Informazione
6 AGOSTO
1990: inizia l'embargo ai danni della popolazione irachena, con
decisione del Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'ONU su istigazione
statunitense - dopo che gli USA avevano boicottato ogni possibilita' di
soluzione politico-diplomatica della crisi del Kuwait - e con
l'opposizione di Cuba e dello Yemen.
Il conflitto vero e proprio, noto come "Guerra del Golfo", sara'
scatenato il 17 gennaio 1991. L'embargo proseguira' anche dopo la sua
conclusione con il ritiro delle truppe irachene dal Kuwait. Negli anni
successivi, aerei britannici e statunitensi continueranno a bombardare
sporadicamente di propria iniziativa il territorio iracheno.
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COMUNICATO STAMPA
Consegnate a Violante 30.211 firme per chiedere che l'Italia si dissoci
unilateralmente dall'embargo all'Iraq.
Venerdì 21 luglio 2000, alle ore 11, una delegazione della Campagna
"Rompere
l'embargo" ha incontrato il Presidente della Camera dei Deputati,
On.Luciano
Violante, al quale ha consegnato l'ultima parte delle oltre 30.000 firme
raccolte sulla petizione popolare che chiede al Parlamento italiano di
rompere unilateralmente l'embargo contro l'Iraq, abrogandone la legge di
attuazione.
La delegazione, composta dai rappresentanti di alcune delle principali
associazioni fra le centinaia che hanno aderito alla Campagna. ("Un
ponte
per…", che l'ha promossa assieme al Comitato Golfo, l'Associazione per
la
pace, il COCIS-coordinamento delle ONG, Mani Tese, il Servizio Civile
Internazionale, la UISP e altre), ha ricordato al presidente Violante la
tragedia del popolo iracheno e l'importanza che un paese come l'Italia
compia un passo coraggioso di dissociazione dal genocidio che ha ucciso
in
dieci anni oltre un milione di civili innocenti, in maggioranza bambini
sotto i cinque anni.
Una richiesta - dicono i promotori della Campagna - che oggi arriva da
una
parte largamente maggioritaria della società civile italiana.
Il Presidente della Camera si è dimostrato molto sensibile alle ragioni
della petizione, e ne ha assicurato che la trasmissionie immediata alla
Commissione Esteri perché venga messa in calendario per la discussione.
Violante ha aggiunto che intende recarsi in Iraq in autunno,
reciprocando la
recente visita in Italia del presidente del Parlamento iracheno Sadoon
Hammadi.
La Campagna "Rompere l'embargo" ha intanto annunciato come prossima
iniziativa la convocazione di una Convenzione Nazionale a Roma per metà
ottobre, che radunerà tutti i firmatari e le associazioni che hanno
sottoscritto la petizione. L'occasione sarà lo scadere dei tre mesi
previsti
nell'ultima risoluzione approvata dalla Camera dei Deputati, che impegna
il
governo ad operare in modo concreto ed esplicito nelle sedi
internazionali
per arrivare alla revoca delle sanzioni contro l'Iraq.
Per contatti e informazioni:
rompere-lembargo@...
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L'ESASPERAZIONE E L'ORGOGLIO DEGLI IRACHENI
Il Sole 24 Ore di giovedì 29/6:
Uccisi due funzionari della Fao a Baghdad.
Per protestare contro l'embargo Onu verso l'Irak, un uomo armato ha
preso in ostaggio oltre 40 persone negli uffici Fao di
Baghdad, uccidendo due persone e ferendone sette prima di essere
arrestato dalla polizia.
IRAQI AMBASSADOR: PEOPLE OF IRAQ HAVE NOT GIVEN UP
BELGRADE, July 18 (Tanjug) The people of Iraq have not given up,
they are continuing their struggle and will fight until the final
victory,
Iraqi ambassador to Yugoslavia, Sami Sadoun Gatie Al Kinami, said in an
interview to Radio Yugoslavia on the occasion of Iraqi National Day
(July 17).
Speaking about IraqiYugoslav bilateral relations, whose trade has
reached dozens of millions of dollars in the past few years and is
expected
to reach one billion dollars this year, the Iraqi ambassador set out
that
relations between these countries have been traditional and firm for
years
and are based on joint interests.
"We want this exchange to exceed one billion dollars during this
year and in the coming period within the U.N. oil for food program which
enables Iraq to import food and medications to cover its basic
requirements," he said.
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1999: ANNO-RECORD DEI BOMBARDAMENTI BRITANNICI SULL'IRAQ
http://www.the-times.co.uk (Britai)
The Times (UK)
June 8 2000
BRITAIN
Sharp rise in RAF attacks on Iraq
BY MICHAEL EVANS
RAF bombing of Iraqi air defence sites has increased sharply in the past
18 months, according to the latest figures published by the Ministry of
Defence.
Since mid-December 1998 RAF bombers have dropped 78 tonnes of bombs on
Iraqi military targets; that compares with 2.5 tonnes between April
1991, after the Gulf War, and mid-December 1998.
The MoD's figures show that the average monthly release of bombs has
risen from 0.025 tonnes to five tonnes.
Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Foreign Affairs and
Defence, who acquired the figures from parliamentary answers, said
yesterday: "The number of occasions on which ordnance has been released
together with the total tonnage raises questions about the true purpose
of these operations."
He added: "There is persuasive evidence that there is an attritional
campaign against the Iraqi ground-based air defence systems. This
represents a significant policy shift which has never been explained to
Parliament."
The MoD said yesterday that the reason for the increase was "because
we've been shot at and threatened far more since December 20, 1998, than
in the previous period."
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The following article appeared in today's Guardian. It incorrectly
states
that the no-fly zones were "agreed by the UN" after the 1991 Gulf war,
despite the fact that previous articles in the Guardian (e.g.
http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/2000/311.html) have stated that
the
no-fly zones have no legal basis.
The following discussion list posting discusses the legality
of the no-fly zones:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/2000/357.html (also see 352.html).
People might like to write to the Guardian to correct them on this
matter?
(letters@...)
seb
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,329490,00.html
Step-up in bombing of Iraq questioned
Iraq: special report
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday June 8, 2000
British bomber pilots have dramatically increased their strikes on Iraq
in
the "secret war" against Saddam Hussein, official figures reveal.
An estimated 150 bombs - 78 tonnes of weapons - have been dropped on
southern Iraq by British aircraft since December 1998. This compares
with
2.5 tonnes over the previous six years.
"There is now persuasive evidence that there is an attritional campaign
against the Iraqi ground-based air defence systems that has gone way
beyond the original purpose of the no-fly zones," Menzies Campbell, the
Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said yesterday. "This
represents a significant policy shift, which has never been announced or
explained to parliament."
Mr Campbell was given the figures by Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary,
in
response to a series of written parliamentary questions. Mr Hoon
admitted
that on two occasions since December 1998, ordnance unleashed by British
aircraft "appears to have hit unintended targets".
He also disclosed that the British commander in the southern no-fly zone
had asked the government to "attack targets beyond his delegated
authority".
He refused to explain the circumstances but sources suggested yesterday
that permission was sought to hit Iraqi aircraft moving north, away from
the no-fly zone.
In military action which is rarely reported, Mr Hoon says that while
Iraqi
aircraft violating the no-fly zone accounted for 51% of the "threats" to
British and US war planes, 95% of the targets attacked consisted of
ground-based air defence systems.
Two no-fly zones, policed by British and American planes, were agreed by
the UN after the 1991 Gulf war. They were established to protect the
Shia
minority in southern Iraq and Kurds in the north.
"It's very good training but it is not achieving anything," Andrew
Brookes, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said
yesterday. He described it as a "sterile political mission of people who
can't think of anything better to do".
Mr Hoon said Britain and the US went to "exceptional lengths to ensure
that the right target is hit, including the employment of very strict
target clearance procedures and precision-guided munitions". However, he
acknowledged: "In practice, it is extremely difficult to give estimates
of
civilian casualties despite the painstaking battle damage assessment
that
the coalition routinely carries out".
Britain has 14 Tornado bombers stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain, and four
Jaguars based at Incirlik in Turkey.
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QUALE STRATEGIA PER IL MOVIMENTO INTERNAZIONALE CONTRO L'EMBARGO?
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Which way for the anti-sanctions movement
By Brian Becker
It’s no surprise that there is increasing
worldwide opposition to the U.S.-imposed economic
sanctions against Iraq. Five thousand perfectly
blameless infants and children perish each month
in Iraq because they are unable to get clean
drinking water, adequate food and even the most
basic medicines.
There is now a worldwide movement demanding an
end to sanctions. Unfortunately, one sector of
this growing movement has injected a new demand
into its slogans: calling for the continuation of
“military sanctions” against Iraq.
Some of these same groups actually raised the
slogan “sanctions not war” back in 1990.
The International Action Center, which has
campaigned relentlessly for the last 10 years
against sanctions, has issued a powerful statement
explaining the disastrous effects of adopting a
demand that sanctions be reshaped instead of
immediately terminated (on the World Wide Web at
http://www.iacenter.org/delink.htm).
Unless this slogan is repudiated it could
seriously weaken and derail the movement.
“Those who want to stop the Iraqi people’s
suffering must direct their demand at the
aggressors, at the U.S. and Britain whose war
planes bomb Iraq routinely, almost daily, who have
dropped thousands of bombs on Iraq in the last
year,” says Sara Flounders, co-director of the IAC.
The United States and Britain are bombing Iraq.
Iraq has never bombed the cities of the United
States. The progressive movement must ask itself:
Does Iraq have the right to defend itself against
such attacks? Shouldn’t anti-war forces in the
United States call for demilitarizing the Pentagon
instead of demilitarizing the victims of U.S.
aggression?
A tactic in a larger war
Why does the United States maintain the sanctions
and blockade of Iraq?
Is it just a mistaken policy by U.S. political
leaders that needs some “humanitarian” fine-
tuning? Or should sanctions be understood as a
tactic in a larger multi-pronged war to return
Iraq to the status of semi-colonial slavery?
Should the progressive movement oppose sanctions
because that tactic causes undue harm to
civilians? Or should it also reject the
imperialist goals and objectives that are the real
motivation for a destabilization strategy that
includes economic sanctions, routine bombings of
the country, CIA covert operations, plans to
assassinate the Iraqi leadership, creating no-
flight zones over most of the country, and placing
tens of thousands of U.S. troops, warships,
aircraft and advanced missiles on the outer
perimeters of Iraq?
The sanctions against Iraq began 10 years ago, in
August 1990. The Bush administration bullied the
United Nations into imposing economic sanctions as
a prelude to the full-scale 1991 air war against
Iraq.
The sanctions were initially put into place to
help evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait, according to
the propaganda of the Bush administration. Iraq
had invaded Kuwait, an oil-rich territory under
the domination of an U.S.-backed monarchy, in
August 1990, after a protracted and complicated
dispute between the two countries.
The original pretext for the economic sanctions
was a lie. It was purely for public consumption.
If the sanctions were meant only to drive Iraqi
troops from Kuwait then why, nearly a decade after
the last Iraqis left, does the United States
still impose the “most complete embargo of any
country in modern times,” in the words of Samuel
Berger, President Bill Clinton’s national
security adviser?
Two blockades: Iraq and Cuba
The unstated but fairly obvious reason that
Washington carries out the economic blockade of
Iraq is that it wants to destabilize the country,
overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein and
replace it with a pro-U.S. regime. The United
States has tried the same thing against socialist
Cuba.
The political leaderships in Iraq and Cuba are
very different. Cuba’s leadership is communist and
the Iraqi government is anti-communist. But both
governments have one thing in common. Iraq and
Cuba both suffered the impoverishment and
humiliation of colonialism and neo-colonialism
imposed by U.S. and British imperialism.
Both countries had far-reaching revolutions
within a year of each other–1958 and–1959. Both
revolutions immediately came under direct
aggression from the imperialist overlords who had
colonized or enslaved their countries.
The Iraqi Revolution in 1958 prompted Britain to
rush thousands of troops to fortify its hold on
tiny but oil-rich Kuwait. As it had with Hong Kong
in China, British colonialism sliced the key port
area of Kuwait out of Iraq and declared it a
British protectorate. While British troops secured
Kuwait in 1958, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower
dispatched 10,000 U.S. marines to Lebanon the very
next day to shore up Washington’s own interests.
In the case of the Cuban Revolution in 1959,
Eisenhower ordered the CIA to begin planning the
assassination of Fidel Castro. Two years later,
under John F. Kennedy, the U.S. government
organized a mercenary invasion of Cuba by CIA-
trained counter-revolutionaries.
Cuba used socialist economic methods to bring
literacy, full employment and free universal
health care to its people. It was able to free
itself of economic neocolonial enslavement by
integrating into the trading bloc with the Soviet
Union, East Germany and the other socialist
countries.
Although Iraq nationalized its oil industry and
other economic sectors, its revolution never went
beyond the boundaries of capitalist property
rights. But because of its vast oil wealth and the
nationalist development model adopted by the
leadership, Iraq too was able to effect rapid
social and economic progress for the mass of the
population after the 1958 revolution.
Official U.S. policy has been hostile to both
Iraq and Cuba since their revolutions. The
“hostility” was remarkably consistent regardless
of whether a Republican or Democrat occupied the
White House.
The only exception to the policy of unmitigated
hostility was during the Iran-Iraq war between
1980 and 1988. The United States supplied weapons
to Iraq and encouraged Iraq’s initial military
actions against Iran in 1980. But this should be
understood for what it was: a cynical ploy to
weaken and exhaust the 1979 Iranian mass
revolution that had swept out the dynastic rule of
the shah—whose army had served as proxy and
gendarme for the Pentagon and CIA in the Persian
Gulf.
The United States armed Iraq to fight Iran in the
early 1980s—but it also sent arms to Iran, as was
revealed during the 1986 Iran-Contra hearings in
Congress. In the words of former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger, “We wanted them to kill
each other.”
Once Washington had accomplished its objective of
weakening the Iranian Revolution through the war
between Iran and Iraq, Pentagon war doctrine was
reconfigured to target Iraq as the next “potential
enemy.” Plans and complex war games for a U.S.
war with Iraq were drafted in 1988, immediately
after the close of the Iran-Iraq war and two
years before Iraq fatefully sent its troops
against the Kuwaiti mon archy in August 1990.
(“The Fire This Time,” Ramsey Clark,
Thundersmouth Press, 1992)
Slogans should be consistently anti-imperialist
The U.S. government represents the interests of
Big Oil and the biggest imperialist banks. It
seeks to dominate the Middle East not to bring
“human rights” and “democracy” but to possess and
profit from the fabulous oil wealth
under the soil.
Iraq has 10 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. Combined with
Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait and Iran, this region contains the largest share of oil
on the
planet.
Effective sanctions of any type, be they for economic or military
commodities,
require the sanctioning countries to position military forces around
the
targeted country so that ships, trucks and airplanes can be interdicted
and
searched. Thus, calling for the United States or UN to maintain
military
sanctions on Iraq provides a political and even “legal” justification
for the
continued military occupation of the Gulf region by U.S. military
forces.
>From a practical point of view, if the demand for U.S./UN economic sanctions
to be replaced by “military sanctions” were realized, it would still
have a
devastating impact on Iraq’s civilian population. The United States
would
claim that almost anything that the civilian economy imports could
also be
used for military applications.
Referring to these items as “dual use” commodities, the United States
has
already halted or postponed 450 out of every 500 contracts that were
approved
by the UN Sanctions Committee under the much touted Oil-for-Food
program.
Washington will use the category of “military sanctions” as a technical
method
to prevent Iraq from acquiring commodities that are essential for
sustaining
civilian economy and human life. For example, the United States has
banned
pencils for schoolchildren because these pencils contain graphite,
which is
also a lubricant. It has banned batteries, X-ray machines and
ambulances
because they could be used in military conflicts.
Iraq is now barred from importing adequate supplies of chlorine to
purify its
water. Why chlorine? It could be used as a component in a chemical
weapon.
Computers too have potential military uses. So importing computers has
been
prohibited for 10 years.
It can only miseducate the broad public about the
real issues in the Middle East if the progressive
movement supports the imperialist powers in
demanding the demilitarization of Iraq. The
movement cannot be consistently progressive
without thoroughly exposing the true dynamics of
imperialist military and political strategy that
tries to re-colonize the Arab people.
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VERSO NUOVI MASSICCI BOMBARDAMENTI SULL'IRAQ?
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIXHWTKGBC.html
Aug 3, 2000 - 11:37 AM
Officer: U.S. Suspects Iraq Has Resumed Arms Program
By Hamza Hendawi
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The United States suspects that Iraq has taken
advantage of the absence of U.N. arms inspectors to rebuild its arsenal
of mass-destruction weapons, a senior U.S. officer said Thursday...
Subject: [iac-disc.] ACTION ALERT! - Stop the U.S. from Bombing
Iraq in Aug.!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:42:48 -0400
From: "Ramsey Kysia" <mbakery@...>
To: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
***please distribute widely***
ACTION ALERT – Stop the U.S. from bombing Iraq in August 2000!
1. Background
2. Mailing Address
3. Sample Letter
BACKGROUND:
On Aug. 6th ‘90, the UN imposed broad, economic
sanctions on Iraq for invading Kuwait. Sanctions were
re-imposed on April 3rd 1991, after the Gulf War, to
force Iraq to destroy its “weapons of mass destruction.”
However, the Gulf War bombings of Iraq’s civilian
infrastructure & the ongoing sanctions blockade have
instead resulted in widespread poverty & skyrocketing
childhood mortality. The UN estimates that between
500,000 & 720,000 children have died because of the
sanctions. According to UNICEF, a child dies every
10 minutes in Iraq due to sanctions.
In Dec. ‘98, a series of confrontations between
UNSCOM weapons inspectors & the Iraqi government
resulted in “Desert Fox,” a U.S. bombing campaign
that killed 10,000 people according to Pentagon
estimates. One month after the bombings, the
Washington Post & the Boston Globe both reported
that Iraq’s main objection to the weapons inspectors,
namely that they U.S. spies, was in fact true. The
ensuing scandal over U.S. infiltration of UNSCOM led
to a year-long deadlock at the UN. In Dec. ‘99, the
Security Council passed (with France, Russia & China
abstaining) Resolution 1284, creating UNMOVIC, a
new inspection team. This team will be ready to begin
new inspections next month.
Since “Desert Fox,” the U.S. has continued regular
bombings of Iraq on the average of 3-4 times a week:
the longest running U.S. air war since Vietnam.
However, both Richard Butler, former head of UNSCOM,
and Scott Ritter, former chief weapons inspector, have
predicted that Iraq’s refusal to allow UNMOVIC into the
country next month will likely create a new crisis that
could result in an intensified U.S. bombing campaign
against Iraq – with thousands of casualties. Says Scott
Ritter, “The new commission, UNMOVIC, will not be
allowed into Iraq in August, three months away from the
election. You have got a Vice-President, Al Gore,
trailing behind in the polls and what better way to appear
tough and switch attention away to a so-called foreign
threat. The UN Security Council did not vote on Desert
Fox and we can expect the same thing to happen again.”
We MUST not let this happen again. Please take a few
minutes to write Sandy Berger, the U.S. National
Security Advisor & Clinton’s principle foreign policy
strategist, & demand that the U.S. stop killing civilians
in Iraq and end sanctions & bombings against Iraq –
rather than increase them.
For more information on a possible August bombing, please visit:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/sanction230600.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/saddam230600.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/usarms280600.shtml
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j071000.html
For more information on the Iraq crisis, please visit:
http://www.iraqaction.org
(...)
*** Iraq Action Coalition Discussion Forum ***
http://iraqaction.org/discussion.html
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e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
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1990: inizia l'embargo ai danni della popolazione irachena, con
decisione del Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'ONU su istigazione
statunitense - dopo che gli USA avevano boicottato ogni possibilita' di
soluzione politico-diplomatica della crisi del Kuwait - e con
l'opposizione di Cuba e dello Yemen.
Il conflitto vero e proprio, noto come "Guerra del Golfo", sara'
scatenato il 17 gennaio 1991. L'embargo proseguira' anche dopo la sua
conclusione con il ritiro delle truppe irachene dal Kuwait. Negli anni
successivi, aerei britannici e statunitensi continueranno a bombardare
sporadicamente di propria iniziativa il territorio iracheno.
---
COMUNICATO STAMPA
Consegnate a Violante 30.211 firme per chiedere che l'Italia si dissoci
unilateralmente dall'embargo all'Iraq.
Venerdì 21 luglio 2000, alle ore 11, una delegazione della Campagna
"Rompere
l'embargo" ha incontrato il Presidente della Camera dei Deputati,
On.Luciano
Violante, al quale ha consegnato l'ultima parte delle oltre 30.000 firme
raccolte sulla petizione popolare che chiede al Parlamento italiano di
rompere unilateralmente l'embargo contro l'Iraq, abrogandone la legge di
attuazione.
La delegazione, composta dai rappresentanti di alcune delle principali
associazioni fra le centinaia che hanno aderito alla Campagna. ("Un
ponte
per…", che l'ha promossa assieme al Comitato Golfo, l'Associazione per
la
pace, il COCIS-coordinamento delle ONG, Mani Tese, il Servizio Civile
Internazionale, la UISP e altre), ha ricordato al presidente Violante la
tragedia del popolo iracheno e l'importanza che un paese come l'Italia
compia un passo coraggioso di dissociazione dal genocidio che ha ucciso
in
dieci anni oltre un milione di civili innocenti, in maggioranza bambini
sotto i cinque anni.
Una richiesta - dicono i promotori della Campagna - che oggi arriva da
una
parte largamente maggioritaria della società civile italiana.
Il Presidente della Camera si è dimostrato molto sensibile alle ragioni
della petizione, e ne ha assicurato che la trasmissionie immediata alla
Commissione Esteri perché venga messa in calendario per la discussione.
Violante ha aggiunto che intende recarsi in Iraq in autunno,
reciprocando la
recente visita in Italia del presidente del Parlamento iracheno Sadoon
Hammadi.
La Campagna "Rompere l'embargo" ha intanto annunciato come prossima
iniziativa la convocazione di una Convenzione Nazionale a Roma per metà
ottobre, che radunerà tutti i firmatari e le associazioni che hanno
sottoscritto la petizione. L'occasione sarà lo scadere dei tre mesi
previsti
nell'ultima risoluzione approvata dalla Camera dei Deputati, che impegna
il
governo ad operare in modo concreto ed esplicito nelle sedi
internazionali
per arrivare alla revoca delle sanzioni contro l'Iraq.
Per contatti e informazioni:
rompere-lembargo@...
---
L'ESASPERAZIONE E L'ORGOGLIO DEGLI IRACHENI
Il Sole 24 Ore di giovedì 29/6:
Uccisi due funzionari della Fao a Baghdad.
Per protestare contro l'embargo Onu verso l'Irak, un uomo armato ha
preso in ostaggio oltre 40 persone negli uffici Fao di
Baghdad, uccidendo due persone e ferendone sette prima di essere
arrestato dalla polizia.
IRAQI AMBASSADOR: PEOPLE OF IRAQ HAVE NOT GIVEN UP
BELGRADE, July 18 (Tanjug) The people of Iraq have not given up,
they are continuing their struggle and will fight until the final
victory,
Iraqi ambassador to Yugoslavia, Sami Sadoun Gatie Al Kinami, said in an
interview to Radio Yugoslavia on the occasion of Iraqi National Day
(July 17).
Speaking about IraqiYugoslav bilateral relations, whose trade has
reached dozens of millions of dollars in the past few years and is
expected
to reach one billion dollars this year, the Iraqi ambassador set out
that
relations between these countries have been traditional and firm for
years
and are based on joint interests.
"We want this exchange to exceed one billion dollars during this
year and in the coming period within the U.N. oil for food program which
enables Iraq to import food and medications to cover its basic
requirements," he said.
---
1999: ANNO-RECORD DEI BOMBARDAMENTI BRITANNICI SULL'IRAQ
http://www.the-times.co.uk (Britai)
The Times (UK)
June 8 2000
BRITAIN
Sharp rise in RAF attacks on Iraq
BY MICHAEL EVANS
RAF bombing of Iraqi air defence sites has increased sharply in the past
18 months, according to the latest figures published by the Ministry of
Defence.
Since mid-December 1998 RAF bombers have dropped 78 tonnes of bombs on
Iraqi military targets; that compares with 2.5 tonnes between April
1991, after the Gulf War, and mid-December 1998.
The MoD's figures show that the average monthly release of bombs has
risen from 0.025 tonnes to five tonnes.
Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Foreign Affairs and
Defence, who acquired the figures from parliamentary answers, said
yesterday: "The number of occasions on which ordnance has been released
together with the total tonnage raises questions about the true purpose
of these operations."
He added: "There is persuasive evidence that there is an attritional
campaign against the Iraqi ground-based air defence systems. This
represents a significant policy shift which has never been explained to
Parliament."
The MoD said yesterday that the reason for the increase was "because
we've been shot at and threatened far more since December 20, 1998, than
in the previous period."
-
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The following article appeared in today's Guardian. It incorrectly
states
that the no-fly zones were "agreed by the UN" after the 1991 Gulf war,
despite the fact that previous articles in the Guardian (e.g.
http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/2000/311.html) have stated that
the
no-fly zones have no legal basis.
The following discussion list posting discusses the legality
of the no-fly zones:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/2000/357.html (also see 352.html).
People might like to write to the Guardian to correct them on this
matter?
(letters@...)
seb
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,329490,00.html
Step-up in bombing of Iraq questioned
Iraq: special report
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday June 8, 2000
British bomber pilots have dramatically increased their strikes on Iraq
in
the "secret war" against Saddam Hussein, official figures reveal.
An estimated 150 bombs - 78 tonnes of weapons - have been dropped on
southern Iraq by British aircraft since December 1998. This compares
with
2.5 tonnes over the previous six years.
"There is now persuasive evidence that there is an attritional campaign
against the Iraqi ground-based air defence systems that has gone way
beyond the original purpose of the no-fly zones," Menzies Campbell, the
Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said yesterday. "This
represents a significant policy shift, which has never been announced or
explained to parliament."
Mr Campbell was given the figures by Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary,
in
response to a series of written parliamentary questions. Mr Hoon
admitted
that on two occasions since December 1998, ordnance unleashed by British
aircraft "appears to have hit unintended targets".
He also disclosed that the British commander in the southern no-fly zone
had asked the government to "attack targets beyond his delegated
authority".
He refused to explain the circumstances but sources suggested yesterday
that permission was sought to hit Iraqi aircraft moving north, away from
the no-fly zone.
In military action which is rarely reported, Mr Hoon says that while
Iraqi
aircraft violating the no-fly zone accounted for 51% of the "threats" to
British and US war planes, 95% of the targets attacked consisted of
ground-based air defence systems.
Two no-fly zones, policed by British and American planes, were agreed by
the UN after the 1991 Gulf war. They were established to protect the
Shia
minority in southern Iraq and Kurds in the north.
"It's very good training but it is not achieving anything," Andrew
Brookes, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said
yesterday. He described it as a "sterile political mission of people who
can't think of anything better to do".
Mr Hoon said Britain and the US went to "exceptional lengths to ensure
that the right target is hit, including the employment of very strict
target clearance procedures and precision-guided munitions". However, he
acknowledged: "In practice, it is extremely difficult to give estimates
of
civilian casualties despite the painstaking battle damage assessment
that
the coalition routinely carries out".
Britain has 14 Tornado bombers stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain, and four
Jaguars based at Incirlik in Turkey.
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Which way for the anti-sanctions movement
By Brian Becker
It’s no surprise that there is increasing
worldwide opposition to the U.S.-imposed economic
sanctions against Iraq. Five thousand perfectly
blameless infants and children perish each month
in Iraq because they are unable to get clean
drinking water, adequate food and even the most
basic medicines.
There is now a worldwide movement demanding an
end to sanctions. Unfortunately, one sector of
this growing movement has injected a new demand
into its slogans: calling for the continuation of
“military sanctions” against Iraq.
Some of these same groups actually raised the
slogan “sanctions not war” back in 1990.
The International Action Center, which has
campaigned relentlessly for the last 10 years
against sanctions, has issued a powerful statement
explaining the disastrous effects of adopting a
demand that sanctions be reshaped instead of
immediately terminated (on the World Wide Web at
http://www.iacenter.org/delink.htm).
Unless this slogan is repudiated it could
seriously weaken and derail the movement.
“Those who want to stop the Iraqi people’s
suffering must direct their demand at the
aggressors, at the U.S. and Britain whose war
planes bomb Iraq routinely, almost daily, who have
dropped thousands of bombs on Iraq in the last
year,” says Sara Flounders, co-director of the IAC.
The United States and Britain are bombing Iraq.
Iraq has never bombed the cities of the United
States. The progressive movement must ask itself:
Does Iraq have the right to defend itself against
such attacks? Shouldn’t anti-war forces in the
United States call for demilitarizing the Pentagon
instead of demilitarizing the victims of U.S.
aggression?
A tactic in a larger war
Why does the United States maintain the sanctions
and blockade of Iraq?
Is it just a mistaken policy by U.S. political
leaders that needs some “humanitarian” fine-
tuning? Or should sanctions be understood as a
tactic in a larger multi-pronged war to return
Iraq to the status of semi-colonial slavery?
Should the progressive movement oppose sanctions
because that tactic causes undue harm to
civilians? Or should it also reject the
imperialist goals and objectives that are the real
motivation for a destabilization strategy that
includes economic sanctions, routine bombings of
the country, CIA covert operations, plans to
assassinate the Iraqi leadership, creating no-
flight zones over most of the country, and placing
tens of thousands of U.S. troops, warships,
aircraft and advanced missiles on the outer
perimeters of Iraq?
The sanctions against Iraq began 10 years ago, in
August 1990. The Bush administration bullied the
United Nations into imposing economic sanctions as
a prelude to the full-scale 1991 air war against
Iraq.
The sanctions were initially put into place to
help evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait, according to
the propaganda of the Bush administration. Iraq
had invaded Kuwait, an oil-rich territory under
the domination of an U.S.-backed monarchy, in
August 1990, after a protracted and complicated
dispute between the two countries.
The original pretext for the economic sanctions
was a lie. It was purely for public consumption.
If the sanctions were meant only to drive Iraqi
troops from Kuwait then why, nearly a decade after
the last Iraqis left, does the United States
still impose the “most complete embargo of any
country in modern times,” in the words of Samuel
Berger, President Bill Clinton’s national
security adviser?
Two blockades: Iraq and Cuba
The unstated but fairly obvious reason that
Washington carries out the economic blockade of
Iraq is that it wants to destabilize the country,
overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein and
replace it with a pro-U.S. regime. The United
States has tried the same thing against socialist
Cuba.
The political leaderships in Iraq and Cuba are
very different. Cuba’s leadership is communist and
the Iraqi government is anti-communist. But both
governments have one thing in common. Iraq and
Cuba both suffered the impoverishment and
humiliation of colonialism and neo-colonialism
imposed by U.S. and British imperialism.
Both countries had far-reaching revolutions
within a year of each other–1958 and–1959. Both
revolutions immediately came under direct
aggression from the imperialist overlords who had
colonized or enslaved their countries.
The Iraqi Revolution in 1958 prompted Britain to
rush thousands of troops to fortify its hold on
tiny but oil-rich Kuwait. As it had with Hong Kong
in China, British colonialism sliced the key port
area of Kuwait out of Iraq and declared it a
British protectorate. While British troops secured
Kuwait in 1958, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower
dispatched 10,000 U.S. marines to Lebanon the very
next day to shore up Washington’s own interests.
In the case of the Cuban Revolution in 1959,
Eisenhower ordered the CIA to begin planning the
assassination of Fidel Castro. Two years later,
under John F. Kennedy, the U.S. government
organized a mercenary invasion of Cuba by CIA-
trained counter-revolutionaries.
Cuba used socialist economic methods to bring
literacy, full employment and free universal
health care to its people. It was able to free
itself of economic neocolonial enslavement by
integrating into the trading bloc with the Soviet
Union, East Germany and the other socialist
countries.
Although Iraq nationalized its oil industry and
other economic sectors, its revolution never went
beyond the boundaries of capitalist property
rights. But because of its vast oil wealth and the
nationalist development model adopted by the
leadership, Iraq too was able to effect rapid
social and economic progress for the mass of the
population after the 1958 revolution.
Official U.S. policy has been hostile to both
Iraq and Cuba since their revolutions. The
“hostility” was remarkably consistent regardless
of whether a Republican or Democrat occupied the
White House.
The only exception to the policy of unmitigated
hostility was during the Iran-Iraq war between
1980 and 1988. The United States supplied weapons
to Iraq and encouraged Iraq’s initial military
actions against Iran in 1980. But this should be
understood for what it was: a cynical ploy to
weaken and exhaust the 1979 Iranian mass
revolution that had swept out the dynastic rule of
the shah—whose army had served as proxy and
gendarme for the Pentagon and CIA in the Persian
Gulf.
The United States armed Iraq to fight Iran in the
early 1980s—but it also sent arms to Iran, as was
revealed during the 1986 Iran-Contra hearings in
Congress. In the words of former Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger, “We wanted them to kill
each other.”
Once Washington had accomplished its objective of
weakening the Iranian Revolution through the war
between Iran and Iraq, Pentagon war doctrine was
reconfigured to target Iraq as the next “potential
enemy.” Plans and complex war games for a U.S.
war with Iraq were drafted in 1988, immediately
after the close of the Iran-Iraq war and two
years before Iraq fatefully sent its troops
against the Kuwaiti mon archy in August 1990.
(“The Fire This Time,” Ramsey Clark,
Thundersmouth Press, 1992)
Slogans should be consistently anti-imperialist
The U.S. government represents the interests of
Big Oil and the biggest imperialist banks. It
seeks to dominate the Middle East not to bring
“human rights” and “democracy” but to possess and
profit from the fabulous oil wealth
under the soil.
Iraq has 10 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. Combined with
Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait and Iran, this region contains the largest share of oil
on the
planet.
Effective sanctions of any type, be they for economic or military
commodities,
require the sanctioning countries to position military forces around
the
targeted country so that ships, trucks and airplanes can be interdicted
and
searched. Thus, calling for the United States or UN to maintain
military
sanctions on Iraq provides a political and even “legal” justification
for the
continued military occupation of the Gulf region by U.S. military
forces.
>From a practical point of view, if the demand for U.S./UN economic sanctions
to be replaced by “military sanctions” were realized, it would still
have a
devastating impact on Iraq’s civilian population. The United States
would
claim that almost anything that the civilian economy imports could
also be
used for military applications.
Referring to these items as “dual use” commodities, the United States
has
already halted or postponed 450 out of every 500 contracts that were
approved
by the UN Sanctions Committee under the much touted Oil-for-Food
program.
Washington will use the category of “military sanctions” as a technical
method
to prevent Iraq from acquiring commodities that are essential for
sustaining
civilian economy and human life. For example, the United States has
banned
pencils for schoolchildren because these pencils contain graphite,
which is
also a lubricant. It has banned batteries, X-ray machines and
ambulances
because they could be used in military conflicts.
Iraq is now barred from importing adequate supplies of chlorine to
purify its
water. Why chlorine? It could be used as a component in a chemical
weapon.
Computers too have potential military uses. So importing computers has
been
prohibited for 10 years.
It can only miseducate the broad public about the
real issues in the Middle East if the progressive
movement supports the imperialist powers in
demanding the demilitarization of Iraq. The
movement cannot be consistently progressive
without thoroughly exposing the true dynamics of
imperialist military and political strategy that
tries to re-colonize the Arab people.
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VERSO NUOVI MASSICCI BOMBARDAMENTI SULL'IRAQ?
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIXHWTKGBC.html
Aug 3, 2000 - 11:37 AM
Officer: U.S. Suspects Iraq Has Resumed Arms Program
By Hamza Hendawi
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The United States suspects that Iraq has taken
advantage of the absence of U.N. arms inspectors to rebuild its arsenal
of mass-destruction weapons, a senior U.S. officer said Thursday...
Subject: [iac-disc.] ACTION ALERT! - Stop the U.S. from Bombing
Iraq in Aug.!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:42:48 -0400
From: "Ramsey Kysia" <mbakery@...>
To: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
***please distribute widely***
ACTION ALERT – Stop the U.S. from bombing Iraq in August 2000!
1. Background
2. Mailing Address
3. Sample Letter
BACKGROUND:
On Aug. 6th ‘90, the UN imposed broad, economic
sanctions on Iraq for invading Kuwait. Sanctions were
re-imposed on April 3rd 1991, after the Gulf War, to
force Iraq to destroy its “weapons of mass destruction.”
However, the Gulf War bombings of Iraq’s civilian
infrastructure & the ongoing sanctions blockade have
instead resulted in widespread poverty & skyrocketing
childhood mortality. The UN estimates that between
500,000 & 720,000 children have died because of the
sanctions. According to UNICEF, a child dies every
10 minutes in Iraq due to sanctions.
In Dec. ‘98, a series of confrontations between
UNSCOM weapons inspectors & the Iraqi government
resulted in “Desert Fox,” a U.S. bombing campaign
that killed 10,000 people according to Pentagon
estimates. One month after the bombings, the
Washington Post & the Boston Globe both reported
that Iraq’s main objection to the weapons inspectors,
namely that they U.S. spies, was in fact true. The
ensuing scandal over U.S. infiltration of UNSCOM led
to a year-long deadlock at the UN. In Dec. ‘99, the
Security Council passed (with France, Russia & China
abstaining) Resolution 1284, creating UNMOVIC, a
new inspection team. This team will be ready to begin
new inspections next month.
Since “Desert Fox,” the U.S. has continued regular
bombings of Iraq on the average of 3-4 times a week:
the longest running U.S. air war since Vietnam.
However, both Richard Butler, former head of UNSCOM,
and Scott Ritter, former chief weapons inspector, have
predicted that Iraq’s refusal to allow UNMOVIC into the
country next month will likely create a new crisis that
could result in an intensified U.S. bombing campaign
against Iraq – with thousands of casualties. Says Scott
Ritter, “The new commission, UNMOVIC, will not be
allowed into Iraq in August, three months away from the
election. You have got a Vice-President, Al Gore,
trailing behind in the polls and what better way to appear
tough and switch attention away to a so-called foreign
threat. The UN Security Council did not vote on Desert
Fox and we can expect the same thing to happen again.”
We MUST not let this happen again. Please take a few
minutes to write Sandy Berger, the U.S. National
Security Advisor & Clinton’s principle foreign policy
strategist, & demand that the U.S. stop killing civilians
in Iraq and end sanctions & bombings against Iraq –
rather than increase them.
For more information on a possible August bombing, please visit:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/sanction230600.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/saddam230600.shtml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Middle_East/2000-06/usarms280600.shtml
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j071000.html
For more information on the Iraq crisis, please visit:
http://www.iraqaction.org
(...)
*** Iraq Action Coalition Discussion Forum ***
http://iraqaction.org/discussion.html
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NOMI E COGNOMI DEGLI HACKERS DI "ANTIWAR.COM"
Sull'episodio si veda anche:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/354
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j080400.html
Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
August 4, 2000
BOSNIAN CYBERTHUGS HACK ANTIWAR.COM
It was a quiet Sunday, the morning of July 30th, when I logged onto
Antiwar.com and got the
following error message: URL NOT FOUND ON THIS SERVER. Huh? What's up
with that? (...)
SPEAK YOUR MIND
Now that they have been so ignominiously busted, it will be extremely
interesting to see how these cretins react. And you can get a reaction
out of them – by emailing or phoning and telling them directly just what
you think of their unethical and illegal methods of political struggle.
Nedim Dzaferovic (phone) +387 71 264 080 (fax) +387 71 650 211 – e-mail:
nedim@...
Samir Mekic (phone) + 387 71 230 287 (fax) + 387 71 656 280 – e-mail:
Mekic@... (or you can try: mekic@...).
Nihad Borovina (phone) + 387 71 230 285 (fax) + 387 71 656 280 – e-mail:
nihad@...
I'm sure they'd love to hear from you. . . .
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Sull'episodio si veda anche:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/354
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/pf/p-j080400.html
Behind the Headlines
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
August 4, 2000
BOSNIAN CYBERTHUGS HACK ANTIWAR.COM
It was a quiet Sunday, the morning of July 30th, when I logged onto
Antiwar.com and got the
following error message: URL NOT FOUND ON THIS SERVER. Huh? What's up
with that? (...)
SPEAK YOUR MIND
Now that they have been so ignominiously busted, it will be extremely
interesting to see how these cretins react. And you can get a reaction
out of them – by emailing or phoning and telling them directly just what
you think of their unethical and illegal methods of political struggle.
Nedim Dzaferovic (phone) +387 71 264 080 (fax) +387 71 650 211 – e-mail:
nedim@...
Samir Mekic (phone) + 387 71 230 287 (fax) + 387 71 656 280 – e-mail:
Mekic@... (or you can try: mekic@...).
Nihad Borovina (phone) + 387 71 230 285 (fax) + 387 71 656 280 – e-mail:
nihad@...
I'm sure they'd love to hear from you. . . .
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STRAGI DI STATO - STRAGI DELLA N.A.T.O.
In seguito al nostro messaggio "Un 'traditore' nella NATO" sul
caso Bunel ( http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/377 )
abbiamo ricevuto da M. Cristaldi il seguente commento:
> Constatata la mancata resurrezione delle BR, richiesta a gran voce dai
> responsabili di governo, siamo in attesa di un traditore della CIA che ci
> chiarisca altrettanto bene la vicenda dell'omicidio D'Antona eseguito a
> Roma durante l'attacco bellico alla Jugoslavia.
Sulla strategia della tensione a venti anni dalla strage della stazione
di Bologna segnaliamo invece da "La Repubblica" di oggi:
http://www.repubblica.it/quotidiano/repubblica/20000804/interni/06malet.html
Maletti, la spia latitante
"La Cia dietro quelle bombe"
"Andreotti, Leone e i silenzi interessati della politica"
Dal Sudafrica parla l'uomo del Sid condannato per depistaggio. "Saldo il
mio
debito di verità con l'Italia"
dal nostro inviato DANIELE MASTROGIACOMO
JOHANNESBURG - "Sono stanco di pagare per altri. Obbligato all'esilio,
condanne per 31 anni, nove ancora da scontare. Mi sembra un po'
troppo... so
di avere un debito di verità nei confronti dell'Italia". Gli occhi della
vecchia spia si perdono oltre il parco del quartiere residenziale di
Rosebank, Sudafrica. Bugie, misteri, faide e lotte intestine. E poi quei
morti, gli attentati, nelle banche, sui treni, nelle piazze. Gianadelio
Maletti, classe 1921, generale di divisione, cittadino sudafricano dal
1980,
assistito dall'avvocato Michele Gentiloni, è disposto a rivelare ciò che
sa.
La sua verità. Di sicuro ci sono le sue condanne: per depistaggio, per
avere
aiutato i neofascisti Giannettini e Pozzan, per avere deviato le
indagini
sulla bomba di Bertoli alla questura di Milano. Propone la sua verità
vista
"da dentro". Nel 1971 è nominato capo del reparto D: punta di diamante
del
nostro controspionaggio militare.
Generale, avrà saputo della relazione di minoranza della Commissione
Stragi.
Si afferma che la strategia della tensione fu di stampo atlantista.
"Ho saputo e letto qualcosa. E immagino che quall'atlantista stia per
americano. Usa".
Sì. Lei cosa ne pensa?
"Era una necessità della Nato raccogliere notizie ed elaborarne il più
possibile. Ma chi le usava e le manipolava era il Servizio americano, la
Cia".
Ne ebbe prova diretta?
"Avevo personalmente rapporti con la Cia. Con Stone, detto Rocky, capo
della
stazione di Roma e Mike Sedinuoui, un agente di origini algerine.
Eravamo in
contatto per motivi di controspionaggio".
Lei sospettava che la strategia delle bombe avesse una regia
internazionale?
"Sospettavo, senza precisi riscontri".
E questo non era sufficiente per allarmarsi, per avviare un lavoro di
intelligence?
"Noi, come Sid, non eravamo in condizioni di fare nulla. Almeno nei
confronti degli americani. Poi il tempo ci portò le prime conferme. La
Cia,
in Italia, aveva la più importante sezione sulla sicurezza di tutta
l'Europa
occidentale. Le informazioni venivano poi confrontate con l'altra
potentissima centrale presente in Germania".
Germania?
"Sì, la Germania era stato un paese di reclutamento sin dalla fine della
seconda guerra mondiale. La Cia voleva creare, attraverso la rinascita
di
una nazionalismo esasperato e con il contributo dell'estrema destra,
Ordine
nuovo in particolare, l'arresto di questo scivolamento verso sinistra.
Questo è il presupposto di base della strategia della tensione".
In che modo?
"Lasciando fare".
E i nostri servizi ne erano consapevoli o addirittura complici?
"Non c'era piena consapevolezza. Ma esisteva un orientamento nei servizi
favorevole a questo progetto".
In che modo la Cia utilizzò Ordine nuovo?
"Con i suoi infiltrati e con i suoi collaboratori. In varie città
italiane e
in alcune basi della Nato: Aviano, Napoli... La Cia aveva funzioni di
collegamento tra diversi gruppi di estrema destra italiani e tedeschi e
dettava le regole di comportamento. Fornendo anche il materiale".
Esplosivi, armi?
"Numerosi carichi di esplosivo arrivavano dalla Germania via Gottardo
direttamente in Friuli e in Veneto".
E il Sid cosa faceva? Assisteva inerte o subiva?
"Ne parlavo spesso con i collaboratori. Ma non tutti dimostravano di
essere
consapevoli di questa situazione. O erano favorevoli al progetto".
E i suoi referenti politici?
"Li ho contattati, spesso scavalcando il mio capo, il generale Miceli.
Tanassi, Andreotti, Gui. Ma trovavo anche con loro un certo interesse
distaccato. Solo Andreotti...".
Cosa, Andreotti?
"Andreotti no, lui era invece molto interessato. Soprattutto del
terrorismo
di destra e dei tentativi di golpe in Italia. Anche se ogni mia
iniziativa
era vista come una fastidiosa ingerenza".
Ma avrà pure trasmesso, come capo ufficio D, una informativa al governo.
"Tantissime. Che restavano sempre lettera morta. Il Sid era visto con
diffidenza".
Forse perché anche il Sid sapeva ma faceva finta di niente.
"Ad Andreotti parlai personalmente dei tentativi di golpe. Miceli non
voleva
che il rapporto sul golpe Borghese finisse nelle sue mani e mi dissuase
dal
consegnarglielo. Aveva paura di quel rapporto perché risultava essere
stato
in contatto con alcuni uomini del golpe. Io mi resi conto che nel
dossier
figuravano nomi di alti ufficiali seduti in posti di comando e che se
fosse
stato trasmesso alla magistratura avrebbe provocato un terremoto".
E lei, lo nascose.
"Io lo portai ad Andreotti e gli spiegai le mie perplessità".
In quel rapporto c'era una prima prova del coinvolgimento Usa nei
tentativi
di golpe.
"C'era la prova del coinvolgimento di alti uffciali delle nostre forze
armate".
C'era stata piazza Fontana da poco. Lei credette alla pista di sinistra?
"Tutto lasciava pensare questo. Ma io sapevo benissimo che la matrice
era di
destra".
Ma continuò a svolgere il suo lavoro di intelligence e di infiltrazione
a
sinistra.
"La sinistra andava comunque controllata. Della destra sapevamo tutto".
Infiltravate anche Ordine nuovo?
"Certo. Bisognava ottenere quelle informazioni che la Cia conosceva
benissimo ma che noi ignoravamo".
Ma Ordine nuovo infiltrava anche voi del Sid. Chi, dunque, infiltrava
chi?
"Ebbi la sensazione di lavorare in un vero e proprio verminaio. Ma me ne
resi conto troppo tardi".
I suoi centri non le segnalarono mai niente su Ordine Nuovo?
"Molto spesso. Il problema era capire se le notizie erano vere o false.
Nel
1972 mi resi conto della gravità della situazione. Il centro di Padova
ci
segnala che dalla Germania, via Gottardo, arrivavano carichi di
esplosivi
destinati a Ordine nuovo. Lo segnalammo a livelli più alti".
E cosa accadde?
"Niente. Ma scoprimmo e segnalammo anche che l'esplosivo usato a piazza
Fontana proveniva da uno di questi carichi".
Quindi è logico sostenere che il mandante di piazza Fontana sia la Cia?
"Non ci sono le prove dirette, ma è così".
E voi del Sid, lei generale Maletti, cosciente di questa strategia ha
accettato la sudditanza dei nostri servizi alla volontà della Cia. Anche
davanti alle bombe e ai morti innocenti?
"Abbiamo attivato le nostre fonti e abbiamo fatto tutto quello che si
poteva
fare Il potere politico, che non poteva non sapere, non ci ha mai dato
una
direttiva".
Non sarebbe stato meglio dimettersi?
"Mi hanno accusato di simpatie verso Israele. Ma la cattura dei 5
palestinesi a Ostia decisi a far saltare in aria un aereo della El Al
evitò
altre centinaia di morti".
Salvava alcune vite, ma ne sacrificava altre. Anche lei prigioniero del
suo
potere dentro il Sid?
"Io sento un peso fortissimo, come italiano, di quello che è successo.
Mi
sento quasi umiliato di ciò che non abbiamo fatto per impedire tanti
morti.
Chi ha portato avanti questo progetto, che ha ucciso tanti italiani è
italiano. E lo ha fatto, aderendo ad un progetto portato avanti da un
servizio straniero, per ottenere un proprio vantaggio. Di potere".
Ma i politici dominanti del momento, sapevano?
"E' ovvio che sapevano. Anche se non ci saranno mai le prove per
incastrarli. Se i vari capi dei servizi, da Miceli a Casardi, hanno
informato i politici, come era loro interesse, lo hanno fatto anche
attraverso riunioni informali".
Un silenzio che conveniva?
"Da parte dei politici? No, sarebbe criminale. La vera responsabilità
politica nella strategia della tensione è che nessuno ha mai preso delle
decisioni, mai nessun uomo politico ha parlato e agito in termini
politici.
Forlani, l'ho conosciuto troppo poco e mi ha silurato quando ero
diventato
un fastidio. Andreotti, è un uomo intelligente e furbo. Due qualità che
raramente si incontrano assieme, nello stesso individuo. Mi ricorda il
grande vecchio creato da una certa pubblicistica".
E oggi cosa pensa?
"E' un ruolo che gli si addice".
Ma come poteva continuare ad avere i contatti con la Cia, generale, pur
sapendo cosa tramava?
"Non si può dire che la Cia avesse un ruolo attivo e diretto nelle
stragi.
Ma che sapessero e conoscessero obiettivi e autori è vero".
La loro strategia, che puntava a fronteggiare il pericolo comunista, era
talmente cinica da passare sopra centinaia di morti innocenti?
"La Cia ha cercato di fare ciò che aveva fatto in Grecia nel '67 quando
il
golpe mise fuori gioco Papandreu. In Italia, le è sfuggita di mano la
situazione. L'effetto che alcuni attentati dovevano produrre è andato
oltre.
Per piazza Fontana, che io sappia, è andata così. Devo presumere anche
per
piazza della Loggia, per l'Italicus, per Bologna. Riguardo ai politici,
voglio aggiungere una sensazione che per me è quasi una certezza. A quel
tempo, molti di loro, compreso il Capo dello Stato, Leone, furono
costretti
ad accettare il gioco. Perché ognuno aveva avuto la garanzia che il
gioco
non avrebbe superato certi limiti".
E lei, oggi, si sente con la coscienza a posto? Anche per Argo 16,
l'aereo
del Sid precipitato a Marghera?
"Su quell'aereo sono morte persone che conoscevo benissimo".
E' stato sabotato?
"Quando i 5 palestinesi presi ad Ostia vennero rinchiusi nel carcere di
Viterbo, il capo della stazione del Mossad a Roma, Asa Leven, mi venne a
trovare. Mi disse di aver saputo che il governo italiano aveva
intenzione di
restituirli alla Libia. Lui mi chiese di agire assieme, noi e loro, per
sequestrarli".
Nel carcere?
"Sì. Avevano già messo a punto un piano. Noi dovevamo procurarci un
documento giudiziario falso e con una scusa trasferirli dal carcere
verso un
presunto Tribunale. Loro, il Mossad, avrebbero pensato al resto.
Avrebbero
assaltato il furgone, addormentato con un narcotico i 5, li avrebbero
bendati, caricati su un aereo pronto a decollare e trasferiti a Tel
Aviv".
E lei?
"Non se ne fa nulla. I 5, dopo un sommario processo, vengono trasferiti
in
Libia ma l'aereo fa uno scalo a Malta. Qui, tutti si fanno una bella
mangiata di pesce, e vengono notati da degli agenti del Mossad. Una
sosta
infelice. Forse, è stata la conferma definitiva, se ce n'era bisogno,
che i
5 avevano preso il volo. Lungo la rotta di ritorno, Argo 16 precipita".
Altri morti innocenti...
"Una sequela di morti. In un clima da scontro tra servizi che non si
sopportavano e non si fidavano l'uno dell'altro".
Ma le bombe continuavano a esplodere. E voi, del Sid, niente.
"Non c'era più alcuna strategia. I gruppi di estrema destra si erano
sganciati. Ormai c'era solo terrore".
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In seguito al nostro messaggio "Un 'traditore' nella NATO" sul
caso Bunel ( http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/377 )
abbiamo ricevuto da M. Cristaldi il seguente commento:
> Constatata la mancata resurrezione delle BR, richiesta a gran voce dai
> responsabili di governo, siamo in attesa di un traditore della CIA che ci
> chiarisca altrettanto bene la vicenda dell'omicidio D'Antona eseguito a
> Roma durante l'attacco bellico alla Jugoslavia.
Sulla strategia della tensione a venti anni dalla strage della stazione
di Bologna segnaliamo invece da "La Repubblica" di oggi:
http://www.repubblica.it/quotidiano/repubblica/20000804/interni/06malet.html
Maletti, la spia latitante
"La Cia dietro quelle bombe"
"Andreotti, Leone e i silenzi interessati della politica"
Dal Sudafrica parla l'uomo del Sid condannato per depistaggio. "Saldo il
mio
debito di verità con l'Italia"
dal nostro inviato DANIELE MASTROGIACOMO
JOHANNESBURG - "Sono stanco di pagare per altri. Obbligato all'esilio,
condanne per 31 anni, nove ancora da scontare. Mi sembra un po'
troppo... so
di avere un debito di verità nei confronti dell'Italia". Gli occhi della
vecchia spia si perdono oltre il parco del quartiere residenziale di
Rosebank, Sudafrica. Bugie, misteri, faide e lotte intestine. E poi quei
morti, gli attentati, nelle banche, sui treni, nelle piazze. Gianadelio
Maletti, classe 1921, generale di divisione, cittadino sudafricano dal
1980,
assistito dall'avvocato Michele Gentiloni, è disposto a rivelare ciò che
sa.
La sua verità. Di sicuro ci sono le sue condanne: per depistaggio, per
avere
aiutato i neofascisti Giannettini e Pozzan, per avere deviato le
indagini
sulla bomba di Bertoli alla questura di Milano. Propone la sua verità
vista
"da dentro". Nel 1971 è nominato capo del reparto D: punta di diamante
del
nostro controspionaggio militare.
Generale, avrà saputo della relazione di minoranza della Commissione
Stragi.
Si afferma che la strategia della tensione fu di stampo atlantista.
"Ho saputo e letto qualcosa. E immagino che quall'atlantista stia per
americano. Usa".
Sì. Lei cosa ne pensa?
"Era una necessità della Nato raccogliere notizie ed elaborarne il più
possibile. Ma chi le usava e le manipolava era il Servizio americano, la
Cia".
Ne ebbe prova diretta?
"Avevo personalmente rapporti con la Cia. Con Stone, detto Rocky, capo
della
stazione di Roma e Mike Sedinuoui, un agente di origini algerine.
Eravamo in
contatto per motivi di controspionaggio".
Lei sospettava che la strategia delle bombe avesse una regia
internazionale?
"Sospettavo, senza precisi riscontri".
E questo non era sufficiente per allarmarsi, per avviare un lavoro di
intelligence?
"Noi, come Sid, non eravamo in condizioni di fare nulla. Almeno nei
confronti degli americani. Poi il tempo ci portò le prime conferme. La
Cia,
in Italia, aveva la più importante sezione sulla sicurezza di tutta
l'Europa
occidentale. Le informazioni venivano poi confrontate con l'altra
potentissima centrale presente in Germania".
Germania?
"Sì, la Germania era stato un paese di reclutamento sin dalla fine della
seconda guerra mondiale. La Cia voleva creare, attraverso la rinascita
di
una nazionalismo esasperato e con il contributo dell'estrema destra,
Ordine
nuovo in particolare, l'arresto di questo scivolamento verso sinistra.
Questo è il presupposto di base della strategia della tensione".
In che modo?
"Lasciando fare".
E i nostri servizi ne erano consapevoli o addirittura complici?
"Non c'era piena consapevolezza. Ma esisteva un orientamento nei servizi
favorevole a questo progetto".
In che modo la Cia utilizzò Ordine nuovo?
"Con i suoi infiltrati e con i suoi collaboratori. In varie città
italiane e
in alcune basi della Nato: Aviano, Napoli... La Cia aveva funzioni di
collegamento tra diversi gruppi di estrema destra italiani e tedeschi e
dettava le regole di comportamento. Fornendo anche il materiale".
Esplosivi, armi?
"Numerosi carichi di esplosivo arrivavano dalla Germania via Gottardo
direttamente in Friuli e in Veneto".
E il Sid cosa faceva? Assisteva inerte o subiva?
"Ne parlavo spesso con i collaboratori. Ma non tutti dimostravano di
essere
consapevoli di questa situazione. O erano favorevoli al progetto".
E i suoi referenti politici?
"Li ho contattati, spesso scavalcando il mio capo, il generale Miceli.
Tanassi, Andreotti, Gui. Ma trovavo anche con loro un certo interesse
distaccato. Solo Andreotti...".
Cosa, Andreotti?
"Andreotti no, lui era invece molto interessato. Soprattutto del
terrorismo
di destra e dei tentativi di golpe in Italia. Anche se ogni mia
iniziativa
era vista come una fastidiosa ingerenza".
Ma avrà pure trasmesso, come capo ufficio D, una informativa al governo.
"Tantissime. Che restavano sempre lettera morta. Il Sid era visto con
diffidenza".
Forse perché anche il Sid sapeva ma faceva finta di niente.
"Ad Andreotti parlai personalmente dei tentativi di golpe. Miceli non
voleva
che il rapporto sul golpe Borghese finisse nelle sue mani e mi dissuase
dal
consegnarglielo. Aveva paura di quel rapporto perché risultava essere
stato
in contatto con alcuni uomini del golpe. Io mi resi conto che nel
dossier
figuravano nomi di alti ufficiali seduti in posti di comando e che se
fosse
stato trasmesso alla magistratura avrebbe provocato un terremoto".
E lei, lo nascose.
"Io lo portai ad Andreotti e gli spiegai le mie perplessità".
In quel rapporto c'era una prima prova del coinvolgimento Usa nei
tentativi
di golpe.
"C'era la prova del coinvolgimento di alti uffciali delle nostre forze
armate".
C'era stata piazza Fontana da poco. Lei credette alla pista di sinistra?
"Tutto lasciava pensare questo. Ma io sapevo benissimo che la matrice
era di
destra".
Ma continuò a svolgere il suo lavoro di intelligence e di infiltrazione
a
sinistra.
"La sinistra andava comunque controllata. Della destra sapevamo tutto".
Infiltravate anche Ordine nuovo?
"Certo. Bisognava ottenere quelle informazioni che la Cia conosceva
benissimo ma che noi ignoravamo".
Ma Ordine nuovo infiltrava anche voi del Sid. Chi, dunque, infiltrava
chi?
"Ebbi la sensazione di lavorare in un vero e proprio verminaio. Ma me ne
resi conto troppo tardi".
I suoi centri non le segnalarono mai niente su Ordine Nuovo?
"Molto spesso. Il problema era capire se le notizie erano vere o false.
Nel
1972 mi resi conto della gravità della situazione. Il centro di Padova
ci
segnala che dalla Germania, via Gottardo, arrivavano carichi di
esplosivi
destinati a Ordine nuovo. Lo segnalammo a livelli più alti".
E cosa accadde?
"Niente. Ma scoprimmo e segnalammo anche che l'esplosivo usato a piazza
Fontana proveniva da uno di questi carichi".
Quindi è logico sostenere che il mandante di piazza Fontana sia la Cia?
"Non ci sono le prove dirette, ma è così".
E voi del Sid, lei generale Maletti, cosciente di questa strategia ha
accettato la sudditanza dei nostri servizi alla volontà della Cia. Anche
davanti alle bombe e ai morti innocenti?
"Abbiamo attivato le nostre fonti e abbiamo fatto tutto quello che si
poteva
fare Il potere politico, che non poteva non sapere, non ci ha mai dato
una
direttiva".
Non sarebbe stato meglio dimettersi?
"Mi hanno accusato di simpatie verso Israele. Ma la cattura dei 5
palestinesi a Ostia decisi a far saltare in aria un aereo della El Al
evitò
altre centinaia di morti".
Salvava alcune vite, ma ne sacrificava altre. Anche lei prigioniero del
suo
potere dentro il Sid?
"Io sento un peso fortissimo, come italiano, di quello che è successo.
Mi
sento quasi umiliato di ciò che non abbiamo fatto per impedire tanti
morti.
Chi ha portato avanti questo progetto, che ha ucciso tanti italiani è
italiano. E lo ha fatto, aderendo ad un progetto portato avanti da un
servizio straniero, per ottenere un proprio vantaggio. Di potere".
Ma i politici dominanti del momento, sapevano?
"E' ovvio che sapevano. Anche se non ci saranno mai le prove per
incastrarli. Se i vari capi dei servizi, da Miceli a Casardi, hanno
informato i politici, come era loro interesse, lo hanno fatto anche
attraverso riunioni informali".
Un silenzio che conveniva?
"Da parte dei politici? No, sarebbe criminale. La vera responsabilità
politica nella strategia della tensione è che nessuno ha mai preso delle
decisioni, mai nessun uomo politico ha parlato e agito in termini
politici.
Forlani, l'ho conosciuto troppo poco e mi ha silurato quando ero
diventato
un fastidio. Andreotti, è un uomo intelligente e furbo. Due qualità che
raramente si incontrano assieme, nello stesso individuo. Mi ricorda il
grande vecchio creato da una certa pubblicistica".
E oggi cosa pensa?
"E' un ruolo che gli si addice".
Ma come poteva continuare ad avere i contatti con la Cia, generale, pur
sapendo cosa tramava?
"Non si può dire che la Cia avesse un ruolo attivo e diretto nelle
stragi.
Ma che sapessero e conoscessero obiettivi e autori è vero".
La loro strategia, che puntava a fronteggiare il pericolo comunista, era
talmente cinica da passare sopra centinaia di morti innocenti?
"La Cia ha cercato di fare ciò che aveva fatto in Grecia nel '67 quando
il
golpe mise fuori gioco Papandreu. In Italia, le è sfuggita di mano la
situazione. L'effetto che alcuni attentati dovevano produrre è andato
oltre.
Per piazza Fontana, che io sappia, è andata così. Devo presumere anche
per
piazza della Loggia, per l'Italicus, per Bologna. Riguardo ai politici,
voglio aggiungere una sensazione che per me è quasi una certezza. A quel
tempo, molti di loro, compreso il Capo dello Stato, Leone, furono
costretti
ad accettare il gioco. Perché ognuno aveva avuto la garanzia che il
gioco
non avrebbe superato certi limiti".
E lei, oggi, si sente con la coscienza a posto? Anche per Argo 16,
l'aereo
del Sid precipitato a Marghera?
"Su quell'aereo sono morte persone che conoscevo benissimo".
E' stato sabotato?
"Quando i 5 palestinesi presi ad Ostia vennero rinchiusi nel carcere di
Viterbo, il capo della stazione del Mossad a Roma, Asa Leven, mi venne a
trovare. Mi disse di aver saputo che il governo italiano aveva
intenzione di
restituirli alla Libia. Lui mi chiese di agire assieme, noi e loro, per
sequestrarli".
Nel carcere?
"Sì. Avevano già messo a punto un piano. Noi dovevamo procurarci un
documento giudiziario falso e con una scusa trasferirli dal carcere
verso un
presunto Tribunale. Loro, il Mossad, avrebbero pensato al resto.
Avrebbero
assaltato il furgone, addormentato con un narcotico i 5, li avrebbero
bendati, caricati su un aereo pronto a decollare e trasferiti a Tel
Aviv".
E lei?
"Non se ne fa nulla. I 5, dopo un sommario processo, vengono trasferiti
in
Libia ma l'aereo fa uno scalo a Malta. Qui, tutti si fanno una bella
mangiata di pesce, e vengono notati da degli agenti del Mossad. Una
sosta
infelice. Forse, è stata la conferma definitiva, se ce n'era bisogno,
che i
5 avevano preso il volo. Lungo la rotta di ritorno, Argo 16 precipita".
Altri morti innocenti...
"Una sequela di morti. In un clima da scontro tra servizi che non si
sopportavano e non si fidavano l'uno dell'altro".
Ma le bombe continuavano a esplodere. E voi, del Sid, niente.
"Non c'era più alcuna strategia. I gruppi di estrema destra si erano
sganciati. Ormai c'era solo terrore".
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4 AGOSTO
1995: scatta la "Operazione Tempesta" per la cancellazione definitiva
della Repubblica della Krajna Serba dalle cartine geografiche.
Materialmente realizzata dall'esercito della Croazia indipendente,
l'operazione viene coadiuvata dagli USA e dalla NATO.
In Italia, l'"Operazione Tempesta" non trova che flebili voci critiche,
anche in una sinistra drogata dalla campagna antijugoslava ed antiserba,
e gia' favorevole a tutte le "autodeterminazioni" possibili tranne che
quella dei serbi in Croazia e Bosnia. Un mese dopo, l'Italia concedera'
il suo territorio come base di lancio per gli aerei che andranno a
bombardare la Repubblica Serba di Bosnia.
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REPUBLIKA SRPSKA KRAJINA
1991-1995
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U.S.-trained forces massacre Serbs
By Gary Wilson
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 1995
issue of Workers World newspaper
Details of a mass slaughter of Serbs in the Krajina region
of Croatia are slowly making their way into the U.S. media.
But the news reports remain strangely subdued. There are
no calls for air strikes against the Croatian capital of
Zagreb, as there are regular calls for bombs against the
Serbs. There are no editorials calling for trying the
Croatian leaders for war crimes.
According to investigators for the United Nations,
"Croatian army and police units allegedly burned 60 percent
of the houses" in the Krajina region, reported the Sept. 30
Washington Post. They also "executed elderly Serbs who
remained in the region." Unlike almost every other report of
genocide in the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, the Post
noted that these reports were "unusual in their first-hand
detail."
An open letter from the Belgrade-based Serbian-Jewish
Friendship Society to the American Jewish Committee says
that "anti-Serbian propaganda" is "a twin sister of anti-
Semitism." The letter states that today in Croatia a policy
of eliminating the Serbs is being carried out. This policy
is so thorough that "in Croatia there are [now] no more
Serbs than there are Jews in Germany or Poland." The letter
is signed by the chief rabbi of Yugoslavia as well as many
other prominent Jews of Yugoslavia. But this letter has not
been referred to in the U.S. media.
What's not widely known in this country is that the
Croatian and Bosnian armies are armed and directed by the
Pentagon. The Croatian offensive against the Krajina was
planned after 15 top U.S. military officers--including the
former head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency--were
put in place as "advisers" to the Croatian military.
The Bosnian Army is being "helped" by U.S. military
advisers, including Gen. John Sewall and Gen. John Galvin, a
former NATO supreme commander. Television viewers may have
noticed that the entire Bosnian Army wears U.S. military
uniforms--provided by U.S. military contractors. In the
September/October issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Gen.
Charles Boyd, the deputy commander in chief of the U.S.
European Command from November 1992 to July 1995, writes
that the much-publicized arms embargo is widely known to be
almost nonexistent. The U.S. discreetly insures a regular
flow of arms to the Bosnian Army.
U.S. media reports are regularly filled with anti-Serb
propaganda. Most refer to the Krajina as a region
"conquered" by the Serbs, implying that the Croatian Army is
simply retaking something that had been taken away.
But the truth is exactly the opposite. The following
exchange shows the propaganda view of the "liberal" media
and gives a response.
On the Aug. 11 broadcast of "All Things Considered" on
National Public Radio, news reader Noah Adams interviewed
author Misha Glenny:
"Adams: Why did Serbia take the Krajina four years ago, if
it is indefensible?
"Glenny: We've got to set one or two things straight here,
Noah, about Serbia taking the Krajina. The Krajina came into
being at the same time as the Croatian republic became
independent when Yugoslavia was collapsing. The Croats
wanted to leave Yugoslavia and the Serbs who lived in the
Krajina wanted to stay in Yugoslavia. So we simply can't use
terms like `Serbia occupying the Krajina' or something like
that. These people had been, until five days ago, living and
farming this territory for over 300 years."
What is happening in Bosnia is nothing like what's being
reported by the big business-controlled media.
It's like the Gulf War against Iraq. Many of the media
stories at that time turned out to be complete fabrications
to support the Pentagon's propaganda needs.
For example, according to Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting, "most U.S. news outlets uncritically accepted the
story that 300 premature babies died when Iraqi soldiers
removed them from incubators." But after the war was over,
the New York Times (Feb. 28, 1991) put a two-sentence
retraction deep inside an article saying: "Some of the
atrocities that had been reported, such as the killing of
infants in the main hospitals shortly after the invasion,
are untrue or have been exaggerated, Kuwaitis said. Hospital
officials, for instance, said that stories circulated about
the killing of 300 children were incorrect."
Following is some background information on the history of
Yugoslavia and the officials in Croatia and Bosnia who are
backed by the U.S.
SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA
Yugoslavia was different from almost every other country
in the world in its ethnic diversity. It had no majority
nationality. It was a nation of minorities.
Socialist Yugoslavia had gone a long way toward uniting
the nationalities while recognizing the rights of self-
determination for the different peoples of the region. It
was only during the socialist era that the Balkans were free
from ethnic war.
That's because of the policies of the Yugoslav League of
Communists and its leader, Tito. According to the book "War
in the Shadows" by Robert Asprey, the Communist party's
promise of equal rights for all the nationalities "appealed
to a great many unaligned people who loathed the repressive
pre-war order represented by the [U.S.-backed] government-
in-exile through Mihailovic's Chetniks. The harshness of
German and Italian occupation policies further influenced
the population in favor of the Partisans, who possessed much
wider support than either Western allied observers or
Germans supposed."
The U.S. opposed the Communist government from the
beginning and supported Chetniks in exile for the entire
Cold War period. The Cold War was really a period when the
U.S. government pursued a policy of destroying socialism in
the Soviet Union as well as Eastern Europe, including
Yugoslavia. U.S. overt and covert subversion, sabotage and
treachery were more important factors in the destruction of
Yugoslavia than any ethnic animosities.
U.S. ANTI-MUSLIM POLICIES
The most popular Muslim leader in Bosnia is not Alija
Izetbegovic. By popular vote, Fikret Abdic was the most
widely supported Muslim leader. But he was anti-U.S. and
against the breakup of Yugoslavia. He supported Muslim-
Serbian-Croatian cooperation.
With U.S. support, a narrow grouping around Izetbegovic
forced Abdic out of the Bosnian government, where he was
part of the collective presidency. The media call Abdic the
"renegade Muslim." He led an army opposing the Izetbegovic
regime that was allied with the Bosnian Serbs. Last spring,
he was captured by the Croatian Army in the Bihac region.
ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC
The regime of Alija Izetbegovic is thoroughly backed by
the U.S. government and military. In fact, its foreign
minister, Mohamed Sacirbey, is a U.S. citizen.
The government itself has carried out criminal attacks.
According to an article in The Nation by David Binder, the
two bloodiest bombings of the civilian marketplace in
downtown Sarajevo have been traced to the forces of the
Izetbegovic government.
Izetbegovic is a long-time anti-communist of the type
supported by the U.S. throughout the Cold War.
During World War II, he was a member of a group that
included many collaborators with the Nazi occupiers. In
1949, Izetbegovic was one of the leaders of a revolt against
the Tito government. He and several others were sent to
prison.
Izetbegovic continued his anti-communist activities once
he was out. He maintained close contact with U.S.-backed
exile groups.
In 1970, he published an "Islamic Declaration" that said,
"There can be neither peace nor coexistence between the
Islamic faith and non-Islamic social and political institutions."
In 1983, he and 12 others were convicted for counter-
revolutionary acts, including the advocacy of an "ethnically
pure Bosnia-Herzegovina."
FRANJO TUDJMAN
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman is another darling of
the U.S. government. He has received considerable backing
from the Pentagon and State Department. When he spoke at the
opening of the Holocaust Museum in Washington as a Clinton-
invited guest of honor, many in the audience walked out.
This is the man who once declared, "Thank god my wife is
neither a Serb nor a Jew."
Tudjman is a Croatian nationalist and anti-communist. His
government has adopted the flag and currency of the fascist
Ustashe regime during World War II.
His book "Wastelands: Historical Truths" asserts that
"only" 900,000 Jews died in the Holocaust, not 6 million. He
also asserts that no more than 70,000 Serbs were killed in
the Ustashe death camps.
According to Alfred Lipson, a senior researcher at the
Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensborough
Community College in New York, "more than 60,000 Jews died"
at the death camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, "along with 27,000
Gypsies; the Serbs, the most anti-Nazi ethnic group in
Yugoslavia, suffered the greatest losses--1.2 million."
(Forward, Nov. 11, 1994)
Although the U.S. has brokered a Croatian-Bosnian
federation between Tudjman and Izetbegovic, it is a shaky
alliance at best. Tudjman is violently anti-Muslim, to the
point of even denying the Muslims legitimacy. In an
interview in the Sept. 25 French daily Le Figaro, Tudjman
said that the Muslims are really Croatians who should
eventually be incorporated into Croatia.
Tudjman says in the Le Figaro interview that he sees his
task in the Croatian-Bosnian federation as "Europeanizing"
the Muslims and "bringing them into European civilization."
In his racist ravings, Tudjman sounds like Los Angeles cop
Mark Fuhrman. Except Tudjman heads up a country. According
to an Aug. 19 New York Times profile, Tudjman came to power
"helped by financing from anti-communist Croatian emigres in
the United States and Canada." What the Times doesn't
mention is that these groups are ultimately financed by the
CIA. It was this U.S.-based support that put Tudjman at the
head of the Croatian government.
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PRESS RELEASE
REMEMBERING KRAJINA
Join us in commemorating ethnocide and genocide
committed on Serbs in
Krajina , Bosnia and Kosovo.
August 4th is Krajina Dan, the Memorial Day for
Serbian Krajina.
This commemorates the day that Knin, the capital of the
Serbian Krajina
region, fell to invading Croatian forces in 1995. Croatia
continues to
occupy the region today and of more than 250,000 Serbian
people whom the
Croatian Army either killed or ethnically-cleansed out of the
region in
August, 1995, the number who have returned is virtually zero
to this date.
Every August 4th a Krajina Dan Memorial is held to remember
the victims of
this genocide. This year's program is:
Memorial Prayer Service and a wrath laying at the
Human Rights
Memorial, Elgin and Lisgar streets, at 6:00pm - 6: 30pm.
For further information pls. contact Mrs. Radmila Swann
(serbian.heritage@...)
Slobodanka Borojevic, president
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
As Croatian troops launched their assault on August 4 ,
1995, U.S. NATO
aircraft destroyed Serbian radar and anti-aircraft defenses.
American EA-6B
electronic warfare aircraft patrolled the air in support of
the invasion ....
The roads were clogged with Serb refugees, and Croatian
aircraft bombed
and strafed refugee columns....
A Red Cross representative in Banja Luka said, "I've never
seen anything
like it. People are arriving at a terrifying rate." Bosnian
Muslim troops
crossed the border and cut off Serbian escape routes.
Trapped refugees were
massacred as they were pounded by Croatian and Muslim
artillery. Nearly
1,700 refugees simply vanished. (3). ....
Massacres continued for several weeks after the fall of
Krajina, and UN
patrols discovered numerous fresh unmarked graves and bodies
of murdered
civilians. (7)...
UN spokesman Chris Gunness noted that UN personnel
continued to discover
bodies, many of whom had been decapitated. (8) British
journalist Robert
Fisk reported the murder of elderly Serbs, many of whom were
burned alive
in their homes. He adds, "At Golubic, UN officers have
found the
decomposing remains of five people... the head of one of the
victims was
found 150 feet from his body. (11)...
Following the invasion of Krajina, the U.S. rewarded
Croatia with an
agreement "broadening existing cooperation" between MPRI and
the Croatian
military. (18) U.S. advisors assisted in the reorganization
of the Croatian
Army. Referring to this reorganization in an interview with
the newspaper
Vecernji List, Croatian General Tihomir Blaskic said, "We
are building the
foundations of our organization on the traditions of the
Croatian home
guard" - pro-Nazi troops in World War II. (19) ...
This study is based on a paper presented in book "NATO in
the Balkans"
(ISBN 0-9656916-2-4), pages 131 - 140.
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1995: scatta la "Operazione Tempesta" per la cancellazione definitiva
della Repubblica della Krajna Serba dalle cartine geografiche.
Materialmente realizzata dall'esercito della Croazia indipendente,
l'operazione viene coadiuvata dagli USA e dalla NATO.
In Italia, l'"Operazione Tempesta" non trova che flebili voci critiche,
anche in una sinistra drogata dalla campagna antijugoslava ed antiserba,
e gia' favorevole a tutte le "autodeterminazioni" possibili tranne che
quella dei serbi in Croazia e Bosnia. Un mese dopo, l'Italia concedera'
il suo territorio come base di lancio per gli aerei che andranno a
bombardare la Repubblica Serba di Bosnia.
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REPUBLIKA SRPSKA KRAJINA
1991-1995
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U.S.-trained forces massacre Serbs
By Gary Wilson
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Oct. 12, 1995
issue of Workers World newspaper
Details of a mass slaughter of Serbs in the Krajina region
of Croatia are slowly making their way into the U.S. media.
But the news reports remain strangely subdued. There are
no calls for air strikes against the Croatian capital of
Zagreb, as there are regular calls for bombs against the
Serbs. There are no editorials calling for trying the
Croatian leaders for war crimes.
According to investigators for the United Nations,
"Croatian army and police units allegedly burned 60 percent
of the houses" in the Krajina region, reported the Sept. 30
Washington Post. They also "executed elderly Serbs who
remained in the region." Unlike almost every other report of
genocide in the civil war in the former Yugoslavia, the Post
noted that these reports were "unusual in their first-hand
detail."
An open letter from the Belgrade-based Serbian-Jewish
Friendship Society to the American Jewish Committee says
that "anti-Serbian propaganda" is "a twin sister of anti-
Semitism." The letter states that today in Croatia a policy
of eliminating the Serbs is being carried out. This policy
is so thorough that "in Croatia there are [now] no more
Serbs than there are Jews in Germany or Poland." The letter
is signed by the chief rabbi of Yugoslavia as well as many
other prominent Jews of Yugoslavia. But this letter has not
been referred to in the U.S. media.
What's not widely known in this country is that the
Croatian and Bosnian armies are armed and directed by the
Pentagon. The Croatian offensive against the Krajina was
planned after 15 top U.S. military officers--including the
former head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency--were
put in place as "advisers" to the Croatian military.
The Bosnian Army is being "helped" by U.S. military
advisers, including Gen. John Sewall and Gen. John Galvin, a
former NATO supreme commander. Television viewers may have
noticed that the entire Bosnian Army wears U.S. military
uniforms--provided by U.S. military contractors. In the
September/October issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Gen.
Charles Boyd, the deputy commander in chief of the U.S.
European Command from November 1992 to July 1995, writes
that the much-publicized arms embargo is widely known to be
almost nonexistent. The U.S. discreetly insures a regular
flow of arms to the Bosnian Army.
U.S. media reports are regularly filled with anti-Serb
propaganda. Most refer to the Krajina as a region
"conquered" by the Serbs, implying that the Croatian Army is
simply retaking something that had been taken away.
But the truth is exactly the opposite. The following
exchange shows the propaganda view of the "liberal" media
and gives a response.
On the Aug. 11 broadcast of "All Things Considered" on
National Public Radio, news reader Noah Adams interviewed
author Misha Glenny:
"Adams: Why did Serbia take the Krajina four years ago, if
it is indefensible?
"Glenny: We've got to set one or two things straight here,
Noah, about Serbia taking the Krajina. The Krajina came into
being at the same time as the Croatian republic became
independent when Yugoslavia was collapsing. The Croats
wanted to leave Yugoslavia and the Serbs who lived in the
Krajina wanted to stay in Yugoslavia. So we simply can't use
terms like `Serbia occupying the Krajina' or something like
that. These people had been, until five days ago, living and
farming this territory for over 300 years."
What is happening in Bosnia is nothing like what's being
reported by the big business-controlled media.
It's like the Gulf War against Iraq. Many of the media
stories at that time turned out to be complete fabrications
to support the Pentagon's propaganda needs.
For example, according to Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting, "most U.S. news outlets uncritically accepted the
story that 300 premature babies died when Iraqi soldiers
removed them from incubators." But after the war was over,
the New York Times (Feb. 28, 1991) put a two-sentence
retraction deep inside an article saying: "Some of the
atrocities that had been reported, such as the killing of
infants in the main hospitals shortly after the invasion,
are untrue or have been exaggerated, Kuwaitis said. Hospital
officials, for instance, said that stories circulated about
the killing of 300 children were incorrect."
Following is some background information on the history of
Yugoslavia and the officials in Croatia and Bosnia who are
backed by the U.S.
SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA
Yugoslavia was different from almost every other country
in the world in its ethnic diversity. It had no majority
nationality. It was a nation of minorities.
Socialist Yugoslavia had gone a long way toward uniting
the nationalities while recognizing the rights of self-
determination for the different peoples of the region. It
was only during the socialist era that the Balkans were free
from ethnic war.
That's because of the policies of the Yugoslav League of
Communists and its leader, Tito. According to the book "War
in the Shadows" by Robert Asprey, the Communist party's
promise of equal rights for all the nationalities "appealed
to a great many unaligned people who loathed the repressive
pre-war order represented by the [U.S.-backed] government-
in-exile through Mihailovic's Chetniks. The harshness of
German and Italian occupation policies further influenced
the population in favor of the Partisans, who possessed much
wider support than either Western allied observers or
Germans supposed."
The U.S. opposed the Communist government from the
beginning and supported Chetniks in exile for the entire
Cold War period. The Cold War was really a period when the
U.S. government pursued a policy of destroying socialism in
the Soviet Union as well as Eastern Europe, including
Yugoslavia. U.S. overt and covert subversion, sabotage and
treachery were more important factors in the destruction of
Yugoslavia than any ethnic animosities.
U.S. ANTI-MUSLIM POLICIES
The most popular Muslim leader in Bosnia is not Alija
Izetbegovic. By popular vote, Fikret Abdic was the most
widely supported Muslim leader. But he was anti-U.S. and
against the breakup of Yugoslavia. He supported Muslim-
Serbian-Croatian cooperation.
With U.S. support, a narrow grouping around Izetbegovic
forced Abdic out of the Bosnian government, where he was
part of the collective presidency. The media call Abdic the
"renegade Muslim." He led an army opposing the Izetbegovic
regime that was allied with the Bosnian Serbs. Last spring,
he was captured by the Croatian Army in the Bihac region.
ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC
The regime of Alija Izetbegovic is thoroughly backed by
the U.S. government and military. In fact, its foreign
minister, Mohamed Sacirbey, is a U.S. citizen.
The government itself has carried out criminal attacks.
According to an article in The Nation by David Binder, the
two bloodiest bombings of the civilian marketplace in
downtown Sarajevo have been traced to the forces of the
Izetbegovic government.
Izetbegovic is a long-time anti-communist of the type
supported by the U.S. throughout the Cold War.
During World War II, he was a member of a group that
included many collaborators with the Nazi occupiers. In
1949, Izetbegovic was one of the leaders of a revolt against
the Tito government. He and several others were sent to
prison.
Izetbegovic continued his anti-communist activities once
he was out. He maintained close contact with U.S.-backed
exile groups.
In 1970, he published an "Islamic Declaration" that said,
"There can be neither peace nor coexistence between the
Islamic faith and non-Islamic social and political institutions."
In 1983, he and 12 others were convicted for counter-
revolutionary acts, including the advocacy of an "ethnically
pure Bosnia-Herzegovina."
FRANJO TUDJMAN
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman is another darling of
the U.S. government. He has received considerable backing
from the Pentagon and State Department. When he spoke at the
opening of the Holocaust Museum in Washington as a Clinton-
invited guest of honor, many in the audience walked out.
This is the man who once declared, "Thank god my wife is
neither a Serb nor a Jew."
Tudjman is a Croatian nationalist and anti-communist. His
government has adopted the flag and currency of the fascist
Ustashe regime during World War II.
His book "Wastelands: Historical Truths" asserts that
"only" 900,000 Jews died in the Holocaust, not 6 million. He
also asserts that no more than 70,000 Serbs were killed in
the Ustashe death camps.
According to Alfred Lipson, a senior researcher at the
Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensborough
Community College in New York, "more than 60,000 Jews died"
at the death camp in Jasenovac, Croatia, "along with 27,000
Gypsies; the Serbs, the most anti-Nazi ethnic group in
Yugoslavia, suffered the greatest losses--1.2 million."
(Forward, Nov. 11, 1994)
Although the U.S. has brokered a Croatian-Bosnian
federation between Tudjman and Izetbegovic, it is a shaky
alliance at best. Tudjman is violently anti-Muslim, to the
point of even denying the Muslims legitimacy. In an
interview in the Sept. 25 French daily Le Figaro, Tudjman
said that the Muslims are really Croatians who should
eventually be incorporated into Croatia.
Tudjman says in the Le Figaro interview that he sees his
task in the Croatian-Bosnian federation as "Europeanizing"
the Muslims and "bringing them into European civilization."
In his racist ravings, Tudjman sounds like Los Angeles cop
Mark Fuhrman. Except Tudjman heads up a country. According
to an Aug. 19 New York Times profile, Tudjman came to power
"helped by financing from anti-communist Croatian emigres in
the United States and Canada." What the Times doesn't
mention is that these groups are ultimately financed by the
CIA. It was this U.S.-based support that put Tudjman at the
head of the Croatian government.
- END -
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serbian.heritage@...
PRESS RELEASE
REMEMBERING KRAJINA
Join us in commemorating ethnocide and genocide
committed on Serbs in
Krajina , Bosnia and Kosovo.
August 4th is Krajina Dan, the Memorial Day for
Serbian Krajina.
This commemorates the day that Knin, the capital of the
Serbian Krajina
region, fell to invading Croatian forces in 1995. Croatia
continues to
occupy the region today and of more than 250,000 Serbian
people whom the
Croatian Army either killed or ethnically-cleansed out of the
region in
August, 1995, the number who have returned is virtually zero
to this date.
Every August 4th a Krajina Dan Memorial is held to remember
the victims of
this genocide. This year's program is:
Memorial Prayer Service and a wrath laying at the
Human Rights
Memorial, Elgin and Lisgar streets, at 6:00pm - 6: 30pm.
For further information pls. contact Mrs. Radmila Swann
(serbian.heritage@...)
Slobodanka Borojevic, president
The Ottawa Serbian Heritage Society
As Croatian troops launched their assault on August 4 ,
1995, U.S. NATO
aircraft destroyed Serbian radar and anti-aircraft defenses.
American EA-6B
electronic warfare aircraft patrolled the air in support of
the invasion ....
The roads were clogged with Serb refugees, and Croatian
aircraft bombed
and strafed refugee columns....
A Red Cross representative in Banja Luka said, "I've never
seen anything
like it. People are arriving at a terrifying rate." Bosnian
Muslim troops
crossed the border and cut off Serbian escape routes.
Trapped refugees were
massacred as they were pounded by Croatian and Muslim
artillery. Nearly
1,700 refugees simply vanished. (3). ....
Massacres continued for several weeks after the fall of
Krajina, and UN
patrols discovered numerous fresh unmarked graves and bodies
of murdered
civilians. (7)...
UN spokesman Chris Gunness noted that UN personnel
continued to discover
bodies, many of whom had been decapitated. (8) British
journalist Robert
Fisk reported the murder of elderly Serbs, many of whom were
burned alive
in their homes. He adds, "At Golubic, UN officers have
found the
decomposing remains of five people... the head of one of the
victims was
found 150 feet from his body. (11)...
Following the invasion of Krajina, the U.S. rewarded
Croatia with an
agreement "broadening existing cooperation" between MPRI and
the Croatian
military. (18) U.S. advisors assisted in the reorganization
of the Croatian
Army. Referring to this reorganization in an interview with
the newspaper
Vecernji List, Croatian General Tihomir Blaskic said, "We
are building the
foundations of our organization on the traditions of the
Croatian home
guard" - pro-Nazi troops in World War II. (19) ...
This study is based on a paper presented in book "NATO in
the Balkans"
(ISBN 0-9656916-2-4), pages 131 - 140.
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