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Subject: [icdsm-italia] Marko Milosevic scrive all'ONU sull'assassinio del padre
Date: August 25, 2006 12:30:48 PM GMT+02:00
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Marko Milosevic scrive all'ONU sull'assassinio del padre

1. Marko Milosevic's Letter / il dispaccio ANSA / intervista a Mira Markovic

2. Aggiornamenti di fonte varia, marzo--agosto 2006 
(le mancate cure / il "tribunale" si autoassolve / commissione "indipendente" svedese fantasma / continuano gli omaggi a Milosevic / procuratore svizzero attacca Carla Del Ponte)

3. Russia to insist on closing International Tribunal for Yugoslavia (June 2006) / ... and more links
(La Russia chiederà all'ONU di chiudere il "Tribunale ad hoc" dell'Aia)


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MARKO MILOSEVIC'S LETTER TO THE ORGANS OF THE ICTY AND THE UNITED NATIONS REGARDING JUDGE PARKER'S INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

July 17, 2006

 

This is an open letter and is to be distributed to
The President of the ICTY
The Chairman of the Security Council of the OUN
The Secretary General of the OUN
It represents an official reaction of the family of Slobodan Milosevic to the report of ICTY concerning the causes of his death.

 

Mr. Parker, 

 

I received your report concerning the causes of my father’s sudden and untimely death. Unfortunately, it is exactly as I expected it would be, and as I warned your deputy, the French judge with whom I spoke in The Hague, that it should not be.

 

First of all, I must note that your investigation was not initiated because of “media speculation that Slobodan Milosevic had been poisoned” as you put it. Your report's continuous justifications before media are both inadequate and insulting.

 

Although illegal, the ICTY owes explanations to the family of the deceased, the Security Council as the organ which founded ICTY, the General Assembly, the Secretary General, and to the public.

 

Secondly, neither we the family, nor the expert team of pathologists, which was familiar with my father’s health and was given the findings of the Dutch team, ever alleged the possibility of poisoning. To the contrary, I accepted the diagnosis of a heart attack (infarction) from the moment I heard it in The Hague. I warned both your deputy and the Dutch prosecutor not to vulgarize the investigation by setting-up a "straw man" accusation such as a violent murder or poisoning. The lines you have chosen to describe the “scene of crime” are naïve, vulgar and insulting. The report itself, if made by an independent institution, would have been at the very least disappointing. But, since it’s being issued by the Tribunal, the very institution which had a monopoly over my father’s health during his time in UN custody, it is shocking. It contains an unexpected number of contradictions. Its contents and conclusions are absolutely unacceptable to the sane mind.

 

Even if we had suspicions of poisoning, it would be pointless to try and prove them in conditions where the only possible culprit is the investigator. It is as if an accused committed a crime, leads the investigation, and comes to the expected conclusion that he is innocent. An accused may defend himself, but it is quite unusual that the accused himself leads the investigation, as was the case with your investigation and your report. 

 

Should I mention the fact that the autopsy was conducted without the presence of the independent expert team sent by our family, even though we insisted on it? Or that the Russian doctors were denied the access to the body and the tissue samples? Or that we have been denied his blood samples? Now it happens that the Dutch medical institutions and doctors, which have already been gravely compromised in the eyes of the public through their involvement with the ICTY Prosecution in numerous manipulations with my father’s health, medical treatment, and respective diagnosis, were the only ones to manage the toxicology tests and announce their results?! Here I must remind you of my father's letter addressed to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which he wrote just hours before his death that he suspected he was being poisoned in the UNDU. So here we have a situation where we are witnessing numerous speculations regarding his blood samples, he expresses his worry about it, then he suddenly dies. Now comes this mysterious autopsy conducted by the very same people that he accused in his last hours, and they conclude that there was no poisoning. How credible does this sound even to you Mr. Parker? It is a pity that I am not in a position to ask Ms. Del Ponte an even simpler question – if he was ill, then why he wasn’t he given medical treatment when he asked for it? And if he wasn’t ill, then why did he die? 

 

I understand that the you have set-up this straw-man accusation of poisoning, and now by finding that there was no poisoning you assert that the ICTY has been relieved of all responsibility for my father's death. Nevertheless, an unquestionable truth remains before the public, the image of my father addressing your so-called "trial chamber" and asking to be allowed medical treatment, and the "presiding judge" responding that he will not listen to him.

 

The question isn’t whether or not my father was murdered or poisoned. The point is that a former head of state, being held in UN custody, was gravely ill and constantly complaining of his medical condition. His health condition was assessed many times by medical experts as dire. He was denied adequate (if any) medical treatment, and then he died. At the same time those who denied him treatment were undeniably aware of what the consequences would be. He asked for provisional release to receive medical treatment. Dr. Shumilina warned on November 6th that his condition was so critical that he could die at any moment. Although you claim in your report (among many other contradictions, which I will not quote by number in this letter) that there was no suggestion by my father’s doctors that cardiac surgery was needed, even in your own report, in paragraph 65., you write:

 

(«On 20 December 2005 a formal motion was filed seeking Mr. Milošević’s provisional release to enable medical treatment at the Bakoulev Scientific Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow.  In addition to the reports of the three visiting doctors from November, a further email of Dr Shumilina dated 19 December 2005 to an assigned counsel for Mr. Milošević was relied on. In this email Dr Shumilina recommended the following additional tests: a complex ultrasonic of the vascular pathology, especially brachiocephal arteries and veins; echocardiography and stress echocardiography; Holter monitoring and daily monitoring of the blood pressure; “estimation” of the homeostasis: investigation of the brachiocephal and coronary vessels with contrast media; and PEI (position-emission imaging) of the brain and of the heart.  Her email also indicated that endovascular or surgical decompression of the right vertebral artery, the stenting of brachiocephal or cardial arteries, carotid endarterectomy, or even bypass surgery may be necessary to perform.»)
 
The guaranties had been granted, and the ICTY ignored all of it. Obviously deliberately for they were aware of all the facts, both general and subtle. So he died.

 

The Tribunal, and everyone in charge, has committed a deliberate murder. They condemned him to death on February 24th when they rejected his request for provisional release, ignoring everything: his health condition, his rights, and the warnings of  his doctors, which unlike the jail physician hired by the ICTY, had both – unquestionable competence and expertise, as well as his confidence. Ignoring even the guarantees of The Russian Federation (by the explanation that those guarantees lacked credibility, it seems that the Tribunal has given itself the mandate to evaluate the credibility of even the Security Council's permanent member states). The ruling handed down on February 24th came into effect on March 11th. That is the fact and the truth. Any other speculation is just evasive political maneuvering. 

 

The statements and opinions of the ICTY Prosecution and the Dutch doctors have been completely disqualified. The Dutch doctors are going to be criminally prosecuted before the courts of their country. Ms Del Ponte was so keen to qualify my father as a guilty even though the trial had not been completed as to insist on his "suicide" before the autopsy had even taken place. In such circumstances, both the Dutch doctors and the entire Office of the Prosecutor lack any credibility for matters concerning my father, from responsibility for the crimes he was accused of to the circumstances of his death.

 

It is obvious that even without poisoning, murder, or anything similar, but with heart failure which you consider to be a "natural" death that the ICTY and the UN who created it bears the sole responsibility for my father’s death.

 

That “court” had already committed a series of violations against my father. It violated every rule and regulation known to modern civilization, both East and West. It failed to even comply with its own statute and rules. It ignored the guaranties given by permanent members of the UN Security Council, the very organ which created the ICTY. And finally, it deliberately led my father to his “natural” death. 

 

As if that wasn’t enough, you produced this grotesque “investigation” which found that “he was not murdered”! With all this, it is clear that the Organization of United Nations will have to take the responsibility for the death of former President of Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and that the ICTY will have to be disbanded, as I told your deputy four months ago. I do not accept the explanations offered in your report. I find it visibly tuned to suit the ICTY Prosecutor’s Office, and most importantly it is obvious that it was produced to relieve the ICTY of responsibility, not to show the truth or bring justice.

 

I expect the superior organs of the Organization of the United Nations to reject your report and reconsider the legitimacy of ICTY, as well as the behavior and performance of its staff. I also expect that, for the sake of the integrity and credibility of OUN, that the ICTY will be brought to end.

 

Marko Milosevic
July 17, 2006


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SERBIA: MILOSEVIC, FIGLIO CHIEDE A ONU D'AMMETTERE COLPE TPI 

BELGRADO - Il figlio dell'ex uomo forte di Belgrado Slobodan 
Milosevic - morto nel marzo scorso in una cella del tribunale 
internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi) che lo stava giudicando per i crimini 
di guerra commessi nella ex Jugoslavia degli anni '90 - e' tornato ad 
accusare lo stesso Tpi di aver ordito con premeditazione la fine del 
padre. 

Marko Milosevic, secondogenito di Slobodan, lo ha fatto attraverso 
una lettera aperta inviata ai vertici dell'Onu e pubblicata oggi 
sulle colonne del giornale belgradese Vecernje Novosti. Una lettera 
nella quale Milosevic junior - rifugiato in Russia da diversi anni e 
inseguito da inchieste giudiziarie nella nuova Serbia odierna - 
contesta i risultati del rapporto ufficiale sugli eventi di marzo 
presentato di recente dal vicepresidente del Tpi, Kevin Parker. 

A suo giudizio, il rapporto in questione sarebbe infatti pieno di 
ombre e contraddizioni e rappresenterebbe in sostanza un tentativo di 
nascondere le colpe attribuite fin dall'inizio alla giustizia 
internazionale dai seguaci e dalla famiglia di Milosevic, secondo cui 
i giudici dell'Aja avrebbero deliberatamente negato le cure mediche 
necessarie all'ex leader temendo di non avere abbastanza elementi per 
condannarlo. 

Su queste basi Marko Milosevic chiede dunque che l'Onu avvii 
d'autorita' una nuova indagine e piu' approfondita sull'accaduto, 
affidandone peraltro la responsabilita' a figure indipendenti ed 
estranee al Tpi. 
17/08/2006 17:01 

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Da Vecernje Novosti, agosto 2006: parla Mira Markovic

L'ex presidentessa della Direzione della JUL e vedova di Slobodan Milosevic dice di essere stata cacciata dalla Serbia oltrepassando ogni moralità e che ritornerà quando potrà. Sulla possibilità che alla sua famiglia vengano tolti i beni, cioè gli immobili tra le vie Uzicka e Tolstojeva a Belgrado, Mira Markovic valuta che sarebbe un atto al di fuori di ogni legge, ma ha aggiunto di non essere informata sul punto cui è arrivato il processo.
Parlando dei funerali di Slobodan Milosevic, Mira Markovic ha detto di non aver proibito a nessun funzionario del Partito Socialista della Serbia, neanche ad Ivica Dacic, di far parte del comitato per le celebrazioni, ma che i membri di questo comitato sono stati scelti in base alla lealtà e vicinanza a Milosevic. "Quando si parla di Dacic, lui non è entrato a farne parte perchè da tempo Milosevic non lo riteneva una persona onorabile, e politicamente ha abbandonato il programma ed i valori dell'SPS", ha detto Mira Markovic.
Alla domanda di che cosa viva, Mira Markovic ripete ironicamente che sta squagliando i lingotti d'oro. "Ho molti compagni ed amici che erano persone di spicco sia nella Seconda che nella Terza Jugoslavia e che, in quanto persone oneste, erano sempre frequentatori di casa nostra. Ecco, loro mi sostengono molto in queste mie difficoltà. D'altronde, così è giusto che sia: gli amici sono tali nel bello e nel cattivo tempo. Io tengo il loro aiuto in casa nello stesso posto dove si trovano anche i lingotti d'oro. Dunque, vivo dei lingotti d'oro rubati e della solidarietà dei miei amici di lunga data", dice.
Mira Markovic dichiara che non sono esatte le citazioni dei media belgradesi, secondo cui il figlio suo e di Slobodan Milosevic, Marko, avrebbe intentato causa contro l'Aia per l'uccisione di Slobodan Milosevic. Lei chiarisce che Marko Milosevic ha inviato, a nome proprio e della famiglia, una lettera al Presidente del Tribunale, alla Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite, al Consiglio di Sicurezza ONU ed al Segretario dell'ONU, in cui smentisce le risultanze del giudice Parker secondo cui Milosevic sarebbe morto di morte naturale. "Marko ha rigettato le risultanze di questa commissione. Ha ribadito la verità, che Slobodan si è ammalato per le difficili condizioni di vita e di lavoro nel carcere ed in tribunale, e che il tribunale gli ha impedito le cure anche quando il consiglio internazionale, con a capo il dottor Sumilin, ha avvertito che il suo stato era critico e che sarebbe potuto morire in ogni momento", dice.
Parlando dei suoi figli, Mira Markovic ha detto che Marija è malata e vive a Cetinje (Montenegro) e che è vittima di un insensato linciaggio politico così come lei stessa. "Marko è all'estero e non vuole tornare in Serbia. Io sono quella che vuole ritornare nel proprio paese", dice Mira Markovic.

Il giornale scrive che l'intervista è stata effettuata telefonicamente ma non scrive quando e nemmeno dove si trova ora Mira Markovic.


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Mistero Milosevic? Non è stato curato

di Igor Fiatti

su Il Manifesto del 14/03/2006

Funerali a Belgrado, dopo le condizioni dei socialisti serbi che minacciavano di non sostenere più il governo. Si rincorrono voci di gialli e «farmaci presi apposta». La verità è una sola: ogni volta che era malato il Tribunale e i media dubitavano

(...) Intanto è ancora mistero sulle cause dell'infarto che ha provocato la morte del superimputato dell'Aja. Secondo il tossicologo olandese Donald Uges, Milosevic è deceduto perché ha preso volontariamente medicinali sbagliati. Alla base di questa teoria ci sarebbero le sue analisi del sangue e delle tracce di un antibiotico che non gli era stato prescritto. «Con la Rifampicina, si possono prendere altre pillole, ma il fegato comincia a metabolizzare tanto da renderle del tutto inefficaci» ha detto Uges. Insomma, un lento suicidio. Ma non è dello stesso avviso il cardiologo italiano Alessandro Boccanelli: «L'ipotesi più plausibile è che Milosevic sia deceduto a causa di un infarto la cui insorgenza però non può essere correlata all'uso della Rifampicina». E le responsabilità sulla scomparsa dell'ex presidente jugoslavo riportano dei toni quasi da guerra fredda. «Con una migliore assistenza medica potevano salvarlo». «L'hanno ucciso perché dopo cinque anni di processo non riuscivano ad arrivare ad una condanna ben argomentata». «La sua morte è un crimine dell'imperialismo». Voci di Russia. Da Mosca arrivano commenti non troppo teneri per il Tribunale penale internazionale dell'Aja. Persino il ministro degli Esteri russo Serghei Lavrov ha rivendicato «il diritto di non aver fiducia» nella perizia medico-legale fatta al corpo di Milosevic, e ha annunciato che il Cremlino invierà in Olanda un gruppo di dottori per verificare di prima mano l'attendibilità dei risultati dell'autopsia. Per il Cremlino, l'ex uomo forte di Belgrado poteva essere salvato.
Ne è convinto il rinomato cardiologo Leo Bokeria, che era pronto ad accoglierlo a braccia aperte nella rinomata clinica moscovita da lui diretta: il Centro cardio-vascolare Bakuliev. «Milosevic - ha accusato il professor Bokeria - è deceduto perché non è stato ben seguito. Se aveva manifestato sintomi di infarto bisognava fare una coronarografia. Si sarebbe così scoperto quanto le sue arterie si erano ristrette e si poteva allora intervenire con i bypass, come si fa in dozzine di paesi». (...)

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TPI: SVEZIA FARA' INCHIESTA SU CARCERE DOVE MORTO MILOSEVIC

(ANSA) - L'AJA, 31 MAR - Sara' fatta un'inchiesta indipendente sul funzionamento del carcere del Tribunale penale internazionale (Tpi) per la ex Jugoslavia, dove l'11 marzo scorso e' morto Slobodan Milosevic. L'indagine e' stata affidata alla Svezia, ha annunciato oggi il Tpi. Milosevic, 64 anni, e' stato trovato morto nella sua cella ed il decesso, sulla base dei risultati dell'autopsia e' stato attribuito ad infarto del miocardio. Nell'ambito degli accertamenti e' pero risultato che medicine non prescritte al detenuto sono state portate nella cella. ''Il governo svedese ha accettato di compiere un'indagine indipendente sul centro di detenzione'', e' detto in un comunicato, senza ulteriori precisazioni. Sulla morte dell'ex presidente jugoslavo sono in corso due inchieste: una della magistratura olandese ed una interna, ordinata dal presidente del Tpi, l'italiano Fausto Pocar. Slobodan Milosevic era rinchiuso nel carcere di Scheveningen, un quartiere dell'Aja, da oltre quattro anni. Accusato di genocidio, crimini di guerra e contro l'umanita', quando e' morto era impegnato nella sua autodifesa, avendo rifiutato di essere patrocinato dagli avvocati. La sentenza era prevista entro la fine dell'anno. Il processo e' rimasto incompiuto. (ANSA). RED-VS
31/03/2006 19:56 

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MILOSEVIC: CAMERA FEDERALE, OMAGGIO SOCIALISTI E NAZIONALISTI

(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 6 APR - I nostalgici del partito socialista (Sps, ex comunista) e gli ultranazionalisti del partito radicale (Srs) hanno ripetuto oggi anche nell'assemblea del parlamento federale serbo-montenegrino l'omaggio gia' reso nei giorni scorsi al parlamento serbo a Slobodan Milosevic: l'ex leader serbo e jugoslavo accusato di genocidio e crimini di guerra e morto l'11 marzo scorso in una cella del carcere olandese del tribunale internazionale dell'Aja (Tpi). L'omaggio si e' tradotto in un minuto di silenzio osservato in piedi dai promotori all'apertura dell'odierna seduta plenaria della camera federale, la prima dopo l'11 marzo. Una iniziativa non concordata con la maggioranza e alla quale non ha aderito nessun altro, salvo alcuni esponenti del partito socialista montenegrino. Tutti i restanti gruppi presenti si sono dissociati uscendo dall'aula, mentre i deputati del partito democratico della Serbia (Dss), forza moderata che fa capo all'attuale primo ministro Vojislav Kostunica, si sono limitati a rimanere seduti. Socialisti e nazionalisti non dispongono attualmente della maggioranza parlamentare a Belgrado e sono anzi divisi tra loro. Lo Sps, in caduta libera di suffragi e spaccato al suo interno, pur non rinnegando l'eredita' del suo leader storico Milosevic garantisce infatti da qualche tempo un decisivo appoggio esterno al governo di Kostunica, l'uomo che nell'ottobre 2000 spodesto' Slobo. Lo Srs, forte di una solida maggioranza relativa di consensi nel Paese, resta invece schierato fermamente all'opposizione, contrario ai tentativi di rincorsa all'integrazione europea dell'attuale leadership. (ANSA). LR
06/04/2006 15:03 

MILOSEVIC: RAPPORTO TPI CONFERMA, MORTO PER CAUSE NATURALI

(ANSA) - L'AJA, 31 MAG - La scelta di Slobodan Milosevic di gestire personalmente la sua difesa davanti al Tribunale penale internazionale (Tpi) per la ex Jugoslavia ha provocato ''falle nella sicurezza della prigione'' ed in particolare ha consentito all'imputato di avere accesso a medicinali non prescritti. E' quanto segnala il rapporto ufficiale presentato oggi a conclusione dell'inchiesta fatta dallo stesso Tpi, che conferma inoltre che l'ex presidente jugoslavo e' morto l'11 marzo scorso, a 64 anni, per cause naturali. Nel documento, di 42 pagine, redatto dal vicepresidente della corte Kevin Parker, si sottolinea che le procedure adottare per dare a Slobo le maggiori garanzie possibili di autodifesa gli hanno permesso di ricevere anche medicinali che i sanitari del carcere non gli avevano prescritto. Il rapporto smentisce che Milosevic non abbia ricevuto cure appropriate durante gli anni passati nelle carceri dell'Aja, in risposta alle polemiche sollevate dai familiari che, insieme allo stesso imputato, avevano sollecitato il trasferimento in un ospedale in Russia. Giungendo alle stesse conclusioni degli investigatori olandesi e di esperti indipendenti nominati dalla Svezia, l'inchiesta del Tpi stabilisce che Milosevic e' morto per cause naturali, a seguito di un attacco cardiaco, e precisa che ''non e' stato trovato nulla che possa suffragare le accuse riportate da alcuni media secondo le quali sarebbe stato avvelenato''. Il rapporto precisa che alcuni accertamenti sono stati resi difficili dal fatto che molti medici olandesi che trattavano l'ex presidente jugoslavo hanno invocato il segreto professionale. Scartata anche l'eventualita' del suicidio in merito alla quale il rapporto Parker sostiene che ''le circostanze in cui Milosevic e' stato trovato'' e gli esami medici dettagliati ''non forniscono elementi per sostenere tale ipotesi''. Infine in merito alle richieste dell'imputato di farsi operare a Mosca l'inchiesta riferisce che ci sono state divergenze di opinione tra gli esperti per cui ''non si puo' concludere che ci siano state carenze nel trattamento garantito a Milosevic''. L'ex presidente jugoslavo era sotto processo dal febbraio del 2022, accusato di genocidio, crimini di guerra e contro l'umanita' per il ruolo avuto nella guerra dei Balcani. E' morto quando mancavano poche udienze per concludere la sua difesa. La sentenza era prevista entro la fine dell'anno.(ANSA). VS
31/05/2006 11:59

MILOSEVIC: TPI REVOCA SEGRETO SU DOCUMENTI MEDICI

(ANSA) - L'AJA, 1 GIU - Il Tribunale penale internazionale (Tpi) per la ex Jugoslavia ha accolto la richiesta fatta dagli avvocati d'ufficio e dai familiari ed oggi ha deciso di togliere il segreto su certi documenti medici e su altri documenti concernenti Slobodan Milosevic, morto nelle carceri dell'Aja l'11 marzo scorso. Lo ha reso noto una fonte del Tpi precisando, peraltro, che si tratta di documenti confidenziali ma in gran parte gia' utilizzati nei rapporti pubblicati sulla morte di Milosevic. Ieri la Corte dell'Aja ha reso noto un rapporto, di 42 pagine, con i risultati dell'inchiesta interna che, come quella fatta dalle autorita' olandesi e da investigatori svedesi ribadisce che l'ex presidente jugoslavo e' morto per un attacco cardiaco. Il rapporto riconosce che per non ridurre le possibilita' di autodifesa di Milosevic ci sono state nelle carenze nella sicurezza della prigione che hanno permesso all' imputato di ricevere medicinali che non gli era stati prescritti dai sanitari che lo stavano curando. Il documento sostiene inoltre che Slobo, che aveva 64 anni e soffriva di scompensi cardiaci e ipertensione, e' stato curato correttamente. (ANSA). RED-VS
01/06/2006 19:42 


Kosovo, Dick Marty all'attacco di Carla del Ponte

di Maria Delfina Bonada

su Il Manifesto del 18/08/2006

(...) Durante il recente festival cinematografico di Locarno Carla del Ponte ha tenuto banco. Prima con una conferenza stampa, poi con la proiezione dell'interessante documentario «La lista di Carla» (una reminescenza di Schindler's list?) e infine con un affollatissimo dibattito sul tema «lotta contro l'impunità. Le sfide nei Balcani». Oltre a Carla di Ponte c'erano tra gli altri un procuratore bosniaco, uno croato e il procuratore svizzero Dick Marty. E lì non sono mancate le critiche.
E' stato proprio l'intervento del liberale Dick Marty, lo stesso incaricato dalla Ue di indagare sui voli segreti della Cia nei cieli d'Europa a rimettere le cose in una giusta ottica.
Alle affermazioni della del Ponte che «è la convenienza politica a convincere i responsabili a consegnare i criminali di guerra, poiché non esiste il senso della giustizia», Marty ha replicato che è pericoloso mischiare giustizia e politica quando la giustizia è quella dei vincitori». «Non va dimenticato, pur avendo grande stima per l'operato del tribunale internazionale, che è stato concepito e voluto dalla comunità internazionale per lavarsi la coscienza per i bombardamenti illegali sulla Serbia», ha proseguito Marty riferendosi poi alla Nato, «che gestisce e proibisce le visite nelle carceri del Kosovo ai comitati contro la tortura, dove si ignora chi vi è detenuto. Una cosa inaccettabile in Europa». La requisitoria di Marty è stata implacabile, pur nel disagio degli altri conferenzieri: «Quando si vuole imporre la giustizia agli altri, bisogna essere disposti ad applicarla a se stessi. Invece ad esempio gli Stati uniti si sono ben guardati dal ratificare la creazione della Corte penale internazionale. Anzi, hanno fatto accordi bilaterali con altri paesi affinché non consegnassero alla giustizia internazionali cittadini Usa».
Quanto alla discussione sul futuro del Kosovo, Dick Marty non ha dubbi: «Per parlare di uno stato indipendente, ci vuole una società civile. Che non esiste in Kosovo. Quello è un centro di criminalità organizzata, dove la minoranza serba vive in condizioni spaventose. Sono questi i problemi da risolvere prima di parlare di indipendenza». 
Inevitabile il riferimento al Libano: «Ormai si bombarda facilmente. La Jugoslavia, l'Iraq, il Libano, e non si pensa al dopo. In Iraq siamo alla guerra civile, nei Balcani non si sa che fare con il Kosovo, in Libano non si sa cosa accadrà domani. Una cosa è certa: ogni bomba sul Libano creerà 10 nuovi terroristi».


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MILOSEVIC MOSCOW REQUEST DENIED
IWPR'S TRIBUNAL UPDATE No. 441, February 24, 2006

RUSSIAN REACTION TO HAGUE TRIBUNAL'S DENIAL OF MEDICAL TREATMENT
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Russian Press - February 25, 2006

TRIBUNAL SAYS DUTCH MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY LAW PREVENTED THEM FROM TELLING MILOSEVIC THE DISTURBING RESULTS OF HIS OWN BLOOD TESTS - May 31, 2006

BORISLAV MILOSEVIC INTERVIEWED BY BELARUSIAN TELEVISION
Belarus TV - June 30, 2006

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http://www.interfax.com/3/163871/news.aspx

Interfax
 June 8, 2006

 Russia to insist on closing International Tribunal for Yugoslavia

 MOSCOW - Russia will oppose extending the mandate of
 the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
 Yugoslavia, Russian Permanent Representative to the
United Nations Vitaly Churkin said at the UN Security
 Council.

 The tribunal should terminate its mission on time, and
 Russia will insist on that, the UN news service quoted
 Churkin.

 The tribunal made a serious mistake when it denied
 Yugoslav ex-president Slobodan Milosevic the chance to
 receive medical treatment in Moscow, he said.

 The Russian public was shocked with "the tactless
 statement" by Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla del
Ponte, who rejected Russia's guarantees concerning the
 Milosevic's treatment in Moscow, Churkin said.



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IN DIFESA DELLA JUGOSLAVIA
Il j'accuse di Slobodan Milosevic 
di fronte al "Tribunale ad hoc" dell'Aia" 
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Neverending pogroms in Kosmet (4)



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"GIORNI DI PAURA" - DVD SUL KOSOVO

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DAYS MADE OF FEAR - 1998-2005

NEW DVD WITH EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTARY FILMS ABOUT KOSOVO CRISIS
Directed, produced and published by:
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CONTO ALLA ROVESCIA PER L'ESODO DEI SERBI

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2006/02028.shtml

COUNTDOWN TO SERBIAN EXODUS
Serbianna - July 11, 2006
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L'ANA ORDINA DI ATTACCARE IL NORD DEL KOSOVO (DOVE È ANCORA FORTE LA
COMPONENTE NON-ALBANOFONA)

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kd071206.htm

ALBANIAN NATIONAL ARMY (ANA) ORDERS ATTACK ON NORTHERN KOSOVO
Koha Ditore (Kosovo-Albanian) - July 12, 2006
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ALBANESE-KOSOVARO RAPISCE FIGLIA DI FUNZIONARIO MONTENEGRINO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/vijesti071306.htm

KOSOVO-ALBANIAN KIDNAPS MONTENEGRIN OFFICIAL'S DAUGHTER
Vijesti (Montenegro) - July 13, 2006
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CRESCE IL FERMENTO TRA I SECESSIONISTI PAN-ALBANESI IN MONTENEGRO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kl071306.htm

HERE WE GO AGAIN: KOSOVO-ALBANIAN GROUP ACCUSES MONTENEGRO OF RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS
KosovaLive (Kosovo-Albanian) - July 15, 2006
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IL WHC SOTTOLINEA IL PERICOLO PER IL PATRIMONIO STORICO-RELIGIOSO
SERBO-KOSOVARO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/xinhua071706.htm

WORLD HERITAGE COUNSEL SAYS KOSOVO-SERB HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS
MONUMENTS IN DANGER
Xinhua (China) - July 16, 2006
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I SONDAGGI MOSTRANO LA DIVERSITÀ DI OPINIONI SUL FUTURO DEL KOSOVO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/fonet072006.htm

POLL SHOWS SERBS AND ALBANIANS DEEPLY SPLIT OVER KOSOVO
FoNet - July 21, 2006

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IL TRAFFICO DI DROGA IN ALBANIA È LEGATO A FUNZIONARI DI GOVERNO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/dfasa071706b.htm

ALBANIAN DRUG TRAFFICKING LINKED TO GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Defense & Foreign Affairs Special Analysis - August 5, 2006

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LE VIE BALCANICHE DEL TRAFFICO DI DROGA E ARMI

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/dfasa071706.htm

NEW SMUGGLING ROUTES DEMONSTRATE LINK BETWEEN BALKAN JIHADISTS AND MAFIA
Defense & Foreign Affairs Special Analysis - August 6, 2006

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CONSIGLIERE DI BERISHA INNEGGIA ALLA "GRANDE ALBANIA"

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?
cat=Politics&loid=8.0.332806468&par=0

BALKANS: OFFICIAL CALLS FOR A 'NATURAL ALBANIA'
ADN Kronos International (Italy) - August 22, 2006

=== NEWS ===

CINQUE ARRESTATI PER L'ATTACCO CONTRO LA POLIZIA NEL NORD DI MITROVICA

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=144&newsid=91400&ch=0

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - July 1, 2006

Police Arrest Five Albanians for Attacking Kosovo Police Patrol

Kosovska Mitrovica - The police arrested five
Albanians who attacked a patrol of the Kosovo police
unit in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica,
Montenegrin news agency MINA told FOCUS News Agency.
The Albanians attacked the patrol at about 8 p.m.
Friday on the road Kosovska Mitrovica – Suvi Do.
Before that the attackers beat up two Kosovo Serb
policemen and after that two of their colleagues who
are Albanian.

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TRUPPE ITALIANE IN KOSOVO DANNEGGIANO CASE SPARANDO PER FESTEGGIARE
LA VITTORIA AI MONDIALI DI CALCIO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/srna070506.htm

Italian troops' gun celebration damages Kosovo Serb homes

BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - July 5, 2006, Wednesday
Excerpt from report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA
Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1148
gmt 5 Jul 06
Copyright 2006 British Broadcasting Corporation - Posted for Fair Use
only.

Pristina, 5 July: Italian Kfor [NATO-led Kosovo Force] members caused
an unintentional incident last night in the village of Grabac [near
Klina in central Kosovo], when they fired a number of rounds from
automatic weapons and hand-held mortars celebrating the victory of
their football team over Germany [in the World Cup], Kfor spokesman
Klaus Treude said today in Pristina.
"The celebration disturbed the locals, who are returnees to the
village of Grabac, and Kfor command has ordered an investigation to
be conducted," Treude said at a press conference.
The representative of the Serb community in the Klina municipality,
Tatjana Tosic confirmed that last night's gunfire celebration
resulted in cracked roofs and damaged roof tiles in the village.
"Locals retreated into their homes because of the gunfire and the
situation calmed down only after the arrival of a Kfor patrol and the
Kosovo Police Service [KPS] in Grabac," Tosic said.

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L'UNHCR PREPARA LA EPURAZIONE FINALE DEI SERBI KOSOVARI

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/gj070605.htm

UNHCR SAID CHECKING OUT SOUTH SERBIA FOR SERB EVACUATION FROM KOSOVO
- PAPER
BBC Monitoring International Reports - July 6, 2006, Thursday
Source: Glas javnosti, Belgrade, in Serbian 30 Jun 06
Copyright 2006 Financial Times Information - All Rights Reserved

Text of report by B. Ristic entitled "Big Evacuation of Serbs being
prepared"? published by the Serbian newspaper Glas javnosti on 30 June

Belgrade: For more than a month now, UNHCR members from Kosovo-
Metohija have been informally touring municipalities in southern
Serbia along the administrative boundary line with Kosmet [Kosovo-
Metohija], checking out accommodation capacities for a swift
evacuation of Serbs from Kosmet if the southern province should
become independent or - which is another possibility that is being
considered - if the Albanian side should be dissatisfied with
Kosmet's status settlement. This has been confirmed for Glas javnosti
in informal contacts by Serb councilmen in the Medvedja Municipal
Council, whom UNHCR members have recently contacted, as well as -
again informally - by sources in the civilian segment of UNMIK [UN
Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo] and Albanian members of the
KPS [Kosovo Police Service] in Kosmet. Kfor [Kosovo Force] troops in
Kosmet also say that their internal level of alert has been raised,
but they could not say whether this has anything to do with the above.
Serbs living in enclaves in the south of Kosmet say that an
unofficial population census has recently been taken in the villages,
that is, representatives of local international forces asked "village
elders" to submit an approximate list of people permanently living in
the area.
One of the main problems about this "operation of sheltering the Serb
population" comes from the fact that the Serb enclaves are small and
tucked away deep in the territory of Kosmet, among the Albanian
population; according to KPC representatives, again speaking
informally, these areas are predominantly populated by Albanians that
have come from Albania and settled here since 1999 and who are
regarded as "extremists" even by their indigenous ethnic kin in
Kosmet. Glas javnosti's source says that it has been recommended to
Serbs in this area to try to "group themselves" somehow, that is, to
organize themselves in a way that would enable international troops
to evacuate them swiftly in case of a crisis.
In Medvedja they say that Serbs in southern Serbia have some fear
also from Albanians, whose numbers they estimate at about 250,000 at
any time and who practically "live" on both sides of the
administrative line with Kosmet. In their view, depending on the
Kosmet status solution, these Albanians could make problems in this
part of Serbia. They say that Serbs have discussed this matter with
UNHCR officials who, the Serbs were told, are also aware of the
problem but "do not have a solution" for the moment. Although Glas
javnosti tried on Wednesday [28 June] to obtain official confirmation
of this report on the ground, from local UNHCR officials in Kosmet,
none of them were willing to comment, but the fact that they did not
deny it speaks for itself.
Albanians in Kosmet say that parallel with these plans, there are
also plans being made for the evacuation from Kosmet of international
civilian and military forces, who are apparently becoming less and
less popular with Albanians in Kosmet.
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L'ULTIMA IMMORALE BOUTADE DI AHTISAARI PRIMA DI ANDARSENE: I SERBI
LASCINO IL KOSOVO, PAGHEREMO BENE

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=144&newsid=91824&ch=0

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - July 8, 2006

UN Kosovo Envoy Buying Kosovo

Pristina - In his wish to preserve his position
European Union's Special Envoy for Kosovo Marti
Ahtisaari has sent a new unexpected proposal to
Serbia: to recognize Kosovo’s independence and in
return receive money and concessions.
In the language of diplomacy this is called a
“shopping list”, Serbian newspaper Vecerne Novosti
reads.
From diplomatic sources the newspaper found out that
the so-called shopping list includes five points:

1. Serbia to join in NATO’s Partnership for Peace
program (without being obliged to capture General
Ratko Mladic)

2. An agreement Serbia to join the European Union
(also without being obliged to hand in Mladic)

3. Financial aid from the US

4. Access to EU funds

5. Increase of direct foreign investments.

Marti Ahtisaari’s proposal to the southern Serbia
region does not sound bad at all – at least on paper.
But it means: “Give Kosovo up and we will give you
everything else!” the newspaper comments.
According to an anonymous government source there is
no official document for Ahtisaari’s shopping list.

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KOSTUNICA: LA SECESSIONE KOSOVARA DESTABILIZZEREBBE LA REGIONE

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=144&newsid=92059&ch=0

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - July 12, 2006

Kosovo’s Independence Would Destabilize Region: Serbia’s PM

Washington - If Kosovo is granted independence this
would seriously destabilize the region, Serbia’s Prime
Minister Vojislav Kostunica said during his meeting
with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in
Washington RTS reports.
“A country to be robbed of 15% of its territory – this
would be possible only if democracy is violated,” PM
Kostunica told journalists after his conversation with
Condoleezza Rice.
Kostunica and Rice agreed that it is of extreme
importance the talks for Kosovo to be very well
prepared and a solution for the region to be found in
accordance with the leading principles of the Contact
Group.

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ATTACCO CONTRO PROFUGO SERBO-KOSOVARO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kp071406.htm

Kosovo Albanians give chase to would-be Serb returnee - Kosovo Serb
radio

BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - July 14, 2006, Friday
Source: Kontakt Plus, Kosovska Mitrovica, in Serbian 1400 gmt 14 Jul 06
Copyright 2006 British Broadcasting Corporation - Posted for Fair Use
only.

Text of report by Serbia-Montenegrin radio Kontakt Plus on 14 July

[Announcer] A group of Albanians from Srbobran village near Istok
yesterday attacked Dragi Malikovic, dean at the [Kosovska Mitrovica-
based] Pristina University Philosophy Department, who was visiting
his family property with his friends. Jelena Markovic has a detailed
report.
[Reporter] I heard that an Albanian had built a four-storey house on
my family's property. I went there with some of my friends to see for
myself, and I saw that it was true. I entered the other part of my
courtyard which this Albanian had also usurped and prepared for the
construction of another house. While I was visiting the property, the
owner of the aforementioned house spotted me and immediately went
somewhere with his tractor. Just ten minutes later, two vans carrying
around 15 Albanians arrived. We got into our vehicle and departed for
[Kosovska] Mitrovica but they followed us for more than 10 kilometres
with various shouts and threats, Dragi Malikovic told the
International Press Centre in Kosovska Mitrovica.
Until 1999, Srbobran was a purely Serb village with 59 households
whose owners have been keenly waiting to return to their hearth and
home for over seven years. Currently, work to restore five houses in
the village is nearing its end. Recent attacks against Serb returnees
demonstrate that Albanians from neighbouring villages, helped by the
Pristina authorities, want an ethnically pure Kosovo-Metohija without
a Serb presence. This is also confirmed by the fact that six multiple
store houses owned by Albanians from neighbouring villages had been
built on village land which belongs solely to the Serbs exiled from
Srbobran.
Despite the attacks and large sums of money which Albanians offer for
our property, we are determined and will persist in our wish to
return and begin our lives anew on this Kosovo-Metohija land, Dragi
Malikovic said.
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DELEGAZIONE RUSSA ALL'ONU PREOCCUPATA PER LA QUESTIONE KOSOVARA

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/07/14/kosovo.shtml

MosNews - July 14, 2006

Russia Challenges UN Power on Kosovo, Calls for Talks

Russia said on Thursday the United Nations had no
authority to impose a solution on Serbia over the
status of its breakaway Kosovo province and only a
negotiated deal was acceptable, the Reuters news
agency reported.
The statement by Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin
was significant as the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia
have dug their heels in the international talks aimed
at determining whether Kosovo wins independence or
remains a part of Serbia, making an imposed solution
more likely.
“I stated today in the closed meeting of the Security
Council that I do not believe that the international
community has legal, political or moral ground to
force Serbia into a solution on this issue,” Churkin
told reporters.
“There is plenty of opportunity for the sides to have
their discussions, and the only stable solution, the
only solution good for regional and global stability,
would be a solution negotiated between the two sides,”
Churkin said.
Ethnic Albanians, 90 percent of the impoverished
province’s 2 million people, demand independence while
Serbia insists Kosovo must remain within its borders,
albeit with substantial autonomy.
Kosovo has been run by the United Nations since June
1999 when NATO bombs drove out Serb forces....
Martti Ahtisaari of Finland is leading the U.N.-backed
process set up to determine Kosovo’s eventual status.
Direct talks on the fate of Kosovo began in February
in Vienna, and he hopes for a result by the end of
this year.
Churkin spoke after Ahtisaari briefed the council -
and then talked to reporters - on his talks.
During the closed-door meeting, Serbian Prime Minister
Vojislav Kostunica again ruled out independence and
accused the international community of seeking to
change Serbia’s borders by force, diplomats attending
the session said.
Ahtisaari, asked before Churkin spoke whether he
thought a solution might have to be imposed because of
Kostunica’s hard line, said it was “entirely premature
to start talking how the end result of this exercise
is going to be.”
But other council diplomats said an imposed solution
would clearly be in order if a deal could not be
negotiated.
Ahtisaari said he had strong council support for his
work. “I think everyone is interested that we have a
thorough process - in the end of the day that we can
say that we have done our utmost to try to find a
negotiated settlement,” he said.

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SERBO SFUGGE A LINCIAGGIO A SRBOBRAN

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=144&newsid=92333&ch=0

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - July 16, 2006

Serbs Escape Lynching in Kosovo Village

Istok - Serbs who visited their property in the Kosovo
village of Srbobran were lucky to escape after they
were attacked by Albanians residing in the village,
Serbian newspaper Politika reads today.
The Serbs were made to leave the village in order to
escape the clash with the group of Albanians.
Only a few days ago Albanians robbed a house which was
being built for a returning Serb, after which they set
fire to it.
Meanwhile the work on five of the 59 Serbian houses,
which existed in the village before 1999, is almost
finished.

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I MINISTRI DELLA UE SE NE FREGANO DI TUTTO E VOGLIONO IL KOSOVO
"INDIPENDENTE"

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1961498&C=europe

Defense News - July 18, 2006

EU Ministers Support Kosovo Independence
By BROOKS TIGNER

BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers issued a
clear signal of support July 17 for Kosovo’s impending
independence, declaring the union would take a leading
role within the international community as the
province prepares to break away from Serbia.
....
In a joint report to the foreign chiefs during their
July 17 gathering here, Solana and Olli Rehn, European
commissioner for enlargement, recommended three
courses of action by the EU in support of Kosovo,
currently administered by the United Nations. These
call for the:

• Creation of a double-hatted post to lead the
international community’s work in Kosovo and to serve
as the EU special representative to Kosovo.

• The European Union will launch a new mission, under
its security and defense policy, to help reform and
strengthen Kosovo’s law enforcement and justice
authorities.

• Use EU financial instruments to help Kosovo prepare
for a so-called Stabilization and Association
Agreement covering trade and investment with the
union.

The goal is for Kosovo to become “a reliable partner,
progressing towards integration with the EU together
with the rest of the region,” according to the report.
Though Pristina would be responsible for handling most
government functions, the report also reaffirms that
the international security presence in Kosovo is
needed to guarantee the rule of law and stable
relations between Kosovo’s dominant Albanian majority
and its Serb minority.
A NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force of 17,000 soldiers
currently has this role, a mission that will continue
under the NATO flag after Kosovo secures its
independence, say EU and NATO officials.
....

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IL CRIMINALE "PREMIER" KOSOVARO PROMETTE "INDIPENDENZA" ENTRO LA FINE
DELL'ANNO

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=144&newsid=92601&ch=0

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - July 20, 2006

Kosovo PM: Kosovo to be Independent by Year’s End

Ljubljana - Kosovo will be an independent state even
before the end of the year, Kosovo’s Prime Minister
Agim Ceku, the Serbian radio B92 reported.
Ceku is on a visit to Slovenia at the invitation of
his Slovenian counterpart Janez Jansa.
Kosovo’s Prime Minister stated he would voice his
stand during his first meeting with UN special envoy
for the Kosovo status talks Marti Ahtisaari on July 24
in Vienna.

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MAFIA KOSOVARA MINACCIA ANCHE L'UNMIK

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=144&newsid=92650&ch=0

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - July 21, 2006

Kosovo Mafia Makes Death Threat to UNMIK Police Commissioner

Pristina - UNMIK Police Commissioner Kai Vittrup told
in an interview with a Danish TV station that the
Kosovo Albanians mafia had threatened him with death
and that is why his personal protection has been
reinforced, RTS informs.
“One gets used to the threats and if I were afraid I
wouldn’t have stayed in Kosovo.
"The threat I received is actually a threat to all UN
officials in Kosovo therefore we are carrying out an
investigation and are taking the necessary protection
measures,” Kai Vittrup said.
“My wife left Kosovo and it was a joint decision. No
threat should make a Police Commissioner leave
Kosovo,” he added.
The UNMIK Police Chief said that there are various
crime forms in the region – from the classical, like
robberies and murders, to organized crime dealing with
drugs and arms.
“This is a mafia ran by families on the clan
principle. It is a closed system that is hard to track
down, but we are progressing,” Kai Vittrup added.

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IL "KOSOVO" PARLA SOLO DI "INDIPENDENZA"

http://news.scotsman.com/latest_international.cfm?id=1041302006

Reuters - July 17, 2006

Kosovo ready to talk independence with Serbia
By Shaban Buza

PRISTINA, Serbia - Kosovo said on Monday it would
demand independence from Serbia when the two sides
meet this month for the highest-level talks between
the two sides since NATO's 1999 air war drove out Serb
forces.
U.N. mediators hope to bring together the presidents
and prime ministers of Serbia and its United
Nations-run, majority Albanian province in Vienna on
July 24.
For the first time, Kosovo's international status -
independence or autonomy - will top the agenda, after
six months of lower-level talks on the rights and
security of minority Serbs. The West wants a decision
within the year.
"The Kosovo delegation will go to Vienna, not to
negotiate but once more to argue its case that full
independence and sovereignty for our country based on
the will of the people ... is the vital solution that
must be confirmed," Skender Hyseni, adviser to Kosovo
President Fatmir Sejdiu, told reporters.
Serbia has yet to confirm its participation.
Legally part of Serbia, Kosovo has been run by the
United Nations since 1999, when NATO bombed to drive
out Serb forces...during a two-year war with
separatist guerrillas.
The meeting is not expected to yield any concrete
results, the chasm between the two sides seemingly
unbridgeable.

AID ONCE STATUS CLEAR
Ninety percent of Kosovo's 2 million people are
[currently] ethnic Albanians impatient for
independence.
Serbia has offered wide autonomy for land seen as the
sacred cradle of the nation.
But diplomats say Kosovo is heading for independence,
under European Union supervision and secured by a NATO
peace force that currently numbers 17,000.
In a report to EU foreign ministers meeting in
Brussels, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said
the bloc intended to be the driving force of the
international presence, with the head of that mission
also serving as EU Special Representative.
It would monitor the implementation of a status
settlement, the rule of law and certain economic and
fiscal matters.
"The international presence will need to have some
limited intervention powers to ensure that the status
settlement is implemented," Rehn wrote, according to a
summary of his report, drafted with EU foreign policy
chief Javier Solana.
The West is pushing for a deal by the end of 2006,
concerned that a delay could spark fresh violence
against the U.N. mission and Kosovo's 100,000
remaining Serbs, a ghettoised minority.
The seven-year limbo is blamed for the lack of
investment and deep poverty in Kosovo, where
unemployment is 50 percent.
Rehn added that the EU and the World Bank would
convene a donors' conference once status was settled
and the EU would contribute to a "well-coordinated mix
of grant assistance, macro-financial support and
loans".

(Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom in Brussels)

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IL CRIMINALE "PREMIER" KOSOVARO CHIEDE AD ONU E NATO DI TAGLIARE I
LEGAMI TRA NORD KOSOVO E RESTO DELLA SERBIA

http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2006/07/un-nato-must-isolate-north-
kosovo-from.html

Agence France-Presse - July 22, 2006

UN, NATO must isolate north Kosovo from Serbia: PM

PRISTINA, Serbia [for now] - The prime minister of
Kosovo on Saturday called on the province's UN
administration to increase security on its northern
border to isolate it from Serbia proper.
"KFOR (NATO peacekeepers) and (the UN administration)
UNMIK have to undertake measures in order to isolate
this part (of Kosovo) from Serbia, politically and
practically, and establish such measures on the border
which are the same as on the rest of the Kosovo
borders," PM Agim Ceku said.
He was speaking before attending UN-sponsored talks
between the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo's ethnic
Albanian leaders in Vienna on Monday, the first such
meeting since the 1998-1999 Kosovo war.
The one-day meeting in Vienna, chaired by UN special
envoy Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, is expected to
tackle for the first time the core issue of Kosovo's
future status and the ethnic Albanians' demands for
full independence.
Ceku said the border between Kosovo and the rest of
Serbia was so "soft" that visitors did not believe
that it was a border at all, believing instead that
the border is on the Ibar river, which runs through
the volatile and ethnicly-divided town Kosovska
Mitrovica.
The river separates and marks the boundary between the
biggest Serb-populated area in northern Kosovo with
about 60,000 inhabitants and about two million ethnic
Albanians in the rest of the UN-administered Serbian
province.
One of the toughest issues at the talks is the issue
of northern Kosovo, where Serbs have been calling for
the partition of the province.
Serbs warn that this region along the border with
Serbia proper would secede if independence was granted
to Pristina.
In June, Serbs in the north proclaimed a "state of
emergency", cutting off their relations with the
Kosovo institutions, a move considered to be a first
step towards the partition of the province.
The decision, strongly opposed by the Kosovo Albanian
and UN authorities, came after a series of small-scale
attacks against Serbs, including a murder of a young
Serb man.
Kosovo, legally still a province of Serbia, has been
run by the UN and NATO since mid-1999, when the
military alliance's air war drove out forces loyal to
then Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic over a
crackdown against the province's separatist ethnic
Albanian majority.
The international mission in Kosovo has failed to
enforce its mandate in the Serb-dominated north and to
sever Belgrade's influence. [UN Resolution 1244 - the
mandate - states no such thing; in fact it upholds the
opposite, including the return of Serbian security
forces.]

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ALTRI 650 SOLDATI DELLA GRANDE GERMANIA NELLA GRANDE ALBANIA

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1969247&C=europe

Agence France-Presse - July 22, 2006

NATO Deploys German Soldiers in Kosovo

PRISTINA - NATO has deployed some 650 German soldiers
to Kosovo, as part of an operation to show its
commitment to security in the United Nations-run
province, officials said July 21.
”The German army battalion, comprised of some 650
soldiers, has been deployed to Kosovo since Monday,”
Colonel Pio Sabetta, KFOR (NATO-led peacekeeping
mission) spokesman told AFP.
”The deployment confirms NATO’s ability to reinforce
in-theater NATO-led forces on very short notice and
continues NATO’s mission to provide a safe and secure
environment for all of Kosovo.”
KFOR earlier also increased its presence in northern
Kosovo after Serbs there announced in June a state of
emergency, breaking off its relations with Kosovo’s
institutions, a move which was considered as a
precursor to a bid to partition the province.
The decision came after the series of small-scale
attacks against Serbs, in which a young Serb was
killed.
Following the latest tensions in north of the
province, the U.N. Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and KFOR
increased security in the north, deploying additional
police forces and reopening KFOR’s base by the
northern administrative border with Serbia.
”The battalion is part of NATO’s Operational Reserve
Force (ORF) and they will be used all around Kosovo,
also in north,” Sabetta said.
Sabetta said KFOR wanted to show its commitment to
security.
Kosovo, a province in southern Serbia, has been run by
the U.N. and NATO since mid-1999, after the alliance’s
air war drove out forces loyal to former Serbian
leader Slobodan Milosevic who were cracking down on
the province’s separatist ethnic Albanian majority.
Talks on the future of Kosovo are set to resume Monday
in Vienna under the auspices of the United Nations.
Kosovo’s Albanian majority wants independence for the
province, but its demand has been rejected by Belgrade
and the province’s minority Serb community.

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SCONTRI A FUOCO TRA ALBANESI-KOSOVARI E MONTENEGRINI SUL CONFINE

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/vijesti072306.htm

Montenegrin police confirm exchange of fire along border with Kosovo

BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - July 23, 2006, Sunday
Source: Vijesti, Podgorica, in Serbian 23 Jul 06 p9
Copyright 2006 British Broadcasting Corporation - Posted for Fair Use
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Excerpt from report by Bi.B entitled "First insulted and then shot at
border guards" published by Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti on 23 July

Podgorica - Last weekend an incident occurred on Bogicevica Mountain
in the Hadzina Ravan village area near Plav [town in northern
Montenegro], close to the junction of three borders - that of
Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania. Several persons entered Montenegro
from Kosovo and fired shots at border guard policemen.
The incident happened last Sunday [16 July] about noon [1000gmt],
when young men from Kosovo crossed the border and advanced about 50
metres into Montenegro.
They were singing and cursing. Border guard policemen tried to stop
them but the young men form Kosovo fired several bullets at them.
Border guard policemen fired several warning shots into the air and
then the attackers escaped back to Kosovo, police sources told Vijesti.
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LOBBYSTI DELL'ICG SENTENZIANO: IL "KOSOVO" DEVE AVERE UN SUO ESERCITO

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=144&newsid=93077&ch=0

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - July 28, 2006

Kosovo Must Have Own Army: International Crisis Group

[The board of the so-called International Crisis Group
includes such disinterested luminaries as George
Soros, Morton Abramowitz, Kenneth Adelman, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Wesley Clark, Joschka Fischer, Martti
Ahtisaari, Chris Patten and George Mitchell.]

Pristina - The independent Kosovo must have its own
army despite Serbia’s disagreement on the issue, a
report of the International Crisis Group reads.
According to the organization the armed forces in
Kosovo must be small, they should concentrate mainly
on performing peacekeeping operations and to be placed
under NATO’s command.
In the report entitled “Army for Kosovo?” the
International Crisis Group thinks that a Kosovo army
would help Kosovo’s Liberation Army and the existing
military formations to receive an official status
after which they would threaten neither the new state
nor its neighbors.
The report supports the thesis the future army would
be one of the pillars of the new state.
The paramilitary formations and those connected to
organized crime must be eliminated, the International
Crisis Group recommends in its report.

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DROGA ED ARMI SEQUESTRATE IN KOSOVO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/ap073106.htm

Police seize large quantities of marijuana, weapons in two raids in
Kosovo

Associated Press Worldstream - July 31, 2006 Monday 6:04 PM GMT
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PRISTINA Serbia - Police in Kosovo seized large quantities of
marijuana and weapons in two separate raids in the province,
officials said Monday.
Police units specialized in narcotics arrested five people during the
operations, and confiscated 36 kilograms (about 80 pounds) of
marijuana in the southern town of Prizren and another 8 kilograms
(about 18 pounds) in the province's capital, Pristina, a police
statement said.
An AK-47 assault rifle, a revolver and ammunition were also found in
Sunday's raids, it said.
Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations and patrolled by
NATO peacekeepers since 1999. The province is believed to be often
used as a transit point for drugs intended for sale in Western Europe.
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PARTITI MONTENEGRINI SOTTOLINEANO LA MINACCIA PROVENIENTE DAL KOSOVO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/mina073106.htm

Montenegrin Serb party wants ban on "extremist tourists" from Kosovo

BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - July 31, 2006 Monday
Source: Mina news agency, Podgorica, in Serbian 0916 gmt 30 Jul 06
Copyright 2006 British Broadcasting Corporation - Posted for Fair Use
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Excerpt from report by Montenegrin Mina news agency

Podgorica, 30 July: The Serbian People's Party (SNS) today stated
that the dramatic events in Ulcinj yesterday [29 July] had shown the
real face of Montenegro after the referendum and asked the government
to proclaim the perpetrators of the incident personae non gratae.
Some 2,000 Kosovo Albanians yesterday blocked the Little Beach
promenade in protest over the detention of two of their countrymen.
[Passage omitted]
"Thousands of extremists dressed as tourists were charging at the
police, chanting slogans supporting the terrorist OVK [disbanded
Kosovo Liberation Army], and members of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs failed to react adequately," said a statement by [the SNS]
information service head, Jovan Vucurovic.
The state of Montenegro, he said, showed the strength embodied in
"the beat-up policemen who were running around the Little Beach in
front of outraged pro-sovereignty protesters from Kosovo-Metohija".
"This incident can be defined as a classic clash with another state's
bodies and an expression of various pretensions towards it,"
Vucurovic believes.
He said that the regime would do everything in its power to cover up
this incident, because these Albanian tourists had brought
independence to Montenegro and now assessed that they could do
whatever they wanted without being held accountable.
"Only naive people can believe that this was a spontaneous gathering
of over 2,000 persons, and the SNS openly suspects that this was a
well-organized action and that those whom [Kosovo Prime Minister]
Agim Ceku and [Democratic Party of Kosovo chairman] Hashim Thaci
recently praised for their selfless participation in the dissolution
of the country were also among the protesters," Vucurovic said.
The SNS believes that this incident could cause numerous problems in
Montenegro, not only because of the increasing Albanian extremism,
but also because the regime was not capable of reacting "to a sort of
occupation of its territory".
"The question arising is who has allowed such a large number of
extremists to enter Montenegro and whether anyone is checking the
identity of the persons crossing the border between Montenegro and
Serbia from the territory of Kosovo-Metohija," Vucurovic said.
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TENSIONE ALTA NEL NORD DEL KOSOVO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/
AR2006080400320.html

Reuters - August 4, 2006

Major powers warn of tensions in north Kosovo
By Matt Robinson

BELGRADE - The major powers voiced concern on Friday
at tensions in northern Kosovo, where there are
growing signs of Serb resistance as the majority
Albanian province pushes for independence from Serbia.
A statement issued by the six-member Contact Group
expressed concern at "recent developments" in the
mainly Serb north of Kosovo adjacent to central
Serbia.
It did not specify which developments. Reports suggest
Serbs there are strengthening what they say are
self-defense groups made up of former military and
police officers.
"Both Belgrade and Pristina should take immediate
steps to reduce tensions in northern Kosovo,
particularly to encourage responsible leadership and
build confidence among communities," said the
statement, issued by the U.S. liaison office in Kosovo
on behalf of the United States, Britain, Germany,
France, Italy and Russia.
Seven years since NATO bombs drove out Serb forces and
the United Nations took control, the West is pushing
for a decision on Kosovo's fate in 2006. Some Serb
leaders have threatened to split it in two if the
Albanians win independence.
Three northern Serb municipalities, home to around
50,000 Serbs or almost half Kosovo's Serb population,
have already cut what minimal cooperation they had
with the Albanian-dominated institutions in Pristina,
citing security concerns.
The statement called on "Belgrade, Pristina and
Kosovo's residents to take steps to ensure northern
Kosovo remains a stable region where the rights of all
are respected."

PARTITION
Diplomats say the 90-percent Albanian province is
likely to win independence under European
Union-supervision. U.N. mediator Martti Ahtisaari is
working to propose a settlement to the U.N. Security
Council by year-end. He opened talks in February.
The Contact Group, which sets international policy on
Kosovo, says the north must remain part of Kosovo. It
fears that splitting the province in two would revive
separatism in south Serbia and Macedonia, where
Albanians took up arms in 2000-01.
The 17,000-strong NATO peace force in June reopened
its only base in the north, and the West is mulling a
specific international mission to oversee the area's
integration.
The province of 2 million has been run by the U.N.
since 1999, when NATO bombs drove out Serb forces....
Half the Serb population fled a wave of revenge
[sic]attacks after the war.
The 100,000 Serbs left lead a grim, ghettoized
existence, financially supported...by Belgrade.
Serbs in the north enjoy greater freedom, forming the
majority above the Ibar River with a clear land link
to the rest of Serbia.
Belgrade says it does not want to partition Kosovo.
But Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said on Monday
that, in the event independence is imposed, Belgrade
would declare Kosovo an integral part of Serbian
territory. Serbs consider Kosovo the cradle of their
nation stretching back 1,000 years.

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FERITO A COLTELLATE UN SERBO-KOSOVARO

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/fonet080506.htm

Stabbed Kosovo Serb released for home treatment; ethnic Albanian
suspected

BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - August 5, 2006, Saturday
Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1311 gmt 5 Aug 06
Copyright 2006 British Broadcasting Corporation - Posted for Fair Use
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Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Kosovska Mitrovica, 5 August: Ljubisa Janackovic, who was stabbed
with a knife in Priluzje village near Vucitrn on Friday around 1900
[1700 gmt], was released for home treatment, it was confirmed to KiM
[Kosovo-Metohija] Radio in the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital.
Janackovic was given first aid in the village and then Kosovo Police
Service (KPS) transferred him to the hospital in the northern [Serb-
held] part of Kosovska Mitrovica where he was admitted to the
orthopaedic ward.
KPS spokesman Veton Elshani told KiM Radio that Janackovic had been
attacked near Lab River and had received two stabs with a knife in
his left shoulder during the incident. He added that his two mobile
phones had been stolen.
For the time being, one ethnic Albanian was suspected in relation to
this incident and the investigation is progressing, KiM Radio said.
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SACCHEGGIATA CHIESA TRECENTESCA

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/fonet080606.htm

SERB CHURCH IN KOSOVO PLUNDERED, DESECRATED

BBC Monitoring International Reports - August 6, 2006 Sunday
Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1457 gmt 6 Aug 06
Copyright 2006 Financial Times Information
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Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Belgrade, 6 August: Unknown perpetrators have broken into, plundered
and desecrated the Church of the Holy Mother of God (Presveta
Bogorodica) in the Serb village of Babin Most near Obilic, the Rasko-
Prizren Eparchy has said.
The thieves broke in last night at around midnight [2200 gmt] after
smashing the bars and the windows on the rear side of the church
where the priest's home is also situated.
The St Stefan fresco was taken from the church along with 50,000
dinars in donations, the priests' habits and ritual objects, while
some ten frescoes and icons were destroyed and found smashed on the
floor.
The Kosovo Police Service [KSP] carried out on-the-spot checks and
began their investigation, although no details have been made public.
The Church of the Holy Mother of God was built in the 14th century
and is one of the oldest Serb churches in central Kosovo-Metohija.
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IL PRESIDENTE DELL'ALBANIA GALVANIZZATO PER LA PROSSIMA
"INDIPENDENZA" KOSOVARA

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=128&newsid=93590&ch=0

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - August 6, 2006

Makfax: Independence of Kosovo will Increase Influence
of Albanian Factor, Alfred Moisiu Announced

Tirana - The opinion of Albanians will be heard more
and more if there are two Albanian states in the
region and at the same time they will be able to
strengthen the friendly relations they have with the
USA, the Albanian President Alfred Moisiu announced at
his yesterday meeting with representatives of
Albanian-American National Organization that is
visiting Albania, Makfax announced.
Moisiu is expecting that Kosovo will gain its
independence this year and thus the peace and
stability on the Balkans will strengthen as well as
the Albanian factor will increase.

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LA RUSSIA CONDIVIDE LA POSIZIONE DI BELGRADO

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/08/content_4932218.htm

Xinhua News Agency - August 8, 2006

Russia shares stand of Belgrade on Kosovo status

BELGRADE - Visiting Russian Minister for Civil Defense
and Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu said here on
Monday that Russia shares Belgrade's stand on the
issue of Kosovo's future status.
During talks with Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav
Kostunica, Shoigu conveyed the same opinion that the
best solution for this southern province is essential
autonomy within the existing state borders of Serbia,
the official Tanjug news agency reported.
"The resolving of Kosovo's future status must not be
imposed, nor the negotiations on this issue placed
under a time limit", said Shoigu, adding that it was
the principled stand of Russia and its President
Vladimir Putin.
Kostunica said that Serbia deeply appreciates the
principled stand of Russia and President Putin.
He also underscored that a possibly imposed solution
would have serious consequences for peace and
stability, not only in the region of the Balkans, but
also much wider.
Since the end of the Kosovo war in June 1999, the
province has become a UN protectorate under Security
Council Resolution 1244. Kosovo 's Albanian majority
demand outright independence, but Serbia only agrees
to grant Kosovo essential autonomy.
The UN-mediated negotiations on the future status of
Kosovo started last November. But thorny problems have
not been addressed after eight rounds of talks.

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I SERBI-KOSOVARI BOICOTTANO I "COLLOQUI" DI VIENNA

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5257566.stm

BBC News - August 8, 2006

Kosovo Serbs boycott Vienna talks

The Serb delegation from Kosovo has boycotted a
session of talks about the future of the province.
The second day of negotiations brokered by the United
Nations in Vienna concentrated on the rights of the
province's minorities.
The Serb representatives said they did not accept
being given the status of a minority.
The talks are trying to resolve issues of education,
health care, police and justice systems.
The Tuesday session on minority rights was attended by
the delegation from Belgrade.
The first day of the latest round of talks on Monday
ended with no progress on the major stumbling blocks
between the ethnic Serb and Albanian communities.
There is international pressure on both sides to
resolve the long-term political status of the province
by the end of the year.
Officially still part of Serbia, Kosovo has been run
by the UN since the war there ended in 1999.

Rising tensions

Kosovo's Albanians want independence. Serbia has said it is willing
only to grant wide "substantial autonomy". Tensions have been rising
in Kosovo in recent weeks. Local Serb politicians have heavily
criticised the acting head of the United Nations mission, accusing
him of favouring the Kosovo Albanians. The Nato-led peacekeeping
force, K-For, has recently reopened a base and deployed extra troops
in Serb areas to the north.

On Monday, a human rights group said the UN and the
international community were failing to protect the
rights of Kosovo's minorities.
"Nowhere [in Europe] is there such a level of fear for
so many minorities that they will be harassed or
attacked, simply for who they are," a report by
London-based Minority Rights Group International
(MRGI) said.

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TRE ALBANESI-KOSOVARI ARRESTATI PER CRIMINI COMMESSI CONTRO ALBANESI-
KOSOVARI JUGOSLAVISTI

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/afp081106.htm

Three Kosovo Albanians jailed for war crimes

Agence France Presse (English) - August 11, 2006 Friday 9:43 AM GMT
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PRISTINA, Serbia, Aug 11 2006 - Three ethnic Albanians were sentenced
to seven-year jail terms for war crimes committed during Kosovo's
1998-1999 conflict, the United Nations said Friday.
Selim Krasniqi, Agron Krasniqi and Bedri Zyberaj, former members of
the Kosovo Liberation Army, a rebel force that fought Serbian forces
during the war, were found guilty of detaining and beating fellow
Albanians, said the justice department of the UN mission in Kosovo.
"The panel of international judges carefully considered the evidence
and found the three defendants guilty of the war crime of inhumane
treatment, which consisted of detaining and beating fellow Kosovo
Albanians whom they believed to be collaborating with Serbian
authorities," it said in a statement.
The crimes were committed between June and September 1998, when
members of the KLA organised and ran a detention centre in the
basement of a school building in the central Kosovo village of Drenovac.
Selim Krasniqi and Zyberaj were also senior officials of Kosovo
Protection Corps, an emergency service formed after the KLA was
demilitarised at the end of the conflict.
A fourth defendant, Islam Gashi, was acquitted, while charges were
withdrawn against two others, Isuf Gashi and Xhavit Elshani due to a
lack of evidence, said the UN statement.
Kosovo has been run by the United Nations and NATO since June 1999,
after the alliance's bombing campaign drove out Serbian forces over a
crackdown against separatist Albanian rebels.
The future status of the disputed province, which technically remains
a Serbian province, is being decided in UN-backed talks due to be
completed by the year's end.
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ALBANESI-KOSOVARI AGGREDISCONO SERBO IN SERBIA CENTRALE

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/b92081206.htm

ARMED KOSOVO ALBANIANS REPORTEDLY ENTER SERBIA, FIRE SHOTS AT FORMER
SERB MAYOR

BBC Monitoring International Reports - August 12, 2006, Saturday
Source: Radio B92, Belgrade, in Serbian 1500 gmt 12 Aug 06
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Text of report by Belgrade-based Radio B92 on 12 August

[Announcer] A group of armed [ethnic] Albanians carried out an armed
attack on the territory of Kursumlija municipality's village of
Tacevac on the administrative border between Serbia and Kosovo just
as former Podujevo Mayor Milovan Tomcic was out in his field with his
family. Ljiljana Danilovic reports from Kursumlija.

[Reporter] According to the testimony of former Podujevo Mayor
Milovan Tomcic, who was with his family in the field close to the
administrative border between Serbia and Kosovo, a large group of
armed Albanians penetrated around three kilometres into the territory
of Kursumlija municipality in Tacevac village and carried out an
armed attack.
Tomcic said that there was a barrage of fire from automatic weapons
which lasted for about ten minutes.

[Tomcic] I was barely 20 paces from the road when the shots were
fired. Bullets started whistling above our heads. This was a real
barrage of separate shots fired from several pieces of weapons and
from a number of locations. At least five or six types of weapons
were fired, but I managed to take cover.

[Tomcic's wife] When the barrage started getting fiercer, I told our
daughter to get to the ground and start crawling. We managed to get
close to a fence and then we climbed over it and got away.

[Reporter] The police went to the scene after the incident but an
investigation was not carried out for security reasons. A spokeswoman
for the police in Prokuplje, Jasmina Stamenkovic, confirmed that a
group of armed Albanians had carried out an attack in the territory
of Tacevac village.

[Stamenkovic] Members of Kfor [NATO-led Kosovo Force] were informed
about the incident via our team for cooperation with Kfor so that
they could undertake measures envisaged by the law.

[Reporter] Nobody was injured in this armed attack. We should say
several dozens of armed attacks by Kosovo Albanians had been carried
out in Kursumlija's Tacevac village over the past few years in which
one local inhabitant was killed and several houses were torched.

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"POLIZIA KOSOVARA" RIMPIAZZA L'ONU ALL'AEREOPORTO

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/30406

Associated Press - August 14, 2006

Kosovo police replace U.N. border forces

PRISTINA, Serbia - Police in Serbia's mainly
ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province on Monday replaced
U.N. civilian forces overseeing Pristina's airport.
The Kosovo police units also assumed control of the
province's borders with Albania, Macedonia and
Montenegro, Belgrade's Beta news agency reported.
Political analysts in Pristina saw the authority
transfer from the U.N. administration to the Kosovo
provincial police as recognition of high standards
under which the ethnic-Albanian-led law enforcement is
organized [sic], Beta said.
Formally, Kosovo is Serbia's province, but since 1999
it has been administered by a U.N. civilian mission.
NATO troops have been deployed to prevent ethnic
conflicts between the Serb minority of 100,000 and
ethnic-Albanians who make up 90 percent of Kosovo's
1.8 million population.
U.N.-led, Serb-ethnic Albanian talks, under way in
Austria since February, will decide who will govern
Kosovo once U.N. and NATO personnel leave.

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DELEGAZIONE SERBO-KOSOVARA CRITICA LA SCELTA DI UN TEDESCO A GUIDARE
L'UNMIK

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/beta081506.htm

Serbian Kosovo negotiating team member criticizes new UNMIK chief

BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - August 15, 2006 Tuesday
Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1848 gmt 14 Aug 06
Copyright 2006 British Broadcasting Corporation - Posted for Fair Use
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Text of report by Serbian news agency Beta

Belgrade, 14 August: Marko Jaksic, a member of the Belgrade
negotiating team for the status of Kosovo, today said that the Serbs
in Kosovo were not very happy to hear that German diplomat Joachim
Ruecker had been appointed new UNMIK [UN Interim Administration
Mission in Kosovo] chief.
"We can only hope that the situation and the attitude towards the
Serbs in Kosovo will not be as bleak as so far, but we know from
experience that UNMIK chiefs have been figureheads and that the most
important moves have been made from the shadow by their deputies, who
have always and regularly been Americans," Jaksic told the Beta news
agency.
Jaksic, who is chairman of the Community of Serb Municipalities in
Kosovo, accused Ruecker of being the "architect of the plundering
privatization" in Kosovo and "one of the people guilty of the fact
that Serbs in Kosovo do not have electricity."
"Having that in mind, we are afraid that Ruecker might even be worse
than Soren Jessen Petersen as far as the position of the Serb
community in Kosovo is concerned," Jaksic said.
The other members of the Belgrade negotiating team and
representatives of the Serbian government who were contacted by Beta
did not wish to comment on the appointment of Ruecker as UNMIK chief
and said that they would most likely do so tomorrow.
Representatives of Albanian political parties in Kosovo described
Ruecker as the "right man in the right place."
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan earlier today appointed Ruecker UNMIK
chief and informed the UN Security Council that Ruecker would take
over as of 1 September, 2006.
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TADIC CONTRO LA CREAZIONE DI UN "ESERCITO KOSOVARO"

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n94329

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - August 19, 2006

Forming Kosovo Army Would Endanger Regional Stability: Serbia’s
President

Belgrade - Serbia’s President Boris Tadic condemned
the statements of Kosovo Albanians leaders that Kosovo
will have its own army and warned the international
community that it would endanger the stability in the
region, as well as that it would present an
international precedent, RTS informs.
According to President Tadic the plans to form an army
in Kosovo are unacceptable and extremely dangerous
because Kosovo must be demilitarized and should have
its own police force according to international
standards.
Boris Tadic will once again informed of the problem
the UN Security Council member states, the Contact
Group member states (the UK, Germany, France, Italy,
Russia and the US), the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo
Marti Ahtisaari, the High Representative of the Common
Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana, as well as
the NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

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L'UNMIK INDAGA SU CELLULE JIHADISTE

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n94502

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - August 22, 2006

UNMIK Police Investigating Possible Extremist Activity in Kosovo

Pristina - The police of the UN Mission in Kosovo
(UNMIK) started an investigation of a possible
activity of radical Islamists in the area of Urosevac,
Serbian news agency TANJUG informs.
The investigation was launched when after a search of
a house of Kosovo Albanian in the village of
Talinovac, near Urosevac, the police found a “certain
amount” of materials related to Al Qaeda activities, a
source of the international police force said.

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LA RUSSIA CONTRARIA ALLA "INDIPENDENZA" KOSOVARA

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060823/53030820.html

Russian Information Agency (Novosti) - August 23, 2006

Kosovo independence could set risky precedent - dep. Russia FM

MOSCOW - Independence for Kosovo would set a dangerous
precedent for other "frozen" conflicts, a deputy
Russian foreign minister said in an interview with a
respected Russian daily Wednesday.
Russia has consistently taken the position that
sovereignty for Kosovo, which remains a province of
Serbia under a UN protectorate, could have negative
consequences for conflicts in the former Soviet Union
that erupted in the early 1990s.
"Should 'sovereignization' of the province [of Kosovo]
be imposed on Serbia, as [our] Western partners are
attempting to do, a clear precedent will be set in
international law that cannot but be projected onto
other frozen conflicts," Grigory Karasin told
Izvestia. "This applies not only to the post-Soviet
space, but also to other regions."
The deputy minister said that unlike the
disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia or
Czechoslovakia, Kosovo independence was being claimed
not by a republic as part of a federation but by an
autonomy as part of a federation constituent member.
"Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transdnestr have the
same status," he said, referring to two similar
conflicts in Georgia and one in Moldova.
He accused those who saw Kosovo as a "unique" case of
either forgetting or deliberately ignoring differences
in approaches to conflicts around the world.
The West has supported the Georgian government's
attempts to bring breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia
back under its control, as well as Moldova's efforts
to return unrecognized Transdenstr to Chisinau's fold.
"This approach erodes trust in the international
community, leading to chaos and instability in
international relations," Karasin told Izvestia.
"Needless to say, this is unacceptable to Russia,"
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned last month
against any double standards in regard to the
unrecognized republics in Georgia and Moldova.
Putin said there had always been contradictions in the
principles of international law.
"[Russia] wants and will insist on such decisions to
be based on a universal principle to prevent such
cases when approaches to the regions like Kosovo are
different from those to Abkhazia or South Ossetia,
which is incorrect," the president said during a Web
cast.

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MONTGOMERY: "I COLLOQUI DI VIENNA SONO UNA FARSA"

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n94650

Focus News Agency (Bulgaria) - August 24, 2006

Kosovo Talks Are Farce: Former US Ambassador to Belgrade

Belgrade - The talks for Kosovo’s future status that
are held in Vienna are a “farce directed by the
international community”.
This is what former US Ambassador to Belgrade William
Montgomery said cited by Serbian news agency TANJUG.
“We saw how even in public statements various Contact
Group representatives gave signals that the inevitable
result of this process would be an independent Kosovo.
"I am sure that Serbia’s Prime Minister Vojislav
Kostunica has already been informed of that directly
during a private conversation,” William Montgomery
added.

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LA RUSSIA USERÀ IL KOSOVO COME "PRECEDENTE"



http://www.regnum.ru/english/693406.html

Regnum (Russia) - August 24, 2006

Grigory Karasin: It is naive to say that the Kosovo precedent is unique

“Territorial integrity does not rule out the
possibility of a multi-scenario resolution of the
status problem and does not imply that the will of a
nation can be ignored,” Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister Grigory Karasin says in an interview to
Izvestia daily, when asked if the Kosovo precedent can
be applied to Transdnestr, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Karasin says that in the Kosovo case, unlike the
collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia and the division
of Czechoslovakia, [is a case of] claiming
independence by an autonomy within a republic of a
federation rather than a republic of federation
[federated republic].
“Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdnestr have a
similar status. So, if the Western partners force
Serbia to acknowledge the sovereignty of this region,
they will create an obvious international legal
precedent, which cannot but be projected to other
frozen conflicts — and not only in the post-Soviet
area but also in other regions.
"Some people in the West are trying to convince us
that Kosovo is a unique case – a result of some unique
historical circumstances. It is naive to say that the
Kosovo case is unique, we can’t agree with this.
"Precedents come from reality and one can’t abolish
them just by persistently denying them. Can anybody
say to people in other autonomies that in this case we
give independence, but for you this can in no way be
an example?” wonders Karasin.
“Those speaking about the ‘uniqueness’ of the Kosovo
case either forget or deliberately neglect that, in
fact, the question is about inconsistency in
approaching different conflicts, in other words, about
‘double standards.’
"Such an approach undermines confidence in the
international community and leads to chaos and
selectivity in international relations. Of course, for
Russia this is unacceptable. That’s why our position
is that, even though each specific conflict is
peculiar, there should be some universal settlement
rules based on the generally accepted norms of the
international law,” says Karasin.



http://www.azi.md/news?ID=40668

Infotag (Moldova) - August 24, 2006

Russia Considers It Possible to Use Kosovo Precedent in FSU Republics

The Russian Federation considers as acceptable the
spreading of the Kosovo self-determination precedent
in the former Soviet Union area.
Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigory
Karasin stated in his interview with Russia's Izvestia
newspaper published today that in case of Kosovo's
sovereignization, being imposed on Serbia by Western
partners, an obvious international law precedent will
be created, which cannot help telling on other frozen
conflicts. [Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia,
Transdniester in the former Soviet Union]
Karasin stated Moscow shall never let down its
compatriots living outside Russia borders - no matter
if they find themselves in humanitarian hardships or
under a threat to their security.
"Nowadays, peacekeepers are guarantors of stability in
conflict regions and guarantors of security of the
people living there, no matter their nationality",
said the Deputy Minister.
....



http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/08/24/kosovo.shtml

MosNews (Russia) - August 24, 2006

Kosovo Independence Fraught With Risks — Russia

A Russian government minister says independence for
Serbia’s Kosovo province could set a risky precedent
for other contested regions.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said
if independence of Kosovo is granted from Serbia, “a
clear precedent will be set in international law that
cannot but be projected onto other frozen conflicts,”
the RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday.
“This applies not only to the post-Soviet space, but
also to other regions,” Karasin said in an interview
with Moscow’s Izvestia newspaper.
Karasin said that unlike the disintegration of the
Soviet Union, Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia, Kosovo
independence was being claimed not by a republic as
part of a federation but by an autonomy as part of a
federation.
Serbs, led by the Belgrade government, and ethnic
Albanians have been holding talks on who will govern
the predominantly Albanian Kosovo, once the UN
administration and NATO protection troops leave.
The Serbian government wants to retain Kosovo as its
province, while Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians insist on
independence from Belgrade.


http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=1439

Prime News (Georgia) - August 24, 2006

Deputy Foreign Minister Of Russia Said That Kosovo
Case Is Exemplary For Abkhazia

Gregory Karasin, Deputy Foreign Minister Of Russia
said that the Kosovo case is an exemplary precedent
for Abkhazia.
Gregory Karasin, Deputy Foreign Minister Of Russia
said, “the international precedent concerning
sovereignty of Kosovo is very interesting, the
absolute majority of citizens of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia have Russian citizenship. We will not leave
our citizens without care, they can rely on Russia’s
support in the military, humanitarian or security
spheres.”
Gregory Karasin, Deputy Foreign Minister Of Russia
said, that concerning Georgia’s intention to leave the
Commonwealth of Independent States, Georgia is a
sovereign country and is eligible to make decisions
independently.


http://www.trend.az/?mod=shownews&news=26118&lang=en

Trend News Agency (Azerbaijan) - August 24, 2006

Kosovo independence could set risky precedent - dep. Russia FM

À. Mammadov

Independence for Kosovo would set a dangerous
precedent for other "frozen" conflicts, a deputy
Russian foreign minister said in an interview with a
respected Russian daily Wednesday.
Russia has consistently taken the position that
sovereignty for Kosovo, which remains a province of
Serbia under a UN protectorate, could have negative
consequences for conflicts in the former Soviet Union
that erupted in the early 1990s, reports Trend.
"Should 'sovereignization' of the province [of Kosovo]
be imposed on Serbia, as [our] Western partners are
attempting to do, a clear precedent will be set in
international law that cannot but be projected onto
other frozen conflicts," Grigory Karasin told
Izvestia. "This applies not only to the post-Soviet
space, but also to other regions."
The deputy minister said that unlike the
disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia or
Czechoslovakia, Kosovo independence was being claimed
not by a republic as part of a federation but by an
autonomy as part of a federation constituent member.
"Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transdnestr have the
same status," he said, referring to two similar
conflicts in Georgia and one in Moldova.
He accused those who saw Kosovo as a "unique" case of
either forgetting or deliberately ignoring differences
in approaches to conflicts around the world. The West
has supported the Georgian government's attempts to
bring breakaway South Ossetia
and Abkhazia back under its control, as well as
Moldova's efforts to return unrecognized Transdenstr
to Chisinau's fold.
"This approach erodes trust in the international
community, leading to chaos and instability in
international relations," Karasin told Izvestia.
"Needless to say, this is unacceptable to Russia."
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned last month
against any double standards in regard to the
unrecognized republics in Georgia and Moldova.
Putin said there had always been contradictions in the
principles of international law.
"Russia wants and will insist on such decisions to be
based on a universal principle to prevent such cases
when approaches to the regions like Kosovo are
different from those to Abkhazia or South Ossetia,
which is incorrect," the president said during a Web
cast.

Clash of Civilizations' Shortcut: The Balkan Mirror

(L'ideologia dello "scontro di civiltà" elaborata dai rozzi teorici
neocons statunitensi, dalla quale non sono immuni certi settori
nazionalisti, anticomunisti e filo-occidentali del campo serbo, è
entrata in corto circuito: come si può scatenare una "guerra contro i
fascisti islamici" in mezzo mondo se proprio al centro dell'Europa
fascisti islamisti veri e propri sono stati sostenuti e
ricompensati?...)

1. The Balkan Mirror; What it says about the Middle East

Michael Djordjevich: "America did not oppose Germany's drive for the
dismemberment of Yugoslavia and then sided with Islamists in Bosnia.
Secretary of State James Baker said 'we have no dog in this fight'
but in the end America was the top dog in the fight..."

2. Former Serb member of Presidency sees no hope for Bosnia's
survival as state

Nenad Kecmanovic: "the West and the East have been deluding each
other to a high degree. Neither side has ever truly believed in that
delusion, because under the table one side was holding Samuel
Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations", while the other had Alija
Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration..."

3. The Yugoslav Caldron

Jürgen Elsässer: "The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists"


=== 1 ===

The Balkan Mirror; What it says about the Middle East

The Washington Times - August 15, 2006 Tuesday

By Michael Djordjevich, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Together with the Middle East, the border lands of southeast Europe
known as the Balkans have been a region of the world where seminal
events and trends in human history have taken place. It has been
called many names, including "the powder keg of Europe" or "the
graveyard of empires." The conflicts in the region have also been a
mirror of history.

Long before Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations," in the
period between the 14th and 19th centuries, the incessant ebb and
flow in the conflict between Islam and the West took place in the
Balkans. Early in the 20th century, Serbian gun shots in Sarajevo
ushered in World War I, Communism and Nazism. At the end of the
century, Bosnian Muslim fundamentalists fired gun shots in Sarajevo,
killing several Christian Serbs at a wedding party and began a bloody
war in Bosnia among Christian Serbs and Croats and Muslims. This war
may have well reflected in earnest the renewed clash of civilizations.

The Berlin Wall fell at the end of 1989. The Soviet Union imploded
and the end of Communism as a global force followed. Balkan countries
joined the trend. However, the pivotal and largest state, Yugoslavia,
rapidly descended into a bloody civil-religious war and dissolution.
This decade-long war at the end of 20th century mirrored a number of
important political, legal, religious and geopolitical precedents for
the post-Communist world. Of particular significance are those
involving America, the European Union and the United Nations.

At first, the United States favored the preservation of Yugoslavia,
or at least its peaceful and orderly dissolution. Changing this
position abruptly, America did not oppose Germany's drive for the
dismemberment of Yugoslavia and then sided with Islamists in Bosnia.
Secretary of State James Baker said "we have no dog in this fight"
but in the end America was the top dog in the fight.

The international community's engagement in the Balkans have so far
been a textbook illustration of the dangers of contradictory
policies, chronic indecisions, confusion and ignorance about
historical forces in play, double standards and flawed precedents.
America was not prepared for the peace and the role of the only
superpower in the world. Our leadership has failed in this task so far.

Apparently, not much has been learned from this experience. We could
replace the location, inserting Iraq instead of the Balkans, and the
aforementioned assessment would be similar today.

The Balkan mirror also shows the impotence and irrelevance of the
United Nations. Any country and any people would be foolhardy to
place their destiny in the hands of this inept institution. With
America's complicity, the United Nations did nothing when its embargo
on arms shipments was violated by Iran sending planeloads of arms to
Bosnian Muslims. Subsequently, when veteran jihadists came to the
country to fight Serbs, the West was also supportive.

The Serbian province of Kosovo has been ethnically cleansed from
Serbs, Roma and other non-Albanians while 150 churches and many
medieval monasteries have been destroyed during 10 years of U.N.
governance.

The mirror showed the duplicitous methods by which world media
influenced world opinion. With few exceptions, it has abused its
power and professional responsibility, failing to heed Ed Murrow's
admonition to examine all sides of a story and aim to elucidate, not
advocate. It did the latter and in general continues to advocate an
Islamic agenda in Bosnia and Kosovo.

The Balkan realities also show a great adaptability of Islamists to
present a worldly, democratic face. Readily accepted by the West,
Bosnian leader and fundamentalist Islamist Alija Izetbegovic was
tolerated and praised as a democrat. Nevertheless, in his book "The
Islamic Declaration" Izetbegovic asserted absolute validity of
dominance of Islam: "There can be neither peace nor coexistence
between Islamic religion and non-Islamic social and political
institutions," he wrote. Later in the war, Mr. Izetbegovic was
influenced and financially and militarily supported by fundamentalist
Islamists (including Osama bin Laden). Similarly, some Kosovo
leaders, previously called terrorists and thugs by U.S. special envoy
Robert Gelbard, are now afforded respect in the United Nations and
elsewhere.

The ugliest and most dangerous reflection in the mirror is that of
double-standards. As we are facing challenges and dangers of radical
Islam and terrorism worldwide, let's not dismiss the Balkan
experience. Our policies must contain moral dimensions. International
agreements, legal precedents and evenhanded treatment of warring
people were not followed in the Yugoslav tragedy. If we are to get
out of the Middle East quagmire we must change these policies.
Failing to realize that by endeavoring to resolve complex problems by
double standards, we more often than not double them in the end.

In addition, the Balkan Mirror has provided important and troubling
reflections upon Islam and the new world (dis)order.


Michael Djordjevich, an American of Serbian origin, founded and was
the first president of the Serbian Unity Congress.

Copyright 2006 News World Communications, Inc.
Posted for Fair Use only.

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/wt081506.htm


=== 2 ===

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/gs072606.htm

Former Serb member of Presidency sees no hope for Bosnia's survival
as state

BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - July 26, 2006, Wednesday
Source: Glas Srpske, Banja Luka, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 25 Jul
06 p 2
Copyright 2006 British Broadcasting Corporation - Posted for Fair Use
only.

Text of commentary by Nenad Kecmanovic, prewar Serb member of Bosnian
Presidency, entitled "Last dictatorship in Europe" published by
Bosnian Serb newspaper Glas Srpske on 25 July


If the Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks [Bosnian Muslims] could not find a
way to live together before the war, if they fought one another for
three and a half years over it, and if a decade of peace has not been
enough for them to try to achieve a compromise without an
intermediary, this means that we can forget about Bosnia-Hercegovina
[B-H] as a state.

There is no democracy in the world that can keep people under the
same roof who do not want to be there. This can be achieved only by
force, whether you call it occupation, colonization or a protectorate.

Some Western analysts have already called the regime of the Office of
the High Representative in B-H "the last dictatorship in Europe" and
rightly so. All this has been seen before in Bosnia-Hercegovina. For
half a millennium Bosnia-Hercegovina has existed only as a "dungeon
for people". When it occasionally changed the guard in the course of
history, the Bosnians and Hercegovinians were at each other's throats
along religious and national lines, as they had been the previous time.

I repeat again: the West and the East have been deluding each other
to a high degree. Neither side has ever truly believed in that
delusion, because under the table one side was holding Samuel
Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations", while the other had Alija
Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration. However, their mutual interests
forced them to keep up the game of mutual pretence and we know what
the result was like.

People often ask me: "Do you go to Sarajevo? Do you follow the
Sarajevo media? What reactions do you get from Sarajevo to your
political analyses?"

I almost regularly read their weeklies; I occasionally read their
dailies and I watch television. My public reactions are partly a
reaction to what I hear or read in their media.

The reactions to my reactions are malicious and without any depth,
because our neighbours are used to looking at themselves in a magic
fairytale mirror, while I remind them of some unpleasant truths.

The fact that neither Banja Luka nor Belgrade shows much interest in
the political scene in the other entity, where the joint institutions
are located, makes it sometimes look as if I am the only one who
spoils their fanciful picture of themselves.

Quite often I meet old acquaintances, colleagues and friends,
Bosnians in Sarajevo, but that is something completely different.
Despite certain disagreements and endless debate, they know what I
could have really said or written, what was taken out of context, and
what was suppressed or simply made up.

In any event, they know that I am not responsible for the problems
that Bosnia has got itself into nor do I have bad intentions towards
Bosniaks. On the contrary, I have lived my life in that environment
and those are the people with whom I lived for almost half a century.
Therefore, I cannot be indifferent, nor am I ignorant; my
professional interest is focused on researching politics.

Many things that I find out as an analyst do not make me happy as a
human being, so I would not mind if I turned out to be wrong.


=== 3 ===

http://signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/
signs20060815_TheYugoslavCaldronJFCrgenElsE4sser22TheCIArecruitedandtrai
nedthejihadists22.php

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=25794&s2=16

The Yugoslav Caldron: Jürgen Elsässer: "The CIA recruited and trained
the jihadists"

By Silvia Cattori

In his latest book, How the Jihad Came to Europe, German journalist
Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters
recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were
used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the
CIA, but perhaps sometimes out of its control. Basing himself on
diverse sources, mainly Yugoslavian, Dutch, and German, he
reconstructed the development of Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants
at the side of NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovinia.

Silvia Cattori: Your investigation into the actions of the secret
services makes a frightening report. We discover that since the 80's
the United States has invested billions of dollars to finance
criminal activities and that by means of the CIA they are directly
implicated in the attacks attributed to the Moslems. What is the
contribution of your book?

Jurgen Elsässer: It is the only work that establishes the tie between
wars in the Balkan of the 90's and the attack of September 11, 2001.
All the large attacks, in New York, in London, in Madrid, would never
have taken place without the recruitment by the American and British
secret services of these jihadists who have been blamed for the
attacks. I bring a new light on the manipulations of the intelligence
agencies. Other books than mine have noted the presence of Ossama Ben
Laden in the Balkans. But their authors presented the Moslem fighters
in the Balkan as enemies of the west. The information that I
collected from multiple sources, demonstrate that these jihadists are
puppets in the hands of the west and are not, as one pretends, enemies.

Silvia Cattori: In the case of the war in the Balkan, the
manipulations of various States are clearly designated in your book.
The United States supported Ben Laden whose work was to form the
Mujahidines. How can anyone continue to ignore that these attempts
that horrify public opinion would never have existed if these
«terrorists» had not been driven and financed by the western
intelligence services?

Jürgen Elsässer: Yes, indeed, it is the result of facts that one can
observe. But one cannot say that the western intervention in ex -
Yugoslavia had for objective to prepare attack of September 11. To be
precise: these attacks are a consequence of western politics of the
90's because NATO put these jihadists in place in the Balkans and
collaborated with them. The Moslem militants who have been designated
the persons responsible for the attacks of September 11 were part of
this network.

Silvia Cattori: According to you, what was the interest of the United
States and Germany to set the people of the Balkans one against the
other?

Jürgen Elsässer: The west had a common interest to destroy
Yugoslavia, to dismember it, because, after the end of the soviet
bloc, it would have been a model of the intelligent combination of
capitalist and socialist elements. But the west wanted to impose the
neoliberal model on all countries.

Silvia Cattori: Is not Europe itself imprudently committed to a war
manipulated by the neoconservatives?

Jürgen Elsässer: It is difficult to say. I believe that in the 90's,
the politics of the United States was inspired by their victory
against Soviets in Afghanistan. It was the model that they wanted to
apply in Balkans. If, during those years, the economy of the United
States had not fallen into depression, maybe the more realistic
politicians, such as Kissinger, could have kept control of American
politics. I think that the coincidence between the economic
depression and the aggressiveness of the neoconservative school
determined what happened.

Silvia Cattori: Do you think that a leader like Blair, for example,
once embarked in the neoconservative project, has become a hostage to
a certain point?

Jürgen Elsässer: I don't know the position of Blair enough well. It
is easier to see what goes on in the United States. One can see that
Bush is the hostage of those around him. And, as he is not very
intelligent, he is not able to take decisions and must follow ideas
of his entourage. It is clear that his father was against the attack
on Iraq in 2003.

Silvia Cattori: Wasn't the first Gulf war part of a plan aiming to
trigger other wars thereafter?

Jürgen Elsässer: No, there was no tie with the war in Iraq in 1991.
There were two phases. Until the end of the Clinton period, the
politics of the United States were imperialistic, but at the same
time, pragmatic. They chased the Soviets out of Afghanistan. They
defeated Iraq in 1991. Their war stopped once Kuwait was free. Then
they attacked Bosnia and Yugoslavia; but it occurred stage by stage.
Everything went out of control after September 11.

Silvia Cattori: The neoconservatives don't count for anything?

Jürgen Elsässer: The neoconservatives, grouped around Pearl, had
written a document one year before September 11, according to which
America had need of a catalyzing event similar to the attack on Pearl
Harbor. September 11 was this catalyzing event. I believe that people
around Pearl wished for the attacks of September 11.

Silvia Cattori: What was the objective pursued by the United States
in attacking Serbia? Was it merely about, as is indicated in your
book, the US getting itself installed in a strategic region situated
on a transit line for the oil and the gas of central Asia? Or did the
alliance of the United States with the Moslem fighters directed by
Izetbegovic have a second objective: to create a Moslem extremism at
the doors of Europe in order to make use of it in the setting of
terrorist manipulations? And, if yes, towards what goal?

Jürgen Elsässer: The United States wanted, as did Austria at the end
of the 19th century in Bosnia, to create a "European" Islam to weaken
the Islamic states in the Middle East, meaning, at that time, the
Ottoman empire, and today, Iran and the Arab states. The
neoconservatives had other plans again: to construct a clandestine
network of "fundamentalist" puppets to do the dirty work against
"old" Europe.

Silvia Cattori: The result, a terrifying civil war. How could Europe
have participated in the destruction of Yugoslavia, which appeared as
an example of the perfectly successful cohabitation between ethnic
groups? By making the Serbians the guilty party, didn't Europe
destroy a country that was one of the major constructions of the
postwar era? On what legitimacy did Europe base its intervention?

Jürgen Elsässer: First, in the beginning of the 90's, Germany led the
attack based upon the principles of the self-determination of ethnic
groups: in other words, Hitler's old ruse against Czechoslovakia and
Poland in 1938/39. Then, the United States took the relay and praised
"human rights", an obvious swindle.

Silvia Cattori: In your investigation Israel is never mentioned. Have
you not minimized the importance of pro-Israeli neoconservatives
inside the Pentagon, who serve interests of Israel more that those of
the United States?

Jürgen Elsässer: There are Israelis who collaborated with the
neoconservatives; it is a fact. But I am not sure of the role played
by Israel in this business. Sharon was against NATO support for the
Albanians of Kosovo. And, in 1998, he expressed his worry over the
idea that NATO support the setting up of pro-Islamic elements in the
Balkan. I also believe that he was not favorable to this war the
following year.

Silvia Cattori: Don't you see ties between the Israeli secret
services and the attacks of September 11, 2001?

Jürgen Elsässer: There are ties, but I didn't analyze the character
of these ties. For example, immediately after September 11, a certain
number of Israeli agents were arrested in the United States. They
were present in places where the attacks were prepared. There are
analysts who say this is proof that Israel was directly implicated in
these attacks. But it could also mean something else. It could be
that these agents were watching what happened, that they were aware
that the American secret services supported these "terrorists" in the
preparation of these attacks, but that they kept their knowledge to
use it at the appropriate moment, and to be able to use it as
blackmail when the moment came: "If you don't increase your support
for Israel, we are going to hand over this information to the media".
There is even a third possibility: that these Israeli spies wanted to
warn about the attacks but failed. At the moment, we only know that
these types were there and that they were arrested. Supplementary
investigations are necessary.

Silvia Cattori: Do these ties put in evidence that the attacks of
September 11, 2001 were part of a plan conceived a long time before?

Jürgen Elsässer: I am not certain that a plan had been established
for a long time. It could be that people such as Richard Perle
improvise a lot and use criminal elements that they put in place but
that they don't permanently control. As, at the time of Kennedy's
murder, it is clear that the CIA was implicated, but one doesn't know
if it had been planned at the top, at Langley [the headquarters of
the CIA], or if it was conceived among the most violent Cuban exiles
working for the CIA, the headquarters of the CIA limiting themselves
to tolerating it.

Silvia Cattori: If tomorrow these characters grouped around Pearl
were removed, would that stop the anti-Muslim war strategy of the
United States and the manipulations that justify it?

Jürgen Elsässer: It stops when they lose a war.

Silvia Cattori: The war, didn't they lose it in Iraq?

Jürgen Elsässer: The war will only be lost when they leave the
country, as in Vietnam.

Silvia Cattori: These Moslems who, like Mohammed Atta, were just
ordinary citizens before being enlisted by the CIA, how could they be
driven to such terrifying actions, without knowing that they were
being manipulated by intelligence agents of the opposite camp?

Jürgen Elsässer: There are some youth that can be turned into
fanatics and manipulated very easily by intelligence services. High-
placed characters are not unaware of what happens and know by who
they are hired.

Silvia Cattori: Ben Laden, for example, did he know that he served
the interests of the United States?

Jürgen Elsässer: I didn't study his case. I studied the case of Al
Zawahiri, Ben Laden's right arm, who was the chief of operations in
the Balkans. In the beginning of the 90's, he traveled all through
the United States with an agent of the US Special Command to collect
money for the Jihad; this man knew that he participated in this
collection of money as an activity that was supported by the United
States.

Silvia Cattori: All of this is very troubling. You bring the proof
that that attacks that have occurred since 1996 (attacks in the
subway of Paris), would never have been possible if the war in the
Balkan had not taken place. And you impute these attacks, that left
thousands of victims, to western intelligence services. Has opinion
in West therefore been deceived by governments that have embarked on
terrorist actions?

Jürgen Elsässer: The terrorist network that the American and British
secret services formed during the civil war in Bosnia and later in
Kosovo provided a reservoir of militants that we find implicated
later in the attacks in New York, Madrid, London.

Silvia Cattori: How did this happen concretely?

Jürgen Elsässer: Once the war was finished in Afghanistan, Osama Ben
Laden recruited these jihadist militants. It was his work. It was he
that trained them, partially with the support of the CIA, and put
them in place in Bosnia. The Americans tolerated the connection
between the President Izetbegovic and Ben Laden. Two years later, in
1994, the Americans began to send weapons, in a common clandestine
operation with Iran. After the treaty of Dayton, in November 1995,
the CIA and the Pentagon recruited best of the jihadists that had
fought in Bosnia.

Silvia Cattori: How does it happen that these Moslems got into the
hands of services that served ideological interests opposed to theirs?

Jürgen Elsässer: I analyzed testimonies given by some jihadists
interrogated by the German judges. They said that after the treaty of
Dayton, which stipulated that all foreign ex-fighters had to leave
the country, they didn't have any more money and had nowhere to go.
As for those that could remain in Bosnia, because they had been
provided with Bosnian passports, they were without work and without
money. The day when the recruiters came and rang at their doors and
proposed to pay them 3000 dollars a month to serve in the Bosnian
army, they didn't know that they were recruited and paid by
emissaries of the CIA to serve the United States.

Silvia Cattori: After, when they were sent to prepare the attacks in
London in July 2005, for example, did they not become aware that they
were in the hands of western intelligence agents who manipulated them?

Jürgen Elsässer: It is not clear that it was really the young Moslems
from the suburbs of London that committed the attacks, as the police
claim. There are other indications according to which the bombs were
fixed under the trains. It is possible the bombs were attached under
the trains without these young men knowing about it. In that case it
is not sure that the young Moslems, incriminated by the
investigation, committed these attempts.

Silvia Cattori: It is hard to understand the goal that the western
States pursue when they engage their services in criminal manipulations?

Jürgen Elsässer: This is not easy to say. Remember Kennedy's murder.
Who did it? It is certain that it was people from the CIA that
supported the second killer, it is certain that Oswald was murdered
by a man who had been mandated by the CIA. What is not clear is if
these men recruited by the CIA acted on order of Johnson or Dulles,
or if they were link to the milieu of extremist Cuban exiles, which
means affiliated to the mafia. I don't believe that Bush or Blairs
are chiefs. I don't believe in the theory of the big conspiracy. I
believe that the secret services hire men who are ordered to carry
out the dirty business; these agents act as they want. Perhaps you
know that on September 11, 2001, someone tried to kill Bush. What
does it mean? It is difficult to explain.

Silvia Cattori: Do you mean that Bush is, for example, himself
hostage of the people who, inside the Pentagon, form a State within
the state, one that also escapes the command of the American army?

Jürgen Elsässer: Yes. Bush is stupid. He is only an instrument in
other people's hands.

Silvia Cattori: Are you thinking about people that are under the
direct influence of characters such as Pearl, Wolfowitz, Feith? Do
you think that it is they who, after the war of the Balkan, would
have been the real backers of these attacks and that these attacks
are not separate from each other, that there is a link between Madrid
and London? Does it mean that the Americans are ready to ally with
the devil to sow chaos everywhere under the pretext of this anti-
Muslim, anti - Arabic war waged under the banner of terrorism? A
fabricated terrorism?

Jürgen Elsässer: Yes, there is a duplicate government that escapes
Bush's control. It is the neoconservatives, such as Cheney, Rumsfeld,
Wolfowitz, Pearl, the people tied into the oil and the military
industries,. The global chaos is in the interest of the military
industry: when there is the chaos all over the world, one can sell
weapons and oil for a bigger price.

Silvia Cattori: Youssef Asckar described this State within in the
state very well, to which you give credit [1]. Isn't Israel the first
country interested by this strategy of chaos, therefore by the
manipulation of terrorist attacks? Doesn't the propaganda of the pro-
Israeli lobby have the tendency to make us believe that Israel is
threatened by Arabs fanatics?

Jürgen Elsässer: It is not certain that this strategy can serve the
interests of Israel because, if things continue this way, the whole
Middle East will be in flames, including Israel. They used the same
process during the war in Bosnia. In order to demonize the Serbs, the
western media invented stories of concentration camps and made photo
montages that compared the Serbs to the Nazis. This propaganda aimed
to win opinion over to the war against Serbia, but, with regard to
the United States, it was not nourished necessarily by the Jewish
lobby, but by the Christian and atheist strategists. These
strategists play the "Jewish" card. That is my thesis. One sees it
currently with the propaganda against Iran; strategists of the war
play the "Jewish" card to impress people that have more morals than
intelligence.

Silvia Cattori: The recent manipulations confirm, in part, your
thesis: at the same moment where the United States wanted the
Security Council to pass sanctions against Iran, a Canadian newspaper
wrote that Iran wanted to force Iranian Jews to wear the equivalent
of a yellow star [2]. But I refer to these openly pro-Israeli
personalities that, in France for example, play an important role in
the formation of opinion because they occupy some strategic positions
in the media, and whose community allegiance psuyhes them to support
the policies of Israel and the United States, even if it is criminal.
Remember the active support brought to Izetbegovic in Bosnia by
Bernard-Henri Lévy and Bernard Kouchner. As soon as Serbia was on the
knees, they immediately turned their propaganda against Arabs and
Moslems; this time it was to mobilize opinion in favor of the so-
called "war of civilizations". When they spoke of "concentration
camps" to associate the Serbs with Hitler, didn't they participate in
manipulations of NATO?

Jürgen Elsässer: We watched the same phenomenon in Germany. The
Jewish journalists that supported the war against Yugoslavia had
access to the televised studios. But the journalists that were
against, whether they were Jewish or not, were excluded from the
debate. I think that the media and politicians use the Jewish voices
for geostrategic stakes.

Silvia Cattori: So, as you see it, what happened in the Balkan was
only the repetition of what had happened in Afghanistan, what
followed was part of the same process. Do you think that our
authorities know risks of the wars provoked by their intelligence
agencies?

Jürgen Elsässer: My hope is that there is a reaction on behalf of the
military in the United States. There are among them people who know
very well that all these wars are not intelligent. They know that the
United States is going to lose this war. In the American army, they
are imperialistic but they are not crazy, they don't agree with what
is happening. But the neoconservatives are crazy, they want to wage
the Third World War against all Arabs and all Moslems, just like
Hitler who wanted to kill all Jews and to attack all other countries;
the German generals had warned Hitler of all that he risked.

Silvia Cattori: Is your hope that a change occurs unexpectedly?

Jürgen Elsässer: To stop this madness I see possibility of change
only among those forces that remained rational. The high command of
the American army wrote a letter to Bush to say that it doesn't want
to participate in an attack against Iran with nuclear weapons. Maybe
Bush will attack; but the consequences would be more serious than in
the case of Iraq. The same thing happened with the Nazis: they
attacked, they attacked, and one day there was Stalingrad and the
beginning of the defeat. But this adventure cost the lives of 60
million human beings.

Silvia Cattori: Is that what motivated your effort while writing this
book: to alert people's consciences in order to avoid new disasters
and new suffering? Moreover, that after Iraq it would be Iran's turn?

Jürgen Elsässer: Yes. But characters like Bush don't care about all
of that. I am not completely pessimistic on Iran: one could see a
repetition of the Paris, Berlin, Moscow axis. Our chancellor, who is
normally a puppet of the United States, offered strategic cooperation
with Russia, because Germany depends entirely on Russian oil and gas.
It is a strong argument. Germans are imperialists, but they are not
crazy.

Silvia Cattori: In the Balkans, was it not Germany that opened the
door to the war?

Jürgen Elsässer: Yes, it is true. But, today, you see that Joschka
Fischer and Madeleine Albright have sent an open letter to Bush to
tell him not to attack Iran. Mrs. Albright specified that one cannot
attack all the people that one doesn't like. It is rational.

Silvia Cattori: Were you able to collect these elements that
illustrate the actions of the intelligence agencies because, today,
people, worried of the evolution of international politics, are
beginning to speak?

Jürgen Elsässer: Yes. I depended a great deal on information from
people that work in the belly of "the beast".

Silvia Cattori: Everywhere in the world?

Jürgen Elsässer: I can only tell you that it is people from Western
Europe. It is people that haven't stopped using their heads.

Silvia Cattori: To obtain the proof of the manipulations
surroundeding the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident", the incident that
permitted the United States to unleash the war against the Vietnamese
people, it was necessary to wait a long time. Have things therefore
changed today, permitting a response in time?

Jürgen Elsässer: There is a big difference between the situation in
the 60's and the one today. In the Federal Republic of Germany, they
were, for example, at that time in favor of the war against
Communists in Vietnam. The official version that said our republic
was in danger of being attacked by Communists was shared by a big
part of public opinion. What has changed is that, today, the majority
of the population is against the war, without discussion.

Silvia Cattori: You rightly underline the extremist religious
character of Bosnia-Herzegovina under Izetbegovic, but, whereas you
doubt the support of Israel to this sort of draft of the emirate of
the Talibans, don't you overvalue the role of Iran and Saudi Arabia?
Richard Perle was the principal political advisor to Izetbegovic.
Didn't the Iranians and the Saudis raise the ante on the question of
Islam hoping to take the control of a Moslem regime that only took
its orders from Tel Aviv and Washington? In fact, was Izetbegovic not
an agent of Israel?

Jürgen Elsässer: The Mossad helped the Bosnian Serbians, they even
provided them weapons. There is nothing that indicates that the
Israeli government helped Izetbegovic. It was supported by Americans,
and Clinton depended upon the Zionist lobby in the United States, but
this lobby didn't have the support of the Israeli government during
the war of Bosnia.

Silvia Cattori: With regard to some of your sources, can one grant
credit to the assertions of Yossef Bodanski, director of the Working
Group on Terrorism and Non-Conventional war close to the American
Senate?

Jürgen Elsässer: I don't trust anybody. They claim that Bodansky has
ties with sources in Mossad and it renders a number of his findings
suspect. On the other hand, he brings to our knowledge a lot of
interesting facts that contradict the official propaganda. In my book
I show the contradictions within the dominant elites of the United
States, and, in this respect, Bodansky, is very interesting.

Silvia Cattori: It says in your book: "Terrorism exists in Kosovo and
Macedonia, but in its majority it is not controled by Ben Laden but
by US intelligence". Do you doubt the existence of Al Qaeda?

Jürgen Elsässer: Yes, as I wrote it in my book, it is propaganda
manufactured by the west.

Silvia Cattori: One has a bit the impression that, to go to the end
of its logic, your investigation is not finished. Certainly,
Yugoslavia was a laboratory for the manufacture of the Islamic
networks, and your book shows well that these networks serve the
interests of the United States. However, you seem to believe in the
existence of international Islamic networks who would have a popular
base in the Moslem world, whereas at the same time your research
demonstrates that these networks are only mercenaries of the United
States and that they have never done anything for the Moslems?

Jürgen Elsässer: Look at the example of Hamas: in the beginning of
the 80's, it was fomented by Mossad to counter the influence of the
PLO. But thereafter, Hamas developed its own popular base and, now,
it is part of the resistance. But I bet that there are still foreign
agents inside Hamas.

Silvia Cattori: You mentioned that the inspectors of the United
Nations are infiltrated by spies from the United States. Could we
have some precisions?

Jürgen Elsässer: Some blue helmets of the UNPROFOR in Bosnia
transported weapons to destinations of the Mujahidines.

Silvia Cattori: When Peter Handke affirms that Serbs are not the only
guilty party, that they are victims of the war of the Balkans, one
banish it. Who is right in this business?

Jürgen Elsässer: On all sides - Serbs, Croatians, Moslems - the
ordinary people have all lost. Moslems won the war in Bosnia with the
help of Ben Laden and Clinton but, now, their country is occupied by
NATO. They have less independence today than at the time of Yugoslavia.

Silvia Cattori: How does your research relate to that of Andreas Von
Bülow and Thierry Meyssan?

Jurgen Elsässer: We share the same opinion on the events of September
11, 2001: we think that the official version is not true. All this
combined research is very useful to be able to continue to deepen the
reality of the facts. My specialty is to have made the link between
wars of the Balkans and September 11, while Thierry Meyssan analyzed
the attack on the Pentagon to demonstrate that it was due to a
missile and not to a plane, and Von Bülow arrived at the conclusion
that planes were guided by a beacon.

Silvia Cattori: To having put into question the official truth,
Thierry Meyssan was discredited and blocked by the media. Are you
going to escape that?

Jürgen Elsässer: There is also a blockage against my book. It is not
possible for one author alone to break this blockage. However, it
can't prevent our theses from making their path. The public is not in
agreement with what the media says: in spite of their blockage 35 to
40% of people don't believe what media tells them. There is the
example of Kennedy's assassination: today, 90% of people don't
believe in the official version and think that Kennedy's murder was
an action of the CIA.

Silvia Cattori: Isn't it dangerous to uncover the manipulations of
States that use their intelligence services in criminal ways?

Jürgen Elsässer: I believe that the danger only comes when one sells
more than 100 000 books. In Germany, in eleven months, my book has
only sold 6 000 copies.

Silvia Cattori
Swiss Journalist.

Comment le Djihad est arrivé en Europe by Jürgen Elsässer, preface by
Jean-Pierre Chevènement. Éditions Xenia (Suisse), 304 pages, 19 euros.

[1] Read "La 'guerre contre le terrorisme' est une guerre contre les
peoples" by Youssef Aschkar, Voltaire, 16 mars 2006.

[2] "Iran : les gouvernements anglo-saxons fabriquent de fausses
nouvelles », Voltaire, 24 mai 2006.

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Jürgen Elsässer

Wie der Dschihad nach Europa kam:
Gotteskrieger und Geheimdienste auf dem Balkan

NP-Verlag, 240 Seiten, 19.90 €

https://www.cnj.it/INIZIATIVE/roma290305.htm

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Jürgen Elsässer

Comment le Djihad est arrivé en Europe

préface de Jean-Pierre Chevènement

Éditions Xenia (Suisse) 2006, 304 pages, 19 euros
ISBN 2-88892-004-2

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2888920042/qid=1149522318/
sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/403-4260395-4442061
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/4992
http://www.voltairenet.org/article139861.html
http://www.oulala.net/Portail/article.php3?id_article=2474
http://www.legrandsoir.info/article.php3?id_article=3788
Balkans Info N.112
http://www.editions-xenia.com/php2/xedox/article_elsaesser_agefi.pdf
Jean-Pierre Chevenement sur "Horizons et debats"
Introduction de Jean-Pierre Chevenement sur "Observatoire du
communautarisme"
http://www.horizons-et-debats.ch/36/36_22.htm
http://www.anis-online.de/1/orient-online/elsaesser.htm

CONVERTITO SULLA VIA DI DAMASCO?

D. Anche il Libano ha comunque perso.

R. «Ha subito enormi distruzioni. Ma è stato invaso sei volte e una
certa esperienza di ricostruzione ce l'ha».

D. Chi ha vinto allora?

R. «Come spesso accade in guerra hanno perso tutti. Si vince quando
si esce dal conflitto...».

Così parlò Massimo D'Alema, responsabile per l'Italia della guerra di
aggressione contro la Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia nella
primavera 1999.
Intervistato su L' Espresso, 18 agosto 2006 (tratto da www.esteri.it
via http://www.studiperlapace.it/view_news_html?news_id=20060812135005 )

  1. 5067 Visnjica broj 586
  2. 5068 E.S. Herman: Faith-Based Analysis
  3. 5069 Visnjica broj 587
  4. 5066 Due campagne per sanzionare Israele per i crimini di guerra commessi
  5. 5065 Kosovo: Die Herren des Rechts
  6. 5063 E.S. Herman on Ethnic Cleansing: Constructive, Benign, and Nefarious
  7. 5064 JWR on Wahabism in Kosovo
  8. 5060 [icdsm-italia] Momir Bulatovic: "Slobodan Milosevic - Neizgovorena odbrana"
  9. 5061 Slovénie : Un élève pas si modèle que ç a !
  10. 5062 RSF al servizio della CIA

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