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Milosevic's death marks 'total defeat' for UN tribunal, prosecutor says Last Updated Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:35:20 EST CBC News Slobodan Milosevic's death is a 'total defeat' for the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, says the chief prosecutor at his trial. Carla del Ponte made the comments on Sunday, a day after the former Yugoslav president and Serbian nationalist was found dead in his cell at the UN detention centre in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague. An autopsy was being performed on Sunday amid accusations that Milosevic, 64, had been poisoned only months before the end...

'Leprosy drug in Milosevic's blood'Traces of a drug used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis were found in a blood sample taken in recent months from former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, a news report has said.The report came hours after Milosevic's legal adviser revealed a letter the late Serb leader wrote on Friday, one day before his body was discovered in prison, alleging that he was being poisoned. In the report by state broadcaster NOS, a lawyer and commentator for the channel, Heikelina Verrijn Stuart, said she had confirmation that doctors first noticed the medicine in his blood in January. Stuart...

6 held as British widen bomb hunt By Alan Cowell The New York Times MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2005 In Italy, where more than a dozen searches have been carried out in the last few days. the police announced on Sunday the arrest of a man identified as Fati Issac, though he was not charged with an terror-related crimes. Several accounts in the Italian press said he was a brother of Osman Hussain. A police official in the northern city of Brescia, where the suspect was arrested, would only confirm the arrest and say that he was charged with crimes connected...

London Bombings: More Balkans Blow-back? by William Norman Grigg August 1, 2005 Who is "al-Qaeda of Europe," the previously unknown terrorist group claiming responsibility for the murderous London bombings? Three of the suspected suicide bombers (all killed in the explosions) were immigrants from Pakistan: Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30; Hasib Hussain, 19; and Shehzad Tanweer, 22. Not immediately found was a fourth suspect, designated in some accounts as the presumed "master bomber." A story in the London-based Financial Times quoted a top British explosives expert who claimed that the nature of the London explosions “suggests that the perpetrators acquired either military...

ABC Online AM - Wall Street Journal declares Bush's agenda end to realpolitick [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1286805.htm] AM - Saturday, 22 January , 2005 08:18:20 Reporter: John Shovelan ELIZABETH JACKSON: To politics overseas now, and after US President George W Bush's soaring rhetoric in his Inauguration address, pledging to export liberty and freedom to even the darkest corners of the globe, the question now being asked is how. Today's Wall Street Journal said the President's "liberty agenda" clearly marked an end to "realpolitick", the diplomatic philosophy that puts national interest ahead of idealism. And while that...

Bush strays far from Republican tradition Friday, January 21, 2005 It wasn't a particularly lyrical speech that George W. Bush delivered yesterday at his second inauguration. It wasn't even a very Republican speech, for that matter. But it went a long way toward illuminating how far Bush has taken the Grand Old Party from its traditional conservative roots. It was the most interventionist foreign policy speech heard in Washington in decades -- since John Kennedy's 1961 promise to "bear any burden" in defense of liberty around the globe. Bush's speech mechanics may indeed have been inspired in part by the...

The Empire Has No Clothes U.S. Foreign Policy ExposedBy Ivan Eland Independent Institute Oakland, California HC, 294 pages US$24.95 ISBN: 0-9459-9998-4 The rise of the American empire By Steven Martinovich web posted January 17, 2005 Students of history are often amazed how empires sometimes came into being almost accidentally. Rome, during its early Republican years, often grew by being attacked by its neighbours and vanquishing them. The Victorian British originally sought to protect trade and overseas interests before waking up one day and realizing that they controlled a quarter of the world's land, people and all of its oceans. Others,...

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