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Until Sept. 11, 2001, the radical Islamic group Ansar al-Islam was considered a local problem. Based in the Kurdish controlled areas of northern Iraq, with a membership of militant fundamentalists determined to impose Islamic rule, the group raised its profile three years ago by blowing up beauty parlors and sloshing acid in the faces of unveiled Kurdish women. Ansar, like Saddam Hussein, is arrayed against the separatist Kurds of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdestan Democratic Party (KDP), whose ragtag forces lie between it and Baghdad. Ansar hates all infidels, but mainly the ones...
...Iraq after the fall of the Taliban. Kurds who have escaped the area say the group has set up a Taliban-like regime, under which women are veiled and Islamic law is h* Aonored--or else. According to a former Iraqi intelligence agent imprisoned by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq, a member of Ansar's ruling council, Abu Wa'el, once worked for Saddam's intelligence agency, though PUK officials cannot confirm the link. But some connection between Ansar and Iraq seems clear...
Turkey has hesitated at requests to let the U.S. base ground forces on its soil, but its own military is already in the game. A senior U.S. official told TIME that Turkish officers are working closely with U.S. special forces now deployed in Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq, and the arrangement is working for both sides. The U.S. learns the lay of the land from those familiar with it, while Turkey gets firsthand knowledge of the movements of potential Kurdish adversaries, as well as some goodwill from Washington...
...perception of risk is greatest at technology companies. It was far easier to recruit outside directors before the tech-sector collapse, "when there was a huge upside in the stock," says Bobbie Kilberg, president of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, a regional trade group of 1,600 tech firms. These days, potential directors are less willing to sit on the board of any company whose product or service they don't understand. Kilberg says she recently agreed to join a local bank's board but turned down a small software firm. "It just wasn't worth it," she says. Robert...
...government called it the work of "bad people." "Ruthless killers" would have been more to the point. How else to describe the heavily armed gunmen who staged a roadside ambush in northern Laos last week, killing at least 12 people, including two European tourists and a Chinese national? One diplomat who visited the scene told TIME the attackers clearly wanted a "maximum casualty count...