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  • Crime, terror flourish in 'liberated' Kosovo

    12/16/2003 10:36:51 AM PST · by Teetop · 22 replies · 345+ views
    National Post (Canada) ^ | December 10, 2003 | Isabel Vincent
    Four years after it was "liberated" by a NATO bombing campaign, Kosovo has deteriorated into a hotbed of organized crime, anti-Serb violence and al-Qaeda sympathizers, say security officials and Balkan experts. Though nominally still under UN control, the southern province of Serbia is today dominated by a triumvirate of Albanian paramilitaries, mafiosi and terrorists. They control a host of smuggling operations and are implementing what many observers call their own brutal ethnic cleansing of minority groups, such as Serbs, Roma and Jews. In recent weeks, UN officials ordered the construction of a fortified concrete barrier around the UN compound on...
  • Belgian Foreign Minister Joins Americans as Target of War Crimes Law

    06/20/2003 12:54:50 PM PDT · by Teetop · 34 replies · 267+ views
    AP ^ | Published: Jun 20, 2003 | By Paul Ames Associated Press Writer
    BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Belgium's government itself became the target Friday of a law that has damaged the country's relations with the United States by allowing war crimes complaints against President Bush and other prominent Americans. A small opposition party said it had filed a suit against Foreign Minister Louis Michel for authorizing a Belgian company to sell arms to Nepal. The New Flemish Alliance, a nationalist party from Belgium's Dutch-speaking north, alleged the sale made Michel an accomplice in human rights abuses by the Nepalese armed forces. ............. Belgium's relations with Israel also have been badly damaged by a...