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...President in the dock would shock Serbs into recognizing the crimes done in their name are having to rethink. And worse may lie ahead. This week prosecutors begin the second part of their case against Milosevic - for his responsibility in the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Croatia. In this phase of the trial, he is expected to dwell heavily on how Serbs are victims, not perpetrators, of the Balkan wars, a popular refrain at home. "Milosevic was politically dead before he was transferred to the Hague," says Dragoljub Zarkovic, a leading Belgrade editor. "The tribunal has given him the kiss...
...American response to Iraq’s announcement demonstrates just how backwards this administration’s thought process has become. This administration decided a full year ago it wanted to invade Iraq; last October, Iraq was named a possible Phase Two of the war on terrorism, despite no evidence linking it to al Qaeda. Ever since, the White House has tried vigorously to find a reason to justify invasion. Bringing his case to the U.N. was a gamble, and Bush only took it believing Iraq would never agree to unconditional terms. But now it appears he lost that gamble?...
After the aerial pounding, the U.S. (with whatever allies it could muster) would shift to a ground war, probably launched from Kuwait and other gulf states from the south and from Turkey, as well as three bases in the U.S.-friendly Kurdish part of Iraq from the north. This phase would probably begin with U.S. forces' seizing the cities of Basra in the south and Mosul in the north. President Bush has not decided what size force should invade Iraq. The military prefers to send in about 250,000 troops, but some Administration officials think only about 80,000 would...
...Taliban forces out of their redoubts and degraded the enemy to a few hundred fighters, the country still seethes with militants intent on destroying the Karzai government and attacking the Western soldiers who back it. A senior Afghan official says the government's opponents have begun a new phase of more brazen, "open" terror attacks...
...become part of the tip of the U.S. military’s spear. And while the tactical air mission in Afghanistan is all but complete, it is still a good bet that carrier-based Navy jets will have a role in whatever military action is required for the next phase of the War on Terrorism—be it in Iraq or somewhere else...