According to the AP report, a British barrister who showed up bareheaded that day might have done so in part because he once had his wig mocked by a Serbian war criminal.
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Di Stefano - who has said his clients included serial killer Dr Harold Shipman and Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic - did not react as the 25 guilty verdicts were delivered at London's Southwark Crown Court.
After all, this outcome was made virtually inevitable by the Europeans' unwillingness over the past week to implement or enforce what the United States hoped would be the three basic pillars of allied action -- the lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnian Muslims, air strikes and a total shut-down of the Danube and other essential supply lines for the Serbian war machine and economy.
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That worry seems to have receded slightly, though a shooting war across the Serbian-Albanian border is still possible.
The maximum sentence for war crimes under Serbian law is 40 years imprisonment.
Of course, Mr Milosevic had to stand down eventually, and a subsequent Serbian leader delivered him up to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
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He had previously been charged with murder, but the court in the southern Serbian town of Prokuplje upgraded the indictment to war crimes in April.
Last week, the Serbian authorities handed him to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, which wants to try him in connection with the alleged war crimes in Kosovo.
In her book, Albright details the intense behind-the-scenes diplomacy leading up to the 1999 war in Kosovo that resulted in the ouster of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
As Kosovo, the Serbian province with an ethnic-Albanian majority, slides towards war, the government of Albania proper is begging the western defence club to help seal its border.
Milosevic, ousted in a mass uprising last October, has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for atrocities against ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province of Kosovo in 1999.
The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) is led by Vojislav Seselj, a war crimes suspect behind bars in The Hague.
The ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party, whose leader is on trial at The Hague accused of war crimes, won most votes in Serbia's general election.
Serbian police have accused Milosevic of ordering his associates to cover up all evidence of war crimes in Kosovo.
This is because the largest Serbian opposition group, the ultranationalist Radical Party, has imploded thanks to an internal war between the devotees of Vojislav Seselj, currently standing trial for war crimes at the United Nations' tribunal in The Hague, and the allies of the more pragmatic Tomislav Nikolic, who led the party within Serbia.
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