Wesley Clark Testifies Against Milosevic in War Crimes Trial

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Wesley Clark Testifies Against Milosevic in War Crimes Trial That Could Serve As Model For Saddam’s Prosecution

Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark ended his first day of testimony in the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic yesterday. Clarke is the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and the man who led the 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

Milosevic is officially charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in a number of indictments spanning from the wars in Croatia and Bosnia to the fighting in Kosovo. He is a candidate for the Socialist Party in Serbia's parliamentary elections on 28 December.

In an unprecedented agreement between the court and the United States, Washington will be allowed to review Clark's testimony before it is made public. The U.S. will have two days to apply for parts of the testimony to be removed from the public record if it considers them harmful to US national interests. An edited recording is due to be made public on Friday.

Clark said before testifying that he expected to give information on more than 100 hours of meetings over four years with Milosevic during the 1990s.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/16/167216

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dealings with the serbs? remember bush dismissed the war, it wasn`t any of our business....

WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

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The United States and the International Criminal Court

The United States of America was one of only 7 nations (joining China, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Qatar and Israel) to vote against the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998.

The Bush administration's hostility to the ICC has increased dramatically in 2002. The crux of the U.S. concern relates to the prospect that the ICC may exercise its jurisdiction to conduct politically motivated investigations and prosecutions of U.S. military and political officials and personnel. The U.S. opposition to the ICC is in stark contrast to the strong support for the Court by most of America's closest allies.

In an unprecedented diplomatic maneuver on 6 May, the Bush administration effectively withdrew the U.S. signature on the treaty. At the time, the Ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues Pierre-Richard Prosper stated that the administration was "not going to war" with the Court. This has proved false; the renunciation of the treaty has paved the way for a comprehensive U.S. campaign to undermine the ICC.

First, the Bush administration negotiated a Security Council resolution to provide an exemption for U.S. personnel operating in U.N. peacekeeping operations. The administration failed in May to obtain an exemption for peacekeepers in East Timor. In June the Bush administration vetoed an extension of the UN peacekeeping mission for Bosnia-Herzegovina unless the Security Council granted a complete exemption. Ultimately, the U.S. failed in its bid for an iron-clad exemption, although the Security Council approved a limited, one year exemption for U.S. personnel participating in UN peacekeeping missions or UN authorized operations. The Security Council has expressed its intention to renew this exemption on 30 June next year.

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/us.htm

for all of this to be shown on television - show the world what it should be like - I can only think the administration doesn't want this shown or attention even brought to it. They act like it never happened and it is never mentioned until they're trying to get something they want - then - it's Clinton did this so we should be able to also. You know - leak and drip as they see fit.

Can't wait for the video to come out on this. I'm glad that Clark is NOT using this for political gian, just having him there and testify, especially around the time of Saddam's capture, is good timing.

Bush says "Good Riddance" in front of his sheeple.

Clark testifies to the world that he went into the hornet's nest, put a finger in Slobodan's chest and backed him down, saving over a million and half people...

Classic!