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Insurers are furious that Senate majority leader Harry Reid's health-care-reform bill will include a public option - even though it lets states opt out if they don't want the government-run insurance alternative. Liberals are ecstatic with Reid over that same public option - even though opt-out states would be able to keep their markets completely private, which would limit the public plan's power to negotiate volume-based discounts in other states. (Read "Understanding the Health-Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...
...allow American soldiers on Saudi soil to repel Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. From the new family home in Sudan, while Osama plotted to overthrow the Saudi monarchy and the American government, Omar noticed some dangerous new arrivals in their Khartoum neighborhood, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of an Egyptian Islamist movement who would become al-Qaeda's second-in-command. When members of another extremist group raped one of Omar's male friends, al-Zawahiri took justice into his own hands - by executing the victim...
Although some of the survivors of Bosnia's 1992-95 war traveled by bus to the Hague in the Netherlands to watch the opening day of the trial against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, their trek was in vain. The former psychiatrist and onetime President of the breakaway Serb Republic was a no-show on Oct. 26. Depriving spectators the chance to see the man who had eluded prosecution for genocide and war crimes for 12 years, Karadzic flouted authority once again. Because he is representing himself, no lawyer was present to explain Karadzic's absence. The judge adjourned...
...Karadzic declared himself the new leader of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992, with Sarajevo as its capital, and instituted his plan to "ethnically cleanse" Serbia. "More the foreman than the architect [that distinction belonged to Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic] of the worst massacres in Europe since World War II," as TIME's Massimo Calabresi wrote in 2008, Karadzic allegedly ordered the siege of Sarajevo, which killed at least 10,000 people, and the slaughter at Srebrenica in 1995, which killed more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys. (See pictures from 2006 of the last Albanian...
...stage was all set, but the star failed to appear: the trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader and alleged architect of the savage 1992-95 war in Bosnia, started without the defendant at the international war-crimes court in the Hague. As prosecutor Alan Tieger gave his opening statement on Oct. 27, listing the 11 counts of war crimes, including two counts of genocide, against Karadzic, the defendant's seat remained empty, a pair of earphones sitting idly on the desk in front...