1. Croatian and Bosnian forces, backed by troops from the regular Croatian army, are encamped along these bluffs. 2. Security Council members who brokered the deal say they will urge Secretary General Kofi Annan to start sending monitors backed by troops as soon as possible. 3. Within hours after Taliban troops entered the city, a Northern Alliance militia comprised of Hazara troops backed out of the deal and attacked the Taliban. 4. Angolan government troops are backing the Congolese government. 5. Both Kabila and Mugabe are former rebel leaders, as is Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, whose troops are also backing rebels in Congo. 6. But the Karadzic camp angrily charged the U.S. troops were backing Plavsic. 7. But Zedillo, who says he wants to resume peace talks, also has said he has no intention of pulling the troops back. 8. Canadian troops backed U.S. soldiers in Operation Anaconda. 9. Congo, backed by troops from Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia and Chad, is fighting a war against rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda. 10. Fighting restarted late Sunday and continued Monday in the capital Bissau, as army dissidents and troops backing President Joao Bernardo Vieira exchanged artillery fire. |