Random Extracts
(followed by summaries)
*links provided, per links provided in reference document
Press Reports On False Claims Of Genocide By Serbs In Kosovo
"General Sir Michael Rose, the former United Nations military commander in Bosnia.... said false facts about the war in Bosnia were being fed to Congress.... he was visited by General John Galvin, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe who had been appointed by President Clinton to advise on a new structure for the Bosnian Army. General Rose said: 'We were escorted by a woman from the US Embassy who, in my view, was the most hostile American I met during all my time in Bosnia.' As they flew by helicopter towards Tuzla in the north, she pointed at all the destroyed villages high in the Zvijezda mountains and 'exclaimed excitedly' to General Galvin: 'Look at what the criminal Serbs have done.' In fact, General Rose said, they were Bosnian Croat villages ethnically cleansed by the Muslim forces. Later when they visited Mostar in the south where the Croats had virtually destroyed the Muslim sector in the eastern part of the town, the US official 'planted her hands on her ample hips' and cried: 'Well, at least this was done by the criminal Serbs.' General Rose said the woman burst into tears when it was pointed out that the Croats had been to blame. 'The fact was not lost on Galvin,' he said."
US bugged me in Bosnia, says General Rose
London Times, 10 November 1998, via:
http://www.nlpwessex.org/docs/balkansusbackterrorism.htm
"American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA] before Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. The disclosure angered some European diplomats, who said this had undermined moves for a political solution to the conflict between Serbs and Albanians... Several KLA leaders had the mobile phone number of General Wesley Clark, the Nato commander..."
CIA aided Kosovo guerrilla army
Sunday Times , 12 March 2000, via:
http://www.nlpwessex.org/docs/balkansusbackterrorism.htm
"I read the latest reports concerning a recent Executive Order that hands the CIA a black bag in the Balkans for engineering a military coup in Serbia, for interrupting communications, for tampering with bank accounts, freezing assets abroad and training the Kosovo Liberation Army in terrorist tactics, such as how to blow up buildings. How this is intended to help establish a democracy in Serbia or Kosovo hasn't been explained. Nor has the failure to substantially demilitarize the KLA been explained. Nor has the reverse ethnic cleansing taking place in Kosovo by the KLA while NATO rules the province been explained."
Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ohio
The Progressive, Vol 63, No.8, August 1999, via:
http://www.nlpwessex.org/docs/balkansusbackterrorism.htm
"NATO Sided With Jihadists In Yugoslavia Who Later Conducted 9/11 And 7/7 Attacks"
"base for Al Qaeda: 'In the heart of Europe, thousands of Arab fighters. Zenica [Bosnia], 1995. They come to wage holy war in support of the Bosnian Army. [Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic shown welcoming the mujahadeen.] ...They committed many atrocities; the tapes Sky News has obtained include beheadings and signs of torture. …This isn’t just about history; it's about now. Western intelligence agencies are now pressing the Bosnians to look into exactly where these people are and what they are doing, and asking have any of these men been in contact with the three young Bosnian Muslims arrested last month on terrorism charges. ...In Sarajevo now the influence of Saudi ideas can be found all over the city. ...Radical Islam is attempting to plant deep roots in the community. …The seeds for change were planted back in 1995.'... The narration continues: 'There were some serious players sent to Bosnia, among them the man who planned 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohamed...' A similar picture began to emerge in Kosovo, where the late Wall St. Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was uncovering that 'Ethnic-Albanian militants, humanitarian organizations, NATO and the news media fed off each other to give genocide rumors credibility.' The anti-Serb propaganda which misled Americans throughout the 90s and which Daniel Pearl was debunking continues to guide our perceptions and foreign policy in the Balkans today. But despite the media’s blackout on the subject of Balkans terror--including by Pearl's own Wall St. Journal--more and more Americans have been scratching their heads, wondering why we forcibly precluded the Serbs from doing in their own backyard what we’ve gone halfway around the globe to do.... For the past four years, the Hague's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has been finding what multiple international forensic teams have found--that claims of Serb 'atrocities' were exaggerated and often invented. It turns out we confused an attempt to create an Islamic 'Greater Albania' with one to create a 'Greater Serbia.' Surely if the latter were Slobodan Milosevic’s goal, he would have started by ethnically cleansing the nearly 300,000 Muslims of Serbia. ..."
A Balkan Base For Al Qaeda?
FrontPageMagazine, 20 March 2006
""During an interview on Fox TV this summer, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit Islamist militants with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo."
http://www.nlpwessex.org/docs/balkansusbackterrorism.htm
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The Guardian
Saturday 10 September 2005 10.18 AEST
Britain now faces its own blowback
Michael Meacher
For nearly a decade the US helped Islamist insurgents linked to Chechnya, Iran and Saudi Arabia destabilise the former Yugoslavia. The insurgents were also allowed to move further east to Kosovo. By the end of the fighting in Bosnia there were tens of thousands of Islamist insurgents in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo; many then moved west to Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Less well known is evidence of the British government's relationship with a wider Islamist terrorist network. During an interview on Fox TV this summer, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit Islamist militants with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo.
Michael Meacher is the Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton; he was environment minister from 1997 to 2003.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/10/terrorism.politics
Milosevic's ouster
Milosevic was forced from power in the fall of 2000
-- ouster meant de facto death of the last ruling Communist Party in Europe
[Stratfor, 2013]
Kosovo
-- using forced separation of Serbia & Kosovo
-- as precedent for dismembering Russia
-- pro-Western govts in former Soviet satellites
-- Russia sees West closing in
-- 2004: Orange Revolution, Ukraine
-- pipelines to Europe
-- Russia indefensible *if NATO Ukraine
-- British & US intel services suspected funded NGOs to help engineer this
-- Ukraine move indicates USA-Anglo alliance committed
to extending collapse of Soviet Union to collapse of Russian Federation
[stratfor, 2013]
GERMANY
'It All Began With a Lie'
-- high officials of the German ruling SPD-Green coalition
-- used fabrications and manipulation of facts
-- to counter the growing public opposition
-- of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999
-- in Bundestag:
-- Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping
-- Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer
-- taken to task for having misled the German public
-- re: 'genocide' against the Kosovo Albanians
-- & that NATO 'only' intervening for 'humanitarian' grounds
-- Willy Wimmer, CDU defence policy official on Bratislava event
-- directly after NATO bombing Serbia
-- NATO's explanation for intervention by US defence spox:
'We waged that war because we have to undo the strategic mistake Eisenhower made in 1943-44.'
the Balkans mistake said to be not supporting:
Serb Yugoslav Army in the Homeland, led by General Draza Mihailovic
(cover Time magazine, 1941 - Europe's first guerilla)
instead:
support, arms & propaganda aid: Josip Broz ('Tito')
-- misled by Soviet intel moles w/in own ranks, exp. Brit. intel, incl. Kim Philby
-- into thinking Partisans vs. Germans while Mihailovic forces 'collaborating'
-- not so, claims article & says it was other way around
-- disinformation achieved its aims, it says
-- well-armed communist forces combined w/ oncoming Red Army
-- Yugoslavia lost to the West
-- Mihailovic hunted & executed for 'treason' after show trial 1946
-- despite strong objections from West (why????)
-- President Truman awarded him a posthumous medal (why???)
-- Serbia: "first to rise in the name of freedom, had fallen under communist slavery", says entry
COMMENT:
*sounds to me like Serbia might have been infiltrated by Western interests provoking Serbian 'rise' c. WWII, in the first place?
SERBIA - post WWII useful purpose as a buffer between the Iron Curtain and Western Europe
*thanks to Tito’s subsequent rupture with Stalin
*very useful until the arrival of Gorbachev (Berlin Wall soon crumbles)
*Yugoslavia had lost its purpose and could dispensed with
(as a communist entity, at least)
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmerman:
1992 - Danas (Croation newspaper) - openly states
'We are aiming for a dissolution of Yugoslavia into independent states peacefully.'
NOTE: "the Ambassador’s statement was a call for a direct violation of the 1975 Helsinki Accords, which guaranteed the integrity of international borders"
-- U.S. did not lead the process of Yugoslavia’s dissolution
-- main actor in this process was the newly reunified Germany
-- practically blackmailed the rest of Western Europe
-- to recognise breakaway republics of:
-- Slovenia
-- Croatia
-- in return for accepting Maastricht Treaty
-- that led more loose 'European Community'
-- into becoming MORE tightly-knit EUROPEAN UNION
-- reportedly Germany hoping to extend its influence by forming
-- new client states
-- EU unable to supposedly extinguish fire Germans started in 1994 & 1995
-- Germans had started and the wars of succession
-- US stepped in to bomb Bosnian Serbs 1994 & 1995
-- Dayton Accords Dec. 1995 imposed
-- USA in drives seat in Balkans since
-- 5.5 years after Dayton 'peace'
-- under noses of 40,000+ NATO force in Kosovo
-- new war threatened to break out (mid 2000 ?)
-- Bosnia, clinically dead state held together by most dictatorial powers:
-- High Commissioner
-- NATO forces on ground
source
Lies and mysteries revealed
WorldNetDaily, 10 March 2001
via
http://www.nlpwessex.org/docs/balkansusbackterrorism.htm
2009
-- Serbia formally applies for EU membership
-- Belgrade's treatment by some EU governments
-- long been characterised by brazen hypocrisy
-- Netherlands was blocking Serbia's efforts to strengthen Union relations
-- re view it was not 'cooperating' with war crimes tribunal in The Hague
-- zeal of Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch foreign minister - hypocrite
-- Verhagen vigorously opposed efforts to probe alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza
Among wanted:
-- Ratko Mladic
-- Goran Hadzic
NATO CLUSTER BOMBS
NATO bombing Serbia 1999:
-- use of cluster bombs, weapons that literally slice the limbs of their victims
-- bombing of Serbia:
-- lacked UN approval
-- helped usher in the dubious concept of 'humanitarian intervention'
= military action can be taken on flimsiest of pretexts
Slobodan Milosevic
-- had Slobodan Milosevic been more favourably disposed to US capitalism
-- US would have tolerated his autocratic streak
-- Misosevic refusal to accept neoliberal ideas on which global economy is run
-- Bill Clinton & cronies in Europe insisting Milosevic must go can be explained by:
-- EU pressing Serbia with now standard conditions of EU accession:
-- privatisation of sate-owned industry
-- at enormous social cost
-- Serbia unique: many facilities first required for sell-off damaged by NATO bombs
-- western firms could snatch assets at budget prices
-- over 1,800 privatisations have occurred since Milosevic was ousted [2009]
-- much of the country's metal industry is now in the hands of US Steel
-- US Steel busy shedding jobs
-- Yugoslav national car company Zastava was acquired by Fiat
David Cronin - Grim reality of Serbia's EU 'dream'
Guardian, 'Comment Is Free', 22 December 2009
Rambouillet Accords
-- reluctance to achieve a negotiated peace settlement
-- acceptable to all sides
-- ex-secretary of state Henry Kissinger:
'the Rambouillet text, which called on Serbia to admit Nato troops throughout Yugoslavia, was a provocation, an excuse to start bombing'
Nato's bombing of Serbia = escalation of Kosovo crisis into full-scale humanitarian catastrophe
now widely acknowledged: bulk of the ethnic cleansing & war crimes
= after start of NATO bombing
OSCE inquiry highlights:
With NATO air war comm. March 24t
-- "patterns of the expulsions & vast increase in lootings, killings, rape, kidnappings and pillage"
Much-vaunted humanitarian objectives used to build widespread public support
-- for NATO bombing
-- former US deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbot
-- explains NATO war on Yugoslavia:
'it was Yugoslavia's resistance to the broader trends of political and economic reform – not the plight of the Kosovar Albanians – that best explains Nato's war'"
humanitarian or security-related motives
= placed at service of POLITICAL & ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES
= undermining R2P ('Responsibility to Protect') propaganda
SAME OLD PATTERN:
pre-intervention portrayals of Kosovo conflict
-- were ACT OF WILLING DECEIT
-- not failed intelligence
-- designed to pare down the complex nature of issues
-- involving previously designed terrorist org, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
-- & heavy-handed state security infrastructure dealing with decades of
-- ethnically motivated crimes in Kosovo
-- Amnesty International reports conflicting with US-Anglo propaganda
-- Tony Blair's portrayal of war
-- as 'battle between good & evil; between civilisation & barbarity; between democracy & dictatorship"
-- not challenged by MEDIA & NGOS
NATO intervention important precursor to invasion of Iraq 2003, in:
1. Bypassing United Nations
2. engaging in negotiations that precluded diplomatic solutions
3. manipulating public case for war
Serbia's anniversary is a timely reminder
Guardian, Comment Is Free, 24 March 2009
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