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...fact that Thursday's targets were British served a dual purpose: They sent a defiant message to Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George Bush, meeting in London, that al-Qaeda has survived the U.S.-led onslaught; and they also issue a violent challenge to the status quo in Turkey, a relentlessly secular Muslim state affiliated with NATO and allied with Israel, and in the process of joining the European Union...
...adapted by morphing into a far more decentralized entity relying principally on the structures and energies of pre-existing local groups ideologically in synch with al-Qaeda. The perpetrators of last Saturday's Istanbul synagogue bombings, for example, are Turkish Islamists associated with al-Qaeda linked groups operating inside Turkey. Similarly, attacks in Riyadh and Indonesia have been carried out by members of local Islamist organizations with links to al-Qaeda. The very term "al-Qaeda" now doesn't necessarily have the same implication as it did on 9/11, when attacks carried out on U.S. soil by foreign terrorists were...
...that goal via terrorist bombings in those countries carries the inherent risk of turning potentially sympathetic public opinion against the extremists, as it did in Egypt during the 1990s when terror attacks on tourists and civilians prompted many Egyptians to support a ferocious government crackdown. The latest attacks in Turkey, like those in Riyadh, may have been directed at targets somehow associated with foreigners, but most of the victims have been Muslim passersby...
...just dressed really well. She was one of the best dressed people on campus,” remembered Marek W. Troszcynski van Genderen ’04 from Poland, who came to the event to support his roommate, Mehmet Onol, who is from Turkey...
...This might well have been more directed at Israel than Turkey," says the diplomat. - By Andrew Purvis and Pelin Turgut Peace Dividend FRANCE The National Liberation Front of Corsica-Combatants Union - the island's main separatist rebel group - unexpectedly announced a unilateral cease-fire. Other groups trying to form a joint list of nationalist candidates for regional elections in March had called for an end to violence. Dissolving Democracy SERBIA-MONTENEGRO The beleaguered government of Serbia, weakened by infighting and allegations of corruption, dissolved its parliament and called elections for December, a year early. The third attempt in just over...