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...Laden. "The tactics are so clearly al-Qaeda trained," says Mark, pointing to Ansar's way with propaganda and terrorist strikes behind the lines, even its manner of mutilating prisoners. "I recognize it from the Chechnya-Georgia border, the border area between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and on the Macedonian border. It screams al-Qaeda training," he says...
...next two months bring a flurry of elections that will test the lingering clout of nationalists and hard-liners from Banja Luka to Belgrade. In Macedonia, where elections are set for Sept. 15, hostilities have already broken the surface calm. In the past two weeks, a pair of Macedonian police and two ethnic Albanians have been killed and five Macedonians kidnapped (and later released) in what locals believe is an attempt by extremists on both sides to intimidate voters and skew results. At such a delicate time, even the shift away from a NATO peacekeeping force in Macedonia carries tangible...
Maybe Gladiator got Hollywood jazzed on the ancient world or maybe the inspiration is the surprise success of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Either way, half the directors in town are set on making movies about the storied hero of the big fat Macedonian empire, ALEXANDER THE GREAT. The man most likely to roll out an Alexander movie first appears to be Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann, who has producer Dino De Laurentiis on his side and a green light from Fox and Universal. But Martin Scorsese wants to direct Leonardo DiCaprio, hero of his upcoming Gangs of New York...
Confusion still surrounds the circumstances in which Macedonian police killed seven foreigners in fields near Skopje on 2 March. The government alleged that those killed were Islamic extremists but failed to offer conclusive evidence, even though Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski promised the Macedonian parliament on 5 March that the police would make public detailed information on the case...
...until a political settlement can be reached. In the meantime, it will continue to be administered by the U.N., in tandem with the new assembly. MACEDONIA Shock Waves The fragile peace process received further setbacks after a bomb exploded in the border town of Tetevo and the main ethnic Macedonian party, the Social Democratic Alliance, withdrew from the governing coalition. The blast went off outside the office of the E.U.'s monitoring mission on the eve of excavations of suspected mass graves. Inspectors later found human remains thought to belong to six of 12 Macedonian civilians who disappeared during...