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...Keen to avoid conflict in Iraq's only consistently stable region, the U.S. has tried to contain Turkish frustration over a steady trickle of casualties in southeastern Turkey-in the latest violence, six soldiers were killed in an ambush on Thursday-by backing a diplomatic force involving Ankara, Washington and Baghdad. That initiative has not, however, produced tangible results, and Turkey has accused the Iraqi Kurdish administration of giving refuge to thousands of PKK guerrillas. "Going into north Iraq would bring Turkey into a head-on disagreement with the U.S.," says Mehmet Altan, a newspaper columnist and political analyst. "That...
...resolve international conflicts and combat climate change; and they're uncomfortably aware that the country supplies much of Europe's natural gas and oil. So, while politicians trade hard words, their instinct for appeasement is strong. The mystery gripping Western diplomats is not who murdered Litvinenko, but how to contain the political poison that his killers have unleashed...
...fire into the buildings, one soldier grumbled that when the troops first arrived on the scene some local residents has tried to hide the militants. "They have supporters here," he said. The government is vowing to finish Fatah al-Islam once and for all, but the struggle to contain rising Sunni extremist sentiment in Lebanon promises to be a long battle...
Nothing the Bush Administration said or did could contain the damage. The President, who says he first learned of the existence of the photographs when they were aired two weeks ago on CBS's 60 Minutes II, went on Arab television to proclaim the abusive treatment "abhorrent" behavior that "does not represent the America that I know." His words weren't enough to dent the outrage of Muslims who wondered why he failed to apologize. A day later Bush finally said he was sorry, but America's image in much of the Arab world may well be irredeemable. U.S. officials...
...part, Moyal - whose offices contain a memorial to the 15 Sderot residents who have been killed in terror attacks over the years, including six killed by Qassams - knows what should be done. "The government needs to tell Palestinian terrorists, 'If another Qassem falls, we will do this and this and this,' " he said. The government has made a mistake by showing restraint against in order to avoid killing innocent Palestinians, he said. "There only two options: Do you want innocent people killed on this side, or do you want innocent people killed on that side?" Unfortunately, that's just...