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Since the cold war's end, reserve forces have been called up for duty in the Gulf War, the southern and northern no-fly zones over Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and now, again, Iraq. "We can't have a situation where we call you, as a Guardsman or reservist, every year for three or four years," says Thomas Hall, the Pentagon's top reserve official. "You won't want to stay in the Guard and reserve, and employers might worry about employing...
...prevent war or even to enforce its own resolutions. The paralysis of the Soviet era has been succeeded by a tyranny of the irrelevant - with France, and its anachronistic veto, as Exhibit A. There is, of course, a fair amount of truth to this: the U.N.'s performance in Bosnia and nonperformance in Rwanda were disgraceful (although the U.S. had a hand in the latter). The French were never serious about enforcing any of the 17 Iraq-related resolutions, including 1441 (but then we were not exactly truthful, either: regime change, not disarmament, was always the real American goal...
...mean that they are any less brutal. They include members of Algerian terror groups whose favored modus operandi in the civil strife of the 1990s was to slit the throat of every person in a village. Nor are they necessarily less tested in combat: some have fought in Bosnia and Chechnya. But the absence of a common, annealing experience in Afghanistan may mean that the younger men lack the long-term commitment to the struggle and networks of trust their elders possessed in abundance...
...much better organized," says Zarko Korac, who as Deputy Prime Minister will be taking over the top job on a rotating basis with four of his colleagues until elections are held later this year. "These are not common criminals." Legija's Red Berets cut a murderous swath through the Bosnia and Kosovo wars, attacking non-Serbs and sowing terror in their wake. Under Milosevic, they were believed to be behind dozens of state-sponsored murders and kidnappings. Following the fall of the strongman, Lukovic grew restless, taking to drink and cocaine, according to several acquaintances. After several fights in nightclubs...
...unexpected places. On Feb. 20, a former lieutenant colonel in the Malaysian Army, Abdul Manaf Kamsuri, was arrested on suspicion of having ties to JI. Abdul Manaf, a high-flying officer who won three merit awards when he graduated from Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy, served nine months in Bosnia as part of Malaysia's U.N. peacekeeping force from 1993 to 1994. Malaysian officials say that while there he befriended al-Qaeda members fighting in support of the Bosnians. After being forced to resign from the army because of his ties to Islamic radicals, Abdul Manaf kept up those relationships...