Thanks for the kind words, but I think I will argue my points when I think I am in the right. You are free to think I am wrong in this case, and you are free to think that my being wrong (in your eyes) in this case impacts the regard you hold my comments in other matters.
I think Slobo was a crook, and from what I have seen this guy was less of a crook and opposed to those who fund our enemies. In other words, I consider this man a nominal ally, even if there were parts of his politics on which I disagree and parts of his ethics which could have stood improvement.
And I find assertions (even if made by impication) that the US and our allies were involved in his assassination, when there is not a single bit of evidence to point in that way other than the motives imagined by those drooling to blame NATO for anything, to be so incredibly distasteful that I can't believe you are defending them and attacking me.
Ok, now I see where you're comming from, and if that were true, I'd agree. However, those of us who have been following the Balkans threads closely recognize that Djindjic was a pure opportunist without principle who would have allied himself with bin Laden if he offered him a better hand. As such, I don't exactly mourn his death, though I am concerned about the political chaos this assasination may bring.
It may have been internal organized crime that did it, however, as others have stated, it is an odd coincidence that for the first time in his political career he began challenging NATO authority in Kosovo a few weeks ago, and now he winds up dead. Maybe tin foil hat, maybe not.