Does anyone know definitively if the US wants the various regions of Kurdistan to be united?It doesn't seem logical that it does, but I difer to those who are experts in this area of the world instead. > >Peace, > >Arlene Johnson > >-----Forwarded Message----- >>From: Sorcha Faal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Mar 20, 2007 1:01 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Turkey Plans Iraq Invasion, Orders All Military Leave Cancelled >> >>[Ed. Note: This report should be read from its website location at >>http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index995.htm as this email copy does not >>contain the links embedded in the original report.] >> >>March 20, 2007 >> >>Turkey Plans Iraq Invasion, Orders All Military Leave Cancelled >> >>By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers >> >> >>In yet another blow to the Global War aims of the United States, the >>most militarily powerful Nation in the Middle East, Turkey, has ordered >>its Military Forces to prepare to invade Iraq. >> >>Prime Minister Erdogan, along with the head of Turkeys Military Forces, >>General Yasar Buyukanit, have taken this extraordinary step over the >>United States failure to contain the growing threat of Iraqs Kurdish >>population and their fears that the Americans plan to set up an >>Independent Kurdish Nation. >> >>According to Turkish press reports all Military leave in Turkey has been >>cancelled in preparation for war, and as we can read as reported by >>Turkeys Zaman News Service in their report titled "Turkey readying for >>spring offensive against PKK", and which says: >> >> "The leaves of military personnel have been canceled and additional >> forces have been deployed to the border with Iraq as the military >> apparently prepares for an operation against the outlawed Kurdistan >> Workers Party (PKK). >> >> The measures come amid frustration with US inactivity against the PKK >> and the expected infiltration of PKK militants from their mountain >> bases in northern Iraq with the arrival of spring. >> >>The military put all troops on alert at the Iraqi border after receiving >>intelligence reports that the PKK would carry out attacks as the snow >>melts in mountain passes, thus easing passage from Iraq to Turkey." >> >>The United States has further inflamed the passions of Turkeys >>Political and Military Leadership with the American US Congress planned >>adoption of a resolution condemning Turkeys Armenian Genocide, to >>which Turkey has vehemently denied. >> >>Though the American White House and the United States Top Military >>Leaders have urged the US Congress not to adopt an Armenian Genocide >>measure their efforts appear to be failing, and to which Turkey has >>warned will call for the immediate expulsion of all US Military Forces >>from Turkish soil. >> >>American War Leaders knowing of Turkeys intention to invade Iraq have, >>likewise, issued the Turks a warning: >> >>"The United States made it clear on Monday that it "certainly" opposed >>any Turkish military action inside northern Iraq to fight the terrorist >>Kurdistan Workers Party's presence there. >> >>A top Turkish military commander at the weekend reaffirmed Ankara's >>right under international law to send troops into northern Iraq to >>attack the PKK terrorists hiding there if it saw fit. "Under >>international law, Turkey can always take measures against the terrorist >>organization in northern Iraq if our military needs require it," Army >>Commander Gen. Ýlker Baþbuð told reporters in Diyarbakýr in the >>Southeast, the main scene of the PKK terrorism." >> >>As we had, also, warned about in our March 3, 2007 report titled "US >>Alliance With Cult Of Angels Raises Russian War Fears As World Rivers >>Face Mysterious New Danger", the dangers of Turkeys confrontation with >>the United States will result in both Russia and China moving Military >>Forces into the Middle East to protect their strategic interests, and to >>which the Americans and their Allies will be forced to respond to. >> >>Russian Military Analysts following the desperate moves of the United >>States to quickly achieve its war goals in the Middle East are reporting >>today that they concur with the dire estimates of American Military >>Forces coming from that Western Nation, and as we can read as reported >>by the Washington Post News Service in their article titled "Military Is >>Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts", and which says: >> >>"Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for >>U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the >>United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would >>be vital to fight a major ground conflict elsewhere, senior U.S. >>military and government officials acknowledge. >> >>More troubling, the officials say, is that it will take years for the >>Army and Marine Corps to recover from what some officials privately have >>called a "death spiral," in which the ever more rapid pace of war-zone >>rotations has consumed 40 percent of their total gear, wearied troops >>and left no time to train to fight anything other than the insurgencies >>now at hand. >> >>The risk to the nation is serious and deepening, senior officers warn, >>because the U.S. military now lacks a large strategic reserve of ground >>troops ready to respond quickly and decisively to potential foreign >>crises, whether the internal collapse of Pakistan, a conflict with Iran >>or an outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula. Air and naval power can >>only go so far in compensating for infantry, artillery and other land >>forces, they said. An immediate concern is that critical Army overseas >>equipment stocks for use in another conflict have been depleted by the >>recent troop increases in Iraq, they said. >> >>"We have a strategy right now that is outstripping the means to execute >>it," Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, Army chief of staff, testified before the >>Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday." >> >>But the most troubling report of all from the Kremlin relating to these >>events are those suggestions from Russian and Chinese Military >>Analysts that if war between the East and West is indeed imminent, there >>is no better time to confront the United States on its own soil then >>now. >> >>To the American people themselves their remains no evidence at all that >>they are aware of the horrific war they are now facing, but to which >>they also seem not to care about. >> >>© March 20, 2007 EU and US all rights reserved. >>http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index995.htm >>-- >> Sorcha Faal >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >