North of Iraq, Kurdistan: Iran‘s army crossed the border and penetrated five kilometers into Iraqi territory at the Kandil Mountains near the Turkish border, Kurdish media reports. „The Iranian army launched a full-scale war,“ a local official in the region said. (1)
„Nadir.org“ also reported about secret intelligence and military meetings between Turkey, Iran and the Kurdish Party PUK (2), which controls the south of Kurdistan while the other main Kurdish Party KDP rules the north.Apparently NATO country Turkey has sent 200 military officers to Iran for collaborating during the intrusion. (2)
Yesterday the Norwegian oil company DNO announced that a large western oil company has offered $700m for oil assets in Iraqi Kurdistan owned by DNO. DNO refused to name the company, but industry executives speculated that Royal Dutch Shell was a possible bidder, MSNBC said (3). Shell on Wednesday refused to comment.
The Tawke oil fields of DNO are located at the Kurdish town Zakho, near the Turkish border (6).
In 2005, Shell signed an agreement with Baghdad to study the northern Kirkuk oilfield. There are strong disputes between the Kurdish authorities and the Iraqi central government about oil profits and Kirkuk in particular.
This year in November a referendum takes place about the affiliation of the oil-rich region round Kirkuk.
On May 14 we reported (4) about a power struggle in the Kurdish PUK between the popular PUK military leader Nawshirwan (Noshirwan) Mustafa and the PUK chief Jalal Talabani, who is also President of Iraq.
After a deadly attack in Kurdistan on May 9 in Erbil a Kurdish intelligence officer spoke about a power struggle within the PUK.
„The attack that targeted the city of Irbil (Erbil) was expected, despite the intense security operations in recent days. We had intelligence information that terrorist groups had plans to disrupt security and to bring the instability of Baghdad and central Iraq to Kurdistan,“ a high-level Kurdish source then told the Italian Aki News.
Without naming parties involved, the security source also criticized „attempts to make changes in sensitive security positions in Sulaymaniya.“
The leadership of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, was apparently at that time implementing changes in the security apparatus around Sulaymaniya, removing security officials who belong to a rival faction within the PUK, led by Noshirwan Mustafa, who lost the party leadership elections to Talabani several months ago.
We also reported about the group „Islamic State in Iraq“ that took responsibility for the bombing in Erbil/Irbil on May 9 and for the kidnapping of three US soldiers on May 12 in Mahmudiya, South of Iraq.
We considered that group – who had been described as the „Al Qaeda/al-Qaida in Iraq“ by mainstream corporate media – as a hoax for covering up false-flag terror attacks and abductions.
On July 18 the current inhabitants of the White House admitted in a press conference that this „Al Qaida/al-qaida in Iraq“ never existed.(5)
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Afghanistan,German troops: strange deaths have found us
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14.05.07
THE PLAN I – Terror Attacks and captured US soldiers
http://radio-utopie.de/english.php?themenID=495&JAHR_AKTUELL=2007&MON_AKTUELL=5
14.05.07
THE PLAN II – The Kurdistan Plot and The Mother Of War
http://radio-utopie.de/english.php?themenID=496&JAHR_AKTUELL=2007&MON_AKTUELL=5
14.05.07
THE PLAN III – Petraeus and the three-dimensional chess in the dark
http://radio-utopie.de/english.php?themenID=497&JAHR_AKTUELL=2007&MON_AKTUELL=5
sources:
(1)
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=120272
(2)
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/isku/pressekurdturk/2007/34/10.htm
(3)
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6638/35/
(4)
http://radio-utopie.de/english.php?themenID=495&JAHR_AKTUELL=2007&MON_AKTUELL=5
(5)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070718-7.html
(6)
http://iraqnewsmonitor.blogspot.com/search/label/Tawke