> One of the problems with opportunists -- like Slobo -- is that if
> the conditions are wrong, one can rise to the top via villany. I
> think that's what probably happened in Slobo's case.
Milosevic, a banker trained at Chase Manhattan, was the man of choice for the job, assigned by the IMF, of shrinking the YU economy to death, and he took the job hoping he could prevent the worst from happening. He failed.
If you want to know whether there was a motive to kill him, ask what the next steps in the trial would have been. Afaik, he insisted on calling Clinton to the stand, which put the court in a double-bind situation: Of course you can say that The President must not be made to testify, but bear in mind that the defendant is a president, too.
Materially, the questioning would have turned around the presence of Islamist terrorists in Bosnia, including a certain Osama Bin Laden, of course, and the extent of US complicity.
Slobo's death has saved a lot of people a lot of embarrassment, so much is certain.
cheers AN