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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: parozi who wrote (197945)	10/30/2001 9:12:50 PM
From: George Coyne	Respond to of 769670

Dream on. We had a self-absorbed amateur who was paralyzed by indecision and the need to be all things to all men (like many dems).

To: parozi who wrote (197945)	10/30/2001 9:40:43 PM
From: D.Austin	Respond to of 769670

>here is an example of years of hard work of Bill Clinton< "The previous American administration knew that bin Laden was in Albania two years after he blew up their embassies and they discussed these facts with me and my associates," Milosevic: Bin Laden was in Albania At hearing for war crimes, ex-Yugoslav president says U.S. asked for help in finding terror suspect last year -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Anthony Deutsch The Associated Press Originally published October 30, 2001, 9:17 AM EST THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic told the U.N. tribunal today that Osama bin Laden was in Albania last year. Milosevic again flared up in court at a hearing to schedule his trials for war crimes in Kosovo and Croatia. The Kosovo trial was tentatively set for Feb. 12, but could be delayed by months if combined with other cases against him. Milosevic dismissed the indictments as documents written at the level of "a retarded 7-year-old child." He said the U.S. government had turned to him for help in tracking down bin Laden, who was believed to be behind the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. "The previous American administration knew that bin Laden was in Albania two years after he blew up their embassies and they discussed these facts with me and my associates," Milosevic told the judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Albanian authorities have repeatedly denied foreign media reports that Osama bin Laden had visited in recent years. On Sept. 21, Joseph Limprecht, U.S. ambassador to Albania, said the U.S. government had no such reports and he commended Albania for expelling Islamic extremists. Milosevic was in court for nine hours yesterday, his third appearance since he was extradited from Belgrade on June 28. As before, he refused to cooperate, rebuffed the court's request to plead to his indictments, and argued angrily with the presiding judge, Richard May. Milosevic today voiced impatience with the lengthy hearing of the day before. "Don't bother me and make me listen for hours on end to the reading of texts written at the intellectual level of a 7-year-old child — rather, I correct myself — a retarded 7-year-old child," he said. May interrupted Milosevic, telling him to restrict his comments to any complaints he had about his detention. "Is that all I have the right to say?" Milosevic retorted. Earlier, Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte made it clear Milosevic will face months of testimony from hundreds of witnesses and a blizzard of documentary evidence linking him to war crimes in Croatia and Kosovo. Del Ponte told the court she will need 170 days to present her case against the former Yugoslav leader on five counts of murder and persecution in Kosovo in 1999, and about the same to prosecute 32 counts of war crimes in Croatia beginning in 1991. The Swiss prosecutor said she also will present an indictment for alleged crimes in Bosnia, which she has previously said will include the most serious crime of genocide. If all three indictments are tried separately, Milosevic could be in court for three years. Del Ponte said she will request that the three trials be combined. The court entered pleas of innocent to all charges in Croatia, and to an amendment to the Kosovo indictment. Milosevic stands accused of responsibility for the deaths of nearly 900 Kosovar Albanians, the deportations of 800,000 people and sexual assault by Yugoslav army troops. At today's hearing, Del Ponte said 228 witnesses were lined up to testify on Kosovo alone. She also would present 500 documents, 167 videos, 775 photographs, 30 maps and hundreds of forensic reports. On Croatia, she said 255 witnesses may be summoned, including archeologists, historians, military experts and pathologists. The prosecution would need up to five months to prepare for that trial. Milosevic has refused to accept a defense lawyer and said he will represent himself during the proceedings. sunspot.net Let the war crime tribunals start here after PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH takes care of this horror we are facing.