![]() Since we’re unsure about the long-term future of changing system icons, we’re not comfortable charging money for CandyBar, and we’re also not comfortable simply making it disappear, instead we’re going to make the current CandyBar free - but unsupported. So, what do we do? Now free, and unsupported. It seems clear to us that there will undoubtedly come a time (soon?) when CandyBar can no longer customize system icons at all. (You can still customize the indicator lights!) Also, CandyBar still can’t change the internal icons of Mac App Store apps, due to code signing.ĬandyBar, although simply changing files on disk, has always fallen into a slightly-uncomfortable-for-us grey area of existence. ![]() None of the PKK leaders who occasionally receive visitors here are available but in a telephone interview, Abdul Rahman Chaderchi, the official in charge of the PKK’s foreign relations, said a Turkish cross-border attack now would have no better chance of success than previous incursions.A quick update on CandyBar! Updated for 10.8.įirst, we’ve updated CandyBar for Mac OS X 10.8! You can now customize the 10.8 system icons. Just launch the app and click the big “Update” button to get the latest IconData.īut there’s a catch, or two: in Mountain Lion, Apple changed how the Dock is rendered, so it’s no longer possible to customize the Dock’s look. At the guesthouse, three woman PKK fighters in uniform in their early 30s served tea. The guesthouse is in the shade of an ancient oak tree, next to a large satellite dish. There is no sign of life except for the odd flock of sheep and a shepherd. ![]() The area around the camp is lined with steep hillsides and dotted with trees. This is a new regulation, according to people familiar with the area, part of ever-more elaborate security precautions and fears that visitors could communicate the coordinates of guerrilla outposts, including the PKK “guesthouse” even higher up the flank of the mountain and so well camouflaged it is difficult to see. Before allowing the visitors to travel on, they have to surrender their passports. The first sign of PKK presence - and a degree of nervousness about possible attacks - comes at a guard post manned by two fighters carrying Kalashnikov rifles and serious expressions. Neither did large-scale Turkish incursions in 19 involving an estimated 35,000 and 50,000 troops, respectively.Ĭlimbing up towards a guerrilla encampment at the hamlet of Marado, on the flank of the mountain, the track is so rutted that a jeep negotiates it at crawling pace, wheels inches from the edge and a drop of hundreds of feet. Even Saddam Hussein’s army, waging ruthless and repeated campaigns, failed to dislodge them. This is ideal guerrilla country, where fighters intimately familiar with the soaring peaks and deep valleys of the region have a natural advantage over any attacker. The Qandil mountain is on the border with Iran, part of a range that stretches north to the border with Turkey, whose army has launched several major anti-guerrilla operations into Iraq since the PKK began fighting the Turkish state in 1984 in a struggle for autonomy that has killed more than 30,000 people.ĭuring a bitterly contested campaign for July 22 parliamentary elections in Turkey, the Turkish armed forces urged the government to allow it to strike across the border to crush the estimated 4,000 PKK guerrillas who use the mountains as their base of operations.ĭriving into PKK territory - the “border” is a cement bridge not far from Colonel Sabr’s frontier fort - explains why the Kurdish government considers the Qandil mountain a no-go zone and why the Marxist-Leninist guerrillas appear supremely confident they could withstand a Turkish invasion or a crackdown by the KRG’s forces. The area is full of people with guns - PKK, Iranians, armed shepherds.” We can’t help if anything happens to you. ![]() The mountains are full of PKK,” he added, referring to guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers Party.Ī few miles east, at a base of the Iraqi Frontier Guard, Colonel Ahmed Sabr sternly warned of the dangers lurking ahead: “From here on, you are on your own. ![]() “The problem with the border region is that we have no authority over it,” said police major Abu Bakr Abdul Rahman Hussein in the town of Qalat Dizah in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan. Amat takes care of the site, which holds 67 graves of PKK fighters killed in the movement's guerrilla war for a Kurdish state. Farhat Amat, a fighter from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), guards a cemetery in the remote Qandil mountains near the Iraq-Iran border in Sulaimaniya, 330 km (205 miles) northeast of Baghdad, July 15, 2007. ![]()
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