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...attitudes among Greek Cypriot politicians to Turkish Cypriots' claims to govern the north seem to have sharpened. Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot demands for international recognition have grown. In particular, the easing of restrictions on air travel - so that flights from countries other than just Turkey could land at their airport - would be a boon to local tourism. Turkish Cypriots would like their courts and universities to be recognized by other countries too. In his "presidential" mansion, a cluster of old colonial-era sandstone buildings, the Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat complains: "We are facing very unfair treatment. Lifting the international...
...miles 5 km BAGHDAD AIRPORT RASHEED AIR BASE SADR CITY ADHAMIYA WASHASH MANSUR Green Zone Tigris River IRAQ Turkey ? Neighboring Turkey worries that an Iraqi Kurdistan would incite its Kurdish population and that access to the area's oil would be lost. Along with Iran and Syria, Turkey might be tempted to exploit internal Kurdish divisions Baghdad With Sunni and Shi'ite living cheek by jowl, partition could lead to widespread sectarian cleansing and more violence for its 6 million residents...
...international jihad. Apart from the bombers already mentioned, there are, among others, Zacarias Moussaoui, the sole individual convicted of involvement in the 9/11 attacks; Ahmed Ressam, arrested at the Canadian border with explosives he had planned to use to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport; and Abdul Hakim Murad, convicted in Operation Bojinka, a 1995 al-Qaeda scheme to blow 12 planes, 11 of them U.S.-bound, out of the sky during a 48-hour period...
...Nicole B. Urken ’07 is a Social Studies concentrator in Kirkland House. Though she laments she will never be Scottish, she does admit to highlighting her hair red. She is still not sure if she should have told airport security if her trip was for business or pleasure...
...which the U.S. offshore detention system was created. The 40-year-old Algerian militant is alleged by counter-terror officials to be a Qaeda-aligned terror kingpin and suspected of involvement in a number of plots around the world, including the "Millennium Bomb" plot aimed at Los Angeles International airport in 2000. Yet, as things stand, Abu Doha looks set to be freed from prison in Britain and deported on immigration violations, after the U.S dropped its bid to extradite him over the LAX plot...