Turkey urges end to N Iraq (US) raids

[leftchick]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3645070.stm

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Turkey is urging the US to bring its operations in the north Iraq town of Talafar to a swift end, saying ethnic Turkmen have died in air strikes.

US warplanes have been pounding Talafar - which is thought to be a haven for fighters entering Iraq from Syria.

About 20 residents are believed to have been killed on Thursday. American forces have sealed off the town.

US aircraft on Friday also attacked anti-US insurgents in Falluja, west of Baghdad, for a fourth consecutive day.

[Dhalgren]

1. So now our good, strong ally, Turkey is saying

that the US is indiscriminately killing innocent civilians? And, because they are Turks, Turkey wants us to stop? Is an innocent Turk more human than an innocent Iraqi? When the Saudi Arabians killed 3000 Americans on 9/11/01, we called that "terrorism". What do we call it when we have killed 30,000 Iraqis? "War"? So, the turks want us to stop killing Iraqis if the Iraqis are of Turkmen descent? But I'm sure it's OK for US to continue killing innocent Kurds - no problem there...