Word: sarajevo
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...SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina—Earlier this summer I remember sitting on the number four metro in Paris; I am nearly finished reading page 87 of Dubravka Ugresic’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender. A single word strikes my fancy: “Kinder-Eggs.” I read on and finally realize that the author is not going to explain what a kinder-egg is. I smile in my secret delight. But the secret that I share with Ugresic does not last long...
...case in Bosnia highlights the damage to America's image. In October 2001, U.S. troops working with Bosnian police arrested six Algerian-born men - one of whom was Mustafa Idr - on suspicion of plotting to attack the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo. Five had become Bosnian citizens during or shortly after fighting in the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s. The evidence at the time was said to comprise mobile-phone conversations purportedly made between Bensayah Belkacem, the apparent leader of the group, and top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11. The Bosnian Supreme...
Kirkuk was supposed to be Iraq's Sarajevo, the place where ethnic hatreds might lead to a post-Saddam civil war. But on the day Kirkuk fell, it was hard to find any people who had a bad word to say about any of their neighbors. The central statue of Saddam Hussein was torn down by a crowd of Arabs, Kurds and Turkomans working together. "We can coexist, we all had the same dream: to destroy the Saddam Hussein regime and get democracy," said Kurdish shopowner, Zuhair Muhammed. "We don't want civil...
Other cities in the recent past have experienced large-scale destruction—Berlin, Beirut, Kobe and Sarajevo, are prominent examples. The focus for these cities has been on reconstruction to restore normalcy after war or natural disaster. Yet for the WTC site, renewal and reconstruction efforts are clearly not enough. Overwhelmingly, the public wants to see something big, glittery, soaring, and perhaps even beautiful, to replace the iconic twin towers, which have assumed the qualities of monument even in their afterlives...
...Ostend for inspection. Luckily, little of its cargo, 70,000 tons of highly flammable fuel oil, had leaked. BOSNIA Changing the Guard In its first overseas security operation, the E.U. officially took over the U.N.'s decade-long peacekeeping role. The NATO-led Stabilization Force handed control of Sarajevo airport to Bosnian authorities. A 500-strong E.U. Police Mission (EUPM) assumed the U.N.'s mandate of reforming and monitoring the local police force and ensuring that none of its 16,000 members are war criminals. The EUPM mandate will continue until 2005, at a cost of €38 million...