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"Neoconservatism dies in Gaza: he recent Israeli offensive has put the final nail in the coffin of the [Republican President] Bush administration's Middle East fantasy." ... "The Gaza War of 2009 is a final and eloquent testimony to the complete failure of the neoconservative movement in United States foreign policy. For over a decade, the leading figures in this school of thought saw the violent overthrow of [Iraqi leader] Saddam Hussein and the institution of a parliamentary regime in Iraq as the magic solution to all the problems in the Middle East. They envisioned, in the wake of the fall of Baghdad [Iraq's capital], the moderation of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the overthrow of the Baath Party in Syria and the Khomeinist regime in Iran, the deepening of the alliance with Turkey, the marginalization of Saudi Arabia, a new era of cheap petroleum, and a final resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on terms favorable to Israel. After eight years in which they strode the globe like colossi, they have left behind a devastated moonscape reminiscent of some post-apocalyptic B movie. As their chief enabler prepares to exit the White House, the only nation they have strengthened is Iran; the only alliance they have deepened is that between Iran and two militant Islamist entities to Israel's north and south, Hezbollah and Hamas." ... "The neoconservatives first laid out their manifesto in a 1996 paper, "A Clean Break," written for an obscure think tank in Jerusalem [Israel's capital] and intended for the eyes of far right-wing Israeli politician Binyamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party, who had just been elected prime minister. They advised Israel to renounce the Oslo [Norway's capital] peace process and reject the principle of trading land for peace, instead dealing with the Palestinians with an iron fist. They urged Israel to uphold the right of hot pursuit of Palestinian guerrillas and to find alternatives to Yasser Arafat's Fatah for the Palestinian leadership. They called forth Israeli airstrikes on targets in Syria and rejection of negotiations with Damascus [Syria's capital]. They foresaw strengthened ties between Israel and its two regional friends, Turkey and Jordan." ... "They advocated "removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq," in part as a way of "rolling back" Syria. In place of the secular, republican tyrant, they fantasized about the restoration of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, and thought that a Sunni king might help moderate the Shiite Hezbollah in south Lebanon. (Yes.) They barely mentioned Iran, though it appears that their program of expelling Syria from Lebanon and weakening its regime was in part aimed at depriving Iran of its main Arab ally. In a 1999 book called "Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein," David Wurmser argued that it was false to fear that installing the Iraqi Shiites in power in Baghdad would strengthen Iran regionally." ... "The signatories to this fantasy of using brute military power to reshape all of West Asia included some figures who would go on to fill key positions in the Bush administration. Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense under Reagan, became chairman of the influential Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, a civilian oversight body for the Pentagon. Douglas J. Feith became the undersecretary of defense for planning. David Wurmser first served in Feith's propaganda shop, the Office of Special Plans, which manufactured the case for an American war on Iraq, and then went on to serve with "Scooter" Libby in the office of [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney." ... "The neoconservatives used their well-funded think tanks, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP, an organ of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, and the Hudson Institute, among others, to promote this agenda of the conquest of Iraq as a solution of all ills." ... "The biggest danger facing the United States is that there will be no true "Clean Break" -- that the neoconservatives will somehow find a way to survive the Bush administration, and continue to influence American foreign policy." (1, 2) -By Juan Cole -Salon 
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"‘Bush Shoe’ Gives Firm a Footing in the Market." ... "When a pair of black leather oxfords hurled at [Republican] President Bush in Baghdad [Iraq's capital] produced a gasp heard around the world, a Turkish cobbler had a different reaction: They were his shoes." ... "“We have been producing that specific style, which I personally designed, for 10 years, so I couldn’t have missed it, no way,” said Ramazan Baydan, a shoemaker in Istanbul [Turkey]. “As a shoemaker, you understand.”" ... "Although his assertion has been impossible to verify — cobblers from Lebanon, China and Iraq have also staked claims to what is quickly becoming some of the most famous footwear in the world — orders for Mr. Baydan’s shoes, formerly known as Ducati Model 271 and since renamed “The Bush Shoe,” have poured in from around the world." ... "For now, Mr. Baydan’s customers will have to take his word for it. The journalist who launched the shoes at a news conference a week ago, Muntader al-Zaidi, 29, was wrestled to the ground by guards and has not been seen in public since. Explosives tests by investigators destroyed the offending footwear." -By Sebnem Arsu -NYTimes 
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- "Congress
turns attention to cruise safety." ... "George Allen
Smith IV vanished from a Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. ship in the Mediterranean
10 days after his wedding last summer. His family says he was a victim
of foul play covered up by the cruise ship line to avoid bad publicity."
... "Smith's wife, Jennifer Hagel Smith, says ship officials forced her
from the vessel after her husband's disappearance and abandoned her in
Turkey, where she ended up at a police station and later a hospital with
no food, money, clothing or ticket home." -AP
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- "Azerbaijan
Braces for Election: Riots Threatened If Fraud Is
Seen." ... "Flame licks the hills outside of this city on the Caspian Sea,
spontaneous little eruptions jumping from the earth and testifying to the
energy riches that this Muslim country with a large impoverished population
is about to transform into billions of dollars in cold cash." ... "Between
now and 2024, a new oil pipeline to Turkey will generate an estimated $124
billion, a bonanza for this nation of 8 million with a state budget this
year of $1.4 billion." ... "Azerbaijan, a small former Soviet republic
squeezed between Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Iran, is on the verge
of an oil boom. On Sunday it will go to the polls in parliamentary elections,
and the outcome, amid charges of strong-arm tactics and fears of vote-rigging,
might prove just as pivotal to the country's future." -By
Peter Finn-WashingtonPost
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- "Vienna
goes to polls after anti-Turkish campaign." ... "Viennese
voters go to the polls on Sunday in Austria's biggest regional election
before the next national poll and a key test for what is left of the far-right
Freedom Party after the departure of founder Joerg Haider." ... "The Freedom
Party (FPOe) has fanned widespread opposition to Turkish EU accession in
its campaign to win over Vienna's 1.2 million voters -- about a fifth of
the Austrian electorate -- to demonstrate it can survive Haider's exit."
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- "Three
countries arrest 53 militants in coordinated crackdown."
... "Turkey, Italy, and Belgium arrested 53 militants in a coordinated
crackdown Thursday on a Turkish Marxist group considered a terrorist organization
by Washington, Turkey's Interior Ministry said." ... "Police in Istanbul
arrested 37 suspects of the Marxist Revolutionary People's Liberation Army-Front,
or DHKP-C, while security forces Italy and Belgium detained 16, an Interior
Ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity."
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- "Rumsfeld
Visits Georgia to Bind a Strategic Partnership."
... "The United States views Georgia as a strategic partner, in part for
its location, along an arc of instability in a region thought to be a crossroads
for terrorists. A pipeline set to open in 2005 linking Azerbaijan, which
Mr. Rumsfeld visited Thursday, and Turkey, NATO's only Islamic member,
runs across Georgia, as well." ... "Georgia's leaders, describing the desperate
state of their temporary government, said the treasury was so empty that
they had asked the United States to consider helping pay soldiers' salaries.
Satisfying the armed forces is viewed as important to keeping the peace
ahead of Jan. 4 elections." -By Thom Shanker -NYTimes
via -Google-News
- "Turkish
Court Charges 9 in Bombings Probe: Turkish Court
Charges Nine Suspected Accomplices in Suicide Bombings Probe, Defense Lawyer
Says" ... "The charges came just five days after the bombings of the British
consulate and a London-based bank in Istanbul. Fifty-seven people, including
the bombers, died in those attacks and the bombings of two synagogues in
the city on Nov. 15." -AP
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- "Al Qaeda’s
terror style spreading: Analysts see a form
of franchising at work around globe." ... "Leaders of the al Qaeda
terrorist network have franchised their organization’s brand of synchronized,
devastating violence to homegrown terrorist groups across the world, posing
a formidable new challenge to counterterrorism forces, according to intelligence
analysts and experts in the United States, Europe and the Arab world."
... "The recent attacks in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Iraq show
that the smaller organizations, most of whose leaders were trained in al
Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, have fanned out, imbued with radical ideology
and the means to create or revitalize local terrorist groups. They also
are expanding the horizons of groups that had focused on regional issues."
-By Douglas Farah and Peter Finn with contributions
from Dana Priest, Dan Eggen, and Margot Williams -WashingtonPost
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- "Turkey arrests
bombing suspects." ... "Turkish investigators arrested
a number of suspects Friday in the deadly suicide bombings on the British
consulate and a London-based bank the day before that have been blamed
on al-Qaida. Foreign governments warned that Turkey could be the target
of still more terrorist attacks." ... "Foreign minister Abdullah Gul confirmed
some arrests had been made in connection with Thursday’s attacks but declined
to give details." ... "The daily newspaper Hurriyet reported that police
had detained and were interrogating seven people."
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via -MSNBC
- "Series
of Bombs Rocks Downtown Istanbul: At Least
26 Killed, More Than 450 Injured." ... "Powerful car-bomb explosions, apparently
synchronized, ripped through Istanbul Thursday, killing at least 26 and
injuring more than 450, according to preliminary reports from health authorities.
The targets included the British consulate and a British bank." ... "Among
the dead was Britain's consul-general, Roger Short, according to Britain's
foreign office." ... "Neighborhoods near the bank and consulate -- separated
by about five miles -- were devastated, with whole blocks reduced to rubble
and ashes." -By Molly Moore and Fred Barbash
-WashingtonPost
- "Trucks
Investigated in Turkey Blasts: At Least 23
Killed, 303 Wounded in Explosions Outside 2 Synagogues." ... "Security
cameras recorded two pickup trucks slowing near separate synagogues before
their drivers detonated up to 800 pounds of explosives camouflaged under
packages of detergent, Turkish officials said Sunday." ... "The nearly
simultanelous blasts during Saturday morning prayer services killed 23
people and injured another 303." -By Molly Moore
-WashingtonPost
- "Turkey
drops Iraq troops plan: Turkey has decided
not to send peacekeeping troops to Iraq, government officials have said."
... "It follows fierce opposition from the US-appointed Iraqi Governing
Council and public opinion in Turkey." ... "Last month, the Turkish parliament
approved a deployment motion, after the United States, a fellow Nato member,
requested more foreign troops."-BBC/News
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- "Kurds
block Turkish mission into Iraq." ... "Kurdish leaders
have refused a US request to allow 12,000 Turkish troops through northern
Iraq for a possible peacekeeping assignment in the city of Falluja, a Kurdish
official said on Wednesday." ... "Turkish peacekeepers could be airlifted
into central Iraq, where they could patrol areas dominated by fellow Sunni
Muslims, but it would be expensive." -By Charles Clover
and Semih Idiz with contributions from Peter Spiegel
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- "Pressure
mounts for new UN resolution on Iraq." ... "US hopes
of further internationalising the stabilisation effort in Iraq may still
depend on United Nations endorsement, despite signs that agreement is close
on deployment of a large Turkish peacekeeping force there." ... "Abdullah
Gul, Turkey's foreign minister, signalled on Monday, following talks in
Ankara with Sergio de Mello, UN representative for Iraq, that Ankara was
willing to assist in efforts to secure law and order." -By
Semih Idiz, Charles Clover, Mark Turner -FT.com
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- "Turkey
Seeks Release of Special Forces: Turkey Demands
Release of 11 Turkish Special Forces Detained by U.S. Troops in Northern
Iraq." ... "Turkey demanded on Saturday the immediate release of 11 Turkish
special forces detained by U.S. troops in northern Iraq over what a newspaper
said was a plot to kill a senior official in the oil-rich Iraqi city of
Kirkuk." ... "It was the second time that U.S. forces detained Turkish
soldiers in northern Iraq." ... "In April, the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne
Brigade caught a dozen Turkish soldiers, dressed in civilian clothes and
trailing an aid convoy. U.S. forces suspected that the Turkish team was
sent in to inflame local ethnic Turks, who already have tense relations
with the city's Kurds and Arabs." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Pipeline
blast 'was sabotage': Second explosion endangers
Iraq's economic recovery and raises fears of lengthy US occupation." ...
"An explosion that ruptured a fuel pipeline 90 miles north-west of Baghdad
was caused by sabotage, Iraqi officials said yesterday." ... "The blast,
the second to hit a pipeline this month, raised fears that opponents of
the US-led occupation are striking at targets vital to Iraq's economic
recovery." ... "An oil pipeline linking the Kirkuk oilfields to Turkey
was badly damaged by a double explosion on June 12. This was initially
blamed on a gas leak, but local officials, together with the Turkish foreign
minister, said it was sabotage." -By Michael Howard
and Brian Whitaker -Guardian.co.uk
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- "Spanish
Peacekeepers Killed in Turkey Plane Crash." ... "A
plane carrying 62 Spanish peacekeepers returning from Afghanistan crashed
in Turkey early on Monday and all aboard, including 13 crew, were killed,
officials and Turkish media said." ... "The Ukrainian Yak-42 crashed as
it tried to land in thick fog near Turkey's Black Sea city of Trabzon."
... "The soldiers were mostly members of an engineers regiment based in
Burgos and had been in Afghanistan serving with the International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) monitoring Kabul for four months, Spanish newspaper
El Mundo's Web Site said." -By Enis Yildirim-Reuters
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- "Kirkuk's
oil fields loom as possible flashpoint for Kurds, Turks."
... "Kurds, Turks and Americans sought Thursday to avert any violent scramble
for control of the prolific oil fields around Kirkuk after Iraqi defenses
appeared to collapse in the strategic northern city." ... "As advancing
Kurdish fighters poured into the city, neighboring Turkey dispatched military
observers to the area stoking fears the two sides could blunder into a
local war within the larger Iraqi conflict." -By Bruce
Stanley -AP
via -Boston/Globe
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- "Turkey
allows America to use supply route for troops." ...
"Turkey finally agreed last night to allow the shipment of food, fuel and
medicine to American forces fighting in northern Iraq after a damage-limitation
meeting between the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, and Turkish leaders
in Ankara." -By Helena Smith
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- "Germany
to quit AWACS patrols if Turkey joins war." ... "Germany
said on Saturday it would withdraw its aircrews from NATO AWACS planes
patrolling the airspace over Turkey if Ankara became a belligerent force
in northern Iraq." ... "[German Foreign Minister Joschka] Fischer and [German
Defence Minister Peter] Struck said that they had so far received no information
that Turkey's position had changed from a defensive posture. They said
Germany's BND intelligence agency had not uncovered any evidence Turkish
soldiers had advanced." -By Erik Kirschbaum-Reuters
via -AlertNet.org/Newsdesk
- "Turkey
Denies Reports of Troop Crossing: Turkish Military
Denies Reports of 1,000 Commandos Crossing into Northern Iraq." ... "The
Turkish military on Saturday denied reports that 1,000 Turkish commandos
had crossed into northern Iraq." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Turkey
To Send Troops Into Iraq." ... "Meanwhile, at U.S.
Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar, Gen. Tommy Franks downplayed
the reports of Turkish military movements." ... ""I believe the Turkish
forces that we see in northern Iraq are very light formations. We see them
move in and out of Turkey, and there is continuing discussion at the political
level about when and how much of that is acceptable," he said. "We're able
to maintain coordination and the necessary cooperation with the Turkish
government up to this point."" ... "About 1,500 to 5,000 Turkish troops
are already based in northern Iraq, with the consent of the Iraqi Kurd
authorities, and they sometimes move back and forth across the border."
-By Glenn Kessler and Philip P. Pan-WashingtonPost
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- "Turkish
troops cross Iraqi border: Turkey has sent
more than 1,000 troops into the Kurdish-majority area of northern Iraq
despite strong opposition from the United States." ... "The troops began
moving across the border early Saturday morning, CNN Turk Military Correspondent
Kemal Yurteri reported." ... "Washington is opposed to Turkish forces moving
into the area for fear there will be clashes between Turkish and Kurdish
troops." -Contributed to by Kemal Yurteri, Jane Arraf,
Andrea Koppel and Jamie McIntyre -CNN
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wins parliamentary backing over German troops." ...
"Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government yesterday won an emergency
parliamentary vote concerning the involvement of German troops in Nato
missions in Turkey yesterday." ... "The opposition liberal Free Democrats
argued in its motion that the parliament should pass a resolution on the
deployment of German troops in Awacs surveillance aircraft used to patrol
Turkish airspace." -By Hugh Williamson in Berlin
-FT.com
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- "Turkey
to send troops to Iraq: Turkey has said it
will send troops into northern Iraq, despite opposition from the US." ...
"The BBC correspondent in Turkey says there are reports that Turkish troops
will cross the border within a few hours." ... "The Turkish Foreign Minister
Abdullah Gul said the action was aimed at stopping an influx of refugees
from Iraq and preventing what he called terrorist activity"." ... "Earlier,
Turkey agreed to let US warplanes fly over its territory with immediate
effect." -BBC/News
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- "Turkey,
U.S. deadlocked over Iraq overflights." ... "Turkey
delayed opening airspace to U.S. aircraft as war raged in neighbouring
Iraq on Friday, demanding close control of overflights and greater freedom
to dispatch its own troops over the border, sources said." ... "Diplomatic
sources said Turkey was demanding detailed information of every overflight,
its timing and nature of the aircraft and its load. The United States considered
the degree of detail went beyond the demands of safety." ... "Other diplomats
said Turkey wanted a joint memorandum of understanding linking the overflights
to broad Turkish freedom to operate in northern Iraq." -By
Zerin Elci with Jon Hemming -Reuters
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- "US,
Turkey wrangle over last pieces of war plan:
Turkey could approve US overfly rights Thursday, but N. Iraq remains stumbling
block." ... "US officials have entered a stretch of last-minute maneuvering
to secure two missing components of the Bush administration's war strategy:
permission to fly over Turkey on the way to a northern assault against
Saddam Hussein's forces, and an agreement to keep Turkish troops from unilaterally
invading northern Iraq." ... "The Turkish government plans to bring a motion
to parliament Thursday to allow the US to use its airspace, but will not
propose a plan to base 62,000 troops here for a ground invasion." -By
Ilene R. Prusher and Seth Stern -CSMonitor
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- "Germany
Guarantees U.S. Fly-over Rights in Iraq War." ...
"Germany guaranteed U.S. troops fly-over rights in an Iraq war on Wednesday
despite its own opposition to an attack and warnings that military action
may breach international law." ... "Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder also rejected
opposition calls for a parliamentary vote on allowing German troops on
NATO reconnaissance flights over Turkey and on keeping nuclear and chemical
contamination detection units in Kuwait." -By David
Crossland -Reuters
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