Posted on 11/17/2001 5:17:31 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Ramsey Clark to Be Milosevic Adviser By Associated Press November 17, 2001, 5:28 PM EST THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The U.N. war crimes tribunal is allowing a former U.S. attorney general to be a legal adviser to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The tribunal said Ramsey Clark, a civil rights activist who was attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson, and British attorney John Livingston will be granted full privileges of defense council to meet and advise Milosevic, who is awaiting trial on war crimes charges in Kosovo and Croatia. The decision, adopted Thursday, means Milosevic will be able to hold unmonitored conversations with the two lawyers, and that the tribunal cannot refuse to let them meet "without reasonable grounds." Milosevic has refused to appoint an attorney to represent him in hearings before the tribunal, saying he considers the court illegal and doesn't recognize its right to try him. But during his four months in detention, Milosevic was visited by several lawyers, including Clark. Some of the meetings were not monitored by U.N. authorities. The appointment of the two legal advisers followed a request from Milosevic "to meet with them," the tribunal said. However, Milosevic's Belgrade lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, was quoted as saying Saturday by Dutch national television that Milosevic was rejecting the tribunal's appointment of legal advisers. Milosevic, who was ousted from power last year, was transferred to The Hague by Serbian authorities in June to face charges of persecution in Kosovo in 1999. Prosecutors subsequently charged him with war crimes in Croatia, and last week submitted another indictment for genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Clark, who has taken part in rallies in support of Milosevic, has also represented a former Rwandan pastor charged with five counts of genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity. Copyright © 2001, The Associated Press
Associating with Ramsey Clark is enough to defame even so tarnished a bird as Slobo.
other than that, he's okay.
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THE MYSTERIOUS RAMSEY CLARK: STALINIST DUPE OR DEEP-COVER SPOOK?
Then I see that the UN approves this guy, Ramsey Clark. Now I think to myself, why would they do that? They have no love for Milosevic. They want to make him an example.
Clark has thrown his lot in with the terrorists here in the states. Milosevic is anti-Moslem. What other motivation for taking this position would Clark have, other than to find out what Milosevic knows (about general security and intelligence, about Clinton's culpibility, and about connections to al Quaeda) AND to threaten Milosevic? (Remember, Slobo was ranting about how he had proof that the US had double-crossed him.)
I don't think Slobo is a very nice guy, but I think there are deepeer motives, especially when I saw that Slobo didn't want Ramsey!!
Allow me to assist with your trek out of the darkness of ignorance:
BALKAN - ALBANIA - KOSOVO - HEROIN - JIHAD
Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base
What happened to that Canadian lawyer that was defending Milosevic? Whatever Slobo did (like defend Yugo from Bin Laden henchmen) he certainly deserves better than Ramsey Clark.
To my fellow Balkans Front thread participants, sorry, I've been preoccupied with the Microsoft and American 587 threads. I'll try to get to the Balkans stuff more often.
I still owe you some commentary Fusion.
You imply that Milosevic is guilty of attacks on Slovenia. I suggest you are just spewing anti-Serb crap and have nothing to back up your insinuation?
The Yugoslav Peoples Army moved to retake the border posts in Slovenia based on a court decision that the Slovene actions were unconstitutional and because the Presidency declared a state of emergency. General Kadijevic argued that had no choice but to act, that they could not ignore the political decisions of the Parliment of the SFRY.
Moeover, there are those that agrue that Milosevic (far from attacking Slovenia) had no objection to Slovenia leaving Yugoslavia.
The above arguments are from Balkan Tragedy, p.167 -- Susan Woodward
Perhaps you can enlighten us with the source of your wisdom or is it just hatred?
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