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Contrary to the government’s claims that Saddam Hussein threw UN inspectors out of Iraq, Ritter said that Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger was actually responsible for their ejection...
Ritter said Berger got Richard Butler, the UN official in charge of overseeing the inspections, to order inspectors to inspect a non-military site in Baghdad, forcing Iraq into a position of non-compliance with the UN that forced the withdrawal of inspectors in 1998, setting the stage for a U.S. bombing campaign...
...papers. Since the movement began in mid-August, the numbers of sans-papiers (those without papers) occupying the church has grown to around 2,000, raising concern for this popular tourist destination. "I am not sure that we can continue to manage the movement for much longer," said Bernard Berger, the priest of St. Denis. With one eye on his commitment to curb illegal immigration in France, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated that each case will be dealt with in a humane and realistic way. YUGOSLAVIA Kosovo Shoot-Out In the most serious attack since the U.N. mission arrived...
...threat as seriously as he did. "Clarke is unbelievably determined, high-energy, focused and imaginative," says a senior Clinton Administration official. "But he's totally insensitive to rolling over others who are in his way." By the end of 2000, Clarke didn't need to roll over his boss; Berger was just as sure of the danger...
...Berger and Clarke wanted something more robust. On Nov. 7, Berger met with William Cohen, then Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. The time had come, said Berger, for the Pentagon to rethink its approach to operations against bin Laden. "We've been hit many times, and we'll be hit again," Berger said. "Yet we have no option beyond cruise missiles." He wanted "boots on the ground"--U.S. special-ops forces deployed inside Afghanistan on a search-and-destroy mission targeting bin Laden. Cohen said he would look at the idea, but he and General Hugh Shelton, Chairman...