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...Saudi financier who recruited and led Arab volunteers for the 'jihad' against the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan. Since that war, he has sent his "Arab Afghans" to fight in Bosnia, Chechnya, Kashmir and other conflicts involving Muslims. But he also declared a 'jihad' against the United States, declaring it the duty of all Muslims to kill American soldiers and civilians. Bin Laden, of course, has no religious standing, and his religious rationalization of terrorism is fiercely rejected by mainstream Islam. The fugitive Saudi has been accused of authoring a number of attacks on Americans, most notably the 1998 embassy bombings...
...Laden remains holed up in Afghanistan, where he enjoys the protection of its ruling Taliban militia. But structures linked with Bin Laden have been identified in Yemen, Bosnia, the Philippines, even New Jersey - pockets of support have been unearthed in most places where foreign veterans of the Afghan war are to be found. Earlier this year, a New York court convicted a former Egyptian army major of doing intelligence work for Bin Laden's networks - Ali Mohammed had also been a sergeant in the U.S. Army. And the Algerians arrested last December for allegedly smuggling explosives into...
...Milosevic made a second defiant appearance before the U.N. war crimes tribunal as chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said charges against him would include genocide. Milosevic currently faces four charges of crimes against humanity arising from the Kosovo conflict in 1999. Del Ponte said additional charges of genocide in Bosnia and war crimes in Croatia would be brought against him in October. A Dutch court rejected a claim by Milosevic that his detention was illegal...
...NATO officials counter that they can't do more than the Macedonian government has asked them to. However shaky the government is, it has sovereignty; the warring parties in Bosnia relinquished their sovereignty at Dayton in 1995, and Serbia lost its over Kosovo after the 1999 air campaign. NATO officials are perturbed that their reluctant hosts can't even stomach clearing the blockade from the Skopje-Pristina road; clearing the constitutional changes will take a lot more political courage than that...
...soften the phase shift" once NATO pulls out. But no one really believes the N.L.A. is going to fade into the hills, however many guns it hands over in the coming month. Ten years in the Balkans have regrettably demonstrated the stubborn inertia of armed conflict. Just as in Bosnia and Kosovo, NATO could find the potential cost of leaving higher than that of sticking around...