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During the Balkan conflicts in the mid- and late 1990s, agency paramilitary officers slipped into Bosnia and Kosovo to collect intelligence and hunt for accused war criminals like Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic. But the newly formed teams did not have enough manpower for snatches even when they were able to pinpoint Serbian targets. "The CIA," complains a former senior Clinton aide, "didn't have the capability to take down a three- or four-car motorcade with bodyguards...
...with far-reaching implications for the media, former Washington Post reporter Jonathan Randal won his appeal against having to testify at the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague. Randal appealed after the tribunal ordered him to appear as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of ex-Bosnian Serb Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin. Randal argued war correspondents and their sources could be placed in danger if they were considered potential witnesses...
...true patriot." Authoritarian politics still has an audience in Serbia. But Seselj's re-emergence reflects a more general frustration among Serbian voters with their democratically elected leadership, which, two years after Milosevic's ouster, has yet to produce the kind of economic results that many Serbs had hoped for. Seselj insists he is running to flush out corruption and succor the poor. But for Serbs like Nikola Barovic, a human rights lawyer who was once kicked in the head by Seselj's bodyguard, his campaign means "the catastrophe of the Milosevic era is still going on." Next week...
...patience further. YUGOSLAVIA Arms for Iraq Assistant Defense Minister Ivan Djokic was sacked following allegations that a state-run company was linked to arms sales to Iraq, in violation of U.N. sanctions. The U.S. State Department accused Jugoimport SDPR, an arms-procurement agency, of helping Orao, a Bosnian Serb firm, to sell Iraq military equipment, including spare parts for Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter planes. American and Bosnian officials said nato peacekeepers found proof of the sales at Orao's factory in eastern Bosnia. Jugoimport's office in Baghdad was ordered to shut. SPAIN Separate Ways The favorite...
...confined to arbitrary rules and confounded goals. In its 1993 intervention in Somalia, for instance, the U.N. dedicated itself to feeding a nation under the grasp of warlords and then refused to engage those same warlords militarily when the food shipments were violently seized. In 1995, when Serb militants attacked Srebrenica, a safe zone for refugees, U.N. blue helmets did not engage militarily to protect the refugees. Instead, the U.N. mission’s lack of communications and an unclear mandate allowed the Serbs to carry out the largest civilian massacre in Europe since World...