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To: Enigma who wrote (12547)	6/20/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: JBL	Respond to of 17770

Source: The Associated Press Published: 06-20-99 Author: By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Extremist Bids To Replace Milosevic By DUSAN STOJANOVIC The Associated Press VIENNA, Austria (June 20) - With Slobodan Milosevic's rule shaken by Serbia's withdrawal from Kosovo, an even more extremist and anti-Western politician is bidding to take his place. After quitting Milosevic's government when NATO-led troops marched into the southern Serbian province, Vojislav Seselj is now poised to mount the greatest political challenge to the Yugoslav president since he came to power 10 years ago. If Seselj succeeds, it will put into place a nationalist leadership even more strident and anti-Western than the regime NATO just tried to bomb into submission. Seselj (pronounced SHE-shel-ye), a 45-year-old lawyer and Serbia's acting deputy prime minister, launched his political career on his success as a paramilitary commander during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. Virulent in his support for a ''greater Serbia,'' Seselj once declared his men would ''take out the eyes of Croatians with rusty spoons.'' NATO-led peacekeepers in Bosnia deemed his outbursts threatening enough to expel him from the country late last year. When Western officials recently accused Serb troops of raping Kosovo women, Seselj denied it by saying they were too ugly for Serb men. On the eve of NATO strikes against Yugoslavia, he threatened that when ''the first allied bomb'' fell on the Serbian soil, ''there will be no Albanians left in Kosovo.'' His prophecy nearly materialized, when hundreds of thousands Kosovo Albanians were forced to flee Kosovo and thousands were killed by Serb troops. With Serbia now defeated after 78 days of NATO bombing, its economy in tatters and the possibility of social unrest looming, many independent analysts compare it to Germany after World War I when Adolf Hitler came to power. Seselj's withdrawal from the government - temporarily frozen by a decree - could signal his first real attempt to take over. Milosevic has been severely shaken by NATO's widespread destruction, and especially by the apparent loss of Kosovo, considered Serbia's medieval heartland, to rival ethnic Albanians. Seselj said Thursday that his Serbian Radial Party ''is ready for elections, and we want them as soon as possible on all levels. It's for the people to decide whether they are in favor of changes.'' Regular Serb elections are not due until early next year, but Seselj could press to move them up. With anti-American sentiment running high, the pro-Western democratic opposition likely would not fare well. As Seselj recently put it: ''There is a curse in Serbia: Let America support you in elections.'' In 1997, Milosevic's candidate, Milan Milutinovic, narrowly defeated Seselj in Serbia's presidential elections in a vote many independent observers described as fraudulent. Since then, Seselj has been gaining popularity and has acquired key allies in the army and the police. The Serbian Radical Party, which openly advocates ethnic intolerance, is already the second-largest in the Serbian parliament, with 82 of 250 seats. Milosevic's Socialist-Communist coalition has 110 seats. Seselj joined Milosevic's government in March 1998, and his ministers were closely involved in the crackdown that ensued against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. He has long been regarded as Milosevic's close ally, even though the two have at times seemed to be at odds and Milosevic has even had him arrested twice for his outspoken criticism. In all of his successful election campaigns, Milosevic has won votes by portraying himself as a moderate alternative to Seselj. Seselj has predicted a grim period ahead for Yugoslavia, saying that its rebellious junior republic, Montenegro, will split away in a civil war while social and economic tensions build in Serbia. He advocates tough action against pro-Western forces in the country, including arrests of prominent opposition party activists and independent journalists.

To: Enigma who wrote (12547)	6/20/1999 9:30:00 PM
From: cody andre	Respond to of 17770

Now, it's Kashmir's turn ...or ... Kurdistan?

To: Enigma who wrote (12547)	6/20/1999 10:28:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Respond to of 17770

> NATO officers began to realise the discrepancy between their own claims and reality within hours of the start of the Yugoslav military withdrawal. In just the first stage of the Serbian retreat, they logged 250 tanks moving out of Kosovo - all undamaged - and at least 40,000 men. This was supposed to be the troop strength of the entire Third Army; thousands more soldiers left in the next three days. All of which casts serious doubt on Nato's wartime propaganda. On 17 April, for example, Nato spokesman Jamie Shea was boasting that the alliance was "knocking the stuffing out of Milosevic" while General Wesley Clark, the Nato commander, said on 27 May that after 27,000 Nato sorties, his pilots had conducted "the most accurate bombing campaign in history." > General Pavkovic's claim that the Third Army lost seven tanks, three transporters, 13 anti-tank guns and other artillery could not be disputed after a 400-mile tour of some of the most heavily-bombed areas of Kosovo last week. Nato's ridiculous lies are slowly coming out of the closet..."The most accurate bombing campaign in history"........I think they meant the most "accurate bombing campaign of civilian targets and military "decoys" in history"....