Word: kosovo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kosovo is an unfinished peace. If American soldiers leave...
...BATON HAXHIU, editor of Kosovo's Koha Ditore newspaper, on suggestions that U.S. President George W. Bush wants to pull troops out of the Balkans...
...Army learned the importance of speed in Kosovo, where it was humiliated when it took a month to ship 24 Apache helicopters 800 miles from Germany to Albania. It vowed to transform itself into a lighter fighting force. It is spending $4 billion for a fleet of light, wheeled armored vehicles to be carried to battle aboard moderate-size but plentiful C-130 cargo planes. To keep the Crusader relevant, the Army wants to shrink the two-vehicle system from its current 110 tons to a relatively svelte 80 tons. But each system will still require a gigantic...
...further discussion over the alliance's favorite tank-busting ammunition. And the acknowledged risks attached to direct contact with depleted-uranium particles has also prompted the WHO to warn that children playing in former conflict zones could be at high risk. But a United Nations Environmental Program study of Kosovo anticipated shortly is expected to find that radiation from depleted-uranium shells is present in non-threatening quantities...
...will spur demands for further scientific inquiries. And the matter becomes more complicated for NATO by the fact that the country spearheading the demand for answers - Italy, which has lost six of its soldiers - also happens to be the one providing the bulk of the troops serving in the Kosovo peacekeeping mission. In addition, the tricky discussion won't be helped by the fact that the discussion comes at a time when the incoming administration of NATO's acknowledged leader, the United States, has signaled that it wants to get its own troops out of the Balkans as soon...