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The Hague Prosecution has unsealed war crimes charges against the former foreign minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH), Haris Silajdzic. Silajdzic is charged with murders, persecution of non-Bosnian population and setting up death camps, where Croatian and Serbian civilians and prisoners of war were tortured and abused, Mostar weekly "Danas" reports. Silajdzic is also charged with involvement in infiltration of Mujaheedin in the Bosnian Army, authorized by Bosnian authorities. The indictment was worked out on basis of submitted documentation from Croatian and Serbian BiH Office for Cooperation with the Tribunal in the past few years

BELGRADE -- Wednesday - Unknown assailants tried to force a car carrying Serbian President Boris Tadic off the road last night in what appeared to be a planned attack, according to Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti. The president's press office has confirmed that black Audi made several attempts to strike the president's car in Belgrade's central Kneza Milosa Street. According to Vecernje Novosti, the Audi followed the BMW in which Tadic was travelling through Kneza Milosa Street before breaking into the presidential convoy. However the president's driver took the offensive and forced the Audi out off the road. The attacker regained...

Pictures and daily write up of the 2004 Western Union of Toronto Ontario Canada sponsored 2d Annual Decani Monastery Serbian Cycling Challenge is becoming available. Please click here 2d Annual SCC . More to follow so check frequently and book mark the page.

Wishing all US Military Veterans a great Veterans Day. If you have any pictures of yourself during your days in the military, please post. If you care to, state your unit and MOS.

Individuals unsatisfied with the outcome of GW's Presidential victory threw rocks at and shattered the local US Army Recruiting Station House in a subarb of Buffalo, NYThese anti-war vandals who abhor violence remain the image of the liberal and their voice, acts of violence and terrorism upon innocent people. Where or when do you see Republicans or Conservative party supporters committing these vile acts?

Now that we have strengthened our hold in the House and Senate and the Kerry Liberal team could not bluster their way into the WH, who do we see on the Republican and Democrat ticket for 2008?Any leading names that stick out? Of course, Hillary but whom else? Semper Fi, Red Two "Bog Beast"

Secret diner in Washington Holbrooke and Thaqui planned terror Less than a week before the clashes in Kosovo and Metohija occurred, a group of Albanian lobbyists from USA held a meeting at which they decided to help Kosovo Albanians to force international community to give independence to Kosovo. 'Blic' got this information from well-informed sources in the US. As 'Blic' further finds out this informal meeting was held at the initiative of David Philips, deputy director of the Center for preventive action within Council for international relations in New York. The meeting was held at his home with light diner....

The finale reached a harrowing conclusion when the ride took an extended tour near the Serbian Kosovo border. On a raining day of mid 50s F, the ride concluded from the Serbian town of Vranje, where I was hosted by the Serbian Church of Vranje's Otac/Father. While riding through the town center, mayhem was a given as cars were riding on the wrong side, next to each other on narrow streets. Cars swerved constantly to avoid so I followed the largest car on the road. What I noticed was the lack of police or military presence beyond the town center...

Blogger updates for Days 1-3 are now available on the 2d Annual Decani Monastery Serbian Cycling Challenge. All you need to do is press the link for the blog pages.

With less then 96 hours, the 2d Annual Decani Monastery Serbian Cycling Challenge commences in Petrinje, Serbian Krajina. Weather is forecasted to remain in the 50's and upper 30's for the low, minus the rain (allegedly!). Tentatively, there will be a group of Serbian cyclists joining the ride upon entry into Serbia near Kadinjaca Pass and a Pro Triathlete will join in as well. It can not be promised but will be attempted, a blog will be made available on a day-day basis if the Cycling Challenge is on pace. If not, the best will be done to post the...

Got the Prague T-shirt and the one from Tallin's nearly worn out. Where's next?What? Belgrade, Serbia? We bombed them five years ago! Think again. Belgrade, thenew tourist hot spot of Europe, so new it's unspoiled and still rather chic, plus it's safe and cheaper than Western Europe.Where to start? Belgrade is pre-Roman, so there's no visible ruins, but there is a load of stuff from Turkish times.Wander into history through the massive Kalemegdan Citadel; there's also an impressive War Museum, including some dud bombs NATO contributed in 1999. Down below the citadel flows the mighty Danube with its tributary, the...

1. The only ashtrays at home are 105 mm shell casings. 2. You're always accusing your wife of turning the volume down on the TV, telephone, doorbell, etc. 3. You cannot pass gas without saying "On the way!" 4. You wish it wasn't illegal to stick your head out of the sunroof while driving. 5. You refer to Fort Knox as home. 6. You refer to George S. Patton as "Him." 7. You consider four as the right number of people to have in a family. 8. The only kind of scouts you are aware of are Boy Scouts and...

19:07 BUJANOVAC , Sept 20 (Tanjug) - Finnish KFOR troops removed Monday a security barbed wire fence around the church in Lipljan, the sole safe area for local Serbs in this Kosovo town. KFOR removed the fence without the consent of the local Serb community, Lipljan municipality President Borivoje Vignjevic told Tanjug. The local UNMIK administrator was not informed of this move either, Vignjevic said, adding that when he insisted to learn who had given the order to remove the fence, KFOR told him it was done at the insistence of the Kosovo police

Greek Euro-deputies Ioannis Varvitsiotis and Kostis Hatzidakis, elected with the governing party of New Democracy, asked for the immediate intervention of the European Commission regarding the incident in the village Tzara in Albania where a cross, near the church of St. Dimitrios, was blown up by the Albanian authorities. For the record, a few days ago Albanian police officers, without offering any explanations to the local authorities in Tzara, placed explosives around the cross next to the church of St. Dimitrios and blew it up. The action took place after pressures exerted by the Albanian mass media because it appears...

TIRANA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A fully armed MiG-19 fighter plane exploded shortly after take-off on Thursday morning from Tirana's Mother Teresa international airport, an Albanian defence ministry spokesman said. The aircraft, part of Albania's ageing military fleet of Chinese-made MiGs, was on its way to a firing range, spokesman Igli Hasani said. The MiG-19 is a single-seater jet fighter, which was initially produced by the Soviet Union. "We're 99 percent sure the pilot is dead because the plane turned into a ball of fire," a police spokesman said. All flights at Mother Teresa International airport were immediately cancelled.

By SAM DOLNICK, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - Teresa Heinz Kerry, encouraging volunteers as they busily packed supplies Wednesday for hurricane relief efforts in the Caribbean, said she was concerned the effort was too focused on sending clothes instead of essentials like water and electric generators. "Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," said Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites). "Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes." Heinz Kerry stopped by a market in the heart of Brooklyn's...

LOS ANGELES - Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band "The Ramones" that influenced a generation of rockers, has died. He was 55. AP Photo AP Photo Slideshow: Musician Johnny Ramone Dies at 55 Johnny Ramone of 'The Ramones' Dies at 55 (AP Video) Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year battle with prostate cancer, died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon at his Los Angeles home surrounded by friends and family, said the band's longtime artistic director Arturo Vega. "He was the guy with a strategy. He was the guy who not only looked after the band's...

 The third witness to testify in what is being called “Slobodan Milosevic’s defense” took the stand at the Hague Tribunal on Tuesday. The witness, Roland Keith was the commander of the Kosovo Polje field office in the OSCE’s Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM).  Mr. Keith served for 32 years in the Canadian armed forces where he obtained the rank of Captain. Keith is a veteran of UN observation missions. Before coming to Kosovo, he served as a UN military observer and a UN troop commander in the Middle East. Mr. Keith arrived in Kosovo in the first week of February 1999, and...

Bosnian commando reportedly targeting Vatican BBC Monitoring - August 27, 2004, Friday Report by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on 27 August 2004 Rome: A few lines sent by the MSU Multinational Specialized Unit carabinieri regiment based in Sarajevo to the Carabinieri Force General Command have been keeping the Italian security apparatus on the alert for the last few days. The threat is a precise one: an attack to be carried out in the Vatican during a religious ceremony. But this is not the only cause for worry. There are other details which are being checked. According to the "source",...

GERALD Warner better go back to school and study history before he freely revises it to suit his own agenda. In his column ‘Did Britain really have to be in the war to end all wars’ last week he makes several hideous mistakes. Or worse, deliberate omissions. The truly injured party was the Serbs, not the Austrians. Missing from his article is any mention about the assassination of the Serbian king three years prior to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand. It is apparent by this racist slur at the Serbs that the writer believes it appalling to kill an...