Kentucky woman can not escape torture past
Twenty years is a long time to be “on the lam” but if this article written by Bruce Schreiner and Brett Barrouquere for the Associated Press titled Torture charges shatter Croatian's quiet Ky. Life teaches us anything, it’s that the long arm of the law is also unforgiving and tireless. It reports that “the arrest of a Croatian woman in small-town Kentucky for alleged war crimes two decades ago in the former Yugoslavia "brings her long run from justice to an end," a U.S. marshal said. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert E. Wier appointed Azra Basic, 52, a lawyer Thursday and ordered her held without bond pending an April 1 status hearing. Prosecutors argued that no bail amount would guarantee Basic's presence in court. Federal agents arrested Basic (pronounced BOSH) on Tuesday” and the words of U.S. Marshal Loren "Squirrel" Carl frames it best. "This brings her long run from justice to an end," Carl said. Escaping one’s destiny is one thing but to t...