Robert D. Novak Washington Post, July 30, 2007
The quagmire of Iraq and the increasing difficulties in Afghanistan have not prevented the Bush administration to embark on a new, dangerous and controversial covert mission. Senior U.S. officials are working alongside their Turkish colleagues in operation
joint military to repress Kurdish guerrillas and capture their leaders. Undercover, their aim is to prevent a Turkish invasion of Iraq. Although there has been necessarily prepared the detailed plans or cooperatives, a general outline was presented to a select number of members of the Congregation it as required by law. U.S. Special Forces are working with the turkish army to quell the Kurdish insurgency. The Bush administration is trying to prevent the opening of another front in Iraq, it would have achieved enze disastrous. But this bet is likely to lead to exposure and failure more.
The Turkish initiative reflects the temperament and personality of George W. Bush. Even the staunchest supporters of his Iraq policy in Congress were surprised optimistic mood of the president, makes him seem unaware of the loss of his political base. Despite the failed attempt to impose a military solution in Iraq, now wants to solve groped by arms - though clandestinely - the historical problems of Turkey with its Kurdish minority, which comprises one fifth of the population of the country.
SV iluppo autonomous Kurdish entity inside Iraq, coming out of the decline and fall of Saddam Hussein, has alarmed the turkish government. This has led to the refusal of Ankara to allow U.S. combat troops to enter Iraq through Turkey, a last-minute complication in the invasion of 2003. With increasing political power of the Kurds within Iraq, the Turkish government has begun to feel increasingly impatient with the centennial project of a Kurdistan extended across borders internatio onali - and nibble chunks of Turkey .
dormant guerrilla fighters of the Kurdish-Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) came to life. A Since June, the turkish government had shown its concern for the traffic of material artillery across the border. Ankara began protesting, with both Washington c h and Baghdad, (saying) that the PKK was using northern Iraq as a base for guerrilla operations. On 11 July in Washington, Ambassador Nabi Sensoy turkish became the first official to publicly support turkish advance claims that Iraqi Kurdish territory in turkish. On July 20, just two days before his re-election happy, turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened a military incursion into Iraq against the Kurds. Wednesday sliding know, Murat Karayilan, head of the PKK political council, predicted that "the turkish army attack cherà southern Kurdistan." Turkey has a well-trained and well equipped army of 250,000 men near the border, to deal with about 4,000 PKK guerrillas hiding in the mountains of northern Iraq. But, of course, the significant cross-border operations would lead to the side of the PKK's armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the best U.S. ally in Iraq. What will Washington's dilemma between two friends who fought ono each other on an unwanted new front in Iraq?
The surprising answer was given in the reports secret Timan last September on Capitol Hill by Eric S. Edelman, a former adviser to Vice President Cheney who is now undersecretary of defense policy by delegation. Edelman, an official of the Foreign Service once was U.S. ambassador to Turkey, revealed to MPs the plans to an undercover U.S. special forces to help the Turks neutralize the PKK. They decapitate the fighting organization helping Turkey get rid of PKK leaders that have targeted for years.
of Edelman's listeners were speechless. It is not risky? (Edelman) said to be certain of success, adding that the U.S. role could be concealed and always would be denied. Assuming this is true, some of the Members present are left wondering if this was a wise policy to deal with the downtrodden Kurds, who have been betrayed so often by the U.S. government in recent years.
The plan shows that the heavy experiences have not deterred President Bush from taking ostiche adventures with the use of force. On the contrary, the two most intrepid supporters of the intervention in Iraq - John McCain and Lindsey Graham - were surprised by Bush during a recent meeting with him. When they shared the and their impressions with colleagues, spoke to what the president did not appear at all worried. This may explain his willingness to embark on such a questionable venture against the Kurds.
(Translation by Charles M. Miele)
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The Turkish initiative reflects the temperament and personality of George W. Bush. Even the staunchest supporters of his Iraq policy in Congress were surprised optimistic mood of the president, makes him seem unaware of the loss of his political base. Despite the failed attempt to impose a military solution in Iraq, now wants to solve groped by arms - though clandestinely - the historical problems of Turkey with its Kurdish minority, which comprises one fifth of the population of the country.
SV iluppo autonomous Kurdish entity inside Iraq, coming out of the decline and fall of Saddam Hussein, has alarmed the turkish government. This has led to the refusal of Ankara to allow U.S. combat troops to enter Iraq through Turkey, a last-minute complication in the invasion of 2003. With increasing political power of the Kurds within Iraq, the Turkish government has begun to feel increasingly impatient with the centennial project of a Kurdistan extended across borders internatio onali - and nibble chunks of Turkey .
dormant guerrilla fighters of the Kurdish-Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) came to life. A Since June, the turkish government had shown its concern for the traffic of material artillery across the border. Ankara began protesting, with both Washington c h and Baghdad, (saying) that the PKK was using northern Iraq as a base for guerrilla operations. On 11 July in Washington, Ambassador Nabi Sensoy turkish became the first official to publicly support turkish advance claims that Iraqi Kurdish territory in turkish. On July 20, just two days before his re-election happy, turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened a military incursion into Iraq against the Kurds. Wednesday sliding know, Murat Karayilan, head of the PKK political council, predicted that "the turkish army attack cherà southern Kurdistan." Turkey has a well-trained and well equipped army of 250,000 men near the border, to deal with about 4,000 PKK guerrillas hiding in the mountains of northern Iraq. But, of course, the significant cross-border operations would lead to the side of the PKK's armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the best U.S. ally in Iraq. What will Washington's dilemma between two friends who fought ono each other on an unwanted new front in Iraq?
The surprising answer was given in the reports secret Timan last September on Capitol Hill by Eric S. Edelman, a former adviser to Vice President Cheney who is now undersecretary of defense policy by delegation. Edelman, an official of the Foreign Service once was U.S. ambassador to Turkey, revealed to MPs the plans to an undercover U.S. special forces to help the Turks neutralize the PKK. They decapitate the fighting organization helping Turkey get rid of PKK leaders that have targeted for years.
of Edelman's listeners were speechless. It is not risky? (Edelman) said to be certain of success, adding that the U.S. role could be concealed and always would be denied. Assuming this is true, some of the Members present are left wondering if this was a wise policy to deal with the downtrodden Kurds, who have been betrayed so often by the U.S. government in recent years.
The plan shows that the heavy experiences have not deterred President Bush from taking ostiche adventures with the use of force. On the contrary, the two most intrepid supporters of the intervention in Iraq - John McCain and Lindsey Graham - were surprised by Bush during a recent meeting with him. When they shared the and their impressions with colleagues, spoke to what the president did not appear at all worried. This may explain his willingness to embark on such a questionable venture against the Kurds.
(Translation by Charles M. Miele)
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