Posted on 03/19/2003 8:43:29 AM PST by Destro
AP World - General News
Report: Before assassination, Serb leader complained that West neglected him
Thu Mar 13, 6:38 AM ET
ROME - Assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic complained in an interview conducted a few weeks before his death that the West was neglecting the problem of Kosovo and that he had received little credit for taking major steps against accused war criminals.
Djindjic, a pro-Western leader who made enemies by pushing for the arrest of mobsters and war crimes suspects, was shot Wednesday in downtown Belgrade. Italy's leading Corriere della Sera newspaper on Thursday published the interview, conducted Feb. 22 in Frankfurt.
"If negotiations to stabilize the Kosovo region do not begin as soon as possible, the extremists will be strengthened," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "It is incredible that up till now, there hasn't been any offer from the international community to talk about future planning in the region. The theme is taboo. It is necessary to get the discussions started now because within one or two years it will be even more difficult."
Djindjic said he had tried to pressure Western leaders to discuss Kosovo, but that this was rejected by EU foreign policy representative Javier Solana and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites).
Djindjic added that the government had no information on the location of former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, a war-crimes suspect believed to be hiding in Serbia. He noted that his police had little enthusiasm for hunting such suspects amid considerable public opposition.
"Notwithstanding the very unstable situation, with so many political and economic problems to resolve, we have taken very unpopular actions," he said. "But this is not considered sufficient in the West."
On Thursday, police arrested several members of a shadowy underworld network accused of assassinating Djindjic. Djindjic had many enemies because of his pro-reformist and Western stands and his crackdown on organized crime.
And since when did the IMF get into the business of offing worthless leaders?
Considering Slobodan's ability to rob his country into poverty, perhaps the IMF should make the jump and quit waiting for the citizenry in failed fiefdoms like Yugoslavia to make their move - Belgrade could have been used as a test case for Harare.
Whatever - if you wish to continue this discussion, show me Slobo repaying the IMF as you imply he was doing to stave off the banker ninjas.
Have fun - your stories are getting more amusing as you go on, but now it's time to come back to the real world and interject some fact into your fantasy.
Only people who could bust the sanctions could deliver the goods needed under sanctions and this fed the the mob. Without the mob, they would have starved.
That being said, the western stooge and Serbia's traitor, Zoran Djindjich, was knee-dep with all sorts of unsavoriy characters -- starting from Milsohevich ex-ally, Djukanovich; roasting an ox with karadzhich in Pale, and even Miloshevich himself.
Djindjich's a$$ was saved by none other than Miloshevich's mobster-friend "Legiya," now a fugative, who not only made sure the October 2000 "revolution" succeeded, but who also had the cojones to arrest Miloshevich by April 2001, and thus provide Djindjich with millions of dollars from the Empire.
Supposedly, Carla del Ponte's "shopping" list of new indictees included none other than the man who indebted Djindjich helped put him in power. Serbia had aprime minister (unelected oficial)who begged that the NATO bombing of his country continue for as long as necessary.
Djindjich's own mob connections surfaced when certain Mr. Gavrilovich was gunned down in Belgrade in August 2001, and Koshtunitsa's coalition party withdrew from Serbia's government headed by Djindjich, over the information it received from Gavrilovich. Needless to say, Gavrilovich's murder was never solved.
One should also not forget that while the mob may have put Djindjich in power, it was the Empire that kept him there. Even Djindjich's deputy prime minister was caught handing state secrets to the Empire's CIA agent in Belgrade masquarading as a "diplomat."
All in all, Djindjich was too indebted to the mob to be able to fulfill the Empire's wishes of sending them to the Hague as well. And with already annoucned reshuffling of the military, it is no wonder he confided in his friend, by her own account, Carla del Ponte, that "they" would kill him. She didn't elaborate, but one is led to believe that he was saying "if I have to turn them in..."
Now the mobs are settling the scores -- the DOS vs. the Zemun gang (but although the Surchin gang was much more intimately involved with Djindjich, little mention of it comes out of Serbia). The Democrats have installed a disctatorship, but since it's a pro-Western dictatorship the sin is tolerable.
The collaborationist scum is gone. His followers are scared, and are setting up a police state. The country is run by Djindjich's right hand man, and his deputy is a 29-year-old (!) ex-student leader (CIA-sponsored Otpor maybe?), Chedomir Yovanovich, whose glassy eyes and unfocused look give rise to speculations that he might be on drugs.
Incidentally, on his way to the Hague, Voislav Sheshel was interviewed by the Verchernye novosti (Evening News) reporter who flew to Amsterdam with Sheshel on Feb. 24, 2003. In that interview, repsonding to a question "What about Djindjich?" Sheshel said "He will be toopled very soon, and possibly lose his head as well." Something was known, something was going on in the underworld in Belgrade, which makes Djindjich's assassination even more suspicious: he was shot from a second floor window, with a blanket over the window sill. Considering that an attempt on Djindjich's life was made a week and a half earlier, one would imagine that his bodyguards would have scanned the neighborhood before he came out of his car and allowed to linger in front of the building (he was going inot the building and was shot in the stomach -- which means he was facing the gunman when he was shot). Many unanswred questions exist and the the official version is somewhat incredible.
In the end, no action was taken by MI6.
taken in conjunction with your statements on this thread justify the position that you don't retain comprehension of your own material nor possess the mental agility required to react to outside stimulus.
Hello - is there anybody home?
So he got himself and his country bombed.
How long is this going to remain too difficult for you to wrap that tiny little noggin around?
YES. Branicap has explained how Djindjic was shot. The Qestion No.1 is why his bodyguards and driver remained on the scene for 10-15 minutes instead of speeding off right away to the nearest hospital. Government building perimeter was covered with security cameras so there is no explanation why no medic team came to the rescue.
It seems that security umbrella was removed on purpose.
C'mon, the rest of the mush heads on this thread are no longer worth my time - would you really have preferred telling your relatives back in Serbia to eat their belts this last Winter and stay warm with the thought that they were still fighting the Empire?
And tell me again you served in the US Army.
That demon of stupidity is making your head spin, Destro.
Can't read, can't think, but can post on message 24/7.
You're a prime exhibit in the case against the web for propagating erroneous information, Destro.
I will no longer engage your comments, and others should follow and not waste their time.
There is a way to have a civlized discussion, but in your case that seems to be impossible.
VRN
I find him to be a useful idiot, endlessly parroting the same worn out excuses trying to explain away Clinton's plowing a few billion dollars propping up the likes of Nasir Oric and Hasim Thaci
Care to help DTA back up his claims in regards to the IMF?
Of course not - since I've done my homework and you haven't, you'll merely claim this isn't a place for doctoral research and continue to propagate the lies with FR's little coterie of Serb nationalist liars and deniers.
Quite frankly, Kosta, I held you out as the brightest of the bunch, but you have proven to value tribal concerns over intellectual ones, just like all the other Serb nationalist losers here on FR.
I wonder if they waited to ensure his death - the delay dimming any chance surgeons could save him. Or else the delay was to be positive that he was already dead. His killing seems to have been a planned inside job.
Uh Huh.
Well, as Kosovo is part of Serbia, you must mean the organized crime problem that was incubated by xlintoon's handiwork in 1999.
Kosovo drug mafia supply heroin to Europe
International agencies fighting the drug trade are warning that Kosovo has become a "smugglers' paradise" supplying up to 40% of the heroin sold in Europe and North America......
...according to the head of the Czech narcotics agency, Jiri Komorous: "There are four paths of drug trafficking through the Balkans to western Europe and we have to improve our attempts to control the Kosovo Albanians."
The Kosovo mafia has been smuggling heroin since the mid-80s - but since the Kosovo war they have come into their own, according to Mr Nicovic: "You have an entire country without a police force that knows what is going on."
The Kosovo Albanian mafia is almost untouchable.....
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