Informazione
"ABBIAMO ESAURITO I MONASTERI DEL KOSMET, ADESSO
DIAMOCI SOTTO A FAR SALTARE IN ARIA QUELLI DELLA MACEDONIA!"
Oggi 21 agosto "ribelli" albanesi-macedoni (quelli sostenuti dalla
NATO) hanno preso di mira un monastero del tredicesimo secolo.
Blast Rocks Macedonian Monastery
By Aleksandar Vasovic
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2001; 8:09 a.m. EDT
SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Ethnic Albanian rebels attacked a
13th century Orthodox Christian monastery Tuesday,
damaging the building and placing a severe strain on a
fragile cease-fire that is a key requirement for NATO
deployment in Macedonia.
The insurgents set off a 3 a.m. blast that caused
"major damage" to the Sveti Atanasi monastery in the
town of Lesok, the government said. Ethnic Albanian
rebels began launching assaults last month on the
village, which is just outside Tetovo, Macedonia's
second-largest city.
"This is barbarism," said Antonio Milososki, the
Macedonian government spokesman. The ethnic Albanians
are Muslim, while the country's majority are Orthodox
Christian Slavs.
The blast and other sporadic cease-fire violations
come at a time when NATO troops are trying to
determine if it is peaceful enough here to fan out and
collect weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels.
The rebels launched their insurgency six months ago,
claiming they were fighting for more rights for ethnic
Albanians, who make up as much as one-third of the
country's population of 2 million.
The Macedonian government says the insurgents want to
capture territory and create their own state.
Dozens of people were killed and thousands were
displaced before ethnic Albanian and Macedonian
leaders accepted a peace deal. Under the agreement,
which grants ethnic Albanians more rights, NATO troops
will move in to disarm the rebels.
NATO has said it will deploy a 3,500-member,
British-led force to Macedonia when it is confident
that the cease-fire is viable. No one is really
offering a definition of just how much fighting NATO
is willing to endure and still claim a cease-fire is
holding.
To help determine if the time is right, NATO's supreme
commander in Europe, U.S. Gen. Joseph Ralston, met
Monday with the country's top officials and senior
military leaders. He will report to the alliance's
ruling council Tuesday and advise them whether to give
the go-ahead for full deployment.
NATO officials said it was unlikely the North Atlantic
Council, made up of ambassadors from each of
alliance's 19 member nations, will decide on the
deployment Tuesday. More likely, they said, the
council will discuss the findings and decide later in
the week.
The council's next regularly scheduled meeting is
Wednesday.
Ralston's visit came as an advance team moved into the
countryside to make contact with ethnic Albanian
rebels.
The British liaison team from the 16 Air Assault
Brigade traveled to Nikustak, a rebel-held village
along the front line about 10 miles northeast of the
capital, Skopje. The team was meeting with local rebel
commanders to discuss details of how the British-led
weapons collection mission, dubbed Operation Essential
Harvest, would work.
Even if NATO decides to move in, they'll find it hard
to persuade those under attack that lasting peace is
achievable.
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DIAMOCI SOTTO A FAR SALTARE IN ARIA QUELLI DELLA MACEDONIA!"
Oggi 21 agosto "ribelli" albanesi-macedoni (quelli sostenuti dalla
NATO) hanno preso di mira un monastero del tredicesimo secolo.
Blast Rocks Macedonian Monastery
By Aleksandar Vasovic
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2001; 8:09 a.m. EDT
SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Ethnic Albanian rebels attacked a
13th century Orthodox Christian monastery Tuesday,
damaging the building and placing a severe strain on a
fragile cease-fire that is a key requirement for NATO
deployment in Macedonia.
The insurgents set off a 3 a.m. blast that caused
"major damage" to the Sveti Atanasi monastery in the
town of Lesok, the government said. Ethnic Albanian
rebels began launching assaults last month on the
village, which is just outside Tetovo, Macedonia's
second-largest city.
"This is barbarism," said Antonio Milososki, the
Macedonian government spokesman. The ethnic Albanians
are Muslim, while the country's majority are Orthodox
Christian Slavs.
The blast and other sporadic cease-fire violations
come at a time when NATO troops are trying to
determine if it is peaceful enough here to fan out and
collect weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels.
The rebels launched their insurgency six months ago,
claiming they were fighting for more rights for ethnic
Albanians, who make up as much as one-third of the
country's population of 2 million.
The Macedonian government says the insurgents want to
capture territory and create their own state.
Dozens of people were killed and thousands were
displaced before ethnic Albanian and Macedonian
leaders accepted a peace deal. Under the agreement,
which grants ethnic Albanians more rights, NATO troops
will move in to disarm the rebels.
NATO has said it will deploy a 3,500-member,
British-led force to Macedonia when it is confident
that the cease-fire is viable. No one is really
offering a definition of just how much fighting NATO
is willing to endure and still claim a cease-fire is
holding.
To help determine if the time is right, NATO's supreme
commander in Europe, U.S. Gen. Joseph Ralston, met
Monday with the country's top officials and senior
military leaders. He will report to the alliance's
ruling council Tuesday and advise them whether to give
the go-ahead for full deployment.
NATO officials said it was unlikely the North Atlantic
Council, made up of ambassadors from each of
alliance's 19 member nations, will decide on the
deployment Tuesday. More likely, they said, the
council will discuss the findings and decide later in
the week.
The council's next regularly scheduled meeting is
Wednesday.
Ralston's visit came as an advance team moved into the
countryside to make contact with ethnic Albanian
rebels.
The British liaison team from the 16 Air Assault
Brigade traveled to Nikustak, a rebel-held village
along the front line about 10 miles northeast of the
capital, Skopje. The team was meeting with local rebel
commanders to discuss details of how the British-led
weapons collection mission, dubbed Operation Essential
Harvest, would work.
Even if NATO decides to move in, they'll find it hard
to persuade those under attack that lasting peace is
achievable.
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======================================TERRORIST THUG BOASTS:
"THANKS TO UNCLE SAM, MACEDONIANS ARE NO
MATCH FOR US!"
Eyewitness report by Scott Taylor, retired
Canadian military man, author of
'Inat' and 'Tested Mettle' (
http://emperors-clothes.com/reviews/INAT.htm
) and
editor of Esprit de Corps Magazine
[21 August 2001]
======================================
TETOVO, Macedonia -
Last Monday, international envoys and
government officials in Macedonia
hammered out a last-minute peace accord.
However, this 11th-hour attempt to
avoid yet another Balkans civil war may
yet prove to be a case of too little,
too late, as the fighting here continues
to escalate.
Under the terms of the agreement, once a
solid ceasefire can be established,
a NATO force of some 3,000 peacekeepers,
including a whopping three Canadian
officers, will be deployed in Macedonia.
The major task of these troops will
be to disarm the ethnic Albanian
guerrillas who have established control of
nearly 30 per cent of Macedonia's
territory.
For the battered Macedonian security
forces that have fought the guerrillas
over the past six months, the arrival of
the NATO force will be a bitter pill
to swallow.
"If NATO hadn't been arming and equipping
the (guerrillas) in Kosovo there
would be no need for them to disarm these
guerrillas now in Macedonia," said
Goran Stevanovic, a sergeant with the
elite Macedonian police Wolves.
At the diplomatic level, the provision of
military aid to the guerrillas is
vehemently denounced, but on the ground in
Macedonia, there is no denying the
massive amount of materiel and expertise
supplied by NATO to the guerrillas.
Their commanders welcomed me with a shout
of "God bless America, and Canada,
too, for all that they have provided to
us!"
In the well-built guerrilla bunkers
overlooking the besieged city of Tetovo,
there is ample evidence of U.S. military
hardware. Everything from sidearms
and sniper rifles to menacing-looking
grenade launchers is emblazoned Made in
the USA.
An abundant stock of sophisticated
night-vision goggles provide the
guerrillas with a tremendous tactical
advantage over the Macedonian security
forces. By nightfall, the Macedonians are
compelled to hole up in their
bunkers while the guerrillas roam with
impunity throughout the Tetovo
streets.
Snake Arifaj, a 22-year-old guerrilla
platoon commander, proudly displayed
his unit's impressive arsenal and said,
"Thanks to Uncle Sam, the Macedonians
are no match for us."
Two weeks ago, there was a flurry of
diplomatic protests filed by the
Macedonian government when two U.S.
helicopters were observed delivering
supplies to an Albanian village in the
mountains above Tetovo. Officially,
the U.S. claimed their aircraft were only
transporting humanitarian aid.
However, the local guerrilla commander,
Commander "Mouse," a 47-year-old UCK
officer in the Tetovo sector contradicted
this statement and confirmed that
two US Chinook Heavy Transport Helicopters
had in fact delivered "heavy
mortars and ammunition" to the guerrillas.
As proof of Mouse's claim, on
Thursday the guerrillas began bombarding
Tetovo with 120-mm and 82-mm
mortars. Judging from the duration and
intensity of the bombardment that I
witnessed, ammunition supply is not a
problem for the guerrillas.
"We have all the equipment and men we need
to capture Skopje in 24 hours,"
said Commander "Jimmy", a 22-year-old
Albanian guerrilla who is already a
veteran of Chechnya, Kosovo, and south
Serbia. "Militarily, the Macedonians
are no match for our soldiers."
The U.S. also frequently used their
tactical helicopters to gather
intelligence inside Macedonia, without
authorization from the Macedonian
government. The sight of the U.S. choppers
prompted the ethnic Albanian
villagers to cheer wildly, waving their
arms to encourage "their" air force.
Further illustration of this Albanian
sentiment toward U.S. aircraft can be
found at the guerrilla brigade
headquarters, just outside Tetovo. Here
the
security platoon wear T-shirts emblazoned
with a Nike logo and the words:
"NATO Air - Just Do It!"
On the other side of this conflict, the
woefully equipped Macedonian forces
have been hard pressed to field a credible
fighting force. In order to obtain
a peaceful secession from Yugoslavia in
1992, the fledgling Republic of
Macedonia agreed to turn over all the
federal military assets to Serbia /
Montenegro. As a result of their bankrupt
treasury and slumping economy,
Macedonia did not put a priority on
re-equipping an army. However, once the
Albanian guerrillas began their insurgency
in March of this year, the
Macedonians had no choice but to rapidly
enhance their tiny security forces.
Over the past six months, there has been a
tremendous infusion of modern
weaponry (and mercenary "advisers") into
Macedonia, with the bulk of support
coming from Ukraine.
At the height of last week's fighting,
both George Robertson and Javier
Solana - respectively the NATO and
European Union secretary generals - made
personal entreaties to Ukraine to cut off
this vital military aid.
Given such interference, it's little
wonder that the Macedonian majority have
staged violent anti-NATO riots, attacking
embassies and McDonald's
restaurants over the past several weeks.
In the past, Canadian soldiers serving as
peacekeepers in the Balkans have
won a hard-earned reputation from all
factions for their fairness and
impartiality. However, after the 1999
bombing campaign against Yugoslavia,
and now through the provision of illicit
aid to the guerrillas, Canada's
foreign ministry is steadily eroding that
trust. When, or if, those three
Canadians deploy into wartorn Macedonia,
it will no doubt dishearten them to
know that the death and destruction that
they encounter was aided and abetted
by their own government.
(c) Scott Taylor Esprit de Corps Magazine
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FURTHER READING ON MACEDONIA -
'Insulting Macedonia'
Letter to International Herald Tribune
'U.S. Embassy Leaving" & "U.S. Tells
Ukraine: Stop Arming Macedonia!"
These three articles can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/insult.htm
WHAT NATO OCCUPATION WOULD MEAN FOR
MACEDONIANS
by Jared Israel
It is being touted as the solution, but
how would NATO occupation affect
ordinary Macedonian citizens? Three women,
keen observers, in despair for
their relatives, talk about the NATO
takeover of the Kosovo town of Orahovac.
Can be read at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe-a.htm
'Western Media Demonizes Macedonia'
by Rick Rozoff & Jared Israel
George Bush visited Kosovo and made it
perfectly clear: the U.S. means to
recreate the Kosovo nightmare throughout
the Balkans. And then? On to Russia.
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/rozoff/shrill.htm
"SORRY, VIRGINIA, BUT THEY ARE NATO
TROOPS, NOT 'REBELS'"
by Jared Israel
Research by Rick Rozoff, George Thompson
and Max Sinclair.
Using pro-NATO media sources, Israel shows
that the U.S. and its NATO junior
partners England and Germany are behind
the KLA attack on Macedonia. Israel
argues that the immense and immensely
dangerous goal of U.S. strategy is: the
conquest and full colonization of the
former Soviet Union. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times.htm
"'WE DENIED TRAINING THE KLA? OH. WE
LIED.'"
'Sunday Times' articles reveals another
Anglo-U.S./KLA link. At the end of
this post is a useful (partial) list of
relevant articles. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/train.htm
"MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT ACCUSES U.S.,
GERMANY"
Macedonian leaders say the U.S. and
Germany are in cahoots sponsoring the KLA
attack on Macedonia. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/maced2.htm
"GERMAN PAPER CHARGES: U.S. HAS 'ADVISORS'
AMONG ALBANIAN TERRORISTS"
Everybody needs advice sometimes, right?
Why do I think: "Vietnam"?
"WHAT'S BEHIND KLA STRATEGY IN THE
BALKANS?"
Jared Israel interviews Kosovo historian
Chedomir Pralinchevich
Is there something about ethnic Albanian
culture and history that enables the
terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army to
establish a base among ordinary people?
Offers an explanation of many mysteries
such as why the KLA targets Albanians
in Macedonia. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/strategy.htm
"WHY 'HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH' IS GUNNING FOR
MACEDONIA" by Jared Israel.
Human Rights Watch, seen by many as an
idealistic activist group, is focusing
on Macedonia. Mr. Israel argues that HRW
is used by the U.S. Establishment to
soften up countries which Washington
wishes to destabilize. The article
includes Paul Treanor's mind-boggling look
at who actually runs HRW. Hint:
it's not a bunch of college kids and a
civil rights attorney. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/treanor/hrw.htm
"'Laughs' and 'Chuckles' in State Dept.
Transcripts'"
by Professor Michel Chossudovsky
Where did the KLA get its weapons from?
"THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF MACEDONIA"
By Michel Chossudovsky
NATO leaders say they are working for
peace. Prof. Chossudovsky charges the
goal is conquest.
"WASHINGTON BEHIND TERRORIST ASSAULTS IN
MACEDONIA"
by Professor Michel Chossudovsky
Prof. Chossudovsky discusses implications
of the recent truly amazing mission
by U.S. troops to save endangered
terrorists (and U.S. advisers!) in
Macedonia and other aspects of NATO's
proxy war.
"NATO Macedonian Aptitude Test"
Excerpt from a top secret NATO
Commandants' MAT Quiz
by Lester Schonbrun
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/schonbrun/mat.htm
"Defend Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia from Lies and Terror!"
Statement by the Committee to Defend
Milosevic, issued by a Working Committee
meeting in Belgrade.
Can be read at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/petition/defend.htm
"MESSAGE FROM MACEDONIA"
A reader from Skopje, the Macedonian
capital, blasts media disinformation and
reveals the r�sum�s of terrorist leaders.
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/amessage.htm
"AMERICA AT WAR IN MACEDONIA"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Prof. Chossudovsky presents evidence that
the Macedonian crisis results from
a schism between the U.S. and Germany,
with the former sponsoring the KLA and
destabilizing Macedonia to guarantee
control of the Corridor 8 trade route
and a critical oil pipeline. Can be read
at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/pipe.htm
"TERRORIST 'REBELS' THREATEN CATASTROPHIC
CRIMES IN MACEDONIA" This article
is related to the call for help from the
Macedonian town of KUMANOVO (posted
below). Humanitarian terrorists are
threatening to unleash eco-disaster. Can
be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/poisin.htm
"100,000 MACEDONIANS HELD HOSTAGE BY
ALBANIAN TERRORISTS"
An eyewitness account from KUMANOVO, the
northern Macedonian city whose water
supply has been seized by KLA terrorists.
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/mac.htm
"ALBANIANS IN MACEDONIA: FACTS AND
FICTIONS"
by Diana Johnstone
Ms. Johnstone demolishes the "we're
rebelling because we're oppressed"
claims. Israel disputes the notion that an
Albanian terrorist tail wags the
U.S. dog. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/fic.htm
"TERRORISM AGAINST SERBIA IS NO CRIME"
by Jared Israel and Rick Rozoff
NATO released about 450 'captured' KLA
terrorists in time for them to attack
Macedonia. Are they nuts? Or is there
strategy in their madness? Can be read
at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/nocrime.htm
"GENTLE REIGN: WASHINGTON MAKES IT
PERFECTLY CLEAR IN KOSOVO & MACEDONIA"
by Jared Israel
A close look at the relationship between
the U.S. military in Kosovo and the
KLA finds it to be a) unusual and b)
entirely illegal: Washington is
sponsoring terrorism. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/gentle.htm
"KLA ATTACKS EVERYONE. MEDIA ATTACKS...
MILOSHEVICH?"
by Jared Israel
Media coverage of KLA terrorism against
Macedonia and southern Serbia
uncovers the real culprit, now and
forever: Slobodan Miloshevich! Our editor
walks down memory lane, examining a decade
of slander against the Yugoslav
leader and finds the whole
thing...ludicrous. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/expan.htm
"'WE DENIED TRAINING THE KLA? OH. WE
LIED.'"
'Sunday Times' articles reveals another
Anglo-U.S./KLA link. At the end of
this post is a useful (partial) list of
relevant articles. Can be read at
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======================================TERRORIST THUG BOASTS:
"THANKS TO UNCLE SAM, MACEDONIANS ARE NO
MATCH FOR US!"
Eyewitness report by Scott Taylor, retired
Canadian military man, author of
'Inat' and 'Tested Mettle' (
http://emperors-clothes.com/reviews/INAT.htm
) and
editor of Esprit de Corps Magazine
[21 August 2001]
======================================
TETOVO, Macedonia -
Last Monday, international envoys and
government officials in Macedonia
hammered out a last-minute peace accord.
However, this 11th-hour attempt to
avoid yet another Balkans civil war may
yet prove to be a case of too little,
too late, as the fighting here continues
to escalate.
Under the terms of the agreement, once a
solid ceasefire can be established,
a NATO force of some 3,000 peacekeepers,
including a whopping three Canadian
officers, will be deployed in Macedonia.
The major task of these troops will
be to disarm the ethnic Albanian
guerrillas who have established control of
nearly 30 per cent of Macedonia's
territory.
For the battered Macedonian security
forces that have fought the guerrillas
over the past six months, the arrival of
the NATO force will be a bitter pill
to swallow.
"If NATO hadn't been arming and equipping
the (guerrillas) in Kosovo there
would be no need for them to disarm these
guerrillas now in Macedonia," said
Goran Stevanovic, a sergeant with the
elite Macedonian police Wolves.
At the diplomatic level, the provision of
military aid to the guerrillas is
vehemently denounced, but on the ground in
Macedonia, there is no denying the
massive amount of materiel and expertise
supplied by NATO to the guerrillas.
Their commanders welcomed me with a shout
of "God bless America, and Canada,
too, for all that they have provided to
us!"
In the well-built guerrilla bunkers
overlooking the besieged city of Tetovo,
there is ample evidence of U.S. military
hardware. Everything from sidearms
and sniper rifles to menacing-looking
grenade launchers is emblazoned Made in
the USA.
An abundant stock of sophisticated
night-vision goggles provide the
guerrillas with a tremendous tactical
advantage over the Macedonian security
forces. By nightfall, the Macedonians are
compelled to hole up in their
bunkers while the guerrillas roam with
impunity throughout the Tetovo
streets.
Snake Arifaj, a 22-year-old guerrilla
platoon commander, proudly displayed
his unit's impressive arsenal and said,
"Thanks to Uncle Sam, the Macedonians
are no match for us."
Two weeks ago, there was a flurry of
diplomatic protests filed by the
Macedonian government when two U.S.
helicopters were observed delivering
supplies to an Albanian village in the
mountains above Tetovo. Officially,
the U.S. claimed their aircraft were only
transporting humanitarian aid.
However, the local guerrilla commander,
Commander "Mouse," a 47-year-old UCK
officer in the Tetovo sector contradicted
this statement and confirmed that
two US Chinook Heavy Transport Helicopters
had in fact delivered "heavy
mortars and ammunition" to the guerrillas.
As proof of Mouse's claim, on
Thursday the guerrillas began bombarding
Tetovo with 120-mm and 82-mm
mortars. Judging from the duration and
intensity of the bombardment that I
witnessed, ammunition supply is not a
problem for the guerrillas.
"We have all the equipment and men we need
to capture Skopje in 24 hours,"
said Commander "Jimmy", a 22-year-old
Albanian guerrilla who is already a
veteran of Chechnya, Kosovo, and south
Serbia. "Militarily, the Macedonians
are no match for our soldiers."
The U.S. also frequently used their
tactical helicopters to gather
intelligence inside Macedonia, without
authorization from the Macedonian
government. The sight of the U.S. choppers
prompted the ethnic Albanian
villagers to cheer wildly, waving their
arms to encourage "their" air force.
Further illustration of this Albanian
sentiment toward U.S. aircraft can be
found at the guerrilla brigade
headquarters, just outside Tetovo. Here
the
security platoon wear T-shirts emblazoned
with a Nike logo and the words:
"NATO Air - Just Do It!"
On the other side of this conflict, the
woefully equipped Macedonian forces
have been hard pressed to field a credible
fighting force. In order to obtain
a peaceful secession from Yugoslavia in
1992, the fledgling Republic of
Macedonia agreed to turn over all the
federal military assets to Serbia /
Montenegro. As a result of their bankrupt
treasury and slumping economy,
Macedonia did not put a priority on
re-equipping an army. However, once the
Albanian guerrillas began their insurgency
in March of this year, the
Macedonians had no choice but to rapidly
enhance their tiny security forces.
Over the past six months, there has been a
tremendous infusion of modern
weaponry (and mercenary "advisers") into
Macedonia, with the bulk of support
coming from Ukraine.
At the height of last week's fighting,
both George Robertson and Javier
Solana - respectively the NATO and
European Union secretary generals - made
personal entreaties to Ukraine to cut off
this vital military aid.
Given such interference, it's little
wonder that the Macedonian majority have
staged violent anti-NATO riots, attacking
embassies and McDonald's
restaurants over the past several weeks.
In the past, Canadian soldiers serving as
peacekeepers in the Balkans have
won a hard-earned reputation from all
factions for their fairness and
impartiality. However, after the 1999
bombing campaign against Yugoslavia,
and now through the provision of illicit
aid to the guerrillas, Canada's
foreign ministry is steadily eroding that
trust. When, or if, those three
Canadians deploy into wartorn Macedonia,
it will no doubt dishearten them to
know that the death and destruction that
they encounter was aided and abetted
by their own government.
(c) Scott Taylor Esprit de Corps Magazine
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FURTHER READING ON MACEDONIA -
'Insulting Macedonia'
Letter to International Herald Tribune
'U.S. Embassy Leaving" & "U.S. Tells
Ukraine: Stop Arming Macedonia!"
These three articles can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/insult.htm
WHAT NATO OCCUPATION WOULD MEAN FOR
MACEDONIANS
by Jared Israel
It is being touted as the solution, but
how would NATO occupation affect
ordinary Macedonian citizens? Three women,
keen observers, in despair for
their relatives, talk about the NATO
takeover of the Kosovo town of Orahovac.
Can be read at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/misc/savethe-a.htm
'Western Media Demonizes Macedonia'
by Rick Rozoff & Jared Israel
George Bush visited Kosovo and made it
perfectly clear: the U.S. means to
recreate the Kosovo nightmare throughout
the Balkans. And then? On to Russia.
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/rozoff/shrill.htm
"SORRY, VIRGINIA, BUT THEY ARE NATO
TROOPS, NOT 'REBELS'"
by Jared Israel
Research by Rick Rozoff, George Thompson
and Max Sinclair.
Using pro-NATO media sources, Israel shows
that the U.S. and its NATO junior
partners England and Germany are behind
the KLA attack on Macedonia. Israel
argues that the immense and immensely
dangerous goal of U.S. strategy is: the
conquest and full colonization of the
former Soviet Union. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times.htm
"'WE DENIED TRAINING THE KLA? OH. WE
LIED.'"
'Sunday Times' articles reveals another
Anglo-U.S./KLA link. At the end of
this post is a useful (partial) list of
relevant articles. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/train.htm
"MACEDONIAN GOVERNMENT ACCUSES U.S.,
GERMANY"
Macedonian leaders say the U.S. and
Germany are in cahoots sponsoring the KLA
attack on Macedonia. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/maced2.htm
"GERMAN PAPER CHARGES: U.S. HAS 'ADVISORS'
AMONG ALBANIAN TERRORISTS"
Everybody needs advice sometimes, right?
Why do I think: "Vietnam"?
"WHAT'S BEHIND KLA STRATEGY IN THE
BALKANS?"
Jared Israel interviews Kosovo historian
Chedomir Pralinchevich
Is there something about ethnic Albanian
culture and history that enables the
terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army to
establish a base among ordinary people?
Offers an explanation of many mysteries
such as why the KLA targets Albanians
in Macedonia. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/strategy.htm
"WHY 'HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH' IS GUNNING FOR
MACEDONIA" by Jared Israel.
Human Rights Watch, seen by many as an
idealistic activist group, is focusing
on Macedonia. Mr. Israel argues that HRW
is used by the U.S. Establishment to
soften up countries which Washington
wishes to destabilize. The article
includes Paul Treanor's mind-boggling look
at who actually runs HRW. Hint:
it's not a bunch of college kids and a
civil rights attorney. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/treanor/hrw.htm
"'Laughs' and 'Chuckles' in State Dept.
Transcripts'"
by Professor Michel Chossudovsky
Where did the KLA get its weapons from?
"THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF MACEDONIA"
By Michel Chossudovsky
NATO leaders say they are working for
peace. Prof. Chossudovsky charges the
goal is conquest.
"WASHINGTON BEHIND TERRORIST ASSAULTS IN
MACEDONIA"
by Professor Michel Chossudovsky
Prof. Chossudovsky discusses implications
of the recent truly amazing mission
by U.S. troops to save endangered
terrorists (and U.S. advisers!) in
Macedonia and other aspects of NATO's
proxy war.
"NATO Macedonian Aptitude Test"
Excerpt from a top secret NATO
Commandants' MAT Quiz
by Lester Schonbrun
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/schonbrun/mat.htm
"Defend Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia from Lies and Terror!"
Statement by the Committee to Defend
Milosevic, issued by a Working Committee
meeting in Belgrade.
Can be read at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/petition/defend.htm
"MESSAGE FROM MACEDONIA"
A reader from Skopje, the Macedonian
capital, blasts media disinformation and
reveals the r�sum�s of terrorist leaders.
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/amessage.htm
"AMERICA AT WAR IN MACEDONIA"
by Michel Chossudovsky
Prof. Chossudovsky presents evidence that
the Macedonian crisis results from
a schism between the U.S. and Germany,
with the former sponsoring the KLA and
destabilizing Macedonia to guarantee
control of the Corridor 8 trade route
and a critical oil pipeline. Can be read
at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/pipe.htm
"TERRORIST 'REBELS' THREATEN CATASTROPHIC
CRIMES IN MACEDONIA" This article
is related to the call for help from the
Macedonian town of KUMANOVO (posted
below). Humanitarian terrorists are
threatening to unleash eco-disaster. Can
be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/poisin.htm
"100,000 MACEDONIANS HELD HOSTAGE BY
ALBANIAN TERRORISTS"
An eyewitness account from KUMANOVO, the
northern Macedonian city whose water
supply has been seized by KLA terrorists.
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/mac.htm
"ALBANIANS IN MACEDONIA: FACTS AND
FICTIONS"
by Diana Johnstone
Ms. Johnstone demolishes the "we're
rebelling because we're oppressed"
claims. Israel disputes the notion that an
Albanian terrorist tail wags the
U.S. dog. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/fic.htm
"TERRORISM AGAINST SERBIA IS NO CRIME"
by Jared Israel and Rick Rozoff
NATO released about 450 'captured' KLA
terrorists in time for them to attack
Macedonia. Are they nuts? Or is there
strategy in their madness? Can be read
at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/nocrime.htm
"GENTLE REIGN: WASHINGTON MAKES IT
PERFECTLY CLEAR IN KOSOVO & MACEDONIA"
by Jared Israel
A close look at the relationship between
the U.S. military in Kosovo and the
KLA finds it to be a) unusual and b)
entirely illegal: Washington is
sponsoring terrorism. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/gentle.htm
"KLA ATTACKS EVERYONE. MEDIA ATTACKS...
MILOSHEVICH?"
by Jared Israel
Media coverage of KLA terrorism against
Macedonia and southern Serbia
uncovers the real culprit, now and
forever: Slobodan Miloshevich! Our editor
walks down memory lane, examining a decade
of slander against the Yugoslav
leader and finds the whole
thing...ludicrous. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/expan.htm
"'WE DENIED TRAINING THE KLA? OH. WE
LIED.'"
'Sunday Times' articles reveals another
Anglo-U.S./KLA link. At the end of
this post is a useful (partial) list of
relevant articles. Can be read at
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Subject: Casagialla News
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:39:56 -0500
From: casagiallanews@...
Il giorno mercoled� 22 agosto si terr� un concerto presso la terrazza di
Casa Gialla del gruppo
BALKAN BABAU CIRCUS ORCHESTRA.
Unica data a Trieste per l?estate.
Invece per il giorno giovedi 23 agosto la conferenza dal titolo "Genoa
Social Forum:
Globalizzazione e antiglobalizzazione?, relatore ALESSANDRO METZ.
Vi aspettiamo numerosi!
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VOCE OPERAIA
organo settimanale telematico di D-17
http://www.voceoperaia.it
IN QUESTO NUMERO
- A Ponente
Note su una manifestazione oscurata.
- E ora?
Genova � stata una prova generale per tutto l�anticapitalismo.
Tiriamo le prime somme
- Macedonia
Nuova puntata della sceneggiata
- Il marxismo e il "popolo di Seattle"
Se fosse il pensiero di Toni Negri ad avere il sopravvento
(parte prima)
---
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> http://utenti.tripod.it/Delenda_Carthago/index.html
ULTIMI ARTICOLI INSERITI NEL SITO:
" THE SERBIAN RESISTANCE CANNOT BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL ! " (eng.)
Carthago Delenda Est, July 3, 2001
" LA RESISTENZA SERBA NON SI PROCESSA ! " (it.)
Carthago Delenda Est, July 3, 2001
" SERBSKOE SOPROTIVLENIE NEPODSUDNO !" (ru.)
Carthago Delenda Est, July 3, 2001 (Russian version on Arctogaia)
MILOSHEVIC IS A SYMBOL OF EURASIA (eng.)
Vladimir Bukharsky - Arctogaia Forum, 28.06.2001
MILOSEVIC VENDU PAR KOSTUNICA (fr.)
Positions du Bureau de Bruxelles de "Synergies Europ�ennes", 5.07.2001
CROATIE ET SERBIE : ON VEUT LA DESTABILISATION TOTALE ! (fr.)
Communiqu� de presse du Bureau de Bruxelles de "Synergies Europ�ennes",
16.07.2001
(...)
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> http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb/
Jul. 22, 2001
Proteste bei Zastava als Auftakt f�r soziale Mobilisierung in Serbien?
Interview mit Zivorad Jevtic, Vorsitzender der Gewerkschaft
?Arbeitersolidarit�t? bei Zastava
Jul. 21, 2001
Zastava-Arbeiter: Zu wenig, um zu �berleben...
... zu viel, um zu verrecken
Massengrab mit serbischen Opfern in der N�he von Suva Reka entdeckt
Hungerstreik der Kosovo-Serben geht weiter
Jul. 19, 2001
Heute massive Proteste von "Zastava"-Arbeitern!
Arbeiter wollen Zugang zur Stadt Kragujevac in Serbien blockieren
Der "Fall Milosevic" kann noch spannend werden!
Besucht die Seite www.free-slobo.de
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21, possa interessare anche chi si occupa degli effetti pi� cruenti
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spero di vedervi numerosi
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Marino Andolina
Subject: Casagialla News
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:39:56 -0500
From: casagiallanews@...
Il giorno mercoled� 22 agosto si terr� un concerto presso la terrazza di
Casa Gialla del gruppo
BALKAN BABAU CIRCUS ORCHESTRA.
Unica data a Trieste per l?estate.
Invece per il giorno giovedi 23 agosto la conferenza dal titolo "Genoa
Social Forum:
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http://www.voceoperaia.it
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- A Ponente
Note su una manifestazione oscurata.
- E ora?
Genova � stata una prova generale per tutto l�anticapitalismo.
Tiriamo le prime somme
- Macedonia
Nuova puntata della sceneggiata
- Il marxismo e il "popolo di Seattle"
Se fosse il pensiero di Toni Negri ad avere il sopravvento
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" THE SERBIAN RESISTANCE CANNOT BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL ! " (eng.)
Carthago Delenda Est, July 3, 2001
" LA RESISTENZA SERBA NON SI PROCESSA ! " (it.)
Carthago Delenda Est, July 3, 2001
" SERBSKOE SOPROTIVLENIE NEPODSUDNO !" (ru.)
Carthago Delenda Est, July 3, 2001 (Russian version on Arctogaia)
MILOSHEVIC IS A SYMBOL OF EURASIA (eng.)
Vladimir Bukharsky - Arctogaia Forum, 28.06.2001
MILOSEVIC VENDU PAR KOSTUNICA (fr.)
Positions du Bureau de Bruxelles de "Synergies Europ�ennes", 5.07.2001
CROATIE ET SERBIE : ON VEUT LA DESTABILISATION TOTALE ! (fr.)
Communiqu� de presse du Bureau de Bruxelles de "Synergies Europ�ennes",
16.07.2001
(...)
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> http://www.vorstadtzentrum.net/joesb/
Jul. 22, 2001
Proteste bei Zastava als Auftakt f�r soziale Mobilisierung in Serbien?
Interview mit Zivorad Jevtic, Vorsitzender der Gewerkschaft
?Arbeitersolidarit�t? bei Zastava
Jul. 21, 2001
Zastava-Arbeiter: Zu wenig, um zu �berleben...
... zu viel, um zu verrecken
Massengrab mit serbischen Opfern in der N�he von Suva Reka entdeckt
Hungerstreik der Kosovo-Serben geht weiter
Jul. 19, 2001
Heute massive Proteste von "Zastava"-Arbeitern!
Arbeiter wollen Zugang zur Stadt Kragujevac in Serbien blockieren
Der "Fall Milosevic" kann noch spannend werden!
Besucht die Seite www.free-slobo.de
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Articolo di Scognamiglio su
"NATO Review" Web edition Vol. 49 - No. 2 Summer 2001 p. 26-27
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:08:22 +0200
From: Marco Cervino
To: scienzaepace <scienzaepace@...>
Questo articolo e' stato commentato sul numero odierno de Il Manifesto.
In evidenza:
a) il meeting "ristretto" (i G5 !!) NATO del 27 maggio 99 sul cosiddetto
intervento di terra e la disponibilita' di D'Alema-Scognamiglio di
fornire
10000 soldati italiano "incondizionatamente".
b) la pianificazione dei campi di "contenimento" profughi ai confini e
all'interno dell'Albania, pianificata dall'EI (si suppone di concerto
con la
NATO) fin dal gennaio 99 ( molto prima quindi di Rambuillet - ndr) e
finalizzata al rientro di massa (vi ricordate l'insistenza dei media
sulla
"volonta'" dei profughi di non "andar via" ?). Aggiungo io: si dovrebbe
diffondere questo messaggio alle migliaia (io ne conosco decine) di
volontari
che in buona fede hanno tentato di provvedere al disastro kossovaro,
anche
dentro l'Arcobaleno.
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Increasing Italy's input
Carlo Scognamiglio-Pasini (1) explains how and
why Italy has expanded its role in the NATO-led
Balkan peacekeeping operations.
In the five-and-a-half years
since NATO troops first
deployed in the Balkans, the
number of Italians on the
ground, both in absolute and
proportional terms, has been
steadily rising. Indeed, Italy is
now contributing as many
troops to the NATO-led
peacekeeping operations in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Bosnia) and Kosovo as France
and the United Kingdom. This is
the result of a conscious policy
to take on a greater role in a
region in which Rome considers
its national interest to be at
stake.
Sharing the Adriatic Sea with
Albania, Croatia, Montenegro
and Slovenia, Italy is an
obvious magnet for refugees,
many of whom have grown up
watching Italian television,
dreaming of Italy and speaking
Italian. These links are deep and
enduring, and help explain why
many ordinary Italian citizens
have, in recent years, come
forward as aid workers, helping
provide humanitarian assistance
during war and later helping rebuild shattered
societies.
Italian peacekeepers first deployed on the
ground in the Balkans with the NATO-led
Implementation Force (IFOR) to Bosnia in
December 1995. They were not involved in
UNPROFOR during the Bosnian war, since, at the
time the mission was being set up in 1992, the
United Nations was reluctant to employ
peacekeepers from neighbouring countries with
a history of military involvement in the former
Yugoslavia. Between 1992 and 1995, therefore,
Italy focused its efforts on relief work. When, in
1994, the European Union took over
administration of the divided and war-ravaged
town of Mostar in southern Bosnia, Italy
dispatched 40 carabinieri to an international
police force set up under the auspices of the
Western European Union. And when NATO
planes took off to attack Bosnian Serb targets,
first for limited strikes to lift the siege of
Sarajevo in 1994 and then in a sustained wave
of attacks in August and September of 1995,
they did so from Italian air bases.
Initially, some 3,200 Italian troops were
deployed in IFOR in the French sector. At the
time, IFOR numbered 60,000 soldiers. Today,
some 1,800 Italian troops remain in a
much-reduced Stabilisation Force (SFOR) of
20,000 and another 6,000 are currently
deployed in the Kosovo Force (KFOR). These
figures include carabinieri, police with military
status, who have, since August 1998, been
deployed in so-called Multinational Specialised
Units (MSUs) to help maintain public order.
Carabinieri have skills which are ideally suited to
peacekeeping. As a result, they have been
deployed throughout Bosnia and Kosovo to
patrol sensitive areas, assist the return of
refugees and displaced persons to their homes,
and intervene in the event of public disorder.
Carabinieri were also key to the success of
Operation Alba in 1997, when Italy put together
an eight-country, 7,000-strong intervention
force to restore law and order to Albania in the
wake of the collapse of a series of pyramid
investment schemes. This "coalition of the
willing" was authorised by the UN Security
Council and coordinated by an ad hoc political
steering committee. Lasting from April to
August, it was also the first crisis-management
mission conducted in Europe by a multinational
military force composed exclusively of
Europeans.
The turning-point in Italian attitudes occurred in
the wake of NATO's decision to station an
extraction force in the former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia.(2) This French-led force was
deployed to support and, if necessary, assist the
withdrawal of the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe's verification mission in
Kosovo. In November 1998, the new
government of Massimo D'Alema made a
conscious decision to play a major role by
deploying 2,850 soldiers, the equivalent of a
brigade, equipped with the much sought-after
anti-tank A-129 helicopters.
The reason for this change in attitude is that
Massimo D'Alema and I, then the defence
minister, were concerned about the impact of
events in Kosovo on the stability of Albania.
That country had already descended into
anarchy on three occasions in the preceeding
decade, leading directly to increases in
smuggling and crime across the Adriatic Sea
and forcing Rome to react in almost impossible
conditions. We wanted to prevent a repetition
by stabilising Albania, and I thought that the
best way to achieve this would be to help
Albanians feel secure at home. Moreover, I felt
this might have been achieved, if NATO included
Albania in its strategic security policy.
At the time, however, the other NATO members
opposed this proposal. At the time, we were
concerned about the way in which the
Italian-Albanian relationship was beginning to
resemble a protectorate, but our attempts to
internationalise the issue had failed. However, I
realised that something was wrong on our side,
if the other Alliance members were not listening
to us. The first step to drawing the attention of
our Allies to our concerns required matching the
troop contribution to NATO-led operations in the
Balkans of France and the United Kingdom. The
decisions that followed stemmed from that
turning point.
When, on 24 March 1999, NATO launched air
strikes against Yugoslav forces, Italy contributed
50 combat aircraft out of an overall force of 900
to the campaign. At the conclusion of the
78-day air campaign, the Yugoslav Army agreed
to withdraw from Kosovo and the following day,
Italian forces entered the province from the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(2) to
take charge of a sector in north-western
Kosovo, around the city of Pec.
My records of the Kosovo campaign include two
aspects that are little known about: the issue of
the so-called "ground option" and the Albanian
context. At the beginning of the conflict,
Slobodan Milosevic's strategy appeared to be
one of seeking to endure air strikes until the
coalition against him disintegrated, while
destabilising the neighbouring countries of
Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia(2), whose territory would have been
a necessary staging post for NATO ground
forces. One month into Operation Allied Force,
the efficiency of a campaign based entirely on
the use of air power came into question and
NATO was under pressure to come up with
another option to win the conflict. Although
plans for a ground invasion of Kosovo were
never drawn up, this matter was discussed at an
informal meeting of defence ministers of the
five largest NATO members on 27 May.
Moreover, despite being considered the weakest
link in the coalition, Italy pledged to supply
unconditionally up to 10,000 men at that
meeting, an event described in former SACEUR
General Wesley Clark's recent book.
The outcome of that meeting was a decision to
reassemble on 15 June in order to muster the
necessary forces to launch a ground offensive
by no later than 15 September. In the event,
however, the second meeting never took place
because Milosevic decided to surrender and
withdraw the Yugoslav Army from Kosovo on 9
June. However, I am persuaded that he was
aware that his last chance to see the coalition
break-up had disappeared and, consequently,
any further resistance made no sense.
In Albania, we feared that Milosevic might
attempt to destabilise the country by
precipitating a mass exodus of refugees. Two
approaches were required to counter this tactic:
supplying Albanians with sufficient shelter and
food to keep refugees close to the border for a
possible return home; and giving them
confidence that NATO would take care of them
and, above all, that the Alliance would prevail.
In January 1999, the Italian Army identified
possible sites for refugee camps and began
storing food and preparing shelters. When, soon
after the beginning of the air campaign, Albania
found itself deluged by close to a million
refugees, it was possible rapidly to construct
camps in the region of Kukes and elsewhere,
thus maintaining hope among the population
and alleviating the humanitarian catastrophe.
Moreover, the deployment of more than 7,000
NATO soldiers, including a large Italian
contingent, to Albania in Operation Allied
Harbour on 15 April reinforced the message that
the refugees would be going home.
Since, at the time, Italy only possessed a rapid
reaction force of 20,000, we seriously risked
overstretching our armed forces during the
Kosovo campaign. In the wake of these
operations, our government proposed a law,
which has subsequently been passed by the
parliament, ending the draft and transforming
the army into a fully professional one. This
should substantially increase the size of Italy's
rapid reaction forces to meet the needs of any
future NATO peacekeeping operation.
1.Senator Carlo Scognamiglio-Pasini is head of Italy's
Aspen Institute and a former Italian defence
minister.
2.Turkey recognises the Republic of Macedonia with
its constitutional name.
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"NATO Review" Web edition Vol. 49 - No. 2 Summer 2001 p. 26-27
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:08:22 +0200
From: Marco Cervino
To: scienzaepace <scienzaepace@...>
Questo articolo e' stato commentato sul numero odierno de Il Manifesto.
In evidenza:
a) il meeting "ristretto" (i G5 !!) NATO del 27 maggio 99 sul cosiddetto
intervento di terra e la disponibilita' di D'Alema-Scognamiglio di
fornire
10000 soldati italiano "incondizionatamente".
b) la pianificazione dei campi di "contenimento" profughi ai confini e
all'interno dell'Albania, pianificata dall'EI (si suppone di concerto
con la
NATO) fin dal gennaio 99 ( molto prima quindi di Rambuillet - ndr) e
finalizzata al rientro di massa (vi ricordate l'insistenza dei media
sulla
"volonta'" dei profughi di non "andar via" ?). Aggiungo io: si dovrebbe
diffondere questo messaggio alle migliaia (io ne conosco decine) di
volontari
che in buona fede hanno tentato di provvedere al disastro kossovaro,
anche
dentro l'Arcobaleno.
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Increasing Italy's input
Carlo Scognamiglio-Pasini (1) explains how and
why Italy has expanded its role in the NATO-led
Balkan peacekeeping operations.
In the five-and-a-half years
since NATO troops first
deployed in the Balkans, the
number of Italians on the
ground, both in absolute and
proportional terms, has been
steadily rising. Indeed, Italy is
now contributing as many
troops to the NATO-led
peacekeeping operations in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
(Bosnia) and Kosovo as France
and the United Kingdom. This is
the result of a conscious policy
to take on a greater role in a
region in which Rome considers
its national interest to be at
stake.
Sharing the Adriatic Sea with
Albania, Croatia, Montenegro
and Slovenia, Italy is an
obvious magnet for refugees,
many of whom have grown up
watching Italian television,
dreaming of Italy and speaking
Italian. These links are deep and
enduring, and help explain why
many ordinary Italian citizens
have, in recent years, come
forward as aid workers, helping
provide humanitarian assistance
during war and later helping rebuild shattered
societies.
Italian peacekeepers first deployed on the
ground in the Balkans with the NATO-led
Implementation Force (IFOR) to Bosnia in
December 1995. They were not involved in
UNPROFOR during the Bosnian war, since, at the
time the mission was being set up in 1992, the
United Nations was reluctant to employ
peacekeepers from neighbouring countries with
a history of military involvement in the former
Yugoslavia. Between 1992 and 1995, therefore,
Italy focused its efforts on relief work. When, in
1994, the European Union took over
administration of the divided and war-ravaged
town of Mostar in southern Bosnia, Italy
dispatched 40 carabinieri to an international
police force set up under the auspices of the
Western European Union. And when NATO
planes took off to attack Bosnian Serb targets,
first for limited strikes to lift the siege of
Sarajevo in 1994 and then in a sustained wave
of attacks in August and September of 1995,
they did so from Italian air bases.
Initially, some 3,200 Italian troops were
deployed in IFOR in the French sector. At the
time, IFOR numbered 60,000 soldiers. Today,
some 1,800 Italian troops remain in a
much-reduced Stabilisation Force (SFOR) of
20,000 and another 6,000 are currently
deployed in the Kosovo Force (KFOR). These
figures include carabinieri, police with military
status, who have, since August 1998, been
deployed in so-called Multinational Specialised
Units (MSUs) to help maintain public order.
Carabinieri have skills which are ideally suited to
peacekeeping. As a result, they have been
deployed throughout Bosnia and Kosovo to
patrol sensitive areas, assist the return of
refugees and displaced persons to their homes,
and intervene in the event of public disorder.
Carabinieri were also key to the success of
Operation Alba in 1997, when Italy put together
an eight-country, 7,000-strong intervention
force to restore law and order to Albania in the
wake of the collapse of a series of pyramid
investment schemes. This "coalition of the
willing" was authorised by the UN Security
Council and coordinated by an ad hoc political
steering committee. Lasting from April to
August, it was also the first crisis-management
mission conducted in Europe by a multinational
military force composed exclusively of
Europeans.
The turning-point in Italian attitudes occurred in
the wake of NATO's decision to station an
extraction force in the former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia.(2) This French-led force was
deployed to support and, if necessary, assist the
withdrawal of the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe's verification mission in
Kosovo. In November 1998, the new
government of Massimo D'Alema made a
conscious decision to play a major role by
deploying 2,850 soldiers, the equivalent of a
brigade, equipped with the much sought-after
anti-tank A-129 helicopters.
The reason for this change in attitude is that
Massimo D'Alema and I, then the defence
minister, were concerned about the impact of
events in Kosovo on the stability of Albania.
That country had already descended into
anarchy on three occasions in the preceeding
decade, leading directly to increases in
smuggling and crime across the Adriatic Sea
and forcing Rome to react in almost impossible
conditions. We wanted to prevent a repetition
by stabilising Albania, and I thought that the
best way to achieve this would be to help
Albanians feel secure at home. Moreover, I felt
this might have been achieved, if NATO included
Albania in its strategic security policy.
At the time, however, the other NATO members
opposed this proposal. At the time, we were
concerned about the way in which the
Italian-Albanian relationship was beginning to
resemble a protectorate, but our attempts to
internationalise the issue had failed. However, I
realised that something was wrong on our side,
if the other Alliance members were not listening
to us. The first step to drawing the attention of
our Allies to our concerns required matching the
troop contribution to NATO-led operations in the
Balkans of France and the United Kingdom. The
decisions that followed stemmed from that
turning point.
When, on 24 March 1999, NATO launched air
strikes against Yugoslav forces, Italy contributed
50 combat aircraft out of an overall force of 900
to the campaign. At the conclusion of the
78-day air campaign, the Yugoslav Army agreed
to withdraw from Kosovo and the following day,
Italian forces entered the province from the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(2) to
take charge of a sector in north-western
Kosovo, around the city of Pec.
My records of the Kosovo campaign include two
aspects that are little known about: the issue of
the so-called "ground option" and the Albanian
context. At the beginning of the conflict,
Slobodan Milosevic's strategy appeared to be
one of seeking to endure air strikes until the
coalition against him disintegrated, while
destabilising the neighbouring countries of
Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia(2), whose territory would have been
a necessary staging post for NATO ground
forces. One month into Operation Allied Force,
the efficiency of a campaign based entirely on
the use of air power came into question and
NATO was under pressure to come up with
another option to win the conflict. Although
plans for a ground invasion of Kosovo were
never drawn up, this matter was discussed at an
informal meeting of defence ministers of the
five largest NATO members on 27 May.
Moreover, despite being considered the weakest
link in the coalition, Italy pledged to supply
unconditionally up to 10,000 men at that
meeting, an event described in former SACEUR
General Wesley Clark's recent book.
The outcome of that meeting was a decision to
reassemble on 15 June in order to muster the
necessary forces to launch a ground offensive
by no later than 15 September. In the event,
however, the second meeting never took place
because Milosevic decided to surrender and
withdraw the Yugoslav Army from Kosovo on 9
June. However, I am persuaded that he was
aware that his last chance to see the coalition
break-up had disappeared and, consequently,
any further resistance made no sense.
In Albania, we feared that Milosevic might
attempt to destabilise the country by
precipitating a mass exodus of refugees. Two
approaches were required to counter this tactic:
supplying Albanians with sufficient shelter and
food to keep refugees close to the border for a
possible return home; and giving them
confidence that NATO would take care of them
and, above all, that the Alliance would prevail.
In January 1999, the Italian Army identified
possible sites for refugee camps and began
storing food and preparing shelters. When, soon
after the beginning of the air campaign, Albania
found itself deluged by close to a million
refugees, it was possible rapidly to construct
camps in the region of Kukes and elsewhere,
thus maintaining hope among the population
and alleviating the humanitarian catastrophe.
Moreover, the deployment of more than 7,000
NATO soldiers, including a large Italian
contingent, to Albania in Operation Allied
Harbour on 15 April reinforced the message that
the refugees would be going home.
Since, at the time, Italy only possessed a rapid
reaction force of 20,000, we seriously risked
overstretching our armed forces during the
Kosovo campaign. In the wake of these
operations, our government proposed a law,
which has subsequently been passed by the
parliament, ending the draft and transforming
the army into a fully professional one. This
should substantially increase the size of Italy's
rapid reaction forces to meet the needs of any
future NATO peacekeeping operation.
1.Senator Carlo Scognamiglio-Pasini is head of Italy's
Aspen Institute and a former Italian defence
minister.
2.Turkey recognises the Republic of Macedonia with
its constitutional name.
---
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