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...WHOLE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT TURN ON A pfennig? Germany's tried to last week, as domestic and international criticism swelled in response to the recent fire bombing in Molln that left a Turkish woman, her niece and granddaughter dead. Police moved swiftly, nabbing two suspects in the case, while government officials promised an array of moves designed to end the violence against foreigners. Among the initiatives are plans to expand surveillance and to ban extremist groups and even the racist music used to spread the xenophobic message. After two years in which the radicals claimed 3,400 attacks, Bonn is battered...
...BURNING IN THE RATZEBURGER STREET. HEIL Hitler." In a 12:30 a.m. call to the police in the small German town of Molln, those words announced the single worst attack on foreigners to date -- one that killed a Turkish grandmother and two Turkish girls and injured nine other people...
...incident -- the latest in a year that has seen 1,800 acts of xenophobia -- was horrifying, both in its own right and as a harbinger of things to come. Since the attack was directed against Turkish resident workers, more than 1.7 million of whom currently live in Germany, it stoked fears that the far right was lengthening its list of enemies beyond asylum seekers...
...Navy's streak of misfortune continues. A Sea Sparrow missile fired off the aircraft carrier Saratoga slammed into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...
That is largely why Bush let Saddam's army suppress the Iraqi Kurds and drive them into the mountains along the Turkish and Iranian borders, where many starved or froze to death. It was only because the Western media publicized those horrors that the Administration belatedly came to the Kurds' rescue. Along with other members of the anti-Saddam coalition, the U.S. has established an umbrella of armed force to safeguard the Iraqi Kurds above the 36th parallel. The area is now a de facto Kurdish state. It has an army and a democratically elected parliament, and it is developing...