The Word from Qandil

Months ago, the Oracle of Jane's predicted Turkish air strikes against PKK positions in northern Iraq. And lo, they have come to pass, not for the first time this year.

A source in the mountains, a young man who has spent years with the PKK, wrote to me just before the attacks. He was weary of seeing time slip past, his youth drained away, and Kurdish statehood thwarted again and again. He predicted death, and even welcomed it (in what Anthony Burgess might have called an apothanein-theloish way):

Hi my dear friend
the situiation is very sensitive
now we are reading oureselve for defence because turkish army will come here.this war is very huge and vaittle for us and kurdish nathion. I wish to see you againe but it is possible to be killed .Iam not remorsfull for my martyre because I belive to my aspirathion and fredoom of kurdish nathion.we are right and justfull so we will be winner.death is better than thise knavish life of kurdish nathion. dont forget us and continue your holly jop for humanity and right off opressed people (including kurds).
best wishes

("Viattle" = "vital," I think.)

No word from him since then.