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...year-old former diplomat from Bonn who spent many hours in air-raid shelters. "It conjures up the indescribable noise, heat and stench of cold sweat in the cellars." And younger readers, says Friedrich, are fascinated by the picture of a ruined Germany they never imagined looked "just like Sarajevo." It's also undeniable that Germany, for the moment, needs a public exploration of its past. Since his account of human pain and misery is so highly evocative, critics both at home and across the Channel have accused Friedrich of trying to blur the traditional distinction between the Germans...
...news for the 434 suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban now being held in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees no longer have to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks in which devout Muslims...
BOSNIA The Illinois-based Benevolence International Foundation says it is a charity, but last week officials revealed that during raids in Sarajevo in March, police found evidence said to link the foundation and its head, Enaam Arnaout, right, to Osama bin Laden. Arnaout is being held in Chicago...
...been deported from Bosnia and other Balkan countries over the past 12 months; most worked for Islamic aid organizations. "They were preaching good, and even sometimes doing good, while plotting evil," Lieut. General John Sylvester, commander of NATO peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, told an audience recently in the capital Sarajevo. The irony is that Islamic charities have also done a great deal of good funneling hundreds of millions of dollars in aid into the Bosnian economy since 1991, supporting everything from mosques to war orphans' education. Already the probe has triggered angry rebuttals from Muslim ambassadors and aid groups...
...pick up the phone and dial +387-66-222-305, you could win anywhere from $250 to $5,000,000. It's not one of Bosnia's numerous call-in quiz shows, nor is it the state lottery. It's the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo's hotline for information on the whereabouts of Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the two top wartime leaders of Bosnian Serbs who are now Europe's most-wanted war crimes suspects. the whole story...