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...Fixer" focuses on a foreign war correspondent necessity - the shady local who takes you to the hot spots, translates, and generally greases the wheels. Sacco's fixer is Neven, who he meets in a hotel lobby in 1995. At the time the Serb nationalist siege of the city was slowly lifting but sniping remained a terrifying constant. Sacco's greeting at the reception desk was to be shown a map and told, "This is the hotel. This is the front line. Don't ever walk here." Sacco needs Neven to introduce him to people with a story to tell. Neven...
...advance on Russian soldiers at Pristina airport. (Gen. Jackson refused, claiming such a move would’ve precipitated “World War III.”) Seldom mentioned, but indeed troubling, is the nature of Clark’s August 1994 meeting in Banja Luka, Bosnia, with Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic...
...auspices of the Pentagon, at a time when Clark was director of strategy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He had gone to war-ravaged Bosnia on a fact-finding mission. Though reportedly advised by the State Department not to meet with Mladic, who was widely blamed for Serb barbarities at Gorazde and Sarajevo, Clark did anyway...
That alone is not necessarily a scandal; in 1994 U.S. officials still found themselves negotiating with the likes of Mladic. But Clark should have known the character of his company. As early as December 1992, then-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger had accused the Serb general of perpetrating mass murder and named him as one of the top three Serb candidates for a Nuremberg-style war crimes trial. In 1993, Senator Dennis DeConcini, then co-chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, said that Mladic’s troops “are responsible for many...
...clashes between police and protesters in Baku following Ilham Aliyev's election as President. Official results gave Aliyev, who succeeds his 80-year-old father, Haidar, nearly 80% of the vote. The opposition claimed the ballot was rigged. Talks End SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Talks in Vienna between senior Serb officials and leaders of the breakaway province of Kosovo - the first since the 1999 war - were hailed as a breakthrough by E.U. and U.N. officials, even if little progress was made. Kosovo, which has been administered by the U.N. since 1999, wants independence from Serbia, but Serb authorities are opposed. Better...