In justa fewminutes, your correspondentwitnesseda transport plane taking off, threefighter jetsroaringoverheadand a militaryhelicopterrumbling to life.
Within hours, a contingent of more than 1, 000 Turkish troops began crossing the border into northern Iraq, CNN Turk MilitaryCorrespondent Kemal Yurteri reported.
Mr. MICHAEL GORDON (Military Correspondent, New York Times): Well one thing that's striking about the memo, which was based on a trip to Baghdad by Steve Hadley, the national security advisor and several of his aides, is that they're not talking about replacing al-Maliki.