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...charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica, the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II, and for overseeing the three-year siege of Sarajevo, among other crimes. General Mladic, 63, a former colonel and loyal communist in the Yugoslav People's Army, was Karadzic's military commander, though that does not come close to capturing his role. He was "Milosevic's more-than-willing executioner," says Natasa Kandic, a leading Serbian human-rights investigator. "He understood perfectly what Milosevic wanted and bent over backwards...
...Serbia was close to arresting Mladic as recently as January, says this official. Back then, police picked up retired Colonel Jovo Djogo, the former chief of Mladic's security detail, who remains in custody. The senior official says that defense minister Zoran Stankovic told Del Ponte to expect Mladic within eight weeks. "We were sure that [Djogo], who was in charge of Mladic for so many years, knows where the general is. But he is not talking." The chances of Mladic being brought in by the end of March, says the official, are now minimal. That would set back Serbia...
...hands of the Marines, not the insurgents. The military announced last week that the matter has been handed over to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which will conduct a criminal investigation to determine whether the troops broke the laws of war by deliberately targeting civilians. Lieut. Colonel Michelle Martin-Hing, spokeswoman for the Multi-National Force--Iraq, told TIME the involvement of the NCIS does not mean that a crime occurred. And she says the fault for the civilian deaths lies squarely with the insurgents, who "placed noncombatants in the line of fire as the Marines responded to defend...
...zones and being paid a third of what their classmates make. Not to mention being looked down on by their professors and many of their classmates for not being as mercenary as Harvard University. RAYMOND T. SWENSON Idaho Falls, Idaho March 13, 2006 The writer is a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Air Force...
...back the scholarship money they have already received. “When you’re contracting, you’re joining a lifestyle. It’s not just a job,” Captain McKinney says. “Morning, Paul Revere,” Lieutenant Colonel Leo R. McGonagle says. “It’s a great day to be a solider or a cadet.” The cadet who has chosen to contract steps up to the flag, and McGonagle leads the cadet in the oath of enlistment...