-Caveat Lector- > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > > Reuters. 15 February 2002. Milosevic: U.S. Was Ally of Al Qaeda in > Kosovo. > > THE HAGUE -- Slobodan Milosevic told his war crimes trial on Friday > "genocidal" U.S. forces had been the unwitting ally of Osama bin Laden > in Kosovo, and demanded Bill Clinton and other Western leaders come to > testify. > > Bin Laden's al Qaeda was "one of the fundamentalist groups which sent a > unit to fight in Kosovo" alongside Muslim Kosovo Albanians aided by the > United States against Serb forces in 1998-9, the fallen Yugoslav leader > told The Hague tribunal. > > "The attacks on New York and Washington show what the terrorism you > sponsored looks like when it turns against you," he said in a speech > that ranged across centuries of history and much of the globe, and > exhausted court interpreters. > > In a second day of reply to prosecutors' opening addresses, he blamed > the carnage entirely on his Balkan enemies and NATO. Echoing the > language of his indictment, he said the West itself had committed > "genocide and crimes against humanity." > > "I'm asking what kind of tribunal this is, if you refuse to try people > for these crimes by the leaders and armies of NATO countries," a coolly > pugnacious Milosevic told judges. > > On the fourth day of what is forecast to be a marathon case, he insisted > the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians who fled Kosovo in 1999 > during the NATO air war against Yugoslavia had been driven out not by > Serbs but by their fellow Albanians. > > The guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) "referred to all Albanians > who did not flee Kosovo as traitors," he said, creating an "illusion of > exodus." "There were hundreds of cameras waiting at the borders to show > alleged Serb misdeeds." > > The motive was to justify NATO's attack, said Milosevic, showing the > court pictures of carbonized bodies of civilians killed by NATO bombs in > Kosovo and the rest of Serbia in 1999. > > Milosevic accused Germany of setting out to destroy old communist > Yugoslavia by its support for Slovenian and Croatian independence, and > by secret backing of Albanian "terrorists." > > [Note quote marks. Can we imagine them used in a report on 9-11?] > > "The German intelligence service rallied up criminals from all over > Europe. They were pushed to Kosovo," he said. > > Bin Laden, meanwhile, used anarchic Albania as a launchpad for violence > in the Balkans and elsewhere in Europe, he said. > > Some Muslim "terrorists" in Kosovo, had they not been jailed by Serbia, > would now be "going in chains to Guantanamo Bay" from Afghanistan > instead, the white-haired Milosevic insisted. > > "While Americans transport al Qaeda terrorists to Guantanamo... at the > same time they demand all Albanian terrorists be freed from prisons in > Yugoslavia," he added. > > The involvement in the Balkans of Mujahideen guerrillas from Arab states > and Afghanistan is well-documented, and U.S. agents followed the trail > of bin Laden and his followers in Albania and Kosovo itself, before the > September 11 attacks. > > Accusing NATO of the use of especially lethal cluster bombs, he showed > the court a photograph of a Serb woman killed while plowing her field > and corpses of children in pajamas. > > "This is an example of bestiality, targeting people in this way," he > said, adding NATO bombed at night to maximize deaths among sleeping > civilians. > > He showed pictures of shattered hospitals, an old people's home, buses, > houses and workplaces, some strewn with charred and bloodied bodies. > > After NATO occupied Kosovo in June 1999, they allowed Serbs to be killed > or forced out by Albanian "terrorists" and "savages." More than 100 Serb > Orthodox churches were razed in a campaign he likened to Taliban > destruction of Buddhist statues. > > Kosovo, seen by Serbs as a historic heartland, was now run by an > "Albanian drug mafia" and the sex-slave trade, he said. > > "I am going to call witnesses here and I want it to be possible to > question Clinton and Albright and Kinkel and Schroeder and Kohl and > Dini... Kofi Annan... Blair," he said, listing Western and U.N. leaders > involved in Balkan peace talks. > > Milosevic wants them to testify that the West used him as a peacemaker > in the Bosnian war before turning against him. > > The Russian parliament branded the tribunal a "political" court which > had failed to charge NATO states for atrocities. > > During his afternoon speech, Milosevic compared Clinton's strategy in > fighting the Kosovo war to that of Adolf Hitler's: to establish a > strategic base from which to attack Russia. > > He described the policy the Austro-Hungarian empire had adopted toward > the territories of the crumbling Ottoman empire in the 19th and 20th > centuries, that of keeping Serbia weak and the Balkans divided, he said. > > Presiding Judge Richard May urged Milosevic to slow down so interpreters > could keep up. > > Dressed in a navy suit and a tie in the red, blue and white Serbian > colors, Milosevic sits flanked by seated guards in a courtroom sealed > off from the public gallery by a bullet-proof glass wall and equipped > with computer screens and cameras. >
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