NATO

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Jul 2003	Number of Serbian Orthodox churches burned down since the end of NATO's 1999 Operation Allied Force: 134	Harper's Index Source: Embassy of Serbia and Montenegro (Washington)
Sep 2002	Number of NATO member nations besides the United States with a civilian oath of loyalty: 0	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
May 2000	Percentage increase in NATO troops required to seal Kosovo's border, according to a Pentagon official last March: 150	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Dec 1999	Chance that a Serb has left Kosovo since NATO troops took it over last June: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Pristina, Kosovo)
Aug 1999	Minimum number of Geneva Convention violations of which NATO was accused last May by a lawyers' group: 18	Harper's Index Source: Shel Jacobs Law Firm (Toronto)/Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Toronto)
Jul 1999	Chance that a NATO member country faces its own ongoing secessionist movement: 1 in 3	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State
Jul 1999	Chance that the leader of a NATO member country was once an antiwar or antinuclear activist: 1 in 3	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Jul 1999	Number of NATO bombs that have fallen on Bulgaria since the war in Kosovo began: 2	Harper's Index Source: NATO (Brussels)
Jul 1999	Hours after NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May that the U.S. apologized to China: 23	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Jun 1999	Hours before NATO began bombing Kosovo in March that NPR aired its last e-mail from a 16-year-old Albanian girl there: 6	Harper's Index Source: National Public Radio (Washington)
Jun 1998	Year in which General Eisenhower said that NATO “will have failed” if U.S. troops were in Europe a decade later: 1951	Harper's Index Source: Center for Defense Information (Washington)
May 1998	Number of countries that have received U.S. military aid since 1995 in preparation for NATO expansion: 19	Harper's Index Source: World Policy Institute (N.Y.C.)

October 13, 2008	Taliban militants attacked Lashkar Gah, in the opium-rich Helmand province of Afghanistan. NATO responded with airstrikes that killed 62 insurgents, and 40 more were killed in another battle in the region. Villagers in Nad Ali, six miles away, claimed the airstrikes had also killed civilians, and they protested by carrying 12 corpses to the home of the local governor. The Taliban then seized a bus that they said was en route to Lashkar Gah, executed at least 24 passengers, and beheaded at least six.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source 1: LAT Source 2: LAT Source 3: LAT Source 4: LAT
February 22, 2008	Kosovo, in a move supported by the United States and strongly opposed by Russia, declared its independence from Serbia. NATO sealed Kosovo's northern border, and Serbians looted designer clothes, shoes, and chocolates, and set fire to the U.S. embassy in Belgrade.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: Reuters
May 10, 2007	In Afghanistan, NATO leaders were concerned about news reports that they had killed almost 90 civilians in the past two weeks, and residents of the town of Herat claimed that as many as 80 civilians were killed on Tuesday.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source 1: USA Today Source 2: NYT
September 18, 2004	NATO was short of troops in Afghanistan.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
June 30, 2004	President Hamid Karzai begged NATO to send security troops to the country, and to "please hurry" in advance of September elections, but his request was rejected.	Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi Source: New York Times
June 28, 2004	While in Turkey for the NATO summit, President Bush met with religious leaders and thanked them "for being so faithful to the Almighty God."	Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi Source: New York Times
April 3, 2004	Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined NATO; Russia was unhappy about NATO forces creeping so close to its border.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times

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