Posted on 03/22/2009 2:43:19 PM PDT by Bokababe
PARIS — Every time Radovan Karadzic, the onetime Bosnian Serb leader, appears in court on war crimes charges, he has hammered on one recurring claim: a senior American official pledged that he would never be standing there.
The official, Richard C. Holbrooke, now a special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Obama administration, has repeatedly denied promising Mr. Karadzic immunity from prosecution in exchange for abandoning power after the Bosnian war......
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Karadzic insists he was promised immunity by US
....Rumours about a possible deal between the US and Karadzic are not new. In her recently published book, Florence Hartmann, a former assistant to former ICTY prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, claimed the same, as has former Bosnian ambassador Mohamed Sacirby.....
When even Karadzic's avowed enemies are saying the deal was for real, the deal was for real.
The commies in our State Department have been selling the Serbs down the river for decades. They helped to give us Tito instead of Mehilovich, and therefore gave Yugoslavia to Uncle Joe.
Of course, if Karadzic was Islamic, he would walk
Walk?
He would be given a mutherfrappin’ MEDAL!!!
"Walk? He would be given a mutherfrappin’ MEDAL!!!"
Oh, yeah!
But while Karadzic is on ice, Holbrooke is still making trouble.
Today on the tenth anniversary of the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia, Holbrooke brags that "it was the right thing to do"
Holbrooke was also on the AIG Board, including "The Compensation Committee" before the bailout. (Can you say, "Bonuses for crashing the market?")
Holbrooke is a menace who, after he got done with the Serbs, turned on us!
Holbrooke is a weasel; suitable pick by Zero.
The guy is not being prosecuted under US law. Why an American national official should be presumed to have the authority to negotiate plea bargains for the International Criminal Tribunal is beyond me.
When the deal was made, Karadzic likely assumed that America was the most powerful country on earth and could get what it asked for from the ICTY. The US asked that the ICTY be set up and the the US asked that it be closed in 2011, and the US got what it wanted in both cases.
No conflict of interest there, huh? Soros exploits the Eastern European Markets and Time Warner sells the juicy details of a grizzly war through its media outlets.
Because ICTY sham was created by the US in clear contravention of UN Charter. It has nothing to do with the international law.
ICTY was created in haste and there is ample evidence of it's illegallity. UN Charter is the top UN document and it describes the powers of each UN body. UN Security Council (UNSEC) does not have legal powers and therefore can not create an auxilliary body with legal powers. All legal power of the UN resides within the World Court, and General Assembly. On top of that, the reason for violation of the UN Charter was to punish alleged Serbian aggression on Bosnia, i.e. the motive for creation was political. That alone puts this sham into the same drawer with Hitler's and Stalin's "courts" and political trials.
The "justice" dispensed in ICTY is neither Continental nor precedent law. It is very likely that any American lawyer having a stint in that circus could be disbarred in his/her local jurisdiction upon returning home. That's why many who served there keep mum of their "success story".
OK. I agree that the legality of the ICT is questionable.
But the US official was not employed or involved with this court. So this guy relying on assurances from Holbrook is a lot like a guy talking with a cop in Maine about a bargain and claiming that he is therefore protected against prosecution by the state of Alaska.
Holbrook never had any authority to strike deals for the ICT.
That Karadzic guy doesn’t look sane. Clearly he has some mental issues. Just hang the bastard.
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