Nice is now back in the public eye, after it was announced he would be defending one of the former KLA leaders Sami Lushtaku, who will appear before the prosecutors of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers ("special court") set up to deal with the crimes committed by this terrorist organization. Lushtaku will appear before the court, also located in The Hague, on January 16.
Another former KLA commander, Rustem Mustafa - whose name is linked to torture and murder of Serbs, the bombing of the Nis Express bus when 12 Serb passengers were killed, terrorist attacks, and showdowns with "disloyal" Albanians - made his appearance before the court on Monday, the newspaper noted.
Nice is going into all this with a great deal of "prior knowledge," the article continued - because he had the opportunity to learn about the events in Kosovo and Metohija as the chief prosecutor in the case against Slobodan Milosevic. However, at the time, he was openly and unapologetically representing the Albanian side, said the newspaper.
"Nice had access to numerous documents, something he would now be able to make use of as a lawyer. He constantly insisted that everything that was going on in Kosovo and Metohija had the purpose of creating 'Greater Serbia' and that Kosovo and Metohija did not belong to Serbia. At the trial, he even claimed that the Serbs had destroyed a 7th century mosque - while the Ottomans (who built the first mosques in the region) came to the Balkans in the 14th century. That's the Nice fellow for you," said Tapuskovic.
According Pristina media, Nice could also act as the defense counsel for both Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and Kosovo Parliament Speaker Kadri Veseli, should they find themselves indicted by the Specialist Chambers.
After leaving the Hague Tribunal, Nice worked on Thaci's biography, dealing specifically with removing suspicions of Thaci's involvement in human organ trafficking, writes Vecernje Novosti.
Following the release of the Marty report about KLA's crimes, Nice worked for Pristina authorities to prepare materials that could be used in the defense of Albanian terrorists before the Specialist Chambers.
During his career, there has been talk of Nice receiving large amounts of money from the Albanian lobby, the newspaper said. Vecernje Novosti cited Kosovo -based media, to report that on his new mission of rescuing KLA terrorists, the British lawyer will be earning EUR 2,200 a day, plus travel expenses.
AND, Carla was mostly against the Serbs during the entire tribunal.... don't listen to the them, they're jus t hear trolling and trying to get a rise. Unfortunately, they're neither smart or witty enough to do so....
(Chi, 15 January 2019 23:12)
===…==
Yes, they conveniently forget that little fact.
(Peggy, 17 January 2019 00:07)
Carla says that Geoffrey Nice was not part of the "Yellow House" investigation. How could have he destroyed the evidence there?
(Fact Check, 16 January 2019 04:43)
===…==
I don't know how. I wasn't there but Carla was so I will take her word for it.
Prosecutors are privy to evidence you know.
(Peggy, 17 January 2019 00:05)
Chi, have I touched a nerve? I know you all can't handle the truth. In you alls mind every person in the world was involved in messing with the evidence so they can save the accused Albanians. Albanians just have a pass everywhere they go, even with the international justice! Use your HEAD before you all speak!
The fact that Kosova fully cooperated with the international justice should give you a clue that they are not afraid of this court!
(Glow, 16 January 2019 14:19)
I do truly feel bad for my Serbian friends and colleagues, but I am so sick of Serbia continuing the Milosevic era. As for b-92, shame on you and your pretense for reporting objective news. Wake up, Serbia!
(roberto, 16 January 2019 05:00)
===…==
I too feel sorry for your Serbian friends (if you have any) because they don't know how much you hate Serbs.
(Peggy, 16 January 2019 11:29)
(my FB comment - and yes I have met Geoffrey Nice):
I realize that most ppl don't give a damn what Belgrade's (now) ultra-nationalist B-92 has to say and argue, but I am an still trying to fight the good fight (as we see it) and I am so sick of their lies and slanders. In this particular article, they are trashing one of the great British lawyers, Geoffrey Nice. allegedly based on the accusations of Milosevic defender Branislav Tapuskovic and that ultra horrible ex-prosecutor of the former Yugoslav tribunal, Carla del Ponte.
According to B-92, Geoffrey Nice destroyed evidence, and hid the truth about the infamous "Yellow House" which the Chetniks claimed was a House of Horrors run by the KLA.
I cannot adequately describe how low B-92 has fallen, since I don't know that many nasty words in the English language. I can only say that the Serbian media, in general, has gone the way of Russian media, which is to say, trash.
I do truly feel bad for my Serbian friends and colleagues, but I am so sick of Serbia continuing the Milosevic era. As for b-92, shame on you and your pretense for reporting objective news. Wake up, Serbia!
(roberto, 16 January 2019 05:00)
Carla says that Geoffrey Nice was not part of the "Yellow House" investigation. How could have he destroyed the evidence there?
(Fact Check, 16 January 2019 04:43)
Yes, peggy! It is all a LIE!
They should have focused on serbians who killed innocent people including children, raped women and disappeared over a thousand of bodies that are still to this day missing.
Kosova agreed to this investigation because they know that they fought with honor and don't have anything to hide, while serbians involved in crimes in Kosova are being hidden in Serbia. Albanians are not afraid of any court as they know the truth. They went to this court to simply clear their names!
(Glow, 16 January 2019 02:09)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43
===…==
And you know this how?
You obviously have selective attention. Carla says it all and you still deny it.
Was she a nobody there so she doesn't know what she's talking about?
Oh yes, she was paid by the Serbs to lie, or she wanted to sell her book. What a joke. If she wanted to sell her book she would have bigger profits writing a different story.
Yes, this guy has a lot more credibility than her. Sarc/off
(Peggy, 15 January 2019 20:54)
AND, Carla was mostly against the Serbs during the entire tribunal.... don't listen to the them, they're jus t hear trolling and trying to get a rise. Unfortunately, they're neither smart or witty enough to do so....
(Chi, 15 January 2019 23:12)
it was the serbs who were involved in this trafficking. serbs are known to seel their owns body parts. karla is part of it
(bert, 15 January 2019 20:57)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43
===…==
And you know this how?
You obviously have selective attention. Carla says it all and you still deny it.
Was she a nobody there so she doesn't know what she's talking about?
Oh yes, she was paid by the Serbs to lie, or she wanted to sell her book. What a joke. If she wanted to sell her book she would have bigger profits writing a different story.
Yes, this guy has a lot more credibility than her. Sarc/off
(Peggy, 15 January 2019 20:54)
I think not enough were jailed there. The trials were not objective but also no innocent one was jailed. There are still too much in governments and parliaments all over former yugoslavia that should sit in jail.
(Tito reloaded, 15 January 2019 20:13)
Read the Milosevic transcripts who ran circles around NICE who never proved that Milosevic was guilty of any crime. The Judge resorted forcing a Hague Lawyer to "help" Milosevic trial infringing on the universal right to defend yourself in the court of law. Tito's show trials in Yugoslavia were a model of legality compared to the Hague Kangaroo court.
(Jugoslavija, 15 January 2019 18:06)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43)
How does this garbage get published without mentioning that Branislav Tapuskovic was war criminal Milosevic's lawyer and that he is a conspiracy nut.
His main defence for any crimes committed by Serbs during the war was that they were all done by the other side to make Serbs look bad.
(One defence for Milosevic/Markale massacre was that Markale was not a shell it was a bomb planted by local muslims to make Serbs look bad, but if it was a shell it was done from a non-Serb location by muslims to make Serbs look bad, and anyway not many people were killed but if there were many people killed they were just bodies brought in from elsewhere to make Serbs look bad)
If any non-Serbs are new to b92, this type of rubbish passes for news in Serbia, its not just the tabloids that are affected.
This is why a large amount of Serbs are absolutely clueless about what happened during the wars here and think that everything that happened was some big setup by Muslims/NATO/West/ ancient tribal enemies to make Serbs look bad.
(D, 15 January 2019 16:18)
...still, do carry on believing what you want to believe... that’s your problem, not mine, and neither of us have any real significance to how these things play out in practice.
(Bloke, 15 January 2019 14:33)
It’s not only my belief, but it’s a matter of record and fact that the ICTY circus considered hooded witnesses and heresay testimony as an acceptable standard for so called ‘evidence’. This was the “practice” in the three ring circus played at the ICTY.
(Amnesty Yugoslavia, 15 January 2019 15:28)
..still, do carry on believing what you want to believe... that’s your problem, not mine, and neither of us have any real significance to how these things play out in practice.
(Bloke, 15 January 2019 14:33)
copy flag (but upside down)
now the nationaists copy ruski propaganda methods.
its not crimea, (the tatars are outnumbered in thier own land.
(frank, 15 January 2019 14:22)
Read the Milosevic transcripts who ran circles around NICE who never proved that Milosevic was guilty of any crime. The Judge resorted forcing a Hague Lawyer to "help" Milosevic trial infringing on the universal right to defend yourself in the court of law. Tito's show trials in Yugoslavia were a model of legality compared to the Hague Kangaroo court.
(Jugoslavija, 15 January 2019 18:06)
...still, do carry on believing what you want to believe... that’s your problem, not mine, and neither of us have any real significance to how these things play out in practice.
(Bloke, 15 January 2019 14:33)
It’s not only my belief, but it’s a matter of record and fact that the ICTY circus considered hooded witnesses and heresay testimony as an acceptable standard for so called ‘evidence’. This was the “practice” in the three ring circus played at the ICTY.
(Amnesty Yugoslavia, 15 January 2019 15:28)
How does this garbage get published without mentioning that Branislav Tapuskovic was war criminal Milosevic's lawyer and that he is a conspiracy nut.
His main defence for any crimes committed by Serbs during the war was that they were all done by the other side to make Serbs look bad.
(One defence for Milosevic/Markale massacre was that Markale was not a shell it was a bomb planted by local muslims to make Serbs look bad, but if it was a shell it was done from a non-Serb location by muslims to make Serbs look bad, and anyway not many people were killed but if there were many people killed they were just bodies brought in from elsewhere to make Serbs look bad)
If any non-Serbs are new to b92, this type of rubbish passes for news in Serbia, its not just the tabloids that are affected.
This is why a large amount of Serbs are absolutely clueless about what happened during the wars here and think that everything that happened was some big setup by Muslims/NATO/West/ ancient tribal enemies to make Serbs look bad.
(D, 15 January 2019 16:18)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43
===…==
And you know this how?
You obviously have selective attention. Carla says it all and you still deny it.
Was she a nobody there so she doesn't know what she's talking about?
Oh yes, she was paid by the Serbs to lie, or she wanted to sell her book. What a joke. If she wanted to sell her book she would have bigger profits writing a different story.
Yes, this guy has a lot more credibility than her. Sarc/off
(Peggy, 15 January 2019 20:54)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43)
copy flag (but upside down)
now the nationaists copy ruski propaganda methods.
its not crimea, (the tatars are outnumbered in thier own land.
(frank, 15 January 2019 14:22)
I think not enough were jailed there. The trials were not objective but also no innocent one was jailed. There are still too much in governments and parliaments all over former yugoslavia that should sit in jail.
(Tito reloaded, 15 January 2019 20:13)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43
===…==
And you know this how?
You obviously have selective attention. Carla says it all and you still deny it.
Was she a nobody there so she doesn't know what she's talking about?
Oh yes, she was paid by the Serbs to lie, or she wanted to sell her book. What a joke. If she wanted to sell her book she would have bigger profits writing a different story.
Yes, this guy has a lot more credibility than her. Sarc/off
(Peggy, 15 January 2019 20:54)
AND, Carla was mostly against the Serbs during the entire tribunal.... don't listen to the them, they're jus t hear trolling and trying to get a rise. Unfortunately, they're neither smart or witty enough to do so....
(Chi, 15 January 2019 23:12)
I do truly feel bad for my Serbian friends and colleagues, but I am so sick of Serbia continuing the Milosevic era. As for b-92, shame on you and your pretense for reporting objective news. Wake up, Serbia!
(roberto, 16 January 2019 05:00)
===…==
I too feel sorry for your Serbian friends (if you have any) because they don't know how much you hate Serbs.
(Peggy, 16 January 2019 11:29)
(my FB comment - and yes I have met Geoffrey Nice):
I realize that most ppl don't give a damn what Belgrade's (now) ultra-nationalist B-92 has to say and argue, but I am an still trying to fight the good fight (as we see it) and I am so sick of their lies and slanders. In this particular article, they are trashing one of the great British lawyers, Geoffrey Nice. allegedly based on the accusations of Milosevic defender Branislav Tapuskovic and that ultra horrible ex-prosecutor of the former Yugoslav tribunal, Carla del Ponte.
According to B-92, Geoffrey Nice destroyed evidence, and hid the truth about the infamous "Yellow House" which the Chetniks claimed was a House of Horrors run by the KLA.
I cannot adequately describe how low B-92 has fallen, since I don't know that many nasty words in the English language. I can only say that the Serbian media, in general, has gone the way of Russian media, which is to say, trash.
I do truly feel bad for my Serbian friends and colleagues, but I am so sick of Serbia continuing the Milosevic era. As for b-92, shame on you and your pretense for reporting objective news. Wake up, Serbia!
(roberto, 16 January 2019 05:00)
AND, Carla was mostly against the Serbs during the entire tribunal.... don't listen to the them, they're jus t hear trolling and trying to get a rise. Unfortunately, they're neither smart or witty enough to do so....
(Chi, 15 January 2019 23:12)
===…==
Yes, they conveniently forget that little fact.
(Peggy, 17 January 2019 00:07)
Carla says that Geoffrey Nice was not part of the "Yellow House" investigation. How could have he destroyed the evidence there?
(Fact Check, 16 January 2019 04:43)
===…==
I don't know how. I wasn't there but Carla was so I will take her word for it.
Prosecutors are privy to evidence you know.
(Peggy, 17 January 2019 00:05)
it was the serbs who were involved in this trafficking. serbs are known to seel their owns body parts. karla is part of it
(bert, 15 January 2019 20:57)
..still, do carry on believing what you want to believe... that’s your problem, not mine, and neither of us have any real significance to how these things play out in practice.
(Bloke, 15 January 2019 14:33)
Chi, have I touched a nerve? I know you all can't handle the truth. In you alls mind every person in the world was involved in messing with the evidence so they can save the accused Albanians. Albanians just have a pass everywhere they go, even with the international justice! Use your HEAD before you all speak!
The fact that Kosova fully cooperated with the international justice should give you a clue that they are not afraid of this court!
(Glow, 16 January 2019 14:19)
Carla says that Geoffrey Nice was not part of the "Yellow House" investigation. How could have he destroyed the evidence there?
(Fact Check, 16 January 2019 04:43)
Yes, peggy! It is all a LIE!
They should have focused on serbians who killed innocent people including children, raped women and disappeared over a thousand of bodies that are still to this day missing.
Kosova agreed to this investigation because they know that they fought with honor and don't have anything to hide, while serbians involved in crimes in Kosova are being hidden in Serbia. Albanians are not afraid of any court as they know the truth. They went to this court to simply clear their names!
(Glow, 16 January 2019 02:09)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43)
How does this garbage get published without mentioning that Branislav Tapuskovic was war criminal Milosevic's lawyer and that he is a conspiracy nut.
His main defence for any crimes committed by Serbs during the war was that they were all done by the other side to make Serbs look bad.
(One defence for Milosevic/Markale massacre was that Markale was not a shell it was a bomb planted by local muslims to make Serbs look bad, but if it was a shell it was done from a non-Serb location by muslims to make Serbs look bad, and anyway not many people were killed but if there were many people killed they were just bodies brought in from elsewhere to make Serbs look bad)
If any non-Serbs are new to b92, this type of rubbish passes for news in Serbia, its not just the tabloids that are affected.
This is why a large amount of Serbs are absolutely clueless about what happened during the wars here and think that everything that happened was some big setup by Muslims/NATO/West/ ancient tribal enemies to make Serbs look bad.
(D, 15 January 2019 16:18)
copy flag (but upside down)
now the nationaists copy ruski propaganda methods.
its not crimea, (the tatars are outnumbered in thier own land.
(frank, 15 January 2019 14:22)
it was the serbs who were involved in this trafficking. serbs are known to seel their owns body parts. karla is part of it
(bert, 15 January 2019 20:57)
..still, do carry on believing what you want to believe... that’s your problem, not mine, and neither of us have any real significance to how these things play out in practice.
(Bloke, 15 January 2019 14:33)
(my FB comment - and yes I have met Geoffrey Nice):
I realize that most ppl don't give a damn what Belgrade's (now) ultra-nationalist B-92 has to say and argue, but I am an still trying to fight the good fight (as we see it) and I am so sick of their lies and slanders. In this particular article, they are trashing one of the great British lawyers, Geoffrey Nice. allegedly based on the accusations of Milosevic defender Branislav Tapuskovic and that ultra horrible ex-prosecutor of the former Yugoslav tribunal, Carla del Ponte.
According to B-92, Geoffrey Nice destroyed evidence, and hid the truth about the infamous "Yellow House" which the Chetniks claimed was a House of Horrors run by the KLA.
I cannot adequately describe how low B-92 has fallen, since I don't know that many nasty words in the English language. I can only say that the Serbian media, in general, has gone the way of Russian media, which is to say, trash.
I do truly feel bad for my Serbian friends and colleagues, but I am so sick of Serbia continuing the Milosevic era. As for b-92, shame on you and your pretense for reporting objective news. Wake up, Serbia!
(roberto, 16 January 2019 05:00)
Yes, peggy! It is all a LIE!
They should have focused on serbians who killed innocent people including children, raped women and disappeared over a thousand of bodies that are still to this day missing.
Kosova agreed to this investigation because they know that they fought with honor and don't have anything to hide, while serbians involved in crimes in Kosova are being hidden in Serbia. Albanians are not afraid of any court as they know the truth. They went to this court to simply clear their names!
(Glow, 16 January 2019 02:09)
Read the Milosevic transcripts who ran circles around NICE who never proved that Milosevic was guilty of any crime. The Judge resorted forcing a Hague Lawyer to "help" Milosevic trial infringing on the universal right to defend yourself in the court of law. Tito's show trials in Yugoslavia were a model of legality compared to the Hague Kangaroo court.
(Jugoslavija, 15 January 2019 18:06)
Carla says that Geoffrey Nice was not part of the "Yellow House" investigation. How could have he destroyed the evidence there?
(Fact Check, 16 January 2019 04:43)
...still, do carry on believing what you want to believe... that’s your problem, not mine, and neither of us have any real significance to how these things play out in practice.
(Bloke, 15 January 2019 14:33)
It’s not only my belief, but it’s a matter of record and fact that the ICTY circus considered hooded witnesses and heresay testimony as an acceptable standard for so called ‘evidence’. This was the “practice” in the three ring circus played at the ICTY.
(Amnesty Yugoslavia, 15 January 2019 15:28)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43
===…==
And you know this how?
You obviously have selective attention. Carla says it all and you still deny it.
Was she a nobody there so she doesn't know what she's talking about?
Oh yes, she was paid by the Serbs to lie, or she wanted to sell her book. What a joke. If she wanted to sell her book she would have bigger profits writing a different story.
Yes, this guy has a lot more credibility than her. Sarc/off
(Peggy, 15 January 2019 20:54)
Chi, have I touched a nerve? I know you all can't handle the truth. In you alls mind every person in the world was involved in messing with the evidence so they can save the accused Albanians. Albanians just have a pass everywhere they go, even with the international justice! Use your HEAD before you all speak!
The fact that Kosova fully cooperated with the international justice should give you a clue that they are not afraid of this court!
(Glow, 16 January 2019 14:19)
I think not enough were jailed there. The trials were not objective but also no innocent one was jailed. There are still too much in governments and parliaments all over former yugoslavia that should sit in jail.
(Tito reloaded, 15 January 2019 20:13)
I do truly feel bad for my Serbian friends and colleagues, but I am so sick of Serbia continuing the Milosevic era. As for b-92, shame on you and your pretense for reporting objective news. Wake up, Serbia!
(roberto, 16 January 2019 05:00)
===…==
I too feel sorry for your Serbian friends (if you have any) because they don't know how much you hate Serbs.
(Peggy, 16 January 2019 11:29)
AND, Carla was mostly against the Serbs during the entire tribunal.... don't listen to the them, they're jus t hear trolling and trying to get a rise. Unfortunately, they're neither smart or witty enough to do so....
(Chi, 15 January 2019 23:12)
===…==
Yes, they conveniently forget that little fact.
(Peggy, 17 January 2019 00:07)
Carla says that Geoffrey Nice was not part of the "Yellow House" investigation. How could have he destroyed the evidence there?
(Fact Check, 16 January 2019 04:43)
===…==
I don't know how. I wasn't there but Carla was so I will take her word for it.
Prosecutors are privy to evidence you know.
(Peggy, 17 January 2019 00:05)
Sorry, I STOPPED reading at according to Branislav Tapuskovic!
The international court doesn't work like the ones in Serbia and you CAN'T mess with evidence so stop making yourselves look so NAIVE!
(Glow, 15 January 2019 16:43
===…==
And you know this how?
You obviously have selective attention. Carla says it all and you still deny it.
Was she a nobody there so she doesn't know what she's talking about?
Oh yes, she was paid by the Serbs to lie, or she wanted to sell her book. What a joke. If she wanted to sell her book she would have bigger profits writing a different story.
Yes, this guy has a lot more credibility than her. Sarc/off
(Peggy, 15 January 2019 20:54)
AND, Carla was mostly against the Serbs during the entire tribunal.... don't listen to the them, they're jus t hear trolling and trying to get a rise. Unfortunately, they're neither smart or witty enough to do so....
(Chi, 15 January 2019 23:12)