Word: kosovo
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...imams who even today are openly urging the destruction of infidel societies like the U.S. In 1995 Moussaoui made his first visit to Afghan training camps run by bin Laden, visits that continued through 1996. And Moussaoui began recruiting other young Muslims to fight for Islam in Chechnya and Kosovo. Moussaoui finally set down in the U.S. in February using an entry visa obtained in Pakistan...
...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...
...This, of course, is the tough part - winning - and Bush said about as much as anyone could have said about that right now, and maybe for a long time. He said it straight: it's not going to be like Iraq, not like Kosovo "where no ground troops were used and not a single American was lost in combat." (Please, America, remember that part about the casualties...
...Maybe. It's hard to see terrorism just going away after we, say, flatten Afghanistan. "What are we going to do?," asks a Democratic Congressional staffer, "Turn Kabul from rubble into smaller rubble?" Still, it's not impossible that we're overestimating the enemy just as we did in Kosovo and Iraq where we vanquished the opponents with relative haste. (True, Saddam clung to power; but the fears that the Gulf War would leave tens of thousands of American troops dead were quickly eliminated after 100 hours of ground fighting.) It may be that the Bin Laden network...
...MACEDONIA Weapons Collection ato declared the first week of its 30-day disarmament mission a success despite the death of a British soldier and an attack on U.S. troops near the border with Kosovo. The handover by ethnic Albanian rebels of more than a third of the targeted weapons paved the way for Macedonia's parliament to begin debating promised political reforms. But Macedonian nationalists blocked the entrances to the legislature in protest against the proposals, which would give greater rights to the ethnic Albanian minority...