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...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 in its neighborhood. "If they could get to Americans, they would spare no effort to do so," says a senior Kurdish...
Turkish troops have good reason for wanting to know what the Kurds are up to. A separatist guerrilla group is based in craggy mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border. To contain them, Turkey is planning ahead in other ways, a senior Turkish official said: its military has won U.S. approval to establish 17 refugee camps--10 of them on Iraqi soil--as soon as war starts. Ankara wants to avoid a repeat of 1991, when a flood of 450,000 Kurdish refugees into Turkey was joined by armed insurgents who went on to reignite a civil war. Turkish-controlled camps...
...leaking out that may shed some light on the case. A preliminary police-investigation document obtained by TIME posits that members of the Indonesian military?who were supposed to protect miners, international teachers and other expats connected to the Grasberg mine?may have been behind the killings, not the separatist Free Papua Movement...
...Yugoslavia Seventy-four years after its foundation, Yugoslavia was formally dissolved. Politicians of the federation's two remaining republics voted to create a looser union, which will have one army but two currencies, and which will be given a three-year trial run. Last year the European Union urged separatist-leaning Montenegrins to shelve their desire for independence from larger Serbia. The E.U. feared that a move toward independence by Montenegro would encourage other secessionist movements, notably in neighboring Kosovo...
...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. Turkish troops have good reasons for wanting to know what the Kurds are up to. A separatist guerrilla group is based in the craggy mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border. To contain them, Turkey is planning ahead in other ways, a senior Turkish official said: the military has won U.S. approval to establish 17 refugee camps - 10 of them on Iraqi soil - as soon as war starts...