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Criticisms of NATO's use of depleted-uranium weapons in Kosovo could be easily dismissed by the Pentagon when they came from environmentalists, peace activists and Belgrade. But when the complaints come from their European NATO partners, the generals in Washington may find the issue more troubling. Italy called Wednesday for a full inquiry into the alliance's use of depleted-uranium tipped weapons in the Kosovo campaign after a sixth Italian soldier died of cancer following deployment in the Kosovo peacekeeping mission. Italy's concerns have already been echoed by France, Spain, Portugal and Finland, who have all begun...
...weight - 1.7 times that of lead - that allows depleted-uranium shells to pass through all sorts of armored surfaces that might stop steel, brass or copper, and makes it an attractive tank-busting weapon. Depleted-uranium ordnance was originally used on A-10 tank-busting bombers, but during the Kosovo campaign was used in an even wider range of weapons...
...Situation Report: Slobodan Milosevic may be nothing more than an irrelevant opposition leader now, but the Balkans' woes are from over. Kosovo's Albanians still want independence, but most of NATO is inclined to keep the territory nominally under Serb sovereignty although autonomous for all practical purposes. European NATO powers fear full-blown independence will link Kosovo with Albania, and prompt new conflicts throughout the region. But recent attacks on NATO forces by Albanian nationalists seeking to colonize a tiny strip of ethnic-Albanian inhabited Serb territory just across the border from Kosovo are a sign that some Albanians...
...Horizon: Increased tension over Kosovo?s future, and a major showdown between Washington and its European allies over proposals to withdraw U.S. forces from Balkans peacekeeping. The Europeans have warned that the U.S. will cede its right to command NATO forces in Europe if it refuses to have its troops on the frontline...
...Clinton Legacy: Clinton eventually managed to cajole European NATO allies to act decisively to stop the bloodletting in Bosnia and to drive Yugoslavian troops out of Kosovo. He also funneled support to the Serbian opposition parties that helped bring Milosevic down. But the equilibrium he?s leaving behind is unstable - five years after the Dayton Accord and 18 months after the Kosovo cease-fire, the region's old enemies show no greater inclination to just get along...