Posted on 10/30/2001 5:43:09 AM PST by NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh
Tuesday October 30, 2001 1:10 PM
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic told the U.N. tribunal Tuesday that Osama bin Laden was in Albania last year.
Milosevic again flared up in court at a hearing to schedule his trials for war crimes in Kosovo and Croatia. The Kosovo trial was tentatively set for Feb. 12, but could be delayed by months if combined with other cases against him.
Milosevic dismissed the indictments as documents written at the level of ``a retarded 7-year-old child.''
He said the U.S. government had turned to him for help in tracking down bin Laden, who was believed to be behind the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
``The previous American administration knew that bin Laden was in Albania two years after he blew up their embassies and they discussed these facts with me and my associates,'' Milosevic told the judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Albanian authorities have repeatedly denied foreign media reports that Osama bin Laden had visited in recent years. On Sept. 21, Joseph Limprecht, U.S. ambassador to Albania, said the U.S. government had no such reports and he commended Albania for expelling Islamic extremists.
Milosevic was in court for nine hours Monday, his third appearance since he was extradited from Belgrade on June 28. As before, he refused to cooperate, rebuffed the court's request to plead to his indictments, and argued angrily with the presiding judge, Richard May.
On Tuesday, Milosevic voiced impatience with the lengthy hearing of the day before.
``Don't bother me and make me listen for hours on end to the reading of texts written at the intellectual level of a 7-year-old child - rather, I correct myself - a retarded 7-year-old child,'' he said.
May interrupted Milosevic, telling him to restrict his comments to any complaints he had about his detention.
``Is that all I have the right to say?'' Milosevic retorted.
US troops should prepare for battle with the former soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army, officials in Washington are warning. A year after Nato launched a bombing campaign to rescue the KLA, Pentagon commanders have formally alerted the US military that it expects to have to engage its former allies 'this spring'.
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The KLA which we NEVER should have backed, but we certainly made sure they were outta there, didn't we? It is THAT little corner of the world where the mineral and metals wealth is huge.
Oh, but these little truths keep seeping out one by one........maybe Bush's DOJ will no longer be able to ignore them.........
That is the real question. It is and was a known fact that the Albanian KLA is a Muslim terrorist group that has been funded by Bin Laden for yrs, and these were the ones we were standing with and bombing our allies (the Serb Christians). They are the drug running terrorists throughout the Balkans, making millions and I mean millions.( a very well known fact by our state dept at that time).
We armed them, we trained them, stood with them and bombed the h#@ out of our Serbain Christian allies, go figure. Nice job, Xlintoon.
Very true all that you said. I will never forget, a few days before the bombing, there was a website or our govt. showing actual photographs of lyme ovens that the Albanian KLA used on Serbian women and children, but ! 2 days after the bombing that website no longer there. It showed photos of our US inspectors pointing out the ovens.
Yes, we are paying now, just as I dreaded and predicted throughout that whole war, we will pay for this down the road ,and now, here we are. God help us.
Spot on! I hope Slobo tell this court to go to hell the entire time. The traitors in Serbia who sent him there are the ones who deserve to be behind bars.
BTW Al Queda was operative in the Balkans with many of the itinerant Islamic fighters from Afghanistan... who are mostly Arabs, Saudi and Egyptian.
I fear many more will die because of his treachery.
Please look at this link. It goes to cargolaw.com and other photos and chronicles. I am not a detonation expert, but does something look wrong about these photos? or please explain to me how so much damage occurred going upwards from below the water line?
Somewhere in FR's archives are threads on the Cole that cite their port of call immediately before the port call in Yemen which was never proven necessary, but the archives are still down.
It seems to me it was Bulgaria or somewhere like that where we had never been before and it was purely a diplomatic call for show. I found it searching Marc Rich.
The reason it comes to mind is the Bin Laden link now to the Balkans we didn't have before as a stated fact, yet the rhetoric now from EVERYWHERE is exactly the same as it was then. Tom Franks is in charge of THIS operation after clearing everyone of malfeasance involving the USS Cole and I get a very painful jabbing in my gut every time I see him. He has already jeopardized this mission once by disallowing our forces to shoot a target that would have ended this three days after it started and we wouldn't be hearing interviews with the likes of Albright, Richardson, and Rom Emanuel, (Mr. Amanpour,) EVEN on Fox as if they were true statesmen with their historical revisionist script planted firmly in their frontal lobes and not merely useless props on the Clinton stage.
When Donald Rumsfeld is trying to do a press conference, you can see the frustration on his face with each passing day. He is like Superman without his powers and there have been far too many blunders. It looks as if Bush has been set up. Big time.
I wrote this last night, Oct. 30, 2001, but couldn't access the archives or find anything about the USS Cole before the bombing on any search, so I waited, hoping the archives would be up today. No such luck.
Now I hear that Slick has an executive order in place no one really knew about that even limits law enforcement capabilities here on terrorists. The FBI is having fits. It was on O'Reilly, and I'm waiting for the rerun at 11:00 PM, EST.
This goes to show that Clinton was never serious against terrorism or apprehending terrorists.
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