“Imagine a herd of gazelles, sensing lions in the grass, edgily sniffing in every direction.”

“Mali's transitional government also looks fragile a stopgap president backed edgily by a military cabal that reluctantly ceded power on paper after grabbing it in March in a coup.”

“Despite a fratricidal war between 1994 and 1998, in which 3,000-plus 3,000-pluse killed, the two peoples noweret edgily together in the parliament in Arbil, in Mr Barzani's zone.”