While Malibu Burns, Northern Iraq is starting to ignite....

[boston bean]

Turkey's political and military leaders are considering their response after Kurdish rebels killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and wounded 17 more near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran, a Turkish government source told CNN.

Turkish forces immediately responded to the early morning attack by killing 32 rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in southern Turkey, according to a statement on an official government Web site.

An emergency cabinet meeting was scheduled for Sunday, the government source said.

There are fears that the escalation in fighting could spill into northern Iraq's Kurdish region, where Turkey insists the PKK leadership is based.


Cross-border shelling between Turkish forces and PKK rebels in northern Iraq continued Sunday. Iraqi leaders fear that Turkish ground forces could make a major push into northern Iraq after Turkey's parliament approved such an incursion in an overwhelming vote last week.

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/21/turkey.kurds/?iref=mpstoryview



Hold on for the ride folks!

[jeff30997]

1. Another thing that was predicted back in 1991.

I remember reading about what would happen if the troupes had occupied Iraq in the Golf War.Civil war, then the spreading of the conflict to Turkey and possibly to other countries as well.

[boston bean]

2. As if it weren't already a nightmare. If Turkey goes into Iraq,

all hells gonna break loose fast!

[MadMaddie]

3. Condi's response "No one could have predicted this outcome"

[jeff30997]

4. Lol!

:rofl: