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A probe into the mysterious shooting of two soldiers has revealed the existence beneath the Serbian capital of a secret communist-era network of tunnels and bunkers that could have served as recent hideouts for some of the world's most-wanted war crimes suspects. The 2-square-mile complex -- dubbed a "concrete underground city" by the local media -- was built deep inside a rocky hill in a residential area of Belgrade in the 1960s on the orders of communist strongman Josip Broz Tito. Until recently its existence was known only to senior military commanders and politicians. The secret was revealed during an...

BELGRADE -- Monday – Hitler's Berlin bunker would have got lost in the cavernous command post scooped out of a Belgrade hillside for Yugoslavia’s only president for life, Josip “Tito” Broz. Described for the first time by Serbian newspaper Vecernje Novosti at the weekend, the reported "secret tunnel network" near the barracks where two Serb army sentries were shot dead in a mystery killing six weeks ago was part of a nuclear-proof underground complex that goes six floors deep. A secret military facility of some sort had been the focus of intense speculation since sentries Dragan Jakovljevic and Drazen Milovanovic...

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba, Nov. 8 - A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base here as war criminals. The ruling by Judge James Robertson of United States District Court in Washington brought an abrupt halt to the trial here of one detainee, one of hundreds being held at Guantánamo as enemy combatants. It threw into doubt the future of the first set of United States military commission trials since the end of World War...

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OP-ED COLUMNIST FARAWIYA, Sudan — Hawa Moussa Abdullah was lucky enough to survive the first round of murder here in Darfur, but all the international outrage at Sudan's genocide isn't helping her much. She and her four children are still having to live like hunted beasts. She is one of more than 500,000 victims of the Darfur genocide who are beyond the reach of international aid. The inability to reach victims is one reason the United Nations describes Darfur as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. So Ms. Hawa and her children gather wild seeds to eat, and...

A federal indictment unsealed yesterday charges Marko Boskic, a Peabody construction worker, with fraudulently entering the United States as a refugee and concealing his past as a soldier in a Bosnian Serb Army unit that allegedly executed hundreds of Muslim captives. The five-count indictment was handed down by a grand jury in Boston on Tuesday, a month after Boskic, 40, was arrested on a criminal complaint for immigration fraud. The indictment includes allegations that the Bosnian national killed one or more people ''because of race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, and political opinion." ''The repulsive crime that underlies this case is...

Senior US diplomats have told leaders in Belgrade that failure to hand over top war crimes suspects will further deepen Serbia-Montenegro's isolation. The UN tribunal in The Hague is demanding, in particular, the transfer of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic for crimes during Bosnia's civil war. President Boris Tadic promised to supply "clear answers" within days. Belgrade has previously said it does not know the whereabouts of Mr Mladic and Mr Karadzic. Marc Grossman, a US undersecretary of state, and Richard Prosper, the US roving ambassador for war crimes, met both the Serbia-Montenegrin president and Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic. Mr...

BELGRADE, Serbia, Sept. 30 - A senior American diplomat expressed frustration on Thursday that Serbia had yet to turn over a leading war crimes suspect months after the election of a new president who had promised "full cooperation" with the international tribunal at The Hague. Marc Grossman, the under secretary of state for political affairs, said the Serbian government had made no progress toward arresting the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, Gen. Ratko Mladic. General Mladic was indicted in 1995 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from his actions during the 1992-95 conflict...

How did you know about Nazis fleeing to South America, particularly Argentina? I found this to be common knowledge. Almost everyone I know is aware of Nazis fleeing to Argentina and South America. Also, are you aware of Nazis fleeing to the Middle East?

We're all now suppossed to be scared. Those Al Quaida guys must be tough. They're so tough they just executed a U.S. POW. This impresses me to no end. The execution of Keith M. Maupin has to constitute about the most stupid thing Al Quaida could have done. The one moral advantage these thugs still had was that in the aftermath of Abu Ghraib Prison, they could claim the Americans were barbarians for how they treated prisoners. Well, that argument is gone. There could be no more cowardly or pathetic an act than executing a person who has surrendered himself...

While four police directed traffic, about 20 officials and journalists peered over a rusty guardrail on the side of the two-lane road that winds towards Bratunac, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Below, half a dozen men were digging in the muddy ground of the roadside ravine with pickaxes and spades. Workers said they expect to find about 15 bodies here in the reddish mud -- bodies of civilians killed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which Bosnian Serb forces killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys after over-running what had been a UN-declared "safe area". This grave is...

<p>Coalition of the Willing: Saddam Hussein captured, Moammar Gadhafi neutered.</p> <p>The "international community": Slobodan Milosevic elected to parliament in Belgrade.</p> <p>Yes, indeed. On the last weekend of the year, "Slobo" won a seat in Serbia's legislature, as did his fellow "alleged" (as Wes Clark would say) war criminal Vojislav Seselj, and Mr. Seselj's extreme nationalist Serbian Radical Party won more seats than anybody else.</p>

BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - Like many Serbs across the Balkans, Sinisa Espek reveres a man accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. He considers Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic a defender of his people. "Thirty-seven members of my family were killed in World War II," said Espek, 34, the owner of a popular bakery in Belgrade. "I owe my thanks to Karadzic for keeping something like that from happening again." Espek, a Serb from Sarajevo who rebuilt his life in Belgrade after the 1992-95 Bosnian war, says that crimes were simply committed on all sides — and he credits Karadzic...

Ontario's public safety minister and Toronto's police chief accuse Denis Coderre, the federal Minister of Immigration, of putting the privacy concerns of 59 fugitive foreign war criminals ahead of the safety of the Canadian public. In a strongly worded letter yesterday to Mr. Coderre, obtained by the National Post, they accuse the ministry of "an unfathomable lack of co-operation" and running a "seriously flawed system" that prevents police from knowing the identities of dozens of accused war criminals who came to Canada and then disappeared. Bob Runciman, Ontario's Minister of Public Safety and Security, and Julian Fantino, Toronto's Chief of...

Lock them up, critic says: Arrest warrants obtained by Post raise questions about federal policy Dozens of war criminals from 24 countries are on the loose after Canadian immigration authorities lost track of them, according to arrest warrants obtained by the National Post. One is a Lebanese murderer wanted for crimes against humanity. Another is a Kashmiri militant considered armed and dangerous. But Citizenship and Immigration Canada has no idea where they are. Immigration officials are searching for 59 war criminals who came to Canada and then disappeared. They were ordered to report to immigration offices to be deported but...

The June 21 report in the New York Times that Saddam Hussein and his sons were sheltered in Syria after the recent war is not entirely surprising – because Damascus likewise sheltered many Nazi war criminals after the Holocaust. At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazi war criminals found refuge in South America and in Arab countries, including Syria. Damascus welcomed Nazis partly out of ideological sympathy for the Hitler regime, and partly because the German fugitives were useful allies in Syria’s war to prevent the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Israeli military intelligence...

Amid the growing controversy over reports of French assistance to fugitive Iraqi war criminals, it is worth recalling a similar episode involving a prominent Palestinian Arab war criminal shortly after World War II.Haj Amin el-Husseini, better known as the Mufti of Jerusalem, was the most senior Islamic religious authority of the Arabs in British-controlled Palestine, as well as their most prominent political leader. He had instigated mass violence against Jews in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s, and then fled British justice to Baghdad, where he took part in the short-lived pro-Nazi coup in 1941. From there he traveled...

AMERICA has begun legal moves that could lead to death sentences being passed against Iraq’s former leaders. International lawyers and human rights groups say that the Bush administration is planning to try senior figures from Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraqi courts to ensure the death penalty can be imposed. The US plans, unveiled last week, show that an international criminal tribunal, established under the auspices of the United Nations, has been rejected, as has trying Iraq’s former leaders under American law. An international tribunal would not be allowed to impose capital punishment and the Iraqi leaders could be tried under...

U.S. Takes Custody of Two Iraqi Officials .c The Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) - The director of Iraq's office of military industrialization and one of Iraq's two vice presidents under Saddam Hussein have been taken in custody by the U.S.-led military coalition, U.S. Central Command announced Friday. In a brief statement, Central Command identified the detained men as Abd al Tawab Mullah Huwaysh, director of the Office of Military Industrialization, and Taha Muhyl al Din Maruf, an Iraqi vice president and member of the Revolutionary Command Council. The statemnt did not give details of where the men were detained,...