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TURKEY CHASES KURDISH REBELS IN IRAQ
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 10:19. Ali Al Dabbagh Erdogan george w bush Gregory smith kurds pkk Saddam Hussein Tom casey turkey White HouseTurkey is again in the news. It is now waging a mini war within Iraq. In fact, Turkey is a troubled state. It has been facing stiff resistance from a section of its own population comprising of Kurds in its eastern province in the neighborhood of Iraq (1). In spite of the saber rattling and threats Turkey however did not send its troops in strength into Iraq that could have caused great instability. Infact USA and Russia advised Turkey against such adventure that could have caused instability in the region that is already much volatile. Most of the operations were air attacks, using helicopter gunship and recently by attack air craft such as bombers apart from some commando operations. Even this phase appears to be over and Turkey has now dispatched its troops in strength into Iraq for limited operations.How effective the results would be? Once the Turkish troops leave it is only a matter of time for the regrouping and re establishing of these rebel bases in Northern Iraq and this is inevitable....................
Blinking Hope for the Palestine Problem
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Sat, 12/08/2007 - 05:22. abbas arafat dayan Fanaticism & Terrorism fattah george w bush hezbollah husseini israel nasser palestine peres rabin sadatThe most important problem that torments the Middle East is the problem of Palestine that is age old (1). The areas of Palestine formed part of Ottoman Empire. The land of Palestine was inhabited by mostly Palestinian Arabs. In 1850, these consisted of approximately 400,000 Muslims, 75,000 Christians, and 25,000 Jews. For centuries, these groups had lived in harmony: 80 percent Muslim, 15 percent Christian, 5 percent Jewish. The influx of Jews into the areas and colonization by the Jews has resulted in bitterness among Arabs and this continues. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire as a consequence of World War I, these areas came under British control. On Nov 12, 1917, British issued the Balfour Declaration, viewed by Jews and Arabs as promising a “National Home” for the Jews in Palestine. There was great unrest in the land and Arab Revolt was led by Haj Amin Al-Husseini during 1936-1939. Over 5,000 Arabs were killed according to some sources, mostly by British. Several hundred Jews were killed by Arabs. Husseini fled to Iraq and then to Nazi Germany (2). World War II saw large scale migration of Jews in to these areas.
American Policy in the Middle East After Republican Party Debacle
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Sat, 11/25/2006 - 07:07. al qaeda democrat donald rumsfeld george w bush iraq war republican robert gatesProf Dr Colonel (Retired) K Prabhakar Rao
The expected has arrived at last. The iron grip of Republican Party in USA after several years has loosened, rather split open by the recent victory of Democrats in the recent elections of November 2006. Yet, President George W Bush would continue for another two years influencing world scenario. Welcoming the new members after their success, the president in no uncertain terms declared that the present struggle against the terrorist threat would continue (1). Republican Party suffered in these recent elections as a result of resentment against certain policies of American administration such as war on Iraq, mounting American soldiers’ death, policy against immigrants (including illegal), internal security measures such as monitoring of Internet and other activities. The elections have revealed that youngsters have voted in bulk. The most crucial time for USA after World War II came when Al Qaeda struck at the twin towers of World Trade Center on 9/11, 2001 and this has been described as Pearl Harbor of the century. President George W Bush in an appropriate way reacted at that crucial hour and waged war against Afghanistan that harbored Osama Bin Laden and demolished power of Taliban. Next, war was waged against Iraq under Saddam Hussein who emerged as a very powerful and evil ruler disturbing the peace in the region and threatened American interests. Democrats have derived great advantage of this war in which Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) were not physically found. In fact the war on Iraq was taken up fearing the WMD in the arsenal of Saddam Hussein. Democrats claim that the threat of WMD was nothing but a cover up to eliminate the Iraqi ruler by the Bush administration more as personal vendetta.
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