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Serbia was perfectly poised to lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s Yugoslav contractors defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party headquarters and at least five underground bunkers for Saddam Hussein. It also sold arms. That trade was finally shut down last year, after the U.S. blew the whistle and the recently assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic came clean...
...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 poised to lend a hand. Throughout the 1990s, Yugoslav firms defied U.N. sanctions and did business in Iraq: an outfit named Yugoimport built the Baath Party...
...about being part of the system or not. Most were. It was about not becoming an asshole. It was, 'Can I still bear seeing myself in the mirror?'" Hrebejk isn't sure that Czechs should have done more to fight the communists who governed them for 40 years. "A Yugoslav classmate of mine once told me, 'You Czechs don't know how to fight for your own thing,'" he says. "Now look at what resulted from fighting for their own thing. Who wants to pass mass graves on his way to vacation [in Yugoslavia]?" After traveling back in time, Hrebejk...
...DIED. JANKO BOBETKO, 84, former Croatian army chief and war-crimes suspect, who was hailed as a hero of the country's independence struggle; in Zagreb. Bobetko fought in the antifascist forces during World War II and then joined the Yugoslav army. After Croatia's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, which triggered a six-month war against Serb rebels, Bobetko joined the Croatian army and was appointed its Chief of Staff in 1992. Last September the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague accused Bobetko of being responsible for the killings of some 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during...
...with humanity. Not only do the combatants have an obligation not to hurt civilians, POWs and wounded fighters, but in many cases, they must also offer assistance. That may sound moistly idealistic as open combat rages in Iraq, but the conventions do have consequences: in recent years Rwandan and Yugoslav leaders have been imprisoned for wartime transgressions of the Geneva Conventions and related international laws...