ANKARA, Turkey, October 21, SPA -- Separatist Kurdish rebels attacked a military unit near the border with Iraq on Sunday, killingnine Turkish soldiers, private NTV television reported. The attack comes four days after Turkey's Parliamentpassed a motion allowing the military to launch anoffensive into neighboring northern Iraq to stamp outrebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, hidingthere, according to a report of the Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/491992