Balkans: March 8, 2002

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Again, were not going to cover Slobos trial blow by blow, but sometimes the theater is simply too rich to ignore. On March 8 Milosevic showed up with a US FBI document that he says proves he was fighting terrorists that were supported by the Al Qaeda network. While links between radical KLA and Islamic terrorists are very likely, Slobo continues to ignore the fact that he used Kosovo as a wedge issue to galvanize Serb nationalist support for him and his clique in the late 1980s, as he morphed from Red to Brown (Communist to ultra-nationalist).