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  • French tanks(13) give teeth to U.N. force (peacekeepers will be ineffective and at worst humiliated)

    09/12/2006 5:44:33 PM PDT · by IrishMike · 103 replies · 3,435+ views
    AP/Yahoo ^ | Tue Sep 12, 2:19 PM ET | JAMEY KEATEN
    BEIRUT, Lebanon - Thirteen French tanks, the most powerful armor ever deployed by a U.N. peacekeeping force, rolled ashore Tuesday, beefing up a mission aimed at helping cement an uneasy cease-fire in Lebanon. But some European officials are concerned international peacekeepers will be at best ineffective and at worst humiliated if hostilities flare between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops. Scores of blue-helmeted French troops transferred the Leclerc tanks, AUF-1 artillery cannons, two high-tech Cobra radar trucks, and dozens of armored vehicles and transport trucks from a cargo ship in Beirut's port. The port reopened Friday after a nearly two-month Israeli...
  • Can NATO Patrol Palestine?

    04/18/2002 8:29:17 PM PDT · by beckett · 18 replies · 134+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | Apr. 18, 2002 | Robert Kagan
    Can NATO Patrol Palestine? Thursday, April 18, 2002; Page A21 When Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times columnist Tom Friedman talks, people listen. Now one of Friedman's most radical ideas -- to put a NATO peacekeeping force on the ground between the Israelis and Palestinians as a key part of an overall peace settlement -- is actually starting to pick up steam around the world. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has endorsed the idea of an international force as part of a settlement that would be imposed on Israel and the Palestinians. So has German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. More important,...