[joan]

Just finished doing a Google search on him. Nothing that gives me any idea what you're talking about.

I know why Hoplite brings up Boskovski. Hoplite keeps up with the latest official reports on the Balkans, and Boskovski has just been added to the US Black list (while Ali Ahmeti, who had previously been on it, was removed). Ali Ahmeti is a terrorist, according to Macedonians and I believe he was one that Macedonia was pressured by the US and EU to amnesty: Amnestied Terrorist Ali Ahmeti Deleted From US Black List; Former Minister of Interior Affairs Ljube Boshkovski Added to US Black List

This is the relevant referal from the US State Department's last Thursday Press Briefing:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2003/21062.htm :

MR. BOUCHER: There are some who were added. Do we have a description of the ones who were added?

QUESTION: New bad guys?

MR. BOUCHER: Oh, yeah. There was at least one gentleman who was added, Mr. Boskovski, because he undermined stability in Macedonia.

[inquest]

Well, of course he was a "hardline nationalist." Found plenty of remarks of that nature during my search of the oh-so-objective news reports. So I guess he was guilty of a thought crime.

[Hoplite]

Actually Joan, I didn't see that particular news item until this morning, when I browsed throgh the relevant section of RFERL.org.

Ljube is just one of those idiots I can count on in a squeeze to prove a point, so I keep him in mind.