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Even on a normal day, Ibrahim Khalil, the complex straddling Turkey and Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, is a rather unusual international border crossing. Although it is an entry point into Iraq, there are no Iraqi soldiers, no Iraqi flags, and seemingly no Iraqi federal officials. Instead, the Iraqi side is controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government, which enforces its own customs and immigration policies, enforced at checkpoints manned by Kurdish peshmerga fighters under the flag of Kurdistan - a red, white, and green tricolor with a golden...
...Turkish planes to carry out strikes on their own. The Turkish public has been clamoring for action against the PKK in recent days. On Monday, celebrations of the 84th anniversary of modern Turkey's founding turned into massive nationwide demonstrations against the Kurdish group. The red and white Turkish flag hung across streets and from balconies; cars sported flags on their trunks. This militancy has put Erdogan and his political allies in a difficult spot. His Islamist roots have earned him the distrust of the Turkish military, the old power brokers in the country and the fortress of the nation...
...fourth quarter: Hormann deep in the endzone for Andrew Kennedy...overthrown. BUT, a flag: defensive holding. "We're determined to extend every Columbia drive on a penalty," Hinshelwood says in disgust...
...wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have made on the dogmatic, anti-Western Muslims? Maybe New Yorkers should have waved the flag of peace first and then just waited to see what might happen. Bernhard Schroeder, Freiburg, Germany...
...said of the group’s rationale.Card also said the group received incorrect intelligence information about what to expect in the wake of the invasion. “We were told that there were going to be generals with whole armies that would wave the white flag and say, ‘We’re on your side’ when we showed up—that’s what the intelligence had suggested,” he said. “The white flags didn’t show up, and the armies disappeared...