Word: bosnia
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...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...
...season since 1999, and we have to assume it will be the same this year," says a French official. In an effort to disrupt any potential strikes, French authorities last week arrested Slimane Khalfaoui, a 27-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin and a veteran of jihads in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Material evidence ties Khalfaoui to a Frankfurt cell busted in December 2000 as it prepared an attack on Strasbourg Cathedral. Khal-faoui has also been linked to "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam, an al-Qaeda operative convicted in the U.S. for his foiled plan to strike the Los Angeles...
Throughout his career, Gore's main assets have been his ideas, his decisiveness and his ability to discern things before just about anyone else. As Clinton agonized over Bosnia, it was Gore who convinced him that bombing would bring the Serbs to the peace table. Gore coined the term "information superhighway" in the 1970s, and he was already worrying about global warming when he was in college. His strengths, he says, are "listening and translating what people are telling me into practical plans for making it happen. I think I'm better at looking over the next ridge...
However, this summer the star forward of the Harvard women’s basketball team took a vacation from the court, as she ventured back to her birthplace in Bosnia for the first time in a decade...
...Defense Committee and a member of the opposition Fidesz Party. He ticks off the achievements of the previous government, which was led by Fidesz: it increased defense spending by .1% of GDP during each of the past three years; fielded troops for multinational peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Bosnia; passed a strategic defense-reform plan that promises to professionalize the army, improve language skills and upgrade equipment. The new government has vowed to press ahead with these reforms, and pledged a 19% increase in the defense budget for next year, bringing it to $1.3 billion. The military will need...