Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When the FBI compounded Reno?s embarrassment by announcing Wednesday that a tape which had languished in bureau files for six years confirmed the decision to use the canisters, she responded with a raid on FBI headquarters. Despite treading cautiously around the issue during her Friday media briefing, she made clear that her anger at the FBI isn?t restricted to the fact that she put her credibility on the line behind an account that some people in the bureau had to know was false ?- the very fact of using hot rounds specifically violated an assurance she says...
...conservative authorities banned further street demonstrations, Khatami dutifully fell in line and condemned any attempt to break the law and create social upheaval. In fact, five days earlier, it was Khameini who had been forced to condemn some of his most ardent supporters, who had mounted a bloody raid on protesters at a Tehran University dormitory. Both sides, then, recognize the need to maintain a balance. And despite the disappointment of many democracy-minded students over Khatami?s condemnation, he and the students continue to share the same goals. "Iran?s students are not trying to overthrow Khatami?s government...
Even so, it is hard to pinpoint just how Yeltsin was involved in the NATO-trumping encampment at Pristina. Close aides insist Yeltsin knew about--even ordered--the move. In fact, Russian military sources say, the raid was a spur-of-the-moment undertaking, devised by generals furious with NATO's stonewalling. The decision, say Russian sources, was taken no earlier than June 10, two days before the troops moved in. At that point, U.S.-Russia talks on peacekeeping in Kosovo were going badly. Military representatives suspected that their main U.S. interlocutor, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, was playing...
...numbers are remarkable: 99.6% of allied bombs--NATO dropped 20,000 of them--found their targets. NATO pilots flew some 35,000 sorties, and though two U.S. planes were shot down, it was the kind of war in which a fighter jock could be hit on an overnight raid and by sunrise be sipping coffee in Italy--and praising the Lord for helping him find the ejection handle. Stunningly, in a war that NATO believes killed some 5,000 Yugoslavs, not a single allied pilot died. Western military technology finally seemed to have transformed war into a push-button exercise...
Administrators called the state police and the police from seven surrounding towns to organize the raid. Epps says this had been planned in advance because of the preparations spurred...