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...rights award he got from Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi last week. Unless the Nation of Islam leader manages to overturn the decision in court, we'll never know how he would have behaved as the world's first black billionaire flake. Assuming Gaddafi actually intended to hand over the loot, it would have been quite a show...
...take control" of his home. The next month, Alex attacked his father, who is four inches shorter, with a golf club. After Anthony phoned the police, Alex was arrested and placed in a youth home for one night. Over the next several weeks, Alex burgled homes, stashing the loot in his bedroom, which he would not allow his parents to enter. As Alex grew more confrontational, Anthony began to fear for the safety of his wife and their two younger daughters. Last September, when police wanted to return Alex to a youth home, the parents did not resist. Two months...
...witnesses say, Lugar terrorized thousands of non-Serb residents of Bosanski Samac in northern Bosnia until they either fled or died. He stopped only when Bosnian Serb authorities jailed him--unjustly, he huffs--for torturing 11 Serb allies and killing one in a quarrel over loot. Lugar, 34, claims he did not do anything wrong. "I was just a military policeman," he tells TIME, "carrying out normal duties...
...from the killing frenzy than Arkan. Since the paramilitaries from Serbia were paid mainly in what they could steal, theft provoked many atrocities. Arkan reportedly had a price list for "liberating" a town: say, 2 million to 3 million German marks ($1 million to $2 million), plus all the loot from the police station and bank, plus right of passage for 30 cars, plus everything his men could carry. The Tigers' plunder attracted "weekend warriors" from Belgrade's underworld who would pillage for profit. Arkan brags he does not consider himself a war criminal. An indictment at the Hague...
...take with them. At night, firebugs and looters took over the streets, stripping apartments of everything from TV sets to parquet floors and setting fire to what remained. As in the first year of war, the Oprhal family huddled in their apartment, fearful of going out. Trucks loaded with loot prowled the fire-flecked darkness, and gunfire rattled in the empty streets...