Word: backlasher
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...spoiling for a fight: "Their statements smell of blood and bullets." As for the resort bombings, Aydar says the p.k.k. "absolutely" condemns them. "Our approach is only to use violence ... within the boundaries of the Geneva Convention." But he also acknowledges that the p.k.k. will likely suffer a backlash from the attacks, whether they ordered them or not. The p.k.k. and t.a.k., he says, do have one thing in common: a desire to improve rights of ordinary Kurds. "I cannot speak on [t.a.k.'s] behalf," he says. "But I do believe that if Turkey takes some steps to address...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world
...Mahfouz suffered some backlash after he won the Nobel. The Western press was quick to take him up as the literary voice of the Arab world, and in turn some Arab critics took him to task for being too moderate and Western-friendly. In truth he was his own man, concerned only with a personal and human truth older and greater than politics. "I am a very old man, an introvert," he once told an interviewer, who wasn't sure whether Mahfouz was joking or not. "So winning the Nobel was really terrible for me. I won the prize...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world