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...threatening to secede and merge with neighboring Serbia. "When I hear people talk on the news and in the cafes, I get the feeling that they're just about to jump at each other's throats," says Mirjana Topic, a student from the Bosnian Serb capital of Banja Luka. "All it would take is some fool's call...
...Michael Jackson to advance on Russian soldiers at Pristina airport. (Gen. Jackson refused, claiming such a move would’ve precipitated “World War III.”) Seldom mentioned, but indeed troubling, is the nature of Clark’s August 1994 meeting in Banja Luka, Bosnia, with Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic...
Clark’s behavior at Banja Luka is thus difficult to countenance. British Gen. Sir Michael Rose, who attended the infamous meeting, writes in his memoir Fighting for Peace that Clark was “ill-equipped to deal with the brutal cunning of a man like Mladic.” At one point, Rose describes, “[Mladic] took his pistol from its holster and presented it to Wes. On it were engraved the words, From General Mladic. We were appalled. As we left Banja Luka, one of Wes Clark’s aides asked Col. Gordon...
...news. Mark E. Lebel ’07 of Harvard Students for Clark writes in an e-mail that Clark’s stance on intervention in Kosovo shows he has no affinity for dictators or war criminals. That’s certainly true. But the Banja Luka episode still reflects a mind-boggling lack of judgment...
...rebuffing me from buses that were reserved for one or another organization. Finally, I did find a bus, sat myself next to a 70-year-old woman who could not stop talking about “Papa,” and spent seven hours unconscious en route to Banja Luka...