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Camp Bondsteel and America's plans to control Caspian oil
By Paul Stuart
29 April 2002
Camp Bondsteel, the biggest "from scratch" foreign US military
base since the Vietnam War is near completion in the Yugoslav
province of Kosovo.
It is located close to vital oil pipelines and energy
corridors presently under construction, such as the US
sponsored Trans-Balkan oil pipeline.
As a result defence contractors-in particular Halliburton
Oil subsidiary Brown & Root Services-are making a fortune.
In June 1999, in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of
Yugoslavia, US forces seized 1,000 acres of farmland in southeast
Kosovo at Uresevac, near the Macedonian border, and began the
construction of a camp.
Camp Bondsteel is known as the "grand dame" in a network of US
bases running both sides of the border between Kosovo and
Macedonia. In less than three years it has been transformed from an
encampment of tents to a self sufficient, high tech base-camp housing
nearly 7,000 troops-three quarters of all the US troops stationed in
Kosovo.
There are 25 kilometres of roads and over 300 buildings at Camp
Bondsteel, surrounded by 14 kilometres of earth and concrete
barriers, 84 kilometres of concertina wire and 11 watch towers.
It is so big that it has downtown, midtown and uptown districts,
retail outlets, 24-hour sports halls, a chapel, library and the
best-equipped hospital anywhere in Europe. At present there are
55 Black Hawk and Apache helicopters based at Bondsteel
and although it has no aircraft landing strip the
location was chosen for its capacity to expand. There are
suggestions that it could replace the US airforce base at
Aviano in Italy.
According to Colonel Robert L. McClure, writing in the engineers
professional Bulletin, "Engineer planning for operations in
Kosovo began months before the first bomb was dropped. At the
outset, planners wanted to use the lessons learned in Bosnia and
convinced decision makers to reach base-camp "end state" as
quickly as possible."
Initially US military engineers took control of 320 kilometres of
roads and 75 bridges in the surrounding area for military use and
laid out a base camp template involving soldiers living quarters,
helicopter flight paths, ammunition holding areas and so on.
McClure explains how the Engineer Brigade were instructed "to
merge construction assets and integrate them with the contractor,
Brown & Root Services Corporation, to build not one but two base
camps [the other is Camp Monteith] for a total of 7,000 troops."
According to McClure, "At the height of the effort, about 1,000
expatriates [former military personnel] hired by Brown & Root,
along with more than 7,000 Albanian local nationals, joined
the 1,700 military engineers. From early July and into October
[1999], construction at both camps continued 24 hours a day,
seven days a week."
Brown & Root Services provides all the support services to Camp
Bondsteel. This includes 600,000 gallons of water per-day, enough
electricity to supply a city of 25,000 and a supply centre with
14,000 product lines. It washes 1,200 bags of laundry, supplies
18,000 meals per day and operates 95 percent of the rail and
airfield facilities. It also provides the camps firefighting service.
Brown & Root are now the largest employers in Kosovo, with more than
5,000 local Kosovan Albanians and another 15,000 on its books.
Staff at Camp Bondsteel rarely venture outside the compound and
their activities are secretive. Whilst other KFOR patrols are small
and mobile with soldiers wearing soft caps and instructed to
integrate with the local population, US military personnel leave
Bondsteel in either helicopters or as part of infrequent but large
heavily armed convoys.
In unnamed interviews US troops complain that hostility to their
presence is growing as local inhabitants compare the investment in
Camp Bondsteel with the continuing decline in their own living
standards.
Those visiting Camp Bondsteel describe it as a journey through
100 years in time. The area surrounding the camp is extremely poor
with an unemployment rate of 80 percent. Then Bondsteel appears on
the horizon with its mass of communication satellites, antennae and
menacing attack helicopters circling above. Brown & Root pay Kosova
workers between $1 and $3 per hour. The local manager said wages
were so low because, "We can't inflate the wages because we don't
want to over inflate the local economy."
The escalating US presence at Bondsteel was accompanied by
increased activity by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Since
its appearance most Serbs, Roma and Albanians opposed to the
KLA have been murdered or driven out. Those remaining dare
not leave their houses to buy food at the local stores and
the need for military escorts stretch from children's swimming
pools to tractors taken away for repair. According to
observers the KLA continue to act with virtual impunity in
the US sector despite the high tech military intelligence
facilities at Bondsteel.
When US troops arrive at Camp Bondsteel, they are more likely to
be met by a Brown & Root employee directing them to their
accommodation and equipment areas. According to G. Cahlink in
Government Executive Magazine (February 2002), "Army peace
keepers joke that they're missing a patch on their camouflage
fatigues. 'We need one that says Sponsored by Brown & Root,'
says a staff sergeant, who, like more than nearly 10,000 soldiers
in the region, has come to rely on Brown and Root Services, a
Houston based contractor, for everything from breakfast
to spare parts for armoured Humvees."
The contract to service Camp Bondsteel is the latest in a string of
military contracts awarded to Brown & Root Services. Its fortunes
have grown as US militarism has escalated. The company is part of the
Halliburton Corporation, the largest supplier of products and
services to the oil industry.
Brown & Root first rose to prominence in 1992 after Dick Cheney,
as Secretary of Defence in the senior Bush administration,
awarded the company its first contract providing support for the US
army's global operations. Cheney left politics and joined Halliburton
as CEO between 1995 and 2000. He is now US vice president in the
junior Bush administration. In 1992 Brown & Root built and maintained
US army bases in Somalia earning $62 million. In 1994 Brown & Root
built bases and support systems for 18,000 troops in Haiti doubling
its earnings to $133 million. The company received a five-year
support contract in 1999 worth $180 million per-year to build
military facilities in Hungary, Croatia and
Bosnia. It was Camp Bondsteel, however, that was dubbed "the
mother of all contracts" by the Washington based Contract
Services Association of America. There, "We do everything that
does not require us to carry a gun," said Brown & Roots director
David Capouya.
The aim of outsourcing military support and services to private
contractors has been to free up more soldiers for combat duties.
A US Department of Defence (DoD) review in 2001 insisted that the use
of contractors would escalate: "Only those functions that must be
done at DoD should be kept at DoD."
In sectors controlled by other Western powers, KFOR soldiers
who are living in bombed out apartment blocks and old factories
joke, "What are the two things that can be seen from space?
One is the Great Wall of China, the other is Camp Bondsteel."
More seriously a senior British military officer told the Washington
Post, "It is an obvious sign that the Americans are making a major
commitment to the Balkan region and plan to stay." One analyst
described the US as having taken advantage of favourable
circumstances to create a base that would be large enough
to accommodate future military plans.
Camp Bondsteel has become a key venue for important policy
speeches by leading officials of the Bush administration.
On June 5, 2001 US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld
explained to troops at Camp Bondsteel what role they played
in the new administration's economic strategy. He declared,
"How much should we spend on the armed services? ...My view is
we don't spend on you, we invest in you. The men and women in
the armed services are not a drain on our economic strength.
Indeed you safeguard it. You're not a burden on our economy,
you are the critical foundation for growth."
One month later, President George W. Bush made his first trip
abroad to see US troops at the camp. He traveled directly from the
Rome G8 summit, where tensions with European governments had come to
the fore. In a speech described as a "retrenching" of the US in
Europe, he insisted that US troops were in Kosovo to stay, had
gone in together and would "leave together". In a break from normal
procedure, in front of cheering troops, Bush signed into law a
Congress-approved increase in military spending of $1.9 billion.
Since then Camp Bondsteel has continued to grow, as it
spearheads the first phase in a realignment of US military bases in
Europe and eastward. The Bondsteel template is now being applied in
Afghanistan and the new bases in the former Soviet Republics.
According to leaked comments to the press, European politicians
now believe that the US used the bombing of Yugoslavia
specifically in order to establish Camp Bondsteel. Before the
start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Washington Post
insisted, "With the Middle-East increasingly fragile, we will
need bases and fly over rights in the Balkans to protect Caspian
Sea oil."
The scale of US oil corporations investment in the exploitation of
Caspian oil fields and the US government demand for the economy
to be less dependent on imported oil, particularly from the
Middle-East, demands a long term solution to the transportation
of oil to European and US markets. The US Trade & Development
Agency (TDA) has financed initial feasibility studies, with large
grants, and more recently advanced technical studies for the New York
based AMBO (Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria Oil) Trans-Balkan pipeline.
Announcing a grant for an advanced technical study in 1999 for the
AMBO oil pipeline through Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania, TDA
director J. Joseph Grandmaison declared, "The competition is fierce
to tap energy resources in the Caspian region....Over the last
year [1999], TDA has been actively promoting the development of
multiple pipelines to connect these vast resources with Western
markets. This grant represents a significant step forward for this
policy and for US business interests in the Caspian region."
The $1.3 billion trans-Balkan AMBO pipeline is one of the most
important of these multiple pipelines. It will pump oil from the
tankers that bring it across the Black Sea to the Bulgarian oil
terminus at Burgas, through Macedonia to the Albanian Adriatic
port of Vlore. From there it will be pumped on to huge 300,000
ton tankers and sent on to Europe and the US, bypassing the
Bosphorus Straits-the congested and only route out
of the Black Sea where tankers are restricted to 150,000 tons.
The initial feasibility study for AMBO was conducted in 1995 by
none other than Brown & Root, as was an updated feasibility study
in 1999. In another twist, the former director of Oil & Gas
Development for Europe and Africa for Brown & Root Energy Services,
Ted Ferguson, was appointed as the new president of AMBO [1997] after
the death of former president and founder of AMBO, Macedonian born Mr
Vuko Tashkovikj.
According to a recent Reuters article, Ferguson declared that
Exxon-Mobil and Chevron, two of the worlds largest oil
corporations, are preparing to finance the AMBO project.
The building of AMBO risks antagonising Turkey, the US's main
ally in the region. According to the Reagan Information
Interchange, "While the United States is making an advantageous
economic decision, it is overlooking its crucial strategic
relationship with Turkey."
The US is also antagonising its European allies and Russia with
Camp Bondsteel and other smaller military bases run alongside the
proposed AMBO pipeline route. It has been built near the mouth of the
Presevo valley and energy Corridor 8, which the European Union
has sponsored since 1994 and regards as a strategic route
east-west for global trade.
In April 1999, British General Michael Jackson, the commander in
Macedonia during the NATO bombing of Serbia, explained to the
Italian paper Sole 24 Ore "Today, the circumstances which we have
created here have changed. Today, it is absolutely necessary to
guarantee the stability of Macedonia and its entry into NATO.
But we will certainly remain here a long time so that we can also
guarantee the security of the energy corridors which traverse this
country."
The newspaper added, "It is clear that Jackson is referring to the
8th corridor, the East-West axis which ought to be combined to
the pipeline bringing energy resources from Central Asia to
terminals in the Black Sea and in the Adriatic, connecting Europe
with Central Asia. That explains why the great and medium sized
powers, and first of all Russia, don't want to be excluded from the
settling of scores that will take place over the next few months
in the Balkans."
Copyright 1998-2002
World Socialist Web Site
All rights reserved
WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : The Balkans
Camp Bondsteel and America's plans to control Caspian oil
By Paul Stuart
29 April 2002
Camp Bondsteel, the biggest "from scratch" foreign US military
base since the Vietnam War is near completion in the Yugoslav
province of Kosovo.
It is located close to vital oil pipelines and energy
corridors presently under construction, such as the US
sponsored Trans-Balkan oil pipeline.
As a result defence contractors-in particular Halliburton
Oil subsidiary Brown & Root Services-are making a fortune.
In June 1999, in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of
Yugoslavia, US forces seized 1,000 acres of farmland in southeast
Kosovo at Uresevac, near the Macedonian border, and began the
construction of a camp.
Camp Bondsteel is known as the "grand dame" in a network of US
bases running both sides of the border between Kosovo and
Macedonia. In less than three years it has been transformed from an
encampment of tents to a self sufficient, high tech base-camp housing
nearly 7,000 troops-three quarters of all the US troops stationed in
Kosovo.
There are 25 kilometres of roads and over 300 buildings at Camp
Bondsteel, surrounded by 14 kilometres of earth and concrete
barriers, 84 kilometres of concertina wire and 11 watch towers.
It is so big that it has downtown, midtown and uptown districts,
retail outlets, 24-hour sports halls, a chapel, library and the
best-equipped hospital anywhere in Europe. At present there are
55 Black Hawk and Apache helicopters based at Bondsteel
and although it has no aircraft landing strip the
location was chosen for its capacity to expand. There are
suggestions that it could replace the US airforce base at
Aviano in Italy.
According to Colonel Robert L. McClure, writing in the engineers
professional Bulletin, "Engineer planning for operations in
Kosovo began months before the first bomb was dropped. At the
outset, planners wanted to use the lessons learned in Bosnia and
convinced decision makers to reach base-camp "end state" as
quickly as possible."
Initially US military engineers took control of 320 kilometres of
roads and 75 bridges in the surrounding area for military use and
laid out a base camp template involving soldiers living quarters,
helicopter flight paths, ammunition holding areas and so on.
McClure explains how the Engineer Brigade were instructed "to
merge construction assets and integrate them with the contractor,
Brown & Root Services Corporation, to build not one but two base
camps [the other is Camp Monteith] for a total of 7,000 troops."
According to McClure, "At the height of the effort, about 1,000
expatriates [former military personnel] hired by Brown & Root,
along with more than 7,000 Albanian local nationals, joined
the 1,700 military engineers. From early July and into October
[1999], construction at both camps continued 24 hours a day,
seven days a week."
Brown & Root Services provides all the support services to Camp
Bondsteel. This includes 600,000 gallons of water per-day, enough
electricity to supply a city of 25,000 and a supply centre with
14,000 product lines. It washes 1,200 bags of laundry, supplies
18,000 meals per day and operates 95 percent of the rail and
airfield facilities. It also provides the camps firefighting service.
Brown & Root are now the largest employers in Kosovo, with more than
5,000 local Kosovan Albanians and another 15,000 on its books.
Staff at Camp Bondsteel rarely venture outside the compound and
their activities are secretive. Whilst other KFOR patrols are small
and mobile with soldiers wearing soft caps and instructed to
integrate with the local population, US military personnel leave
Bondsteel in either helicopters or as part of infrequent but large
heavily armed convoys.
In unnamed interviews US troops complain that hostility to their
presence is growing as local inhabitants compare the investment in
Camp Bondsteel with the continuing decline in their own living
standards.
Those visiting Camp Bondsteel describe it as a journey through
100 years in time. The area surrounding the camp is extremely poor
with an unemployment rate of 80 percent. Then Bondsteel appears on
the horizon with its mass of communication satellites, antennae and
menacing attack helicopters circling above. Brown & Root pay Kosova
workers between $1 and $3 per hour. The local manager said wages
were so low because, "We can't inflate the wages because we don't
want to over inflate the local economy."
The escalating US presence at Bondsteel was accompanied by
increased activity by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Since
its appearance most Serbs, Roma and Albanians opposed to the
KLA have been murdered or driven out. Those remaining dare
not leave their houses to buy food at the local stores and
the need for military escorts stretch from children's swimming
pools to tractors taken away for repair. According to
observers the KLA continue to act with virtual impunity in
the US sector despite the high tech military intelligence
facilities at Bondsteel.
When US troops arrive at Camp Bondsteel, they are more likely to
be met by a Brown & Root employee directing them to their
accommodation and equipment areas. According to G. Cahlink in
Government Executive Magazine (February 2002), "Army peace
keepers joke that they're missing a patch on their camouflage
fatigues. 'We need one that says Sponsored by Brown & Root,'
says a staff sergeant, who, like more than nearly 10,000 soldiers
in the region, has come to rely on Brown and Root Services, a
Houston based contractor, for everything from breakfast
to spare parts for armoured Humvees."
The contract to service Camp Bondsteel is the latest in a string of
military contracts awarded to Brown & Root Services. Its fortunes
have grown as US militarism has escalated. The company is part of the
Halliburton Corporation, the largest supplier of products and
services to the oil industry.
Brown & Root first rose to prominence in 1992 after Dick Cheney,
as Secretary of Defence in the senior Bush administration,
awarded the company its first contract providing support for the US
army's global operations. Cheney left politics and joined Halliburton
as CEO between 1995 and 2000. He is now US vice president in the
junior Bush administration. In 1992 Brown & Root built and maintained
US army bases in Somalia earning $62 million. In 1994 Brown & Root
built bases and support systems for 18,000 troops in Haiti doubling
its earnings to $133 million. The company received a five-year
support contract in 1999 worth $180 million per-year to build
military facilities in Hungary, Croatia and
Bosnia. It was Camp Bondsteel, however, that was dubbed "the
mother of all contracts" by the Washington based Contract
Services Association of America. There, "We do everything that
does not require us to carry a gun," said Brown & Roots director
David Capouya.
The aim of outsourcing military support and services to private
contractors has been to free up more soldiers for combat duties.
A US Department of Defence (DoD) review in 2001 insisted that the use
of contractors would escalate: "Only those functions that must be
done at DoD should be kept at DoD."
In sectors controlled by other Western powers, KFOR soldiers
who are living in bombed out apartment blocks and old factories
joke, "What are the two things that can be seen from space?
One is the Great Wall of China, the other is Camp Bondsteel."
More seriously a senior British military officer told the Washington
Post, "It is an obvious sign that the Americans are making a major
commitment to the Balkan region and plan to stay." One analyst
described the US as having taken advantage of favourable
circumstances to create a base that would be large enough
to accommodate future military plans.
Camp Bondsteel has become a key venue for important policy
speeches by leading officials of the Bush administration.
On June 5, 2001 US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld
explained to troops at Camp Bondsteel what role they played
in the new administration's economic strategy. He declared,
"How much should we spend on the armed services? ...My view is
we don't spend on you, we invest in you. The men and women in
the armed services are not a drain on our economic strength.
Indeed you safeguard it. You're not a burden on our economy,
you are the critical foundation for growth."
One month later, President George W. Bush made his first trip
abroad to see US troops at the camp. He traveled directly from the
Rome G8 summit, where tensions with European governments had come to
the fore. In a speech described as a "retrenching" of the US in
Europe, he insisted that US troops were in Kosovo to stay, had
gone in together and would "leave together". In a break from normal
procedure, in front of cheering troops, Bush signed into law a
Congress-approved increase in military spending of $1.9 billion.
Since then Camp Bondsteel has continued to grow, as it
spearheads the first phase in a realignment of US military bases in
Europe and eastward. The Bondsteel template is now being applied in
Afghanistan and the new bases in the former Soviet Republics.
According to leaked comments to the press, European politicians
now believe that the US used the bombing of Yugoslavia
specifically in order to establish Camp Bondsteel. Before the
start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Washington Post
insisted, "With the Middle-East increasingly fragile, we will
need bases and fly over rights in the Balkans to protect Caspian
Sea oil."
The scale of US oil corporations investment in the exploitation of
Caspian oil fields and the US government demand for the economy
to be less dependent on imported oil, particularly from the
Middle-East, demands a long term solution to the transportation
of oil to European and US markets. The US Trade & Development
Agency (TDA) has financed initial feasibility studies, with large
grants, and more recently advanced technical studies for the New York
based AMBO (Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria Oil) Trans-Balkan pipeline.
Announcing a grant for an advanced technical study in 1999 for the
AMBO oil pipeline through Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania, TDA
director J. Joseph Grandmaison declared, "The competition is fierce
to tap energy resources in the Caspian region....Over the last
year [1999], TDA has been actively promoting the development of
multiple pipelines to connect these vast resources with Western
markets. This grant represents a significant step forward for this
policy and for US business interests in the Caspian region."
The $1.3 billion trans-Balkan AMBO pipeline is one of the most
important of these multiple pipelines. It will pump oil from the
tankers that bring it across the Black Sea to the Bulgarian oil
terminus at Burgas, through Macedonia to the Albanian Adriatic
port of Vlore. From there it will be pumped on to huge 300,000
ton tankers and sent on to Europe and the US, bypassing the
Bosphorus Straits-the congested and only route out
of the Black Sea where tankers are restricted to 150,000 tons.
The initial feasibility study for AMBO was conducted in 1995 by
none other than Brown & Root, as was an updated feasibility study
in 1999. In another twist, the former director of Oil & Gas
Development for Europe and Africa for Brown & Root Energy Services,
Ted Ferguson, was appointed as the new president of AMBO [1997] after
the death of former president and founder of AMBO, Macedonian born Mr
Vuko Tashkovikj.
According to a recent Reuters article, Ferguson declared that
Exxon-Mobil and Chevron, two of the worlds largest oil
corporations, are preparing to finance the AMBO project.
The building of AMBO risks antagonising Turkey, the US's main
ally in the region. According to the Reagan Information
Interchange, "While the United States is making an advantageous
economic decision, it is overlooking its crucial strategic
relationship with Turkey."
The US is also antagonising its European allies and Russia with
Camp Bondsteel and other smaller military bases run alongside the
proposed AMBO pipeline route. It has been built near the mouth of the
Presevo valley and energy Corridor 8, which the European Union
has sponsored since 1994 and regards as a strategic route
east-west for global trade.
In April 1999, British General Michael Jackson, the commander in
Macedonia during the NATO bombing of Serbia, explained to the
Italian paper Sole 24 Ore "Today, the circumstances which we have
created here have changed. Today, it is absolutely necessary to
guarantee the stability of Macedonia and its entry into NATO.
But we will certainly remain here a long time so that we can also
guarantee the security of the energy corridors which traverse this
country."
The newspaper added, "It is clear that Jackson is referring to the
8th corridor, the East-West axis which ought to be combined to
the pipeline bringing energy resources from Central Asia to
terminals in the Black Sea and in the Adriatic, connecting Europe
with Central Asia. That explains why the great and medium sized
powers, and first of all Russia, don't want to be excluded from the
settling of scores that will take place over the next few months
in the Balkans."
Copyright 1998-2002
World Socialist Web Site
All rights reserved
Indice di questo messaggio:
* Dopo il danno, la beffa: USA ed Italia donano attrezzature
diagnostiche al Centro Oncologico di Belgrado (Tanjug)
* Ancora nell'atmosfera le polveri radioattive delle nostre
bombe (Tanjug)
* Urgente la decontaminazione nel Sud della Serbia (Tanjug)
* Segnalazione NUOVI ARTICOLI sugli effetti del DU
* Almeno sette figli di militari italiani impiegati nei Balcani
hanno malformazioni genetiche (da Resto del Carlino e ANSA)
===*===
Dopo il danno, la beffa
STATUNITENSI ED ITALIANI DONANO ATTREZZATURE
DIAGNOSTICHE AL CENTRO ONCOLOGICO DI BELGRADO
Serviranno a seguire "in vivo" il decorso clinico
delle nostre cavie umane: i bombardati del 1999
US Embassy, Italian govt donation to Belgrade Institute of Oncology
BELGRADE, April 29 (Tanjug) - The United States Embassy in Yugoslavia,
through the Office of the Transition Initiative (OTI) and USAID,
presented the necessary medical equipment to the Belgrade
Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, where a new
Department of Pediatric Oncology will begin work tomorrow.
US Ambassador William Montgomery and Italian Ambassador to
Yugoslavia Giovanni Caracciolo will attend the inauguration
ceremony which will be officiated by Institute Director Nenad
Borojevic, a statement by the US Embassy in Belgrade said.
The embassy donation is a part of an international project,
which includes donors from the government and private sectors.
The project was initiated by the Institute itself and the
Italian government in an effort to create favorable conditions
for the treatment and recovery of children with cancer.
The ceremony will also be attended by the wife of the US
ambassador, Lynn Montgomery, who will represent the Dream
Team and other private donors.
===*===
ANCORA NELL'ATMOSFERA LE POLVERI RADIOATTIVE DELLE NOSTRE BOMBE
Radioactive particles from NATO's bombing still in atmosphere
BELGRADE, April 29 (Tanjug) - The removal of radioactive
contamination in Bratosavci and Plackovci, in southern Serbia,
will start in May, the Yugoslav health secretariat announced
Monday. Presenting the report of the UN Environment Program
(UNEP) about areas where NATO in 1999 in bombing Yugoslavia
used deplete uranium munitions, Yugoslav deputy health secretary
Miroslav Nikcevic, at a press conference, explained that
decontamination was planned of four locations in southern
Serbia and of cape Arza in Montenegro.
He warned of "the astounding fact that after two years and
six months radioactive particles are still in the air," which
means that they are still carried over great distances through
the air.
Nikcevic said there was a possibility that the particles
reach underground waters, and then get into food, and that
is the reason why decontamination must be speeded up.
"For us that is a huge financial burden, but we will have
to ensure the funding," Nikcevic said.
At a press conference, attention was drawn to the fact that
munitions with depleted uranium were used mostly in Kosovo
and Metohija, where as many as 112 locations are contaminated
and are not even cordoned off or marked in any way.
===*===
NEL SUD DELLA SERBIA E' URGENTE LA DECONTAMINAZIONE DEL SUOLO
+++ Dekontaminierung von verstrahlten Böden geplant +++
BELGRAD, 30. April 2002. Die Beseitigung der "radioaktiven
Verunreinigung" in den Orten Bratosavci und Plackovic werde
im Mai beginnen, kündigte am Montag ein Sprecher des
jugoslawischen Bundesgesundheitsministeriums an. Auf einer
Pressekonferenz sagte der stellvertretende Sekretär im
Bundesgesundheitsministerium, Miroslav Nikcevic, man plane
die Dekontamination von vier radioaktiv verseuchten
Landstrichen im Süden Serbiens, sowie von Arza in Montenegro.
Das Ministerium stellte gestern eine Studie des UNO-Umwelt-
Programms UNEP vor, in der alle Gebiete aufgelistet sind,
die durch den Einsatz von Uran-Geschossen während der NATO-
Aggression gegen Jugoslawien 1999 radioaktiv verseucht worden
sind.
Unterdessen beichteten italienische Medien erneut über
Erkrankungen von NATO-Soldaten, die auf dem Balkan eingesetzt
waren. Der staatliche Fernsehsender RAI berichtete dabei auch
über mindestens sieben Missgeburten in italienischen Familien,
deren Väter in den vergangenen Jahren auf Einsätzen in Kosovo
und Metochien waren.
Die Kinder litten an Missbildungen des Gehirns und der Knochen,
hieß es. Der Leukämie-Tod mehrerer italienischer Militärs wurde
auf Kontakt mit uranhaltiger Munition zurückgeführt.
TANJUG / AMSELFELD.COM
===*===
SEGNALAZIONE NUOVO ARTICOLO SUGLI EFFETTI DEL DU
Subject: [S&P] ...ancora sull'Uranio Impoverito...
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:44:07 +0200
From: Mauro Cristaldi <Mauro.Cristaldi@...>
To: <scienzaepace@...>
Carissimi,
rendo noto che è in distribuzione l'articolo:
Cristaldi M., Angeloni P., Degrassi F., Iannuzzelli F., Martocchia A.,
Nencini L., Pona C., Salerno S. & Zucchetti M. - Conseguenze ambientali
ed
effetti patogeni dell'uso di Uranio Impoverito nei dispositivi bellici.
Tribuna Biologica e Medica, 9 (1-2), Gennaio-Giugno 2001: 29-41.
Se si aggiunge l'allegato tecnico di Luca Boschetti il riferimento è:
Tribuna Biologica e Medica, 9 (1-2), Gennaio-Giugno 2001: 42-65
L'articolo è inserito nell'ANTOLOGIA TEMATICA SULL'URANIO IMPOVERITO, di
cui costituisce il corpo centrale, nel quale è compresa una premessa di
ANA-VAFAF (F. Accame) e LIDU (P. Angeloni) e il "Documento: conseguenze
dei
bombardamenti in Jugoslavia": Tribuna Biologica e Medica, 9 (1-2),
Gennaio-Giugno 2001: 27-69
A parte alcuni inopportuni riferimenti al terrorismo contenuti in queste
ultima parti, che c'entrerebbero ben poco in riferimento alla vicenda
Jugoslava, se non in quanto nazione aggredita dalla NATO, con
bombardamenti
terroristici NATO sul suo territorio sovrano e con l'intervento delle
milizie terroristiche dell'UCK finanziate dai paesi NATO, per il resto
la
realizzazione dell'articolo mi sembra di buon livello. Mi sembra del
tutto
strumentale il pretesto della lotta al terrorismo (solo Fidel Castro fa
finta ancora di crederci!), in quanto le notizie non manipolate sul
terrorismo D.O.C. ci riportano sempre alla CIA americana e al Mossad
israeliano e servono soltanto a portare la guerra imperiale per il
petrolio
nei paesi "target" (Palestina, Iraq, Jugoslavia, Afghanistan).
Vi ricordo che il nostro articolo era già contenuto nei siti Peacelink:
http://www.peacelink.org/tematiche/disarmo/du/temp/du1.pdf
(formato PDF 79 Kb)
http://www.peacelink.org/tematiche/disarmo/du/temp/du1.rtf
(formato RTF 129 Kb)
http://www.peacelink.org/tematiche/disarmo/du/temp/du1.html
(formato HTML 130 Kb)
===*===
URANIO IMPOVERITO
Sette figli di militari italiani impiegati nei Balcani hanno
malformazioni genetiche
I bambini nati da questi soldati soffrono di malformazioni simili a
quelle dei bambini iracheni e dei figli dei militari in missione nel
Golfo: palato molle, malformazioni scheletriche ed in particolare agli
arti
Accame: "Riparta da zero l'indagine"
Dal sito internet
http://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it
URANIO IMPOVERITO
Sette figli di militari italiani impiegati nei Balcani hanno
malformazioni genetiche
I bambini nati da questi soldati soffrono di malformazioni simili a
quelle dei bambini iracheni e dei figli dei militari in missione nel
Golfo: palato molle, malformazioni scheletriche ed in particolare agli
arti
ROMA, 26 APRILE 2002 - Sette bambini con malformazioni genetiche
sarebbero nati da militari italiani impegnati in Somalia e nei Balcani.
Tutti i militari, secondo quanto è emerso da un'inchiesta di Rai-News 24
in onda domani alle 18,30, hanno partecipato a operazioni di bonifica
delle armi all'uranio impoverito o hanno stazionato in zone bombardate
con i proiettili contenenti il materiale radioattivo.
Secondo testimonianze raccolte fra i militari che hanno voluto mantenere
l'anonimato, i bambini nati da questi soldati soffrono di malformazioni
simili a quelle dei bambini iracheni e dei figli dei militari in
missione
nel Golfo: palato molle, malformazioni scheletriche ed in particolare
agli arti.
I militari avevano stazionato nei luoghi per alcuni mesi. Da
testimonianze e documenti raccolti nella trasmissione si dimostra che
l'Italia era in possesso di munizioni di uranio impoverito già dal 1985,
che questi proiettili erano in dotazione alle nostre forze armate in
Somalia e che sarebbero stati utilizzati fino al 2001 anche in alcuni
poligoni sul territorio nazionale.
In un filmato che sarà trasmesso all'interno dell'inchiesta si vedono i
soldati dei contingenti italiani che operavano assieme ai colleghi
francesi e spagnoli, lavorare alla bonifica senza alcuna protezione.
uranio
Accame: "Riparta da zero l'indagine sull'uranio impoverito"
Il presidente dell'Anavafaf, l'associazione assistenza vittime arruolate
nelle forze armate, avanza tale richiesta nel giorno in cui è stata resa
nota l'inchiesta di Rai news 24, che parla di 7 bambini con
malformazioni
genetiche nati da militari italiani impegnati in Somalia e nei Balcani
ROMA, 26 APRILE 2002 - Far ripartire da zero l'indagine sull'uranio
impoverito, perchè quella condotta dalla commissione guidata
dall'ematologo Franco Mandelli si basa su presupposti "errati" e "privi
di senso". È quanto chiede Falco Accame, presidente dell'Anavafaf,
l'associazione assistenza vittime arruolate nelle forze armate, proprio
nel giorno in cui è stata resa nota l'inchiesta di Rai news 24, che
parla
di 7 bambini con malformazioni genetiche nati da militari italiani
impegnati in Somalia e nei Balcani.
Secondo Accame, l'indagine dovrebbe "prendere in considerazione anche i
militari che sono stati in Kuwait, in Somalia e nei poligoni italiani
perchè lì sono stati utilizzati proiettili all'uranio". Allo stesso
tempo
bisognerebbe escludere il personale "che ha operato in Kosovo, in quanto
protetto, e quello che è stato in Albania e in Macedonia in quanto non
interessato alla questione", visto che quelle munizioni non furono
utilizzate.
Secondo Accame, "prendere come cifra di riferimento per l'indagine sui
Balcani il numero di 40 mila persone", come ha fatto l'indagine condotta
da Mandelli "è una cosa priva di senso comune. In quelle zone il
personale potenzialmente esposto perchè privo di misure di protezione è
esclusivamente quello della Bosnia: e tra questo solo una parte,
prevedibilmente non più di mille persone, si è trovata in vicinanza di
zone colpite da proiettili all'uranio". Per questo, secondo il
presidente
dell'Anavafaf, "occorre individuare quei militari che si sono trovati
davvero esposti" e "basare lo studio solo su di loro".
URANIO: Accame, 12 neonati malformati
ROMA - Sono 12 i bambini nati con malformazioni genetiche da militari
italiani che erano stati in missione all'estero. E a questi se ne
aggiungono altri 11, figli di civili che vivono vicino ai poligoni
militari italiani dove sono stati sperimentati i proiettili
all'uranio impoverito. Lo afferma Falco Accame, presidente
dell'Anavafaf, l'associazione assistenza vittime arruolate nelle
forze armate che chiede un'inchiesta anche sui civili. (ANSA).
2002-04-27 - 16:22:0
* Dopo il danno, la beffa: USA ed Italia donano attrezzature
diagnostiche al Centro Oncologico di Belgrado (Tanjug)
* Ancora nell'atmosfera le polveri radioattive delle nostre
bombe (Tanjug)
* Urgente la decontaminazione nel Sud della Serbia (Tanjug)
* Segnalazione NUOVI ARTICOLI sugli effetti del DU
* Almeno sette figli di militari italiani impiegati nei Balcani
hanno malformazioni genetiche (da Resto del Carlino e ANSA)
===*===
Dopo il danno, la beffa
STATUNITENSI ED ITALIANI DONANO ATTREZZATURE
DIAGNOSTICHE AL CENTRO ONCOLOGICO DI BELGRADO
Serviranno a seguire "in vivo" il decorso clinico
delle nostre cavie umane: i bombardati del 1999
US Embassy, Italian govt donation to Belgrade Institute of Oncology
BELGRADE, April 29 (Tanjug) - The United States Embassy in Yugoslavia,
through the Office of the Transition Initiative (OTI) and USAID,
presented the necessary medical equipment to the Belgrade
Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, where a new
Department of Pediatric Oncology will begin work tomorrow.
US Ambassador William Montgomery and Italian Ambassador to
Yugoslavia Giovanni Caracciolo will attend the inauguration
ceremony which will be officiated by Institute Director Nenad
Borojevic, a statement by the US Embassy in Belgrade said.
The embassy donation is a part of an international project,
which includes donors from the government and private sectors.
The project was initiated by the Institute itself and the
Italian government in an effort to create favorable conditions
for the treatment and recovery of children with cancer.
The ceremony will also be attended by the wife of the US
ambassador, Lynn Montgomery, who will represent the Dream
Team and other private donors.
===*===
ANCORA NELL'ATMOSFERA LE POLVERI RADIOATTIVE DELLE NOSTRE BOMBE
Radioactive particles from NATO's bombing still in atmosphere
BELGRADE, April 29 (Tanjug) - The removal of radioactive
contamination in Bratosavci and Plackovci, in southern Serbia,
will start in May, the Yugoslav health secretariat announced
Monday. Presenting the report of the UN Environment Program
(UNEP) about areas where NATO in 1999 in bombing Yugoslavia
used deplete uranium munitions, Yugoslav deputy health secretary
Miroslav Nikcevic, at a press conference, explained that
decontamination was planned of four locations in southern
Serbia and of cape Arza in Montenegro.
He warned of "the astounding fact that after two years and
six months radioactive particles are still in the air," which
means that they are still carried over great distances through
the air.
Nikcevic said there was a possibility that the particles
reach underground waters, and then get into food, and that
is the reason why decontamination must be speeded up.
"For us that is a huge financial burden, but we will have
to ensure the funding," Nikcevic said.
At a press conference, attention was drawn to the fact that
munitions with depleted uranium were used mostly in Kosovo
and Metohija, where as many as 112 locations are contaminated
and are not even cordoned off or marked in any way.
===*===
NEL SUD DELLA SERBIA E' URGENTE LA DECONTAMINAZIONE DEL SUOLO
+++ Dekontaminierung von verstrahlten Böden geplant +++
BELGRAD, 30. April 2002. Die Beseitigung der "radioaktiven
Verunreinigung" in den Orten Bratosavci und Plackovic werde
im Mai beginnen, kündigte am Montag ein Sprecher des
jugoslawischen Bundesgesundheitsministeriums an. Auf einer
Pressekonferenz sagte der stellvertretende Sekretär im
Bundesgesundheitsministerium, Miroslav Nikcevic, man plane
die Dekontamination von vier radioaktiv verseuchten
Landstrichen im Süden Serbiens, sowie von Arza in Montenegro.
Das Ministerium stellte gestern eine Studie des UNO-Umwelt-
Programms UNEP vor, in der alle Gebiete aufgelistet sind,
die durch den Einsatz von Uran-Geschossen während der NATO-
Aggression gegen Jugoslawien 1999 radioaktiv verseucht worden
sind.
Unterdessen beichteten italienische Medien erneut über
Erkrankungen von NATO-Soldaten, die auf dem Balkan eingesetzt
waren. Der staatliche Fernsehsender RAI berichtete dabei auch
über mindestens sieben Missgeburten in italienischen Familien,
deren Väter in den vergangenen Jahren auf Einsätzen in Kosovo
und Metochien waren.
Die Kinder litten an Missbildungen des Gehirns und der Knochen,
hieß es. Der Leukämie-Tod mehrerer italienischer Militärs wurde
auf Kontakt mit uranhaltiger Munition zurückgeführt.
TANJUG / AMSELFELD.COM
===*===
SEGNALAZIONE NUOVO ARTICOLO SUGLI EFFETTI DEL DU
Subject: [S&P] ...ancora sull'Uranio Impoverito...
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 07:44:07 +0200
From: Mauro Cristaldi <Mauro.Cristaldi@...>
To: <scienzaepace@...>
Carissimi,
rendo noto che è in distribuzione l'articolo:
Cristaldi M., Angeloni P., Degrassi F., Iannuzzelli F., Martocchia A.,
Nencini L., Pona C., Salerno S. & Zucchetti M. - Conseguenze ambientali
ed
effetti patogeni dell'uso di Uranio Impoverito nei dispositivi bellici.
Tribuna Biologica e Medica, 9 (1-2), Gennaio-Giugno 2001: 29-41.
Se si aggiunge l'allegato tecnico di Luca Boschetti il riferimento è:
Tribuna Biologica e Medica, 9 (1-2), Gennaio-Giugno 2001: 42-65
L'articolo è inserito nell'ANTOLOGIA TEMATICA SULL'URANIO IMPOVERITO, di
cui costituisce il corpo centrale, nel quale è compresa una premessa di
ANA-VAFAF (F. Accame) e LIDU (P. Angeloni) e il "Documento: conseguenze
dei
bombardamenti in Jugoslavia": Tribuna Biologica e Medica, 9 (1-2),
Gennaio-Giugno 2001: 27-69
A parte alcuni inopportuni riferimenti al terrorismo contenuti in queste
ultima parti, che c'entrerebbero ben poco in riferimento alla vicenda
Jugoslava, se non in quanto nazione aggredita dalla NATO, con
bombardamenti
terroristici NATO sul suo territorio sovrano e con l'intervento delle
milizie terroristiche dell'UCK finanziate dai paesi NATO, per il resto
la
realizzazione dell'articolo mi sembra di buon livello. Mi sembra del
tutto
strumentale il pretesto della lotta al terrorismo (solo Fidel Castro fa
finta ancora di crederci!), in quanto le notizie non manipolate sul
terrorismo D.O.C. ci riportano sempre alla CIA americana e al Mossad
israeliano e servono soltanto a portare la guerra imperiale per il
petrolio
nei paesi "target" (Palestina, Iraq, Jugoslavia, Afghanistan).
Vi ricordo che il nostro articolo era già contenuto nei siti Peacelink:
http://www.peacelink.org/tematiche/disarmo/du/temp/du1.pdf
(formato PDF 79 Kb)
http://www.peacelink.org/tematiche/disarmo/du/temp/du1.rtf
(formato RTF 129 Kb)
http://www.peacelink.org/tematiche/disarmo/du/temp/du1.html
(formato HTML 130 Kb)
===*===
URANIO IMPOVERITO
Sette figli di militari italiani impiegati nei Balcani hanno
malformazioni genetiche
I bambini nati da questi soldati soffrono di malformazioni simili a
quelle dei bambini iracheni e dei figli dei militari in missione nel
Golfo: palato molle, malformazioni scheletriche ed in particolare agli
arti
Accame: "Riparta da zero l'indagine"
Dal sito internet
http://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it
URANIO IMPOVERITO
Sette figli di militari italiani impiegati nei Balcani hanno
malformazioni genetiche
I bambini nati da questi soldati soffrono di malformazioni simili a
quelle dei bambini iracheni e dei figli dei militari in missione nel
Golfo: palato molle, malformazioni scheletriche ed in particolare agli
arti
ROMA, 26 APRILE 2002 - Sette bambini con malformazioni genetiche
sarebbero nati da militari italiani impegnati in Somalia e nei Balcani.
Tutti i militari, secondo quanto è emerso da un'inchiesta di Rai-News 24
in onda domani alle 18,30, hanno partecipato a operazioni di bonifica
delle armi all'uranio impoverito o hanno stazionato in zone bombardate
con i proiettili contenenti il materiale radioattivo.
Secondo testimonianze raccolte fra i militari che hanno voluto mantenere
l'anonimato, i bambini nati da questi soldati soffrono di malformazioni
simili a quelle dei bambini iracheni e dei figli dei militari in
missione
nel Golfo: palato molle, malformazioni scheletriche ed in particolare
agli arti.
I militari avevano stazionato nei luoghi per alcuni mesi. Da
testimonianze e documenti raccolti nella trasmissione si dimostra che
l'Italia era in possesso di munizioni di uranio impoverito già dal 1985,
che questi proiettili erano in dotazione alle nostre forze armate in
Somalia e che sarebbero stati utilizzati fino al 2001 anche in alcuni
poligoni sul territorio nazionale.
In un filmato che sarà trasmesso all'interno dell'inchiesta si vedono i
soldati dei contingenti italiani che operavano assieme ai colleghi
francesi e spagnoli, lavorare alla bonifica senza alcuna protezione.
uranio
Accame: "Riparta da zero l'indagine sull'uranio impoverito"
Il presidente dell'Anavafaf, l'associazione assistenza vittime arruolate
nelle forze armate, avanza tale richiesta nel giorno in cui è stata resa
nota l'inchiesta di Rai news 24, che parla di 7 bambini con
malformazioni
genetiche nati da militari italiani impegnati in Somalia e nei Balcani
ROMA, 26 APRILE 2002 - Far ripartire da zero l'indagine sull'uranio
impoverito, perchè quella condotta dalla commissione guidata
dall'ematologo Franco Mandelli si basa su presupposti "errati" e "privi
di senso". È quanto chiede Falco Accame, presidente dell'Anavafaf,
l'associazione assistenza vittime arruolate nelle forze armate, proprio
nel giorno in cui è stata resa nota l'inchiesta di Rai news 24, che
parla
di 7 bambini con malformazioni genetiche nati da militari italiani
impegnati in Somalia e nei Balcani.
Secondo Accame, l'indagine dovrebbe "prendere in considerazione anche i
militari che sono stati in Kuwait, in Somalia e nei poligoni italiani
perchè lì sono stati utilizzati proiettili all'uranio". Allo stesso
tempo
bisognerebbe escludere il personale "che ha operato in Kosovo, in quanto
protetto, e quello che è stato in Albania e in Macedonia in quanto non
interessato alla questione", visto che quelle munizioni non furono
utilizzate.
Secondo Accame, "prendere come cifra di riferimento per l'indagine sui
Balcani il numero di 40 mila persone", come ha fatto l'indagine condotta
da Mandelli "è una cosa priva di senso comune. In quelle zone il
personale potenzialmente esposto perchè privo di misure di protezione è
esclusivamente quello della Bosnia: e tra questo solo una parte,
prevedibilmente non più di mille persone, si è trovata in vicinanza di
zone colpite da proiettili all'uranio". Per questo, secondo il
presidente
dell'Anavafaf, "occorre individuare quei militari che si sono trovati
davvero esposti" e "basare lo studio solo su di loro".
URANIO: Accame, 12 neonati malformati
ROMA - Sono 12 i bambini nati con malformazioni genetiche da militari
italiani che erano stati in missione all'estero. E a questi se ne
aggiungono altri 11, figli di civili che vivono vicino ai poligoni
militari italiani dove sono stati sperimentati i proiettili
all'uranio impoverito. Lo afferma Falco Accame, presidente
dell'Anavafaf, l'associazione assistenza vittime arruolate nelle
forze armate che chiede un'inchiesta anche sui civili. (ANSA).
2002-04-27 - 16:22:0
Il senatore Biden invitato d'onore alla cena
della lobby americana di sostegno all'UCK!
Subject: CHEWING THE FAT WITH TERRORISTS?.....
JOE BIDEN, OUT TO LUNCH IN NEW YORK
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:39:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: CHRIS SODA
To: senator@...
Mr Biden, thank you for taking the time to read this
short note before attending to other obligations. Your
name has come to my attention regarding a 12th
anniversary dinner at the Sheraton Hotel sponsored by
the Albanian American Civic League this coming April
28, 2002, in which you are scheduled to be the
'keynote speaker'. This anniversary, apparently, marks
the twelfth year since a handful of people, sponsored
by the League, testified before Congress in 1990
concerning the Serbian province of Kosovo in
Yugoslavia.
My first question to you, Mr Biden, is this: when US
Customs in 1990 allowed that handful of people to
enter your country, what 'point of origin/departure'
or 'country of citizenship' do you suppose was listed
on their respective passports? (I'm presuming up to
this point, of course, that those handful of people
were carrying authentic documents, left their own
country legally and entered the US legally, and were
in fact registered citizens of an actual country, with
verified borders, under relevant and applicable
international statutes and treaties, when they left to
make this trip. If I have erred in my assumption, Mr
Biden. please feel free to correct me)
Since the current advertisement from the Albanian
American Civic League lists those handful of people
from 1990 as credible eye-witness testifiers on actual
circumstances in Kosovo at that time (and since your
Congress thought similarly in 1990 by making time to
hear them), the only logical conclusion is to infer
that for many of these 'witnesses', their 'point of
origin/departure' and/or their 'country of
citizenship' would have to have been Yugoslavia. And
as you know, Mr Biden, the corroborated historical
record is quite clear and unambiguous- the actual
circumstance of Kosovo in 1990 was that it was a
province of Serbia in the country of Yugoslavia.
As this is in fact the case, Mr Biden, I am wondering
how the Albanian American Civic League in 1990, and
those handful of people who testified then before
Congress, yourself, Joe DioGuardi, and others (all
then and now) refer to 'Kosova' rather than Kosovo.
You see, Mr Biden, that handful of travellers must
ALSO have recognized the territorial sovereignty and
integrity of Yugoslav borders in 1990. (if not, why
were these people carrying documentation issued from a
country that they do not accept or recognize?) I'm
sure Mr Biden that you realize that one cannot
willingly accept or recognize documentation from a
country while at the same time refusing to accept or
recognize what that country is composed of, especially
in terms of latitudinal and longitudinal borders.
Since it is universally recognized and corroborated by
all persons of sound mind that the province of Kosovo
was an integral part of both Serbia and Yugoslavia in
1990 (verified by many atlases, encyclopaedias and
international treaties), I'm wondering why no one in
Congress, the League, nor yourself and Mr DioGuardi,
have questioned the usage of the term 'Kosova'. No one
in the world in 1990 (nor now) can travel on
documentation registered with 'Kosova' any more than
someone could travel with documentation registered
with "Canado' or "The United States of Americo'- or
"The Third Reich' for that matter....
It is puzzling to see a reference to a fictitious
political entity ("Kosova') being accepted as an
actual existing place with defined borders. It is
equally puzzling to believe that the US Congress in
1990 would not have asked the same questions being
asked here. Perhaps you can provide an answer for me,
Mr Biden. How is accepting and using documentation
from a country consistent with not recognizing the
exact and corroborated borders of that country??
Equally puzzling is the fact that Congressmen/women
would hear testimony from people who literally 'don't
know where they are coming from- or going to'.
('kosova' being listed in encyclopediae as an African
tribe in Kenya, rather than an imaginary, nonexistent
political or geographical entity. See here, Mr Biden,
for a brief analysis by one of the world's leading
linguists and historians in this regard:
http://opinionleaders.htmlplanet.com/koskosova.html)
Many people of similar mind have been locked up in
institutions for their own, and the general public's,
safety. Apparently, many more are somehow left
uninstitutionalized, finding their way into the
highest levels of your government, as well as finding
their way into Congressional meetings and keynote
speakers' lists...
My second question is this: Mr Ibrahim Rugova is
listed by the League as an invited guest to listen to
your 'keynote speech' this coming April 28/2002. Mr
Ibrahim Rugova, "....a few days before his March 31/99
Press Conference...had been reported by the KLA... to
have been killed by the Serbs." (quote from
http://www.tenc.net/articles/chuss/kla.html) The US
State Department also in March/99 assured us that Mr.
Rugova had been 'killed by the Serbs'....
(http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-7.16.1999.8.html)
Since neither anyone in the KLA in 1999 (many of them
now invited to attend your 'keynote speech' this
month) nor the US State Department have ever
apologized for and/or retracted these statements
concerning Rugova, and since Rugova's name is listed
as being 'invited' to listen to your speech, Mr Biden,
I'm wondering: which of the following are liars in
this regard:
(a) The former members of the KLA (many of whom are
also on the League list of 'invited') whom yourself
and Mr DioGuardi have supported for many years
(b) The US State Department whom yourself and Mr
DioGuardi have supported for many years
(c) The Albanian American Civic League, whom yourself
and Mr DioGuardi have supported for many years
(d) all of the above- again, whom yourself and Mr
DioGuardi have supported for many years
Are there any other possible choices, Mr Biden? Have I
inadvertently left any other possibilities out? Is
there another word I should use rather than
'liar'?Surely, it is not even conceivable that you
have freely chosen to align yourself with and actively
lobby for one or more groups who are both
geographically-challenged with regards to 'Kosova' AND
who report murders that never happened.....
This leads me to my third question, Mr Biden: The
Albanian American Civic League has lauded what they
call recent 'elections' under terms of an agreement
signed by President Milosevic and NATO. You will be
giving the keynote speech soon at a dinner which no
doubt will refer to these 'elections'. What would you
think of a name being listed as missing by the
International Committee of the Red Cross at the update
of their last 'Persons unaccounted for in connection
with the crisis in Kosovo' and the SAME NAME being
listed as a member of the Municipal Assembly of Kosovo
under UN administration? I am speaking of one Mr Fadil
Shara; according to the OSCE website, Mr Shala is a
member of the AAK party in Kosovo- the AAK being
administered by Mr Ramush Haradinaj, also on the
Albanian American Civic League list of those scheduled
to attend your NYC speech this month. (more on him
later)
Is the name of Fadil Shara listed with the Red Cross
under 'missing' the same person listed with the
temporary government of temporary UN administration
located within the permanent province of Serbia??
Obviously, Mr Biden, if your name turns up freely
associated with a fradulent 'election' (more on the
legality of this 'election' in Kosovo later) result,
this would damage your credibility beyond repair. Have
you checked out this apparent coincidence of names to
be certain that they are not one and the same person??
I ask this question, Mr Biden, because there is
another 'coincidence' of names I would like you to
comment on: the name is Agron Kryeziu. A Mr Agron
Kryeziu is listed with Mr Haradinaj's AAK as a
candidate in the same election that the name Fadil
Shala turns up in.
Interpol has a Mr Agron Kryeziu listed as wanted for
questioning in a case of murder- and so do Austrian
police websites.
Again, the International Red Cross also has the name
of Agron Kryeziu listed as 'missing' in the last
update to their website on this issue.
Same person all 3? Do you know, Mr Biden? Have you
checked? Do you care? Just from a brief Internet
search I have found 2 names associated with just one
of the names on the 4/28/02 Albanian American Civic
League's 'invite' list- Mr Haradinaj and his AAK-
where you are scheduled to give the 'keynote speech'.
You can see where people might get the wrong
impression, can't you Mr Biden?? When I keep checking,
I keep finding: Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, who you will
have a connection (if you don't already) with as of
4/28/02, has a brother named Duat Haradinaj- and that
name is on President Bush's list of 22 suspected
terrorists in and around Kosovo.
On this AACL invite list to hear your speech is one Mr
Ali Ahmeti, listed as 'from Macedonia'. Online news
agencies list Mr Ahmeti in more detail: he is also on
the list of 22 drawn up by President Bush, as you can
see here: (a sample of many on this from online news)
(start quote) "One of the texts signed by Bush
features a blacklist of 22 people, including the
rebels' political representative Ali Ahmeti, his chief
of staff Gezim Ostreni -- an ex-KPC officer -- former
chiefs of an Albanian rebel force which fought in
southern Serbia, certain Kosovo politicians and the
five KPC members.
The United States believes these men 'to have
committed, or to pose a significant risk of
committing, acts of violence that have the purpose or
effect of threatening the peace in or diminishing the
stability or security of any area or state in the
Western Balkans region.'......" (end quote)
the above quote from:
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/july01/hed3664.shtml
Will you be speaking at a dinner honouring 'a salute
to Albanian freedom' with people on your President's
black list?? Mr Biden, will you be lending your name
to the 'legitimacy' of so-called 'elections' in
Kosovo?
Others have a different opinion on these masquerades
of democracy, Mr Liden- such as objective people on
the scene......
Here are just some of the comments of a monitor to
these Kosovo 'free and fair elections' that you and
others will be 'celebrating' in New York City:
(start quote) "I was monitoring the Kosovo elections
on behalf of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group
with the official international observation mission of
the Council of Europe. It did not take long to see why
the extravagant hype had taken over from the mundane
reality of the elections. At the start of the Council
of Europe observer training, Lord Russell Johnstone,
the President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary
Assembly, put the elections in the broader context of
international intervention today. 'The international
community needs to prove that intervention was benign
[in Kosovo and East Timor] and will create better
conditions. These elections are a proving exercise.'
Lord Johnstone is probably correct to see the November
elections as little more than a roving exercise for
the international institutions involved in the
violation of Yugoslav sovereignty and the promotion of
military humanitarianism in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
This would seem to be confirmed in the stated concern
of the OSCE organisers to achieve an election that
made the international mission appear legitimate and
credible.
It is highly doubtful that these elections would have
been passed as free and fair had they taken place
outside the international supervision of the OSCE. The
election conditions, in which there was a complete
absence of freedom of movement for minority
communities, and many of the OSCE election regulations
covering the media and political parties, failed to
meet basic internationally accepted standards, such as
those laid out in the OSCE 1990 Copenhagen Declaration
on Democracy and Political Pluralism." (end quote)
Mr Biden, yourself, Mr DioGuardi, Mr Tom Lantos, Mr
Ben Gillman ( this last name is spelled with one 'l'
on the copy of the AACL advertisement I have- does it
refer to the former chairman of the Committee on
International Relations? ) and others seem to be the
relevant parties to this quote from PBS attributed to
you:
"...but the fact of the matter is we have trouble
walking and chewing gum as a nation, it seems to me,
in terms of policy..."
How can you be fighting a war on terrorism while
simultaneously supporting it, Mr Biden?? "Walking and
chewing gum" would seem to be a hell of a lot harder
than figuring out with whom you and other prominent
Americans have aligned yourselves with.
Who am I and millions of others to believe: a man who
ranted for "a German-Japanese style occupation" of
Serbia on Sunday morning televison just before the
1999 NATO murders, perpetrated with the help of and on
behalf of many of those who will be in NYC to listen
to your speech, OR am I to believe an international
monitor with no agenda other than honest appraisals??
Mr Biden, you have made much of the fact that you
called President Milosevic a "war criminal to his
face" (quotations your words) in 1993. It's not
surprising to me that you have no evidence to back up
this claim- no approximate dates of occurence, no
approximate times of occurence, no locations- no
specifications of any sort to justify such defamations
against one of the few real heroes to be found amongst
heads of state.
I challenge you here and now, Mr Biden, to put up or
shut up: show the proof- show what information and
evidence you used in 1993 to draw those conclusions
concerning President Milosevic.
Needless to say, in the US you would be sued for
slander for uttering such unsubstantiated nonsense
against a fellow American; I can see why you stole
Neil Kinnock's words- you don't have any ability
otherwise to speak rationally.
Fortunately for you and your ilk, most Americans don't
have the ability to reason rationally- if they did,
one of the questions they might be asking is this:
Why did Mr Joseph Biden, just weeks prior to the 1999
NATO atrocities, say that ¡°Any resolute military and
political force used by the U.S. in Kosovo must
reinforce our commitment to the Dayton peace
settlement." (your words, Mr Biden, taken from records
of the US Senate online:
http://foreign.senate.gov/press/99/01/990128.html )
Why did you call President Milosevic a war criminal in
1993, and yet in 1999 publicly call for support of his
1995 peace initiative? Time magazine voted him Man of
the Year for his peace efforts two years after you
once again displayed a "Kosova"-like appreciation of
the facts, Mr Biden; no doubt Time, Canada's own House
of Commons, and many other watchers and participants
in that Balkans peace process apparently ignored what
lesser men have toiled to mis-speak....and
mis-achieve. Their lauding of President Milosevic's
efforts re Dayton and the honour of his character are
a matter of public record- thereby proving their own
treachery years later....
I'm not alone- not by a long shot- in my summations:
"As recently as last October the British Foreign
Secretary, Robin Cook, and other European Union
Ministers were arguing Milosevic's case - that his
actions in Kosovo were in response to the Kosovo
Liberation Army's "terrorism" and its violations of
United Nations Security Council resolution 1199. A
senior United slates official described Milosevic as
"NATO¡¯s indispensable partner in the effort to
stabilise Kosovo".
Pilger John; "Moral Sightseeing by the West"; Guardian
Weekly; June 20th; 1999; p.3"
(from
http://www22.brinkster.com/harikumar/AllianceIssues/All33-pt6.htm
)
While you are pondering the answers to these
questions, Mr Biden, here is one more to add to my
list: Bajram Rexhepi is listed as being invited by the
Albanian American Civic League to NYC on 4/28/02 as
well. Mr Rexhepi is also listed as 'Prime Minister of
Kosova'. Let's forget for a moment that there is no
such place as the Land of Oz or 'Kosova'. What would
you think of a man who murdered an innocent teenager?
If you haven't thought about this, Mr Biden, you might
want to do so- quickly. Mr Bajram Rexhepi has been
publicly cited as a party to murder 'to his face'- not
in 1993, but in 1999, and none other than the former
head of UNMIK, Mr.Hans Haekkerup, signed a joint
communique along with the Prime Minister of Serbia,
Nebosja Covic, to this effect. Take a look:
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=1561
Quite a following it appears you might you have here,
Mr Biden....is Mr. Rexhepi guilty? I don't know, but
why would you associate yourself and your country with
someone who might be guilty of this? Don't you think
getting to the bottom of this and other 'anomalies' is
something you should do before you start addressing
these people in a public forum??
Joseph Biden has spoken that 'transforming' (the
proper word is 'disguising', sir) the KLA into the KPC
was a 'face-saving' gesture; I am suggesting to you
that your sponsorship of anti-drug usage bills in the
US is appearing more and more on the surface to be a
'face-saving' measure to 'disguise' your efforts to
support drug traffickers in Kosovo. I base my
suppositions on the corroborated lawlessness of Kosovo
both before and after UN Resolution 1244- a matter or
the public record, and so is the involvement of many
of those who will be in attendance in NYC this month.
This might surprise you, Mr Biden, but changing the
uniform of criminals does not change their
criminality. I believe these typical quotes will
suffice:
"The Liberation Army of Kosovo (UCK) of the 1990s was
created with $163 million in voluntary and involuntary
contributions from the huge Albanian diaspora and $250
million from the profits of the Albanian heroin cartel
that dominates Europe?s drug traffic, according to
Ralf Mutschke, assistant intelligence director of
Interpol." ( from:
http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/albsa-info/2001-March/001531.html.
)
"France's Geopolitical Observatory of Drugs said that
the KLA was a key player in the rapidly expanding
drugs-for-arms business and helped transport $2
billion worth of drugs annually into Western Europe.
German drug agents have estimated that $1.5 billion in
drug profits is laundered annually by Kosovo
smugglers, through as many as 200 private banks or
currency-exchange offices." (from: The Progressive
Review http://prorev.com/balkan1.htm )
And this report, Mr Biden, a year after some of your
fellow attendees this weekend switched the patches
from UCK to KPC:
"Whatever the outcome of the polls, senior UN
officials are concerned about [Mr. Ramush] Haradinaj's
long-term impact on the province. One aide claims
Haradinaj is now financed by two men, Naser Kelmendi
and Ekrem Lluka, both of whom are suspected to be
involved in smuggling. UN police reports, seen by The
Observer, go further and describe Lluka as trafficking
drugs and cigarettes in Greece, Kosovo, Albania and
Italy." (from
http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4061661,00.html)
Mr Biden, I beleive that the Mr Ramush Haradinaj
referred to here is the same Mr Ramush Haradinaj on
the AACL list of invitees this wekend- you can check
to make sure....this might help........:
"In 1999, the KLA unit under Ramush Haradinaj's
command killed 40 civilians from the Kosovo village of
Glodjani and threw the bodies into the Radonjichko
Lake canal." (from
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=253
)
There are many online reports also concerning Mr
Ramush Haradinaj and obstructions of justice in Kosovo
since UN Resolution 1244. Are any of these allegations
founded in fact? Do you know, Mr Biden?
And we have this: (even pathological Serb-hater
Richard Holbrooke- who once said Serbs were 'murderous
assholes'- spoke out against what you will read in the
next paragraph. You might remember that 'asshole'
comment, Mr Biden, because on that same show- where
else but CNN?- and in the same year you called
President Milosevic a 'war criminal', YOU also called
Serbs, "...illiterates, degenerates, baby killers,
rapists and cowards..." )
"His [ Mr. Ramush Haradinaj] men already are suspected
of carrying out the Panda Cafe murders, when masked
rebels opened fire in December on a restaurant the
city of Pec, killing six Serbian youths. His men also
are suspected of shooting at U.S. diplomatic
monitors."
( ANNE THOMPSON, The Associated Press, 3-08-99 posted
from:
http://www.tenc.net/analysis/lovein.htm#thousands )
Mr Biden, I challenge you again to display what
information you had in 1993 that led you to make THOSE
comments above about 'Serbs' on CNN. Let's take those
words and give them a closer inspection- here and now,
Mr Biden:
On 'Rape':
"Since the entry of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR),
rapes of Serbian, Albanian, and Roma women by ethnic
Albanians, sometimes by members of the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA), have also been documented."
(See Kosovo Human Rights Flash #50, "Violent Abuses by
KLA Members," June/00)
True? (one typical quote from many similar used here)
Certainly it requires investigation, Mr Biden. Have
you followed up on that report? What are your
conclusions if you have??
On 'Degenerates':
" This is a partial list of the people [in Kosovo] who
were killed, mutilated, raped, seriously wounded,
severely beaten or tortured, or disappeared. The list
was made by comparing all data published by
governments and NGO's, supplemented by communications
from families, friends, and neighbors. At the end of
each entry we give the initials of the sources used.
This list includes people of all nationalities,
including Serbs and Montenegrins (Orthodox Slavs),
Roma (Gypsies, including Ashkaelia and Egyptians),
Moslems (Moslem Slavs), Gorani (Moslem Slavs from
Southern Kosovo), Croats ( Catholic Slavs), Turks, and
MacedoniansWe will publish the complete list of
Albanian victims when it becomes available....
Albanians on this list were most probably killed
because of their lack of full cooperation with
Albanians engaged in the armed struggle against
Belgrade. That could mean that one had refused to be
taxed or drafted or refused to give up his
weapon--many Albanians in the countryside had rifle or
pistol permits. An Albanian risked getting killed if
he refused to resign his job as mailman or electric
lineman, or if s/he maintained a friendship or a
relationship with a Serb. An Albanian could get shot
while riding a bus or riding in a Serb's car or even
in his own, as some guerrillas used any passing
vehicles, including buses, tractors, and horse-drawn
carts, for target practice. In time of civil war,
personal and patriotic motives often intermingle, and
an Albanian could be killed because of personal
disagreements with a relative of a guerrilla fighter.
According to the Pristina daily Koha Ditore,
guerrillas of the KLA tortured and killed guerrillas
of a rival group, the FARK..." from:
( http://www.kosovoforum.net/site/balkan.htm )
"22 Serb civilians were massacred by the KLA who
dismembered the bodies and burned them in ovens."
from:
http://www.balkanpeace.org/wcs/wct/wctk/wctk01.shtml
On baby killers
(Mr Biden, please note: the following directly
concerns another so-called 'guest of honour' scheduled
to attend you 'keynote speech' this weekend,
specifically, one Tom Lantos....)
"Bogus events which are staged are used as pretexts
for war.....[such as].... the Iraqi incubator hoax
alleging that Iraqi troops murdered Kuwaiti infants by
taking them out of incubators. (factually, US
Government with aid of Hill & Knowlton PR firm in
conjunction with Tom Lantos staged and manufactured
this 'propaganda event')" from:
http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-4.26.2001.5.html
" Yesterday, [April 22/99] a 3-year-old child was
killed in the bathroom of her home on the outskirts of
Belgrade. A fragment of a cluster bomb ripped through
two walls, missed her parents sitting in the living
room, and killed the child." (one of hundreds of such
reports regarding the usage of cluster bombs and/or
the murder of children by Americans in Yugoslavia
three years ago, Mr Biden. You asked this question
once in front of the US Senate- 'Are we a nation of
our word or not? Do we keep our treaties or don't
we?'-and the usage of cluster bombs, KLA terrorists,
along with the verified abrogations of international
treaties by your friends in and out of the US
Government, have given you an answer.....accidents?
The planned usage and deployment of banned weapons is
not accidental, Mr Biden, and neither is the targeting
of cities where hundreds of thousands of innocent
people live....) from:
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/alex/042099.html
On cowards:
"The 'crusade for civilisation' [1999 US-led NATO
assault] was the cowards' war. From heights of 15,000
feet, heroic pilots hurled hi-tech nail bombs. The
unpublished list of targets hit shows a clear pattern
of a deliberate campaign of terror." from:
http://pilger.carlton.com/print/19253
"Who has murdered thousands of Yugoslavs with bombs
dropped from a coward's height? Who has driven over a
million people of all nationalities into homelessness
in Serbia? Who has unleashed fascist secessionists
throughout the Balkans, supporting them with arms and
training, and lauding them as democrats, forcing
victims to 'negotiate' with their murderers? Who has
waged low-level nuclear war, turning Kosovo, focus of
one 'humanitarian crusade,' into a radioactive dump?"
http://www.icdsm.org/more/20th.htm
Since you are apparently fond of admitting and
supporting what many learned minds consider to be US
culpability in crimes against humanity (specifically
1999 NATO murders in Yugoslavia) Mr Biden, such as
this quote from you,
"The overwhelming majority of airstrikes [1999 in
Yugoslavia] when ordinance was dropped was carried out
by our forces...By the way, I encourage my colleagues
to read the Genocide Convention..."
I would advise you to take your own advice offered
here:
"By the way, I encourage my colleagues to read the
Genocide Convention."
because learned minds and people of character have
spoken thusly in reference to your state-sponsored
vigilantism:
"But shouting "war criminal" only emphasizes that
those who live in glass houses should be careful about
throwing stones.We have engaged in a flagrant military
aggression, ceaselessly attacking a small country
primarily to demonstrate that we run the world. The
rationale that we are simply enforcing international
morality, even if it were true, would not excuse the
military aggression and widespread killing that it
entails. It also does not lessen the culpability of
the authors of this aggression. As a primary source of
international law, the judgment of the Nuremberg
Tribunal in the 1945-1946 case of the major Nazi war
criminals is plain and clear. Our leaders often invoke
and praise that judgment, but obviously have not read
it...."
(the late Mr Walter Rockler, former prosecutor at the
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, from:
http://www.counterpunch.org/rockler.html )
And finally, on illiterate:
"The press there also ridiculed the Alliance's 'media
war', claiming that NATO 'propaganda leaflets'
reportedly dropped over Yugoslavia are useless and
'illiterate'..." (from the United States Information
Agency website)
"Just like the bombings these are carried out in a
cowardly way from a height and distance, breaking into
television and radio frequencies and throwing
illiterate leaflets from aircraft. So, too, to the
Serbian people, the speech of the American political
infant Madeleine Albright is ridiculous and miserable
when she tries to explain to the Serbs in grotesque
Serbian why she has to kill them in the name of
humanity, regardless of the fact that these same
inhumane Serbs once saved that same Madeleine
Albright, as a child, from certain death." (B92 radio
online- you know them, right Mr Biden? Radio Free
Europe, which your Congress funds with taxpayers'
money, used to re-broadcast the B92 signal... from:
http://www.b92.net/media/repression/treason.shtml )
Good day, Mr Biden. Questions, comments??
Chris Soda
della lobby americana di sostegno all'UCK!
Subject: CHEWING THE FAT WITH TERRORISTS?.....
JOE BIDEN, OUT TO LUNCH IN NEW YORK
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:39:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: CHRIS SODA
To: senator@...
Mr Biden, thank you for taking the time to read this
short note before attending to other obligations. Your
name has come to my attention regarding a 12th
anniversary dinner at the Sheraton Hotel sponsored by
the Albanian American Civic League this coming April
28, 2002, in which you are scheduled to be the
'keynote speaker'. This anniversary, apparently, marks
the twelfth year since a handful of people, sponsored
by the League, testified before Congress in 1990
concerning the Serbian province of Kosovo in
Yugoslavia.
My first question to you, Mr Biden, is this: when US
Customs in 1990 allowed that handful of people to
enter your country, what 'point of origin/departure'
or 'country of citizenship' do you suppose was listed
on their respective passports? (I'm presuming up to
this point, of course, that those handful of people
were carrying authentic documents, left their own
country legally and entered the US legally, and were
in fact registered citizens of an actual country, with
verified borders, under relevant and applicable
international statutes and treaties, when they left to
make this trip. If I have erred in my assumption, Mr
Biden. please feel free to correct me)
Since the current advertisement from the Albanian
American Civic League lists those handful of people
from 1990 as credible eye-witness testifiers on actual
circumstances in Kosovo at that time (and since your
Congress thought similarly in 1990 by making time to
hear them), the only logical conclusion is to infer
that for many of these 'witnesses', their 'point of
origin/departure' and/or their 'country of
citizenship' would have to have been Yugoslavia. And
as you know, Mr Biden, the corroborated historical
record is quite clear and unambiguous- the actual
circumstance of Kosovo in 1990 was that it was a
province of Serbia in the country of Yugoslavia.
As this is in fact the case, Mr Biden, I am wondering
how the Albanian American Civic League in 1990, and
those handful of people who testified then before
Congress, yourself, Joe DioGuardi, and others (all
then and now) refer to 'Kosova' rather than Kosovo.
You see, Mr Biden, that handful of travellers must
ALSO have recognized the territorial sovereignty and
integrity of Yugoslav borders in 1990. (if not, why
were these people carrying documentation issued from a
country that they do not accept or recognize?) I'm
sure Mr Biden that you realize that one cannot
willingly accept or recognize documentation from a
country while at the same time refusing to accept or
recognize what that country is composed of, especially
in terms of latitudinal and longitudinal borders.
Since it is universally recognized and corroborated by
all persons of sound mind that the province of Kosovo
was an integral part of both Serbia and Yugoslavia in
1990 (verified by many atlases, encyclopaedias and
international treaties), I'm wondering why no one in
Congress, the League, nor yourself and Mr DioGuardi,
have questioned the usage of the term 'Kosova'. No one
in the world in 1990 (nor now) can travel on
documentation registered with 'Kosova' any more than
someone could travel with documentation registered
with "Canado' or "The United States of Americo'- or
"The Third Reich' for that matter....
It is puzzling to see a reference to a fictitious
political entity ("Kosova') being accepted as an
actual existing place with defined borders. It is
equally puzzling to believe that the US Congress in
1990 would not have asked the same questions being
asked here. Perhaps you can provide an answer for me,
Mr Biden. How is accepting and using documentation
from a country consistent with not recognizing the
exact and corroborated borders of that country??
Equally puzzling is the fact that Congressmen/women
would hear testimony from people who literally 'don't
know where they are coming from- or going to'.
('kosova' being listed in encyclopediae as an African
tribe in Kenya, rather than an imaginary, nonexistent
political or geographical entity. See here, Mr Biden,
for a brief analysis by one of the world's leading
linguists and historians in this regard:
http://opinionleaders.htmlplanet.com/koskosova.html)
Many people of similar mind have been locked up in
institutions for their own, and the general public's,
safety. Apparently, many more are somehow left
uninstitutionalized, finding their way into the
highest levels of your government, as well as finding
their way into Congressional meetings and keynote
speakers' lists...
My second question is this: Mr Ibrahim Rugova is
listed by the League as an invited guest to listen to
your 'keynote speech' this coming April 28/2002. Mr
Ibrahim Rugova, "....a few days before his March 31/99
Press Conference...had been reported by the KLA... to
have been killed by the Serbs." (quote from
http://www.tenc.net/articles/chuss/kla.html) The US
State Department also in March/99 assured us that Mr.
Rugova had been 'killed by the Serbs'....
(http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-7.16.1999.8.html)
Since neither anyone in the KLA in 1999 (many of them
now invited to attend your 'keynote speech' this
month) nor the US State Department have ever
apologized for and/or retracted these statements
concerning Rugova, and since Rugova's name is listed
as being 'invited' to listen to your speech, Mr Biden,
I'm wondering: which of the following are liars in
this regard:
(a) The former members of the KLA (many of whom are
also on the League list of 'invited') whom yourself
and Mr DioGuardi have supported for many years
(b) The US State Department whom yourself and Mr
DioGuardi have supported for many years
(c) The Albanian American Civic League, whom yourself
and Mr DioGuardi have supported for many years
(d) all of the above- again, whom yourself and Mr
DioGuardi have supported for many years
Are there any other possible choices, Mr Biden? Have I
inadvertently left any other possibilities out? Is
there another word I should use rather than
'liar'?Surely, it is not even conceivable that you
have freely chosen to align yourself with and actively
lobby for one or more groups who are both
geographically-challenged with regards to 'Kosova' AND
who report murders that never happened.....
This leads me to my third question, Mr Biden: The
Albanian American Civic League has lauded what they
call recent 'elections' under terms of an agreement
signed by President Milosevic and NATO. You will be
giving the keynote speech soon at a dinner which no
doubt will refer to these 'elections'. What would you
think of a name being listed as missing by the
International Committee of the Red Cross at the update
of their last 'Persons unaccounted for in connection
with the crisis in Kosovo' and the SAME NAME being
listed as a member of the Municipal Assembly of Kosovo
under UN administration? I am speaking of one Mr Fadil
Shara; according to the OSCE website, Mr Shala is a
member of the AAK party in Kosovo- the AAK being
administered by Mr Ramush Haradinaj, also on the
Albanian American Civic League list of those scheduled
to attend your NYC speech this month. (more on him
later)
Is the name of Fadil Shara listed with the Red Cross
under 'missing' the same person listed with the
temporary government of temporary UN administration
located within the permanent province of Serbia??
Obviously, Mr Biden, if your name turns up freely
associated with a fradulent 'election' (more on the
legality of this 'election' in Kosovo later) result,
this would damage your credibility beyond repair. Have
you checked out this apparent coincidence of names to
be certain that they are not one and the same person??
I ask this question, Mr Biden, because there is
another 'coincidence' of names I would like you to
comment on: the name is Agron Kryeziu. A Mr Agron
Kryeziu is listed with Mr Haradinaj's AAK as a
candidate in the same election that the name Fadil
Shala turns up in.
Interpol has a Mr Agron Kryeziu listed as wanted for
questioning in a case of murder- and so do Austrian
police websites.
Again, the International Red Cross also has the name
of Agron Kryeziu listed as 'missing' in the last
update to their website on this issue.
Same person all 3? Do you know, Mr Biden? Have you
checked? Do you care? Just from a brief Internet
search I have found 2 names associated with just one
of the names on the 4/28/02 Albanian American Civic
League's 'invite' list- Mr Haradinaj and his AAK-
where you are scheduled to give the 'keynote speech'.
You can see where people might get the wrong
impression, can't you Mr Biden?? When I keep checking,
I keep finding: Mr. Ramush Haradinaj, who you will
have a connection (if you don't already) with as of
4/28/02, has a brother named Duat Haradinaj- and that
name is on President Bush's list of 22 suspected
terrorists in and around Kosovo.
On this AACL invite list to hear your speech is one Mr
Ali Ahmeti, listed as 'from Macedonia'. Online news
agencies list Mr Ahmeti in more detail: he is also on
the list of 22 drawn up by President Bush, as you can
see here: (a sample of many on this from online news)
(start quote) "One of the texts signed by Bush
features a blacklist of 22 people, including the
rebels' political representative Ali Ahmeti, his chief
of staff Gezim Ostreni -- an ex-KPC officer -- former
chiefs of an Albanian rebel force which fought in
southern Serbia, certain Kosovo politicians and the
five KPC members.
The United States believes these men 'to have
committed, or to pose a significant risk of
committing, acts of violence that have the purpose or
effect of threatening the peace in or diminishing the
stability or security of any area or state in the
Western Balkans region.'......" (end quote)
the above quote from:
http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/july01/hed3664.shtml
Will you be speaking at a dinner honouring 'a salute
to Albanian freedom' with people on your President's
black list?? Mr Biden, will you be lending your name
to the 'legitimacy' of so-called 'elections' in
Kosovo?
Others have a different opinion on these masquerades
of democracy, Mr Liden- such as objective people on
the scene......
Here are just some of the comments of a monitor to
these Kosovo 'free and fair elections' that you and
others will be 'celebrating' in New York City:
(start quote) "I was monitoring the Kosovo elections
on behalf of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group
with the official international observation mission of
the Council of Europe. It did not take long to see why
the extravagant hype had taken over from the mundane
reality of the elections. At the start of the Council
of Europe observer training, Lord Russell Johnstone,
the President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary
Assembly, put the elections in the broader context of
international intervention today. 'The international
community needs to prove that intervention was benign
[in Kosovo and East Timor] and will create better
conditions. These elections are a proving exercise.'
Lord Johnstone is probably correct to see the November
elections as little more than a roving exercise for
the international institutions involved in the
violation of Yugoslav sovereignty and the promotion of
military humanitarianism in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
This would seem to be confirmed in the stated concern
of the OSCE organisers to achieve an election that
made the international mission appear legitimate and
credible.
It is highly doubtful that these elections would have
been passed as free and fair had they taken place
outside the international supervision of the OSCE. The
election conditions, in which there was a complete
absence of freedom of movement for minority
communities, and many of the OSCE election regulations
covering the media and political parties, failed to
meet basic internationally accepted standards, such as
those laid out in the OSCE 1990 Copenhagen Declaration
on Democracy and Political Pluralism." (end quote)
Mr Biden, yourself, Mr DioGuardi, Mr Tom Lantos, Mr
Ben Gillman ( this last name is spelled with one 'l'
on the copy of the AACL advertisement I have- does it
refer to the former chairman of the Committee on
International Relations? ) and others seem to be the
relevant parties to this quote from PBS attributed to
you:
"...but the fact of the matter is we have trouble
walking and chewing gum as a nation, it seems to me,
in terms of policy..."
How can you be fighting a war on terrorism while
simultaneously supporting it, Mr Biden?? "Walking and
chewing gum" would seem to be a hell of a lot harder
than figuring out with whom you and other prominent
Americans have aligned yourselves with.
Who am I and millions of others to believe: a man who
ranted for "a German-Japanese style occupation" of
Serbia on Sunday morning televison just before the
1999 NATO murders, perpetrated with the help of and on
behalf of many of those who will be in NYC to listen
to your speech, OR am I to believe an international
monitor with no agenda other than honest appraisals??
Mr Biden, you have made much of the fact that you
called President Milosevic a "war criminal to his
face" (quotations your words) in 1993. It's not
surprising to me that you have no evidence to back up
this claim- no approximate dates of occurence, no
approximate times of occurence, no locations- no
specifications of any sort to justify such defamations
against one of the few real heroes to be found amongst
heads of state.
I challenge you here and now, Mr Biden, to put up or
shut up: show the proof- show what information and
evidence you used in 1993 to draw those conclusions
concerning President Milosevic.
Needless to say, in the US you would be sued for
slander for uttering such unsubstantiated nonsense
against a fellow American; I can see why you stole
Neil Kinnock's words- you don't have any ability
otherwise to speak rationally.
Fortunately for you and your ilk, most Americans don't
have the ability to reason rationally- if they did,
one of the questions they might be asking is this:
Why did Mr Joseph Biden, just weeks prior to the 1999
NATO atrocities, say that ¡°Any resolute military and
political force used by the U.S. in Kosovo must
reinforce our commitment to the Dayton peace
settlement." (your words, Mr Biden, taken from records
of the US Senate online:
http://foreign.senate.gov/press/99/01/990128.html )
Why did you call President Milosevic a war criminal in
1993, and yet in 1999 publicly call for support of his
1995 peace initiative? Time magazine voted him Man of
the Year for his peace efforts two years after you
once again displayed a "Kosova"-like appreciation of
the facts, Mr Biden; no doubt Time, Canada's own House
of Commons, and many other watchers and participants
in that Balkans peace process apparently ignored what
lesser men have toiled to mis-speak....and
mis-achieve. Their lauding of President Milosevic's
efforts re Dayton and the honour of his character are
a matter of public record- thereby proving their own
treachery years later....
I'm not alone- not by a long shot- in my summations:
"As recently as last October the British Foreign
Secretary, Robin Cook, and other European Union
Ministers were arguing Milosevic's case - that his
actions in Kosovo were in response to the Kosovo
Liberation Army's "terrorism" and its violations of
United Nations Security Council resolution 1199. A
senior United slates official described Milosevic as
"NATO¡¯s indispensable partner in the effort to
stabilise Kosovo".
Pilger John; "Moral Sightseeing by the West"; Guardian
Weekly; June 20th; 1999; p.3"
(from
http://www22.brinkster.com/harikumar/AllianceIssues/All33-pt6.htm
)
While you are pondering the answers to these
questions, Mr Biden, here is one more to add to my
list: Bajram Rexhepi is listed as being invited by the
Albanian American Civic League to NYC on 4/28/02 as
well. Mr Rexhepi is also listed as 'Prime Minister of
Kosova'. Let's forget for a moment that there is no
such place as the Land of Oz or 'Kosova'. What would
you think of a man who murdered an innocent teenager?
If you haven't thought about this, Mr Biden, you might
want to do so- quickly. Mr Bajram Rexhepi has been
publicly cited as a party to murder 'to his face'- not
in 1993, but in 1999, and none other than the former
head of UNMIK, Mr.Hans Haekkerup, signed a joint
communique along with the Prime Minister of Serbia,
Nebosja Covic, to this effect. Take a look:
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=1561
Quite a following it appears you might you have here,
Mr Biden....is Mr. Rexhepi guilty? I don't know, but
why would you associate yourself and your country with
someone who might be guilty of this? Don't you think
getting to the bottom of this and other 'anomalies' is
something you should do before you start addressing
these people in a public forum??
Joseph Biden has spoken that 'transforming' (the
proper word is 'disguising', sir) the KLA into the KPC
was a 'face-saving' gesture; I am suggesting to you
that your sponsorship of anti-drug usage bills in the
US is appearing more and more on the surface to be a
'face-saving' measure to 'disguise' your efforts to
support drug traffickers in Kosovo. I base my
suppositions on the corroborated lawlessness of Kosovo
both before and after UN Resolution 1244- a matter or
the public record, and so is the involvement of many
of those who will be in attendance in NYC this month.
This might surprise you, Mr Biden, but changing the
uniform of criminals does not change their
criminality. I believe these typical quotes will
suffice:
"The Liberation Army of Kosovo (UCK) of the 1990s was
created with $163 million in voluntary and involuntary
contributions from the huge Albanian diaspora and $250
million from the profits of the Albanian heroin cartel
that dominates Europe?s drug traffic, according to
Ralf Mutschke, assistant intelligence director of
Interpol." ( from:
http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/albsa-info/2001-March/001531.html.
)
"France's Geopolitical Observatory of Drugs said that
the KLA was a key player in the rapidly expanding
drugs-for-arms business and helped transport $2
billion worth of drugs annually into Western Europe.
German drug agents have estimated that $1.5 billion in
drug profits is laundered annually by Kosovo
smugglers, through as many as 200 private banks or
currency-exchange offices." (from: The Progressive
Review http://prorev.com/balkan1.htm )
And this report, Mr Biden, a year after some of your
fellow attendees this weekend switched the patches
from UCK to KPC:
"Whatever the outcome of the polls, senior UN
officials are concerned about [Mr. Ramush] Haradinaj's
long-term impact on the province. One aide claims
Haradinaj is now financed by two men, Naser Kelmendi
and Ekrem Lluka, both of whom are suspected to be
involved in smuggling. UN police reports, seen by The
Observer, go further and describe Lluka as trafficking
drugs and cigarettes in Greece, Kosovo, Albania and
Italy." (from
http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4061661,00.html)
Mr Biden, I beleive that the Mr Ramush Haradinaj
referred to here is the same Mr Ramush Haradinaj on
the AACL list of invitees this wekend- you can check
to make sure....this might help........:
"In 1999, the KLA unit under Ramush Haradinaj's
command killed 40 civilians from the Kosovo village of
Glodjani and threw the bodies into the Radonjichko
Lake canal." (from
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=253
)
There are many online reports also concerning Mr
Ramush Haradinaj and obstructions of justice in Kosovo
since UN Resolution 1244. Are any of these allegations
founded in fact? Do you know, Mr Biden?
And we have this: (even pathological Serb-hater
Richard Holbrooke- who once said Serbs were 'murderous
assholes'- spoke out against what you will read in the
next paragraph. You might remember that 'asshole'
comment, Mr Biden, because on that same show- where
else but CNN?- and in the same year you called
President Milosevic a 'war criminal', YOU also called
Serbs, "...illiterates, degenerates, baby killers,
rapists and cowards..." )
"His [ Mr. Ramush Haradinaj] men already are suspected
of carrying out the Panda Cafe murders, when masked
rebels opened fire in December on a restaurant the
city of Pec, killing six Serbian youths. His men also
are suspected of shooting at U.S. diplomatic
monitors."
( ANNE THOMPSON, The Associated Press, 3-08-99 posted
from:
http://www.tenc.net/analysis/lovein.htm#thousands )
Mr Biden, I challenge you again to display what
information you had in 1993 that led you to make THOSE
comments above about 'Serbs' on CNN. Let's take those
words and give them a closer inspection- here and now,
Mr Biden:
On 'Rape':
"Since the entry of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR),
rapes of Serbian, Albanian, and Roma women by ethnic
Albanians, sometimes by members of the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA), have also been documented."
(See Kosovo Human Rights Flash #50, "Violent Abuses by
KLA Members," June/00)
True? (one typical quote from many similar used here)
Certainly it requires investigation, Mr Biden. Have
you followed up on that report? What are your
conclusions if you have??
On 'Degenerates':
" This is a partial list of the people [in Kosovo] who
were killed, mutilated, raped, seriously wounded,
severely beaten or tortured, or disappeared. The list
was made by comparing all data published by
governments and NGO's, supplemented by communications
from families, friends, and neighbors. At the end of
each entry we give the initials of the sources used.
This list includes people of all nationalities,
including Serbs and Montenegrins (Orthodox Slavs),
Roma (Gypsies, including Ashkaelia and Egyptians),
Moslems (Moslem Slavs), Gorani (Moslem Slavs from
Southern Kosovo), Croats ( Catholic Slavs), Turks, and
MacedoniansWe will publish the complete list of
Albanian victims when it becomes available....
Albanians on this list were most probably killed
because of their lack of full cooperation with
Albanians engaged in the armed struggle against
Belgrade. That could mean that one had refused to be
taxed or drafted or refused to give up his
weapon--many Albanians in the countryside had rifle or
pistol permits. An Albanian risked getting killed if
he refused to resign his job as mailman or electric
lineman, or if s/he maintained a friendship or a
relationship with a Serb. An Albanian could get shot
while riding a bus or riding in a Serb's car or even
in his own, as some guerrillas used any passing
vehicles, including buses, tractors, and horse-drawn
carts, for target practice. In time of civil war,
personal and patriotic motives often intermingle, and
an Albanian could be killed because of personal
disagreements with a relative of a guerrilla fighter.
According to the Pristina daily Koha Ditore,
guerrillas of the KLA tortured and killed guerrillas
of a rival group, the FARK..." from:
( http://www.kosovoforum.net/site/balkan.htm )
"22 Serb civilians were massacred by the KLA who
dismembered the bodies and burned them in ovens."
from:
http://www.balkanpeace.org/wcs/wct/wctk/wctk01.shtml
On baby killers
(Mr Biden, please note: the following directly
concerns another so-called 'guest of honour' scheduled
to attend you 'keynote speech' this weekend,
specifically, one Tom Lantos....)
"Bogus events which are staged are used as pretexts
for war.....[such as].... the Iraqi incubator hoax
alleging that Iraqi troops murdered Kuwaiti infants by
taking them out of incubators. (factually, US
Government with aid of Hill & Knowlton PR firm in
conjunction with Tom Lantos staged and manufactured
this 'propaganda event')" from:
http://www.reagan.com/HotTopics.main/HotMike/document-4.26.2001.5.html
" Yesterday, [April 22/99] a 3-year-old child was
killed in the bathroom of her home on the outskirts of
Belgrade. A fragment of a cluster bomb ripped through
two walls, missed her parents sitting in the living
room, and killed the child." (one of hundreds of such
reports regarding the usage of cluster bombs and/or
the murder of children by Americans in Yugoslavia
three years ago, Mr Biden. You asked this question
once in front of the US Senate- 'Are we a nation of
our word or not? Do we keep our treaties or don't
we?'-and the usage of cluster bombs, KLA terrorists,
along with the verified abrogations of international
treaties by your friends in and out of the US
Government, have given you an answer.....accidents?
The planned usage and deployment of banned weapons is
not accidental, Mr Biden, and neither is the targeting
of cities where hundreds of thousands of innocent
people live....) from:
http://www.motherjones.com/total_coverage/kosovo/alex/042099.html
On cowards:
"The 'crusade for civilisation' [1999 US-led NATO
assault] was the cowards' war. From heights of 15,000
feet, heroic pilots hurled hi-tech nail bombs. The
unpublished list of targets hit shows a clear pattern
of a deliberate campaign of terror." from:
http://pilger.carlton.com/print/19253
"Who has murdered thousands of Yugoslavs with bombs
dropped from a coward's height? Who has driven over a
million people of all nationalities into homelessness
in Serbia? Who has unleashed fascist secessionists
throughout the Balkans, supporting them with arms and
training, and lauding them as democrats, forcing
victims to 'negotiate' with their murderers? Who has
waged low-level nuclear war, turning Kosovo, focus of
one 'humanitarian crusade,' into a radioactive dump?"
http://www.icdsm.org/more/20th.htm
Since you are apparently fond of admitting and
supporting what many learned minds consider to be US
culpability in crimes against humanity (specifically
1999 NATO murders in Yugoslavia) Mr Biden, such as
this quote from you,
"The overwhelming majority of airstrikes [1999 in
Yugoslavia] when ordinance was dropped was carried out
by our forces...By the way, I encourage my colleagues
to read the Genocide Convention..."
I would advise you to take your own advice offered
here:
"By the way, I encourage my colleagues to read the
Genocide Convention."
because learned minds and people of character have
spoken thusly in reference to your state-sponsored
vigilantism:
"But shouting "war criminal" only emphasizes that
those who live in glass houses should be careful about
throwing stones.We have engaged in a flagrant military
aggression, ceaselessly attacking a small country
primarily to demonstrate that we run the world. The
rationale that we are simply enforcing international
morality, even if it were true, would not excuse the
military aggression and widespread killing that it
entails. It also does not lessen the culpability of
the authors of this aggression. As a primary source of
international law, the judgment of the Nuremberg
Tribunal in the 1945-1946 case of the major Nazi war
criminals is plain and clear. Our leaders often invoke
and praise that judgment, but obviously have not read
it...."
(the late Mr Walter Rockler, former prosecutor at the
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, from:
http://www.counterpunch.org/rockler.html )
And finally, on illiterate:
"The press there also ridiculed the Alliance's 'media
war', claiming that NATO 'propaganda leaflets'
reportedly dropped over Yugoslavia are useless and
'illiterate'..." (from the United States Information
Agency website)
"Just like the bombings these are carried out in a
cowardly way from a height and distance, breaking into
television and radio frequencies and throwing
illiterate leaflets from aircraft. So, too, to the
Serbian people, the speech of the American political
infant Madeleine Albright is ridiculous and miserable
when she tries to explain to the Serbs in grotesque
Serbian why she has to kill them in the name of
humanity, regardless of the fact that these same
inhumane Serbs once saved that same Madeleine
Albright, as a child, from certain death." (B92 radio
online- you know them, right Mr Biden? Radio Free
Europe, which your Congress funds with taxpayers'
money, used to re-broadcast the B92 signal... from:
http://www.b92.net/media/repression/treason.shtml )
Good day, Mr Biden. Questions, comments??
Chris Soda
Subject: 25 aprile d'occupazione a trieste
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:31:47 +0200
From: "Gian Che Dice?"
l'assessore Menia: «Qui la storia è stata diversa: chi
combatteva nella X Mas, difendeva i confini orientali»
http://digilander.iol.it/nvg/IlPiccolo_steleRSI_a_TS.html
*** 25 aprile d'occupazione a Trieste ***
Da cosa iniziare? Probabilmente dai 39.620 (13) triestini
che hanno scelto Roberto Menia come loro parlamentare.
L'uomo politico girava per la città in camper, incontrava
italiani, incoraggiava l'irredentismo, difendeva l'identità
di una città di frontiera e lo hanno votato. Roberto Menia ha
molti incarichi. E' parlamentare, è responsabile nazionale per
l'organizzazione di AN, è assessore alla cultura di Trieste,
è il responsabile della gestione del patrimonio storico della
risiera di San Sabba, l'unico campo di sterminio in Italia.
In questi giorni si è spinto a chiedere la soppressione
della cerimonia della liberazione, che vorrebbe sostituire
con una cerimonia "per i caduti della libertà". Ma chi sono
questi caduti per l'assessore?
Per capirlo serve una ricostruzione storico politica del
personaggio e dell'ambiente della destra radicale triestina.
Buona lettura
Giancarlo
*** Menia e company ***
Menia è un assessore dalle idee chiare, fin dal 2000 chiede
l'abrogazione della festa della liberazione (1) ora nel nome
dell'onestà storiografica, ora nel nome della riconciliazione,
ora nel nome dell'irredentismo triestino. Ma Menia non è uno
che si scopre facilmente, non è un estremista di destra col
gagliardetto o almeno non lo dà a vedere. Ogni tanto si lascia
un pò andare, come all'ultimo congresso di alleanza nazionale
durante il quale afferma "Ormai si è al punto che per essere
politicamente corretti, bisogna essere gay, culo" (2), oppure
nel lontano 1997 quando si fa denunciare dall'ex fidanzata per
averla inseguita e molestata (3), ma il maschio assessore
spesso mette una maschera più ambigua, bipartisan,
conciliazionista.
Ma di quale conciliazionismo si fa portavoce la giunta comunale
di Trieste? Valgano le parole del presidente della Provincia
Fabio Scoccimarro, anch'egli in linea coi provvedimenti comunali
del 5 aprile "che non si cantino più canzoni di parte (l'anno
scorso "Bella ciao" fu intonata dal Coro partigiano assieme ai
ragazzi del Collegio del Mondo unito, ndr) ma l'Inno nazionale",
che "«si dovrà dare lettura delle testimonianze lasciateci da un
martire della Risiera, da un martire della Foiba di Basovizza
e da un combattente a San Giusto, tralasciando interventi di
rappresentanti politici in luoghi di preghiera e di memoria»",
infine che "l'intervento in lingua slovena di un amministratore
dei Comuni minori, dovrebbe essere cancellato a
favore di un solo saluto del sindaco di Trieste" (4)
Proposte nell'orbita della pacificazione Violantiana, inaugurata
proprio a Trieste? Proposte del tutto simili a quelle del sindaco
di centro sinistra Illy (4.1)? Sembra. Ma anche questa antistorica
pacificazione (tantopiù poichè avviene in un momento di sviluppo
impetuoso di forze reazionare di connotazione fascista) è solo una
mascherata. Davanti alle resistenze del Comitato per la Resistenza
di Trieste, Menia taglia corto e ne esce un altra verità
"[il comitato] è nato dalla logica degli anni Settanta e che
oggi, a mio avviso, si può anche chiudere" (5). Ad avviso del
camerata Menia, il comitato per la resistenza si può chiudere...
Ma torniamo a Trieste.
La giunta di destra si caratterizza da subito per le sue posizioni
estreme, il ritratto del podestà Cesare Pagnini viene recuperato ed
esposto (5.01).
Nel novembre 2001, il comune finanzia un convegno "Atmosfere in nero"
promosso dall'associazione "1900" finanziata dal comune l'anno
precedente con 50 milioni. Il convegno dal nome infausto invita in
qualità di relatore Jean Mabire, ex volontario delle SS francesi
insieme a tanti altri nomi della destra estrema europea. Davanti
allo scandalo l'assessore Menia che fa? Dichiara:
"«L'associazione 1900 ci ha chiesto il patrocinio, noi l'abbiamo
dato. Ma sapevamo solo che si trattava di un convegno letterario,
e che i relatori erano tre, tutti italiani. Di appendici con Ss non
ci avevano detto nulla. Se l'avessimo saputo, non avremmo certo
legittimato l'evento» [anche] il nuovo sindaco, Roberto Dipiazza,
pure di An: «Questa storia è una puttanata. Qua mi arrivano ogni
settimana venti, trenta richieste di patrocinio, e io firmo.
Chi vuole che immaginasse che questi mi portavano le Ss!
Non abbiamo proprio bisogno di questi casini. Siamo tutti rimasti
spiazzati». " (5.01). Spiazzati. Ok.
Negli ultimi mesi si susseguono altre iniziative revisionistiche, una
tra tutte la "mozione presentata dal consigliere circoscrizionale di
Alleanza nazionale Giuseppe Portale, nella quale si chiedeva al
sindaco Roberto Dipiazza di erigere in una piazza rionale, nello
spirito della riconciliazione, un monumento ai caduti della
Repubblica sociale italiana".(5.1)
Per finire un convegno dall'impronta revisionista <<"Il futuro di
Dio. Le religioni nell'era della globalizzazione", organizzato dal
20 al 22 settembre, a Trieste, all'Auditorium Revoltella, dalla
Fondazione Liberal e promosso dal Comune di Trieste, dalla Regione
Autonoma del Friuli-Venezia Giulia in collaborazione con la
Fondazione CRT.">> (5.2) Nel quale è relatore d'eccellenza Ernst
Nolte, noto storico revisionista del quale vale la pena di
citare un pensiero sul nazismo "Il nazismo avrebbe voluto essere la
"terza via" tra capitalismo e comunismo. Una "terza via" capace "di
bilanciare un alto grado di movimento e differenziazione economici
con l'esistenza di uno spirito comune guidato dall'alto. Il progetto
restò irrealizzato, poiché Hitler credeva che esso potesse essere
realizzato solo dopo l'annientamento della potenza bolscevica e
dopo la conquista dello spazio vitale dell'Est, ma è nondimeno
ammissibile attribuire al nazionalsocialismo non solo una
resistenza disperata contro uno sviluppo mondiale preponderante, ma
anche l'anticipazione di possibilità positive del futuro" (5.3)
Eravate Spiazzati. ok.
Nell'ultimo mese a Trieste si sono susseguiti episodi teppistici.
Aggressioni, minacce, devastazioni notturne dell'iconografia
antifascista. Un episodio di rilievo è stata senz'altro la
distruzione del monumento a Srecko Kosovel avvenuto l'8 aprile.
Kosovel era un poeta sloveno che cantava la dignità e la fratellanza
tra i popoli, morto a 22 anni nel 1926, in suo nome venne creata
una brigata partigiana italo-slovena nel 1944. Questa la
terribile colpa attribuita al busto dello sloveno colpito dai
soliti ignoti martellatori notturni. Il commento dell'assessore
alla cultura è salomonico "«Condanno il gesto vandalico compiuto
perchè atti simili sono gravi, indipendentemente dai monumenti
presi di mira. Non nego, peraltro, di essere stato tra i
principali oppositori all'iniziativa della giunta Illy di
collocare un'erma di Kosovel accanto ai padri triestini della
patria. Era più opportuno sistemarlo alla casa dello studente
sloveno»." (7) Il cuor di leone del maschio assessore batte
ancora sotto il doppiopetto parlamentare ed il suo
spiazzamento in questo caso sembra assai rarefatto... egli
infatti è reduce da una lotta quadriennale contro il bilinguismo
sloveno (8) non poteva sopportarlo di suo quel busto d'uno
sloveno in un parco cittadino, e qualche scagnozzo di sicura
provenienza ha provveduto a rimuoverlo nottetempo.
Amen.
Ma il progetto di questa piccola giunta è ben più ambizioso, e
vale la pena di leggere integralmente un articolo del Piccolo
di Trieste inerente la nomina di un manager di indiscussa fede,
militanza e spirito coloniale al vertice della società a gestione
mista, l'Acegas di Trieste (9), l'autonominatosi "il più
destro tra gli esuli", Guido Cace.
Ma una parvenza di legalità bisogna pur darsela. Ma non regge.
Durante i febbrili tentativi di conciliazione tra la cerimonia
comunale e quella degli eredi dei resistenti, si raggiungono
vette di razzismo incredibili contro la minoranza slovena
"Tra i motivi che hanno portato alla rottura, la proposta
avanzata dal vicesindaco di Duino Aurisina Marisa Skerk d'accordo
con gli esponenti degli altri Comuni minori: se il 25 Aprile
si deve andare anche alla Foiba di Basovizza e a San Giusto,
l'omaggio della riconciliazione - ha detto Skerk - si allarghi
allora pure al monumento eretto ai quattro antifascisti sloveni
fucilati a Basovizza nel 1930. «Menia ha risposto che il
presidente Casini non può recarsi a un monumento innalzato a
dei terroristi», annota Skerk." (10)
Dato il clima, lo stesso sindaco ritira il 14 aprile l'invito
alla partecipazione al presidente Casini e annuncia una cerimonia
separata, ammettendo nella stessa sede che contrariamente a
quanto affermato dalla stampa nei giorni precedenti il 25 aprile
la cerimonia principale sarà alla Foiba di Basovizza
e non alla risiera di San Sabba.
Il 15 aprile emerge nella stampa la dissociazione del comune
di Muggia dalla programmazione Triestina del 25 aprile (11)
La notte del 16 aprile si ripetono le scritte fasciste sui ceppi
partigiani, interessato specialmente il cippo ad Alma Vivoda, la
prima caduta della Resistenza nella provincia di Trieste e una
delle prime in Italia. Particolarmente attiva nei contatti con
gli sloveni. La brigata partigiana di Muggia prendeva il suo nome.
Anche la digos è spiazzata...
Il 25 aprile di quest'anno doveva essere scoperta una targa
nell'atrio della stazione di Trieste a ricordo di "«Uomini, donne,
bambini deportati iniziarono da qui il viaggio verso i campi nazisti
(settembre 1943 - febbraio 1945)". Il progetto voluto e finanziato
da una associazione di reduci e autorizzato dalle ferrovie dello
stato è stato bloccato il 23 aprile dal comune per "superare i
«problemi» - come li definisce Dipiazza [sindaco] - evidentemente
sorti nel frattempo, si è reso necessario un leggero slittamento
dei tempi". Il 25 aprile i deportati non avranno la loro targa.
Il 23 aprile escono le locandine del comune. La rappresentanza comunale
andrà alle 10 a Basoviza, alle 11 a San Sabba, alle 13 San Giusto (prima
guerra mondiale). Il comitato per la difesa dei valori della resistenza
"ha ufficializzato il programma della «propria» cerimonia che alla
Risiera avrà inizio alle 12 (dopo i riti religiosi ai quali sarà
presente) con la deposizione di una corona d'alloro. Oratori ufficiali
Giovanni Miccoli, direttore del Dipartimento di Storia e di Storia
dell'arte all'Università cittadina, e il sindaco di Monrupino Alessio
Krizman che parlerà in lingua slovena. Presente il Coro partigiano
Pinko Tomazic, il duo composto da Alfredo Lacosegliaz e Edy Meola
interpreterà «Fuma el camin» di Carolus Cergoly; a Maurizio
Zacchigna, Matejka Grgic e Esma Beslagic sarà affidata la lettura di
testi- Il Comitato «invita la cittadinanza a partecipare massicciamente
a questa iniziativa e a portare un fiore che sulle note della canzone
partigiana "Bella ciao" alla fine della celebrazione verrà deposto
nel luogo dove sorgeva il forno crematorio»."
A Trieste, oggi, "Il Fronte Sociale Nazionale, plaudendo «alla
strepitosa vittoria elettorale» del leader della destra xenofoba
francese Jean-Marie Le Pen, manifesterà giovedì «a ricordo dei
propri caduti e contro le falsificazioni della Storia, che i
vincitori hanno da sempre effettuato per perpetrare la
schiavitù dei nostri popoli ai potentati economici di qua e di là
dell'Atlantico»."
- Conclude Menia che «poteva essere un 25 Aprile di riconciliazione.
Sarà diverso». Ma le responsabilità» sono «di una parte sola», cioè di
quella «sinistra miope, retrograda, ideologizzata e incapace di
guardare avanti» -
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_12/trieste/tr04/isti.html
(1) Il 25 aprile a Trieste non ha più nessun significato - sottolinea il
deputato triestino di An Roberto Menia - semmai per la città la vera
festa della liberazione è il 12 giugno, quando se ne andarono le
truppe titine. Una ricostruzione storica faziosa e di parte, invece,
ci voleva addirittura insegnare che il 1° maggio, giornata d'ingresso
in città dei titini era una ricorrenza da onorare, tanto che c'è una
scuola a Trieste intitolata proprio al 1° maggio - aprile 2000
http://www.oltreconfine.de/Aprile00/interrogazioni.htm
(2) http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ mercoledì 10 aprile 2002
(3) http://www.eudifitalia.it/archivi/Repubblica.htm
(4)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_06/trieste/tr01/risi.html
(4.1) http://www.oltreconfine.de/Aprile00/interrogazioni.htm
(5)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_06/trieste/tr01/tost.html
(5.01) http://www.pieroruzzante.it/primopiano/291101.htm
(5.1) http://digilander.iol.it/nvg/IlPiccolo_steleRSI_a_TS.html
(5.2) http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/rassegna/010923m.htm
(5.3) http://www.cronologia.it/mondo24p.htm
(6)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_08/trieste/tr01/diba.html
(7)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_08/trieste/tr01/zakk.html
(8) [...] IDENTITA' ITALIANA DI TRIESTE
Ha difeso l'unità linguistica, i diritti degli italiani di Trieste e
l'identità nazionale della città, conducendo una lunga e fruttuosa
opposizione - durata quattro anni e fatta di migliaia di emendamenti -
ad una legge che rischiava di balcanizzare Trieste: il testo approvato
è ancora ingiusto, perché concede una serie di privilegi ai cittadini
di lingua slovena, ma non prevede più né la toponomastica né i documenti
bilingui. Anzi, grazie ad un suo emendamento, finalmente gli italiani
dei comuni dell'altipiano potranno ricevere la carta d'identità nella
sola lingua italiana, cosa fino ad oggi loro negata.
http://www.robertomenia.it/programma.html
(9) Il nuovo presidente ha sessant'anni, viene da Sebenico ma vive a
Roma «Sono il più a destra degli esuli»
Sessantenne, uomo di Alleanza nazionale, esule da Sebenico ma residente
sin dall'infanzia a Roma, presidente dell'Associazione nazionale
dalmata.
Questo il biglietto da visita di Guido Cace, il nuovo presidente
dell'Acegas nominato ieri pomeriggio. Gradito al vicepremier Gianfranco
Fini, Cace non ha mai nascosto la sua militanza politica, tanto che
in un'occasione pubblica disse : «Sono il più a destra degli esuli».
Nel suo curriculum Cace ci tiene a evidenziare di essere laureato in
legge, nonché di avere lavorato come vicedirettore commerciale della
«Dalmine», azienda che produce tubi in acciaio, dove si è occupato
del settore metano. Il neopresidente è inoltre consigliere delegato
di Sogesid, una società per azioni che opera direttamente per conto
del governo e che controlla in sostanza tutti gli acquedotti dismessi
del Sud Italia. Da questa e altre cariche (meno quella di Federgasacqua)
Cace ha annunciato di volersi dimettere.
Sul fronte politico, nel 1997, Cace è stato nominato dal centrodestra
quale rappresentante delle Regioni del Polo meridionali nel cda della
Sogesid.
Un'ultima annotazione: Cace è ufficiale in congedo dell'esercito, nonché
consulente della Rai sulle foibe. «Sono stato io - spiega - a scoprire
delle pellicole inedite su quella tragedia».
Tra i progetti del nuovo presidente dell'Acegas c'è lo «sbarco» in
Dalmazia delle ex municipalizzate, per la fornitura di acqua e energia
elettrica.
«Sbloccherò immediatamente anche il rapporto tra l'Acegas e Slovenia e
Croazia. Basti pensare che Capodistria viene gestita dall'Amga di
Genova: come mai non c'è Trieste?».
a.r.
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_10/trieste/tr01/nose.html
(10)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_12/trieste/tr04/libe.html
(11)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_15/trieste/tr02/bbbb.html
(12)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_17/trieste/tr03/vivo.html
(13) Vittoria!
Grazie ai 40.000 Triestini che mi hanno votato.
Il mio impegno per Trieste, con la Destra al governo della nazione,
prosegue al Parlamento, nel segno della coerenza, della libertà,
dell'Italianità.
Roberto Menia
Collegio Trieste 1 - Camera Uninominale
Candidati Lista Votanti Percentuale
Roberto Menia Casa delle Libertà 39.620 49,44 %
Roberto Damiani L'Ulivo - Lista Illy 33.790 42,16 %
Renato Manara Lista Bonino 2.811 3,51 %
Enrico Conte L'Italia dei Valori 2.372 2,96 %
Silvana Mergiani Terzo Polo per l'Aut. 1.546 1,93 %
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:31:47 +0200
From: "Gian Che Dice?"
l'assessore Menia: «Qui la storia è stata diversa: chi
combatteva nella X Mas, difendeva i confini orientali»
http://digilander.iol.it/nvg/IlPiccolo_steleRSI_a_TS.html
*** 25 aprile d'occupazione a Trieste ***
Da cosa iniziare? Probabilmente dai 39.620 (13) triestini
che hanno scelto Roberto Menia come loro parlamentare.
L'uomo politico girava per la città in camper, incontrava
italiani, incoraggiava l'irredentismo, difendeva l'identità
di una città di frontiera e lo hanno votato. Roberto Menia ha
molti incarichi. E' parlamentare, è responsabile nazionale per
l'organizzazione di AN, è assessore alla cultura di Trieste,
è il responsabile della gestione del patrimonio storico della
risiera di San Sabba, l'unico campo di sterminio in Italia.
In questi giorni si è spinto a chiedere la soppressione
della cerimonia della liberazione, che vorrebbe sostituire
con una cerimonia "per i caduti della libertà". Ma chi sono
questi caduti per l'assessore?
Per capirlo serve una ricostruzione storico politica del
personaggio e dell'ambiente della destra radicale triestina.
Buona lettura
Giancarlo
*** Menia e company ***
Menia è un assessore dalle idee chiare, fin dal 2000 chiede
l'abrogazione della festa della liberazione (1) ora nel nome
dell'onestà storiografica, ora nel nome della riconciliazione,
ora nel nome dell'irredentismo triestino. Ma Menia non è uno
che si scopre facilmente, non è un estremista di destra col
gagliardetto o almeno non lo dà a vedere. Ogni tanto si lascia
un pò andare, come all'ultimo congresso di alleanza nazionale
durante il quale afferma "Ormai si è al punto che per essere
politicamente corretti, bisogna essere gay, culo" (2), oppure
nel lontano 1997 quando si fa denunciare dall'ex fidanzata per
averla inseguita e molestata (3), ma il maschio assessore
spesso mette una maschera più ambigua, bipartisan,
conciliazionista.
Ma di quale conciliazionismo si fa portavoce la giunta comunale
di Trieste? Valgano le parole del presidente della Provincia
Fabio Scoccimarro, anch'egli in linea coi provvedimenti comunali
del 5 aprile "che non si cantino più canzoni di parte (l'anno
scorso "Bella ciao" fu intonata dal Coro partigiano assieme ai
ragazzi del Collegio del Mondo unito, ndr) ma l'Inno nazionale",
che "«si dovrà dare lettura delle testimonianze lasciateci da un
martire della Risiera, da un martire della Foiba di Basovizza
e da un combattente a San Giusto, tralasciando interventi di
rappresentanti politici in luoghi di preghiera e di memoria»",
infine che "l'intervento in lingua slovena di un amministratore
dei Comuni minori, dovrebbe essere cancellato a
favore di un solo saluto del sindaco di Trieste" (4)
Proposte nell'orbita della pacificazione Violantiana, inaugurata
proprio a Trieste? Proposte del tutto simili a quelle del sindaco
di centro sinistra Illy (4.1)? Sembra. Ma anche questa antistorica
pacificazione (tantopiù poichè avviene in un momento di sviluppo
impetuoso di forze reazionare di connotazione fascista) è solo una
mascherata. Davanti alle resistenze del Comitato per la Resistenza
di Trieste, Menia taglia corto e ne esce un altra verità
"[il comitato] è nato dalla logica degli anni Settanta e che
oggi, a mio avviso, si può anche chiudere" (5). Ad avviso del
camerata Menia, il comitato per la resistenza si può chiudere...
Ma torniamo a Trieste.
La giunta di destra si caratterizza da subito per le sue posizioni
estreme, il ritratto del podestà Cesare Pagnini viene recuperato ed
esposto (5.01).
Nel novembre 2001, il comune finanzia un convegno "Atmosfere in nero"
promosso dall'associazione "1900" finanziata dal comune l'anno
precedente con 50 milioni. Il convegno dal nome infausto invita in
qualità di relatore Jean Mabire, ex volontario delle SS francesi
insieme a tanti altri nomi della destra estrema europea. Davanti
allo scandalo l'assessore Menia che fa? Dichiara:
"«L'associazione 1900 ci ha chiesto il patrocinio, noi l'abbiamo
dato. Ma sapevamo solo che si trattava di un convegno letterario,
e che i relatori erano tre, tutti italiani. Di appendici con Ss non
ci avevano detto nulla. Se l'avessimo saputo, non avremmo certo
legittimato l'evento» [anche] il nuovo sindaco, Roberto Dipiazza,
pure di An: «Questa storia è una puttanata. Qua mi arrivano ogni
settimana venti, trenta richieste di patrocinio, e io firmo.
Chi vuole che immaginasse che questi mi portavano le Ss!
Non abbiamo proprio bisogno di questi casini. Siamo tutti rimasti
spiazzati». " (5.01). Spiazzati. Ok.
Negli ultimi mesi si susseguono altre iniziative revisionistiche, una
tra tutte la "mozione presentata dal consigliere circoscrizionale di
Alleanza nazionale Giuseppe Portale, nella quale si chiedeva al
sindaco Roberto Dipiazza di erigere in una piazza rionale, nello
spirito della riconciliazione, un monumento ai caduti della
Repubblica sociale italiana".(5.1)
Per finire un convegno dall'impronta revisionista <<"Il futuro di
Dio. Le religioni nell'era della globalizzazione", organizzato dal
20 al 22 settembre, a Trieste, all'Auditorium Revoltella, dalla
Fondazione Liberal e promosso dal Comune di Trieste, dalla Regione
Autonoma del Friuli-Venezia Giulia in collaborazione con la
Fondazione CRT.">> (5.2) Nel quale è relatore d'eccellenza Ernst
Nolte, noto storico revisionista del quale vale la pena di
citare un pensiero sul nazismo "Il nazismo avrebbe voluto essere la
"terza via" tra capitalismo e comunismo. Una "terza via" capace "di
bilanciare un alto grado di movimento e differenziazione economici
con l'esistenza di uno spirito comune guidato dall'alto. Il progetto
restò irrealizzato, poiché Hitler credeva che esso potesse essere
realizzato solo dopo l'annientamento della potenza bolscevica e
dopo la conquista dello spazio vitale dell'Est, ma è nondimeno
ammissibile attribuire al nazionalsocialismo non solo una
resistenza disperata contro uno sviluppo mondiale preponderante, ma
anche l'anticipazione di possibilità positive del futuro" (5.3)
Eravate Spiazzati. ok.
Nell'ultimo mese a Trieste si sono susseguiti episodi teppistici.
Aggressioni, minacce, devastazioni notturne dell'iconografia
antifascista. Un episodio di rilievo è stata senz'altro la
distruzione del monumento a Srecko Kosovel avvenuto l'8 aprile.
Kosovel era un poeta sloveno che cantava la dignità e la fratellanza
tra i popoli, morto a 22 anni nel 1926, in suo nome venne creata
una brigata partigiana italo-slovena nel 1944. Questa la
terribile colpa attribuita al busto dello sloveno colpito dai
soliti ignoti martellatori notturni. Il commento dell'assessore
alla cultura è salomonico "«Condanno il gesto vandalico compiuto
perchè atti simili sono gravi, indipendentemente dai monumenti
presi di mira. Non nego, peraltro, di essere stato tra i
principali oppositori all'iniziativa della giunta Illy di
collocare un'erma di Kosovel accanto ai padri triestini della
patria. Era più opportuno sistemarlo alla casa dello studente
sloveno»." (7) Il cuor di leone del maschio assessore batte
ancora sotto il doppiopetto parlamentare ed il suo
spiazzamento in questo caso sembra assai rarefatto... egli
infatti è reduce da una lotta quadriennale contro il bilinguismo
sloveno (8) non poteva sopportarlo di suo quel busto d'uno
sloveno in un parco cittadino, e qualche scagnozzo di sicura
provenienza ha provveduto a rimuoverlo nottetempo.
Amen.
Ma il progetto di questa piccola giunta è ben più ambizioso, e
vale la pena di leggere integralmente un articolo del Piccolo
di Trieste inerente la nomina di un manager di indiscussa fede,
militanza e spirito coloniale al vertice della società a gestione
mista, l'Acegas di Trieste (9), l'autonominatosi "il più
destro tra gli esuli", Guido Cace.
Ma una parvenza di legalità bisogna pur darsela. Ma non regge.
Durante i febbrili tentativi di conciliazione tra la cerimonia
comunale e quella degli eredi dei resistenti, si raggiungono
vette di razzismo incredibili contro la minoranza slovena
"Tra i motivi che hanno portato alla rottura, la proposta
avanzata dal vicesindaco di Duino Aurisina Marisa Skerk d'accordo
con gli esponenti degli altri Comuni minori: se il 25 Aprile
si deve andare anche alla Foiba di Basovizza e a San Giusto,
l'omaggio della riconciliazione - ha detto Skerk - si allarghi
allora pure al monumento eretto ai quattro antifascisti sloveni
fucilati a Basovizza nel 1930. «Menia ha risposto che il
presidente Casini non può recarsi a un monumento innalzato a
dei terroristi», annota Skerk." (10)
Dato il clima, lo stesso sindaco ritira il 14 aprile l'invito
alla partecipazione al presidente Casini e annuncia una cerimonia
separata, ammettendo nella stessa sede che contrariamente a
quanto affermato dalla stampa nei giorni precedenti il 25 aprile
la cerimonia principale sarà alla Foiba di Basovizza
e non alla risiera di San Sabba.
Il 15 aprile emerge nella stampa la dissociazione del comune
di Muggia dalla programmazione Triestina del 25 aprile (11)
La notte del 16 aprile si ripetono le scritte fasciste sui ceppi
partigiani, interessato specialmente il cippo ad Alma Vivoda, la
prima caduta della Resistenza nella provincia di Trieste e una
delle prime in Italia. Particolarmente attiva nei contatti con
gli sloveni. La brigata partigiana di Muggia prendeva il suo nome.
Anche la digos è spiazzata...
Il 25 aprile di quest'anno doveva essere scoperta una targa
nell'atrio della stazione di Trieste a ricordo di "«Uomini, donne,
bambini deportati iniziarono da qui il viaggio verso i campi nazisti
(settembre 1943 - febbraio 1945)". Il progetto voluto e finanziato
da una associazione di reduci e autorizzato dalle ferrovie dello
stato è stato bloccato il 23 aprile dal comune per "superare i
«problemi» - come li definisce Dipiazza [sindaco] - evidentemente
sorti nel frattempo, si è reso necessario un leggero slittamento
dei tempi". Il 25 aprile i deportati non avranno la loro targa.
Il 23 aprile escono le locandine del comune. La rappresentanza comunale
andrà alle 10 a Basoviza, alle 11 a San Sabba, alle 13 San Giusto (prima
guerra mondiale). Il comitato per la difesa dei valori della resistenza
"ha ufficializzato il programma della «propria» cerimonia che alla
Risiera avrà inizio alle 12 (dopo i riti religiosi ai quali sarà
presente) con la deposizione di una corona d'alloro. Oratori ufficiali
Giovanni Miccoli, direttore del Dipartimento di Storia e di Storia
dell'arte all'Università cittadina, e il sindaco di Monrupino Alessio
Krizman che parlerà in lingua slovena. Presente il Coro partigiano
Pinko Tomazic, il duo composto da Alfredo Lacosegliaz e Edy Meola
interpreterà «Fuma el camin» di Carolus Cergoly; a Maurizio
Zacchigna, Matejka Grgic e Esma Beslagic sarà affidata la lettura di
testi- Il Comitato «invita la cittadinanza a partecipare massicciamente
a questa iniziativa e a portare un fiore che sulle note della canzone
partigiana "Bella ciao" alla fine della celebrazione verrà deposto
nel luogo dove sorgeva il forno crematorio»."
A Trieste, oggi, "Il Fronte Sociale Nazionale, plaudendo «alla
strepitosa vittoria elettorale» del leader della destra xenofoba
francese Jean-Marie Le Pen, manifesterà giovedì «a ricordo dei
propri caduti e contro le falsificazioni della Storia, che i
vincitori hanno da sempre effettuato per perpetrare la
schiavitù dei nostri popoli ai potentati economici di qua e di là
dell'Atlantico»."
- Conclude Menia che «poteva essere un 25 Aprile di riconciliazione.
Sarà diverso». Ma le responsabilità» sono «di una parte sola», cioè di
quella «sinistra miope, retrograda, ideologizzata e incapace di
guardare avanti» -
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_12/trieste/tr04/isti.html
(1) Il 25 aprile a Trieste non ha più nessun significato - sottolinea il
deputato triestino di An Roberto Menia - semmai per la città la vera
festa della liberazione è il 12 giugno, quando se ne andarono le
truppe titine. Una ricostruzione storica faziosa e di parte, invece,
ci voleva addirittura insegnare che il 1° maggio, giornata d'ingresso
in città dei titini era una ricorrenza da onorare, tanto che c'è una
scuola a Trieste intitolata proprio al 1° maggio - aprile 2000
http://www.oltreconfine.de/Aprile00/interrogazioni.htm
(2) http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ mercoledì 10 aprile 2002
(3) http://www.eudifitalia.it/archivi/Repubblica.htm
(4)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_06/trieste/tr01/risi.html
(4.1) http://www.oltreconfine.de/Aprile00/interrogazioni.htm
(5)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_06/trieste/tr01/tost.html
(5.01) http://www.pieroruzzante.it/primopiano/291101.htm
(5.1) http://digilander.iol.it/nvg/IlPiccolo_steleRSI_a_TS.html
(5.2) http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/rassegna/010923m.htm
(5.3) http://www.cronologia.it/mondo24p.htm
(6)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_08/trieste/tr01/diba.html
(7)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_08/trieste/tr01/zakk.html
(8) [...] IDENTITA' ITALIANA DI TRIESTE
Ha difeso l'unità linguistica, i diritti degli italiani di Trieste e
l'identità nazionale della città, conducendo una lunga e fruttuosa
opposizione - durata quattro anni e fatta di migliaia di emendamenti -
ad una legge che rischiava di balcanizzare Trieste: il testo approvato
è ancora ingiusto, perché concede una serie di privilegi ai cittadini
di lingua slovena, ma non prevede più né la toponomastica né i documenti
bilingui. Anzi, grazie ad un suo emendamento, finalmente gli italiani
dei comuni dell'altipiano potranno ricevere la carta d'identità nella
sola lingua italiana, cosa fino ad oggi loro negata.
http://www.robertomenia.it/programma.html
(9) Il nuovo presidente ha sessant'anni, viene da Sebenico ma vive a
Roma «Sono il più a destra degli esuli»
Sessantenne, uomo di Alleanza nazionale, esule da Sebenico ma residente
sin dall'infanzia a Roma, presidente dell'Associazione nazionale
dalmata.
Questo il biglietto da visita di Guido Cace, il nuovo presidente
dell'Acegas nominato ieri pomeriggio. Gradito al vicepremier Gianfranco
Fini, Cace non ha mai nascosto la sua militanza politica, tanto che
in un'occasione pubblica disse : «Sono il più a destra degli esuli».
Nel suo curriculum Cace ci tiene a evidenziare di essere laureato in
legge, nonché di avere lavorato come vicedirettore commerciale della
«Dalmine», azienda che produce tubi in acciaio, dove si è occupato
del settore metano. Il neopresidente è inoltre consigliere delegato
di Sogesid, una società per azioni che opera direttamente per conto
del governo e che controlla in sostanza tutti gli acquedotti dismessi
del Sud Italia. Da questa e altre cariche (meno quella di Federgasacqua)
Cace ha annunciato di volersi dimettere.
Sul fronte politico, nel 1997, Cace è stato nominato dal centrodestra
quale rappresentante delle Regioni del Polo meridionali nel cda della
Sogesid.
Un'ultima annotazione: Cace è ufficiale in congedo dell'esercito, nonché
consulente della Rai sulle foibe. «Sono stato io - spiega - a scoprire
delle pellicole inedite su quella tragedia».
Tra i progetti del nuovo presidente dell'Acegas c'è lo «sbarco» in
Dalmazia delle ex municipalizzate, per la fornitura di acqua e energia
elettrica.
«Sbloccherò immediatamente anche il rapporto tra l'Acegas e Slovenia e
Croazia. Basti pensare che Capodistria viene gestita dall'Amga di
Genova: come mai non c'è Trieste?».
a.r.
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_10/trieste/tr01/nose.html
(10)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_12/trieste/tr04/libe.html
(11)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_15/trieste/tr02/bbbb.html
(12)
http://www.ilpiccolo.quotidianiespresso.it/ilpiccolo/arch_17/trieste/tr03/vivo.html
(13) Vittoria!
Grazie ai 40.000 Triestini che mi hanno votato.
Il mio impegno per Trieste, con la Destra al governo della nazione,
prosegue al Parlamento, nel segno della coerenza, della libertà,
dell'Italianità.
Roberto Menia
Collegio Trieste 1 - Camera Uninominale
Candidati Lista Votanti Percentuale
Roberto Menia Casa delle Libertà 39.620 49,44 %
Roberto Damiani L'Ulivo - Lista Illy 33.790 42,16 %
Renato Manara Lista Bonino 2.811 3,51 %
Enrico Conte L'Italia dei Valori 2.372 2,96 %
Silvana Mergiani Terzo Polo per l'Aut. 1.546 1,93 %
