Bizzare scenario of the day: NATO and the US go to war with each other over the Kurds.
> > > ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for NATO to join the combat against mounting violence by Kurdish rebels holed up in northern Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported. > > "NATO, just as it stepped in to join the struggle against terrorism in Afghanistan, should ... perform the same duty here," Erdogan told reporters. > > Erdogan's call came as Ankara becomes increasingly exasperated by US reluctance to crack down on rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), based in the mountains of northern Iraq since 1999. > > Last week, Ankara threatened a cross-border operation against the rebels who use Kurdish-populated northern Iraq as a springboard for attacks inside Turkey. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=74250 Also from the Daily Star, Beirut, running in lo-to-no graphics mode, to conserve bandwidth as Lebanon's telecom infrastructure has been shattered. Form their front page: Help Lebanon. Send a letter to your government representative. Download a sample letter: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/help_lebanon.rtf and: *Enemy* [emphasis mine] pounds Beirut suburbs.... also: Sectarian barriers fall as Lebanon aids the displaced [See my earlier post: A note on society in the muslim world] "We came here because it is a Christian area the Israelis will not bomb," said Faten Fneish, one of thousands of Shiites who have sought refuge from Israel's military offensive on Lebanon at refugee centers in Christian neighborhoods. Fneish fled her home in the Southern village of Maarabun when she heard Hizbullah's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, warning that difficult days lay ahead. Full Story http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=74254
