Word: albania
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...nowhere will Bush receive as warm a welcome as in Albania, where he is scheduled to land on Sunday morning. Bush will be the first sitting President to visit the remote Balkan country, the poorest in Europe, and Albanians have outdone themselves in preparations: tens of thousands have thronged to the run down capital, Tirana, to get a glimpse of the American first couple. The parliament recently passed a bill authorizing the U.S. to do anything necessary, "including the use of force," to secure the President. One headline declared: "Please Occupy...
...addition to sending small numbers of non-combat personnel to Iraq, Albania voted with the U.S. in the United Nations on key provisions, such as the refusal to recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and also offered to take care of prisoners released from Guantanamo who the U.S. refuses to harbor and cannot be returned to their home countries for fear of persecution. Albania is the only country in the world to provide such refuge, and, coincidentally, lawyers acting for detainees announced last week that 30 more are headed from Guantanamo to Albania in the near future. (Human...
...suspected terrorist. He was then spirited away to Kabul, Afghanistan, for five months of what he describes as beatings, drugging and other mistreatment. At some point, his captors apparently discovered that they had the wrong guy, and so in May 2004 they dumped him in the wilds of Albania...
...agents alleged to have abducted Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, while he was on vacation in Macedonia in 2003. Al-Masri was flown to Afghanistan, where he was allegedly held for five months in a secret prison and then released in a remote part of Albania...
...control of our borders and stop this greatest invasion in history, I see the dissolution of the U.S. and the loss of the American Southwest--culturally and linguistically, not politically--to Mexico. It could become a part of Mexico in the way that Kosovo is now a part of Albania...