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...Kertes may have helped with Markovic's arrest, since both appear to have been involved in different capacities in an assassination attempt on opposition leader Vuk Draskovic in 1999. Police are attempting to document who ordered that hit - in which a truck slammed into Draskovic's convoy on a Serbian highway, killing four in his entourage - as well as several other notable assassinations which occurred during the panicky last months of the regime. Milosevic's role in those killings has long been suspected but never confirmed. If convicted on those more serious charges Milosevic and others could face the death...
...SOMALIA Kidnapped A convoy of foreign aid workers was caught up in factional fighting in northern Mogadishu as they left the compound of the humanitarian agency Médecins sans Frontières. Supporters of warlord Muse Sudi Yalahow captured nine, along with two local workers, and held them hostage. Fighting then broke out between factions in Muse Sudi's group. U.N. negotiators obtained the release of seven foreign workers and two Somalis...
When the end came, in the cool dawn of a Serbian spring, it came quickly. Four, five shots in the gathering light. A convoy rushing past the gates of the white fortress where Slobodan Milosevic had retreated since his ouster from power last fall. And it was over. Milosevic, the man who had terrorized the turbulent Balkans for a decade, was wrapped in the arms of the law. It was a victory for so many things. A victory for the idea that it was possible to pressure nations into democracy. A win for those Serbs who had fought to make...
...meet senior Arafat-aide Nabil Shaath in the Greek capital for what Palestinian sources described as a "frank, difficult exchange of views." But the danger of shooting and talking at the same time was highlighted overnight when Israeli troops at the Erez border crossing into Gaza fired on a convoy carrying Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan and other officials returning from a meeting with their Israeli counterparts...
TIME.com: After a melodramatic "last stand," Slobodan Milosevic was unceremoniously bundled off to jail early Sunday, while his enraged daughter fired shots at the departing police convoy. So what's happening now on Slobo's second day behind bars...