Monday, February 8, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 7
Nation/World
Policy attacks terrorism
United States asserts right to bomb nations that shield terrorists
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration now says that the right to bomb government buildings in nations that provide sanctuary to international terrorists is a significant escalation of U.S. attempts to thwart terrorism.
"We may not just go in a strike against a terrorist facility; we may choose to retaliate against the facilities of the host country, if that host country is a knowing, cooperative sanctuary," said Richard Clarke, President Clinton's coordinator for counterterrorism.
Clarke described the policy that marks a departure from the tactics employed last August, when U.S. cruise missiles struck at alleged terrorist
strongholds in Afghanistan and Sudan.
Now the administration says it could broaden such an attack to include government buildings and assets in nations that knowingly harbor terrorists.
Had this tactic been employed in the Aug. 20 strikes, the United States might have, for example, targeted Sudan's government buildings or the Afghan Taliban headquarters.
In fact, the scores of cruise missiles used in that strike were targeted carefully to avoid government buildings and were aimed at the alleged terrorist assets of Osama bin Laden.
Administration officials said that the missile strikes were not aimed at the governments of Sudan and Afghanistan.
Officials caution that a president seeking to use force against a terrorist sanctuary government would face a high burden to show that the target government willingly tolerated a terrorist presence. The added risk
of collateral damage or excessive casualties would add political and moral complications.
Clarke's comments appear to remove the distinction between cases where a nation actively involved in terrorism is struck, such as Iraq or Libya, and nations that merely allow terrorists to operate within their borders.
David Tucker, author of a classified report on terrorism while at the Pentagon under Presidents Bush and Clinton, said the administration's policy on terrorist sanctuaries has roots in international law on an enemy that seeks sanctuary in a neutral country.
This argument was used to justify the U.S. invasion of Cambodia in 1970. During the 1980s, the Reagan administration warned East Germany and other Soviet Bloc countries that they would be held responsible for harboring members of the Abu Nidal terrorist organization, Tucker said.
Kosovo could remain province
The Associated Press
RAMBOUILLET, France — Serb officials and Kosovo Albanians agreed on principles that would keep the embattled province inside Yugoslavia for at least three more years as they met separately Sunday with international mediators at a French chateau.
After Saturday's ceremonial opening of the peace talks, the mediators presented Kosovo's warring factions with a plan worked out by the six-nation Contact Group. The agreement contains 10 basic principles, including keeping what remains of Yugoslavia intact.
That means Kosovo's ethnic Albanians have to give up their demand for independence during a three-year interim period. Both a Serb negotiator and a Western mediator said all sides had accepted those principles.
"It's a good step forward," a Western mediator said. Still, he added that the tough part would be working out just how broad the Kosovo autonomy would be.
The peace negotiations are being held in seclusion at the official summer home of French presidents, and it was not possible to confirm the Albanian acceptance directly.
Hard-line Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas have said they never would accept anything short of independence for Kosovo, a province in Serbia, the main republic in Yugoslavia. The province is 90 percent ethnic Albanian.
The two sides were driven to the negotiating table by threat of NATO air strikes against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and tough measures against the KLA to halt its arms supplies and financing.
The Contact Group — made up of the United States, Russia, France, Britain, Germany and Italy — devised the framework agreement based on the work of U.S. mediator Christopher Hill.
The negotiating teams were not meeting face-to-face. Instead, international mediators were shuttling between two floors of the chateau. 30 miles south of Paris.
Rachel Kesselmar/KANSAN
The two sides were presented with the full text of the Contact Group plan on Sunday. It calls for, among other things, a three-year period of autonomy for Kosovo, the guarantee of current Serb borders, protection of minorities and a police force reflecting the ethnic community.
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