US pledges to flush out PKK before May

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

I wonder how our Kurdish "allies" are taking this new brilliant step?

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=127700


Two top generals of the US army assured Turkey on Wednesday that the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will be eliminated by May next year, a top military official said on Wednesday.

Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, gave their word that the cooperation between Turkey and the United States will flush out the outlawed PKK terrorists by May, 2008, said the same source.

The two US generals expressed their opinion that cooperation between the two countries in the fight against the terrorist group would yield positive results very soon; possibly even earlier than May of next year.

Cartwright and Petraeus reiterated that the PKK is an enemy of both Turkey and the US. The generals said that a mechanism devised at the Nov. 5 meeting to fight the PKK would significantly aid Turkey's fight against the terrorist group. "The PKK will not be in its current position next May. It will not have the power to strike Turkey again from northern Iraq." Cartwright and Petraeus indicated, the source said.

They also expressed that Turkey had the right to launch a cross-border operation into northern Iraq for purposes of self-defense. The two US commanders expressed the opinion that an air-offensive into northern Iraq to root out terrorist bases there might be better than conducting an operation on land.

Turkey and the US should decide on the exact date and time of such an air operation in a coordinated manner so that Turkish warplanes will not run into US planes, the sides agreed. The US would also assist Turkey by not having its fighter jets fly in that zone and opening Iraqi airspace to Turkish planes.

[Tempest]

1. And the Iraq war was only supposed to last 3 weeks

This would be funny if it weren't that people were going to get killed in the process.

[bahrbearian]

2. Are we going to chase them through the mountains into Iran?

[hatrack]

3. Are we going to smoke 'em outta their holes, an' bring 'em to justice?

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