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...crime statistics don't surprise those who live in Britain's inner cities, where drug gangs, particularly Jamaican dealers, protect their multimillion pound profits with weapons ranging from replica pistols and modified air guns to lethal Uzi submachine guns. Jasper says guns, many smuggled in from the Balkans, are easily bought or rented, and that while the gangs are often homegrown, top killers, or "shottas," are sometimes flown in from Jamaica to carry out assassinations. Although Britain's inner cities are not nearly as violent as America's, the combination of guns, drugs and gang culture makes for a volatile...
...TERROR Looking for Trouble Since September 11, U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia have been watching mujahedin who came to fight the Balkan wars - and then stayed on. But last week, a homegrown foe appeared, as they linked a local Bosnian man to the al-Qaeda network. Sabahudin Fiuljanin, 32, was detained six weeks ago near Eagle Base, the U.S. military encampment in northern Bosnia. Searches of his home uncovered a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, three passports acquired in the first half of 2001 and, most significantly, an Islamic last will and testament known as a vasiet, in which, a Western official...
...that's what it is." As George W. Bush and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld travel to Prague this week, those who still believe in the alliance are trying to figure out not just how NATO can get back in the game, but what that game might be. The Balkan wars showed how ill equipped the Europeans were to fight a war, even one in their own backyard. Things haven't improved much since then. Currently the U.S. spends $376 billion on defense - 3.5% of its gdp - while all the other allies together spend some $140 billion - an average...
Unlike traditionalists who sing odes to the people in the hope of winning votes, reformists acknowledge that the way to Europe means having to change some Balkan ways. Djindjic pointed out that some 85 percent of Serbians support Yugoslavia’s accession to the E.U., but warned that the majority do not know exactly what that means and what sacrifices are needed to bring Serbia there. Serbia is for the first time dealing practically with a market economy and democracy. Djindjic compared reforms to a surgery—it is necessary, it hurts and people don?...
Serbia must reform its government and society because the entire Balkan region lacks institutions and infrastructure of stable democracy, said Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in an address Friday at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...