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Turkey shells Kurdish rebel positions in N.Iraq

ARBIL, Iraq-The Turkish military shelled Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq on Thursday, Kurdish officials said, days after Ankara said it was weighing a ground operation against the guerrillas.A senior Iraqi border official said a bridge had been destroyed in Nerva Rikan, an area close to Iraq's border with Turkey in Dahuk province.Fouad Hussein, head of the office of the president of Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region, said there had also been a clash between Kurdish Peshmerga security forces and Turkish troops in the region.But a spokesman for the Peshmerga forces as well as Turkey's military denied there had been any battle between Turkish troops and Peshmerga soldiers."There were no clashes between the Peshmerga and Turkish forces," said Jabbar Yawar, a spokesman for the Peshmerga.The office of the Turkish military's Chief of General Staff, in a statement posted on its Web site, also said: "These news (reports) are completely untrue and are produced in order to mislead the public opinion."
TURKISH BASES IN IRAQ
Hussein said the clash occurred when Turkish troops tried to move tanks from a base that has long been inside northern Iraq...
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