"The indictees may be stupid, but you, the voters, are not stupid.
For more than 18 months, Nato troops pretended not to see the indictees.
No one would actually go on trial, but the indictees would see their travel options humiliatingly curtailed and go to their graves knowing the phrase "charged with war crimes" will be next to their names in the history books.
Earlier this year the US leaked telephone intercepts in which Mr Milosevic's armed forces chief of staff and main lieutenant in Kosovo, Nikola Sainovic - one of the indictees - was quoted as ordering Serb security forces to 'go in heavy' in the village of Recak, where 41 ethnic Albanian villagers were massacred in January.
The indictees by ICTY ranged from common soldiers to Prime Ministers and Presidents.
Adnan's dissatisfaction extends to the tribunal, which he believes charged his father due to pressure to have an ethnic balance among the indictees.
It is a painfully relevant question because several of the 19 mass murderers of Sept. 11 were in the U.S. illegally, and the one indictee for this crime was initially nailed only on immigration charges.
Espada was at the rally because his fellow defector, Hiram Monserrate (the slashing indictee — he says he's not guilty), had de-defected, which would leave the Senate tied, thirty-one to thirty-one — but that tie was only notional because, though Espada and the Republicans gathered in the Senate chamber, there was no quorum.
Prosecutors had no choice but to concede that none of the seven indictees matched the DNA samples, but they argued, "the lack of DNA doesn't prove" that a defendant wasn't there, a claim that went largely unchallenged in court.
It is a painfully relevant question because several of the 19 mass murderers of Sept. 11 were in this country illegally, and the one indictee for this crime was initially nailed only on immigration charges.
