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...York and Washington, but that Bin Laden's movement has 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...
...possible that even those among the citizenry broadly sympathetic to al-Qaeda's critique of U.S. policy will be alienated by the bloodletting of innocents on their own streets, and turn against the extremists. Those who "massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds," said Turkish prime minister Recip Erdogan in response to the bombings. "They will be damned until eternity." Erdogan's own ruling party has its roots in Turkey's moderate Islamist movement. But the reaction to jihadi suicide attacks in Iraq raises a cautionary flag: Even when most of the victims are innocent Iraqis, many...
...targeting Turkey, the radicals may also be seeking to provoke a crisis that slows its ascension into the European Union. Those provoking the government in Ankara will know, all too well, the ferocity the Turkish authorities are prepared to bring to bear to stamp out terrorism on their soil - some 35,000 people died in Turkey's bitter war against Kurdish separatists that ended about four years ago. That war on terror saw human rights abuses that were cited by the European Union as reasons to delay Turkey's membership, and the al-Qaeda aligned insurgents may want to provoke...
...there; Jews first settled in the area after fleeing the Spanish Inquisition in 1492. These days Turkey's Jewish community keeps a low profile, however. Galata's Neve Shalom synagogue, the city's largest, is barely visible behind facade of corrugated iron, security cameras and private security guards. Two Turkish policeman had kept watch outside. Both were killed Saturday, along with at least 18 others, when simultaneous car bomb blasts destroyed two synagogues in Turkey's commercial capital. More than 250 people were injured, including the Neve Shalom Rabbi...
...Courchevel 1850 is in the Trois Vall?es, the largest ski complex on the planet (over 600 km of trails). This is the resort that perfected luxury chalet vacations, and M?l?ze is among the best of the breed: a catered private four-bedroom trailside chalet with such ski necessities as Turkish baths and massage rooms. But book soon?at just $30,000 a week in high season, it's going fast. The price is all inclusive for eight people, except transportation and lift tickets ($250 per person...