[Southack]

I hate to be cruel, but there is a *reason* that Serbia, which was bombed by France/Germany/U.S./UK in 1999 without UN approval, has not been complaining to every Western reporter with a pen, a laptop, or a TV camera about the "double-standard" for bombing Iraq today, and more than likely that reason died with the assassins' bullets today.

Ergo, almost certainly the hit was performed by those angered by the silent double-standard (i.e. Milosovic's loyalists).

And contrary to the spin that is already flying out of Leftwing pressrooms everywhere, this assasination had *NOTHING* to do with organized crime...

[Destro]

He was killed just as he was going to confront NATO over Kosovo. In a sense the Mafia did kill him, no?

[LayoutGuru2]

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWassassination.htm

[GirlShortstop]

"The assassination on Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was an attempt by this group to halt the fight against organised crime," the government statement said.

Vojislav Kostunica, former Yugoslav president and long a rival of Mr Djindjic, said he was appalled by the attack. "The fact that political violence is happening... is a terrible warning about how little headway we have made on the path of real democratisation of our society," he said just before Mr Djindjic's death was confirmed.

He later dismissed the incident as a "futile effort" which could not stop democratic reforms.

Spurning the Communists, he returned to Belgrade in 1989 and co-founded the Democratic Party, joining other reformists to campaign against the authoritarian rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

I am not seeing information to support the government's "organized crime" claim... What am I missing?

[vooch]

Djindic was a extreme Marxist-Leninist. He wrote extensive turgid pro-commie tracts in the 70's and 80's while he associated with German leftist radicals.