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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (14535)	9/17/1999 7:09:00 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 17770

A Bosnian Muslim told the U.N. war crimes court Friday how a man who called himself the Serb Adolf Hitler held a gun to his chest and played ``Russian roulette.' The genocide trial continued of Goran Jelisic, a former farm mechanic accused of a bloody murder spree in May 1992, when he was only 24, against the Muslim population of the northern Bosnian town of Brcko. A member of the Bosnian Serb police, Jelisic was a familiar figure in Luka detention camp, where the prosecution says he boasted of killing at least 500 Muslims. Luka identified himself as the ``Serb Adolf' at a court hearing last year. Jelisic pleaded guilty last October to 12 named murders but denied genocide, the U.N. Yugoslavia tribunal's gravest charge. If convicted, he is likely to receive a life prison sentence. Leading British pathologist Albert Hunt pieced together the final minutes of 70 murder victims buried in four mass graves near Brcko. Two of the 61 men wore pajamas, a 13-year-old girl was among the dead and another woman appeared to be naked. ``The multiplicity of gun wounds in the head and upper part of the body were not characteristic of combat,' Hunt told the court. A report by tribunal investigators described how bodies were shoveled into pits, up to three meters deep and 10 wide. Mechanical diggers had torn away limbs, quicklime had been sprinkled over rotting corpses, and rubble from demolished mosques strewn across the site. A religious figure in the local Muslim community, identified as Witness R, told the court how Jelisic collected him from his home and drove him to Luka for questioning. He said he heard the wails of a man gunned down by Jelisic outside the Serb's office. ``Jelisic said that was his 83rd case. I thought he meant his 83rd killing that day,' Witness R said, hidden by a screen. Jelisic then slowly and deliberately loaded two bullets into a pistol and held it to R's chest. ``He said: 'Let's play a game of Russian roulette'. He pulled the trigger. Thank God for me it was an empty shot. Then he said: 'Even God won't take you'.'

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (14535)	9/17/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: cody andre	Respond to of 17770

Free drugs for KFOR troops and Western visiting politicos is one form of Albanian foreign aid.

To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (14535)	9/18/1999 6:42:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

JEEPERS CREEPERS! George.... why do you keep squawking on these brave Albanian wheeler-dealers?? See how they're greasing the palm of your boozy First Family: Boris, blondes and big, big bucks Don't ignore the corruption in Russia, advises Anne Applebaum. It's your money and some of it may have wound up in British bank accounts 13th September 1999 General by Anne Applebaum In the past few weeks, you probably haven't read much about corruption in Russia. Unless you are especially keen on the foreign sections of the newspapers (good piece on page 14 of the Times last week), you might not have noticed that the solid and respectable Bank of New York is accused of laundering $10 billion of Russian criminal money; that the Russian Central Bank is now believed to have been speculating with even more billions of Russian government and IMF loan money; or that Boris Yeltsin and his family stand accused of taking bribes from another Swiss-based company owned by an Albanian. Among other things, the aforementioned Albanian is alleged to have paid the credit card bill of Tatyana Dyachenko, the president's daughter, during a recent visit to Budapest. The bill ran to tens of thousands of dollars. As I say, you probably haven't noticed any of this because, being British, you aren't very surprised by any of it, your newspapers aren't making much of it, and besides, you don't think it has anything to do with you. The things those foreigners get up to, you say, shaking your head disapprovingly. But if the words "Russian corruption" sound exotic to you, if they make you think of slick "biznismen" driving top-of-the-range Mercedes, Georgian bodyguards with shaved heads and Versace shirts, or dyed-blonde women tipping waiters with $100 bills in Riviera resorts, then think again. Go and look in the mirror: many of the people responsible for corruption in Russia look quite a lot like you. [...] From the Newstatesman: consider.net I could not have put it better.... While KFOR's Russian troops rough it in Pristina, muscleing in on ethnic Albanians, sweetie Tatyana is hanging loose on the French Riviera, sponging on her Albanian sugar daddy.... Go figure!