Free Republic

News, June 2003, Al-Jazeerah.info French Question Two Men Over Al-Qaeda Links Agence France Presse Arab News PARIS, 7 June 2003 — French anti-terrorist investigators were yesterday questioning two men — a Moroccan and a German — arrested this week at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris on suspicion of membership in extremist groups linked to Al-Qaeda. Karim Mehdi, 34, who was arrested on Sunday, is suspected of having contacts with the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers; Christian Ganczarski, 36, who was detained the next day, is believed to have been in liaison with the suicide bomber who blew up a Tunisian...

Gunmen Shoot Dead UN Policeman in Kosovo Mon August 4, 2003 07:24 AM ET PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a U.N. police vehicle in Kosovo, killing one officer in the first deadly attack on international police since the 1999 war, U.N. officials said on Monday. The shooting late on Sunday in northern Kosovo is likely to heighten Western security concerns after several violent incidents across the U.N.-run province in recent weeks, although officials cautioned against linking them. A U.N. spokesman said the police vehicle was apparently forced to slow down because of stones lying on...

BELGRADE -- Monday – Serbia’s prime minister has called on the international community to react to a photo published in a Belgrade newspaper today showing a group of people dressed in uniforms of the outlawed Kosovo Liberation Army holding a number of severed heads. Zoran Zivkovic used the continuation of a no confidence debate in his government today to appeal to the United Nations mission in Kosovo, the multinational peacekeeping force and the international community as a whole to identify the people in the photo in Vecernje Novosti, arrest and convict them. “We kept being told in The Hague [war...