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...OMISSION NATO Coalition with cold war undertones...
...every pre-trial appearance, Milosevic has responded with political diatribes. He has labeled the charges against him "absurd" and "monstrous," the prosecutor a NATO mouthpiece, the court a "retarded seven-year-old." He has called himself a peacemaker who's on trial to cover up NATO aggression against a sovereign country. The rants have led presiding Judge Richard May to cut off Milosevic's microphone. Milosevic has dropped hints that he might stage a grand scene by calling a parade of Western leaders to testify, starting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. It will...
...empty table reserved for defense lawyers, Milosevic will be at the trial. He will get equal time to make an opening statement. If past appearances offer any clue, he'll claim he was just defending his country, just fighting terrorists like the U.S. is now, just suffering from NATO aggression. He'll force the court to broadcast, as it has before, Serbian translation of the testimony into his face from a loudspeaker. He'll look bored, yawn, stare impatiently at his watch when prosecutors speak...
...tribunal has named "amicus" attorneys - friends of the court - for Milosevic, to challenge evidence and offer exculpatory facts, even if he won't. If he tries to put NATO on trial as an unlawful aggressor by calling world leaders as witnesses, they would likely refuse to appear. Only the judges could legally summon them...
...find the narrow road into their hillside neighborhood blocked by Serbs, many of whom had fled here from Albanian-dominated areas elsewhere in Kosovo. The last time Lindita tried to visit was nearly a year ago. Riding in a police car under the protection of French troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR, she and her family were attacked by a gang of men who lobbed a tear-gas canister through the front window. "I froze," Lindita says of the incident. "I couldn't even move my legs. Now, we don't even try anymore...