IRAQ

Haaretz: The Americans look ugly not only to Iraqis
ANKARA - Almost four months have passed since the conclusion of the "big" battles in Iraq, and the start of small, exhausting skirmishes. What appeared at first to be a tremendous show of American and British might, a conclusive blow which toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, is liable to become a foray into a lethal beehive, which waited for its prey to come. There is a constellation of powerful forces in Iraq:
Shi'ites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, Turkmen, and various other tribal, religious and secular
leaders, who all want a piece of the country, present and future. Their ambitions are fairly
well-known: they want a democratic, independent Iraq which enjoys economic prosperity due to its huge reserves of oil