BBC breaking: 'No sign' of Milosevic poisoning

[Taxloss]

There is no evidence that former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was poisoned, the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague has said.

The report also found no trace of the unprescribed drug rifampicin in the body of Milosevic, who died in jail at The Hague while on war crimes trial.

An autopsy carried out earlier said the cause of death was a heart attack.

The conclusions were based on an interim report by Dutch experts, the tribunal's president said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4816552.stm

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Of course, this will do nothing to end the rumour-mongering, but hey.

[Greeby]

1. Milosevic family rebuttal in 3...... 2.... 1.........

:eyes:

[papau]

5. BBC also noted that after a few days, signs of poison would disappear

from the body, so second go round was almost certain to find nothing.

But that does not make the headline.

[DemExpat]

2. He took the drugs himself seeking a trip to Moscow....

and instead got a trip to Hell.....

IMO

DemEx

[OKNancy]

3. kick

[DeepModem Mom]

4. No Poison or Toxic Drugs Found in Milosevic's Body, Tribunal Says

NYT/AP: No Poison or Toxic Drugs Found in Milosevic's Body, Tribunal Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 17, 2006


THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- An autopsy and tests on Slobodan Milosevic's blood found no evidence of poison or drugs in concentrations that could have killed him, the U.N. war crimes tribunal said Friday.

Tribunal president Judge Fausto Pocar also said an outside investigation will be conducted on the running of the U.N. detention center where Milosevic was held during his four-year trial and where he died March 11.

Milosevic was ruled to have died of a heart attack, but questions were raised by his son and his supporters about the cause of death after it was reported he had been taking medicines that were not prescribed by the U.N. cardiologist.

''No evidence of poisoning has been found,'' Pocar said, reading a report's preliminary results. A number of prescribed medications were found in his body, ''but not in toxic concentrations,'' he said.

He also said no traces were found of the powerful antibiotic rifampicine (which blunts the effect of beta-blockers), which a Dutch toxicologist had reported finding in a blood sample taken from the Serb leader earlier this year....


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Milosevic.html