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Kerry’s repeated statements on the issue of allies raise critical questions. What exactly constitutes a “legitimate coalition?” Kerry supported the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) campaign against Serbia under Milosevic in 1999, in which the U.S. acted without the support of the United Nations Security Council. So we hope it is safe to assume that the senator does not believe that a legitimate coalition always requires a U.N. mandate...
...Greece's new Prime Minister. THE MADRID BOMBINGS KILLED AT LEAST 200 PEOPLE. DO YOU WORRY ABOUT AN ATTACK AT THE GAMES? One can think of endless scenarios and hypotheses. Our duty is to do everything humanly possible to guarantee the security of the Games. We [have] asked for nato's help in guaranteeing the security of the Games. This is something discussed and prepared by the previous government, but due to the events in Spain, we felt it was a step most sensible to pursue. YOU PUT YOURSELF AT THE HELM OF OLYMPIC PREPARATIONS. WHY? I didn...
...Karzai is wary of cracking down too hard for fear that the warlords will lash back. In Kabul alone, militias loyal to former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and current Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim number nearly 50,000. That's enough to overwhelm, if they wanted to, the 6,000 NATO peacekeepers and take over the presidential palace. Government officials outside the capital are even more outmanned. "The warlords still have guns, they still have men, and until that changes there's nothing we can do," says a senior police officer in Kandahar. "The areas they capture are theirs to exploit...
...enough to get Afghanistan back on its feet? Marine General James Jones, the military chief of NATO, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January that while the insurgents pose little military threat to allied forces, the U.S. and its allies do not have enough troops in Afghanistan to carry out reconstruction tasks, train a new Afghan army and hunt terrorists. The light footprint means fewer American troops have been put at risk, but it has left the U.S.'s Afghan allies even more exposed to danger. After U.S. patrols retreat to their firebases, Afghans say, the Taliban creep back...
...Afghan officials say, has been a boon for the Taliban. The regime's leadership survived U.S. bombs in 2001, retreating to border towns in Pakistan. From there, the mullahs reconstituted their military chain of command and tasked followers to form bombmaking and sabotage cells, according to a NATO source. A senior American official says the U.S. has encountered the most resistance from resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in the Zabul province near Kandahar. Their fighters move in groups of 15 to 20 and avoid attention. Their aim: to kill anyone cooperating with U.S. forces. "They are smart," says...