[Gael]

Hague demanded more and more,and more....

I think that's the reason for yesterday's assassination. Just in the past week Djindjic' gov't announced that it would take steps to capture Gen. Mladic, that Col. Sljivancanin would be sent to the ICTY, and that it had been asked to cooperate in sanctions against Karadzic designed to aid his capture. In addition, there's talk that Legija and other Red Berets would be arrested and extradited to the ICTY. delPonte just wouldn't let it rest, despite Djindjic and others warning that the escalating demands put them in a politically impossible position.

Somehow, I doubt there'll be any more extraditions.

[Destro]

Saw my SAS theory? Yours is a good one too.

[downunder]

Gael I think there are so many people who would have liked to kill Djindjic. Your theory is closer to mark then any other I have read on this site. Djindjic was doing DelPonte's dirty work and he paid for it. The economy is just surviving and the people are screaming when will it get better as Djindjic promised. Unfortunately for Djindjic his promises to the people were promises the West gave to him but never eventuated.

Clearing out the Mafia won't make things better for this country in terms of economic growth, there just is no money and when the people realise this they can get back to reality. Djindjic enjoyed so much of that foreign money for himself that it doesn't make me sorry he is gone except it would've been better if he went out from the ballot box instead of a bullet.

[Tamodaleko]

In addition, there's talk that Legiya and other Red Berets would be arrested and extradited to the ICTY

I hear (live radio) Frankie Simatovich and Jovitsa Stanishich are under interrogation. Seems that the video tape shown during Captain Dragan's testimony in Hague sealed Dj.'s destiny as far as Legiya was concerned.

Ironic how Dushan Mihailovich just a couple of weeks ago praised Legiya as loyal citizen and was "surprised" that media tried to link him with the 1st assassination attempt.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Yours is the first post I noticed making the connection between increased sounds, the last several days, about tightening up on finding Mladic and the assassination of Djindjic.

I always saw Dj. as being "pro"-West in the same sense as a vassal prince would have "allegiance", in other words not (as assumed in the USA) a compliment to his integrity. He was the agent of the West's directives (after the $100 million campaign funding for anti-Milo groups IN THE ELECTIONS CALLED BY MILOSHEVICH).

ANyonwe remember when he complained that after betraying Miloshevich to the anti-Serb "court" in the Netherlands that his administration was awarded $300 million, of which $225 million was immediately taken back as interest on loans? That's how being pro-West helped.