Define Two-faceism
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/turkey-not-only-focus-of-kurdish-guerilla-fighting/2007/10/23/1192941064534.html
Iran accuses US of backing militants on its border, writes Richard Oppel in Baghdad.
DEADLY raids into Turkey by Kurdish militants holed up in northern Iraq are the focus of urgent diplomacy, with Turkey threatening to invade Iraq and the United States begging for restraint while expressing solidarity with Turkish anger.
But out of the public eye, a chillingly similar battle has been under way on the Iraqi border with Iran. Kurdish guerillas ambush and kill Iranian forces and retreat to their hideouts in Iraq. The Americans offer Iran little sympathy. Tehran even says Washington helps the Iranian attacks, a charge the US denies. Whatever the truth the conflict, like the Turkish one, has explosive potential.
On a recent trip to the Iran-Iraq border, Salih Shevger, an Iranian Kurdish militant, was interviewed as he lay flat on a slab of rock atop a 3010-metre mountain, with binoculars pressed to his face as he watched Iranian military outposts perched on peaks about six kilometres away.
He and his comrades told how they ambushed an Iranian patrol between the bases a few days before, killing three soldiers and capturing another. "They were sitting and talking on top of a hill, and we approached, hiding ourselves, and fired on them from two sides," said Bayram Gabar, who commanded the raid, and who like all the fighters here uses a nom de guerre.
The militants from the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, or PJAK, who have been waging an insurgency in Iran are an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK, the Kurdish guerillas who fight Turkey.
Like the PKK, the Iranian Kurds control much of the craggy, boulder-strewn frontier and routinely ambush patrols on the other side. But while the US calls the PKK groups terrorists, guerilla commanders say PJAK has had "direct or indirect discussions" with US officials.
Iran accuses US of backing militants on its border, writes Richard Oppel in Baghdad.
DEADLY raids into Turkey by Kurdish militants holed up in northern Iraq are the focus of urgent diplomacy, with Turkey threatening to invade Iraq and the United States begging for restraint while expressing solidarity with Turkish anger.
But out of the public eye, a chillingly similar battle has been under way on the Iraqi border with Iran. Kurdish guerillas ambush and kill Iranian forces and retreat to their hideouts in Iraq. The Americans offer Iran little sympathy. Tehran even says Washington helps the Iranian attacks, a charge the US denies. Whatever the truth the conflict, like the Turkish one, has explosive potential.
On a recent trip to the Iran-Iraq border, Salih Shevger, an Iranian Kurdish militant, was interviewed as he lay flat on a slab of rock atop a 3010-metre mountain, with binoculars pressed to his face as he watched Iranian military outposts perched on peaks about six kilometres away.
He and his comrades told how they ambushed an Iranian patrol between the bases a few days before, killing three soldiers and capturing another. "They were sitting and talking on top of a hill, and we approached, hiding ourselves, and fired on them from two sides," said Bayram Gabar, who commanded the raid, and who like all the fighters here uses a nom de guerre.
The militants from the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan, or PJAK, who have been waging an insurgency in Iran are an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK, the Kurdish guerillas who fight Turkey.
Like the PKK, the Iranian Kurds control much of the craggy, boulder-strewn frontier and routinely ambush patrols on the other side. But while the US calls the PKK groups terrorists, guerilla commanders say PJAK has had "direct or indirect discussions" with US officials.
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According to President Bush... shouldn't the country that was attacked have all rights to invade and take care of that?
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We started this type of action... we don't want others to follow?
Hail, Hail!!!
"Legitimate" meaning erase everything thats happened before the Iranian strike and build things into a case of "Iran struck a peaceful neighbouring nation".
As for the Turks, they are bunch of pussies. They have the United States by the balls when it comes to logistics in Iraq yet still they are happy to bow down to what you guys have to tell them.