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...police continued their investigation, diplomats dealt with the fallout. With some 26,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on the tropical island, Okinawa is the cornerstone of Washington's defense strategy in Asia. But Okinawans have long considered themselves pawns in a geopolitical game. In 1995, after three U.S. servicemen raped a 12-year-old girl, 85,000 Okinawans took to the streets to protest. Alleged crimes like the one last week just feed the sour mood. "How long do we have to wait until this ends?" asks Suzuyo Takazato, a member of the legislature of Naha, Okinawa's largest...
...locals drove their cars across one of the airfield's long runways to get a glimpse of America's military hardware: an AWAC surveillance plane, armored vehicles, grenade launchers. Still, thoughts of the alleged rape were never far away. "My girlfriends and I are always bothered by these American servicemen," said Kaori Teruya. "They live in this safe place, behind fences, but they come out, do bad things to us and then return to their safe refuge." That uneasy relationship between the young people of two close allies won't end anytime soon...
Global superpowers aren't supposed to feel powerless. But despite its hegemony, the U.S. could not stop the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen, and last week the Bush Administration all but admitted that it is unable--or unwilling--to punish the crime's masterminds. Even though Attorney General John Ashcroft said the attack was "inspired, supported and supervised" by Iran, none of the 14 people indicted were Iranian. The indictment does allege that an Iranian military officer directed the Saudis' pre-bombing surveillance activities, and U.S. officials tell TIME...
...Aden, were arrested in Yemen, suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on fbi officials investigating the suicide bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole last October. In Alexandria, Virginia, a grand jury indicted 14 people in the 1996 bombing of military residences in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 American servicemen. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the attack had been "inspired, supported and supervised" by the Iranian government. Iran denied the charges...
Attorney General John Ashcroft has assured the relatives of the 19 U.S. servicemen killed in the bombing of Khobar Towers that justice will be done. But the indictment issued Thursday for the bombing suggests that even if the U.S. managed to round up any of the accused, the resulting trial would be about as satisfying to the victims' loved ones as the Lockerbie trial was to the families of those killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103. Two Libyan intelligence agents were tried for that crime, but nobody doubted that the real author - there are not too many individuals...