Foreign Troop Presence Worries Iraq Leader
BAGHDAD, Iraq - President Jalal Talabani expressed his concern Sunday over reported Iranian and Turkish troop concentrations on those countries' borders with Iraq.
Turkey has moved thousands of troops to the border region in what its military said was an offensive against Turkish Kurd guerrillas.
Iran also reportedly has moved forces to the border, and last week shelled a mountainous region inside Iraq used by Iranian Kurd fighters for infiltration into Iran, according to Iraqi Kurd officials. No casualties were reported from Friday's artillery and rocket barrage.
Talabani said that so far Iranian and Turkish forces have stayed on their sides of the border.
But "I have expressed my concern over these concentrations ... Iraq is a sovereign independent nation that won't let other nations interfere in its internal affairs," he said at a press conference with U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in the northern city of Irbil.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060423/...aq_iran_turkey
Everybody has their own border patrol problems....some worse than other I guess!
Foreign Troop Presence Worries Iraq Leader
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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
BAGHDAD, Iraq - President Jalal Talabani expressed his concern Sunday over reported Iranian and Turkish troop concentrations on those countries' borders with Iraq.
Turkey has moved thousands of troops to the border region in what its military said was an offensive against Turkish Kurd guerrillas.
Iran also reportedly has moved forces to the border, and last week shelled a mountainous region inside Iraq used by Iranian Kurd fighters for infiltration into Iran, according to Iraqi Kurd officials. No casualties were reported from Friday's artillery and rocket barrage.
Talabani said that so far Iranian and Turkish forces have stayed on their sides of the border.
But "I have expressed my concern over these concentrations ... Iraq is a sovereign independent nation that won't let other nations interfere in its internal affairs," he said at a press conference with U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in the northern city of Irbil.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060423/...aq_iran_turkey
Everybody has their own border patrol problems....some worse than other I guess!
Funny how Turkish troops are moving to the border, yet there are plans for a joint US-Israeli-Turkish assault on Iran. It's all coming together!!
