[rogerhb]

Death of a tyrant and a loser

Despite a trial lasting 5 years, with it supposed to end in May, this is a bad result. Assuming we're still playing the game of "innocent until proven guilty" this means that Milosevic was innocent.

[ubercynicmeister]

There's something big in the off-ing.

Think back to 1989 - just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Old Man Rudolf Hess was given vast help in hanging himself in his prison cell in Spandau. Apparently, the "authorities" didn't want Second-In-Command-Of-The-Third-Reich Rudolf alive & well and persumably a focus of Neo Nazi sentiment in a Post Soviet Era re-unified Germany. Some months later the Berlin Wall fell. Spandau was razed to the ground just before the event. Co-incidence? I think not.

Just before the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on Sept 11 2001, one of the Northern Alliance's most charismatic leaders was killed. He could have unified the Anti-Taliban forces once the Americans attacked. It seems the price for "looking the other way" that the Taliban demanded from Osama Bin Forgotten was the execution of this fellow. Co-incidence? Not even the CIA thinks that (and let's face it, the CIA makes Maxwell Smart look good.)

Please remember: all of the deaths were of figure-heads, usually NOT in power, usually half a world away from the events that later transpired. I wonder what embarrasing secret he was threatening to spill? I wonder what Ole Slobbie was connected to? Somehow...I just get the feeling that there's some connection to the Iranian Oil Burse...no, I don't know why, but it's the only "important" event I can think of in the next short-scale time period.

No doubt we'll all find out the truth, in much the same way as we found out about the collapse of the Soviet Union (which the CIA signally failed to predict): by watching it live on TV.

[Laurasia]

On March 4th or 5th, Milan Babic, another accused at the Hague, was found hanging in his cell there. They must not be guarding them very well.

Regards,

L.

[Schweinshaxe]

They knew they couldn't convict him after five years so they "helped" him commit suicide.

I heard an interview with the chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte on BBC World today. She basically said that shit happens and that they now have to focus on the other two top war criminals Karadzic and Mladic.

What's the problem here? Why are they wasting tax money on those scumbags? A two hour trial and then death by hanging would be appropriate...

[Daryl]

Another hero of the anti-globalizaiton anarchists bites the dust.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daryl', 'A')nother hero of the anti-globalizaiton anarchists bites the dust.

[Daryl]

No, but I think they are quick to throw in with anybody willing to defy the current international order. Castro, Saddam, Chavez, the Iranian mullahs. Milozevic is of their ilk.

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daryl', 'N')o, but I think they are quick to throw in with anybody willing to defy the current international order. Castro, Saddam, Chavez, the Iranian mullahs. Milozevic is of their ilk.

[Novus]

As time goes on Milosevic will be seen more a hero then a criminal. He was trying to fight a muslim invasion into historically Christian lands and the Americans bombed him, killing hundreds of civilians. The KLA even had links to Al-Queida and many of their fighters were trained in Afghanistan. Clinton was the real war criminal in Serbia. He did not even know who is enemies were.

[gg3]

More of a hero than a criminal, eh?

Who else do you consider a hero? Francisco Franco perhaps?

And, capital C for Christian but small m for muslim...? Your underpants are showing.

[pogoliamo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daryl', 'N')o, but I think they are quick to throw in with anybody willing to defy the current international order. Castro, Saddam, Chavez, the Iranian mullahs. Milozevic is of their ilk.

[Odin]

He wan't the only bastard in the Balkan conflict (there were some major a-holes among the Croats and Bosnians too), but he was the most brutal and evil of them.

[eastbay]

Assuming we're still playing the game of "innocent until proven guilty" this means that Milosevic was innocent.

The peculiar and bizarre spectacle of holding 'trials' for second-place finishers demonstrates how humanities slide into barbarism is well underway. Milosevic was guilty of the same war-crimes as Clinton and Blair (mass-murder of the innocent , ethnic-cleansing.... etc), yet as the second-place finisher he gets arrested and tried... how disgusting and idiotic.