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...have dispatched at least some troops or resources to aid in the effort. But under a system of national exceptions known as caveats, most have also stipulated that their troops not be sent to difficult areas, including the south. Within NATO, only the U.S., U.K., Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark now have significant numbers of troops in the region. Because of caveats, Germans are not allowed to fight at night and Turks can't fire except in self-defense. In the view of U.S. and NATO officials, such restrictions are badly handicapping the entire alliance. Testifying before Congress this month...
...have engaged the theologian Pope on this and other topics, some radical leaders see him as a prime nemesis. In an audio tape released last week, Osama bin Laden accused Benedict of playing a "large and lengthy role" in a "new Crusade" against Islam, which included the publication in Denmark of cartoons denigrating the prophet Muhammed. Father Lombardi dismissed the accusation, noting that Benedict repeatedly criticized the offensive cartoons...
...British planes set out to bomb battleships in the German port of Wilhelmshaven. The weather wasn't very good. Some of them bombed Wilhelmshaven, but some of them got lost and unloaded on Esbjerg instead, where there weren't any battleships and which, more to the point, is in Denmark. A woman was killed while making dinner...
...think for a moment this is a problem just for a few museums in the U.S. Last fall Rutelli told TIME that he planned to turn next "to European institutions, starting with Denmark, as well as Japan and other parts of the world. And it goes for [Italy] too. We have returned hundreds of stolen archaeological artifacts from Pakistan, Iran and Iraq." In January he made his first successful claim against a private collector, Shelby White, a trustee of the Met, who agreed to give back 10 items from the collection she had formed with her late husband. And Italy...
...decision to try and have the two suspects extradited without a trial was also criticized by the Organisation of Islamic Faith in Denmark. In a statement, the community said it feared protests by Muslims in Denmark if the two men were sent back to Tunisia. "We have been able to exert a certain form of control [during the last crisis]. We are afraid we will lose this control if this form of oppressive acts does not stop," the release said...