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...American commanders in the city believe the covert Turkish team was meant to inflame these kind of tensions. "These [Turkish] forces are tied in to Turkoman groups in the city," says Col Mayville. The 173rd Airborne commanders suspect an amalgam of local Turkoman parties under the banner of the Iraqi Turkoman Front (ITF) were to be used by the covert team to wreak havoc. "In this first convoy was real aid. They'd do this two or three times then money or weapons would have started flowing in. We suspect their role was to strongarm or discipline the members...
...think. But other than that, it was just us.” The result of the group’s self-isolation is a 10-song self-produced demo, mixed by Boch on his own computer. The demo (available for download on www.loveromp.com) is an intriguing amalgam of styles—what Boch calls “a document of where we are right...
...better access to health care. "Kibaki has promised to declare his wealth. That is not the whole remedy but it shows that he is serious," says John Githongo, executive director of the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International, an anticorruption watchdog. First, though, Kibaki must clean up his party, an amalgam of 15 groups under the banner of the National Rainbow Coalition. It is stacked with former KANU members, many of them accused of the corruption Kibaki promises to fight. The new President was born in the shadow of Mount Kenya, the son of a tobacco and cattle farmer. After excelling...
...Long term, this work may lead to methods for reconstituting the components of teeth to replace restorative materials like amalgam,” R. Bruce Donoff, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, wrote in an e-mail. “If a functioning biologic tooth were to be developed for human use, it would challenge dental implants as an alternative...
...evident among the men in Tirin Kot that not all members of the Taliban were equal in their devotion to the movement. As the Taliban swept across the country in the mid 1990s, the group became an amalgam of true believers and those who sought protection, a salary and food. Many non-Taliban commanders capitulated to the movement rather than fight, in order to retain their power and their men. Among the people of Tirin Kot, there is a binding dedication to Islam but not to the specific brand preached by the Taliban and especially not to the extreme forms...