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...Force is well prepared with long-range, precision strike capabilities that have already been proved in battle in Kosovo. And if the targets can be identified, then long-range strikes to disrupt terrorist activities may be warranted. But the resistance of a fanatic foe may be overcome only by boots on the ground. We will need enhanced air-transport capabilities and a reorganized and re-equipped ground force...
...cities in the world where a peaceful show of compassion could result in such a police response. Iran is on the U.S. State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, and many in Tehran fear that any retaliation by the U.S. will also target its old ideological foe. "First Afghanistan, but who do you think is next? We are," Sara Habibian, 18, told a policeman as he herded her away...
...current territorial home base. And applying such force in territories where he has sought support or shelter could open up a protracted, costly and difficult conflict. The battle with Bin Laden is more likely to combine conventional military tactics with unconventional ones. Because Bin Laden is no ordinary foe...
...Middle East. Passages in the conference's draft declaration singling out Israel and Zionism for condemnation prompted the U.S. and Israel to walk out of the U.N.-sponsored event in Durban, South Africa on Monday - a move which was, in turn, harshly criticized by both friend and foe. While European nations share Washington's concern over singling out Israel at a conference intended to tackle the global legacy of racism, they're staying in Durban, at least for now, to try and reshape the outcome over the next four days...
...DIED. DONALD WOODS, 67, outspoken white South African newspaper editor and apartheid foe whose friendship with black activist Steve Biko was depicted in the 1987 film Cry Freedom; in Sutton, England. When Biko died in police custody in 1977, Woods wrote a scathing editorial blaming the government, was banned from writing and fled to exile in England where he published a biography of Biko. DIED. FRED HOYLE, 86, controversial astrophysicist who in the 1940s coined the term "big bang" to deride the theory that an explosion formed the origin of the universe, a concept now widely accepted over his "steady...