[news] U.S. Moves Closer to Air Strikes on PKK in Northern Iraq

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

US officials have considered launching cruise missiles against PKK targets, but air strikes using manned aircraft was an easier option, an unnamed US official [said]..."In the past, there has been reluctance to engage in direct US military action against the PKK"..."But the red line was always: if the Turks were going to come over the border, it could be so destabilising that it might be less risky for us to do something ourselves."

  


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