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...next five years to rebuild our infrastructure," says Janet Kavinoky of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an organization not known for its radical-leftist leanings. "We've let things lapse for 20 years. The pipes, wires, asphalt, bridges and radar systems are old, and everything seems to be falling apart at once...
...claimed responsibility for Sunday's explosions, which Istanbul's governor Muammer Guler called a terrorist attack. The two explosions were cruelly timed 10 minutes apart; many in the normally quiet residential area on the outskirts of the city became victims when they ran to the scene after hearing the first explosion. Guler suggested that the attack may have come from the Kurdish separatist group PKK, which has carried out scores of terrorist bombings in Turkey since 1984. But the group's actions rarely target civilians, and a news agency close to the PKK said it condemned Sunday night's bombings...
...Apart from the longstanding Kurdish issue, Turkey has been increasingly edgy over the past few months, with the country's secularist establishment - mainly the military and the courts - locked in a struggle for power with the Islamic-rooted ruling party. On Monday, the 11 judges of the Constitutional Court began deliberating in the capital, Ankara, on whether to ban the AKP for anti-secularist activities. Separately, a court last week agreed to take up an indictment against 86 people - including military officers, journalists and senior businessmen - accused of high-profile political killings, extortion and violence designed to foment unrest...
...semi-finals, losing the bronze medal game by a single goal to the mighty Italians. They had been the Cinderella team of the Games, and like their proud countrymen, I celebrated the team's success. Three years later, as their country was being torn apart by a bloody sectarian war between Shi'ites and Sunnis, the team (comprising of players from both sects) won the Asia Cup, leading to incredible scenes of jubilation on Baghdad's streets. The ghost of Uday Hussein and memories of his torture devices seemed to have been well and truly exorcized...
Obama's speech at the Victory Column was also a not-so-veiled rebuke to the go-it-alone foreign policy approach of President George W. Bush. He lamented that Americans and Europeans "have drifted apart and forgotten our shared destiny," rather than regarding each other as "allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other...