Word: bosnian
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...government - like the final days of his predecessor's - will be overshadowed by the fallout from the March 11 Madrid bombings. Two days before his inauguration, three more men - a Moroccan, a Saudi and an Egyptian - were detained for questioning in connection with the attacks; on Saturday, a Bosnian on a police wanted list turned himself in. But nearly everything else seems set to change. Zapatero's ambitious agenda includes new approaches to both Spain's constitution and Europe's, awarding gay couples some of the legal rights of marriage, and the pullout of the country's 1,300 troops...
...Moroccan who was one of the the first arrested in Madrid for the train bombings. After they picked him up, police found a note in his apartment bearing the cell-phone number of another Moroccan who had long been on their wanted list: Amer Azizi, a veteran of the Bosnian and Afghan wars in the 1990s, who is suspected of helping to organize a key meeting in Spain between Mohamed Atta and other 9/11 operatives in July 2001. So is AzizI the Madrid mastermind? That's not clear. He was among the six targets who the police failed...
...NATO peacekeepers. "These were ethnic attacks, pure and simple," said a diplomat. And as the region knows too well, violence begets violence. In Serbia itself, drunken football fans and others vowing revenge on "Albanian terrorists" torched two mosques, including one from the 17th century that had miraculously survived the Bosnian war. Crowds moved on to smash the front windows at a local McDonald's. About 1,000 Kosovo Serbs have been evacuated to NATO bases inside Kosovo and another 2,600 driven from their homes. Camping out in a friend's apartment in the divided town of Mitrovica, medical student...
...will have to convince Congress that he's committed to democratic reform and that he's serious about arresting suspected war criminals. Given his fierce resistance to the tribunal in the past - and with his government dependent on votes from Milosevic's party - few expect to see people like Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic on their way to the Hague anytime soon. "We are highly dependent on Western aid, and if the U.S. stops supporting us, others are likely to follow," says independent foreign investment consultant Milan Kovacevic. "We should hope for the best, but expect the worst." Kostunica will...
...Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco (Fantagraphics Books; 2000) Sacco brings journalism to comics in this oral history of life in the beleaguered Bosnian city of Gorazde during the Balkans crisis of the 1990s. Along with his previous series "Palestine" and his latest book, "The Fixer," Sacco has almost single-handedly created a vital non-fiction graphic sub-genre...