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...anyway, moving across the river to New Jersey. Turkish Pop Culture A new Turkish soda is giving Coca-Cola and Pepsi a fizzy fit - with a little help from U.S. foreign policy. Since Cola Turka hit local shelves two months ago, a high-profile ad campaign has been stoking nationalist sentiment. Starring Chevy Chase as a confused New Yorker struggling to understand why anyone who sips the drink becomes instantly Turkish - sprouting a moustache, cooking stuffed grape leaves and bursting into rousing national song - the launch coincided with the heavy-handed seizure of Turkish soldiers by U.S. troops in northern...
...reported this week that up to 3,000 Saudi Islamists may have gone to Iraq to fight the U.S. Tuesday's killer blast at the UN compound was the latest reminder of the difficulties in stabilizing Iraq. The resistance appears to diverse and growing, feeding on religious and nationalist resentment at the occupation and the anger of ordinary Iraqis at the failure of the U.S. to ensure security and restore such basics as electricity and water. The insurgents seek to compound those failures by spreading chaos and fear, disrupting reconstruction efforts by sabotaging pipelines and power grids, attacking technicians...
...heart attack; "somewhere in Mindanao," according to the rebel group. News of Salamat's death remained secret for over three weeks, during which the Philippine government signed a cease-fire with the group to clear the way for peace talks in Kuala Lumpur. Salamat is credited with bridging the nationalist and pan-Islamic elements within the MILF. Three weeks before he died, he formally renounced terrorism, a condition for attending the talks. He is succeeded by former deputy Al-Haj Murad Ebrahim, who headed the group's military wing. "We are still determined to achieve lasting peace and our commitment...
...playing a central role in the resistance, but it's not clear whether they're dependent on the same central authority that held them together before the regime was toppled. There is evidence that some of the attacks on U.S. forces may emanate from previously dormant Islamist and nationalist elements, and foreign jihadis from other Arab countries. For both Bremer and the military commanders, the bet appears to be that subduing the insurgency will depend less on eliminating Saddam and his heirs than on aggressive counterinsurgency tactics combined with urgent improvements on the delivery of basic services to Iraqis...
...Died. Deng Liujin, 91, Chinese communist and one of the few women who completed the Long March; in Beijing. Deng stayed close to the Party after serving as a stretcher-bearer during the communist rebels' 1930s escape from Nationalist forces. Her husband, Zeng Shan, served as Minister of Internal Affairs in 1960, and their son, Zeng Qinghong, is currently China's Vice President...