Word: airlifts
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...past decade have cost Nigeria $12 billion, and they want assurances that this time the international community will pick up the tab - a call echoed in a U.S.-sponsored resolution currently before the UN Security Council. Besides financial aid, the West African force will also need logistical aid to airlift its troops...
...House and due to be signed by Bush this week. He has also announced a new effort to help Americans volunteer overseas. "We are the nation that liberated continents and concentration camps," he said in a speech last week. "We are the nation of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift and the Peace Corps." The compassion strategy was also at work when Bush castigated the Europeans for opposing bioengineered food and subsidizing agricultural exports--because, he said, these policies are perpetuating starvation in Africa...
...states. The Germans have agreed to take the lead in putting together a consortium of European countries to lease large transport planes before Europe's own Airbus A400M can be deployed around 2009. At present, according to NATO figures, the U.S. has a fleet of 340 planes for strategic airlift; European allies own 11, and rental agreements on a further 25 are due to expire at the end of the year. Fixing the problem fell to Berlin, say NATO officials, in part because its capability needs to be bolstered: the Bundeswehr had to rent Ukrainian Antonovs to get cargo...
...Osama bin Laden, has remained maddeningly out of reach since the hunt for him began one year ago; U.S. commanders believe he is probably alive and holed up in Pakistan, perhaps in the northwest city of Peshawar. Afghan officials told Time that in November the U.S. allowed Pakistan to airlift hundreds of fighters, including some senior Taliban officials, out of the contested northern city of Kunduz. The task of stabilizing Afghanistan--let alone rebuilding it--has been hampered by lingering rivalries and suspicions. Just last week, a misunderstanding between U.S. troops guarding Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Afghan soldiers loyal...
Afghan officials in Kunduz interviewed by Time say the U.S. committed another major blunder in late November, when American commanders, according to these sources, agreed to allow Pakistan to airlift a "limited number" of Pakistani intelligence agents out of Afghanistan. Witnesses say that when the transport planes and helicopters arrived in Kunduz, hundreds of Taliban and foreign al-Qaeda fighters jostled for space on the flights. Locals believe that as many as 1,000 boarded the flights to Pakistan; according to Kunduz's deputy governor, Saeed Abra, the passengers included several al-Qaeda leaders and the staff and families...