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The latter two tweets involving Swartz are a little hard to follow if you don't read Balkan news, but this Balkan press item in English, written by an American international judge, gives some of the background of that Smith prosecution of the elected and sitting Kosovo president from four years ago:

In November 2018, I had the pleasure of attending a speech given by [Smith-indicted Kosovo President] Thaci to US governmental officials, foreign ambassadors, policy analysts, dignitaries, members of the public and media outlets at the Atlantic Council, a well-reputed Washington think-tank.

“His key point, which he delivered emphatically, was that despite the horrors of the war with Serbia, which Kosovo will never forget, Kosovo was prepared to negotiate a final and permanent settlement agreement with Serbia, and that the time to do so is now. He was roundly applauded,” I wrote at the time.

Two weeks later, President Trump took an unusually proactive position by writing directly to Thaci and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic, imploring them to sign an agreement and suggesting that they would be invited to the White House to commemorate it.

However, at the same time, Thaci was dogged by allegations that he had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity as initially claimed by Council of Europe human rights rapporteur Dick Marty in his infamous report of 2010 titled ‘Inhuman Treatment of People and Illicit Trafficking in Human Organs’.

Marty’s report, which was adopted by the Council of Europe in January 2011, and a subsequent investigation ultimately led to the creation of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, which opened for business in 2017. The court is designed specifically to prosecute former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, while having no jurisdiction over Serbian war criminals, and is generally loathed in Kosovo.

One of the key reasons for creating the court in a far-away location was the fear of witness intimidation if any of the high-level cases, like Thaci’s, were prosecuted in Kosovo.

American prosecutor Jack Smith, who had been a top-tier prosecutor at the US Justice Department, took office as the chief prosecutor at the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague in September 2018, and spent the next two years continuing the investigation of Thaci and others.

On June 24, 2020, while the investigation was still underway, Thaci was in route to Washington at the invitation of President Trump to meet with him and Serbian President Vucic at the White House on June 27 in an effort to bring the two sides closer together, a historic opportunity.

However, at the very same time, Smith’s office issued a press release stating that an indictment had been filed against Thaci (and three other KLA veterans), causing Thaci to return home immediately, and the White House meeting to be cancelled, surely a lost opportunity for normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia.


2 posted on 05/06/2024 7:36:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The same Hague Court that “decided” the US owed Iran mullah Iran money for Lockheed aircraft the Shah paid for and never got. Because the mullahs took over the govt and kicked the Shah out.

So, somehow the US was on a legal hook—not to the govt of Iran that was the Pahlavi Shah, but Khamanei et al. This resulted in obamaumao coming up with the ruse of Billions of US money— in CASH shrink wrapped on pallets on US C-17s which stopped off in Geneva to pick up more Swiss and French Francs to continue to Tehran. Obamaumao got a skim of this cash-pretty obvious. This should never have happened. The US has never honored paying debts owed to former govts paid to the overthrowers.

See: French Revolution and Ambassador Genet (and George Washington) we never paid the full Revolutionary war debt which was owed to King Louis (whose head they chopped off). This is the precedent- until the Kenyan Islamofascist Usurper Obamaumao the First. Bolsheviks figure out how to steal early.

And Jack Smith is an Operative. Look at the track record here and his crazy acts.


7 posted on 05/06/2024 8:23:06 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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