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OT: Into the Blacksnake's Lair |
Into the Blacksnake's Lair
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15081355/site/newsweek/
A whole nest of unsettling new regional problems is hatching out in the
far northern mountains of Iraq.
By Michael Hastings
Newsweek
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - Murat Karayilan prefers to travel in darkness.
Under cover of a starry night, his white Nissan Path-finder crawls up a
narrow gravel road in Iraq's mountainous far north to a typical-looking
village house. Karayilan-his name is Turkish for "blacksnake"-is a
hunted man. To the east, Iran's anti-U.S. leaders would like nothing
better than to see the Kurdish guerrilla commander jailed or dead. To
the west, America's longtime allies in the Turkish government feel the
same. The State Department lists his group, the Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK), as a terrorist organization. "We are not terrorists," the
Blacksnake tells NEWSWEEK, seated in a sparsely furnished room with a
stone floor. "The U.S. has seen us through the eyes of our enemies. We
want you to see us as friends."
'Whatever Is Necessary'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15080358/site/newsweek/
Turkey's foreign minister speaks out on terrorism, Iraq and the
prospect of a negotiated end to Iran's nuclear program.
By Lally Weymouth
Newsweek
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, was in
New York last week and spoke bluntly with NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth
about how the Turkish government sees the situation in Iraq. He warned
that if the Iraqi Kurds did not curb the PKK terrorist group, Turkey
may take matters into its own hands. Excerpts:
Reconstruction: An American University
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15081807/site/newsweek/
A bastion of U.S.-style higher learning arises in Kurdistan. The hope
is that it will be fully Iraqi.
By Malak Hamwi
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - Iraqi higher education has been on a downward
trajectory for decades due to war, dictatorship and isolation. But now
the American University of Iraq, soon to rise in the Kurdish city of
Sulaymaniyah, hopes to reverse the decline. The university, AUI-S for
short, is the brainchild of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih,
who long dreamed of setting up a university in his hometown once Iraq
was free.
Sunny, Modern, Morocco
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15081798/site/newsweek/
Don't look now, but a bit of Europe has come to the Maghreb. What
next-full-fledged EU membership?
By Emily Flynn Vencat
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - Leila Ahlaloum, 25, is the very image of a modern
European career woman. She works as a manager in a chic hotel, goes
clubbing most weekends and, like many singletons, is on the prowl for
Mr. Right. With her designer clothes and hip sunglasses, you'd never
suspect she's a mainstream Muslim in an Islamic North African country.
But as much as Leila represents a Western archetype, she's also the
personification of modern Morocco. "Of course we love our own culture,"
says Leila, who lives in the cultural capital of Marrakech. "But ours
is now a European way of life."
Beijing Battle
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15081800/site/newsweek/
The ouster of Shanghai's powerful party chief may be the first salvo in
the battle for supremacy among the next generation of chinese leaders.
By Jonathan Ansfield
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - The ouster of Shanghai Communist Party chief Chen
Liangyu last week could have come straight out of a Hollywood mafia
flick. The frictions between the bumptious Chen and President Hu Jintao
began more than two years ago-sparked by corruption concerns in
Shanghai and serious philosophical differences between the two men over
economic policy. But Hu couldn't remove Chen hastily. The party boss is
close to Hu's predecessor, former Communist Party head Jiang Zemin, the
godfather of the so-called Shanghai faction to which Chen belongs.
That Falling Feeling
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15081350/site/newsweek/
As the myth of endless Chinese demand is exposed and heavy investment
boosts supply, prices at the pump could plummet further.
By Leonardo Maugeri
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - Understanding the oil market is difficult. making
reasonable forecasts is almost impossible. That's why most analysts
were surprised by the dip in prices from the Aug. 8 historic high of
$79 per barrel to below $60 in recent days. Suddenly the alarmists who
foresaw an imminent era of oil scarcity are silent, OPEC is again
discussing supply cuts, oil share prices are down. And new conspiracy
theories are flowing, like the one about the Republicans' pushing down
gas prices before the U.S. midterm elections.
World View: A World of Liberty and Law
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15079585/site/newsweek/
Our own founders focused on the 'combined blessings of order and
liberty'. Elections cannot be the only tool in our toolbox to promote
democracy.
By G. John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - The recent fifth anniversary of the September 11
attacks marked not just a day of infamy but, in a profound sense,
brought to a close the post-9/11 era. For five tumultuous years, the
United States has seen itself-and the world-through the prism of
these attacks and the ensuing "war on terror." Now it is time to look
forward, to shape America's national-security strategy not for the
post-cold-war era or the post-9/11 era, but for the 21st century.
Fed Up With Kim?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15080359/site/newsweek/
Everybody is exasperated with North Korea's capricious
leader-including his allies in Beijing.
By Christian Caryl and B. J. Lee
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - Nobody likes dealing with Kim Jong Il anymore,
including those countries closest to Pyongyang. South Korea, which has
for years tried to placate the North, nowadays casts a more jaundiced
eye on its communist brother. Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon-the
leading candidate to replace Kofi Annan as secretary-general of the
United Nations-said last week that he was "frustrated and
disappointed" over Pyongyang's refusal to resume talks on its suspected
nuclear-weapons program. And Seoul wasn't too happy with the missile
tests conducted by the North in July, which embarrassed the government
of Roh Moo Hyun. Ban urged Pyongyang to be "realistic" and to "start
thinking about its future."
Hong Kong: Roll Over, Adam Smith
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15081805/site/newsweek/
The city's leader isn't changing, but his philosophy may be.
By George Wehrfritz
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - In 1995, Hong Kong's then financial chief Donald
Tsang defended the city's laissez-faire philosophy with a reference to
Greek mythology. He cast the government as Odysseus, hero of the Trojan
War, who defied the intoxicating voices of the Sirens attempting to
lure his warship onto the rocks. Tsang, who last year took the helm as
Hong Kong's second chief executive, warned of the blandishments of
special interests eager to curry official favor-and pledged that,
like Odysseus' crew, he would "put wax in my ears" so as not to be
seduced by their songs.
Corruption Probes: Life ... At Club Fed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15081808/site/newsweek/
Beset by cadres on the take, party leaders are building plush
accomodations for top suspects.
By Melinda Liu
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - In the countryside outside Beijing, what looks
like a luxury guesthouse is rising amid fruit orchards, replete with a
fitness center and individual villas. Of course, the construction site
also features high walls and security guards-lots of guards. NEWSWEEK
has learned that the compound, near the district of Pinggu, is actually
going to be a five-star detention facility capable of housing dozens of
senior cadres under kid-glove "hotel arrest" while they undergo
investigation for wrongdoing. Call it China's equivalent of "Club Fed."
The Mystery Prime Minister
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15081348/site/newsweek/
Abe's challenge is to convince the Japanese of the idea that he is
cerebral and strategic, whereas Koizumi acted mostly on instinct.
By Gerry Curtis
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - The Japanese don't quite know what to make of
their new prime minister, Shinzo Abe-and with good reason. There
isn't much in his background to indicate whether he has the ability to
run a ministry, much less the entire government, his only previous
cabinet post having been as Koizumi's chief cabinet secretary and chief
spokesman. He has staked out an ideological position
Germany Finds the Net
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15078350/site/newsweek/
As the Internet swept the globe, Germany was on the outside looking in.
Now, a belated move to deploy it.
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - Four years ago, there were whispers of revival in
Japan. They came mainly from the business sector, where a massive
restructuring was gathering momentum. They turned out to be an accurate
portent of the stunning turnaround to come in the world's second
largest economy.
The Internet: Podcast Dissidents
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15082144/site/newsweek/
By Steve Friess
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - China has tried hard to keep Han Dongfang from
communicating with the Chinese people. The democracy activist was
jailed for 22 months and then forced to leave the mainland for
organizing protests associated with the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
His name has been blocked over the years in Internet searches and his
efforts to broadcast via radio have been all but thwarted by technology
able to scramble radio waves.
The Allure of the Taboo
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15075948/site/newsweek/
Artifacts from Polynesia recall ancient spirituality.
By Tara Pepper
Newsweek International
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - When Christian missionaries arrived in Polynesia
in 1797, their monotheistic faith spread rapidly among the islanders,
displacing ancient and colorful indigenous beliefs. Until then,
Polynesian gods governed every aspect of human activity-from warfare
to agriculture-and success or failure in these enterprises depended
on courting divine favor. Central to the process were elaborate objects
which symbolized tremendous spiritual power and which have, over the
centuries, inspired everyone from Freud to Picasso.
Celebrating a Web That's Free-For Now
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15075945/site/newsweek/
Fearing an assault on the egalitarian principle that helped make the
Web what it is.
By Steven Levy
Newsweek
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - On the morning of OneWebDay-which occurred, in
case you were too busy actually using the Web to notice, on Sept.
22-I had breakfast with Susan Crawford, the Cardozo Law School
professor who organized the global event, and Craig Newmark, founder of
craigslist, who would speak at a lunchtime rally at the southern tip of
Manhattan. Crawford explained to me that the day's festivities were a
first shot at what she hoped would develop into a geeky parallel to
Earth Day-annual worldwide celebrations of an invaluable resource.
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