What no one wanted but feared from the beginning of the US invasion of Iraq, unrest in the border region of Kurdish North Iraq and Turkey.

BBC News - April 15, 2005 - Turkish security forces have killed 21 members of the Kurdish paramilitary group, the PKK, in southeast Turkey, officials in the area say.

It is reported to be the biggest clash in the area since the PKK declared a unilateral truce in 1999.
Turkey's war with the separatist PKK guerrillas in the 1980s and 1990s, left more than 30,000 people dead.

The  EU has recently signed an economic partnership with Syria, despite pressure from big brother the US.

Syrian President Hails Turkish President's Visit

Turkish Weekly ANKARA Assad said he would discuss with Sezer the role of the United States and European countries, in the region which he said resembled "the colonial era." "We can reduce the dangers to the minimum only if we act together. The dangers are threatening all of us... They started with Iraq and have now targeted Syria ... They are trying to intervene in Turkey's internal affairs. I believe all countries in the region are under threat. All we can do is to act together...," the Syrian president added.
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On the issue of Iraq, Assad said he still feared the breakup of the country under the pressure of its feuding ethnic and religious groups. "This could pose a direct threat to Syria and Turkey...If Iraq breaks up, we will pay a very heavy bill. It is difficult even to guess what dangers we may encounter."

Undoubtedly, an important issue on their agenda will be the Kurds in their respective countries. Syria had great difficilties last year with Kurd uprising.

Global Security - KURDISTAN MAPS

When the first intifada broke out in Israel, in 1987, the Arabs used rocks, molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and rifles. In that same year the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka began a fifteen-year campaign, which employed suicide bombers.
When the second (al-Asqa) Intifada began, the Palestinians adopted the tactics of the Tamil Tigers. During the most deadly year of the Second Intifada, 2002, there were forty-two separate suicide bombings that killed 228 people.

Added my comment ::
PKK Renegade Faction of Kurds

You made a fine analysis, but I find too many news items of border incursions. Found a source with excellent summary of Kurdistan history, written for the OSCE ::
1997 - Kurdistan: Conflicts in the OSCE Area

Another interview with Colin Powell with excerpts on BBC World Radio.

I haven't found a link to David Frost's interview or excerpts yet, but I did locate an interview dated April 13, 2003::

COLIN POWELL: I think we should feel a sense of vindication, we should feel that we were right.

The President was right, Prime Minister Blair and so many other world leaders were right, that even in the face of protests and demonstrations, we knew that this was a regime that had to be dealt with because of its failure to comply with international obligations, and the people of Iraq are going to be better off. They will be under a democratic form of government and we will help bring that democratic form of government into being.