Word: overflights
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...until now, that was just how the 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...
...first three points seem easy enough, and Putin will probably get them. Few would mourn the disappearance of the Taliban. Showing more respect to Russia does not cost all that much, while getting badly-needed overflight rights and air bases in exchange for restructuring a bad debt unlikely ever to be repaid is a good deal...
...Putin's decision may prove crucial to the U.S. effort. Overflight rights and the use of bases in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (where the Kagaity air base is just some 12 miles from the Afghan border) are likely to facilitate U.S. operations in the region. Tajik and Uzbek leaders had originally offered their facilities to the U.S., but withdrew their offer under pressure from Moscow. Moscow had cooperated with Washington during Desert Storm in 1991, sharing intelligence with the U.S. and providing a Russian air force reconnaissance AWAC-type plane. This time, Moscow's cooperation appears to be going further - though...
...force against fleeing felons, American planes couldn't directly support shoot-downs. To many countries, the whole idea of shooting unarmed planes out of the sky was so distasteful that they barred U.S. planes from flying overhead on tracking missions altogether. U.S. officials say Venezuela's refusal to grant overflight rights gobbles up 25% of the flight time of some drug-hunting planes that have to fly around the nation as a result. Says a dea planner involved in the debate: "We're supposed to export the rule...
...Berlin all over again, but it isn?t Bosnia either. Russian reinforcements began arriving in Kosovo Tuesday after a weekend standoff with NATO ?- which led to the Russians' being denied overflight rights by Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine ?- were settled. Although Moscow?s demands for more freewheeling deployment rights were denied for fear of creating a partition along the lines of postwar Germany, the Russians aren?t going to Kosovo as evenhanded mediators. "Unlike in Bosnia, where they were part of a neutral peacekeeping force under coordinated command, they?re making no bones about the fact that their mission in Kosovo...