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With Israel promising a final troop withdrawal by July, Hizballah is being hailed for doing what Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians and Palestinians have never done: driving Israeli soldiers off Arab land by force. Hizballah leaders can barely contain their eagerness for the day when their fighters, crying "God is great!," will march into the buffer strip along the southern Lebanese border that Israel calls the Security Zone. The Lebanese postal service is issuing stamps in honor of the jihad. And though still on the State Department's list of terrorist groups, accused in the suicide bombings of U.S. diplomats and military...
...line ethnic-Albanian nationalists unhappy with the outcome in Kosovo, he hasn't had much access, and although they're Muslims, Albanian culture doesn't easily lend itself to Bin Laden's fundamentalist brand of Islam." But the undertow of discontent on Capitol Hill about the open-ended U.S. troop commitment in the troubled region may be prompting Washington to turn over every rock, just in case...
...deaths each week in Kosovo, he notes, while today there are only five. Still, the defensive tone of his report signals that NATO has failed to realize its lofty aim of creating a thriving democratic, multiethnic Kosovo - and more important, perhaps, hints at the fact that NATO's troop presence needs to be maintained, or even expanded, to prevent a renewed outbreak of hostilities. "If NATO left either Bosnia or Kosovo, they'd be back at war within months," says TIME State Department correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "Although things are certainly immeasurably better now than they were a year...
...week, something which to most of us sounds like a bad memory from high school, is not likely to focus discussion on the tough problems at the root of Harvard's fragmented student body. Instead, Spirit Week will only mean that the few card-carrying council representatives who troop to class in the prescribed attire will look pretty silly for a few days...
Reinforcements won't solve NATO's problem in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica, because that problem is political rather than logistical. France announced Thursday that it would provide an additional 700 troops following an appeal by NATO commanders for a further 2,000 men to deal with the upsurge of violence in the divided city, while the U.S. was reportedly considering increasing its troop presence. But, says TIME Belgrade reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "the problem isn't a shortage of troops; it's about the mission of those troops - NATO is at a crossroads where it's forced to take...