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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16653)	6/16/2000 12:04:00 AM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Nov 17...I agree, they are more likely to be KGB related than CIA...but it is probably two very angry and extremely smart young professional communist leftovers<g> Serb Opposition Leader Draskovic Shot And Wounded By Julijana Mojsilovic BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian opposition leader Vuk Draskovic has been shot at and wounded by an unknown gunman in Yugoslavia's smaller republic Montenegro, an official from his party said on Friday. ``Just before midnight, a new assassination attempt was made on Vuk Draskovic. Several volleys were fired through the window of his house in Budva,'' Milena Popovic, head of the press office of Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement, said by telephone. ``Vuk was hit by two bullets, but fortunately he was only slightly wounded. His condition is stable and he is hospitalized in Kotor,'' she said, referring to a coastal town in the pro-Western republic, which is gradually edging away from the federation run by Slobodan Milosevic and dominated by Serbia. Draskovic, a charismatic maverick who claims more popular support than any other opposition leader in Serbia, alleges the government tried to kill him last year in a road accident that killed four close aides. ``He was saved by God as he was last year,'' Popovic said. ''His apartment was peppered with bullets. Another source, close to the party, told Reuters Draskovic had been wounded in the ear and on the side of the forehead. He was conscious and able to describe the incident. When the gunman opened fire he said he had managed to hide somewhere in the flat and later escaped. Belgrade's independent news agency Beta quoted Budva police chief Rajko Kuljaca as saying unknown attackers had opened fire on Draskovic as he was leaving his flat in the Montenegrin town. Draskovic Regularly Accuses Authorities Of ``State Terror'' Draskovic regularly accuses the authorities of ``state terror'' over last year's car crash, in which he was slightly injured. Officials have denied having anything to do with the incident, in which a truckload of sand veered into two cars carrying Draskovic and his friends. Police say they have not been able to find the driver or the owner of the truck. Thursday's shooting follows a string of mysterious assassinations of officials and underworld figures in Belgrade. Earlier this month, the security adviser to Montenegro's pro-Western president was gunned down in similar circumstances shortly before a key local election. Milosevic's government blames the killings on Western agents it says are intent on destroying and then occupying Serbia. It has cracked down on dissent this year, accusing Draskovic and other opposition leaders, who have been campaigning to oust Milosevic since last year's NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia over the repression of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, of ''terrorism.'' Earlier this month the government took over the television station in Belgrade which Draskovic controls through his party's leadership of the city council. It later also took over the public transport service in the city, after opposition activists urged Draskovic to use the buses to blockade government buildings. A few days later, Draskovic's bodyguards were arrested for carrying guns when they came to collect him at Belgrade airport from a visit to Russia.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16653)	6/16/2000 12:08:00 AM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

The Yugos down 3-0, down to 10 men, pull off the impossible and salvage a 3-3 tie with Slovenia...damn it no TV coverage here of Euro2000... Milosevic hails Yugoslav army as "invincible" BELGRADE, June 15 (AFP) - President Slobodan Milosevic hailed Thursday his Yugoslav army forces as "invincible" in the defence of the country, state news agency Tanjug reported. In a speech to officers ahead of Yugoslav Army Day on June 16, Milosevic said its units "have shown they have surpassed their adversaries" during NATO "agression" as Belgrade refers to the Alliance's air strikes of last year. "In the past year, and especially during NATO agression, our officers have shown that, not only morally and patriotically, but also professionally, they have surpassed their adversaries," Milosevic said. NATO launched its raids on Yugoslavia in March last year to counter what it saw as an ethnic cleansing operation in Kosovo against the ethnic Albanian majority there. Yugoslav troops and police units pulled out from the Serbian province of Kosovo last June, following the UN resolution which effectively ended the 11-week-long bombing campaign. Milosevic praised the "creativity" of the Yugoslav army, which, by using "relatively limited means and sometimes even improvisations," had proved its "expert" status, the agency said. Such characteristics "also bind" the army to be "always ready to show it is invincible and in a condition to efficiently defend its country," Milosevic said. "I am positive that this will be the case," Milosevic, who is indicted by the UN tribunal for war crimes in Kosovo, insisted. And the Yugoslav army chief of staff, general Nebojsa Pavkovic, accused NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo and the UN mission in the province of failing to "execute any task" set by the UN resolution, Tanjug said. They "have become accomplices of the biggest ethnic cleansing and genocide after the World War II" by failing to provide security for the Serb and non-Albanian population in Kosovo, who have been targetted with serious and sometimes deadly attacks over the past year. "The international forces have become a tool of the United States and NATO," Pavkovic said, insisting that the Yugoslav army "is morally and combat-ready for a return to Kosovo... in accordance with the UN resolution." The resolution provides for the return of a certain number of lightly armed Yugoslav soldiers and police to the province, but the number dates have not yet been set.