-Caveat Lector-
Yugoslav Citizens - get ready to ' duck and cover ' as soon
as you start seeing Christiane Amanpour's charming countenance
on CNN.
War Monger #1 is no doubt gearing up and getting ready (with the
help of her husband, ex-State Department spinmeister James Rubin)
to justify another Globalist Imperial war against the Yugoslavs who
had the mistaken notion that they were an independent sovereign country.
Joshua2
PS: How much loot are Chinese banks Holding for Bill Clinton,the Ron
Brown family, and dozens of minor US officials and arms manufacturers?
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October 1 2000
EASTERN EUROPE
Chinese banks hold $200m of regime's loot
©
Looking for a way out: Milosevic and his wife, Mira, who may
already have fled. Photographs: Sasa Stankovic
Nato guards escape routes as
Milosevic makes plans to flee
Tom Walker, Podgorica
NATO and western intelligence
networks are closely
monitoring all flights out of
Belgrade in the belief that
President Slobodan Milosevic
may flee to China, where he is
thought to have up to $200m
(£140m) in secret bank
accounts.
The surveillance operation
began even before Milosevic
lost last week's presidential
election. Diplomats watching
the decline of the Serbian
regime said that in the past
six weeks Borka Vucic,
Milosevic's personal banker,
had made at least two trips to
Beijing. Their sources said her
business was connected with
the president's family and not
the Yugoslav state.
American officials say Nato will
thwart any attempt by Milosevic to escape from Serbia in a
private jet. His likely flight path would take him over
Hungary or Romania to Russia, which would probably turn
a blind eye if he moved on to Beijing.
However, Hungary is a Nato member and Romania hopes
to join the alliance. Both countries have interceptor
aircraft on standby, ready to force down any private
flights from Serbia.
Military sources in Bosnia said Nato surveillance had been
briefed to look out for a private Falcon jet or the Yugoslav
government's official DC10.
The whereabouts of Milosevic's wife, Mira Markovic, who
was reported to have suffered a nervous breakdown, and
children, Marko and Maria, were unknown yesterday.
Intelligence officials said they were more concerned with
the movements of the president himself, who has been
indicted by the international criminal tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia in the Hague for crimes against
humanity in Kosovo.
The officials said Madeleine Albright, the American
secretary of state, was determined to bring Milosevic to
justice before the end of the Clinton administration in
January.
The Milosevic regime is believed to have robbed the state
of up to $5 billion, most of it leached out of the country in
the early 1990s after all personal bank accounts were
frozen in Serbia, ostensibly to help fund the war effort and
to counter hyper-inflation.
Much of the money was taken to Cyprus, Lebanon and
China, and classic money-laundering techniques have
made it almost untraceable. Although Milosevic has never
indulged himself on the scale of the former Ceausescu
dynasty in neighbouring Romania, his security bills are
huge and his Chinese savings are believed to be
substantial.
"We believe he could have anything up to $200m there,"
said one intelligence source. "It will help him to hide
away."
Vucic has helped Milosevic with his finances since they
worked together at Beogradska Bank 20 years ago. She is
now the minister in charge of co- operation with
international financial institutions.
Intelligence sources say western capitals are watching
the movements of members of the Yugoslav regime who
may be thought by Milosevic to know too much. They
include military figures such as General Dragoljub Ojdanic,
the army chief of staff during the Kosovo campaign, and
Frenki Simatovic, the head of anti-terrorist forces.
Milosevic is also wary of fellow politicians such as Milan
Milutinovic, the Serbian president, and Vlajko Stojilkovic,
the interior minister.
"The future is very difficult for all of them," said one
western source. "They'd love to get out, but Slobo has to
have them somewhere where he can control them."
The source said some members of the regime had already
made secret trips to Budapest, the Hungarian capital,
offering information on the intricacies of the Belgrade
machine in exchange for visas to safe havens.
Stojilkovic is said to have been harshly treated last week.
Police sources say that he was told by Markovic to bring
his most ruthless units onto the streets of Belgrade, but
that many had refused.
As the extent of police and army sympathy for the
opposition became known, Milosevic was said to have
hurled an ashtray at Gorica Gajevic, his party secretary.
In Milosevic's home town of Pozarevac, local people said
they had heard the family was selling property. A cafe
owned by Marko Milosevic has closed down and his
Bambiland theme park has shut early for the winter.
For his part, however, the president has looked confident
on state television. Yesterday afternoon he attended a
military academy's passing out parade and declared that
he would not bow to pressure.
"We will counter pressures and threats with the truth,
unity, knowledge, work and creativity, just as we did
successfully under the Nato aggression and in the
subsequent reconstruction of our country," Milosevic said.
"We are sure that our country, which managed to defend
itself in a war, can also successfully resist these other
psychological, media and political pressures."
Milosevic also claimed Yugoslavia was now pursuing a
policy of peace. Its period of wars "is now behind us", he
said.
A source close to Vojislav Kostunica, the opposition
leader, said concern was growing that Milosevic's tactic of
divide-and-rule may work. Opposition groups behind
Kostunica have discussed the feasibility of forcing the
president from power through a general strike. Last night,
they called for a "total blockade of all state institutions
and general civil disobedience" to start from Monday.
If Kostunica seeks help from outside Serbia to speed
Milosevic's demise, he could hand the president a
propaganda coup. Unconfirmed reports over the weekend
claimed foreign diplomats had met Kostunica to discuss
the possibility of bringing mediators into Serbia to
negotiate Milosevic's departure.
Last night, President Vladimir Putin of Russia said he was
willing to send Igor Ivanov, his foreign minister, to
Belgrade "to be more active in the process".
However, Putin insisted: "The position of Russia is clear -
the Yugoslav people must decide their ultimate fate and
future without the interference of outside elements."
Greece also offered mediation and said it was willing to
send observers to monitor a new count of election votes.
Milosevic's federal election commission claimed Kostunica
had beaten him by 49% to 39%, falling short of the 50%
required for a first-round victory. Kostunica has refused to
fight a second round next Sunday, insisting he secured
well over 50%.
However, the election commission rejected complaints of
voting irregularities, insisting yesterday that no recount
was needed.
As the standoff intensified, the Yugoslav army seemed to
be shifting its allegiance away from Milosevic. According to
a high-ranking officer, at least one member of the army
general staff has resigned.
In a further blow, the commanding officers turned down
Milosevic's request for a meeting to discuss the outcome
of the election, saying in a fax from headquarters that the
army "has no functional link with the parties taking part".
A western diplomat in Podgorica, capital of Serbia's sister
state of Montenegro, described Milosevic as "like a
wounded buffalo who has taken a couple of rounds - he
can still stagger around and cause a lot of damage".
Additional reporting: Edin Hamzic, Ana Webber and Alex
Todorovic, Belgrade
Next page: SAS trains Montenegrin police
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