Word: alliot
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...setting of targets during the NATO air campaign against Serbia, and again last year by leading efforts to block the dispatch of air-defense systems to Turkey before the invasion of Iraq. So there was an inevitable whiff of irony around French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie's tour earlier this month of Kosovo and Afghanistan, two hot spots where the alliance is currently active, to affirm France's abiding commitment to NATO. But underneath the irony is real iron: the Minister has solid military facts to flaunt. In Pristina, she attended the formal handover of command...