Mr. Clinton would be in even bigger trouble on Capitol Hill but for his decision to retreat -- at least temporarily -- from the lunacy of inserting several hundred, effectively unarmed U.S. servicemen under U.N. command into the anarchy that is Haiti.

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It was suggested the U.N. high command had promised to stop air strikes against the Serb army in return for the release of 370 U.N. soldiers held prisoner -- and Mladic took this as the green light to attack Srebrenica.

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Last weekend GE activated a command center in Wilmington, N.

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U.N. peacekeepers are scheduled to take command of the region from a 7, 000-member African Union force by Dec. 31, but the bulk of the units are not expected to arrive until 2008.

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He said the SPLA had contacted the U.N. mission after seeing the helicopter near an SPLA command post but had been told it had no aircraft in the area.

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Babacar Gaye, U.N. military adviser for peacekeeping operations, has taken over temporary command of the supervision mission.

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The U.S. Central Command did not offer immediate comment on the U.N. warning.

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Authorities in the Command "Loop": As noted above, the U.N.

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He was indicted by the U.N. war crimes court in May 1999 for alleged atrocities committed by Yugoslav troops under his command against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

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