1.   But the general was released after he was ruled to be too ill to stand trial.

2.   But the interior minister, Santiago Creel, said on Thursday night that Fox, after a yearlong review, had decided that the general should be released immediately.

3.   The general had been released by British Home Secretary Jack Straw on the grounds that he was mentally and physically unfit to stand trial.

4.   Defense lawyers for Djordje Djukic Monday appealed for the Serb general to be released from pre-trial confinement at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal because of ill health.

5.   Spain reiterated Tuesday that it would not contest any decision to release the general.

6.   The court announced on Wednesday it was releasing the general on provisional bail.