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When case IT-02-54 is finally heard at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague this week, it will mark a moment many despaired would never come. The Serb strongman and former President of Yugoslavia who presided over a decade of mass murder and mayhem across the Balkans seemed untouchable for so long, and then became almost forgotten as the world's attention fixed on a new global villain. Yet Slobodan Milosevic will now have to sit each day in a well-lit U.N. courtroom, flanked by two guards, to answer to charges of crimes against humanity--even...
...designed to set the stage for Vice President Dick Cheney's tour of the Middle East and Gulf region in mid-March to rally support for action against Saddam. That's going to be a tough sell: Although all of Iraq's neighbors would be happy to see the strongman dispatched to history's garbage pail, their concerns that a war would unleash tremendous instability throughout the region have led them to favor simply containing his regime...
When case IT-02-54 is finally heard at the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague this week, it will mark a moment many despaired would ever come. The Serb strongman and former President of Yugoslavia who pre-sided over a decade of mass murder and mayhem across the Balkans seemed untouchable for so long, and then became almost forgotten as the world's attention fixed on a new global villain. Yet Milosevic will now have to sit each day in an austere courtroom, flanked by two U.N. guards, to answer to charges of crimes against humanity - even...
When the Balkan wars started in 1991, Mitrovica, or Kosovska Mitrovica as it is known in Serbia, was just another ethnically mixed city in Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. But, as the Serb strongman stepped up his campaign against ethnic Albanians and the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, old neighborly ties began to fray. One night the body of Lindita's father was found in a back street on another side of town. A restaurant owner, he had been accused of giving food to the rebels. The Rexhepi family believe he was murdered by Serbs...
...Pentagon remains skeptical of the strategic and tactical significance of the various opposition groups arrayed against Saddam's regime, and none of the European and Arab allies who fought alongside the U.S. during the Gulf War have shown any enthusiasm for a new military effort to oust the strongman. That would leave the U.S forced to commit a half million of its own troops to a decisive assault. It's not that the Arabs and Europeans don't want to see Saddam destroyed; it's simply that they can't see any urgent need to confront his regime, and risk...