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...security forces deepened on May 22, when rebel soldiers in the hills above Dili were joined by the head of the military police, Lieutenant Commander Alfredo Reinado, and 28 of his men. Reinado tells Time that the second in command of the nation's armed forces, Colonel Lere Anan Timur, summoned Reinado to his headquarters at Tasi Tolu, on the city's western outskirts. The two men traveled to the airport, where a tense meeting took place with Defense Minister Roques Rodrigues. "I heard the Colonel say: "I can destroy them all and rebuild again tomorrow,'' Reinado says. The Minister...
...West Germany's 1977 rescue operation at Mogadishu, Somalia, may have inflated expectations. The fact is that such methods heighten the risk to hostages. According to a 1977 study by the California-based Rand Corp., 79% of all hostage deaths in terrorist situations occur during rescues. Says Uri Ra'anan, a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The most difficult and risky type of operation is a rescue mission. It is the most likely to lead to loss of life...
...mean a terrorist on his way to an attack. Administration sources doubt that Rantisi filled the bill. "Sure, we'll stipulate the guy's a terrorist," says a White House official. "Was he going to be responsible for a known attack? That's not clear." Sharon adviser Ra'anan Gissin says Rantisi was targeted because Sharon had received intelligence that he had organized the attack two days earlier on an Israeli army outpost in the Gaza Strip in which four Israeli soldiers died. This week Sharon's chief of staff, Dov Weissglass, is scheduled to visit Washington to discuss...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan head the list of world leaders Milosevic says he will call to testify in his attempt to show the world that he was really a peacemaker in the Balkans and not the war criminal he's being portrayed as. His second day of opening arguments was much the same as his first: literal finger-pointing as the accusations flew against what he called NATO's "savage, pointless" and Nazi-like attack on his country. the whole story...
...global fund to fight the AIDS pandemic in the developing world. The reason the latter is bad news is that $200 million is about 10 percent of the amount most experts had agreed would be needed from the U.S. to kick-start the fund. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan, ever the diplomat, praised the administration for its contribution, but noted that, "we need a response that matches the challenge...