51. Gunfire echoed in the capital today, killing three people and wounding four, after Serbs broke into a U.N. heavy weapons depot and took two artillery pieces. 52. However, some Austrians were well informed about the weapons depots when they were set up. 53. Local authorities say the area, near a former Taliban weapons depot, is one of the few places near drought-plagued Kandahar that still has some vegetation. 54. Looters have cleaned out weapons depots. 55. NATO commander Adm. Leighton Smith in Naples, Italy, said six planes attacked the weapons depot, but that an assessment of the damage was premature. 56. NATO warplanes struck at Bosnian Serb headquarters Thursday, and Serbs answered with swift defiance, storming U.N. weapons depots and pouring shells down on a northern town. 57. Officials said troops also seized a weapons depot and a medicine cache from the rebels. 58. Over the past three years, the Chechens have stolen huge amounts of Russian military equipment from poorly guarded Russian weapons depots. 59. Peacekeepers at one weapons depot, however, were trapped by Serb-laid mines as a form of detention. 60. Pure bronze casings stolen from weapons depots earn much more. |