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...against the world, or just part of the usual diplomatic sparring and face-saving before a global coalition sets off for Baghdad? Both France and Germany raised sharp and public objections to Bush's rush toward war, then showed their Euro-muscle by tabling a U.S. request for nato military assistance. In advance of this week's scheduled report on weapons inspections to the U.N. Security Council, powerful members were laying down markers for a contentious debate on whether and when to authorize a fight. France hinted at a veto. President Vladimir Putin called Bush to warn that Russia likewise...
...fuse wire and eight detonators behind false walls in adjoining first-floor apartments, a commander for the Carabinieri police told TIME. Inside the dilapidated three-story building in a Naples neighborhood known for heavy organized-crime presence, several maps were found with the U.S. Consulate and NATO bases in nearby Bagnoli and Capodichino circled. A police spokesman confirmed that officers also found a photograph - circled several times - of Britain's military chief, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce. Also seized were forged identity documents, some 100 cell phones and pictures of "martyrs of the Jihad." The police commander noted that none...
...dogs located a kilogram of C4, the explosive used in last year's Bali bombing, inside a sock thrown into a dirty-clothes hamper. Five Moroccans were arrested. Later, police searched a nearby apartment that was used as a makeshift mosque and found a local map with a nearby NATO base circled on it, as well as a list of all the NATO facilities in the vicinity. And just two days before that in another pre-dawn raid, this time in a shabby neighborhood in North London, a police helicopter swooped down on the North London Central Mosque in Finsbury...
...member Council of Europe, which includes all NATO members except the U.S. and Canada, understands the risk posed by DU. The documentary reports that the Council “called for a ban on the manufacture, testing, use and sale of weapons using depleted uranium and plutonium,” and concluded that the “use of such weapons during the war in Yugoslavia would have ‘long-term effects on health and quality of life...affecting future generations.’” The United States stands alone among its allies in condoning...
...investigation, and the Vicky was taken to Ostend for inspection. Luckily, little of its cargo, 70,000 tons of highly flammable fuel oil, had leaked. BOSNIA Changing the Guard In its first overseas security operation, the E.U. officially took over the U.N.'s decade-long peacekeeping role. The NATO-led Stabilization Force handed control of Sarajevo airport to Bosnian authorities. A 500-strong E.U. Police Mission (EUPM) assumed the U.N.'s mandate of reforming and monitoring the local police force and ensuring that none of its 16,000 members are war criminals. The EUPM mandate will continue until...