nsus, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, within a five-week timeframe. Specialists and technocrats are to prepare for legislative, presidential and National Council elections. President Abbas set the date of simultaneous elections for all three bodies for at least six months in the future, after the formation o

1.6 Million Bounty on Qaddafi's Head A bounty of $1.6 million has been placed on the head of Libyan strongman Mu'amar Al-Qaddafi by the rebel-run National Council. Those who remain close to Al-Qaddafi are being offered amnesty if they kill the besieged leader. The announcement of the bounty and amnesty offers

ter Davutoglu positioned Ankara in the vanguard of the community of nations seeking regime change in Syria. Thus Ankara gave support to the Syrian National Council and harbored the Free Syrian Army. Even when former UN secretary-general Annan's plan for a political settlement was announced, the Turkish leaders

ive Political Action Conference) event was marred by the disturbing presence of the Iranian terrorist cult MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq, also known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran)—a group with a notorious history that includes 1970s assassinations of U.S. military personnel and cheering the 1979 hostage

e to power amid the turmoil, imposing an agenda that might clash with Western goals. That may be one reason the United States is hoping the Syrian National Council can overcome its divisions and shortcomings. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a press conference in London, moved the United States a