Rice pushes "roadmap" as Turkish troops enter Iraq

[rodeodance]

Source: reuters

Rice pushes "roadmap" as Turkish troops enter Iraq

By Arshad Mohammed and Shamal Aqrawi 38 minutes ago

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit overshadowed by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, called on Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to urgently implement a national reconciliation roadmap.


Turkish troops crossed overnight into the Iraqi Kurdish province of Dahuk, about 200 km (120 miles) from the city of Kirkuk, where Rice's plane first touched down. A Turkish military official said they clashed with separatist guerrillas.

A senior Iraqi Kurdish official said on Tuesday evening the troops had since withdrawn. It was the latest in a series of raids against guerrillas of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who shelter in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

While not commenting directly on the incursion, Rice told a news conference in Baghdad that "no one should do anything that threatens to destabilize the north," referring to Kurdistan, Iraq's most stable region

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. How many countries have to invade Iraq before the U.N. has a resolution of condemnation?

[LiberalFighter]

2. Too late!! Bush & Rice already guilty of destabilizing northern Iraq.