Turkey Urges U.S. 'urgently' To Cease Operations In Tall Afar

[Nambe]

ANKARA, Sept 10 (AFP)

Turkey called Friday on the United States to halt operations in the northern Iraqi town of Tall Afar as a matter of "urgency," saying it was extremely concerned about the situation of civilians there. ..

Anatolia news agency reported Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul had spoken with his US counterpart Colin Powell to pass on Ankara's concerns about the civilians, many of whom are Turkish-speaking Turkmen. ..

The Turkish foreign ministry statement deplored that the US-led operations had caused 50,000 Turkmen to leave their homes in the town.

"The United States must immediately put a stop to this shedding of blood... because the Turkmen have no quarrel with the Americans," it added.

[Zynx]

1. Hey BUSH - WRONG MUSLIMS!

n/t

[hatrack]

2. Change to "The Turkmen HAD no quarrel with the Americans"

Let' see who else we can blow up and piss off, shall we?

[BayouBengal07]

3. Hmm

Ankara doesn't seem to express any concern for the thousands of Kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq who have gone through the same ordeal.

[JoFerret]

4. More uniting the world

...against the US.

More incompetence. More miserable failure.

[Wednesdays]

5. * to Turkey: "Who cares what you think?"

nm

[teryang]

6. Disproportionate use of force = war crimes

This is a government speaking.

[Tight_rope]

7. Listen Bush* the big Texan would listen

[papau]

8. Pre-emptive action required because they might do something in future

Those are the new rules.

:-)

[GOPAgainstGW]

9. Bush to Islamic Terrorist - Hey we want dozens more WTC 9/11's!

STUPID IDIOT! There is over 1 Billion Muslims, with Islam being the 2nd largest religion in the World.

Bush does nothing but give the Islamic terrorist EVERY REASON to incite the Islam mass to wipe the U.S. off the face of the planet.

All International intel says that probably the Islamic terrorists have nuclear and biological material, obtained from Russia after it collapsed at the end of the Cold War, the Russian Mafia came into power, and numerous nuke & biological facility were totally unguarded.

Further it was well understood by all World powers that at the end of the Cold War, the Middle East had to be allowed to polarize to avoid the worst Holy War in the history of this planet. Bush-Cheney cared less about the Middle East Polarization Doctrine, and shoved the U.S.'s foot up the Middle East's arse in his Blood for Oil while killing 10,000 of Middle East citizens.

Dammit, Kerry-Edwards has to campaign on EXACTLY what a Democratic Administration is going to do over the massive and extremely dangerous Middle East situation that Bush-Cheney-GOP has gotten this Country into.

Mark my word, K-E will lose this election if they don't take a solid stand on this issue, and let the U.S. and World know Kerry is going to stop this massive problem of U.S. Middle East Policy and also get Israel under control!

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[struggle4progress]

10. US soldier jailed for abusing prisoners

September 12, 2004 - 12:41PM

<snip> In the northern town of Tall Afar, the death toll from a US counter-insurgency operation launched on Thursday rose to at least 50, including 20 policemen, medics said.

Hundreds of local residents were seen leaving the town today while senior officials called on Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to arrange mediation to end the fighting.

An AFP journalist said families, carrying whatever they could, were leaving Tall Afar in pickup trucks of the national guard.

The town, home to about 150,000 people, was surrounded by US troops, who would not allow any access. <snip>

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/12/1094927420397.html


Iraqi clerics call US-led strikes 'genocide'
AFP, Tall Afar

US-led assaults on insurgents in Tall Afar and Fallujah killed at least 57 people, prompting top Muslim clerics (Imams) to accuse the US-led coalition of "genocide" in Iraq. <snip>

http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/09/12/d40912130179.htm


Hundreds Of Residents Leave Tall Afar
AFP: 9/11/2004
by Mujahid Mohammed

TALL AFAR, Iraq, Sept 11 (AFP) - Hundreds of Iraqis fled the trouble spot of Tall Afar, as regional heavyweights initiated contacts with the government Saturday in a bid to end a US-led operation that has killed at least 50 people.

Clutching bare essentials, families were driven out of the northern town, which was sealed off by US troops for the third consecutive day, in national guard pick-up trucks, said an AFP correspondent.

Entry was barred to all.

At a makeshift refugee camp, just east of town, the Red Crescent has erected 70 to 80 tents to shelter the displaced from the burning sun, but food and water were running low. <snip>

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=26886

[truthisfreedom]

11. i thought the soldiers were there to shoot people? isn't that why they

have guns? to shoot people? the town is in Iraq, right? and we're occupying them so we can shoot people, right? so what's so wrong with all of the shooting and stuff?

if they give you any guff, just shoot 'em, guys. carry on.

/tragic sarcasm