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CYPRUS People Power They came waving olive branches and E.U. flags and bearing a message for their longtime leader, Rauf Denktash: "We can't wait another 40 years." More than 50,000 Turkish Cypriots - a quarter of the island's Turkish population - crowded the streets of Nicosia demanding Denktash sign a U.N. peace deal to reunify Cyprus after 28 years and enable them to join the E.U., as Greek Cypriots are set to do in 2004. Under the plan, which U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says must be signed by Feb. 28, the two sides would come together...
...performance of his Freedom Party in the country's general elections. Haider threatened to resign as governor of the region of Carinthia - he has often threatened to leave politics - after his party's share of the vote fell from 26.9% to 10.2%. CYPRUS Enemies Reunited The Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash told United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he is ready for talks on reunification. The decision followed Greek Cypriot support for Annan's plan calling for Cypriot Greeks and Turks, divided since 1974, to unite under a six-member executive council and rotating presidency. IRAQ And What...
...Pakistani undercover intelligence officer, Abdul Rauf Niazi was trained to keep his nerve. But as he sat in the backseat of a minivan last month, tearing through the badlands along the Afghan border with four heavily armed al-Qaeda members beside him, Niazi may have sensed he was riding to his death. Niazi had spent weeks befriending Uzbek al-Qaeda fighters, posing as a smuggler who could take them safely into the frontier city of Peshawar. Now he had lured the Uzbeks into the trap. He would drive them into an ambush in which Pakistani police would capture al-Qaeda...
...commander against the Soviets, Younis had not been forced to flee, or fight, during the Taliban regime. "During the Taliban, he was at home, he was friends with the Talibs," says elder Farou Khan. Younis even give large numbers of fighters to the fanatical Islamic government. But, as Abdul Rauf's son tries to explain, "this was compulsory of every landlord". However this warlord did more than lend his soldiers; he allowed his son Mullah Ahmadullah to join the Taliban...
CYPRUS Crossing the Divide The prospect of European Union membership galvanized two long-standing adversaries to agree to a timetable for resolving their differences. Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktash said they would meet three times a week over the next few months in the hope of hammering out a power-sharing deal that could stitch back the divided parts of Cyprus. Both leaders agreed to keep meeting until June. Turkey has threatened to annex the north of the island if Cyprus joins the E.U. without agreement by both parties...