Word: nato
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...Balkan wars: Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. "Now more than ever I expect Serbia to arrest and transfer [Mladic and Karadzic] to the Hague," said Carla del Ponte, the tribunal's chief prosecutor. So far attempts to arrest the two men by both Serb authorities and nato peacekeepers have been notable only for their complete failure. Karadzic, 60, a former psychiatrist, led the breakaway Bosnian Serbs during the war. He was indicted by the tribunal in 1995 on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the massacre of 8,000 men and boys...
...criminals, Serbia has had plenty of breaks. In 2002, according to a recent internal Defense Ministry report, Mladic was under the protection of Serbia's military counterintelligence agency and received a pension from them. Karadzic has been has been sheltering in Bosnia on and off for the past decade. nato troops stationed there have conducted numerous raids looking for him, after being accused of turning a blind eye to his whereabouts in the immediate aftermath of the war. Newly elected leaders of the Serbian part of Bosnia, known as Republika Srpska, say they are stepping up their own search...
...NATO air strikes effectively ended the rule of Yugoslav President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC and led to his jailing for alleged war crimes. His trial was nearing its end when he died of a heart attack. He was buried last week in Serbia...
...Shave it off,” Bras says instantly. She’s joking—sort of. Bras’ parents met at a military base in Texas. Her mother was an Air Force nurse, her father a Dutch pilot serving in the US through a NATO exchange. Discipline, especially on her father’s side, was an important part of Bras’ upbringing. If something went wrong with the car when her family was on a road trip, her father would recite aloud the steps he had been taught for dealing with an airborne crisis...
...More troubling events are almost certain in the months ahead. The Canadian deployment is the knife edge of an international strategy to shift the management of "stabilization" operations in southern Afghanistan from U.S. forces to the nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)--the transition is expected to be completed this summer--and Taliban rebels are already probing for weak spots in coalition defenses. "The insurgents are learning as they go," says Christian Willach, manager of the Afghanistan ngo Safety Organization. "In the coming months everyone is going to have a harder time...