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...blast but offered no information to back up its claim. Investigators are also looking at a threat published in the same paper last Thursday by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, a band of Muslims seeking to depose Egypt's secular government. The group vowed revenge against the U.S. for helping Albania arrest and deport three of its members to Egypt in June. A larger, related organization, the Islamic Group, has long sworn to exact vengeance for the conviction and life sentence imposed on its spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing...
...that outright independence is the only acceptable solution. Milosevic shows no willingness to countenance that and has stalled on negotiations in order to launch his crackdown. The West frets that escalation of the conflict could lead to a Balkan war wider and more destabilizing than Bosnia's, drawing in Albania, Macedonia and even Greece. Holbrooke's aim is to cajole everyone to the bargaining table...
What has NATO done for us lately? Serbs are slaughtering ethnic Albanians in Kosovo while the alliance shrugs off American demands to get tough with Belgrade. When Albania collapsed into chaos and automatic gunfire last year, NATO managed to do precisely nothing. In Bosnia the European allies dithered for years until the U.S. insisted on bombing the Serbs. But in Washington last week, where the Senate voted to bring three new members into NATO, supporters attributed magical qualities to the alliance, including the power to make the whole Continent peaceful and prosperous. Bill Clinton said the inclusion of the Czech...
MOVIE: Events in Albania distract nation from scandal...
There are, of course, some major flaws in Mamet's screenplay, not least of which is the basic premise itself. Would the American public really forget about the President being an alleged pedophile and suddenly turn all attention to Albania? The answer, of course, is a resounding no. In satirizing the intelligence of the masses, the film accidentally overestimates their gullibility...