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...chief Lisa Beyer. "But it was clearly a good idea given what happened in Berlin." Turkey on Wednesday boasted that its commandos had netted Ocalan in an "undercover operation," loaded him blindfolded onto a private jet and flown him to an island prison off Turkey. The claim of a covert operation certainly bears up in light of the conflicting accounts, by Greece and Kenya, of Ocalan's capture. Greece says it had given Ocalan temporary refuge at its diplomatic compound in Kenya, hoping to secure him sanctuary in a neighboring African country. Greek foreign minister Theodoros Pangalos said Tuesday Ocalan...
...discrepancy between those two accounts leaves ample room for a covert operation. Eyewitness accounts cited by Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper, the Associated Press and Ocalan's German attorneys suggest that Ocalan was lured or dragged out of the embassy compound by men who were -- or were at least believed to be -- Kenyan security officials...
...speculation over Ocalan's capture is not so much over whether there was a covert operation, but over who may have been involved. Greece on Tuesday hinted that Washington may have helped the Turks find Ocalan. The U.S. had certainly supported Turkey's efforts to extradite the fugitive and charge him with terrorism -- and Turkey's growing unhappiness about being used as a base for operations against Iraq would give Washington an incentive to help out. While White House spokesman Joe Lockhart on Tuesday welcomed news of the Kurd rebel's capture, he denied the U.S. had any "direct involvement...
...these connections, of course, remain circumstantial. It is in the nature of covert operations that they're seldom reported unless they go wrong, or if those responsible want to gloat. Right now only the Turks are gloating. And judging by the frenzy of protests across Europe, if anyone else helped out, they'd be well advised to keep that fact to themselves...
Rosenthal suggests that drug use on campus isdifficult to address because, unlike drinking, itis covert...