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...rallied and pushed back his enemies. The tense standoff comes as the European Union is poised to dispatch 2,500 troops to eastern Chad, where hundreds of thousands of Darfurian refugees and displaced Chadians live in fear. Now Europe's leaders must decide: Will those soldiers be a neutral protection force for civilians, or an army fighting to protect Chad's embattled despot...
...coincidence that they struck this time just days before the E.U. force was due to arrive. The European troops are under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians, but Sudan's security chiefs fear the operation could be a staging post for intervention in Darfur. Chadian rebels see the real role of the mostly French troops as defending France's prot...
Chadian civilians and Darfurian refugees alike stand in the path of this fast-moving war. If there was ever a need for international troops to protect them, the time is now. But European leaders must recognize that France's military mission is protecting Déby, not Chadian civilians. Europe stands on the brink of entangling itself in a neocolonial war in Africa. It is not clear that it can salvage the high principle of protecting the victims of war amid the ongoing carnage and chaos...
...delayed penalty in effect. “I didn’t want the guys to feel the game was over,” Donato said of the move. “I wanted to give ourselves every chance; I certainly wasn’t going to try to protect our goals against, we were trying to score a goal.” TWO-MINUTE MINORS Freshman Joe Smith’s third-period goal was the first of his collegiate career...Harvard attempted more shots in the third period (32) than Brown did in the entire game (31)...Bears...
...Morin did over the weekend, French officials are describing the timing of Thursday's rebel push from Sudan as designed to disrupt impending deployment of the European Union's 3,700 EUFOR peacekeeping force along Chad's eastern border. Those troops are charged with establishing safe zones to protect refugees from violence-torn Darfur. That imposition of well-armed foreign soldiers, French officials say, would have complicated Khartoum's plans to destabilizing the Chadian regime...