Monday, August 20, 2007

Kurds flee homes as Iran shells villages in Iraq


Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards participate in military training at an undisclosed location near the Gulf
Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards participate in military training at an undisclosed location near the Gulf. Photograph: AFP/Getty


"Iraqi Kurdish officials expressed deepening concern yesterday at an upsurge in fierce clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and Iranian forces in the remote border area of north-east Iraq, where Tehran has recently deployed thousands of Revolutionary Guards.

Jabar Yawar, a deputy minister in the Kurdistan regional government, said four days of intermittent shelling by Iranian forces had hit mountain villages high up on the Iraqi side of the border, wounding two women, destroying livestock and property, and displacing about 1,000 people from their homes..."

Patiently awaiting the democrat response to this. Surely, some of their candidates MUST have something to say.

Wait, I know. They'll vow to go there and speak with them concerning this. Perhaps using, gasp, harsh language.

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