The infiltrators fled the scene after the A.U.-U.N. police unit returned fire, the mission said.
The abandoned U.S. Embassy in Kabul was set on fire during an anti-U.S. demonstration in the Afghan capital.
Obama and Putin said they would both support a so far ineffective cease-fire plan by former U.N.
Withdrawing from Syria would ensure the safety of the team, but it could signal a loss of confidence in the hopes of a cease-fire and leave the U.N. without a way to monitor progress, the report says.
After months of violence, Arab League-U.N. envoy Kofi Annan weeks ago helped broker what he hoped was a cease-fire.
The U.N. agencies called for an immediate cease-fire to allow civilians to leave the town.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's national security advisor, says the U.S. has to help negotiate a cease-fire if it wants to get a strong international force on the ground.
The successes of the U.S. military troop increase, a cease-fire by al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia that began last summer and the growth of pro-U.S. Sunni groups called the Sons of Iraq and Awakening Councils had been among the reasons cited for the drop.
Last year at Congressional the heavens opened and softened all the greens, allowing the bold to fire at pins in a most un-U.S. Open style.
But he said that ending the conflict there required a political solution, not a military one, and emphasized that the primary role of U.N. troops would be to monitor any cease-fire agreed upon by the warring parties.
The U.N. observer mission is tasked to monitor the cease-fire and the peace plan.
It has authorized up to 300 monitors in Syria to monitor a cease-fire and the six-point peace plan of U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
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The statement said that after the withdrawal is complete, the U.N. will have a chance to broker a cease-fire for Sarajevo, and later for all of Bosnia.
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Now, earlier in the war, a U.S. commander on the ground reached a temporary cease-fire with the MEK which he justified on the grounds that it enabled our forces to contain the MEK forces in cantonment areas, while not having to fight against them or to actively disarm them.
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Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.
So far, al-Sadr has resisted the temptation to end the Mehdi Army cease-fire, which, combined with the simultaneous increase in U.S. forces last year, had brought a sharp reduction in violence.
President Clinton's hapless efforts to prevent Puerto Rican displeasure at the U.S. military's use of the vital Vieques live-fire training range from harming the campaigns being waged by his wife and Vice President Gore is giving rise to the worst of both worlds: Navy and Marine battle groups unprepared for combat operations and increasingly expensive bribes for unappeasable separatists.
Many of the Europeans and Arabs, as well as the U.N. secretary-general, are pushing for an immediate cease-fire.
An advance team of U.N. observers is in Syria to check compliance with the cease-fire, with 30 unarmed monitors expected in the coming days.
By last month, some unarmed U.N. observers sent to the country to monitor the purported cease-fire deal had left the country, while others were largely confined to their hotels.
The U.S. Forest Service has warned it could be mid-July before the fire is fully controlled.
U.S. officials believe the North is preparing to test fire a medium-range "Musudan" missile.
On Thursday, the U.S. military made clear that it is unwilling to say the cease-fire is over, with a spokesman saying the military still believes only rogue Shiite elements are responsible.
Most recently, the Emir of Dubai's purchase at fire-sale prices of 4.9 percent of the largest U.S. bank, Citigroup, has caused a level of unease not seen since he tried to buy his way into a large number of this country's port facilities.
Treasurys are the only sure-fire safe asset around, even though real yields on shorter-dated U.S. debt are negative.
The cease-fire is part of a six-point peace plan laid out by U.N.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said the fire started with a leak in a fuel-oil return line running from one of the ship's engines.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry statement backtracks on previous public commitments given by the government that it will fully abide by the U.N. six-point plan, which paves the way for a cease-fire, due to be implemented by Tuesday.
Similarly, data from the National Interagency Fire Center show the number of U.S. wildfires is on a 35-year downward trend.
By late 1972, cease-fire talks were under way for Vietnam, and investors were hopeful that the U.S. would soon pull out.
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