Word: bosnia
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...strongly held belief that any conflict must be just. "I supported the war with Iraq over Kuwait," says Richard Harries, the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, who signed the Pax Christi petition submitted to Tony Blair. "I supported the war in Afghanistan. I supported the effort in Bosnia. War can be justified, but certain conditions have...
They remember only too well the last round against Saddam - when Bush the Elder refused to go the last mile and topple Saddam in 1991. They remember America's isolationist reflexes in Bosnia and Kosovo - "Let's bomb 'em and get out." Allies loathe entrapment in indeterminate wars that leave them holding the bag. Listen to German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer make the point. Does the U.S. understand, he asks, that victory has to be followed by a "complete reordering of the Middle East, above all politically?" This might "require a U.S. presence that could last for decades...
...pairs skating events so that gold medals would be awarded to the French and the Russian teams, respectively. If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. SENTENCED. FIKRET (BABO) ABDIC, 63, once considered to be the richest man in Bosnia; to 20 years in prison for war crimes that led to the deaths of 121 civilians and three prisoners of war; in Karlovac, Croatia. Following the collapse of communist Yugoslavia, Abdic distanced himself from the Bosnian government and declared himself ruler of a small autonomous region. To enlist...
...muslim engineer, remembers the day his native Mostar lost the bridge from which the city takes its name. For more than four centuries the Stari Most, or Old Bridge, linked the Mediterranean and Ottoman worlds, Christianity and Islam, West and East. Its graceful arch and stone towers in southeastern Bosnia were a meeting place for Serbs, Croats and Muslims as well as travelers from as far away as Istanbul and Glasgow. That ended with the Bosnian war, when the Neretva River became a front line between the town's Croat and Muslim residents. Some tried to protect their bridge...
...treaty's terms, American soldiers could be subject to the court's jurisdiction for actions committed in nations that have signed and ratified the document. Washington wants protection for its peacekeepers. Until it gets its way, the Administration is holding up renewal of the U.N. peacekeeping mandate in Bosnia. Europeans say the U.S. could protect its interests by signing the treaty while negotiating exemptions. Washington says that a signature would be the first step on a slippery slope; once it had conceded that Americans could be subject to the court's jurisdiction, the way would be open for a foreign...