442 Punishment

Noted:

  • Turkey has placed 100,000 troops on its border with Iraq. A week after the PKK rebels killed 12 Turkish soldiers before retreating into northern Iraq, Turkey today said its forces had repulsed a PKK rebel attack. Yesterday, Turkish planes reportedly bombed another Kurdish village (they’d bombed another one Oct. 10).
  • Israel is threatening to cut power to Gaza. Israel has sealed Gaza’s borders, allowing only humanitarian foodstuffs and medicines in (but, sometimes fatally, not allowing emergency medical evacuations out). The price of basic goods has skyrocketed.
  • While Secretary Rice talked about weapons smuggling from Sinai to Gaza, China and Egypt moved a step closer.
  • Here in Egypt, student elections at `Ain Shams University have been marred by violence and thuggery again this year, al-Misri al-Youm reports. This was the scene last year around this time:

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