Sunday, March 30, 2003

 

Remember the 1000 paratroopers who dropped into Northern Iraq and seized an airfield earlier this week, to "open up a Northern Front". This Article from The Age asks what I asked when I first heard about it: Why the hell to they have to "seize" this airfield? It's in a Kurdish controlled area - semi-autonomous "Iraqi Kurdistan". According to the article, the closest Iraqi forces are 200 Km away, and there was no resistance encountered at all, upon landing.

posted by Miles 3:11 PM