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...Kosovo's hinterlands, has arrived triumphant in Pristina and is undergoing his first rite of passage as an aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given to us." But as dinner stretches to midnight, Thaci begins to flag. Perhaps it is the endless days of negotiations with...
...them NATO military support and the right to an autonomous existence. And he has become the go-to man in postwar Kosovo. When the generals of the KFOR (Kosovo Force) peacekeeping troops and K.L.A. commanders could not arrive at an agreement to demilitarize the rebel army, they called Thaci to find a solution...
...when it comes to politics, the Snake is still a rank amateur. Kosovo is in ruins, his rebel army is edgy about its demilitarization, and political rivals on all sides are waiting for him to slip up. He'll also face political challenges at home--most notably from the elected President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, and from newspaper publisher Veton Surroi. Still, the U.S. has anointed him, at least temporarily, as its man. On a visit to Pristina last week, State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin took Thaci for a highly public cup of coffee at a well-known downtown cafe...
...plans were for the Serbian civilian minority that remains in Kosovo, he assured us its inclusion was important to rebuilding the province. "We're not interested in building parallel, segregated elements," he said. But when pressed repeatedly for an explanation of the retaliatory violence against the Serbs by rebel Albanians in recent days, he flashed a momentary glimpse of his old ruthlessness. "We will certainly have no mercy for those people," he said in a cool and determined voice. Then, remembering his audience, he added, "They will face the court and justice immediately." In the Balkans, just about everyone calls...
European pressure on Turkey to commute the death sentence of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan looks set to grow, but that pressure may, paradoxically, help seal his fate. Nationalist passions may make it even more difficult for the government to back down on hanging Ocalan in the face of violent protests by his supporters and pressure from Europe. Germany led the European chorus warning Ankara that hanging Ocalan might deal a death blow to Turkey?s ambitions to enter the European Union, and it was easy to see why Bonn was nervous: Turkish-owned businesses were firebombed across Germany overnight...