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A medical mystery after Milosevic's death
IHT ^ | 2006-03-16 | Elisabeth Rosenthal and Marlise Simons

Posted on 03/16/2006 11:42:50 AM PST by DTA

A medical mystery after Milosevic's death

By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Marlise Simons The New York Times

THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2006

ROME Frustrated and filled with skepticism about Slobodan Milosevic's litany of medical complaints, the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague at times failed to investigate them adequately, according to several doctors who had recently examined the former Serbian leader.

"His medical condition was not good, so we asked for additional tests to evaluate his cardiac situation," said Dr. Florence Leclercq, a French cardiologist who examined Milosevic for about three hours in November. "But these investigations were never performed, and now that's a problem." A tribunal official said it was not possible to comment while an inquiry was under way.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arkancide; arkanicde; clintonlegacy; icty; mcdougalsyndrome; milosevic; prisonabuse; un; zhivioslobodan

1 posted on 03/16/2006 11:42:55 AM PST by DTA
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To: DTA
"After several weeks of sleuthing, the toxicologists recently determined that Milosevic ingested the antibiotic rifampicin, which would blunt the effect of his blood pressure medicine. Uges, as well as tribunal officials speaking on condition of anonymity because an investigation is under way, suggested that the antibiotic was taken intentionally, smuggled in by visitors."

Visitors have been searched and the cell was under 24/7 surveillance.

The role of a toxicologist is to find a foreign substance. The role of police is to determine how substance was administered and by whom.

When toxicologist assume the role of police, something is fishy.

Smells like UN.

2 posted on 03/16/2006 11:52:53 AM PST by DTA
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To: Pharmboy

CSI THE HAGUE ping.


3 posted on 03/16/2006 11:54:33 AM PST by DTA
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To: joan; jb6; Lion in Winter; Balkans; F-117A; dj_animal_2000
"Court officials and some scientists have been quick to insinuate that Milosevic was secretly ingesting the extra medicine to exacerbate his medical problems, so that he could be transferred to a clinic in Moscow, where his family now lives.

But some confidants, including doctors who spoke to him in his last weeks of life, said Milosevic was alarmed by his poor health and feared that prison doctors, as well as Dutch special consultants, were providing inadequate treatment."

4 posted on 03/16/2006 11:58:13 AM PST by DTA
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To: DTA

".....some scientists have been quick to insinuate that Milosevic was secretly ingesting the extra medicine to exacerbate his medical problems..."

Everything that I have read and heard informs me that his trial was going essentially nowhere in convicting him. He had a line out for Clinton and everything was looking up so he offed himself with some substance that those searched and serveilled got through to him.....oh, yeah...makes sense. He wanted to do the court a favor.


5 posted on 03/16/2006 12:07:13 PM PST by Spirited
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To: DTA

Which doctors were right, the French doctor who said he needed treatment, or the court doctors, who said he was faking it?

I was surprised to see this in the IHT, a wholly-owned subidiary of Pinch Sulzberger. But it's basically a whitewash of the court. I guess they figured it couldn't be covered up entirely, so best to get it out and over and done with. Move on, as clintbilly said.


6 posted on 03/16/2006 12:09:40 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DTA

Arkancide.


7 posted on 03/16/2006 12:13:24 PM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Democrats lie and US troops die.)
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To: Spirited

The Hague "kangaroo" court never intended to set Milosevic free. He was their designated "fall guy" for the clinton/UN created mess in the Balkans. They needed someone to point the finger of accusation at. Milosevic was "shredding" his Hague prosecutors. If he had been an obedient "patsy" they would probably been content to let him serve 20 years. But he wasn't cooperating. They had to save face, so they offed him. Simple.


8 posted on 03/16/2006 12:22:51 PM PST by kimosabe31
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What substance(s) can be masked with Rifampicin? ------------------------------------------------------- "By January, Milosevic's blood-pressure readings became increasingly erratic, with levels as high as 260/180, Andric has said in the Serbian press.

Irate at charges that he had not been taking his medicine, Milosevic agreed to new blood tests.

It was in part that examination that led prison doctors to suspect foul play, perhaps by Milosevic, Uges said. Was there some substance that would nullify the blood-pressure medicines? "We realized that the only thing that could do this was rifampicin," he said. A blood sample was found to contain the compound.

Some experts said rifampicin itself was unlikely to explain Milosevic's death, since he did not die of a stroke, a far more common problem with high blood pressure. Also, its effects on blood pressure could have been counteracted by increasing the dose of his blood-pressure medicines, said Joris Delanghe, a toxicologist at Ghent University in Belgium

9 posted on 03/16/2006 12:31:17 PM PST by DTA
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To: kimosabe31

They could not find evidence of his guilt and so they killed him. Simple ... and they will get away with it.


10 posted on 03/16/2006 12:45:48 PM PST by Marylander
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To: DTA
"Some experts said rifampicin itself was unlikely to explain Milosevic's death, since he did not die of a stroke"

Could they have suffocated him that night. There was a big delay between when he died and when they said they discovered him dead. Weren't they checking on the prisoners every hour and weren't the lights always on?

11 posted on 03/16/2006 12:52:53 PM PST by joan
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>>>>>Could they have suffocated him that night. <<<<

No, that would be easy to prove. He died from Heart attack.

Probably comparrable to Kennedy having a massive haemorhage. /sarcasm off

The issue at hand is what caused heart attack in the first place. I am sure 'license to kill' services know how to do it.

One clue: MIlo was a diabetic, and it is not mentioned anywhere.

We need a forensis expert with a long memory of odd drug adverse reactions.

12 posted on 03/16/2006 4:23:11 PM PST by DTA
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To: joan; DTA
"His medical condition was not good, so we asked for additional tests to evaluate his cardiac situation," said Dr. Florence Leclercq, a French cardiologist who examined Milosevic for about three hours in November. "But these investigations were never performed, and now that's a problem." A tribunal official said it was not possible to comment while an inquiry was under way.

Also, his blood results where in in January and kept secret for 3 months, until a week before Sloba's death - why?

13 posted on 03/16/2006 5:10:39 PM PST by Proctor (http://www.historyofjihad.org)
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To: Proctor
Rifampicin colours urine and skin orange. Slobo could see that he got something funny in food or drink even without blood test.

Someone on FR told me that it is not likely that Rifampicin was used to neutralize Meprolol (beta blocking antihypertensive drug).

If true, the question is, why was Rifampicin administered, by whom and why.

ICTY thugs provided all three answers even before inquest is over.

Methinks that Rifampicin is red herring. Chances are that something else was used to induce myocardial infarction and rifampicin to provide plausible explanation, one ICTY jumped too soon on.

14 posted on 03/16/2006 8:34:22 PM PST by DTA
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