Word: kosovo
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...hardly surprising that some soldiers question their presence in Afghanistan. "When we went to Kosovo, we knew what we were there to do - to drive out the bully boys. I didn't know what we were supposed to be doing in Iraq," says one army sergeant who asked that his name not be used. Now in Afghanistan, he considered leaving. "But then I'd have lost my job, my friends," he says. Ferocious loyalty to their comrades and regiments sustains soldiers in the teeth of dangers and privations. "We are going into the heart of darkness," Lieut. Colonel Matt Bazeley...
...figures reluctant to submit to such a process, he shouldn't be surprised. The special relationship has always been full of rejections and failed passes. Blair was initially rebuffed by his then special friend President Bill Clinton when he pressed the White House to commit ground troops to Kosovo in 1999. In 2003 the U.K. agreed to extradition terms that made it easier to extradite a Briton to stand trial in America than a U.S. citizen to face the British courts. Two years ago, evidence surfaced contradicting U.S. denials that a U.S. air base on the British dependency of Diego...
This is nonsense. Africa is not a country. The distance between Paris and Kosovo is about half that between Cape Town and Cabinda, yet no one thought the war in the Balkans made the 1998 World Cup in France unsafe. South Africa has security problems, yes, but rebel groups are not one of them. As an exasperated Danny Jordaan, South Africa's chief tournament organizer, said, "We urge the world not to play double standards. When a terrorist incident happens in any European country, no other European country is linked...