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Source: WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (OSLOBODJENJE AGENCY ONASA)
U.S. to protect Milosevic from trial as long as he is cooperative:
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic will never be apprehended as a war criminal because the United States will always protect him as long as he is cooperative, Reuters quoted Newsweek as writing on Sunday.
A former senior official of Serbia's ruling party, Mihajlo Markovic, until his purge in December the official ideologue of the Socialist Party of Serbia, told Newsweek "the Americans, if they find Milosevic cooperative, will always protect him. And he has been very cooperative."
Western leaders who once revealed Milosevic as the architect of Bosnia's ethnic strife no longer speak of indicting him for war crimes and less significant figures may have to answer to a special U.N. court for the bloodshed committed in the name of Serb nationalism.
Asked if Milosevic would turn over to a war crimes tribunal Bosnian military leader Ratko Mladic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Markovic said, "Milosevic could hardly take these two guys to the world court because he would destroy him politically."
But Markovic said both Karadzic and Mladic "are finished as political figures", and "even if they could be candidates in the elections, Milosevic would do his best to prevent it."
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