Word: kamal
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...Islamic republic with Iranian support - is unlikely. Iraq has a significant secular middle class. The leading Iraqi ayatullah, Ali al-Sestani, believes in the separation of church and state. The Iraqi and Iranian Shi'ites have a history of mutual disdain and bloodshed. And even Iran's Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharrazi, said last week that Iraq's ethnic and religious diversity makes it an improbable candidate for an Islamic republic...
...couple of hours after the round table conclave began, Turkey's foreign minister Abdullah Gul and his Iranian counterpart, Kamal Kharazi, stepped out into the lobby, and stayed there for quite a while until they were summoned back into the conference hall. Neither, of course, said anything to suggest there was dissension behind the closed doors. But reporters couldn't help but notice that the two ministers cooling their heels in the lobby represented the only non-Arab nations at the meeting...
...This city is under Kurdish occupation," fumed Mustafa Kamal Yaycili, Kirkuk representative for the Iraqi Turkman Front, the main Turkish political party. His new office was dark, since workers at the power plant walked off the job for fear of the looters, cutting power in the entire city. Yaycili claimed the Kurds were stealing land and personal ID records. "They are changing the demographics of the city. If it keeps going like this there will be violence between us and the Kurds. The Turkish military needs to come here to stop the massacre. The Americans are only protecting...
David Wise, in his essay "Why the Spooks Shouldn't Run Wars," referred to the 2002 incident in Yemen in which a CIA Predator drone fired a missile that vaporized a car carrying a U.S. citizen, alleged terrorist Kamal Derwish. Wise noted that Derwish had not been charged with or convicted of any crime and asked, "Where is the outrage?" Well, the terrorists have had their turn to play rough, and now it's our turn. If we plan to ask politely that each terrorist suspect outside the U.S. submit to questioning, we might as well give all terrorists...
...visiting and can arrange emergency-helicopter evacuation service should a member of your party be injured. Check online travel chat rooms for recommendations and reviews. (Lonely Planet's Thorn Tree travel forum is a good place to start; go to lonelyplanet.com.) Beware of guides who tout their own services. Kamal Bhatta, of Beyond the Limits Trek and Expeditions, provides excellent value, with the added benefit of knowing which teahouses serve the best apple pie along the Annapurna trail; visit his informative website at seenepal.com...