US catches Turk forces sneaking in
published: Friday | April 25, 2003
Iraqi woman Salima Obaid shows a 10,000 Iraqi dinar (US$3) note yesterday, that has been deemed worthless by the local vendors. The note is called 'haram' (shameful) because the looters robbed banks and the people do not trade in stolen money. People holding the shameful money cannot buy food and are begging vendors to take their money, some do, but at a discounted price of 7,000 dinars. - Reuters
NEW YORK (AP):
AMERICAN FORCES caught a Turkish special forces team trying to sneak into the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Time magazine reported yesterday on its Web site.
The magazine reported that a dozen Turkish soldiers, dressed in civilian clothes and trailing an aid convoy, were detained Wednesday by the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade.
Col. Bill Mayville, the brigade commander, was quoted as telling Time that he believed the Turkish team was sent in to inflame local ethnic Turks, who already have tense relations with the city's Kurds and Arabs.
