Informazione
CONVERSAZIONE CON STEVAN MIRKOVIC
Belgrado, settembre 2001
Stevan Mirkovic e� stato generale del Genio dell�Armata Popolare
Jugoslava. I suoi ultimi incarichi si sono svolti in Slovenia, a
ricostruire le strade di quella Repubblica.
Rappresentante di spicco della linea titoista, jugoslavista
intransigente, recentemente e� stato tra i promotori della coalizione
delle forze comuniste extraparlamentari KORAK. Lavora per il "Centro
Josip Broz Tito".
Mirkovic e� noto ai compagni di Roma per aver partecipato ad un Meeting
Internazionale a Testaccio alcuni anni fa.
D. : Dopo l�ultimo incontro [del KORAK] di mesi fa, quale � la
situazione politica ?
R. : La situazione politica naturalmente non vale niente, perch� questo
governo � incapace di risolvere qualunque cosa. Non si sa mettere
d�accordo con il Montenegro. Vuole dominarlo perch� anche il Montenegro
sia una parte della Serbia e non una Repubblica alla pari. Non riesce a
risolvere il problema del Kosovo e Metohija con gli albanesi. Ha dato
troppo spazio al nazionalismo ungherese, e a quello musulmano nel
Sangiaccato. E tutto perch� si mantenesse al potere, perch� il suo
potere si basa, non come era una volta, sulla parit� di tutti i
popoli... Nel governo ora partecipano esponenti del nazionalismo
ungherese che sono orientati pi� verso l�Ungheria e chiedono
autonomie... personali...(sorride). E non so quali altre... e si stanno
legando sempre pi� all�Ungheria economicamente.
Come anche i musulmani del Sangiaccato. Essi si orientano verso la
Bosnia, e la loro tesi ora � che non sono Musulmani (M maiuscola come
nazione, N.d.t.), ma bosgnazzi, dunque significa: "La Bosnia � il
nostro stato". Per non parlare degli albanesi... Qui ora si sta
ragionando cosi�: "Forse � meglio che il Kosmet sia un protettorato".
Dunque si sostiene questa KFOR, l�UNMIK, si sostiene tutto quello
che la NATO cio� gli USA e l�UE dice. Questo � per il nostro governo
legge. Applicano tutto questo senza remore.
E parlano , parlano... Questo riguardo alla criminalit�.
Dicono: "Sai... noi combatteremo la criminalit�..." mentre per ora la
criminalit� e aumentata. Perch� � naturale, pi� si allarga la propriet�
privata, pi� la societ� perde il controllo sui beni comuni e pi�
aumenta il crimine. La criminalit� e la corruzione vanno di pari passo
con la privatizzazione selvaggia. Al governo soltanto blaterano che
sopprimeranno la criminalit�. Neanche riguardo ai crimini... ora si
ammazzano le persone pi� di prima...
La coalizione DOS al governo ha messo dappertutto i suoi uomini. Prima
dicevano: "Se non sei comunista non puoi arrivare ai vertici". Loro
fanno le stesse cose, anzi di peggio. Prima i comunisti mettevano si i
propri uomini, perch� c�era un partito. Ma potevano mettere le persone
nelle quali avevano fiducia, il che � normale. Quelle persone venivano
anche controllate.
Questo governo qui � stato formato da 18 partiti, ed ognuno cerca di
avere i suoi uomini qui o l�. Vedi le cretinate che stanno facendo...
hanno nominato quel reazionario di Protic come ambasciatore negli USA
e ora lo devono richiamare indietro!
Riguardo alla magistratura, alla Corte Costituzionale, dappertutto
hanno messo i propri uomini... Pu� essere comprensibile. Ma almeno lo
dicano apertamente, invece di attaccare il comunismo... Cosi che questa
situazione politica non vale un accidente... non riescono a far niente,
e come dire... ora sono attaccati dall�opinione pubblica.
Tutti i sondaggi dicono che niente � cambiato. Ecco, � passato un
anno... la gente � scontenta. Tutti, tutti i sondaggi parlano
dell�incapacit� del governo.
Perci� il governo si adopera per 2 cose :
1. cerca di entrare a far parte della NATO attraverso la Partnership
per la pace, per ottenere protezione e poi per entrare direttamente
nella NATO, il che sar� difficile...Cosi entrando a far parte della
Partnership riusciranno a calmare anche l�Esercito. L�Esercito �
ancora, sai l�Esercito ancora non si � schierato. E� ancora
indipendente. La polizia no. La polizia � sotto il controllo del
governo. Ecco, cosi con la Partnership riusciranno a domare l�Esercito.
E allora si che se ne vedranno delle belle... Non che debbano arrivare
truppe straniere, ma arriveranno varie istituzioni, le quali
vincoleranno il nostro Esercito. Il governo accetter� di comprare le
loro armi e qui le istituzioni ci giocheranno sopra.
2. Il governo si affretta a svendere le ditte che lavorano con
profitto. (Il cementificio di Beocin, p.es. I lavoratori protestano....
N.d.t.) Perch� ? Siccome non hanno altro modo... non hanno organizzato
nessuna ricostruzione per aumentare la produzione. Si sono
esclusivamente orientati sull�aiuto dall�estero, e continuamente ci
riempiono la testa con le chiacchiere....Il ministro delle finanze
della Serbia parla sempre della stessa cosa... � proprio una persona
mediocre, insensibile...
D. : E' giovane, no ?
R. : Si giovane, giovane... dice sempre che non ha ricevuto ancora
neanche un soldo... E� questo che ora gli brucia... e� proprio a causa
di questa situazione politica che anche il capitale straniero si
domanda se vale la pena di investire per ora. Perci� si trovano in una
situazione difficile, ed � per questo che nel DOS ci sono dissidi.
Le cose promesse e non realizzate portano ai litigi. Kostunica cerca di
addossare le colpe a Djindjic e viceversa.
D. : Senti, questo Kostunica, "non sa" di quello che decide Djindjic,
per es. riguardo all�arresto di Milosevic ?...
R. : Tutto sa, tutto lui lo sa. Lui , Kostunica, poteva impedire
l�arresto, ma ha lasciato fare proprio perch� si ingarbugli, per poter
dopo attaccare Djindjic perch� lo ha fatto anticostituzionalmente... Si
dovrebbe prima emanare la legge e poi operare a norma di legge... Eh se
fosse ora qui un partito forte che prenda tutto nelle proprie mani...
questo � il momento... Per� non c'e' nessuno...
D. : E come mai... ?
R. : L�SPS � debole, si � compromesso. I radicali lo stesso. Vuk
Draskovic, su lui neanche contarci. La JUL � compromessa. I partiti
comunisti sono ancora divisi. Avevamo formato quella coalizione KORAK,
passate le elezioni, tutto si � sbracato... Soltanto in due o tre di
noi scriviamo qualcosa., e quelli del NKPJ di Kitanovic. Cosicche� non
riusciremo a sfruttare neanche questo momento...
Si giungera alla divisione della DOS, ed essa rimarr� a governare, ma
non come DOS bensi come due forti partiti con uno al governo e l�altro
all�opposizione. Questo � male, questo � la nostra prospettiva.
D. : La cosiddetta alternanza ?...
R. : La stessa cosa, come in Occidente... La gente � scontenta. Per�
hai visto quanti prodotti agricoli sul mercato. Il raccolto e' stato
buono, come vedi da solo. I prodotti non sono cari, un p� ci ha aiutato
l�aiuto umanitario e perci� non si � arrivati ancora ad una grande
scontentezza... Vedi, la Zastava di Kragujevac ha dimostrato il
pericolo della privatizzazione. All�inizio la privatizzazione � stata
molto dura, sicch� questo ministro delle finanze e i suoi seguaci sono
dovuti scappare dalla fabbrica. Gli operai lo volevano picchiare !
Un settimana fa anche i minatori di Kolubara si sono rivoltati, ci sono
stati disordini. Hanno dovuto pagare i minatori, perch� i lavoratori li
hanno pesantemente minacciati!...
D. : Sono gli stessi che avevano sostenuto questi ora al Governo !
R. : Si. Ora i lavoratori hanno capito che la loro posizione non �
migliorata, dopo un anno, ma � peggiorata. Qui ora c�e� forse una
speranza che i lavoratori, tramite il loro sindacato, possano ottenere
qualcosa, perch� il sindacato li � forte.
(Gli ricordo dell�infiltrazione nel sindacato "Nezavisni")
R. : Mah, forse c'e' stato anche di questo... Ma volevo dire che ora il
sindacato e l�Esercito, se qualcuno li scuotesse, potrebbero fare dei
progressi... Perch� questo paese e� in svendita, come la terra. Si
svende la sua sovranit�. Praticamente si sta svendendo l�indipendenza.
Ecco vedi ora hanno lasciato passare nel sud della Serbia le truppe
[NATO] che vanno in Kosmet e in Macedonia, stanno attraversando il
nostro paese, il che prima non era possibile... Checch� ne dicano - che
i soldati vanno separatamente dalle armi... Ma che vadano... che il
diavolo li porti... Che cosa significa, come se si pu� controllare ogni
fucile che hanno... Ecco qui potrebbe il nostro Esercito fare qualcosa
riguardo l�indipendenza ,la sovranit�...
D. : Invece la situazione in Montenegro ? Ancora la gente non ha capito
dove li sta conducendo il governo di Djukanovic ?
R. : Ma sa cos�� la cosa pi� importante, l�economia. Ecco : l�economia,
come qui...
D. : Volevo dire, riguardo alle minoranze. Anche li potrebbe succedere
come in Macedonia...
R. : Voglio proprio controllare la statistica, vediamo proprio i dati...
(Va a cercare i dati e nel frattempo continua)
Ora hanno inventato questo pericoloso slogan "Imetak za pocetak"
(Il tuo risparmio per incominciare) ; investi i tuoi risparmi, dicono,
adesso � l�occasione per far guadagnare la tua famiglia, ognuno potr�
guadagnare... I lavoratori che finora erano solidali pensano : ora
potr� lavorare indipendentemente, potr� guadagnare. Non capiscono che
andra� a finire che quelli pi� amorali e senza scrupoli riusciranno
ad emergere, mentre gli altri si rovineranno. E finch� non riescono a
capire ci�... (Continua coi dati). Ecco il Montenegro...
D. : Ma quanti abitanti ha il Montenegro, un milione ?
R. : Ma va... (e ride)... Ecco nel l991 aveva 615.000 abitanti...
Ora ne potrebbero avere si e no 700.000. Ecco di 615.000, 380.000
sono montenegrini, 6.ooo croati, 8.000 macedoni, 89.000 musulmani,
57.0 serbi, 25.000 jugoslavi, 40.000 albanesi. La concentrazione di
albanesi � soprattutto a Plav, 4000, e 17.000 a Ulcinj... A Titograd
(ora Podgorica) 8,5%... sono abbastanza. Sai, la posizione di questi
due comuni � interessante perch� si trovano vicino alla frontiera con
l�Albania
D. : E i serbi che si trovano in Albania, che fine hanno fatto ?
Nessuno pi� li menziona.
R. : No, niente. Sono stati albanizzati. Si trovano verso la Gora,
verso Dragos. Si sono convertiti, hanno preso la religione musulmana e
cos� la nazionalit�.
D. : E in Macedonia, la situazione delle nazionalit� ?
R. : A Skoplje si trovano 350.000 macedoni, 100.000 albanesi, ora anche
di pi�, 22.000 turchi, 29.000 rom, 21.000 serbi... Gli albanesi sono
l�arma pi� efficace degli USA nei Balcani. Gli albanesi sono legati,
tramite le loro lobby, esclusivamente agli USA. Gli americani li
tutelano e con questa arma controllano questi territori.
(Bisognerebbe chiedersi forse come tanti di loro, che definivano se
stessi "schipetari", con quale passaporto andassero all�estero, se non
con quello jugoslavo ?! ? Ironia della sorte... N.d.t.)
Con la manipolazione degli albanesi gli americani possono influenzare i
greci, per non parlare del Montenegro e della Bulgaria.
D. : Stevan, per chiudere dicci qualcosa su questo attacco...
R. : Quale ?... Ah, questo a New York !.. Sai, io penso che questo �
stata una reazione dovuta alla repressione violenta americana in tutto
il mondo. Due cose in particolare voglio dire :
Primo, quando � stata fatta l�inchiesta tra gli americani riguardo
all�attacco alla Jugoslavia, l�80% degli americani hanno approvato
l�intervento. Adesso dopo questo attacco, il 70% degli americani
chiedono vendetta, al prezzo che vengano uccise anche persone civili.
Allora pensa un po� : perch� dovremmo dispiacerci per gli americani ?
Io per principio condanno le uccisioni di civili... ma quando un tale
idiota chiede alla sua armata di bombardare, diciamo anche
l�Afganistan, anche se dovranno morire migliaia di civili, perch� io
dovrei dispiacermi a causa di un simile idiota ? Ritengo che agli
americani serva ancora qualche simile dimostrazione, perch� comprendano
che sono anche loro dei semplici mortali. Essi si comportano come una
razza superiore. Nessuno li deve toccare, mentre loro possono ammazzare
gli altri... Qui da noi l�opinione pubblica, vedi, non si rallegra, ma
comprende questo attacco, perch� gli americani capiscano cosa stanno
facendo loro al resto del mondo.
Belgrado, settembre 2001
Conversazione condotta da I. Pavicevac
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Belgrado, settembre 2001
Stevan Mirkovic e� stato generale del Genio dell�Armata Popolare
Jugoslava. I suoi ultimi incarichi si sono svolti in Slovenia, a
ricostruire le strade di quella Repubblica.
Rappresentante di spicco della linea titoista, jugoslavista
intransigente, recentemente e� stato tra i promotori della coalizione
delle forze comuniste extraparlamentari KORAK. Lavora per il "Centro
Josip Broz Tito".
Mirkovic e� noto ai compagni di Roma per aver partecipato ad un Meeting
Internazionale a Testaccio alcuni anni fa.
D. : Dopo l�ultimo incontro [del KORAK] di mesi fa, quale � la
situazione politica ?
R. : La situazione politica naturalmente non vale niente, perch� questo
governo � incapace di risolvere qualunque cosa. Non si sa mettere
d�accordo con il Montenegro. Vuole dominarlo perch� anche il Montenegro
sia una parte della Serbia e non una Repubblica alla pari. Non riesce a
risolvere il problema del Kosovo e Metohija con gli albanesi. Ha dato
troppo spazio al nazionalismo ungherese, e a quello musulmano nel
Sangiaccato. E tutto perch� si mantenesse al potere, perch� il suo
potere si basa, non come era una volta, sulla parit� di tutti i
popoli... Nel governo ora partecipano esponenti del nazionalismo
ungherese che sono orientati pi� verso l�Ungheria e chiedono
autonomie... personali...(sorride). E non so quali altre... e si stanno
legando sempre pi� all�Ungheria economicamente.
Come anche i musulmani del Sangiaccato. Essi si orientano verso la
Bosnia, e la loro tesi ora � che non sono Musulmani (M maiuscola come
nazione, N.d.t.), ma bosgnazzi, dunque significa: "La Bosnia � il
nostro stato". Per non parlare degli albanesi... Qui ora si sta
ragionando cosi�: "Forse � meglio che il Kosmet sia un protettorato".
Dunque si sostiene questa KFOR, l�UNMIK, si sostiene tutto quello
che la NATO cio� gli USA e l�UE dice. Questo � per il nostro governo
legge. Applicano tutto questo senza remore.
E parlano , parlano... Questo riguardo alla criminalit�.
Dicono: "Sai... noi combatteremo la criminalit�..." mentre per ora la
criminalit� e aumentata. Perch� � naturale, pi� si allarga la propriet�
privata, pi� la societ� perde il controllo sui beni comuni e pi�
aumenta il crimine. La criminalit� e la corruzione vanno di pari passo
con la privatizzazione selvaggia. Al governo soltanto blaterano che
sopprimeranno la criminalit�. Neanche riguardo ai crimini... ora si
ammazzano le persone pi� di prima...
La coalizione DOS al governo ha messo dappertutto i suoi uomini. Prima
dicevano: "Se non sei comunista non puoi arrivare ai vertici". Loro
fanno le stesse cose, anzi di peggio. Prima i comunisti mettevano si i
propri uomini, perch� c�era un partito. Ma potevano mettere le persone
nelle quali avevano fiducia, il che � normale. Quelle persone venivano
anche controllate.
Questo governo qui � stato formato da 18 partiti, ed ognuno cerca di
avere i suoi uomini qui o l�. Vedi le cretinate che stanno facendo...
hanno nominato quel reazionario di Protic come ambasciatore negli USA
e ora lo devono richiamare indietro!
Riguardo alla magistratura, alla Corte Costituzionale, dappertutto
hanno messo i propri uomini... Pu� essere comprensibile. Ma almeno lo
dicano apertamente, invece di attaccare il comunismo... Cosi che questa
situazione politica non vale un accidente... non riescono a far niente,
e come dire... ora sono attaccati dall�opinione pubblica.
Tutti i sondaggi dicono che niente � cambiato. Ecco, � passato un
anno... la gente � scontenta. Tutti, tutti i sondaggi parlano
dell�incapacit� del governo.
Perci� il governo si adopera per 2 cose :
1. cerca di entrare a far parte della NATO attraverso la Partnership
per la pace, per ottenere protezione e poi per entrare direttamente
nella NATO, il che sar� difficile...Cosi entrando a far parte della
Partnership riusciranno a calmare anche l�Esercito. L�Esercito �
ancora, sai l�Esercito ancora non si � schierato. E� ancora
indipendente. La polizia no. La polizia � sotto il controllo del
governo. Ecco, cosi con la Partnership riusciranno a domare l�Esercito.
E allora si che se ne vedranno delle belle... Non che debbano arrivare
truppe straniere, ma arriveranno varie istituzioni, le quali
vincoleranno il nostro Esercito. Il governo accetter� di comprare le
loro armi e qui le istituzioni ci giocheranno sopra.
2. Il governo si affretta a svendere le ditte che lavorano con
profitto. (Il cementificio di Beocin, p.es. I lavoratori protestano....
N.d.t.) Perch� ? Siccome non hanno altro modo... non hanno organizzato
nessuna ricostruzione per aumentare la produzione. Si sono
esclusivamente orientati sull�aiuto dall�estero, e continuamente ci
riempiono la testa con le chiacchiere....Il ministro delle finanze
della Serbia parla sempre della stessa cosa... � proprio una persona
mediocre, insensibile...
D. : E' giovane, no ?
R. : Si giovane, giovane... dice sempre che non ha ricevuto ancora
neanche un soldo... E� questo che ora gli brucia... e� proprio a causa
di questa situazione politica che anche il capitale straniero si
domanda se vale la pena di investire per ora. Perci� si trovano in una
situazione difficile, ed � per questo che nel DOS ci sono dissidi.
Le cose promesse e non realizzate portano ai litigi. Kostunica cerca di
addossare le colpe a Djindjic e viceversa.
D. : Senti, questo Kostunica, "non sa" di quello che decide Djindjic,
per es. riguardo all�arresto di Milosevic ?...
R. : Tutto sa, tutto lui lo sa. Lui , Kostunica, poteva impedire
l�arresto, ma ha lasciato fare proprio perch� si ingarbugli, per poter
dopo attaccare Djindjic perch� lo ha fatto anticostituzionalmente... Si
dovrebbe prima emanare la legge e poi operare a norma di legge... Eh se
fosse ora qui un partito forte che prenda tutto nelle proprie mani...
questo � il momento... Per� non c'e' nessuno...
D. : E come mai... ?
R. : L�SPS � debole, si � compromesso. I radicali lo stesso. Vuk
Draskovic, su lui neanche contarci. La JUL � compromessa. I partiti
comunisti sono ancora divisi. Avevamo formato quella coalizione KORAK,
passate le elezioni, tutto si � sbracato... Soltanto in due o tre di
noi scriviamo qualcosa., e quelli del NKPJ di Kitanovic. Cosicche� non
riusciremo a sfruttare neanche questo momento...
Si giungera alla divisione della DOS, ed essa rimarr� a governare, ma
non come DOS bensi come due forti partiti con uno al governo e l�altro
all�opposizione. Questo � male, questo � la nostra prospettiva.
D. : La cosiddetta alternanza ?...
R. : La stessa cosa, come in Occidente... La gente � scontenta. Per�
hai visto quanti prodotti agricoli sul mercato. Il raccolto e' stato
buono, come vedi da solo. I prodotti non sono cari, un p� ci ha aiutato
l�aiuto umanitario e perci� non si � arrivati ancora ad una grande
scontentezza... Vedi, la Zastava di Kragujevac ha dimostrato il
pericolo della privatizzazione. All�inizio la privatizzazione � stata
molto dura, sicch� questo ministro delle finanze e i suoi seguaci sono
dovuti scappare dalla fabbrica. Gli operai lo volevano picchiare !
Un settimana fa anche i minatori di Kolubara si sono rivoltati, ci sono
stati disordini. Hanno dovuto pagare i minatori, perch� i lavoratori li
hanno pesantemente minacciati!...
D. : Sono gli stessi che avevano sostenuto questi ora al Governo !
R. : Si. Ora i lavoratori hanno capito che la loro posizione non �
migliorata, dopo un anno, ma � peggiorata. Qui ora c�e� forse una
speranza che i lavoratori, tramite il loro sindacato, possano ottenere
qualcosa, perch� il sindacato li � forte.
(Gli ricordo dell�infiltrazione nel sindacato "Nezavisni")
R. : Mah, forse c'e' stato anche di questo... Ma volevo dire che ora il
sindacato e l�Esercito, se qualcuno li scuotesse, potrebbero fare dei
progressi... Perch� questo paese e� in svendita, come la terra. Si
svende la sua sovranit�. Praticamente si sta svendendo l�indipendenza.
Ecco vedi ora hanno lasciato passare nel sud della Serbia le truppe
[NATO] che vanno in Kosmet e in Macedonia, stanno attraversando il
nostro paese, il che prima non era possibile... Checch� ne dicano - che
i soldati vanno separatamente dalle armi... Ma che vadano... che il
diavolo li porti... Che cosa significa, come se si pu� controllare ogni
fucile che hanno... Ecco qui potrebbe il nostro Esercito fare qualcosa
riguardo l�indipendenza ,la sovranit�...
D. : Invece la situazione in Montenegro ? Ancora la gente non ha capito
dove li sta conducendo il governo di Djukanovic ?
R. : Ma sa cos�� la cosa pi� importante, l�economia. Ecco : l�economia,
come qui...
D. : Volevo dire, riguardo alle minoranze. Anche li potrebbe succedere
come in Macedonia...
R. : Voglio proprio controllare la statistica, vediamo proprio i dati...
(Va a cercare i dati e nel frattempo continua)
Ora hanno inventato questo pericoloso slogan "Imetak za pocetak"
(Il tuo risparmio per incominciare) ; investi i tuoi risparmi, dicono,
adesso � l�occasione per far guadagnare la tua famiglia, ognuno potr�
guadagnare... I lavoratori che finora erano solidali pensano : ora
potr� lavorare indipendentemente, potr� guadagnare. Non capiscono che
andra� a finire che quelli pi� amorali e senza scrupoli riusciranno
ad emergere, mentre gli altri si rovineranno. E finch� non riescono a
capire ci�... (Continua coi dati). Ecco il Montenegro...
D. : Ma quanti abitanti ha il Montenegro, un milione ?
R. : Ma va... (e ride)... Ecco nel l991 aveva 615.000 abitanti...
Ora ne potrebbero avere si e no 700.000. Ecco di 615.000, 380.000
sono montenegrini, 6.ooo croati, 8.000 macedoni, 89.000 musulmani,
57.0 serbi, 25.000 jugoslavi, 40.000 albanesi. La concentrazione di
albanesi � soprattutto a Plav, 4000, e 17.000 a Ulcinj... A Titograd
(ora Podgorica) 8,5%... sono abbastanza. Sai, la posizione di questi
due comuni � interessante perch� si trovano vicino alla frontiera con
l�Albania
D. : E i serbi che si trovano in Albania, che fine hanno fatto ?
Nessuno pi� li menziona.
R. : No, niente. Sono stati albanizzati. Si trovano verso la Gora,
verso Dragos. Si sono convertiti, hanno preso la religione musulmana e
cos� la nazionalit�.
D. : E in Macedonia, la situazione delle nazionalit� ?
R. : A Skoplje si trovano 350.000 macedoni, 100.000 albanesi, ora anche
di pi�, 22.000 turchi, 29.000 rom, 21.000 serbi... Gli albanesi sono
l�arma pi� efficace degli USA nei Balcani. Gli albanesi sono legati,
tramite le loro lobby, esclusivamente agli USA. Gli americani li
tutelano e con questa arma controllano questi territori.
(Bisognerebbe chiedersi forse come tanti di loro, che definivano se
stessi "schipetari", con quale passaporto andassero all�estero, se non
con quello jugoslavo ?! ? Ironia della sorte... N.d.t.)
Con la manipolazione degli albanesi gli americani possono influenzare i
greci, per non parlare del Montenegro e della Bulgaria.
D. : Stevan, per chiudere dicci qualcosa su questo attacco...
R. : Quale ?... Ah, questo a New York !.. Sai, io penso che questo �
stata una reazione dovuta alla repressione violenta americana in tutto
il mondo. Due cose in particolare voglio dire :
Primo, quando � stata fatta l�inchiesta tra gli americani riguardo
all�attacco alla Jugoslavia, l�80% degli americani hanno approvato
l�intervento. Adesso dopo questo attacco, il 70% degli americani
chiedono vendetta, al prezzo che vengano uccise anche persone civili.
Allora pensa un po� : perch� dovremmo dispiacerci per gli americani ?
Io per principio condanno le uccisioni di civili... ma quando un tale
idiota chiede alla sua armata di bombardare, diciamo anche
l�Afganistan, anche se dovranno morire migliaia di civili, perch� io
dovrei dispiacermi a causa di un simile idiota ? Ritengo che agli
americani serva ancora qualche simile dimostrazione, perch� comprendano
che sono anche loro dei semplici mortali. Essi si comportano come una
razza superiore. Nessuno li deve toccare, mentre loro possono ammazzare
gli altri... Qui da noi l�opinione pubblica, vedi, non si rallegra, ma
comprende questo attacco, perch� gli americani capiscano cosa stanno
facendo loro al resto del mondo.
Belgrado, settembre 2001
Conversazione condotta da I. Pavicevac
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"Now the Taliban will pay a price" vowed President George
W. Bush, as American and British fighter planes unleashed
missile attacks against major cities in Afghanistan. The
US Administration claims that Osama bin Laden is behind
the tragic events of the 11th of September. A major war
supposedly "against international terrorism" has been
launched, yet the evidence amply confirms that agencies
of the US government have since the Cold War harbored the
"Islamic Militant Network" as part of Washington's
foreign policy agenda. In a bitter irony, the US Air
Force is targeting the training camps established in the
1980s by the CIA.
The main justification for waging this war has been
totally fabricated. The American people have been
deliberately and consciously misled by their government
into supporting a major military adventure which affects
our collective future.
"OSAMAGATE"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montr�al
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001
----
Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration
can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA
admits that Osama bin Laden was an "intelligence asset"
during the Cold War, the relationship is said to "go way
back". Most news reports consider that these Osama-CIA
links belong to the "bygone era" of the Soviet-Afghan
war. They are invariably viewed as "irrelevant" to an
understanding of present events. Lost in the barrage of
recent history, the role of the CIA in supporting and
developing international terrorist organisations during
the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or
downplayed by the Western media.
Yes, We did support Him, but "He Went Against Us"
A blatant example of media distortion is the so-called
"blowback" thesis: "intelligence assets" are said to
"have gone against their sponsors"; "what we've created
blows back in our face."1 In a twisted logic, the US
government and the CIA are portrayed as the ill-fated
victims:
The sophisticated methods taught to the Mujahideen, and
the thousands of tons of arms supplied to them by the US
- and Britain - are now tormenting the West in the
phenomenon known as `blowback', whereby a policy strategy
rebounds on its own devisers. 2
The US media, nonetheless, concedes that "the Taliban's
coming to power [in 1995] is partly the outcome of the
U.S. support of the Mujahideen, the radical Islamic
group, in the 1980s in the war against the Soviet
Union".3 But it also readily dismisses its own factual
statements and concludes in chorus, that the CIA had been
tricked by a deceitful Osama. It's like "a son going
against his father".
The "blowback" thesis is a fabrication. The evidence
amply confirms that the CIA never severed its ties to the
"Islamic Militant Network". Since the end of the Cold
War, these covert intelligence links have not only been
maintained, they have in become increasingly
sophisticated.
New undercover initiatives financed by the Golden
Crescent drug trade were set in motion in Central Asia,
the Caucasus and the Balkans. Pakistan's military and
intelligence apparatus (controlled by the CIA)
essentially "served as a catalyst for the disintegration
of the Soviet Union and the emergence of six new Muslim
republics in Central Asia." 4
Replicating the Iran Contragate Pattern
Remember Ollie North and the Nicaraguan Contras under the
Reagan Administration when weapons financed by the drug
trade were channeled to "freedom fighters" in
Washington's covert war against the Sandinista
government. The same pattern was used in the Balkans to
arm and equip the Mujahideen fighting in the ranks of the
Bosnian Muslim army against the Armed Forces of the
Yugoslav Federation.
Throughout the 1990s, the Pakistan Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) was used by the CIA as a go-between --
to channel weapons and Mujahideen mercenaries to the
Bosnian Muslim Army in the civil war in Yugoslavia.
According to a report of the London based International
Media Corporation:
"Reliable sources report that the United States is now
[1994] actively participating in the arming and training
of the Muslim forces of Bosnia-Herzegovina in direct
contravention of the United Nations accords. US agencies
have been providing weapons made in ... China (PRC),
North Korea (DPRK) and Iran. The sources indicated that
... Iran, with the knowledge and agreement of the US
Government, supplied the Bosnian forces with a large
number of multiple rocket launchers and a large quantity
of ammunition. These included 107mm and 122mm rockets
from the PRC, and VBR-230 multiple rocket launchers ...
made in Iran. ... It was [also] reported that 400 members
of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) arrived in
Bosnia with a large supply of arms and ammunition. It was
alleged that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had
full knowledge of the operation and that the CIA believed
that some of the 400 had been detached for future
terrorist operations in Western Europe.
During September and October [1994], there has been a
stream of "Afghan" Mujahedin ... covertly landed in
Ploce, Croatia (South-West of Mostar) from where they
have traveled with false papers ... before deploying with
the Bosnian Muslim forces in the Kupres, Zenica and Banja
Luka areas. These forces have recently [late 1994]
experienced a significant degree of military success.
They have, according to sources in Sarajevo, been aided
by the UNPROFOR Bangladesh battalion, which took over
from a French battalion early in September [1994].
The Mujahedin landing at Ploce are reported to have been
accompanied by US Special Forces equipped with high-tech
communications equipment, ... The sources said that the
mission of the US troops was to establish a command,
control, communications and intelligence network to
coordinate and support Bosnian Muslim offensives -- in
concert with Mujahideen and Bosnian Croat forces -- in
Kupres, Zenica and Banja Luka. Some offensives have
recently been conducted from within the UN-established
safe-havens in the Zenica and Banja Luka regions.
(...)
The US Administration has not restricted its involvement
to the clandestine contravention of the UN arms embargo
on the region ... It [also] committed three high-ranking
delegations over the past two years [prior to 1994] in
failed attempts to bring the Yugoslav Government into
line with US policy. Yugoslavia is the only state in the
region to have failed to acquiesce to US pressure.5
"From the Horse's Mouth"
Ironically, the US Administration's undercover
military-intelligence operations in Bosnia have been
fully documented by the Republican Party. A lengthy
Congressional report by the Republican Party Committee
(RPC) published in 1997, largely confirms the
International Media Corporation report quoted above. The
RPC Congressional report accuses the Clinton
administration of having "helped turn Bosnia into a
militant Islamic base" leading to the recruitment through
the so-called "Militant Islamic Network," of thousands of
Mujahideen from the Muslim world:
Perhaps most threatening to the SFOR mission - and more
importantly, to the safety of the American personnel
serving in Bosnia - is the unwillingness of the Clinton
Administration to come clean with the Congress and with
the American people about its complicity in the delivery
of weapons from Iran to the Muslim government in
Sarajevo. That policy, personally approved by Bill
Clinton in April 1994 at the urging of CIA
Director-designate (and then-NSC chief) Anthony Lake and
the U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, has,
according to the Los Angeles Times (citing classified
intelligence community sources), "played a central role
in the dramatic increase in Iranian influence in Bosnia.
(...)
Along with the weapons, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and
VEVAK intelligence operatives entered Bosnia in large
numbers, along with thousands of mujahedin ("holy
warriors") from across the Muslim world. Also engaged in
the effort were several other Muslim countries (including
Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and
Turkey) and a number of radical Muslim organizations. For
example, the role of one Sudan-based "humanitarian
organization," called the Third World Relief Agency, has
been well documented. The Clinton Administration's
"hands-on" involvement with the Islamic network's arms
pipeline included inspections of missiles from Iran by
U.S. government officials... the Third World Relief
Agency (TWRA), a Sudan-based, phoney humanitarian
organization ... has been a major link in the arms
pipeline to Bosnia. ... TWRA is believed to be connected
with such fixtures of the Islamic terror network as Sheik
Omar Abdel Rahman (the convicted mastermind behind the
1993 World Trade Center bombing) and Osama Bin Laden, a
wealthy Saudi �migr� believed to bankroll numerous
militant groups. [Washington Post, 9/22/96] 6
Complicity of the Clinton Administration
In other words, the Republican Party Committee report
confirms unequivocally the complicity of the Clinton
Administration with several Islamic fundamentalist
organisations including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda.
The Republicans wanted at the time to undermine the
Clinton Administration. However, at a time when the
entire country had its eyes riveted on the Monica
Lewinsky scandal, the Republicans no doubt chose not to
trigger an untimely "Iran-Bosniagate" affair, which might
have unduly diverted public attention away from the
Lewinsky scandal. The Republicans wanted to impeach Bill
Clinton "for having lied to the American People"
regarding his affair with White House intern Monica
Lewinsky. On the more substantive "foreign policy lies"
regarding drug running and covert operations in the
Balkans, Democrats and Republicans agreed in unison, no
doubt pressured by the Pentagon and the CIA not to "spill
the beans".
>From Bosnia to Kosovo
The "Bosnian pattern" described in the 1997 Congressional
RPC report was replicated in Kosovo. With the complicity
of NATO and the US State Department. Mujahideen
mercenaries from the Middle East and Central Asia were
recruited to fight in the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) in 1998-99, largely supporting NATO's war
effort.
Confirmed by British military sources, the task of arming
and training of the KLA had been entrusted in 1998 to the
US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Britain's Secret
Intelligence Services MI6, together with "former and
serving members of 22 SAS [Britain's 22nd Special Air
Services Regiment], as well as three British and American
private security companies".7
The US DIA approached MI6 to arrange a training programme
for the KLA, said a senior British military source. `MI6
then sub-contracted the operation to two British security
companies, who in turn approached a number of former
members of the (22 SAS) regiment. Lists were then drawn
up of weapons and equipment needed by the KLA.' While
these covert operations were continuing, serving members
of 22 SAS Regiment, mostly from the unit's D Squadron,
were first deployed in Kosovo before the beginning of the
bombing campaign in March. 8
While British SAS Special Forces in bases in Northern
Albania were training the KLA, military instructors from
Turkey and Afghanistan financed by the "Islamic jihad"
were collaborating in training the KLA in guerilla and
diversion tactics.9:
Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. He was one of
several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to
fight in Kosovo, ... Bin Laden is believed to have
established an operation in Albania in 1994 ... Albanian
sources say Sali Berisha, who was then president, had
links with some groups that later proved to be extreme
fundamentalists. 10
Congressional Testimonies on KLA-Osama links
According to Frank Ciluffo of the Globalized Organised
Crime Program, in a testimony presented to the House of
Representatives Judicial Committee:
What was largely hidden from public view was the fact
that the KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of
narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the
"Balkan Route" that links the "Golden Crescent" of
Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe.
This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and
handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe. 11
According to Ralf Mutschke of Interpol's Criminal
Intelligence division also in a testimony to the House
Judicial Committee:
The U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist
organization, indicating that it was financing its
operations with money from the international heroin trade
and loans from Islamic countries and individuals, among
them allegedly Usama bin Laden" . Another link to bin
Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an
Egyptian Jihad organization and also a military commander
of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during
the Kosovo conflict. 12
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W. Bush, as American and British fighter planes unleashed
missile attacks against major cities in Afghanistan. The
US Administration claims that Osama bin Laden is behind
the tragic events of the 11th of September. A major war
supposedly "against international terrorism" has been
launched, yet the evidence amply confirms that agencies
of the US government have since the Cold War harbored the
"Islamic Militant Network" as part of Washington's
foreign policy agenda. In a bitter irony, the US Air
Force is targeting the training camps established in the
1980s by the CIA.
The main justification for waging this war has been
totally fabricated. The American people have been
deliberately and consciously misled by their government
into supporting a major military adventure which affects
our collective future.
"OSAMAGATE"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montr�al
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001
----
Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration
can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA
admits that Osama bin Laden was an "intelligence asset"
during the Cold War, the relationship is said to "go way
back". Most news reports consider that these Osama-CIA
links belong to the "bygone era" of the Soviet-Afghan
war. They are invariably viewed as "irrelevant" to an
understanding of present events. Lost in the barrage of
recent history, the role of the CIA in supporting and
developing international terrorist organisations during
the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or
downplayed by the Western media.
Yes, We did support Him, but "He Went Against Us"
A blatant example of media distortion is the so-called
"blowback" thesis: "intelligence assets" are said to
"have gone against their sponsors"; "what we've created
blows back in our face."1 In a twisted logic, the US
government and the CIA are portrayed as the ill-fated
victims:
The sophisticated methods taught to the Mujahideen, and
the thousands of tons of arms supplied to them by the US
- and Britain - are now tormenting the West in the
phenomenon known as `blowback', whereby a policy strategy
rebounds on its own devisers. 2
The US media, nonetheless, concedes that "the Taliban's
coming to power [in 1995] is partly the outcome of the
U.S. support of the Mujahideen, the radical Islamic
group, in the 1980s in the war against the Soviet
Union".3 But it also readily dismisses its own factual
statements and concludes in chorus, that the CIA had been
tricked by a deceitful Osama. It's like "a son going
against his father".
The "blowback" thesis is a fabrication. The evidence
amply confirms that the CIA never severed its ties to the
"Islamic Militant Network". Since the end of the Cold
War, these covert intelligence links have not only been
maintained, they have in become increasingly
sophisticated.
New undercover initiatives financed by the Golden
Crescent drug trade were set in motion in Central Asia,
the Caucasus and the Balkans. Pakistan's military and
intelligence apparatus (controlled by the CIA)
essentially "served as a catalyst for the disintegration
of the Soviet Union and the emergence of six new Muslim
republics in Central Asia." 4
Replicating the Iran Contragate Pattern
Remember Ollie North and the Nicaraguan Contras under the
Reagan Administration when weapons financed by the drug
trade were channeled to "freedom fighters" in
Washington's covert war against the Sandinista
government. The same pattern was used in the Balkans to
arm and equip the Mujahideen fighting in the ranks of the
Bosnian Muslim army against the Armed Forces of the
Yugoslav Federation.
Throughout the 1990s, the Pakistan Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) was used by the CIA as a go-between --
to channel weapons and Mujahideen mercenaries to the
Bosnian Muslim Army in the civil war in Yugoslavia.
According to a report of the London based International
Media Corporation:
"Reliable sources report that the United States is now
[1994] actively participating in the arming and training
of the Muslim forces of Bosnia-Herzegovina in direct
contravention of the United Nations accords. US agencies
have been providing weapons made in ... China (PRC),
North Korea (DPRK) and Iran. The sources indicated that
... Iran, with the knowledge and agreement of the US
Government, supplied the Bosnian forces with a large
number of multiple rocket launchers and a large quantity
of ammunition. These included 107mm and 122mm rockets
from the PRC, and VBR-230 multiple rocket launchers ...
made in Iran. ... It was [also] reported that 400 members
of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) arrived in
Bosnia with a large supply of arms and ammunition. It was
alleged that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had
full knowledge of the operation and that the CIA believed
that some of the 400 had been detached for future
terrorist operations in Western Europe.
During September and October [1994], there has been a
stream of "Afghan" Mujahedin ... covertly landed in
Ploce, Croatia (South-West of Mostar) from where they
have traveled with false papers ... before deploying with
the Bosnian Muslim forces in the Kupres, Zenica and Banja
Luka areas. These forces have recently [late 1994]
experienced a significant degree of military success.
They have, according to sources in Sarajevo, been aided
by the UNPROFOR Bangladesh battalion, which took over
from a French battalion early in September [1994].
The Mujahedin landing at Ploce are reported to have been
accompanied by US Special Forces equipped with high-tech
communications equipment, ... The sources said that the
mission of the US troops was to establish a command,
control, communications and intelligence network to
coordinate and support Bosnian Muslim offensives -- in
concert with Mujahideen and Bosnian Croat forces -- in
Kupres, Zenica and Banja Luka. Some offensives have
recently been conducted from within the UN-established
safe-havens in the Zenica and Banja Luka regions.
(...)
The US Administration has not restricted its involvement
to the clandestine contravention of the UN arms embargo
on the region ... It [also] committed three high-ranking
delegations over the past two years [prior to 1994] in
failed attempts to bring the Yugoslav Government into
line with US policy. Yugoslavia is the only state in the
region to have failed to acquiesce to US pressure.5
"From the Horse's Mouth"
Ironically, the US Administration's undercover
military-intelligence operations in Bosnia have been
fully documented by the Republican Party. A lengthy
Congressional report by the Republican Party Committee
(RPC) published in 1997, largely confirms the
International Media Corporation report quoted above. The
RPC Congressional report accuses the Clinton
administration of having "helped turn Bosnia into a
militant Islamic base" leading to the recruitment through
the so-called "Militant Islamic Network," of thousands of
Mujahideen from the Muslim world:
Perhaps most threatening to the SFOR mission - and more
importantly, to the safety of the American personnel
serving in Bosnia - is the unwillingness of the Clinton
Administration to come clean with the Congress and with
the American people about its complicity in the delivery
of weapons from Iran to the Muslim government in
Sarajevo. That policy, personally approved by Bill
Clinton in April 1994 at the urging of CIA
Director-designate (and then-NSC chief) Anthony Lake and
the U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith, has,
according to the Los Angeles Times (citing classified
intelligence community sources), "played a central role
in the dramatic increase in Iranian influence in Bosnia.
(...)
Along with the weapons, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and
VEVAK intelligence operatives entered Bosnia in large
numbers, along with thousands of mujahedin ("holy
warriors") from across the Muslim world. Also engaged in
the effort were several other Muslim countries (including
Brunei, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and
Turkey) and a number of radical Muslim organizations. For
example, the role of one Sudan-based "humanitarian
organization," called the Third World Relief Agency, has
been well documented. The Clinton Administration's
"hands-on" involvement with the Islamic network's arms
pipeline included inspections of missiles from Iran by
U.S. government officials... the Third World Relief
Agency (TWRA), a Sudan-based, phoney humanitarian
organization ... has been a major link in the arms
pipeline to Bosnia. ... TWRA is believed to be connected
with such fixtures of the Islamic terror network as Sheik
Omar Abdel Rahman (the convicted mastermind behind the
1993 World Trade Center bombing) and Osama Bin Laden, a
wealthy Saudi �migr� believed to bankroll numerous
militant groups. [Washington Post, 9/22/96] 6
Complicity of the Clinton Administration
In other words, the Republican Party Committee report
confirms unequivocally the complicity of the Clinton
Administration with several Islamic fundamentalist
organisations including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda.
The Republicans wanted at the time to undermine the
Clinton Administration. However, at a time when the
entire country had its eyes riveted on the Monica
Lewinsky scandal, the Republicans no doubt chose not to
trigger an untimely "Iran-Bosniagate" affair, which might
have unduly diverted public attention away from the
Lewinsky scandal. The Republicans wanted to impeach Bill
Clinton "for having lied to the American People"
regarding his affair with White House intern Monica
Lewinsky. On the more substantive "foreign policy lies"
regarding drug running and covert operations in the
Balkans, Democrats and Republicans agreed in unison, no
doubt pressured by the Pentagon and the CIA not to "spill
the beans".
>From Bosnia to Kosovo
The "Bosnian pattern" described in the 1997 Congressional
RPC report was replicated in Kosovo. With the complicity
of NATO and the US State Department. Mujahideen
mercenaries from the Middle East and Central Asia were
recruited to fight in the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) in 1998-99, largely supporting NATO's war
effort.
Confirmed by British military sources, the task of arming
and training of the KLA had been entrusted in 1998 to the
US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Britain's Secret
Intelligence Services MI6, together with "former and
serving members of 22 SAS [Britain's 22nd Special Air
Services Regiment], as well as three British and American
private security companies".7
The US DIA approached MI6 to arrange a training programme
for the KLA, said a senior British military source. `MI6
then sub-contracted the operation to two British security
companies, who in turn approached a number of former
members of the (22 SAS) regiment. Lists were then drawn
up of weapons and equipment needed by the KLA.' While
these covert operations were continuing, serving members
of 22 SAS Regiment, mostly from the unit's D Squadron,
were first deployed in Kosovo before the beginning of the
bombing campaign in March. 8
While British SAS Special Forces in bases in Northern
Albania were training the KLA, military instructors from
Turkey and Afghanistan financed by the "Islamic jihad"
were collaborating in training the KLA in guerilla and
diversion tactics.9:
Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. He was one of
several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to
fight in Kosovo, ... Bin Laden is believed to have
established an operation in Albania in 1994 ... Albanian
sources say Sali Berisha, who was then president, had
links with some groups that later proved to be extreme
fundamentalists. 10
Congressional Testimonies on KLA-Osama links
According to Frank Ciluffo of the Globalized Organised
Crime Program, in a testimony presented to the House of
Representatives Judicial Committee:
What was largely hidden from public view was the fact
that the KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of
narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the
"Balkan Route" that links the "Golden Crescent" of
Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe.
This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and
handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe. 11
According to Ralf Mutschke of Interpol's Criminal
Intelligence division also in a testimony to the House
Judicial Committee:
The U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist
organization, indicating that it was financing its
operations with money from the international heroin trade
and loans from Islamic countries and individuals, among
them allegedly Usama bin Laden" . Another link to bin
Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an
Egyptian Jihad organization and also a military commander
of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during
the Kosovo conflict. 12
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by Michel Chossudovsky
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001
(SEGUE)
Madeleine Albright Covets the KLA
These KLA links to international terrorism and organised
crime documented by the US Congress were totally ignored
by the Clinton Administration. In fact, in the months
preceding the bombing of Yugoslavia, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright was busy building a "political
legitimacy" for the KLA. The paramilitary army had --from
one day to the next-- been elevated to the status of a
bona fide "democratic" force in Kosovo. In turn,
Madeleine Albright has forced the pace of international
diplomacy: the KLA had been spearheaded into playing a
central role in the failed "peace negotiations" at
Rambouiillet in early 1999.
The Senate and the House tacitly endorse State Terrorism
While the various Congressional reports confirmed that
the US government had been working hand in glove with
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, this did not prevent the
Clinton and later the Bush Administration from arming and
equipping the KLA. The Congressional documents also
confirm that members of the Senate and the House knew the
relationship of the Administration to international
terrorism. To quote the statement of Rep. John Kasich of
the House Armed Services Committee: "We connected
ourselves [in 1998-99] with the KLA, which was the
staging point for bin Laden..." 13
In the wake of the tragic events of September 11,
Republicans and Democrats in unison have given their full
support to the President to "wage war on Osama".
In 1999, Senator Jo Lieberman had stated authoritatively
that "Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights
and American values." In the hours following the October
7 missile attacks on Afghanistan, the same Jo Lieberman
called for punitive air strikes against Iraq: "We're in a
war against terrorism... We can't stop with bin Laden and
the Taliban." Yet Senator Jo Lieberman, as member of the
Armed Services Committee of the Senate had access to all
the Congressional documents pertaining to "KLA-Osama"
links. In making this statement, he was fully aware that
that agencies of the US government as well as NATO were
supporting international terrorism.
The War in Macedonia
In the wake of the 1999 war in Yugoslavia, the terrorist
activities of the KLA were extended into Southern Serbia
and Macedonia. Meanwhile, the KLA --renamed the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC)-- was elevated to United Nations
status, implying the granting of "legitimate" sources of
funding through United Nations as well as through
bilateral channels, including direct US military aid.
And barely two months after the official inauguration of
the KPC under UN auspices (September 1999), KPC-KLA
commanders - using UN resources and equipment - were
already preparing the assaults into Macedonia, as a
logical follow-up to their terrorist activities in
Kosovo. According to the Skopje daily Dnevnik, the KPC
had established a "sixth operation zone" in Southern
Serbia and Macedonia:
Sources, who insist on anonymity, claim that the
headquarters of the Kosovo protection brigades [i.e.
linked to the UN sponsored KPC] have [March 2000] already
been formed in Tetovo, Gostivar and Skopje. They are
being prepared in Debar and Struga [on the border with
Albania] as well, and their members have defined codes.
16
According to the BBC, "Western special forces were still
training the guerrillas" meaning that they were assisting
the KLA in opening up "a sixth operation zone" in
Southern Serbia and Macedonia.17
"The Islamic Militant Network" and NATO join hands in
Macedonia
Among the foreign mercenaries now fighting in Macedonia
(October 2001) in the ranks of self-proclaimed National
Liberation Army (NLA), are Mujahideen from the Middle
East and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet
Union. Also within the KLA's proxy force in Macedonia are
senior US military advisers from a private mercenary
outfit on contract to the Pentagon as well as "soldiers
of fortune" from Britain, Holland and Germany. Some of
these Western mercenaries had previously fought with the
KLA and the Bosnian Muslim Army.18
Extensively documented by the Macedonian press and
statements of the Macedonian authorities, the US
government and the "Islamic Militant Network" are working
hand in glove in supporting and financing the
self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), involved
in the terrorist attacks in Macedonia. The NLA is a proxy
of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In turn the KLA and
the UN sponsored Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) are
identical institutions with the same commanders and
military personnel. KPC Commanders on UN salaries are
fighting in the NLA together with the Mujahideen.
In a bitter twist, while supported and financed by Osama
bin Laden's Al Qaeda, the KLA-NLA is also supported by
NATO and the United Nations mission to Kosovo (UNMIK). In
fact, the "Islamic Militant Network" --also using
Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) as the CIA's
go-between-- still constitutes an integral part of
Washington's covert military-intelligence operations in
Macedonia and Southern Serbia.
The KLA-NLA terrorists are funded from US military aid,
the United Nations peace-keeping budget as well as by
several Islamic organisations including Osama bin Laden's
Al Qaeda. Drug money is also being used to finance the
terrorists with the complicity of the US government. The
recruitment of Mujahideen to fight in the ranks of the
NLA in Macedonia is implemented through various Islamic
groups.
US military advisers mingle with Mujahideen within the
same paramilitary force, Western mercenaries from NATO
countries fight alongside Mujahideen recruited in the
Middle East and Central Asia. And the US media calls this
a "blowback" where so-called "intelligence assets" have
gone against their sponsors!
But this did not happen during the Cold war! It is
happening right now in Macedonia. And it is confirmed by
numerous press reports, eyewitness accounts, photographic
evidence as well as official statements by the Macedonian
Prime Minister, who has accused the Western military
alliance of supporting the terrorists. Moreover, the
official Macedonian New Agency (MIA) has pointed to the
complicity between Washington's envoy Ambassador James
Pardew and the NLA terrorists.19 In other words, the
so-called "intelligence assets" are still serving the
interests of their US sponsors.
Pardew's background is revealing in this regard. He
started his Balkans career in 1993 as a senior
intelligence officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff
responsible for channeling US aid to the Bosnian Muslim
Army. Coronel Pardew had been put in charge of arranging
the "air-drops" of supplies to Bosnian forces. At the
time, these "air drops" were tagged as "civilian aid". It
later transpired --confirmed by the RPC Congressional
report-- that the US had violated the arms embargo. And
James Pardew played an important role as part of the team
of intelligence officials working closely with the
Chairman of the National Security Council Anthony Lake.
Pardew was later involved in the Dayton negotiations
(1995) on behalf of the US Defence Department. In 1999,
prior to the bombing of Yugoslavia, he was appointed
"Special Representative for Military Stabilisation and
Kosovo Implementation" by President Clinton. One of his
tasks was to channel support to the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), which at the time was also being supported by
Osama bin Laden. Pardew was in this regard instrumental
in replicating the "Bosnian pattern" in Kosovo and
subsequently in Macedonia...
Justification for Waging War
The Bush Administration has stated that it has proof that
Osama bin Laden is behind the attacks on the WTC and the
Pentagon. In the words of British Prime Minister Tony
Blair: "I have seen absolutely powerful and
incontrovertible evidence of his [Osama] link to the
events of the 11th of September."20 What Tony Blair fails
to mention is that agencies of the US government
including the CIA continue to "harbor" Osama bin Laden's
Al Qaeda.
A major war supposedly "against international terrorism"
has been launched by a government which is harboring
international terrorism as part of its foreign policy
agenda. In other words, the main justification for waging
war has been totally fabricated. The American people have
been deliberately and consciously misled by their
government into supporting a major military adventure
which affects our collective future.
This decision to mislead the American people was taken
barely a few hours after the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Centre. Without supporting evidence, Osama
had already been tagged as the "prime suspect." Two days
later on Thursday the 13th of September --while the FBI
investigations had barely commenced-- President Bush
pledged to "lead the world to victory". The
Administration confirmed its intention to embark on "a
sustained military campaign rather than a single dramatic
action" directed against Osama bin Laden. 21 In addition
to Afghanistan, a number of countries in the Middle East
were mentioned as possible targets including Iraq, Iran,
Libya and the Sudan. And several prominent US political
figures and media pundits have demanded that the air
strikes be extended to other countries "which harbour
international terrorism." According to intelligence
sources, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda has operations in
some 50 to 60 countries providing ample pretext to
intervene in several "rogue states" in the Middle East
and Central Asia.
Moreover, the entire US Legislature --with only one
honest and courageous dissenting voice in the House of
Representatives-- has tacitly endorsed the
Administration's decision to go war. Members of the House
and the Senate have access through the various committees
to official confidential reports and intelligence
documents which prove beyond doubt that agencies of the
US government have ties to international terrorism. They
cannot say "we did not know". In fact, most of this
evidence is in the public domain.
Under the historical resolution of the US Congress
adopted by both the House and the Senate on the 14th of
September:
The president is authorized to use all necessary and
appropriate force against those nations, organizations,
or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed,
or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11,
2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order
to prevent any future acts of international terrorism
against the United States by such nations, organizations
or persons.
Whereas there is no evidence that agencies of the US
government "aided the terrorist attacks" on the World
Trade Centre and the Pentagon, there is ample and
detailed evidence that agencies of the US government as
well as NATO, have since the end of the Cold War
continued to "harbor such organizations".
Patriotism cannot be based on a falsehood, particularly
when it constitutes a pretext for waging war and killing
innocent civilians.
Ironically, the text of the Congressional resolution also
constitutes a "blowback" against the US sponsors of
international terrorism. The resolution does not exclude
the conduct of an "Osamagate" inquiry, as well as
appropriate actions against agencies and/or individuals
of the US government, who may have collaborated with
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. And the evidence indelibly
points directly to the Bush Administration.
----
Notes
United Press International (UPI), 15 September 2001.
The Guardian, London, 15 September 2001.
UPI, op cit,
For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, Who is
Osama bin Laden, Centre for Research on Globalisation, 12
September 2001,
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html.
International Media Corporation Defense and Strategy
Policy, US Commits Forces, Weapons to Bosnia, London, 31
October 1994.
Congressional Press Release, Republican Party Committee
(RPC), US Congress, Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers
Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base, 16 January
1997, available on the website of the Centre of Research
on Globalisation (CRG) at
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.html. The
original document is on the website of the US Senate
Republican Party Committee (Senator Larry Craig), at
http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/iran.htm)
The Scotsman, Glasgow, 29 August 1999.
Ibid.
Truth in Media, Kosovo in Crisis, Phoenix, Arizona, 2
April 1999
Sunday Times, London, 29 November 1998.
US Congress, Testimony of Frank J. Cilluffo , Deputy
Director, Global Organized Crime, Program director to the
House Judiciary Committee, 13 December 2000.
US Congress, Testimony of Ralf Mutschke of Interpol's
Criminal Intelligence Division, to the House Judicial
Committee, 13 December 2000.
US Congress, Transcripts of the House Armed Services
Committee, 5 October 1999,
Quoted in the Boston Herald, 19 March 2001.
Quoted in Knight Ridder News, 8 October 2001.
Macedonian Information Centre Newsletter, Skopje, 21
March 2000, published by BBC Summary of World Broadcast,
24 March 2000.
BBC, 29 January 2001, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/
newsid_1142000/1142478.stm)
Scotland on Sunday, Glasgow, 15 June 2001 at
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960,
see also UPI, 9 July 2001. For further details see Michel
Chossudovsky, Washington behind Terrorist Assaults in
Macedonia, Centre for Research on Globalisation,
August 2001, at
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO108B.html.)
Macedonian Information Agency (MIA), 26 September 2001,
available at the Centre for Research on Globalisation at
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MNA110A.html
Quoted in The Daily Telegraph, London, 1 October 2001.
Statement by official following the speech by President
George Bush on 14 September 2001 quoted in the
International Herald Tribune, Paris, 14 September 2001.
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by Michel Chossudovsky
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001
(SEGUE)
Madeleine Albright Covets the KLA
These KLA links to international terrorism and organised
crime documented by the US Congress were totally ignored
by the Clinton Administration. In fact, in the months
preceding the bombing of Yugoslavia, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright was busy building a "political
legitimacy" for the KLA. The paramilitary army had --from
one day to the next-- been elevated to the status of a
bona fide "democratic" force in Kosovo. In turn,
Madeleine Albright has forced the pace of international
diplomacy: the KLA had been spearheaded into playing a
central role in the failed "peace negotiations" at
Rambouiillet in early 1999.
The Senate and the House tacitly endorse State Terrorism
While the various Congressional reports confirmed that
the US government had been working hand in glove with
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, this did not prevent the
Clinton and later the Bush Administration from arming and
equipping the KLA. The Congressional documents also
confirm that members of the Senate and the House knew the
relationship of the Administration to international
terrorism. To quote the statement of Rep. John Kasich of
the House Armed Services Committee: "We connected
ourselves [in 1998-99] with the KLA, which was the
staging point for bin Laden..." 13
In the wake of the tragic events of September 11,
Republicans and Democrats in unison have given their full
support to the President to "wage war on Osama".
In 1999, Senator Jo Lieberman had stated authoritatively
that "Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights
and American values." In the hours following the October
7 missile attacks on Afghanistan, the same Jo Lieberman
called for punitive air strikes against Iraq: "We're in a
war against terrorism... We can't stop with bin Laden and
the Taliban." Yet Senator Jo Lieberman, as member of the
Armed Services Committee of the Senate had access to all
the Congressional documents pertaining to "KLA-Osama"
links. In making this statement, he was fully aware that
that agencies of the US government as well as NATO were
supporting international terrorism.
The War in Macedonia
In the wake of the 1999 war in Yugoslavia, the terrorist
activities of the KLA were extended into Southern Serbia
and Macedonia. Meanwhile, the KLA --renamed the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC)-- was elevated to United Nations
status, implying the granting of "legitimate" sources of
funding through United Nations as well as through
bilateral channels, including direct US military aid.
And barely two months after the official inauguration of
the KPC under UN auspices (September 1999), KPC-KLA
commanders - using UN resources and equipment - were
already preparing the assaults into Macedonia, as a
logical follow-up to their terrorist activities in
Kosovo. According to the Skopje daily Dnevnik, the KPC
had established a "sixth operation zone" in Southern
Serbia and Macedonia:
Sources, who insist on anonymity, claim that the
headquarters of the Kosovo protection brigades [i.e.
linked to the UN sponsored KPC] have [March 2000] already
been formed in Tetovo, Gostivar and Skopje. They are
being prepared in Debar and Struga [on the border with
Albania] as well, and their members have defined codes.
16
According to the BBC, "Western special forces were still
training the guerrillas" meaning that they were assisting
the KLA in opening up "a sixth operation zone" in
Southern Serbia and Macedonia.17
"The Islamic Militant Network" and NATO join hands in
Macedonia
Among the foreign mercenaries now fighting in Macedonia
(October 2001) in the ranks of self-proclaimed National
Liberation Army (NLA), are Mujahideen from the Middle
East and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet
Union. Also within the KLA's proxy force in Macedonia are
senior US military advisers from a private mercenary
outfit on contract to the Pentagon as well as "soldiers
of fortune" from Britain, Holland and Germany. Some of
these Western mercenaries had previously fought with the
KLA and the Bosnian Muslim Army.18
Extensively documented by the Macedonian press and
statements of the Macedonian authorities, the US
government and the "Islamic Militant Network" are working
hand in glove in supporting and financing the
self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), involved
in the terrorist attacks in Macedonia. The NLA is a proxy
of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In turn the KLA and
the UN sponsored Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) are
identical institutions with the same commanders and
military personnel. KPC Commanders on UN salaries are
fighting in the NLA together with the Mujahideen.
In a bitter twist, while supported and financed by Osama
bin Laden's Al Qaeda, the KLA-NLA is also supported by
NATO and the United Nations mission to Kosovo (UNMIK). In
fact, the "Islamic Militant Network" --also using
Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) as the CIA's
go-between-- still constitutes an integral part of
Washington's covert military-intelligence operations in
Macedonia and Southern Serbia.
The KLA-NLA terrorists are funded from US military aid,
the United Nations peace-keeping budget as well as by
several Islamic organisations including Osama bin Laden's
Al Qaeda. Drug money is also being used to finance the
terrorists with the complicity of the US government. The
recruitment of Mujahideen to fight in the ranks of the
NLA in Macedonia is implemented through various Islamic
groups.
US military advisers mingle with Mujahideen within the
same paramilitary force, Western mercenaries from NATO
countries fight alongside Mujahideen recruited in the
Middle East and Central Asia. And the US media calls this
a "blowback" where so-called "intelligence assets" have
gone against their sponsors!
But this did not happen during the Cold war! It is
happening right now in Macedonia. And it is confirmed by
numerous press reports, eyewitness accounts, photographic
evidence as well as official statements by the Macedonian
Prime Minister, who has accused the Western military
alliance of supporting the terrorists. Moreover, the
official Macedonian New Agency (MIA) has pointed to the
complicity between Washington's envoy Ambassador James
Pardew and the NLA terrorists.19 In other words, the
so-called "intelligence assets" are still serving the
interests of their US sponsors.
Pardew's background is revealing in this regard. He
started his Balkans career in 1993 as a senior
intelligence officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff
responsible for channeling US aid to the Bosnian Muslim
Army. Coronel Pardew had been put in charge of arranging
the "air-drops" of supplies to Bosnian forces. At the
time, these "air drops" were tagged as "civilian aid". It
later transpired --confirmed by the RPC Congressional
report-- that the US had violated the arms embargo. And
James Pardew played an important role as part of the team
of intelligence officials working closely with the
Chairman of the National Security Council Anthony Lake.
Pardew was later involved in the Dayton negotiations
(1995) on behalf of the US Defence Department. In 1999,
prior to the bombing of Yugoslavia, he was appointed
"Special Representative for Military Stabilisation and
Kosovo Implementation" by President Clinton. One of his
tasks was to channel support to the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), which at the time was also being supported by
Osama bin Laden. Pardew was in this regard instrumental
in replicating the "Bosnian pattern" in Kosovo and
subsequently in Macedonia...
Justification for Waging War
The Bush Administration has stated that it has proof that
Osama bin Laden is behind the attacks on the WTC and the
Pentagon. In the words of British Prime Minister Tony
Blair: "I have seen absolutely powerful and
incontrovertible evidence of his [Osama] link to the
events of the 11th of September."20 What Tony Blair fails
to mention is that agencies of the US government
including the CIA continue to "harbor" Osama bin Laden's
Al Qaeda.
A major war supposedly "against international terrorism"
has been launched by a government which is harboring
international terrorism as part of its foreign policy
agenda. In other words, the main justification for waging
war has been totally fabricated. The American people have
been deliberately and consciously misled by their
government into supporting a major military adventure
which affects our collective future.
This decision to mislead the American people was taken
barely a few hours after the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Centre. Without supporting evidence, Osama
had already been tagged as the "prime suspect." Two days
later on Thursday the 13th of September --while the FBI
investigations had barely commenced-- President Bush
pledged to "lead the world to victory". The
Administration confirmed its intention to embark on "a
sustained military campaign rather than a single dramatic
action" directed against Osama bin Laden. 21 In addition
to Afghanistan, a number of countries in the Middle East
were mentioned as possible targets including Iraq, Iran,
Libya and the Sudan. And several prominent US political
figures and media pundits have demanded that the air
strikes be extended to other countries "which harbour
international terrorism." According to intelligence
sources, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda has operations in
some 50 to 60 countries providing ample pretext to
intervene in several "rogue states" in the Middle East
and Central Asia.
Moreover, the entire US Legislature --with only one
honest and courageous dissenting voice in the House of
Representatives-- has tacitly endorsed the
Administration's decision to go war. Members of the House
and the Senate have access through the various committees
to official confidential reports and intelligence
documents which prove beyond doubt that agencies of the
US government have ties to international terrorism. They
cannot say "we did not know". In fact, most of this
evidence is in the public domain.
Under the historical resolution of the US Congress
adopted by both the House and the Senate on the 14th of
September:
The president is authorized to use all necessary and
appropriate force against those nations, organizations,
or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed,
or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11,
2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order
to prevent any future acts of international terrorism
against the United States by such nations, organizations
or persons.
Whereas there is no evidence that agencies of the US
government "aided the terrorist attacks" on the World
Trade Centre and the Pentagon, there is ample and
detailed evidence that agencies of the US government as
well as NATO, have since the end of the Cold War
continued to "harbor such organizations".
Patriotism cannot be based on a falsehood, particularly
when it constitutes a pretext for waging war and killing
innocent civilians.
Ironically, the text of the Congressional resolution also
constitutes a "blowback" against the US sponsors of
international terrorism. The resolution does not exclude
the conduct of an "Osamagate" inquiry, as well as
appropriate actions against agencies and/or individuals
of the US government, who may have collaborated with
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. And the evidence indelibly
points directly to the Bush Administration.
----
Notes
United Press International (UPI), 15 September 2001.
The Guardian, London, 15 September 2001.
UPI, op cit,
For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, Who is
Osama bin Laden, Centre for Research on Globalisation, 12
September 2001,
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html.
International Media Corporation Defense and Strategy
Policy, US Commits Forces, Weapons to Bosnia, London, 31
October 1994.
Congressional Press Release, Republican Party Committee
(RPC), US Congress, Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers
Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base, 16 January
1997, available on the website of the Centre of Research
on Globalisation (CRG) at
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.html. The
original document is on the website of the US Senate
Republican Party Committee (Senator Larry Craig), at
http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/iran.htm)
The Scotsman, Glasgow, 29 August 1999.
Ibid.
Truth in Media, Kosovo in Crisis, Phoenix, Arizona, 2
April 1999
Sunday Times, London, 29 November 1998.
US Congress, Testimony of Frank J. Cilluffo , Deputy
Director, Global Organized Crime, Program director to the
House Judiciary Committee, 13 December 2000.
US Congress, Testimony of Ralf Mutschke of Interpol's
Criminal Intelligence Division, to the House Judicial
Committee, 13 December 2000.
US Congress, Transcripts of the House Armed Services
Committee, 5 October 1999,
Quoted in the Boston Herald, 19 March 2001.
Quoted in Knight Ridder News, 8 October 2001.
Macedonian Information Centre Newsletter, Skopje, 21
March 2000, published by BBC Summary of World Broadcast,
24 March 2000.
BBC, 29 January 2001, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/
newsid_1142000/1142478.stm)
Scotland on Sunday, Glasgow, 15 June 2001 at
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960,
see also UPI, 9 July 2001. For further details see Michel
Chossudovsky, Washington behind Terrorist Assaults in
Macedonia, Centre for Research on Globalisation,
August 2001, at
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO108B.html.)
Macedonian Information Agency (MIA), 26 September 2001,
available at the Centre for Research on Globalisation at
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MNA110A.html
Quoted in The Daily Telegraph, London, 1 October 2001.
Statement by official following the speech by President
George Bush on 14 September 2001 quoted in the
International Herald Tribune, Paris, 14 September 2001.
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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 00:31:16 +0200
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CHI AVEVA SCRITTO NEL 1983 IN ITALIA CHE I TALIBANS CHE ERANO:
- Combattenti per la liberta'
- Difensori dell'Islam
- I migliori rappresentanti del popolo afgano
CHI INVIERA' LA SOLUZIONE ESATTA RICEVERA' RICCHI PREMI !!
PER NON DIMENTICARE, VISITATE IL NOSTRO SITO !!
Centro di Documentazione Storica "Pietro Secchia"
Foglio politico telematico "L'ORA dei Comunisti" - Per la ricostruzione
del P.C.I. - http://village.flashnet.it/users/fn028394
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*** BUSHLADEN
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen.htm
BUSHLADEN
by Jared Israel [8 October 2001]
Includes report from the 'Wall Street Journal'
*** EX RESPONSABILE USA PER LA SICUREZZA NAZIONALE AMMETTE:
L'ISLAMISMO AFGANO E' MADE-IN-USA
> http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm
Ex- National Security Chief Brzezinski Admits:
Afghan Islamism Was Made in Washington
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's
National Security Adviser in 'Le Nouvel Observateur' (France),
Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76 (Translated by Bill Blum)
*** UNA CREAZIONE DI NOME OSAMA
> http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/creat.htm
The creation called Osama
By Shamsul Islam
Reprinted from 'The Hindu' (India) September 27, 2001
[Posted 27 September 2001]
*** BUSH-BINLADEN CONNECTION
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/jw.htm
Judicial Watch Condemns Bush-Binladin Group Connection
Comment by Jared Israel [posted 6 October 2001]
---
> http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/yemen/Story/0,2763,18113,00.html.
The Guardian (UK)
Frankenstein the CIA created
Mujahideen trained and funded by the US are among its
deadliest foes, reports Jason Burke in Peshawar
Sunday January 17, 1999
When Clement Rodney Hampton-el, a hospital technician
from Brooklyn, New Jersey, returned home from the war
in Afghanistan in 1989, he told friends his only
desire was to return. Though he had been wounded in
the arm and leg by a Russian shell, he said he had
failed. He had not achieved martyrdom in the name of
Islam.
So he found a different theatre for his holy war and
achieved a different sort of martyrdom. Three years
ago, he was convicted of planning a series of massive
explosions in Manhattan and sentenced to 35 years in
prison.
Hampton-el was described by prosecutors as a skilled
bomb-maker. It was hardly surprising. In Afghanistan
he fought with the Hezb-i-Islami group of mujahideen,
whose training and weaponry were mainly supplied by
the CIA.
He was not alone. American officials estimate that,
from 1985 to 1992, 12,500 foreigners were trained in
bomb-making, sabotage and urban guerrilla warfare in
Afghan camps the CIA helped to set up.
Since the fall of the Soviet puppet government in
1992, another 2,500 are believed to have passed
through the camps. They are now run by an assortment
of Islamic extremists, including Osama bin Laden, the
world's most wanted terrorist.
Bin Laden arrived in Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia in
1979, aged 22. Though he saw a considerable amount of
combat - around the eastern city of Jalalabad in March
1989 and, earlier, around the border town of Khost -
his speciality was logistics.
>From his base in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, he
used his experience of the construction trade, and his
money, to build a series of bases where the mujahideen
could be trained by their Pakistani, American and, if
some recent press reports are to be believed, British
advisers.
One of the camps bin Laden built, known as Al-Badr,
was the target of the American missile strikes against
him last summer. Now it is used by
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a Pakistan-based organisation
that trains volunteers to fight in Kashmir.
Some of their recruits kidnapped and almost certainly
killed a group of Western hostages a few years ago.
The bases are still full of new volunteers, many
Pakistanis. Most of those who were killed in last
August's strikes were Pakistani.
A Harkut-ul-Mujahideen official said last week that it
had Germans and Britons fighting for the cause, as
well as Egyptians, Palestinians and Saudis. Muslims
from the West as well as from the Middle East and
North Africa are regularly stopped by Pakistani police
on the road up the Khyber Pass heading for the camps.
Hundreds get through. Afghan veterans have now joined
bin Laden's al-Qaeda group.
Some have returned to former battlegrounds, like the
university-educated Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, a key figure
in the Egyptian al-Jihad terrorist group. Al-Zawahiri
ran his own operation during the Afghan war, bringing
in and training volunteers from the Middle East. Some
of the $500 million the CIA poured into Afghanistan
reached his group. Al-Zawahiri has become a close aide
of bin Laden and has now returned to Afghanistan to
work with him. His al-Jihad group has been linked to
the Yemeni kidnappers.
One Saudi journalist who interviewed bin Laden in 1989
remembers three of his close associates going under
the names of Abu Mohammed, Abu Hafz and Abu Ahmed. All
three fought with bin Laden in the early Eighties,
travelled with him to the Sudan and have come back to
Afghanistan. Afghan veterans, believed to include men
who fought the Americans in Somalia, have also
returned.
Other members of al-Quaeda remain overseas. Afghan
veterans now linked to bin Laden have been traced by
investigators to Pakistan, East Africa, Albania,
Chechnya, Algeria, France, the US and Britain.
At least one of the kidnappers in Yemen was reported
to have fought in Afghanistan and to be linked to
al-Quaeda. Despite reports that bin Laden was
effectively funded by the Americans, it is impossible
to gauge how much American aid he received. He was not
a major figure in the Afghan war. Most American
weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles,
were channelled by the Pakistanis to the Hezb-i-Islami
faction of the mujahideen led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Bin Laden was only loosely connected with the group,
serving under another Hezb-i-Islami commander known as
Engineer Machmud. However, bin Laden's Office of
Services, set up to recruit overseas for the war,
received some US cash.
But according to one American official, concentrating
on bin Laden is a mistake. 'The point is not the
individuals,' he said last week. 'The point is that we
created a whole cadre of trained and motivated people
who turned against us. It's a classic Frankenstein's
monster situation.'
Others point out that the military contribution of the
'Arabs', as the overseas volunteers were known, was
relatively small. 'The fighting was done by the
Afghans and most of them went back to their fields
when Kabul fell to the mujahideen,' said Kamaal Khan,
a Pakistani defence analyst. 'Ironically, the bulk of
American aid went to the least effective fighters, who
turned most strongly to bite the hand that fed them.'
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CHI AVEVA SCRITTO NEL 1983 IN ITALIA CHE I TALIBANS CHE ERANO:
- Combattenti per la liberta'
- Difensori dell'Islam
- I migliori rappresentanti del popolo afgano
CHI INVIERA' LA SOLUZIONE ESATTA RICEVERA' RICCHI PREMI !!
PER NON DIMENTICARE, VISITATE IL NOSTRO SITO !!
Centro di Documentazione Storica "Pietro Secchia"
Foglio politico telematico "L'ORA dei Comunisti" - Per la ricostruzione
del P.C.I. - http://village.flashnet.it/users/fn028394
---
*** BUSHLADEN
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen.htm
BUSHLADEN
by Jared Israel [8 October 2001]
Includes report from the 'Wall Street Journal'
*** EX RESPONSABILE USA PER LA SICUREZZA NAZIONALE AMMETTE:
L'ISLAMISMO AFGANO E' MADE-IN-USA
> http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm
Ex- National Security Chief Brzezinski Admits:
Afghan Islamism Was Made in Washington
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's
National Security Adviser in 'Le Nouvel Observateur' (France),
Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76 (Translated by Bill Blum)
*** UNA CREAZIONE DI NOME OSAMA
> http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/creat.htm
The creation called Osama
By Shamsul Islam
Reprinted from 'The Hindu' (India) September 27, 2001
[Posted 27 September 2001]
*** BUSH-BINLADEN CONNECTION
> http://emperors-clothes.com/news/jw.htm
Judicial Watch Condemns Bush-Binladin Group Connection
Comment by Jared Israel [posted 6 October 2001]
---
> http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/yemen/Story/0,2763,18113,00.html.
The Guardian (UK)
Frankenstein the CIA created
Mujahideen trained and funded by the US are among its
deadliest foes, reports Jason Burke in Peshawar
Sunday January 17, 1999
When Clement Rodney Hampton-el, a hospital technician
from Brooklyn, New Jersey, returned home from the war
in Afghanistan in 1989, he told friends his only
desire was to return. Though he had been wounded in
the arm and leg by a Russian shell, he said he had
failed. He had not achieved martyrdom in the name of
Islam.
So he found a different theatre for his holy war and
achieved a different sort of martyrdom. Three years
ago, he was convicted of planning a series of massive
explosions in Manhattan and sentenced to 35 years in
prison.
Hampton-el was described by prosecutors as a skilled
bomb-maker. It was hardly surprising. In Afghanistan
he fought with the Hezb-i-Islami group of mujahideen,
whose training and weaponry were mainly supplied by
the CIA.
He was not alone. American officials estimate that,
from 1985 to 1992, 12,500 foreigners were trained in
bomb-making, sabotage and urban guerrilla warfare in
Afghan camps the CIA helped to set up.
Since the fall of the Soviet puppet government in
1992, another 2,500 are believed to have passed
through the camps. They are now run by an assortment
of Islamic extremists, including Osama bin Laden, the
world's most wanted terrorist.
Bin Laden arrived in Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia in
1979, aged 22. Though he saw a considerable amount of
combat - around the eastern city of Jalalabad in March
1989 and, earlier, around the border town of Khost -
his speciality was logistics.
>From his base in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, he
used his experience of the construction trade, and his
money, to build a series of bases where the mujahideen
could be trained by their Pakistani, American and, if
some recent press reports are to be believed, British
advisers.
One of the camps bin Laden built, known as Al-Badr,
was the target of the American missile strikes against
him last summer. Now it is used by
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a Pakistan-based organisation
that trains volunteers to fight in Kashmir.
Some of their recruits kidnapped and almost certainly
killed a group of Western hostages a few years ago.
The bases are still full of new volunteers, many
Pakistanis. Most of those who were killed in last
August's strikes were Pakistani.
A Harkut-ul-Mujahideen official said last week that it
had Germans and Britons fighting for the cause, as
well as Egyptians, Palestinians and Saudis. Muslims
from the West as well as from the Middle East and
North Africa are regularly stopped by Pakistani police
on the road up the Khyber Pass heading for the camps.
Hundreds get through. Afghan veterans have now joined
bin Laden's al-Qaeda group.
Some have returned to former battlegrounds, like the
university-educated Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, a key figure
in the Egyptian al-Jihad terrorist group. Al-Zawahiri
ran his own operation during the Afghan war, bringing
in and training volunteers from the Middle East. Some
of the $500 million the CIA poured into Afghanistan
reached his group. Al-Zawahiri has become a close aide
of bin Laden and has now returned to Afghanistan to
work with him. His al-Jihad group has been linked to
the Yemeni kidnappers.
One Saudi journalist who interviewed bin Laden in 1989
remembers three of his close associates going under
the names of Abu Mohammed, Abu Hafz and Abu Ahmed. All
three fought with bin Laden in the early Eighties,
travelled with him to the Sudan and have come back to
Afghanistan. Afghan veterans, believed to include men
who fought the Americans in Somalia, have also
returned.
Other members of al-Quaeda remain overseas. Afghan
veterans now linked to bin Laden have been traced by
investigators to Pakistan, East Africa, Albania,
Chechnya, Algeria, France, the US and Britain.
At least one of the kidnappers in Yemen was reported
to have fought in Afghanistan and to be linked to
al-Quaeda. Despite reports that bin Laden was
effectively funded by the Americans, it is impossible
to gauge how much American aid he received. He was not
a major figure in the Afghan war. Most American
weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft missiles,
were channelled by the Pakistanis to the Hezb-i-Islami
faction of the mujahideen led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Bin Laden was only loosely connected with the group,
serving under another Hezb-i-Islami commander known as
Engineer Machmud. However, bin Laden's Office of
Services, set up to recruit overseas for the war,
received some US cash.
But according to one American official, concentrating
on bin Laden is a mistake. 'The point is not the
individuals,' he said last week. 'The point is that we
created a whole cadre of trained and motivated people
who turned against us. It's a classic Frankenstein's
monster situation.'
Others point out that the military contribution of the
'Arabs', as the overseas volunteers were known, was
relatively small. 'The fighting was done by the
Afghans and most of them went back to their fields
when Kabul fell to the mujahideen,' said Kamaal Khan,
a Pakistani defence analyst. 'Ironically, the bulk of
American aid went to the least effective fighters, who
turned most strongly to bite the hand that fed them.'
---
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