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Fearing the militias could turn to political intimidation as the rivalry for political supremacy heats up, the U.S. wants them disarmed. But U.S. occupation commanders have never tried to do so by force. In fact, the U.S. has needed the militias: the peshmerga not only effectively police the north but...
The initial goal of U.S. forces in Haiti was to protect "key facilities" like the airport. But as the pro-Aristide mobs, known as chimeres, tried to take back parts of Port-au-Prince last week, vengefully looting and shooting up neighborhoods, the U.S. and France responded by launching street...
Aristide says he did not know his destination until he landed. In fact, the pilots did not know until the plane was over the Atlantic, when France secured the African country's pledge. By then, Aristide's fate was sealed. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen. Reported by Kathie Klarreich and Tim...
Another Right Turn Europe 's left took a new beating as Greeks voted in a conservative government, ousting George Papandreou's socialist PASOK party, which had dominated Greek politics for more than two decades. Incoming Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, head of the victorious New Democracy party, is the nephew and...
The most nauseating idea was summed up by one mother of a local trooper: “You’re telling these girls to raise their fingers up to pledge to honor God and country, and yet you’re handing out materials saying homosexuality is OK.?...