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...force for the world of organized crime, allegedly felt Djindjic coming after him - and decided it was time to do something about it. According to Serb officials, the ex-commando ordered the assassination of Djindjic, Serbia's first Prime Minister in the democratic era, to avoid being put in jail himself. The gangland-style assassination - Djindjic was gunned down by sniper fire in broad daylight - recalled both the reign of terror that seized Serbia in the final years of Milosevic's rule and the chaos and dread that many Serbs had hoped was behind them. Known for his wit, energy...
...alleged collaborators and continues to protect most StB officers, whom Cibulka has tried to expose as well. Meanwhile, he is raising money to restart his Web service. This time he is undeterred by the three-year prison sentence such an effort could carry. "I am happy to go to jail for it," he says. - By Jan Stojaspal House ahoy! Road ahoy! The Netherlands After centuries of finger-in-the-dike battles to keep water at bay, the Dutch are floating a different strategy. Why not live, work, shop - even drive - on the water? Builders in the Netherlands aren't thinking...
...continues to round up men from Pakistan and other Muslim countries and trap them by the thousands in detention centers throughout the country, where some are deported and others are kept indefinitely. There are at this moment over a hundred such men locked up in the Kearney, N.J county jail, according to calls for action circulated over e-mail listservs. The Department of Justice is a party to these deportations, which are largely legal even if unconstitutional, thanks to the powers granted by Congress to federal enforcement agencies. If the guys happen to be “innocent...
...vast majority do so within the guidelines of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which says collection agencies may not use deceptive, unfair or abusive practices. That means they can't threaten jail (debt disputes are civil rather than criminal matters) or, in many cases, litigation (often only the creditor has that right). They can't contact uninvolved parties like children, neighbors or co-workers, and can't make a follow-up call so soon that it's unlikely a debtor's situation will have changed...
...Local papers made you sound like a sissy when you were in Jail, saying that you claimed you shouldn't be there because of asthma. I heard a lot of that stuff. But the funny thing was, the people in the facility saw the papers, and then they realized how much crap people talk. One of the rumors during that time was that I was smashed in the head with a guitar. The guys were, like, 'what the hell? We don't even have a guitar in here...