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...first involves the unfortunate abduction of German citizen Kahlid El-Masri. In December 2003, while traveling in Macedonia, El-Masri was detained by Macedonian police and turned over to the CIA, apparently as a suspected terrorist. He was then spirited away to Kabul, Afghanistan, for five months of what he describes as beatings, drugging and other mistreatment. At some point, his captors apparently discovered that they had the wrong guy, and so in May 2004 they dumped him in the wilds of Albania...
...they believed had terrorist ties. Rice would only say that when mistakes are made, Washington would "rectify them." El-Masri, who filed a suit in U.S. federal court last week against former CIA Director George Tenet and three private airline companies, claims that agents seized him on the Serbian-Macedonian border in 2003 and held him in Afghanistan for five months...
...crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued its final indictment last week - for ex-Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and his bodyguard Johan Tarculovski on charges of murder, wanton destruction and cruel treatment - but its previous warrants are still causing ructions in the Balkans. Croatia hoped to start European Union accession talks this month, but the deal was postponed after the Hague tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, argued that former Croatian general Ante Gotovina is "within the reach of the Croatian authorities" but has still not been turned in almost four years after he was indicted. Serbia...
...script follows what is known about Alexander, who left the Ionian peninsula to sweep the fabled Babylon and India into his ambitious embrace. But Stone, who wrote the film with Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis, sees the old Greek fables as horror stories, Olympus as Hades and the Macedonian royal family--led by one-eyed Philip (Val Kilmer) and his spiteful bride Olympias (Angelina Jolie)--drowning in lust and supernal rancor. In this realm, the king is the last man conscious at an orgy, just as Stone is still drunk on the pricey, preposterous adventure of moviemaking...
Robinson also toured Macedonian palaces traveled to Mt. Helicon to examine the spring of Hippocrene. She is currently putting the finishing touches on her paper, “Pegasos’ Springs and Peaks of Inspiration,” for publication...