

From the Washington Post:

Iraq says protests against shelling by Turkey

By Waleed Ibrahim
Reuters
Saturday, June 9, 2007; 8:37 AM

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of "intensively shelling" northern Iraq this week and said it had handed the Turkish envoy in Baghdad a protest letter on Saturday.

A Foreign Ministry statement said the shelling caused "huge damage" in the mountainous northern Kurdish provinces of Dahuk and Arbil.

A ministry spokesman said the shelling took place over three hours late on Wednesday and early Thursday.

"This attack caused wide fires and huge damage in the area and made citizens fearful," the ministry statement said, without precisely identifying the damage.

Financial markets were rattled by a report late on Wednesday that Turkey had launched a major incursion across the border into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels.

Turkey denied the report, but a military source said troops had conducted a limited raid, a not unusual incursion into the mountains in northern Iraq where 4,000 rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are said to be hiding...

Grim was part of a conference call about Iraqi Kurdistan where the right (tough) questions were asked, but the right answers don't appear to have been given.

I posted a CNN interview of General Petraeus where he states:

"...But I think that the Turkish military has taken some very prudent steps, they are poised to do what they deem is necessary if it comes to that. But they did not make any moves yesterday as were originally reported...”

Jimbo posted about a Free Kurdistan.

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