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...last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons." - By Mark Thompson/Washington SERBIA'S WAR WINDFALL SERBIA Old Europe may get the cold shoulder when coveted reconstruction contracts are doled out in post-Saddam Iraq. But Serbian officials say their country - not long ago the target of U.S. bombs - is in line for a chunk of a $680 million pie. Reason: in the run-up to Gulf War II, Serbian and U.S. officials tell Time, Serbia gave the U.S. vital information about Iraqi targets. Serbia was perfectly...
...headquarters and at least five bunkers for Saddam Hussein. It also sold arms. That trade ceased last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean (prior to his recent assassination). Belgrade then persuaded Yugoimport to hand over blueprints of the bunkers. A senior Foreign Ministry official says Yugoimport's leaders agreed to help "only when they understood that there would be something in it for them." While U.S. officials emphatically deny that such contracts have been promised, Yugoimport was back in Baghdad, reopening the offices that just last year were peddling arms...
...killers of Zoran Djindjic, it turns out, had quite a plan. It started with the death of the Serbian Prime Minister on March 12, but did not end there. After the Djindjic hit, the conspirators planned to lie low while the government teetered; then they would strike again - first Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic, then two top Djindjic aides. As panic spread, the special forces unit known as the Red Berets - some of whose commanders carried out the Djindjic murder - would step forward, posing as guardians of the peace. They would urge calm, and dispatch letters to local politicians and foreign...
...Those roots run deep. According to police charges made public last week, the conspirators were led by two men: Milorad "Legija" Lukovic, who is still at large, possibly overseas, and Dusan Spasojevic, who was killed resisting arrest. Both men served with the Red Berets, a special unit of Serbian state security linked to war crimes and, now, to dozens of political murders under the Milosevic regime. Legija was "a killer paid by the state," according to Kandic, and had been running a drug trafficking and extortion ring out of the tiny Belgrade suburb of Zemun. The group had infiltrated...
...Dusan Spasojevic and Mile Lukovic, died in a gun battle with police. The third, Milorad Lukovic (a.k.a. Legija), the former commander of an élite antiterrorist squad called the JSO, is still on the lam. After questioning members of JSO, officials found the body of Ivan Stambolic, a former Serbian President who disappeared three years ago. Police said drug barons hired Jovanovic, the JSO's deputy commander, to kill Djindjic to prevent government investigations. The JSO was disbanded and a dozen of its members held by police; they arrested four for the abduction of Stambolic - who had been shot...