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...some in school uniforms, mourned fallen soldiers in a nationwide funeral that spread across 11 provinces. Turkish lawmakers passed a resolution authorizing the military to invade Iraq and hunt down the militant group blamed for the attacks, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. Turkish troops have massed at the border; the U.S., meanwhile, has pressed Turkey to show restraint and Iraqi leaders to rein in the PKK. In response, Iraq President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, said the local government would not turn over any Kurds to Turkey, not "even a Kurdish...
...silence on the issue and finally vowed to shut down PKK "operations" in Iraqi territory. Turkey has agreed to consider talks with Iraqi government representatives, including, perhaps, Iraqi Kurds--but not with the PKK, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist group. Turkey may yet send troops across the border, but if communication channels with Iraqi leaders stay open, Washington's worst-case scenario of a clash between its allies may be averted...
...Cucaracha” experiments with something different on every song, switching not-so-seamlessly between airy pop, reggae, progressive rock, techno, and even country. “Fiesta,” the opening track, blasts listeners with squealing horns and an upbeat, south-of-the-border feel that offers a false promise of good things to come. The next track, “Blue Balloon,” transports listeners to a mellow, nonsensical world that sounds like something Captain Beefheart would create. Ween has experimented with different sounds before, but with punchy songs that would at least inspire laughter...
...influx of smoke-inhalation victims at his hospital. "This is beyond thinking." Beginning overnight on Oct. 20, unusually fierce Santa Ana winds stoked fires that quickly burst into life throughout a dry, hot landscape. By midweek, more than 20 separate blazes formed pockets of fire running from the Mexican border north to Simi Valley outside Los Angeles. In many places, the heat and smoke were so intense that the 7,000 firefighters recruited from around the country could do little but watch. The flames consumed more than 400,000 acres (162,000 hectares), destroyed more than 2,000 houses...
...still leaves us with sorting out the good Kurds from the bad Kurds. Frankly, I don't see how it can be done. We do not have the forces to patrol the border between Iraq and Turkey. It would take at least another hundred thousand troops. We have little or no political leverage over Talabani, who on occasion has told interlocutors that the Turkish General Staff is funding the PKK - presumably to unbalance Turkish democracy and justify a coup d'etat. It's nonsense, of course, but demonstrates that Talabani is still not ready to confront...