[Destro]

Three scenarios were suggested by MI6. The first was to train a Serbian paramilitary opposition group to carry out the attack. This, the targeting officer argued, had the advantage of deniability but the disadvantage that control of the operation would be difficult and the chance of success low. The second plan was to use the small cell of SAS/SBS personnel which conducts operations exclusively for MI6 and MI5. This team would kill Mr Milosevic with a bomb or sniper's bullet.

A criminal gang based in Belgrade was blamed last night for the assassination yesterday of Zoran Djindjic, the Serbian prime minister. Mr Djindjic, a pro-Western leader who helped topple Milosevic and brashly declared war on organised crime, was shot by snipers near government headquarters yesterday afternoon. One bullet hit Mr Djindjic in the abdomen, and the second penetrated his back.

The third plot was to kill Mr Milosevic in a staged road accident.

Media reports in Belgrade said police believed the incident in which a truck almost hit a car carrying Djindjic was an attempt to kill him. A man was detained after the incident. "Since the attempt on the motorway, a thorough investigation was launched throughout the country and abroad that was supposed to lead to the arrests of those involved within days. "Today's assassination cannot be considered outside the context of these recent events."

[xm177e2]

Wasn't Djindjic pro-West and pro-Reform? Why would England want to kill him? Can you even fathom a motive?

[Destro]

Spies profile TOMLINSON, RICHARD b 1963: The remainder of the document proposed three methods to assassinate Milosevic. The first method was to train and equip a Serbian paramilitary opposition group to assassinate Milosevic in Serbia. Fishwick argued that this method would have the advantage of deniability, but the disadvantage that control of the operation would be low and the chances of success unpredictable. The second method was to use the Increment (a small cell of the SAS and SBS which is especially selected and trained to carry out operations exclusively for MI5/SIS) to infiltrate Serbia and attack Milosevic either with a bomb or sniper ambush. Fishwick argued that this would plan would be the most reliable, but would be undeniable if it went wrong. Fishwick’s third proposal was to kill Milosevic in a staged car crash, possibly during one of his visits to the ICFY (International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia) in Geneva, Switzerland. Fishwick even provided a suggestion about how this could be done, such as by disorientating Milosevic’s chauffeur using a blinding strobe light as the cavalcade passed through one of Geneva’s motorway tunnels. Strikingly reminiscent of course, of the circumstances surrounding the death of Princess Diana in a Paris underpass in 1997.

[Destro]

Spies profile TOMLINSON, RICHARD b 1963: The remainder of the document proposed three methods to assassinate Milosevic. The first method was to train and equip a Serbian paramilitary opposition group to assassinate Milosevic in Serbia. Fishwick argued that this method would have the advantage of deniability, but the disadvantage that control of the operation would be low and the chances of success unpredictable. The second method was to use the Increment (a small cell of the SAS and SBS which is especially selected and trained to carry out operations exclusively for MI5/SIS) to infiltrate Serbia and attack Milosevic either with a bomb or sniper ambush. Fishwick argued that this would plan would be the most reliable, but would be undeniable if it went wrong. Fishwick’s third proposal was to kill Milosevic in a staged car crash, possibly during one of his visits to the ICFY (International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia) in Geneva, Switzerland. Fishwick even provided a suggestion about how this could be done, such as by disorientating Milosevic’s chauffeur using a blinding strobe light as the cavalcade passed through one of Geneva’s motorway tunnels. Strikingly reminiscent of course, of the circumstances surrounding the death of Princess Diana in a Paris underpass in 1997.

[Cicero]

Djinjic was a clintonoid stooge and a troublemaker, IMHO, who betrayed his people. But since the British took an anti-Serbian position throughout this business, right alongside clinton, I don't know why they would want to kill him.

[Interesting Times]

HOW THE SAS WAS GOING TO ASSASSINATE MILOSEVIC

It's hard to believe the Second Amendment Sisters would be involved in something like this...

[JudgemAll]

I am sure Milosevitch and his goons have a few assassination tricks up their sleeves they could teach the SAS... heck, seems like he sniped him from his jail cell in the Hague...

[habaes corpussel]

SAS bull-sheet-rock.....Djindjic though I did not like his politics and while he was one of ours he was burning the candle at both ends. My bet on this is that the hand that was feeding (his black market friends like Canna) him and which he bit, bit back. BTW I did get a chance in DC to meet Djindjic. I am very sorry they killed him. Though I think he would have lost the next election anyway........

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