tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19312979.post7858397874507165118..comments2024-01-23T11:00:45.457-08:00Comments on Rastî: SO MANY TOOLS, SO LITTLE TIMEMizgînhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01850990661771197094noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19312979.post-21164928364200416622007-10-31T08:29:00.000-07:002007-10-31T08:29:00.000-07:00Yeah, Abdullah Gül is one of Hersh's main sources,...Yeah, Abdullah Gül is one of Hersh's main sources, thus proving my points about Hersh.<BR/><BR/>When the allegation of Israeli operatives first came out, I asked a couple of friends about the allegation. One is in the KRG. Another was working with pêşmerge. Both were in positions to know if Isreali operatives (code word for Israeli military) were training Kurds how to fight Arabs (hilarious!--Kurds should teach Isrealis how to fight Arabs). Both of my sources had not seen or heard of anything to substantiate the claim. <BR/><BR/>Later, it turned out that former Israeli military, with their own security businesses, were training pêşmerge on anti-terror tactics. Not something that I particularly like, since Kurds know exactly what "anti-terror" tactics consist of. The fact is that "anti-terror" tactics is a euphemism for STATE TERROR TACTICS.<BR/><BR/>Note that pêşmerge are not gerîlas, so Hersh's bullshit has nothing to do with PKK.<BR/><BR/>When Hersh writes about Turkey's policies of genocide against the Kurdish people, then he MAY gain some brief credibility. Until then, he's still a tool of the Turkish Islamists and Turkish fascists.Mizgînhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01850990661771197094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19312979.post-89448870797803784392007-10-30T12:26:00.000-07:002007-10-30T12:26:00.000-07:00olsen writes something interesting about hersh in ...olsen writes something interesting about hersh in his article Turkey’s Policies Toward Kurdistan-Iraq and Iraq:<BR/>Nationalism, Capitalism, and State Formation:In the 8 June meeting, Bush and several of his top aides again made<BR/>it clear to Erdogan that Washington was still extremely unhappy with his<BR/>remarks that Israel’s assassination of Palestinian Hamas leader Ahmad Yasin<BR/>in March 2004 and the razing of some two hundred Palestinian houses in<BR/>Rafah, West Bank, in May 2004 were acts of state terrorism. It must have<BR/>been known to Bush, however, that Erdogan’s statements regarding Israel were<BR/>also influenced by Turkey’s unhappiness with the allegations, first made by<BR/>Seymour Hersh in a June 2004 issue of the New Yorker magazine, that Israeli<BR/>agents were operating in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq and that their<BR/>activities, some directed against Iran, also served to strengthen Kurdish state<BR/>formation in Iraq.13 Ivan Eland subsequently confirmed that Israeli operatives<BR/>were training Kurdish forces in Kurdistan Iraq. According to Eland,<BR/>Kurdish forces “have been trained by the United States, South Africans, and<BR/>Israelis. Israel concluded that the United States had already lost the battle<BR/>against the Sunni insurgency as early as mid-2003 and hooked their wagon<BR/>to the Kurd forces to defend Kurdistan.”14 If American intelligence officers<BR/>knew about Israel’s training of Kurds, obviously Turkish intelligence knew<BR/>as well. Ankara’s hostility to Israel’s actions in Iraq was shown in that it was<BR/>rumored in the Turkish press that Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul was<BR/>one of the main sources for Hersh.15<BR/>the footnote on 15 is 15. Hurriyet, 23 June 2004. so check out that issue of hurriye thought it might interest youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com