The so-called “Trial” of Slobodan Milosevic resumed again today after a four day weekend.

A secret witness code named “B-127” testified for most of the day. B-127 is a Muslim and a former member of the JNA who stayed on and joined the VRS, after the JNA withdrew from Bosnia-Herzegovina in May of 1992.

The prosecution was trying to use B-127’s testimony as part of its pathetic attempt to “prove” their absurd claim that the VJ and the VRS were the same army, and not 2 different armies.

The “damning testimony” came fast and furious when B-127 claimed that the VJ and the VRS shared information with each other. Oh, parish the thought that 2 friendly states would share information with each other! That has got to be the most sinister conspiracy in the history of the world, or so you would think if you listened to the “prosecutor” at the Hague Tribunal.

The truth is that it is completely normal for states that are on friendly terms with one another to share information. An example of that is making headlines right now. George W. Bush made what was apparently a false claim in his State of the Union speech, on the basis of British intelligence.

B-127 said that the information sharing went so far that the VJ could access VRS radar data, and the VRS could access VJ radar data. In North America the USA and Canada have the same agreement – it’s called NORAD.

If one uses the logic employed by the Hague Tribunal one could theorize that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was really a Canadian endeavor, and therefore the actions of the USA are really Canada’s responsibility. After all, Canada and the USA cooperate with each other, they share intelligence data, they share radar data – in fact, in my home state of Washington, the Canadian Armed forces even conduct joint training operations together with the U.S. Army at Ft. Lewis near Tacoma.

Just like Slobodan Milosevic secretly controlled the government and army of Republika Srpska – Canadian PM, Jean Chretien must be secretly controlling the U.S. Government and the American armed forces. If you understand the logic of the Hague Tribunal, or if you smoke enough crack, then that type of thinking will make perfect sense to you.

Another thing that was seen as sinister (by the prosecutor) was the fact that the government of Yugoslavia paid the former soldiers of the JNA, through the 30th Personnel Center, the social insurance, health benefits, salaries, old-age pensions, etc… which they had legally accrued under Yugoslav law.

Imagine those scheming Serbs - paying people the money that they owed them. If that doesn’t point to a “joint criminal enterprise” then I don’t know what does. They even paid B-127, who is a Muslim, through that same 30th Personnel Center.

The 30th Personnel Center was purely an administrative body that was in charge of paying legally accrued social benefits to the former soldiers of the JNA. The 30th Personnel Center issued no orders of any kind. It had one office, consisting of one room, and it operated for a full 6 years after the war ended,therefore it had absolutely nothing at all to do with the war.

The prosecution’s claim that the VJ and the VRS were the same army fell to pieces when Slobodan Milosevic asked B-127 some very direct questions.

President Milosevic asked if B-127 knew of any orders that the VJ had issued to the VRS, and B-127 didn’t know about any.

President Milosevic asked if B-127 had ever seen any units of the VJ operating in Bosnia, and again B-127 hadn’t.

B-127 tried to save the prosecution’s case by saying that people from Serbia were forced to join the VRS. President Milosevic then asked for an example of this, but B-127 failed to come up with even a single example.

President Milosevic further destroyed the prosecution’s case when he asked - if the VJ and the VRS were the same army (as the prosecutor claims), then why didn’t the VRS engage Albanian terrorists in Kosovo, or mobilize to defend Yugoslavia during the NATO aggression?

After B-127 withdrew another secret witness code named B-83 came and testified for about 10 minutes.