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AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON ? Dramatizing a
threat to bomb the Serbs, the Clinton
administration is adding 51 U.S. warplanes
to an already powerful attack
lorce in hurope to pressure the Yugoslav
government to approve a self-rule plan
for Kosovo and accept NATO peacekeeping
troops.
"We want to be in a position to
carry out an air operation, should it be
requested," Defense Secretary William
Cohen said upon arriving in Seattle today
on unrelated business.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
said the United States had begun
planning for the possible evacuation
of U.S. embassies. While she did
not say where American diplomats
might be withdrawn, a senior U.b. official
said Belgrade was an obvious
choice because the diplomats could not
remain during a NATO bombing campaign.
Also affected would be U.S. personnel
in Kosovo, said the official, speaking
on condition of anonymity.
Plans were also being made for the
possible evacuation of a multinational
monitoring group in Kosovo, according
to Norwegian foreign minister Knut
Vollebaek, who appeared at a joint news
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Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel ? The 1972 Munich
Olympics massacre taught Israelis
to rely on their own security for protection
abroad. That lesson came home
again with the Kurdish attack on the
Israeli consulate in Berlin.
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nours aner an israeu cupiomat was
briefly taken hostage and three Kurdish
protesters trying to storm Israel's
consulate were killed, many in Israel
praised security agents for protecting
the mission.
Others raised concerns that the
shootout Wednesday had dragged Israel
into conflict with another militant
group and left it open to the possibility
of revenge attacks.
In Rome, a Kurdish rebel
spokesman was quoted as saying Is
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Albright declined to say when NATO
might attack. "I am not going to
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Even as Western military officials
prepared for possible airstrikes, Cohen
signed an order today for 1,855 Marines
to be part of 7,000 NATO peacekeeping
troops, who would go into Pristina
as an "enabling force" ahead of an eventual
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Kurdish anger with Israel erupted
after a news report that the Israeli
spy agency Mossad helped track Kurdish
rebel Abdullah Ocalan ? leader
of the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK
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Embassy in Kenya on Monday. Israel
has vehemently denied any involvement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said Wednesday that Israeli
security guards acted in self defense
when they opened fire on protesters
trying to storm the consulate in Berlin.
"Our security guards have clear instructions
to protect their own lives,
protect the lives of Israelis and also to
prevent, if necessary using force, the
taking of hostages," Netanyahu told a
news conference.
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specialists, Pentagon spokesman Ken
Bacon said.
Cohen told reporters the additional
planes ?12 Air Force F-117 stealth
fighter-bombers, 10 EA-6B electronic
warfare planes and 29 refueling planes
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The purpose of
sending more warplanes is to heighten
the threat of force and thereby intimidate
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic
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in Kosovo, a province in the
dominant Yugoslav state of Serbia.
So far, Milosevic has defied the United
States and five allied governments
who have given him until noon Saturday
to agree to pull most Serb troops
out of Kosovo and see them replaced by
consulate
Several analysts said Israel's security
agents, operated by the Shin Bet
security service, handled the situation
well. They said better training and the
experience learned in past embassy at
tacks Israel meant guards did a better
job than at other countries' embassies,
which were overrun by Kurdish demonstrators.
Asked how the protesters managed
to get inside the embassy compound,
Netanyahu said they "charged past the
German police who are responsible for
the outer defense of the embassy."
Despite violent Kurdish protests at
dozens of embassies and consulates
across Europe one day earlier, Berlin
police did not beef up security outside
Israel's consulate Wednesday, and had
just one patrol car on call.
Israel's ambassador to Germany,
Avi Primor, suggested Thursday that
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some 28,000 NATO peacekeepers, including
about 4,000 U.S. troops.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin said
Thursday he had told Clinton recently:
"We will not allow Kosovo to be
touched.... I conveyed my opinion by
letter and by telephone to Clinton, that
this [bombing attack] won't do. That's
it."
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France, are showing some interest
in the self-rule plan for the Albanian-majority
Serbian province,
Milosevic has rejected a NATO peacekeeping
operation.
Asked what purpose air strikes
would serve, Cohen said, "It would reduce
some of [Milosevic's] ability to pose
the kind of threat that he has posed to
the Kosovar people. It would be designed
to take down some of his assets that
pose the most immediate threat to the
Kosovars."
Asked to be more specific about the
potential targets of NATO bombs, Cohen
.said, "It would be a significant
operation is all I can say at this point."
Uol. Kichard images, a rentagon
spokesman, cautioned that NATO military
action might not happen right
away. "This is not an automatic
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ring to the noon Saturday deadline
for an agreement.
in Berlin
the storming of the Berlin consulate also
took Israel by surprise because the *
Kurds were not considered a danger.
"If they had been people whom we
identified as enemies, I assume our security
people would have reacted in a
much harsher way," Primor told Israel
armv radio.
For some, the confrontation brought
back painful memories of a botched German
rescue operation at the 1972
Olympic Games in Munich, when Palestinian
terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes.
"The German security didn't fulfill
their role. This reminds us of Munich,"
said Haaretz military affairs correspondent
Zeev Schiff.
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