Kurdish President Refuses To Meet With Condi
Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani.
Baghdad, Dec 19-President of Iraq’s Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani refused to meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday, protesting against Washington’s stance on the Turkish shelling on northern Iraq, the Kurdish government said in its website on Wednesday.
The website quoted the Kurdish Prime Minister Negervan Barzani as saying that President Barzani was originally supposed to head for Baghdad to meet Rice and other officials but he changed his mind at the very last-minute.
Turkish warplanes two days ago shelled outposts of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Kurdistan.
In a statement released yesterday, the Kurdistan presidency held the U.S. responsible for the recent Turkish shelling.
Turkey says that it wages operations targeting what is believed to be outposts of the (PKK), outlawed in Turkey, which Kurdish fighters use to start attacks against the Turkish state with the aim of establishing an independent state for the Kurds.
The crisis on the Iraqi-Turkish borders unprecedentedly flared up during the past couple of weeks after the PKK, or Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan in Kurdish, which is outlawed in Turkey, escalated operations against Turkish forces. Fighters of the PKK, holed up in mountainous areas in northern Iraq, had killed, wounded, and captured more than 40 Turkish soldiers as of late.
After the PKK escalations, the Turkish government received the thumbs up from parliament to carry out a military operation against the PKK inside Iraqi Kurdistan region territories.
Rice had arrived in Kirkuk on Tuesday in unannounced visit before heading for Baghdad, where she met with Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
(VOI)
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December 19th, 2007 at 12:56 pmAh, yes the blame game. Another aspect of the fucktard Islamo-facist mindset. They are superior, and therefore always right; and the House of War is takfir and therefore always wrong. An excellent illustration of Muslim Brotherhood and AQ logic.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:48 pmI don’t care for Turkey, I don’t care for the PKK, and I don’t care for Condi.
A pox on all their houses.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:51 pmThe bad part is that the pound sand from the Kurds to the Cirque de State Dept. most likely came as a surprise to Rice.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:34 pm@ ticticboom
I’m feeling you there, Brah
December 19th, 2007 at 6:39 pmIraqis are so ungrateful!!!!!
December 19th, 2007 at 8:27 pmWhat annoys me about this is that i sent a letter to the kurdish website www.theotheriraq.com and asked about the PKK and what the governments official stance was(this was over 1 year ago) they told me that they condemned that group. so my question is why isnt the kurdish government working with turkey to get these goat fuckers instead of protesting when turkey goes it alone?
December 19th, 2007 at 11:27 pmWhen you cross the border and attack another state,
December 20th, 2007 at 8:28 amyou shouldn’t be surprised if you find yourself in a war - unless
of course you’re a Palestinian.