-Caveat Lector- > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > > AFP. 8 March 2002. Milosevic cites FBI on al-Qaeda presence in Kosovo. > > THE HAGUE -- Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, on trial for > war crimes here, produced Friday an FBI document he said backed up his > claim he was fighting al-Qaeda terrorists in Kosovo. > > As his trial wound up its fourth week, he returned to one of his chief > defenses: that he was struggling against separatists and terrorists to > hold a crumbling Yugoslav republic together. > > "Neither the army nor the police have been implicated in war crimes," he > told the UN tribunal. > > Cross-examining Sabit Kadriu, a Kosovo human rights activist, Milosevic > asked him what he knew about the activities of Osama Bin Laden, his > al-Qaeda network and Islamic mujahedin fighters in Kosovo. > > Milosevic contends the violence in the Serbian province was due to > "terrorist" operations of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which had > outside support in its drive for independence. > > Presiding Judge Richard May asked Milosevic where he was getting his > information and the defendant waved a document he said was produced by > the FBI last December documenting al-Qaeda and mujahedin activity in > Kosovo. > > The document was entered into evidence but no details were discussed. > > Milosevic spent the day sparring with Kadriu in a cross-examination > laced with political polemics that drew rebukes from the bench for both > sides. > > Clearly frustrated by the tribunal's efforts to rein in his questioning, > Milosevic snapped back at May: "I'd like to ask you not to give me > instructions, please." > > Kadriu, a teacher and branch leader of the Council for the Defense of > Human Rights and Freedoms, testified Thursday about Serb savagery in > Kosovo, including massacres of Albanians, mutilations and public rapes > in 1999. > > But Milosevic came back with his own litany of atrocities he said were > perpetrated on Serbian Kosovars. > > He grilled Kadriu on alleged killings, burnings and rapes of Serbs as > well as the destruction of their forests, orchards and cemeteries in the > predominently Albanian province of Serbia. > > "Do you know how many inhabitants of Kosovo, under pressure from > Albanian violence, had to leave the province?" the Serbian leader > thundered. "Do you know, or do you not know?" > > Milosevic also challened testimony that the Albanians were subject to > discrimination. He asserted, for instance, that nearly 236,000 Albanian > chilren attended school in Kosovo in 1999 as opposed to 45,000 Serbs. > > >
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