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...Berets was not an option. "We didn't have the operational strength," he says. Djindjic's death changed that. What was meant to kill the government only made it stronger. New powers introduced under a state of emergency enabled police to act against the suspected conspirators. To forestall a putsch, Milic publicly named the Red Berets as suspects even, he admits, before he had fully assembled a case against them. Meanwhile, the conspirators' arrogance worked to ensnare them further. Expecting the government to fall within days, they only set aside enough money for a week or two. Some were going...
...reaction to Zubeidi's attempted putsch in Baghdad suggests that Garner's team is well aware of the risks in the U.S. being seen to anoint the man proclaimed by some Washington officials as "the only one." But the bigger question may be how they relate to the Shiite groups, who have until now kept their distance from Garner's efforts to muster a transitional authority...
...beer hall in Munich. "The national revolution has begun," he shouted. Not quite. Adolf Hitler was forcing the issue. With Germany seething at the spineless Weimar government over the humiliating terms of the World War I armistice, Hitler sensed an opportunity. Just before 9 p.m., his Nazis launched a putsch, or coup d'etat, taking three powerful officials hostage. With hundreds of his Storm Troopers surrounding the hall, he compelled the trio to support him. But Nazi euphoria was fleeting; Hitler's three "supporters" slipped away and denounced him. Police opened fire on the Nazis when they took...
...make our selections, we have been poring over the timelines of history, beginning in 1923, the year Henry Luce and Briton Hadden started this magazine. One day that year, the obscure rabble-rouser Adolf Hitler grabbed his first headlines by staging his failed beer-hall putsch. One day the following year, Lenin died, making way for Stalin. It was clear that the 20th century was not moving on horseback. One evening just three years later, Charles Lindbergh landed his plane near Paris, and suddenly the world seemed a lot smaller...
...long cherished the prospect of a coup by Saddam's generals. "This way, he'd get what he deserved," a senior Pentagon official says. "More important, he'd get it at the hands of his own people." The U.S. tried to encourage a putsch by sending e-mails to members of Saddam's inner circle, including military officers. The regime responded by blocking the Iraq server so that no one could receive any messages. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced his future press conferences will be beamed into Iraq by Commando Solo, a modified cargo plane now operating along Iraq...