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...which was instead dominated by anti-immigrant sentiment. The Liberal Party, led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, won more seats than the outgoing Social Democrats for the first time since 1920, after Denmark's 4 million voters rallied behind allied parties seeking to protect the country's generous welfare system. KOSOVO Elections, at Last Ethnic Albanians turned out in high numbers to vote for the province's first democratically elected assembly, though turnout among minority Serbs was relatively low. Ibrahim Rugova, whose Democratic League of Kosovo took more than 46% of the vote, called for Kosovo's full independence "as soon...
...Americans wanted it. Washington was eager to get the overflight rights and port privileges that come with the NATO declaration but was clearly set on waging the war on terror alone, mostly because doing it with others has proved to be a major hassle in places like Serbia and Kosovo...
...alliance has dispatched five of its AWACS planes, with European crews, to patrol U.S. airspace, and has "backfilled" European troops to Kosovo and Bosnia to replace Americans committed in Afghanistan. But European contributions to that war are being arranged bilaterally with European governments, not through the alliance...
...Mark Thompson: Their first mission will be to take care of themselves. Whether they go in with 800 or 1500 troops, their first goal will be to establish perimeter security. I went into Kosovo with the Marines and it was interesting to see how they use their vehicles to form an outer perimeter within which they would live. Here they'll be living in some existing infrastructure at the airfield where they're landing rather than living out of their trucks. It's good that they're at an airfield, because that means high visibility over a greater distance...
...Kosovo deployment you mentioned turned into a long-term peacekeeping mission for the U.S. military. Could that happen in Afghanistan...