HOW THE SAS WAS GOING TO ASSASSINATE MILOSEVIC (Did SAS hit squad take out Serbia's Zoran Djindjic?)

mediaclub.cg.yu ^ | March 17 | Taken from Independent

[Destro]

HOW THE SAS WAS GOING TO ASSASSINATE MILOSEVIC

British security agents plotted to assassinate Yugoslavia's President, Slobodan Milosevic, in the early Nineties using an SAS hit squad, the intelligence historian Stephen Dorrill claims. Mr Dorrill says that a secret MI6 file explored three options in which the Serbian leader could be killed during the Bosnian war.

His book quotes claims by a former MI6 officer, who worked in the Balkans in the early Nineties, that an ambitious colleague who was responsible for developing and targeting operations in the Balkans had produced the file. "It was approximately two pages long, and had a yellow card attached to it which signified that it was an accountable document rather than a draft proposal," the unnamed source claims.

"It was entitled 'The need to assassinate President Milosevic of Serbia', and was distributed to senior MI6 officers, including the head of Balkan operations, the controller of East European operations, the security officer responsible for eastern European operations and the service's SAS liaison officer. "The targeting officer justified the assassinating of Milosevic on the grounds that the 'Butcher of Belgrade' was supplying weapons to [Radovan] Karadzic, who was wanted for war crimes, including genocide," says the source. Mr Dorrill claims in his book that United States and French intelligence agencies were considering assassinating Karadzic.

Three scenarios were suggested by MI6. The first was to train a Serbian paramilitary opposition group to carry out the attack. This, the targeting officer argued, had the advantage of deniability but the disadvantage that control of the operation would be difficult and the chance of success low. The second plan was to use the small cell of SAS/SBS personnel which conducts operations exclusively for MI6 and MI5. This team would kill Mr Milosevic with a bomb or sniper's bullet. The targeting officer thought that this would be the most reliable option, but would be impossible to deny if it went wrong.

The third plot was to kill Mr Milosevic in a staged road accident. In the end, no action was taken by MI6.

Taken from Independent

London, March 17

[habaes corpussel]

SAS bull-sheet-rock.....Djindjic though I did not like his politics and while he was one of ours he was burning the candle at both ends. My bet on this is that the hand that was feeding (his black market friends like Canna) him and which he bit, bit back. BTW I did get a chance in DC to meet Djindjic. I am very sorry they killed him. Though I think he would have lost the next election anyway........

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"Though I think he would have lost the next election anyway........"

He was never elected in the first place, he never ran in any of the last 2 (or 3) elections for Serbian Prime Minister. He was not a popular politician in Serbia. I wonder what the definition of a dictator is ?(rhetorical)

[habaes corpussel]

Thats what I meant.........

[Destro]

I found this curious headline when I went to GOOGLE news:

Weekly had story about Serb PM's murder day early Reuters AlertNet

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14348781

But the alertnet website is down.....

I am not implying anything of course......

[DTA]

Paging Mr. Stone.

You have the right of first refusal for JFK II script.

Only this time paper was in Belgrade, not New Zealand :-)

[JudgemAll]

exactly.........Milosevic the maddog sinister dictator with bad hair, despite the fact that the payphone at the jail he uses is tapped, despite the fact that his meetings with advisors are also taped............orchatrated the entire job from his tiny cell a few thousand miles away......(sarcasm off)

He is from a world of interdependencies... Orchestrated? No. Capable of rewarding it? Yes.

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