Crazy Curt: Attempted to Help Milosevic Pal?

12:51 am EST October 18th, 2006 | Republicans | Comments Off

Slobodan Milosevic, you’ll remember, was the Yugoslavian president charged with war crimes – including mass murder – in the Balkans. The question the FBI apparently would like answered is – why was Republican congressman Curt Weldon hanging out with a pal of Slobo?

Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade were surprised three years ago to be invited to a luncheon in honor of visiting Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), hosted by Bogoljub Karic, a wealthy Serbian businessman who had been barred from visiting or trading with the United States because of his close ties to former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic.

Weldon "was visiting solely because of Karic," whom he was trying to get off the U.S. blacklist, a former senior embassy official familiar with the visit concluded. "It seemed odd" at the time, because Karic had no obvious tie to Weldon’s district outside Philadelphia, and Weldon should have known the embassy was shunning contacts with him, the official said.

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