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...capacity for poor judgment were on display. He played a key role in stopping an early round of bloodshed in the Balkans, helping to draft the Dayton accords that halted the killing in Bosnia. But he stumbled when he met and swapped military hats with Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general the U.S. had branded a war criminal for the indiscriminate killing of Bosnian Muslims. The meeting infuriated the State Department. Clark later apologized, saying his gesture had given Mladic "a recognition and an acceptance into the brotherhood of arms which I don't feel his record substantiates...
Bosnia is a relatively new target for the Wahhabis. The Saudis have spent some $400 million there since 1993, initially to help Bosnian Muslims fight the Serbs and then to rebuild the country and to missionize. The thrust of their message is that Bosnia's comparatively secular Muslims have strayed from the true path. A book distributed by Active Islamic Youth, a group in Bosnia founded with Saudi aid, is called Beliefs That We Have to Correct. In a high-profile case last December, a Bosnian Muslim who claimed to be a member of Active Islamic Youth (the group denied...
...East Timor. But from Somalia, where a humanitarian effort turned into a doomed attempt at nation building; to Rwanda, where U.N. forces failed to prevent a genocide, despite ample warnings that it was coming; to Bosnia, where the Dutch component of a peacekeeping contingent stood by while thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered in Srebrenica, the record of multilateral forces has hardly been distinguished...
...Convicted. Darko Mrdja, 36, Bosnian Serb police commander whose officers killed more than 200 Muslim men in 1992; after pleading guilty to a charge of murder as a war crime and a second charge of a crime against humanity; in the Hague, the Netherlands. During the massacre, the victims were taken to a cliff in central Bosnia, supposedly for a prisoner exchange. "Here is where we do the exchange," Mrdja is alleged to have said, "the living for the living, and the dead." Then the police opened fire...
...case would please Washington, with which Ankara is eager to patch up relations after the Iraq war. Failure, however, could see the Uzans emerge politically stronger than ever. The Uzan business empire is built on humble foundations. The patriarch of the Uzan clan, Kemal, the son of a Bosnian farmer who emigrated to Turkey in the 1920s, built a construction empire in the 1970s and '80s, benefiting from close ties with then Prime Minister Turgut Özal, who in effect brought capitalism to the country. Cem Uzan's initial enterprise was to launch Turkey's first private TV channel, Star...