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Officials said that 15,000 police were being deployed in the region. Dannenberg felt as if it was under martial law, with just a few hundred demonstrators visible, while dozens of armoured cars and water cannons were massed at the railway station.Mr Sch?rhas been protesting against nuclear power for three decades and was under no illusion. “Of course we can’t stop the train, but at least we can make this whole operation so expensive that we price nuclear power out of the market,” he said.The cost of this delivery to Gorleben of six “Castors” ­ an acronym for “Cask for Storage and Transport of Radioactive Material” ­ is expected to exceed 10m German marks (£3.2m). Each “Castor” contains 168 cannisters of reprocessed waste embedded in glass and weighs about 100 tonnes. In the next 10 years, Germany will have to dispose of an estimated 120 Castors filled with its nuclear refuse.That these trains are again rolling, two years after the Greens entered government, makes environmentalists very angry. Mr Sch?r comes from Frankfurt, where Joschka Fischer and other Green politicians shot to prominence Mr Sch?r was once a Green, but no longer He is disgusted with the metamorphosis in his old friend “There’s no Joschka any more,” he said “There’s only Herr Fischer now He has forgotten who he was. When a pacifist starts to shoot, as he did in Kosovo, when an environmentalist strikes dirty deals with the nuclear mafia, then the movement is dead.”The sense of disaffection is palpable.

Far fewer people came to protest this time than four years ago Mr Sch?r says the protesters lack leadership “The Greens always used to be at the head of the march. At our demo today, they marched at the back and then tried to confiscate our banners.” But even at his age, Mr Sch?r refuses to miss these protests. If he gets through the coming days in one piece, he will be back again for the next shipment.. Nato forces in southern Kosovo have seized a large cache of arms believed to be destined for Macedonia, amid growing signs that ethnic Albanian guerrillas there are preparing for renewed fighting. Nato forces in southern Kosovo have seized a large cache of arms believed to be destined for Macedonia, amid growing signs that ethnic Albanian guerrillas there are preparing for renewed fighting.British soldiers from the international force in Kosovo (K-For) discovered more than 100 rifle-launched grenades, 9,240 rounds of ammunition, and light machine-guns hidden in a lorry south of Gnijlane.President Boris Trajkovski declared yesterday that Macedonia had vanquished the Albanian rebels, arguing that a military offensive had proved the country was able to defend its fragile democracy.But with expectations of more violence in the border region, the British soldiers, specialists in surveillance and reconnaissance, are making widespread weapons searches and are watching closely a guerrilla training centre.The complex, guarded by mortars and machine-gun nests at Asmanska Mahala in Presevo Valley, is run by the UCPMB Albanian rebel group which is in confrontation with Serbian forces. It is also being used to train fighters of the National Liberation Army (UCK) engaged in clashes with Macedonian forces around Tetevo.The arms were discovered at at a road-block.

The driver, an Albanian in his twenties, was arrested and handed over to the American contingent of K-For.The arms are believed to have been ferried from Presevo to the border. Guerrillas have been moving supplies since K-For allowed Serbian forces to re-enter the buffer zone between Kosovo and Serbia.Nato intelligence indicates that the guerrillas are turning their attention towards Macedonia. It is common knowledge here that UCPMB fighters are joining with and supplying the NLA in the Tetevo region.An Albanian died on Monday night in clashes with Serbs in the buffer zone. K-For’s Major Alex Wilson said: “The situation is getting increasingly dangerous.

There is a lot of activity and there are huge amounts of arms floating around.”. Timothy McVeigh, the man due to be executed for the Oklahoma bombing, criticises the FBI, lists his favourite television shows and refers to a portion of the citizens of the city he bombed as a “woe-is-me crowd”, in a series of letters sent from his prison cell. Timothy McVeigh, the man due to be executed for the Oklahoma bombing, criticises the FBI, lists his favourite television shows and refers to a portion of the citizens of the city he bombed as a “woe-is-me crowd”, in a series of letters sent from his prison cell.
Not once in the handwritten letters ­ sent over a three-year period ­ does he refer to the bomb he planted in April 1995, which killed 168 people. Nor does he express any regret.McVeigh, 32, a former soldier, is due to be executed by lethal injection on 16 May, at a Federal prison at Terre Haute, Indiana. He was convicted in June 1997 of the bombing, which the prosecution claimed the Gulf War veteran had committed in reaction to the way the FBI handled the Waco siege in Texas that ended with the death of about 80 cult members.McVeigh’s bomb exploded exactly two years later. A jury last year cleared the FBI and Department of Justice of blame for causing the Waco deaths.But in his letters to an Oklahoma journalist, written between 1996 and 1999, McVeigh said: “The public never saw the Davidians’ home video of their cute babies, adorable children, loving mothers, or protective fathers. Nor did they see pictures of the charred remains of children’s bodies.

Therefore, they didn’t care when these families died a slow, tortuous death at the hands of the FBI. They didn’t care when boastful FBI agents posed for cameras as people’s lives were consumed with flames.”McVeigh’s bomb exploded at about 9am, ripping through the Alfred P Murrah federal building in an act that stunned America ­ apparently believing it was immune to acts of internal terrorism Elsewhere in his letters, McVeigh said: “Listen … I have nothing against the citizens of Oklahoma except the continuing ‘woe-is-me’ crowd.”Other letters that will appear as part of an article in May of the American edition of Esquire magazine dwell on his favourite television shows, including The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Star Trek.He wrote: “I still watch King of the Hill, although it has lost some of its flair. Simpsons once in a while has a good comeback ­ but they are pretty much out of originality too.”McVeigh has waived his right to further appeals against his execution, which he has requested is broadcast on television. More than 250 survivors and bombing victims’ relatives have asked to be allowed to witness his death.. After two months of doom-laden predictions, President George Bush made the first radical adjustments to his economic message yesterday, turning himself into the cheerleader-in-chief for an economy that might be “winded” but was “fundamentally strong”.