Here's one that I missed, because it wasn't on the front page of the
New York Times or the
Wall Street Journal, my daily reading:
a few days before Turkey led the rest of the world in condemning Israel for using violence to stop a blockade-runner heading for Gaza, the Turkish air force was bombing a neighboring country! This from the
Daily Star of Beruit, dated May 21:
ANKARA: Turkish warplanes on Thursday bombed dozens of Kurdish rebel targets in neighboring northern Iraq, in one of the biggest raids in recent years, Turkish media reports said.
About 20 fighter jets took part in the operation that targeted positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Zap-Khakurk region of the Kurdish-held autonomous north of Iraq, the NTV news channel reported.
Nearly 50 targets were hit in day-long missions carried out mainly on intelligence passed on by the Unites States, it said.
The Anatolia news agency reported that the strikes were ordered after a group of PKK rebels were detected on their way toward the Turkish border from their mountainous hideouts in northern Iraq.
NTV said the operation, the second this month, was believed to be a success although there was no immediate confirmation of possible losses to the rebels.
Evidently such bombing attacks are routine along the Turkish-Iraqi border. Can you imagine the universal condemnation that they would have aroused, if it had been Israel bombing Hezbollah targets in Lebanon?. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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