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"There is no need for anyone to apologize for Milosevic to Americans because he never took any action against America that would need to have him and his supporters apologize for it."

To be fair, there seem to be some people out there who are still convinced that Putin staged the 1999 apartment bombings in Moscow to justify a war in Chechnya (and am I the only one who finds this incredibly funny given some of the claims that have been leveled at Bush post-9/11?), despite the fact that Khattab and his buddies had invaded Dagestan prior to that.

Putin has never done _anything_ to take action against the US, yet he still has detractors and supporters (I fall into the latter category) here on FR. The same, I hold, is true for Slobo.

"Which is why I post here."

Indeed. And I _do_ appreciate your posts, make no mistake. The ones on Dr. Aziz's extra-curricular activities tends to make me believe that he was released more due to the pressure of the Pakistani religious parties than on his genuine guilt or innocence.

"Not front page, but prominently published in editorial pages like the NY Post and National Review."

I don't get the Post and haven't seen articles to that effect (I'm not saying that they don't exist, merely that _I_ haven't seen them). I have seen them in the National Review since I started reading it (I've only been involved in online conversatism since mid-April of this year), but not all that often, much to my disappointment.

"I read that editorial as well. I and other freepers posted about such things here over a year ago."

Indeed. Like I said, you're something of a treasure trove when it comes to the Balkans. But I really don't think that most Americans (or even most Muslims who get their news via Western sources) have a real grasp of the true situation in the Balkans. Otherwise current events in Macedonia (which was basically invaded _from_ Kosovo) and the fact that these mysterious "paramilitary training camps" (rather like the mythical area "between Pakistan and Afghanistan") where European al-Qaeda recruits receive training post-December 2001 are located in Albania.

BTW, have you seen Abu Hamza's "Caught on Tape" video stash of al-Qaeda storm troopers training and fighting in Bosnia and Kosovo?

"PS: I always thought I was a Scotsman."

Now is that a statement of fact or a subtle quip on your nom de cyber?