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...legal terms of the three indictments, that adds up to 66 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the rules of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention during the decade of wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The charges are a litany of persecution, extermination, murder, torture, inhumane acts, wanton destruction, deportation and forcible transfer. They accuse Milosevic, as the "dominant political figure" in Serbia, of orchestrating a "joint criminal enterprise" to cleanse non-Serbs from vast swaths of territory to leave an ethnically pure nation...
There is only one formal count of genocide, in Bosnia: it's the gravest offense on the war crimes books but the hardest to prove. Prosecutors must show Milosevic knowingly intended to wipe out, in whole or in part, an ethnic or religious group - Bosnia's Croats and Muslims. "Unless you've got an accused saying, 'Yes, I had the intent, and I had the ability to do it,'" says deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt, "you can only submit evidence that will enable the judges to infer that's what was in the accused's mind." Most of the charges...
Originally, the jurists in Trial Chamber III wanted to try Milosevic first on the Kosovo campaign and later for Bosnia and Croatia. But an appeals court two weeks ago accepted Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's argument that all three were part of "one strategy, one scheme" and that witnesses, once revealed, might be intimidated not to appear again. So there will be one trial, expected to conclude by late...
...more than a dozen Algerians have been arrested in Britain - though many have been cleared and released - in connection with terrorist activities. They are part of an extensive web of Algerian activity all across Europe. Two weeks ago six Algerians detained in Bosnia, whom Americans suspect of being part of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell, were handed over to U.S. authorities. Elsewhere in Europe, Algerian extremists have taken a leading role in some operational cells and have also developed expertise in support activities. According to Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Scotland's St. Andrews University, Algerian extremists have specialized...
...blunt. He reminded the audience what had been found in the smoked-out holes of Afghanistan - blueprints of U.S. nuclear plants, surveillance maps of major cities, instructions on chemical-weapon manufacture. He pointed to the harboring nations, the future hotspots that the Pentagon already has on simmer - the Phillipines. Bosnia. Somalia. Iran. Iraq. And he pointed to the "tens of thousands of killers, schooled in the methods of murder" are still out there, and still intent on bringing the U.S. to its knees. The terrorists not yet killed, not yet captured, Bush warned, were like "ticking time bombs," and until...