Will Milosevic walk?(Insider Report)

"When UN prosecutors opened their case against Slobodan Miloscvic two years ago, they set out to get him convicted of genocide," noted a February 29 AP news analysis. "The consensus today is, they failed."

Milosevic was delivered to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague in 2001, over the strenuous objections of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica. A genuine anti-Communist and ardent admirer of the U.S. Constitution, Kostunica insisted that the former Serbian ruler should stand trial in Belgrade for crimes committed against his countrymen. However, the Clinton and Bush administrations, working on behalf of the UN, blackmailed Serbia into surrendering Milosevic. One particularly potent weapon used by the Bush administration was a threatened cutoff of aid.

In their eagerness to create sweeping precedents, UN prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and her comrades attempted to depict Milosevic--a relatively small-caliber thug--as Hitler reincarnated. "Legal experts at the UN war crimes tribunal have assembled solid evidence on lesser charges against the former Yugoslav president," notes the AP. "But acquittal on the genocide charge the crime of all crimes, experts say--would have far-reaching implications." For instance, it would unravel the tidy little morality play concocted by the international establishment in which the Serbs, alone among the numerous parties involved in the tragic and horrifying Balkan civil wars, were deemed guilty ...