IRAQ

the Globe: U.S. having trouble recruiting peacekeepers

Brussels — France's President ruled out Tuesday sending French troops
to
Iraq, following India and Germany in rejecting U.S. calls for help
without
approval from the United Nations. Although a few nations are sending
troops, near daily guerrilla attacks — many of them deadly — and
growing doubts about the basis for the war are complicating
Washington's
search for peacekeepers to replace American troops in Iraq. In Paris,
President Jacques Chirac, a leading opponent of the war said that
sending French soldiers to Iraq "cannot be imagined in the current
context."