Fuck, the reformist Serbian prime minister's just been shot dead by a sniper using 'high calibre' ammunition, i.e. probably a proper sniper rifle, i.e. a proper marksman.

Just a few weeks ago, someone tried to crash his car by cutting him up with a lorry, but screwed up. That's a trick the Serbian secret police used to use in the bad old days, and was used in a failed attempt against the Opposition leader during Milosevic's presidency.

The world's busy looking the other way at the moment - people really aren't paying attention to the Balkans any more. Could get nasty.

North Korea's been taking advantage of the situation already, with its threats of war and so on, and Ethiopia's been moving troops up to Somalia's borders over the past few days (I wouldn't put it past them to start a war of conquest - they did the same to Eritrea a while back, before the international community got involved).

This could be the start of a take-back of power, perhaps, by Milosevic's old guard. There's still enough of them around (some of them working within the government) to be a threat, and Milosevic does still have public support.