From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Nope - Don't think the end is near at all - just that the area is quite
volatile and Bush Administration policies have added fuel to the fire.
Wasn't it you before the Turkish airstrikes on Northern Iraq that said
Turkey would stay out of the area?

It's the Bushies that are spouting the we are doomed give up your rights
mantra. My feeling is the world has always been dangerous - live with it -
and keep our rights


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> There'll be no dust collecting on your "the end is near"
sandwich boards
> Rich! 
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44f381c8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Looks like those wild and crazy Kurds are trying to provoke a Turkish
>> invasion of Northern Iraq. What wooul Bush do?
>>
>> http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1222358.ece
>>
>> A Kurdish separatist splinter group claimed responsibility for four bomb
>> blasts in the Turkish resort town of Marmaris and in Istanbul on Sunday,
>> which injured 27 people including 10 British holidaymakers.
>>
>> In a statement on their website, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK)
>> said: "We warned tourists before ... Turkey is not safe.
Tourists should
>> not come to Turkey. We will not be held responsible for the consequences
>> if they do."
>>
>> Turkish police announced late last night that they had arrested a
>> suspected member of a Kurdish guerrilla group planning a new attack.
>> According to the state news agency Anatolian, police said the suspect was
>> planning an attack on the city of Izmir and that explosives had been
>> seized in the arrest. Other people were detained for helping the suspect
>> who was apparently from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), not the TAK.
>>
>> The TAK are a splinter group who first emerged last year in a similar
>> attack on an Aegean resort. They are part of the Kurdish Separatist
>> Movement but not officially linked to the PKK, which has waged an armed
>> campaign for Kurdish self-rule in south-east Turkey since 1978. Since the
>> arrest of their leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999, the PKK said it would
>> like to broker a peace deal with Turkey, but Ankara has said it will not
>> negotiate with terrorists.
>>
>> Turkey has also been incensed by the Iraqi government's refusal to tackle
>> those Kurdish guerrillas operating out of the north of the country.
>> During a visit to Turkey last month the Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar
>> Zebari avoided making any concrete commitments to taking on Kurdish
>> fighters attacking Turkey out of bases in Iraq.
>>
>>
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