Posted on 03/18/2011 8:39:54 AM PDT by Ravnagora
STANTON, Ky. — 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 ordered that Azra Basic, 52, be held without bond pending an April 1 status hearing and appointed her a lawyer.
Prosecutors argued that no bail amount would guarantee Basic's presence in court.
Federal agents arrested Basic on Tuesday. A complaint filed by U.S. Attorney James Arehart accuses Basic of committing crimes at three camps in the early 1990s near the majority-Serbian settlement of Cardak in Derventa in Bosnia.
The Croatian woman locals in Stanton knew as "Issabella" settled years ago in this rural, hilly area and took jobs bathing elderly nursing home patients and working at a sandwich factory.
This week, acquaintances were shocked to hear the secret that Bosnian war crimes investigators said Basic has been hiding for two decades.
As a soldier in the Croatian army, she killed a prisoner and tortured others by forcing them to drink human blood and gasoline, authorities said.
'Shocking'
U.S. Marshal Loren "Squirrel" Carl said considering the "shocking nature" of the accusations, officers were relieved to have captured Basic.
"This brings her long run from justice to an end," Carl said.
According to court documents, Basic is charged with fatally stabbing a prisoner in the neck in 1992 during the bloody conflict in the Balkans.
Court documents accuse her of numerous other atrocities, including: Setting a prisoner ablaze, pulling out prisoners' fingernails with pliers, ripping off a man's ear with pliers and carving crosses and the letter "S" into another man's flesh.
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I should clarify for those who aren’t up on the Balkans, that I was talking specifically about the Bosnian war.
Thanks for the info.!
FReepers are the best.
FRegards,
SZ
BTW, to completely discredit Abdic in the eyes of any outsider, the ICTY convicted him of war crimes against (Izetbegovic's) Muslims in 2002. Because Abdic was also a Muslim, they couldn't twist that into "genocide" in the way that they had for many of the Serbs convicted.
It's funny, if you read the Wiki entry on Abdic that tries to paint him in the most disparaging light, it's so filled with holes that you could drive a truck through them. Truth is that Abdic wasn't "a really nice guy"; he was a little crooked which one had to be to run a successful capitalistic business in what was then a communist country, but nor was he a stark raving Islamist like Izetbegovic. Unlike Izetbegovic, Osama bin Laden was not Abdic's friend and supporter.
Trivial acts compared to putting woman’s underwear on their heads
“Exactly. My brother and I discuss this periodically (more in the last 2 years). It takes only a moment to die in the battle while taking down a few of the animals. Get caught by a barbarian, well...let’s just say it’s highly doubtful that ‘they’ will follow the geneva convention.”
Yea, the way I see it, if I can get the drop, I’ll take out (hopefully) 3 of them, and that will 3 less for the survivors to have to deal with.
It’s really tragic that we have been forced into the position of even considering this scenario however; as Nathan Hale said: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
I resent the hell out of this current situation and the fact that I have to now consider how I will respond. For 2 years I have been reflecting on most every aspect of how this happened to our country and have come to a myriad of conclusions and reasons. The main one (at least the way I see it) is that the so called conservatives that I voted for and trusted did not guard the gate but instead, pillaged the nation right along with the liberal democrat fringe.
“It’s really tragic that we have been forced into the position of even considering this scenario however; as Nathan Hale said: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.””
Yes and no. It is always good think about contingencies. The odds of actually having to go down fighting in such a scenario is quite small still. It’s just better to be ready.
You never see her and Hoplite together, you know.
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