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...precision of the system. Too often JDAMs hit the right coordinates but the wrong targets. That happened in the system's debut during the 1999 Kosovo campaign, when a B-2 dropped three JDAMs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. The U.S. bombed the site thinking it was a Yugoslav military office building. Similar debacles have occurred in Afghanistan, where a JDAM, apparently loaded with improper coordinates, last October missed its target, a helicopter, and instead killed four Afghans in a residential area...
...main defendants at the Hague war-crimes trials, pleaded guilty to charges of crimes against humanity. Plavsic admitted to planning, instigating and aiding the persecution of Muslims and Roman Catholics during the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s. In effect, Plavsic admitted Bosnian Serb troops co-operated with Yugoslav army units - evidence that could be used to help secure the conviction of former President Slobodan Milosevic. BELARUS My God Is Your God The Senate approved a bill that would restrict the activities of small religious communities and help entrench the dominant position of the Orthodox Church. The bill banned organized prayer...
...what Serbia does not have. Djindjic suggested that there is a higher sense of justice than legal justice and words written on a piece of paper. Life itself is more important than the Milosevic-era constitution. The reformists’ agenda is concrete: for example, to remove the outdated Yugoslav Constitution and build a new legal system following European Union (E.U.) guidelines. Djindjic’s appeal to the international community to set any prejudices aside and “give us the rules of the game and see what we can do” reflects the reformists?...
...possessed either nuclear or chemical weapons. Instead, Bush warned that the first time the world would know for sure was "when, God forbid, he uses one." NETHERLANDS No Smoking Gun After 95 days of testimony, 300 exhibits and 124 witnesses, prosecutors in the U.N. war-crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ended the portion of their case dealing with the massacres and forced deportation of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Prosecutors believe their circumstantial evidence against Milosevic will secure his conviction. TURKEY Fatal Protest A woman prisoner became the 65th person to die in a hunger strike protesting...
...that role is likely to deepen with the arrival of E.U. peacekeepers in the next six months. E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana is the West's most visible face in Skopje, Macedonia's capital. He is also spearheading the current effort to redraw what is left of Yugoslav into a new federation that accommodates the requirements of both Serbs and Montenegrins. "Europe is more and more capable of speaking with one voice," conceded Vladimir Djeric, a top Yugoslav foreign ministry official. These are critical days for the region. While the worst of the Yugoslav wars may be over...