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...there are limits on how far the process of integration should go. At the same time, there is a sense of bafflement that others do not share the same sense of idealism that many in Brussels insist motivates their work. News of the Irish no hit Brussels "like a bomb," says French stagiaire Renaud Savignat, standing amid the throng of young professionals drinking beers outside the cafés lining the Place du Luxembourg...
...Surveillance cameras in the blue-collar district of Gungoren show two young men placing two white plastic bags into a garbage bin on a street corner. After the first bomb exploded with deafening reverb, people rushed to the scene; it was then that a second bomb - packed with nails, bits of metal and TNT - went off. The attack killed 17 people and injured...
...smoky cafés and on street stoops, that's what Turks are asking after Sunday's devastating bomb attack on a quiet Istanbul street. The attack's timing has fueled the conjecture, since it occurred on the eve of a politically charged court case to ban the governing party. No one has yet claimed responsibility, so the answer - like so much else in a country divided between secularists and Islamists, nationalists and liberal pro-Europeans - depends very much on who's doing the talking...
...decide whether to ban the governing party for anti-secularism, and just two days after another court decided to take up the case against the Ergenekon defendants, the timing struck many as significant. "Call me paranoid," says Cuneyt Ulsever, columnist for the mainstream daily Hurriyet. "I think the bomb was Ergenekon at work. It was telling us that they are still here." That seemed to be the angle the PKK itself was taking when it blamed Sunday's attack on "dark forces...
...dispute over the bomb's authorship and whatever shady conspiracy may lurk behind it heightens the expectation, too, for the Constitutional Court's ruling on banning the governing AKP party for undermining Turkey's secular traditions. The judges met for a marathon 12-hr. session yesterday, suggesting that their potentially explosive judgment on that question may not be long in coming...