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Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his “deal”, the Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.
The newspaper claims Karadzic was secretly granted immunity in return for keeping a low profile.
http://www.nytimes.com/…
By MARLISE SIMONS
THE HAGUE — In a rambling letter released by the war crimes tribunal on Friday, Radovan Karadzic raised what he called “serious irregularities” in his treatment and said that an international “media witch hunt” had jeopardized his chances for a fair trial.
Former Bosnian Serb leader faces charges of genocide, extermination and murder
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by Gareth Porter
Instead of moving toward accommodating the demand of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a timetable for US military withdrawal, the George W. Bush administration and the US military leadership are continuing to pressure their erstwhile client regime to bow to the US demand for a long-term military presence in the country.
http://blacklistednews.com/…
Source: IHT
The U.S. military has admitted that a platoon of soldiers raked a car of innocent Iraqi civilians with hundreds of rounds of gunfire and that the military then issued a news release larded with misstatements, asserting that the victims were criminals who had fired on the troops.
http://www.alternet.org/…
By Ahmad al-Taii, Azzaman
Posted on July 22, 2008, Printed on July 22, 2008
The killing by U.S. troops of the son and cousin of the Governor of Saladin Province is likely to disturb the relative quiet this once violent region has enjoyed recently.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
The Associated Press
Monday, July 21, 2008; 7:07 PM
BELGRADE, Serbia — Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested on Monday evening in a sweep by Serbian security forces, the country’s president and the U.N. tribunal said.
http://www.motherjones.com/…
Commentary: Collateral ceremonial damage: a short, till-death-do-us-part history of Bush’s wars.
By Tom Engelhardt
July 15, 2008
[Introduction:We live in a media world with a remarkably short memory, which means that stories with a past go missing in action all the time. Witness the one that follows. To the extent my aging brain is able, TomDispatch tries to [...]
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Fri Jul 11, 5:26 PM
By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will reject a call by the United States for international mediators to take a bigger role in defusing a row with Georgia, Interfax news agency quoted a Russian diplomatic source as saying on Friday.
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Posted on Jul 11, 2008
Imagine this happening in the U.S.: Forty-seven people, including a bride-to-be, are killed on their way to her wedding after an airstrike on “militants” goes off course. Of course, this happened not in the U.S. but in Afghanistan, and, of course, the attack’s civilian toll was initially denied by the U.S. [...]
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