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Retired U.S. Army Major General William B. Nash, a popular former IOP fellow, will head up the United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping effort in the volatile Kosovo city of Mitrovica, officials confirmed yesterday...
There, Nash designed command structures for the U.N. and NATO peacekeeping forces in Kosovo, according to Brian R. Smith '02, who worked with Nash at the NDI last summer...
...K.L.A. leaders. Says Lushtaku: "He looked me straight in the eyes and said, 'Back off. Control your people.'" The nightmare scenario for nato is a massacre by Serb police, a flood of refugees and attendant publicity that would be hard for nato to ignore. Then Presevo really could become Kosovo...
...secretary won't necessarily disavow any knowledge of his actions, but James Rubin's visit to Kosovo may well be Mission Impossible. Madeleine Albright's spokesman visited the divided town of Mitrovica on Monday, a day after warning Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian leaders to end violence in the territory or risk a U.S. withdrawal. But despite having assiduously cultivated relations with leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the wake of the war, Washington may have little leverage over them. "Despite the formal disbanding of the KLA and the presence of the peacekeepers, violence against Serbs and other minorities hasn...
Signs of failure in Kosovo are troubling the Clinton administration, with Republican pressure slowly mounting against the continued presence of U.S. troops on an increasingly dangerous peacekeeping mission. In the face of Milosevic's crimes against humanity in Kosovo, Washington had, during and immediately after the war, elevated the KLA into the "good guys" in a scenario that may in reality have consisted only of different shades of gray. Indeed, Sunday's edition of Britain's Observer newspaper alleged that members of the U.N.-financed Kosovo Protection Corps - a civil defense force composed almost entirely of former KLA fighters...