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...Glasgow, a Turkish Kurd refugee is seeking compensation from the Home Office, claiming a decision to force him to stay in the city - where he and his family have been the victims of racist attacks - breaches his human rights. In Paris, a young Algerian woman is suing her employer for unlawful dismissal after she was fired for refusing to adjust her headscarf. Europe is home to some 12.5 million Muslims who suffer high unemployment - and, since Sept. 11 - growing mistrust from non-Muslims. One sign of the tension came when the French government tried to create a representative council...
...battle when Israeli troops supported by helicopter gunships and 25 tanks entered Gaza's al-Bureij refugee camp. The Israeli army claimed most of the victims were members of militant groups and that at least five were from Hamas. Palestinians accused troops of firing indiscriminately. IRAQ Kurd vs. Kurd At least 45 fighters were killed in a battle between two groups of Iraqi Kurds. The Ansar al-Islam, an extremist group linked to al-Qaeda, launched an attack on positions held by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The anti-Saddam p.u.k., which controls the eastern section of the autonomous zone...
There are far more hospitable places than the Red Cross refugee center in Sangatte, in northern France, a stinking hangar crammed with over 1,600 asylum seekers and surrounded by police and a high wire fence. But that's exactly where 99 Iraqi Kurd and Afghan migrants badly wanted to be last week. we want to go to Sangatte or to die, read one handmade banner held aloft by a group of young men who occupied the Calais Church of Saint Pierre-Saint Paul, about 8 km from Sangatte. Most had paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers...
...happiest consequence of a war with Iraq would be the liberation of its people from Saddam's tyranny. But millions of Iraqis have already been liberated from Saddam - the Kurds of northern Iraq, who achieved a de facto autonomy from Baghdad after the Gulf War in 1991, and built a thriving modern Kurdish society that makes them the envy of their put-upon Kurdish cousins in Turkey, Syria and Iran. Ironically, a new U.S.-Iraq showdown threatens to end that sunny interlude: As long as Saddam remains in power, the Kurds have international backing for their, but once...
Bush administration officials have said that if disarming Iraq requires a war, its happiest consequence would be the liberation of the Iraqi people from Saddam's tyranny. But millions of Iraqis have already been liberated from Saddam - the Kurds of northern Iraq who achieved a de facto autonomy from Baghdad after the Gulf War in 1991, and proceeded to build a thriving modern Kurdish society that makes them the envy of their put-upon Kurdish cousins in Turkey, Syria and Iran. But a new U.S.-Iraq showdown threatens to end that sunny interlude: The irony of the Iraqi Kurdish condition...