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THE HANDSTAND |
APRIL 2003 |
 INFORMATION ON WAR IN IRAQ -
skulduggery in turkey/us relations???
Information coming from northern regions of Iraq indicates that most of the Kurdish leaders chose not to participate in the US war against Iraq. The primary reason for that is the mistrust of the Kurds toward the US. Yesterday one of the Russian intelligence sources obtained information about a secret agreement reached between the US and the Turkish government. In the agreement the US, behind the backs of the Kurds, promised Turkey not to support in any way a formation of a Kurdish state in this region. The US has also promised not to prevent Turkey from sending its troops [ to Northern Kurdistan] immediately following [the coalition] capture of northern Iraq. In essence, this gives Turkey a card-blanche to use force for a "cleanup" in Kurdistan. At the same time the Kurdish troops will be moved to fight the Iraqis outside of Kurdistan, thus rendering them unable to support their own people. Along the border with Kurdistan Turkey has already massed a 40,000-strong army expeditionary corps that is specializing in combat operations against the Kurds. This force remains at a 4-hour readiness to begin combat operations. All
of this indicates that the coalition command will be
unable to create a strong "Northern Front"
during the next 3-4 days and that the US Marines and
paratroopers in this area will have to limit their
operations to distracting the Iraqis and to launching
reconnaissance missions. During a
meeting with the Germany's chancellor [ Gerhard ]
Schroeder the heads of the German military and political
intelligence reported that the US is doing everything
possible to conceal information on the situation in the
combat zone and that the US shows an extremely
"unfriendly" attitude. Germany's own
intelligence-gathering capabilities in this region are
very limited. This is the result of Germany, being true
to its obligations as an ally, not attempting to bolster
its national intelligence operations in the region and
not trying to separate its intelligence agencies from the
intelligence structures of NATO and the US SPANISH
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