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Bloodshed at Israel's Berlin consulate has highlighted speculation over whether israel's intelligence service, the Mossad, helped catch Abdullah Ocalan. Even if Israel had no hand in Turkey's capture of the rebel Kurd, his followers are now acting on that speculation. The Berlin drama followed reports on German television -- attributed to unnamed "Western intelligence sources" -- that Israeli intelligence may have played a role in snagging Ocalan...
...those plays aren't really Shakespeare's!" That is the rebel yell of a hardy band of amateur historians as they catch the wave of the bard's new vogue to resplash their thesis: Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare; Edward de Vere did. What's more, an ivory-tower conspiracy is keeping their views from being taken seriously. "We're into something called bardgate," says Peter Dickson, a CIA official turned revisionist Elizabethan scholar. Shakespeare is not a crook, reply the defenders of the glover's son from Warwickshire. And each side casts the other as devils citing Hamlet...
Some in the Kosovo Liberation Army smell a rat, but they'll attend Kosovo peace talks anyway. The rebel movement's political spokesman Adem Demaci on Tuesday recommended a boycott of the negotiations, but hours later rebel HQ announced they would be attending this weekend's talks in France. The confusion reflects suspicion over the Serbs' bona fides as well as concern over the framework outlined by NATO. "The Kosovo autonomy plan may actually allow Milosevic to put NATO to work for him, because the West's opposition to independence for Kosovo makes peacekeeping troops the guarantors of Yugoslav sovereignty...
...other hand, the rebels also have to gain. "They're able to end a war they can't win in the short term, having succeeded in restoring Kosovo's autonomy," says Calabresi. "While some in the KLA will think they have nothing to lose by fighting on for independence, many recognize the need for an interim stage to stabilize the region -- and that's what the autonomy plan would give them." Rebel HQ seems to have decided that the cup is half full...
DIED. MYLES TIERNEY, 34, enterprising Nairobi-based television producer for the Associated Press; after being shot by a Sierra Leone rebel while covering West Africa's civil wars; in Freetown, Sierra Leone...