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Clinton and Chirac agreed that night on the principle of a joint commando raid to capture the two suspects, and a secret Franco-American military committee was organized and assigned to plan the operation. The intelligence services of both countries set about tracking the movements, hideouts and habits of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia: The Hunt For Karadzic | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...printed in the form of a half-inch-thick booklet with an orange cover; code name: Operation Amber Star. It called for a two-pronged raid involving several hundred soldiers in which helicopter-borne French troops would "neutralize" the 30-man guard around Karadzic, while an elite U.S. commando force would move in and seize the suspect. Depending on the circumstances, those roles could be reversed. But such a hazardous operation could not proceed without head-of-state approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia: The Hunt For Karadzic | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

After CNN and TIME ran stories saying the U.S. military had killed American defectors and had used deadly sarin nerve gas during a commando mission in Laos in 1970, the Pentagon began combing its Vietnam archives to confirm--or refute--the report. Last Tuesday, after a six-week investigation, Defense Secretary William Cohen released a report declaring that the military could find "absolutely no evidence" for either of the allegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely No Evidence | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

Like a character in a William Gibson novel, the teenage hacker who calls himself Analyzer allegedly mounted a cyber-commando raid on Pentagon computers from central Israel, and then discussed his work online with his hacker pals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pentagon Hacker Nabbed | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

Inside a military base on the outskirts of Baghdad, fresh volunteers for one of Saddam Hussein's fanatic commando units charged across the training field. As instructors, clad in ninja black, fired automatic rifles into the sand, the recruits psyched themselves into a frenzy. Suddenly a dog was dragged among them. Its bark turned into an anguished squeal as they slit its throat and disemboweled the beast. Amid the gory scene, the excited volunteers screamed, "Our God, our nation, our leader!" After they finished off the dog, they pulled live rabbits apart, limb from limb. The recruits ripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHIPPED TO A FRENZY | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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