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...from a young age. He enrolled in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and although he finished college at a school closer to home, he eventually became a naval officer and was attached to the élite Navy seal Team 8 based in Norfolk, Va. He served in Haiti, Bosnia and the Middle East. In 1995, when his father died, Prince left the Navy and returned to Michigan. He and his sisters sold the company, and Prince took his share and founded Blackwater...
...refugee camp in southern Germany where she would live for six years before moving to the United States. This summer she will return, funded by a $10,000 donation from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Foundation to rebuild a war-devastated athletic center in her hometown, Kolibe Gornje, Bosnia. Kobiljar said she hoped the reconstruction of the athletic center would promote peace by allowing the town to host the neighboring Bosniak, Croat, and Serb communities in competitions and tournaments, increasing interaction between the groups. She said she also hoped her plan would unite and empower the village’s residents...
ZELJKO KOMSIC, Croat member of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the Hague did not find Serbia guilty of genocide in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica, reflecting widespread shock among the victims...
...doesn't mean the people of Kosovo will be free from foreign rule: according to the plan, devised by U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari, the European Union's office in Pristina will have broad powers to keep local politicians in line, both in internal and external affairs, much as in Bosnia (which is also nominally independent and internationally recognized). Furthermore, some 30,000 nato troops will remain in the province, while Kosovo will be allowed only a 2,500-man army. And finally, some 100,000 Serbs in Kosovo will have a high degree of autonomy, and rights to economic...
...were depressed as hell as we were doing this work," admits Kenneth Pollack, a co-author of the report. "It was not a fun project." Nearly all past attempts by outsiders to suppress civil wars have failed. The ones that succeeded - Bosnia, for example - required a ratio of 20 armed peacekeepers per 1,000 locals. In Iraq that would mean an international security force of about 450,000 troops, and that's excluding Kurdistan, which hopefully would remain stable...