US providing Turkey with intel on terrorist positions: Pentagon

WASHINGTON - The United Sates is providing Turkey with intelligence on Kurdish terrorist positions along the border with Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
"The key for any sort of any military response, by the Turks or anybody else, is actionable intelligence," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters.
"And we are making efforts to help them get actionable intelligence," he said.
Turkey has threatened to send its forces across the border into northern Iraq against the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, in response to stepped up attacks inside Turkey by the terrorist group.
Morrell said the United States has shared intelligence -- "lot of intelligence" -- with the Turks for a long time, but has stepped up the intelligence sharing recently.
"We have given them intelligence with regards to this situation for a long time. We have given them more and more intelligence as a result of their recent concerns," he said.

10/31/2007 15:14 GMT