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	The Tyrant of Bosnia - by Nebojsa Malic
		Using this excuse as a pretext, Bosnia's viceroy Paddy Ashdown launched a massive purge in the Bosnian Serb Republic (RS), which he exclusively blamed for the perceived "failure": 60 Serb officials were proscribed, sacked and banned from holding public office.
		Like every other tyrant, Ashdown claimed his actions were for the greater good, even the good of the Serbs: "The Serb Republic has been in the grip of a small band of corrupt politicians and criminals for far too long," he told reporters.
		Whether Ashdown and his employers don't have the intestinal fortitude to openly declare their desire to revise the Dayton Agreement by force, or they hold the Serbs in such contempt they simply do not consider it an obligation to respect the treaties made with such "murderous a**holes" (R.
	www.antiwar.com /malic/?articleid=2956 (1495 words)

	Paddy Ashdown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ashdown is the eldest of seven children and was born in New Delhi in India to a non-practising Roman Catholic father, and a Protestant mother; subsequently, he and his siblings were not raised Roman Catholic.
		Ashdown resigned the leadership in 1999 and was succeeded by Charles Kennedy.
		On 14 March 2002 Ashdown testified as a witness for the prosecution at the trial of Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paddy_Ashdown (1163 words)

	Paddy Ashdown CV at PFD
		Paddy Ashdown was born in New Delhi on 27 February 1941, the eldest of seven children.
		Paddy stood down as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1999 and retired from the Commons in 2001.
		Ashdown shows the extraordinary pressure with which the political leaders now live, constantly in the eye of the media, fighting to protect some small patch of personal life, surviving on a few hours sleep per night for weeks on end.
	www.pfd.co.uk /clients/ashdowpa/b-aut.html (1536 words)

	:: ak13 :: Hard tactics
		Ashdown, who has far-reaching powers in Bosnian affairs under the 1995 Dayton peace accords, sacked six Serb police officers and three officials in December 2004 for allegedly protecting fugitive war criminals.
		Ashdown's military background has often afforded him a level of respect not given to many politicians, and he has won some deserved praise for his work in the Balkans.
		Ashdown has few fans within Republika Srpska; his erosion of the powers of the Bosnian Serb state has led to growing public hostility and the media frequently refers to him as the 'Tyrant of Bosnia'.
	www.ak13.com /article.php?id=307 (791 words)

	Sudden Exit Of Top Liberal Harms Blair's Plan for Unity
		Ashdown late Wednesday opened the way for a leadership bid by a younger generation of Liberal politicians more critical of government policies and wary of too close an association with Labour.
		Ashdown also spoke of a "compelling logic" for continued cooperation, but he drew attention to policy differences by promising to use the time before he stepped down in June to press Mr.
		Ashdown will be missed, particularly because much of the cooperation between Liberals and Labour was based on a personal relationship between Mr.
	www.iht.com /articles/1999/01/22/paddy.t.php (642 words)

	Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown on Europe
		Despite his evident fervour and enthusiasm for the European bandwagon to roll, Ashdown insists that he is not advocating a United States of Europe.
		For Ashdown the test as to whether or not their should be a pooling of sovereignty is entirely pragmatic: would it be to the benefit of the nation states of Europe?
		Ashdown rightly enjoys a reputation for being skilled with languages.
	www.jeremyjosephs.com /ashdowneurope.htm (1373 words)

	Lord Paddy Ashdown, currently the top international administrator in Bosnia was MI6 agent — claim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lord Paddy Ashdown, currently the top international administrator in Bosnia, was an agent for the British MI6 secret service in the 1970s, according to a report published on the internet and picked up by Bosnian newspapers.
		Ashdown took over the duties of the top international administrator in Bosnia - the High Representative of the International Community - in May 2002.
		Ashdown has wide powers in the country, and can impose laws and fire local politicians as high as presidents of the country if he feels they are obstructing Bosnia's peace.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1475678/posts (435 words)

	New Statesman - People - NS Interview - Paddy Ashdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ashdown had been on the brink of a deal integrating the Serbian, Croatian and Muslim armies that fought the 1992-95 war, obliging the forces responsible for 250,000 deaths to wear identical uniform and swear the same oath of allegiance.
		Ashdown, the benevolent despot charged with conducting the first western experiment in nation-building since the cold war, may have lessons for Iraq.
		Rumsfeld, a famously lukewarm nation-builder and one of Ashdown's paymasters (the US provides roughly one-fifth of outside support to BiH, compared with the EU's half), is eager to hear of progress on the withdrawal strategy that Ashdown calls "a white-dot plan, because it's the last thing you see on the television".
	www.newstatesman.com /People/200310060012 (2205 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Peace role for Ashdown in Bosnia
		Advised by the peace implementation council, Lord Ashdown will have the power to dismiss officials who obstruct the completion of the Dayton process and to impose legislation where necessary.
		Lord Ashdown said that despite the challenges of his new job, he was looking forward to starting.
		The job was first offered to Lord Ashdown in 1998 while he was still an MP but he said at the time he could not take up the post until finishing his parliamentary duties.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/1847761.stm (386 words)

	Euro fault linesEuropean Economic and Monetary Union
		Andrew Rawnsley assesses the record of Paddy Ashdown and considers it to be an honourable one.
		Early in the new millennium, when Britain is governed by a Lab-Lib coalition elected by a form of proportional representation, Paddy Ashdown will be seen as the man who had the bold foresight to take advantage of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to permanently realign British politics.
		Paddy Ashdown can fairly boast that he has conquered every mountain – except one.
	website.lineone.net /~mjb22/politicsplus15.htm (1101 words)

	spiked-liberties \| Article \| Lording it over Bosnia
		Lord Paddy Ashdown, the United Nations' High Representative of Bosnia Herzegovina, is effectively the international community's tsar in the Balkans.
		Ashdown deftly avoided any reference to his own role, but acknowledged the critics who 'compare the international community's powers in Bosnia to those of a dictator or colonial governor' (4).
		Ashdown's defensiveness is surprising, given that he has previously conceded much of what the ESI report claims.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DE68.htm (1950 words)

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		Paddy Ashdown and Charles Kennedy in the LibDems and Labour.
		Paddy Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democratic party from before the 1997 General Election until he suddenly announced on 20th January 1999 that he was going to resign.
		So it is of interest to see how close Paddy Ashdown was and is to the Labour Party, and whether Charles Kennedy, the eventual winner of the Lib-Dem leadership election, is closer to his own party.
	www.stats.bris.ac.uk /~guy/Research/Politics/paddy.htm (192 words)

	02 ASHDOWN DIARIES 1997 TO 1999 (AB) - Paddy Ashdown - Penguin Books
		This second volume of his Diaries reveals in detail the edgy cooperation that Ashdown and Blair maintained in the first two years of Labour's administration, Ashdown's continued involvement in the Balkan wars and the last days of his leadership.
		In the second volume of his diaries, Paddy Ashdown, the most successful leader of the Liberal Democrat party for two generations, provides fascinating insight into his uneasy relationship with Tony Blair, the last years of his leadership and his continuing involvement with the Balkans.
		In an exclusive interview, we asked Paddy his thoughts on moving from the House of Commons to the House of Lords, his views on leadership and the pros and cons of keeping a diary.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141803272,00.html (948 words)

	BHHRG
		Paddy Ashdown insisted to me that he wants to wind down the powers of the High Representative to the point where they are no longer needed.
		Ashdown has devoted much energy to reforming the police as part of his state-building project.
		Ashdown is proud that he is the first High Representative to subject his own powers to judicial review by the country’s constitutional court, but this applies only when he imposes a law.
	www.bhhrg.org /pressDetails.asp?ArticleID=39 (1317 words)

	BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
		PADDY ASHDOWN: Well we will certainly be helping to work with the government in order to shape yes the Common Foreign Security Policy.
		ASHDOWN: John, if you just let me finish, it's a possibility that you've proposed in your film, not unreasonably and John Maples likes to play up because of course it encourages the Euro-scepticism that the Tory Party is all about.
		ASHDOWN: What the American Ambassador said was that this is perfectly reasonable, it is perfectly right, it shouldn't be a threat to NATO, provided it doesn't go beyond certain sensible limits..
	www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext/PADDY_ASHDOWN.2.21.2.99.html (1217 words)

	NATO Update - Paddy Ashdown at NATO HQ - 8 May 2002
		Paddy Ashdown at NATO HQ In his capacity as the new High Representative and EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lord Ashdown came to NATO HQ on 8 May to meet Lord Robertson.
		As High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown is succeeding Austrian Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, who had held this position since August 1999 after having been the EU's Special Envoy for Kosovo.
		Paddy Ashdown is a former British MP and leader of the Liberal Democrat Party who has a long standing interest in the Balkans.
	www.nato.int /docu/update/2002/05-may/e0508a.htm (338 words)

	GEN. DELIC EXPOSES PADDY ASHDOWN’S PERJURY
		On March 14, 2002 Ashdown testified as a witness for the prosecution.
		Using a topographical map of Kosovo, Delic showed the areas that Ashdown could have seen from Junik and the areas that he could not have seen (unless he had x-ray vision that allowed him to see through mountains).
		As it turns out, Ashdown could not have possibly seen the places and the villages that he claimed to have seen, with that Gen. Delic’s examination-in-chief came to an end.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg070705.htm (905 words)

	LP: PADDY ASHDOWN, EURO-DICTATOR IN BOSNIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lord Ashdown was Leader of the British Liberal Democrat Party (devoted absolutely to the abolition of free nation states in the name of the corporatist European Superstate).
		In March 2002 Paddy Ashdown appeared as a prosecution witness in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
		Ashdown omitted to mention that his frequent, expenses paid, trips to the Balkans were courtesy of George Soros's Open Society Institute, the very same institute that provides funding and staff for the ICTY itself.
	www.libertypost.org /cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=117088 (2313 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Paddy Ashdown was born in New Delhi on 27 February 1941, the eldest of 7 children.
		He was posted to the British Mission to the United Nations in Geneva where he was responsible for Britain's relations with a number of United Nations organizations and took part in the negotiation of several international treaties and agreements between 1974 and 1976.
		Lord Ashdown was awarded the GCMG in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List, for his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
	www.ndu.edu /ICAF/symposium/bios.htm (4016 words)

	Serbia Info News / Vujovic meets Paddy Ashdown
		Pristina, 19th July (Tanjug).- President of the Yugoslav government committee for cooperation with the UN Mission and Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Nebojsa Vujovic met this evening in Pristina the leader of a British opposition party Paddy Ashdown.
		Paddy Ashdown said that Kosovo-Metohija is an inseparable and integral part of Serbia.
		If Serbs were to lave the province, the UN Mission would fail completely, and this would be a failure for the entire international community.
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-07/20/13398.html (318 words)

	Bosnian Institute News: Ashdown sackings anger Bosnian Serbs
		The crisis began on Thursday when Paddy Ashdown, Bosnia's chief administrator, appointed by the US, the EU and other signatories of the 1995 Dayton Accord, sacked nine Bosnian Serb police and security officers.
		Lord Ashdown accused the officers of harbouring war crimes suspects, including Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague for his role in the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995.
		All three officials cited Lord Ashdown's dismissals when resigning, but observers thought the dispute is more deeply rooted in the desire among Bosnian Serbs to resist the consolidation of government institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is essentially split among the three main ethnic groups of the country.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /news/news_body.cfm?newsid=1988 (510 words)

	Paddy Ashdown - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Before he began his political career, Paddy Ashdown served in the Royal Marine Commandos and the Special Boat Service (SBS) and afterwards as a member of the Diplomatic Service.
		In 1983 he became MP for Yeovil, and in 1988 won the leadership election for the new Social and Liberal Democrats.
		Paddy Ashdown talks about the people and books which have most influenced him.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000031812,00.html?sym=QUE (351 words)

	Antiwar.com Blog · Viceroy’s vendetta hurt anti-terror efforts?
		According to a Washington-based intelligence newsletter Defense and Foreign Affairs, Bosnia’s viceroy “Paddy” Ashdown’s eagerness to support his late friend Alija Izetbegovic resulted in a major blow to anti-terrorism intelligence efforts on the eve of the Athens Olympics.
		“Significantly, it was understood to be SFOR leadership which caused the Bosnia-Herzegovina ‘High Representative,’; Paddy Ashdown, to attempt a face-saving move in June 2004 which effectively reversed his decision of April 20, 2004, to arbitrarily remove the Head of the [Serb Republic] Secretariat for Cooperation with the [ICTY], Dejan Miletic.
		One SFOR source told GIS: ‘Ashdown’s attempts to pretend that Islamist terrorism does not exist in Bosnia, and that it was not related to the September 11 [2001] attacks on the US, or the Madrid attacks, or Iraq, or the Olympics, has made the war on terrorism extremely difficult.
	www.antiwar.com /blog/comments.php?id=P1080_0_1_0 (360 words)

	Teleworking: Paddy Ashdown's experience
		It started fairly basically, with an electronic mail box which I would send letters and documents to when I was out of the office, and which could then be accessed by my office in the House of Commons.
		I am certainly determined to ensure that Liberal Democrats are at the forefront of this important technological change, and see it as an immense challenge and opportunity for politicians at all levels.
		Paddy Ashdown is MP for Yeovil and former leader of the Liberal Democrats.
	www.flexibility.co.uk /cases/location/ashdown.htm (1039 words)

	WATCH OUT LADIES PADDY ASHDOWN HAS X-RAY VISION!
		On March 14, 2002 Paddy Ashdown testified as a witness for the prosecution.
		Both the maps and 3D computer models proved that Ashdown could not have seen most of the places that he claims to have seen from the vantage points where he says he was at.
		In most cases there would have been mountains obstructing his view, and in other cases the thick woods at the coordinates where he says he was located would have prevented him from seeing very far.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg092105.htm (892 words)

	Republika Srpska Obstructs Balkans War Crimes Tribunal - US Department of State
		The United States strongly supports actions by High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Paddy Ashdown to reform institutions in the Republika Srpska that have obstructed full cooperation with the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and to remove individuals who have failed to uphold their responsibility to apprehend war crimes indictees.
		State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said December 16 that in support of measures taken by Ashdown, the United States is freezing the assets of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) and two Serbian companies, as well as imposing travel restrictions on the leadership of the main parties in the Republika Srpska government.
		The United States strongly supports High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Paddy Ashdown's actions of December 17 to reform institutions in the Republika Srpska that have obstructed full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and to remove individuals who have failed to uphold their responsibility to apprehend war crimes indictees.
	usinfo.state.gov /dhr/Archive/2004/Dec/17-259522.html (561 words)

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