MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Anthony Shadid, New York Times, January 4-5, 2010
ZAKHO, Iraq — A Turkey as resurgent as at any time since its Ottoman glory is projecting influence through a turbulent Iraq, from the boomtowns of the north to the oil fields near southernmost Basra, in a show of power that illustrates its growing heft across an Arab world long suspicious of it....