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...heard [Erdogan] was talking about democracy. We thought maybe we want to show what democracy he is talking about. There is genocide in Turkey,” said Sardar D. Jajan, a Syrian-born Kurdish resident of Watertown who organized the protest. The protestors said the Turkish government displaces Kurds and represses their political efforts...
...into heaven and others say they are also fighting for Palestine against American and Jewish aggression. Three of the six men speak with a noticeably non-Iraqi accent, according to Iraqi and foreign journalists who have also seen the tape. Sources within the Iraqi insurgency tell TIME that a Syrian, a Saudi and a Yemeni were among the alleged suicide bombers. The source, also described how Iraqi insurgents act as guides for the foreigners as they set up the attacks...
...they are or who's protecting them," says an Administration official. Compared with the Baathists, he notes, "there's less of an organization"--or it's less detectable. The Iraqi source close to the insurgency says militant groups employ networks of smugglers to take foreign enlistees over the Syrian, Saudi Arabian and Jordanian borders. Afterward the enlistees are ferried through safe houses until they reach a hub city such as Ramadi or Fallujah...
Building Bridges THE MIDDLE EAST Syrian officials last week rejected Israeli President Moshe Katsav's invitation for his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, to visit Jerusalem for talks. But Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom is a traveling man. He's met repeatedly with senior Tunisian, Bahraini, and Qatari officials, as well as King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Jordan's King Abdullah. Next week, Shalom will become the first Israeli Foreign Minister to visit Jordan since the onset of the intifadeh more than three years ago. But the trip Shalom wants most of all, to Damascus, remains out of reach. Senior...
...Baghdad, for instance, killed eight and left 35 injured. A senior Iraqi source tells TIME that the suicide bombings appear to be carried out by foreigners, not by Saddam loyalists. From the remains of such bombers, the source says, authorities have determined that most were Yemeni, some were Syrian, and a few Saudi Arabian...