When the police came at last to take Slobodan Milosevic away from his home in Belgrade last weekend, the event was a microcosm of the Serbian strongman's career. It began with blustering threats—"I won't come out alive"—which soon led to a burst of gunfire, some clumsy mistakes by his opponents (in this case, his own government, egged on by the western world) and a period of hectic negotiations, ending in humiliation for himself and those around him, his family and bodyguards.
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