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Of Course this is their game and has been
all along i knew something was bugging me the other day when i saw they had made
an air strike down in the south of Iraq.The sods are already in there with the
turkish.All this diplomatic running around and High alert business in USA is a
smokescreen to destract our attention from what is going down on the
borders of Iraq
The Mermaid xxx
BRITISH SOLDIERS NOW ON THE GROUND
IN
NORTHERN IRAQ
by
Yvonne Ridley
British soldiers are now on the ground in northern Iraq as the war
of
words between Baghdad and Washington increases. The very presence of the
crack UK troops, alongside Turkish commandos and American soldiers, confirms
that a secret war is underway while diplomatic efforts are being deployed to
bring about a peaceful solution.
News of British Army involvement was
confirmed to Globe-Intel by a spokesman from the Turkish Embassy as PM Tony
Blair headed off for America for a 'council of war' with US President George
Bush. Having a military base in northern Iraq would be crucial to any fight
against Saddam Hussein and the region was used as a launch pad for attacks on
Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War.
US and British warplanes also enforce a
no-fly zone above the skies there. "We have Turkish soldiers co-operating with
US soldiers and other Allied personnel in the Zakho region in northern Iraq,"
said Orhan Tung, press officer for the Turkish Embassy in London. When asked
about the identity of the 'other Allied personnel', he added: "The British, the
British are inside too." It is understood he was referring to members of the SAS
whose role in the area is unknown.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed
increased air activity in the no-fly zones but never releases details of special
forces activity. However, the confirmation of their presence comes several weeks
after Globe-Intel revealed that 5000 Turkish commandos had invaded northern Iraq
and
seized Bamarni airbase and two other strategic military bases with the
help
of US special forces, 50 miles from the Kurdish-controlled area.
The
story came as a shock to many Labour backbench MPs who were demanding a full
Parliamentary debate on the threat of a British-backed invasion of Iraq to
overthrow Saddam Hussein. As the Sunday Express released details of the secret
invasion angry politicians accused Britain and America of starting a war
"through the back door". News of British Special Forces involvement will now
fuel even more controversy.
A senior Whitehall source said: "Of course there
is activity
inside Iraq and well within range of Saddam Hussein's missiles
and aircraft.
The Turks should have kept schtum but the truth is British
troops have been
in and out of Iraq for several months now since they arrived
at the Incurlik
base they share in Turkey with American and Turkish Forces."
Globe-Intel recently revealed details of Turkish and American military
involvement in northern Iraq but the story was initially dismissed by Turkey
until the Al Jazeera satellite television station broadcast pictures of the
activity.
A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry in Ankara said:
"Even
though your story was correct we were not in a position to confirm it
at the
time." He declined to elaborate. Turkish television had also issued
strong
denials and broadcast old pictures of Bamarni air base showing it
abandoned
and derelict. American journalist Ivan Watson who returned to
Boston yesterday from the Zakho region said the Turkish military had also denied
reports to him that it had 5000 soldiers stationed there. Yet as he headed
towards Bamarni air base he said: "There were more than 50 Turkish soldiers
camped out beside their parked tanks and armoured vehicles, as well as one heavy
crane."
A local policeman says the number of armoured vehicles in Bamarni
has doubled with helicopters flying in and out of the camp two to three times a
week." Watson was denied entry to the airbase. He said that local residents had
told him that Bamarni was one of three military bases now in the control of
Allied forces. Massoud Barzani, an Iraqi Kurd who rules two thirds of northern
Iraq, last week asked for the commandos to leave. "If they sit there and they do
not retreat, then we will consider them as an occupying army," said Barzani.
Bamarni military airbase lies 50 miles north of the oil-rich Al Mawsil city.
It is now a hive of activity with heavy earth-moving machinery and
electronic
support equipment, flown in by US Hercules transporter planes,
being used to
expand, upgrade and update the base. American Special Forces and a crack unit of
Turkish commandos have also seized two other strategic military points on either
side of the airbase in the Dahuk province of Iraq.
The two bases which
incorporated very basic army barracks were on two hills, one 565 ft above sea
level and the other 2160 ft and now provide US and Turkish soldiers with
strategic look out posts over the immediate area. Americans are now confident
they have air superiority over the entire region which includes the two famous
industrial cities of Al Mawsil and Kirkuk.
This also includes the strategic
railroad linking Syria and Iraq which has long been suspected as a key smuggling
route for receiving arms and sending out illegal oil exports.
American
military sources confirmed that Special Forces have been "on the ground" in Iraq
since April training Kurdish soldiers in the north and helping to create
insurgencies in the south among rogue elements of Iraq's
army. Another former
Iraqi officer from Saddam's regime added: "The Kurdish Armed Forces are getting
help from Special Forces to act similar to a Northern Alliance operation the
likes of which we saw in Afghanistan. "However it is obvious to me that once
Saddam is removed the Kurds will be the next to be liquidated because no one,
especially the Turks, will want
dangerously armed Kurds on the loose in
Northern Iraq. They have even fewer friends than Saddam but are useful to the
Americans and the British at the moment."
Northern Iraq has been outside the
control of the central government in Baghdad since soon after the U.S.-led 1991
Gulf War over Kuwait. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and its rival
Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP) have administered the region since the end
of the war, when the
two groups wrested control of the Kurdish enclave from
the Baghdad
government. The region, which borders northwestern Iran and
southeastern Turkey, is protected by a no-fly zone patrolled by U.S. and British
warplanes which have knocked out more of Saddam's early warning systems in the
last four weeks.
An MoD spokesman confirmed: "There was activity and a
missile guidance radar system was hit in the northern sector. There have been
exchanges in the last few weeks when aircraft has been threatened by ordnance or
have been locked on to. Naturally they will respond."
Globe-Intel can
confirm that an "enhanced" version of the Paveway Weapon system with a 2 metre
accuracy was deployed by the Allies to knock out a mobile Chinese manufactured
fibre optic air defence system. The upgraded Paveway Weapon system which was
installed only four months ago was used by the RAF. Its refined laser guided
system enables it to strike a target with an accuracy of plus or minus two
metres. Several US Hercules transporter planes have flown in to Bamarni from
bases in Turkey in the last two weeks to unload heavy earth-moving machinery
and
electronic support equipment. Turkish television issued strong denials
and
broadcast old pictures of the air base showing it abandoned and derelict.
A senior officer from Saddam's army who defected to Britain earlier
this
month told Globe-Intel: "It is well known that there are allied troops
in
Bamarni. However I do not believe Iraq has lost its entire air
defence
system network. "Even if American warplanes flew over Baghdad it
would be typical of Saddam to shut everything down to lure the enemy into
thinking they have knocked out everything. Everyone is talking of American
airstrikes and the elite are already sleeping in heavily fortified bunkers every
night."
According to information relayed to America by Israeli intelligence
via satellite photography, accurate to within three metres, Saddam's army
is
positioned in three strategic positions to repel ground force invasions.
Regiments are dug in near the Kurds to repel an invasion from the north
while
another major force is positioned by the Jordanian Border which
had
previously been ear-marked by the US as an ideal site for a US-led
invasion
until King Abdullah voiced his concerns in Washington recently.
Another armoured division is positioned near the Turkish border but has not
reacted or advanced.
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