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As history has shown, the life span of treacherous filth is short. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rift Within Serbian Ruling Coalition > > By DUSAN STOJANOVIC > .c The Associated Press > > > BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - A rift within the country's ruling coalition > > deepened Friday as the Yugoslav president rejected a demand by his > archrival, > the Serbian prime minister, to fire the military secret service chief at > the > center of a U.S. spy affair. > > The prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, has demanded that President Vojislav > > Kostunica remove Gen. Aca Tomic for failing to inform the Serbian > government > of an operation that resulted in a dramatic arrest last week of > Djindjic's > deputy, Momcilo Perisic, and a senior U.S. diplomat. > > Djindjic has expressed outrage that the military intelligence service > had > followed and wiretapped his deputy for more than five months, without > informing the government. He has said that if Kostunica, who is in > charge of > the army, does not sack Tomic, the Serbian government won't cooperate > with > the Yugoslav president on state security issues. > > ``I would remove Gen. Tomic only if I was sure that he breached existing > > regulations,'' Kostunica told the Blic daily. ``However, everything > points to > the fact that this was not the case and that Gen. Tomic, (military) > security > and the Yugoslav army have acted according to the existing > regulations.'' > > Djindjic's party deputy, Goran Vesic, commented Friday: ``It is > interesting > how Kostunica is protecting and clinging to (former President Slobodan) > Milosevic's pillars of power.'' > > The military said Perisic, who was released Saturday, was giving > documents to > the diplomat, John David Neighbor, that were ``relevant for the defense > of > the country.'' Other Yugoslav officials have said the documents could > have > been used against Milosevic at his U.N. war crimes trial in The Hague, > Netherlands. > > In a breach of international conventions, Neighbor was held > incommunicado for > 15 hours, and reportedly beaten up with a hood over his head. > > Both Perisic - a former top Yugoslav army commander who served under > Milosevic until he was fired in 1998 for opposing a crackdown on ethnic > Albanians in Kosovo - and the U.S. Embassy have denied that any > espionage > took place. > > Djindjic said the true goal of the arrest was to undermine his > government. > His aides said this was timed to prevent possible arrests of more Serb > war > crimes suspects and their extradition to The Hague. > > The U.S. Congress has set a March 31 deadline for Yugoslav authorities > to > cooperate with the U.N. tribunal or forfeit much-needed financial aid. > > Kostunica, a nationalist, protested when Djindjic, a pro-Western > pragmatist, > engineered Milosevic's extradition to the tribunal last June. Kostunica > has > continued to defy international demands to hand over about a dozen other > > suspects, including top officials of Milosevic's fallen regime. > > In the interview with Blic, Kostunica reiterated that the extradition of > > Serbs to The Hague without the adoption of legislation that would allow > it > ``is not a good solution.'' > > AP-NY-03-22-02 0905EST > > > --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
