ROMA - BOLOGNA - NAPOLI - BUSSOLENO (TO)
ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIA-JUGOSLAVIA

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>
> SEZIONE ITALIANA DEL TRIBUNALE INDIPENDENTE
> CONTRO I CRIMINI DELLA NATO IN JUGOSLAVIA
> PROPOSTO DA RAMSEY CLARK
> Per continuare le iniziative seguendo il metodo iniziale della nostra
> attivita' si e' deciso di organizzare a Roma cinque iniziative preparatorie
> della riunione finale in cui il "tribunale" italiano processera' gli
> imputati del nostro paese ( D'Alema, Scalfaro, Scognamiglio, ecc.), per poi
> partecipare il 10 giugno alla riunione internazionale di New York promossa
> da Ramsey Clark.
> Le cinque iniziative italiane, che si svolgeranno a Roma presso la libreria
> del Manifesto in Via Tomacelli, avranno il seguente calendario:
> · 25 febbraio ore 17.00 - La violazione del diritto internazionale e della
> Costituzione e delle leggi italiane. Le denunce (circa 30) presentate in
> Italia intervengono R.LaValle , G.Cerminara, A.Bernardini, G.Mattina,
> P.Vilardo
> · 3 marzo ore 17.00 - Crimini contro l'ambiente, l'uranio impoverito, le
> bombe a grappolo. Intervengono C.Pona, F.Grimaldi, M.Saba, Triolo,
> Caffarelli.
> · 17 marzo ore 17.00 - La sovranita' nazionale, le basi militari e la Nato
> in Italia.
> Intervengono F.Accame, L.Morgantini, G Russospena.
> · 7 aprile ore 17.00 - L'attuale situazione nella Repubblica Federale
> Jugoslava, gli effetti dell'embargo sulla popolazione, gli incitamenti alla
> guerra civile, i crimini e la pulizia etnica contro i serbi e le altre
> nazionalità nel Kosmet, l'amministrazione coloniale insediata dalla NATO.
> · 21 aprile ore 17.00 - La disinformazione strategica, la Missione
> Arcobaleno.
> La sessione finale sara' probabilmente il 3 o il 4 giugno.
> Fra le altre iniziative preannunciamo la prossima uscita di una
> pubblicazione del Tribunale Italiano con interventi di Accame, Russospena,
> Grimaldi, Mattina , Cerminara, Bernardini, Vilardo, Pona, ed l'intervento di
> Ramsey Clark all'assemblea di Roma del primo novembre.
> A tutti i compagni e le associazioni che hanno aderito al Tribunale Italiano
> ricordiamo che la quota di adesione necessaria per lo svolgimento delle
> attivita' e' di lire 100.000 per i gruppi, 50.000 per i singoli.
> La cifra con la causale "per il tribunale..." Devono essere inviate al CCP
> 82046004 intestato AD AGINFORM
> Per contattarci
> tel.065181048
> fax 068174010
> s.deangelis@...
> pona@...
>
> in collaborazione con il COMITATO PER LA DEMOCRAZIA INTERNAZIONALE.

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CONTROINFORMIAMOCI!

"L'INFAME TEOREMA DEL 7 DICEMBRE"
Dibattito libero sulle vicende che hanno portato all'arresto di sergio
Spina e dei suoi compagni

SINTONIZZIAMOCI SU
RADIO CITTA' 103 - BO (FM 103)
VENERDI' 18 FEBBRAIO 2000
ALLE ORE 18.30

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IRAQ E JUGOSLAVIA:
DUE POPOLI SOTTO EMBARGO

Gli embarghi costituiscono una terribile arma di guerra "a bassa
intensità", utilizzata
quando la guerra dei missili e delle bombe è finita. Essi rappresentano
una sorta di
"punizione", del tutto arbitraria, per le scelte politiche di un popolo
(esemplare il caso di
Cuba), e comportano per il paese colpito la mancanza di generi
fondamentali, a partire
dal cibo, dai medicinali e da tutto quanto è necessario alla
sopravvivenza quotidiana.

Tale "punizione" sta colpendo dal 1991 il popolo iracheno, e ha già
provocato la morte
di circa 1.500.000 persone. Adesso la stessa arma viene usata contro le
popolazioni
della Federazione Jugoslava, dove pure sta mietendo molte vittime,
specie tra anziani,
ammalati, bambini.

Allo stesso tempo, si va estendendo un tessuto di solidarietà che
consente di rompere il
muro dell?isolamento in cui questi paesi sono costretti. Lottare per
l?abolizione degli
embarghi, firmare e diffondere le petizioni e gli appelli a Governo e
Parlamento che
vanno in questa direzione, aderire alle iniziative di "adozioni a
distanza" e raccolta di
medicinali, partecipare a viaggi di conoscenza e solidarietà, sono
altrettanti modi per
dare un contributo concreto alla soluzione del problema.

Per discutere di tutto ciò, nell?ambito di "Galassia Gutenberg" (Napoli,
Mostra
d?Oltremare), sabato 19 febbraio alle ore 10, si terrà un momento di
dibattito e
confronto. Interverranno:

Slobodanka Ciric, portavoce della Comunità serba a Napoli

Fulvio Grimaldi, giornalista, autore di video e reportages su Iraq e
Jugoslavia

Fabio Marcelli, giurista, esperto di Diritto internazionale

Gordon Poole, docente, del Comitato Golfo e della redazione di
"Guerre&Pace"

Francesco Romanetti, giornalista de "Il Mattino"

Saranno proiettati brani dei video di Fulvio Grimaldi:
Iraq: genocidio nell?Eden
Serbi da morire

- Centro di documentazione "Patrizia Gatto" (centrodoc@...)
- Comitato Golfo ? Un ponte per Bagdad (Campagna "Rompere l?embargo")

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BUSSOLENO
martedi' 22 febbraio 2000, ore 21.00
presso la Sala consiliare di via Traforo 62

Coordinamento Torinese per la Jugoslavia, Centro sociale Meyer-Vighetti
di
Bussoleno, Dialogo in Valle, Gruppo Pace Condove, Comitato Habitat,
Rifondazione Comunista-Circoli di Val Susa e Val Sangone, Commissione
Internazionale PRC

ORGANIZZANO
INCONTRO DI SOLIDARIETA' CON I LAVORATORI DELLA ZASTAVA
DI BELGRADO
Interverranno
i delegati della Zastava di Kragujevac
RAJKA VELJOVIC, SRETEN MILICEVIC, MILAN DONCIC

La guerra in Jugoslavia non è finita: prima i bombardamenti Nato, ora
l'embargo con cui il capitalismo globale cerca di fiaccare la resistenza
e
la dignita' di un popolo, negandogli ogni speranza di vita e di
ricostruzione.
Invitiamo i lavoratori e la popolazione tutta ad intervenire per
ascoltare
la testimonianza dei lavoratori jugoslavi ed esprimere loro fraterna
solidarieta'.
Nel corso della serata si raccoglieranno fondi a favore di un bambino di
sette anni, STEFAN MARIC, di Belgrado: affetto da tumore alla spina
dorsale,
non puo' essere operato in Jugoslavia, perche', a causa dell'embargo,
mancano i mezzi tecnici. L'intervento puo' essere eseguito presso
l'Ospedale
Maggiore di Verona: sarebbe gratuito, ma le spese di degenza ammontano a
15
milioni di lire italiane.
I FIGLI DEGLI OPPRESSI SONO FIGLI NOSTRI!
NO ALL' EMBARGO!
SOSTENIAMO I DIRITTI DEL POPOLO JUGOSLAVO!

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07/02/2000



ASSIJUG

Associazione Italia Jugoslavia

Via Duranti, 5 - 06125 Perugia - Tel./Fax 075.42686

e-mail:assijug@...




Il 5 febbraio scorso si è svolta a Perugia un¹importante
iniziativa pubblica
promossa dall¹Assijug (Associazione Italia Jugoslavia) e dal
Comitato
Umbro Antimperialista. Tale iniziativa è stata tenuta assieme alla
Sezione Italiana del Tribunale Internazionale contro i crimini di
guerra della NATO diretto dall¹ex ministro di giustizia americano
Ramsey Clark che, com¹è noto, si è particolarmente distinto, in
questi
anni, nella denuncia dei crimini di guerra perpetrati dal governo
americano in Iugoslavia.
Stefano De Angelis, uno dei dirigenti nazionali della Sezione
Italiana del
Tribunale Internazionale, nel suo intervento ha posto ben in
risalto gli
scopi del Tribunale medesimo. Come obiettivo in Italia, per il
Tribunale, è
la messa sotto accusa politica e giuridica della Nato, dei governi
alleati,
del presidente Scalfaro e dell¹intero governo D¹Alema. Particolare
risalto
è stato dato alla denuncia della criminale campagna di
disinformazione
perpetrata dai mass-media nazionali e internazionali.
Falco Accame ha esposto chiaramente quali sono state le
responsabilità
abominevoli del governo D¹Alema nell¹aver condotto l¹Italia in
un¹avventura politica ed internazionale al di fuori di ogni
legalità
costituzionale; soffermandosi particolarmente sulle responsabilità
decennali dei governi nazionali di aver accettato un rapporto di
totale
subalternità e servilismo nella concessione di basi aeree e navali
agli Stati
Uniti e alla Nato. Ancora oggi dal 1973 l¹opinione pubblica
nazionale non
è ha conoscenza di quale trattato sia mai stato stipulato tra il
governo
italiano e quello americano per l¹uso militare dell¹isola della
Maddalena
(Sardegna), sulla quale la sovranità è totalmente americana.
Accame ha
insistito molto sull¹atteggiamento criminale di un governo che si
dice di
sinistra, ma che ha commesso reati politici tali che neanche i
peggiori
governi di destra in Italia hanno mai perpetrato.

Purtroppo è venuta a mancare, per motivi di salute, la
partecipazione del
giornalista Fulvio Grimaldi.
L¹iniziativa ha comunque avuto un ottimo successo la sala è stata
riempita (90/100 persone) grazie all¹adesione di molti compagni
che
hanno partecipato attivamente al dibattito con interventi e
domande
rivolte agli ospiti. Tutti sono stati concordi nel dare giudizi
negativi e
severissimi contro il governo D¹Alema e contro l¹intervento della
Nato in
Iugoslavia.

Alla fine dell¹assemblea la presidenza ha fatto chiaramente
riferimento
ad altre iniziative future da effettuare per continuare la
campagna di
controinformazione sulla guerra in Jugoslavia.

ASSIJUG
Associazione Italia Jugoslavia


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CHI C'E' DIETRO A "HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH"?

I legami tra i personaggi piu' influenti di HRW ed i centri decisionali
della politica estera statunitense, spiegati con nomi e cognomi.
Dalla lista stopnato@...

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Who is behind Human Rights Watch?

The backgrounds of the Board members at Human Rights Watch (HRW),
Europe-Central Asia section, with info on HRW and its sources of
funding.
HRW is founded on the idea that the values of the United States are
universal, and that the US must impose them on the rest of the world. As
the largest human-rights lobby, it is partly responsible for the
increasingly expansionist US foreign policy.


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No US citizen, and no US organisation, has any right to impose US values
on Europe. No concentration camps or mass graves can justify that
imposition. But Human Rights Watch finds it self-evident, that the
United
States may legitimately restructure any society, where a mass grave is
found. That was always a widespread belief in the United States, but it
is
fast becoming a consensus among the foreign policy elite. Human Rights
Watch itself is part of that elite, which includes government
departments,
foundations, NGO's and academics. It is not a association of "concerned
private citizens". HRW board members include present and past government
employees, and overlapping directorates link it to the major foreign
policy lobbies in the US. Cynically summarised, it is a joint venture of
George Soros and the State Department.
Human Rights Watch is an almost exclusively US-American organisation.
Its
version of human rights is the Anglo-American tradition. It is
"mono-ethical", recognising no legitimate ethical values outside its
own.
(Redistribution of wealth is a well-known example. In the Anglo-American
human-rights tradition, seizure and redistribution of the property of
the
rich is unethical. The tradition recognises no inherent value in
equality,
which could override property rights).

Although I do not believe that ethical values are culturally specific,
it
is true that one ethical tradition has become associated with the United
States. That includes the universal rights set out in its Declaration of
Independence and its Constitution. In a sense the US was "designed" as
an
interventionist power: interventionist human-rights organisations are a
logical result. They express the belief of most US citizens, that their
values are superior to all others.

Human Rights Watch operates a number of discriminatory exclusions, to
maintain its character.

Firstly, it is linguistically racist. Although it publishes material in
foreign languages to promote its views, the organisation itself is
English-only.


Secondly, the organisation discriminates on grounds of nationality. As
the
list below makes clear, non-Americans are systematically excluded at
board
level. The organisation apparently recruits employees only in the United
States, in English. (US readers of this site may be unfamiliar with
multilingual cross-border employment, but it does exist in Europe).


Third, the organisation discriminates on grounds of social class. Again,
the list makes clear that board members are recruited from the upper
class, and upper-middle class. Although I traced almost all the board
members professions, there are none from middle-income occupations - let
alone any poor illegal immigrants, or Somali peasants.
Human Rights Watch can therefore claim no ethical superiority. It is
itself involved in practices it condemns elsewhere, such as
discrimination
in employment, and exclusion from social structures. It can also claim
no
neutrality. An organisation which will not allow a Serb or Somali to be
a
board member, can give no neutral assessment of a Serbian or Somali
state.
It would probably be impossible for an all-American, English-only elite
organisation, to be anything else but paternalistic.



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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Helsinki Steering Committee
This is the Europe section of the Board of HRW, which is split into
sections approximately by continent. The section was established in 1978
(in the late 1970's human rights became the main issue in Cold War
propaganda). The unit in the organisation is called the Europe and
Central
Asia Division. It is affiliated with the International Helsinki
Federation
for Human Rights, which co-ordinates the "Helsinki committees". Source:
HRW Board of Directors & Advisory Committees
Jonathan Fanton, Chair

An academic and foundation man. Former Vice President of the University
of
Chicago, in 1982 appointed as President of the New School for Social
Research, now the New School University. He is active in building US
academic contacts with eastern Europe, directed at the new pro-western
elites, see the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) page.
Alice H. Henkin, Co-Vice Chair
Director of the Justice and Society Program at the Aspen Institute, an
elite think-tank.
Note their report Honoring Human Rights: From Peace to Justice proposing
United Nations mission strategies later used in Kosovo.

Peter Osnos, Co-Vice Chair
George Soros' publisher. He is Chief Executive of Public Affairs
publishers.
Morton Abramowitz
A link to the US Foreign Policy establishment, one of several at HRW.
Abramowitz was U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1989-91) and Assistant
Secretary
of State for Intelligence and Research (1985-89), among other posts: see
his personal details at the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, where he
is
a Fellow. The CFR is the heart of interventionist US policy since 1921
(and hated by the isolationist right).
He directed the CFR Balkan Economic Task Force, which published a report
on "Reconstructing the Balkans".

Barbara Finberg
A donor of HRW, see the list below. A retired vice president with the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, who donated $1 million to Stanford
University.
Felice Gaer
Human rights specialist at the American Jewish Committee and chair of
the
Steering Committee for the 50th anniversary of the UN Human Rights
Declaration, see this biography:
"Ms.Gaer is Director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the
Advancement
of Human Rights. Author, speaker, and activist, she is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the Andrei
Sakharov Foundation, a member of the International Human Rights Council
at
the Carter Center, ...Vice President of the International League for
Human
Rights."
According to this JTA report, Gaer praised Madeleine Albright for her
"outstanding human rights record".
Felice Gaer was also a non-governmental member of the United States
delegation to a United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in
Geneva,
where (according to the Voice of America) she denounced Sudan, saying
the
the U.S. "cannot accept those who invoke Islam or other religions as
justification for atrocious human rights abuses." However, more
interesting is this speech at the Geneva meeting, where she suggested
the
UN should no longer investigate prison rapes in the US: "we would urge
the
Special Rapporteurs to focus their attention on countries where the
situation is the most dire and the abuses the most severe."

Michael Gellert
Vice Chairman of the Board at Fanton's New School for Social Research.
Investment manager and Trustee of the Carnegie Institute.
Gellert is a director of Premier Parks Inc., owner of the Six Flags and
Walibi theme park chains. Also a director of:
High Speed Access Corp.,
Devon Energy Corporation,
Humana Inc..



Paul Goble
Director of Communications and political commentator at Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty, the Cold War propaganda transmitters that survived
the end of the Cold War. From their website
"Free Europe, Inc., was established in 1949 as non-profit, private
corporations to broadcast news and current affairs programs to Eastern
European countries behind the Iron Curtain. The Radio Liberty Committee,
Inc., was created two years later along the same lines to broadcast to
the
nations inside the Soviet Union. Both were funded principally by the
U.S.
Congress, through the Central Intelligence Agency, but they also
received
some private donations as well. The two corporations were merged into a
single RFE/RL, Inc. in 1975."

It is still funded by the US Government, through Congressional
appropriation.

Bill Green
Former Republican member of Congress, a trustee of the New School for
Social Research (where Fanton is President), with many other public and
business posts: see the biography at the American Assembly, an
academic/political think-tank.
Stanley Hoffman
A pro-interventionist theorist (of course that means US intervention,
not
a Taliban invasion of the US). Professor at Harvard, see his biography.
Note that his colleagues include Daniel Goldhagen, who openly advocated
occupation of Serbia, to impose a US-style democracy: see A New Serbia.
Robert James
Also on the Board of Human Rights in China, another Soros-funded
organisation.
Jack Matlock
US Ambassador to the Soviet Union during its collapse, 1987-1991. Author
of Autopsy On An Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the
Collapse
of the Soviet Union (Random House, 1995).
Member of the large Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council. The
Atlantic Council is more than a pro-NATO fan club: it supports an
expansionist US foreign policy in general. Note their recent paper (in
pdf
format) Beyond Kosovo, a redesign of the Balkans within the framework of
the proposed Stability Pact.

The Atlantic Council list of sponsors is a delight for
corporate-conspiracy theorists. Yes, it is all paid for by the
Rockefeller
foundation, the Soros foundation, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Boeing,
Lockheed, Northrop, Exxon, British Nuclear Fuels, the US Army and the
European Union.

Conspiracy theorists will also be delighted to see that Matlock attended
the 1996 Bilderberg Conference.



Herbert Okun
Career diplomat, former Special Advisor on Yugoslavia to Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance, Deputy Co-Chairman of the International Conference on
the former Yugoslavia. Member of the Board of the Lawyers Alliance for
World Security (LAWS) and its affiliate the Committee for National
Security (CNS) which gives this biography:
Ambassador Herbert Okun is the U.S. member and Vice-President of the
International Narcotics Control Board, and Visiting Lecturer on
International Law at Yale Law School. Previously, he was the Deputy
Chairman on the U.S. delegation at the SALT II negotiations and led the
U.S. delegation in the trilateral U.S.-U.K.-USSR Talks on the CTBT. From
1991 to 1993 Ambassador Okun was Special Advisor on Yugoslavia to
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Personal Envoy of the U.N. Secretary
General, and Deputy Co-Chairman of the International Conference on the
former Yugoslavia. He also served as Deputy Permanent Representative of
the United States to the UN from 1985 to 1989 serving on the General
Assembly, the Disarmament Committee and the Committee on Peaceful Uses
of
Outer Space. Amb. Okun was also U.S. Ambassador to the former German
Democratic Republic.

He was from 1990-97 Executive Director of the Financial Services
Volunteer
Corps, "a non-profit organization providing voluntary assistance to help
establish free-market financial systems in former communist countries",
see his biography at International Security Studies at Yale University,
where he is also a board member. This Corps is a de facto agency of
USAID,
see how it is listed country-by-country in their report. Although it is
not relevant to Human Rights Watch, this curriculum vitae gives a good
impression of the kind of international elite created by such programs.

Okun is also a member emeritus of the board of the European Institute in
Washington, an Atlanticist lobby. It organises the European-American
Policy Forum, the European-American Congressional Forum, and the
Transatlantic Joint Security Policies Project. Okun is a special advisor
to the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict funded by the
Carnegie Corporation. (It links pro-western international elite figures
advocating a formal structure for control of states by the
"international
community").

Okun was a member of a Task Force (including Bianca Jagger and George
Soros) on war criminals: see their report . Although it also demands "UN
Sanctions Against States Harboring Indicted War Criminals" it is
unlikely
that the Task Force members meant the man quoted at the start of their
report, President Clinton.

A curiosity: this human rights supporter is accused of an attempt to
destroy the right to free speech, in his post at the International
Narcotics Control Board: see A Duty to Censor: U.N. Officials Want to
Crack Down on Drug War Protesters in the libertarian Reason Magazine.



Jane Olson
Also co-chair of the California section of HRW, see this biography. One
of
the few who are simply human rights activists, although her views are
clearly 100% acceptable to the US Government. She was appointed a member
of the U.S. delegation to the 1991 Conference on Security and
Cooperation
in Europe (CSCE) in Moscow.
Again note, that US citizens consider it normal to travel to Europe, to
decide on that continents Security and Cooperation - but there is
absolutely no "Conference on North American Security and Cooperation",
where Europeans arrive to tell Americans what to do.

She is also a member of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
one
of many small globalist groups, advocating peace and some vague form of
world government.



Barnett Rubin
Academic and Soros-institutes advisor. Director of the "Center for
Preventive Action" at the Council on Foreign Relations.The center is
funded by the US Government through USIP, and by the Carnegie
Corporation
as part of their program Preventing Deadly Conflict. "Preventive Action"
means intervention.
He is a member of the centers South Balkans Working Group, and edited a
1996 Council on Foreign Relations study Towards Comprehensive Peace in
Southeast Europe: Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans. Rubin is an
Afghanistan specialist, also on the Board of the Asia division of HRW.
He
authored and edited several works on Afghanistan. Rubin apparently has a
curious attitude to the Taliban, seeing them as a bulwark against
Islamic
radicalism . See this letter to NPR, entitled Afghanistan Whitewash:
While the Lyden-Rubin conversation made no mention of US support for the
Taliban, they referred several times to US "pressure" on the Taliban to
now respect human rights. This is a total white wash which distorts the
historical record beyond recognition.

Rubin is on the Advisory Board of the Soros Foundation Central Eurasia
Project. He is an advisor of the Forced Migration Project of Soros' Open
Society Institute, and he is also on the Board of the Soros Humanitarian
Fund for Tajikistan. Perhaps most interesting is that the U.S. Institute
of Peace (a de facto government agency) gave him a grant to research
"formation of a new state system in Central Eurasia".
Barnett Rubin articles on Central Asia

This may be repetitive, but note once again that there are absolutely no
Foundations or Institutes in Central Asia, which pay people to design
"new
state systems" in North America. For people like Rubin "human rights"
mean
simply that the US designs the world: at the same time, the US might
accept the Taliban, if it was a strategic interest. See this article at
the Soros Central Asia site, The Political Economy of War and Peace in
Afghanistan, advocating a de facto colonial government in Afghanistan
financed by oil revenues.

Rubin is also a member of the US State Department Advisory Committee on
Religious Freedom Abroad. The Final Report of this Committee also sums
up
what the United States can do, when it finds religious freedom has been
infringed. The list begins at "friendly, persuasive: open an embassy"
and
ends with "act of war".

Note also that Rubin was also involved in the 1997 New York meeting,
where
the United States attempted to create a unified Yugoslav opposition,
with
among others Vuk Draskovic: see my site on Vesna Pesic or the PER site.



Leon Sigal
NOTE: I can find no website matching this info on "Leon Sigal" to HRW. I
assume it is the same person, although I do not understand why an expert
on Asian issues is on the board for the European division of HRW.
Consultant to the Social Science Research Council, member of the Board
of
Advisors at Globalbeat Syndicate, part of the New York University Dept
of
Journalism. See their article on Lessons From The War In Kosovo.

>From Globalbeat:
He is a former member of the Editorial Board of The New York Times,
where
he wrote frequently on nuclear issues, and is the author of many books
and
articles on both international security and media issues.

Sigal authored Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea
(Princeton University Press 1998). He is a Project member of the
Committee
on Nuclear Policy.



Malcolm Smith
no information yet
George Soros
>From the Public Affairs site, the biography of George Soros, financier of
HRW and of numerous organisations in eastern Europe with pro-American,
pro-market policies.


George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. In 1947 he emigrated
to England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics.
While
a student in London, Mr. Soros became familiar with the work of the
philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking
and
later on his philanthropic activities. In 1956 he moved to the United
States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an
international investment fund he founded and managed.

Mr. Soros currently serves as chairman of Soros Fund Management L.L.C.,
a
private investment management firm that serves as principal investment
advisor to the Quantum Group of Funds. The Quantum Fund N.V., the oldest
and largest fund within the Quantum Group, is generally recognized as
having the best performance record of any investment fund in the world
in
its twenty-nine-year history.

Mr. Soros established his first foundation, the Open Society Fund, in
New
York in 1979 and his first Eastern European foundation in Hungary in
1984.
He now funds a network of foundations that operate in thirty-one
countries
throughout Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, as
well as southern Africa, Haiti, Guatemala, Mongolia and the United
States.
These foundations are dedicated to building and maintaining the
infrastructure and institutions of an open society. Mr. Soros has also
founded other major institutions, such as the Central European
University
and the International Science Foundation. In 1994, the foundations in
the
network spent a total of approximately $300 million; in 1995, $350
million; in 1996, $362 million; and in 1997, $428 million. Giving for
1998
is expected to be maintained at that level.

In addition to many articles on the political and economic changes in
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Mr. Soros is the author of
The
Alchemy of Finance, Opening the Soviet System, Underwriting Democracy,
and
Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve.

Mr. Soros has received honorary doctoral degrees from the New School for
Social Research, the University of Oxford, the Budapest University of
Economics, and Yale University. In 1995, the University of Bologna
awarded
Mr. Soros its highest honor, the Laurea Honoris Causa, in recognition of
his efforts to promote open societies throughout the world.
Soros Foundations Network

Open Society Institute Staff Directory

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Donald J. Sutherland
Also on the advisory board of the World Policy Institute.
Ruti Teitel
Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York Law School, see his
biography. In the last few years he has specialised in the Constitutions
of eastern European countries, and advised on the new Ukrainian
constitution.
William D. Zabel
George Soros legal advisor, on foundation and charity law. A estate and
family financial lawyer for the rich at Schulte, Roth, and Zabel. His
biography lists his involvement with these Soros Foundations: "Newly
Independent States and the Baltic Republics, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria
and Central European University and Open Society Fund". See this
biographical article originally from the National Law Journal:
When fate knocks, rich ring for Zabel
He is a trustee of Fanton's New School of Social Research, and member of
the Advisory Board of the World Policy Institute at the New School.

Zabel is a director of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. The
Lawyers
Committee for Human Rights is one of the partners in the "Apparel
Industry
Partnership", a group set up by the Clinton administration and the US
clothing and footwear industries to defuse criticism of conditions in
their factories. The (not particularly radical) US trade union
federation
refuses to co-operate with it.

Zabel is also on the Board of Doctors of the World, the USA branch of
Medecins du Monde, founded by Bernard Kouchner in 1980. Kouchner is now
the UN Representative ( the "governor") in Kosovo. Despite the name,
Medecins du Monde is a purely western organisation, see the affiliate
list.



Warren Zimmermann
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia during its break-up, author of Origins of
Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers. A Cold-War career diplomat,
long active in US human rights campaigns against eastern Europe. See
this
site for an extreme pro-Bosniac assessment of his book by Branka Magas,
alleging he appeased Milosevic: "In the event, by pursuing Yugoslavia's
unity rather than supporting Slovenia and Croatia in their demands for
either the country's confederal transformation or its peaceful
dissolution, the United States helped ensure its violent break-up". (I
think it is logically consistent with US values and interests, that the
US
supported one policy around 1990 and another in Kosovo. The real problem
is that so many people in Europe expect the US to design their states
and
write their Constitutions. It is because of this attitude, that people
like Zimmermann, and organisations like HRW, can flourish) Zimmermann is
now a professor of Diplomacy at Columbia University. If you think the
"amoral diplomat" is a stereotype, look at his Contemporary Diplomacy
course. This is his assignment for the young future diplomats:
Imagine that you are a member of Secretary Albright's Policy Planning
Staff. She has asked you to write a strategy paper for one of the
following diplomatic challenges:

--Dealing with NATO expansion and with the countries affected;

--Crafting a more energetic and assertive US approach to the Israeli-PLO
deadlock;

--Raising the American profile in sub-Saharan Africa;

--Developing a US initiative to improve relations with Cuba;

--Forging an American approach to Central Asia and its energy wealth;

--Making better use of the UN and other multilateral organizations like
OSCE;

--Weighing the relative priorities between pursuing human rights

and keeping open lucrative economic opportunities;

--Increasing interest in, and support for, US foreign policy among the
American people.

With Barnett Rubin, Zimmermann is a member of the Advisory Board of the
Forced Migration Project at Soros Open Society Institute.

With Felice Gaer, Zimmermann is also on the Board of the
quasi-commercial
International Dispute Resolution Associates. (Peacemaking has become big
business, but IDR is also funded by the US Government through the USIP).

He is a Trustee of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
Affairs




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IL NUOVO VOLTO DELLA CROAZIA

"La Croazia avra' un presidente sorridente, incline alle barzellette,
modesto e alla mano... la cui strategia politica puo' essere cosi'
sintetizzata: migliorare da subito i rapporti con tutti i paesi che
componevano la vecchia Jugoslavia, portare la Croazia nell'Unione
Europea, ripulire la Croazia dalla criminalita' politica e dalla mafia,
salvarla dalla crisi economica..."
(Giacomo Scotti su "Il manifesto" del 9/2/2000)

Stipe Mesic, nuovo presidente della Repubblica di Croazia, appena eletto
ha dichiarato di volersi presentare spontaneamente al Tribunale dell'Aia
a testimoniare contro il presidente della Repubblica Federale di
Jugoslavia. Notoriamente filo-occidentale, Mesic e' un convinto
sostenitore dell'entrata della Croazia nella NATO. Ultranazionalista
croato della prima ora, dovette scontare molti mesi di carcere in
seguito ai fatti della "Primavera di Zagabria", all'inizio degli anni
Settanta. In seguito alla imposizione del suo nome da parte della
Comunita' Europea, Mesic fu l'ultimo presidente della RFSJ - una
esperienza evidentemente indimenticabile, da lui stesso immortalata nel
libro "KAKO SMO RUSILI JUGOSLAVIJU" ("Come abbiamo buttato giu' la
Jugoslavia", recentemente ristampato con il meno compromettente titolo
"Come e' crollata la Jugoslavia" a cura delle edizioni Mislav Press) nel
quale Mesic si vanta della efficacia della sua azione distruttrice nei
confronti della RFSJ.
E' stato tra i fondatori dell'HDZ, il partito di Tudjman, di cui fu il
braccio destro fino al 1994, prima della rottura avvenuta per meri
interessi di potere. Tra i suoi maggiori sostenitori, oltre a tutto
l'establishment politico-militare occidentale (compreso D'Alema, proprio
in questi giorni in visita a Zagabria) Mesic annovera anche Giacomo
Scotti ed il quotidiano antijugoslavo "Il Manifesto".


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CRONISTORIA DEI PROGETTI DI ATTENTATO A MILOSEVIC

(Coordinamento Romano per la Jugoslavia, febbraio 2000)

La recente uccisione del Ministro della Difesa della RFJ Pavle Bulatovic
e' stata attribuita negli ambienti governativi jugoslavi ad un piano
terroristico di destabilizzazione della RFJ, preparato all'estero.
A titolo informativo abbiamo pensato di riportare una serie di elementi
ed informazioni circolate in passato rispetto a progetti simili, tutti
di matrice straniera e soprattutto mirati alla eliminazione fisica di
Slobodan Milosevic.
Si tratta di piani falliti o mai resi operativi, ma che sono stati via
via presi in reale considerazione da chi intende ridisegnare ulteriormente
i Balcani a proprio uso e consumo. Se comunque si puo' essere scettici
sulla effettiva volonta' di realizzare piani simili da parte delle consorterie
occidentali, e' per gli effetti politici che sortirebbero: togliendo dalla
scena Milosevic, l'Occidente sarebbe posto di fronte al problema di CHI
mettere al suo posto, e non sarebbe un problema da poco visto che il fine
ultimo resta la scomparsa della Repubblica Federale di Jugoslavia dalle
cartine geografiche... Senza Milosevic, costantemente ed universalmente
indicato come un demonio in forma umana, sarebbe certo piu' difficile
criminalizzare un intero paese ed i suoi abitanti, isolarlo per
destabilizzarlo e frantumarlo.

--- IL "RAGNO" FRANCESE

Particolarmente noto e' il caso, scoppiato lo scorso autunno, della rete
denominata "Il Ragno", costruita dai servizi segreti francesi
coinvolgendo uomini dei servizi di sicurezza jugoslavi (alcuni dei quali
arrestati proprio in occasione della scoperta di questo loro
coinvolgimento) e paramilitari serbo-bosniaci.

A proposito di queste "relazioni pericolose" tra serbi della Bosnia e
francesi, bisogna ricordare che mentre i rapporti tra la leadership
serbo-jugoslava (attorno a Milosevic) e la leadership serbo-bosniaca
(attorno a Karadzic) si incrinavano nel 1993-1994, dalle fila serbo-bosniache
emergevano pian piano elementi considerati "affidabili" in Occidente.
Cosi', subito dopo la stipula degli accordi di Dayton, presidentessa
della Repubblica Serba di Bosnia (RS) al posto di Karadzic diventava Biljana
Plavsic, ex braccio destro del suo predecessore, sempre fortemente
criticata da Mira Markovic (moglie di Milosevic) ed appoggiata in
Occidente; un altro personaggio ancora in sella, oggi duramente
contestato a Belgrado, e' il cosiddetto "moderato" Dodik.

Nel 1997 in Francia scoppiava poi un incredibile scandalo per
l'aiuto prestato da settori militari francesi a Karadzic, affinche' non
fosse catturato e consegnato al Tribunale dell'Aia. Una vicenda per la
quale il comandante Pierre Bunel nel 1998 fu prima arrestato, poi
liberato. Su questa strana storia suggeriamo di fare una ricerca con il
nome del comandante sul sito di "Le Monde": http://archives.lemonde.fr/

La piu' recente operazione "Ragno" e' stata a tutti gli effetti
confermata nel momento in cui il responsabile dei servizi francesi e'
stato congedato dopo la scoperta, e dunque il fallimento, del progetto
di assassinare il Presidente della RFJ, come veniva spiegato ad esempio
nel seguente articolo de "Il manifesto" del 24 Dicembre 1999:

> ATTENTATO A MILOSEVIC
>
> A Parigi salta il capo dei Servizi
>
> - R. ES -
>
> Salta la testa del direttore dell'agenzia di spionaggio francese, la Dgse,
> dopo la figuraccia rimediata a Belgrado dove la polizia aveva arrestato il
> mese scorso cinque spie accusate di essere al soldo della Francia e di aver
> pianificato un attentato a Milosevic. Dopo neanche sei mesi di direzione,
> Jacques Dewatre deve quindi andarsene e lasciare la poltrona del Dgse a un
> diplomatico di lungo corso, Jean-Claude Cousseran, ambasciatore in Turchia,
> ex rappresentante della Francia in Iran all'epoca della rivoluzione
> islamica e a Gerusalemme al tempo dell'Intifada.
>
> A Jacques Dewatre, scrive Le Monde, non e' stato perdonato il fallimento in
> Serbia: Li' "l'azione del Dgse era molto discreta, quasi inesistente, a
> parte quei commando spediti furtivamente in Kosovo...". Dopo l'arresto
> delle cinque spie a Belgrado, una delle quali naturalizzata francese, sulla
> stampa transalpina si e' riversata una grande quantita' di rivelazioni
> sull'attivita' del Dgse in Jugoslavia. Il settimanale satirico-investigativo
> Le Canard Enchaîné ha scritto di recente che tre agenti del Dgse che
> operavano in Kosovo sono stati decorati il mese scorso con la Legione
> d'onore. Il settimanale ha poi rivelato che la Francia aveva montato due
> operazioni segrete in Kosovo, una prima, l'altra dopo l'inizio della guerra
> aerea Nato in Jugoslavia. Il portavoce del Dgse si e' difeso dicendo che
> compito di un servizio di spionaggio e' quello di raccogliere informazioni
> riservate in zone sensibili. I commando, quindi, avrebbero fatto il loro
> lavoro, nulla di piu'. Quando a Dewatre la sua destituzione non avrebbe
> nulla a che vedere coi Balcani; questa la versione ufficiale. (...)

--- LA VERSIONE DEL GOVERNO JUGOSLAVO

L'intera operazione "Ragno" veniva invece descritta nella seguente maniera
in Jugoslavia:

> Belgrade, December 10th (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Information Secretary Goran
> Matic late Friday said that the recent arrest in Yugoslavia of the
> Spider intelligence-terrorist group, whose members had committed crimes
> on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, especially in Srebrenica, had
> drawn great attention in the world.
>
> In an interview on Politika RTV, Matic said that the Spider group were a
> gang of professional hit men who served the French Intelligence Service
> ad other similar groupings and contributed with their actions to having
> the war on the territory of the former Yugoslavia treated as a form of
> Serbian aggression and expansionism.
>

Innanzitutto, il Ministro dell'Informazione jugoslavo Matic si scaglia
contro gli arrestati non solo per i loro progetti terroristici a venire,
ma anche per le azioni criminali commesse durante il conflitto in Bosnia
(Matic cita Srebrenica), che hanno pesantemente danneggiato la causa serba
trasformando la guerra civile, agli occhi del mondo, in una aggressione
dei nazionalisti serbi. Tali azioni hanno danneggiato ovviamente anche la
RF di Jugoslavia, sottoposta ad embargo ed isolata a livello internazionale.

>
> Matic set out that the Spider group activities had also helped demonize
> both the Serbian people and Yugoslavia, as a state, and had helped
> impose sanctions against Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav Information Secretary
> said that during the arrest of the Spider group, a series of documents
> were found, which he stressed shed new light on the developments in the
> former Yugoslavia, especially on what underlies the sanctions against
> and pressure on Yugoslavia.
>
> Matic said that arrested member of the group, Jugoslav Petrusic (also
> known as Dominique), hired people from former Yugoslavia for the
> services of the French Intelligence Service and the operations in
> Zaire. "Spider" was a multiethnic formation, which committed various
> crimes on the territory of former Yugoslavia, received money for it,
> mostly provided by the French.
>
> They were a classic legionnaire formation, with contracts specifically
> stating the cost of the elimination, assassination, blowing up vehicles,
> facilities.
>

Le attivita' del gruppo "Ragno", guidato da un tale Petrusic (nome in codice
"Dominique"), in effetti avevano travalicato lo spazio dei Balcani per
estendersi addirittura nello Zaire, sempre al servizio dei francesi,
secondo il classico copione dei mercenari della Legione Straniera. Secondo
Matic, nei Balcani il "Ragno" era in realta' una rete "multietnica" di
spie e terroristi, attraverso la quale i francesi avrebbero cercato
contatti con gli ambienti ultranazionalisti di ogni "etnia", compresi
gli albanesi-kosovari alla vigilia della aggressione del 1999.

>
> Petrusic began his career cooperating with the Muslims. He became a
> member of the French Intelligence Service working initially with the
> Albanian criminals, because the French were searching for a connection
> that would help them enter Kosovo-Metohija and arm a part of Albanian
> population, said the Minister.
>
> "This means that, already than, France tried to create channels for
> escalating Albanian separatism and terrorism in Kosovo-Metohija and a
> connection with the terrorists", said Matic.
>
> He reminded that Petrusic committed a series of crimes in Srebrenica.
> Drazen Edemovic, a Croatian citizen, confirmed everything in his
> testimony during the trial.
>
> Matic estimated that the Hague Tribunal is a blackmailing machinery for
> recruiting such criminals, and, if somebody performs dirty work for
> them, the doors of the European Union open for him widely and he can
> move freely without a passport.
>
> He also stressed that Petrusic committed a series of crimes in the very
> EU.
>
> One of the arrested members of "Spider" group, commander of the prison
> in Vogosca - Vlaco, although at the Hague Tribunal circular, went to
> France without a passport.
>
> The French Intelligence Service exercises organized state terrorism
> against other countries, particularly against Yugoslavia in the past
> several years, said Matic, stressing that the Hague Tribunal certainly
> wouldn't ask for their extradition, because they could reveal who and
> how hired them.
>

Dopo una serie di violente accuse alla Francia, Matic parla della recente
guerra per il Kosovo, durante la quale Petrusic e gli altri sarebbero
scesi in campo commettendo o inscenando crimini ai danni della popolazione
di nazionalita' schipetara, documentandoli e poi "rivendendoli" in Occidente,
arrecando un ulteriore gravissimo danno alla immagine della RFJ e dei serbi.

>
> When the members of "Spider" tried to infiltrate in the Yugoslav
> structures, they planned to form a terrorist group called "Balkan
> Express".
>
> The day before the NATO aggression, Petrusic comes to Yugoslavia in
> order to infiltrate his friends in the Yugoslav Army as volunteers,
> through his acquaintances within the lower ranks. Their task was to kill
> commander Remi in Kosovo-Metohija, but they failed even after 25 days of
> "work", said Matic.
>
> However, it was noticed that Petrusic used cellular phone, and there
> were also guided attacks on Kosmet.
>
> Explaining who the group operated in Kosmet, Matic said that "Spider"
> committed several typical crimes against the Albanians, killing them,
> dressing them in KLA uniforms, photographing them and sending the
> pictures to Sarajevo, claiming that it was allegedly done by the YA.
> They wanted to cause another demonizing of Serbian population.
>
> Furthermore, Matic said that this was the first operation performed by
> the members of "Spider" group. (...)
>

--- LA FIGURA DI DRASKOVIC

In un'altra occasione Matic, ancora prendendo spunto dalla operazione "Ragno",
si scaglia contro Vuk Draskovic, leader del Partito Serbo per il Rinnovamento,
di ispirazione monarchica e liberale ma soprattutto "storicamente" vicinissimo
alla Francia:

> http://www.serbia-info.com/news/2000-01/09/16651.html
>
> Federal Minister of Information: The
> newest NATO goal - Serbs against Serbs
>
> January 09, 2000
>
> (...)
>
> On the celebration that took place in the premises of "Filmske Novosti"
> magazine, a video tape was played, showing recently arrested leader of
> the spy-terrorist group "Spider", Jugoslav Petrusic, who said that he took
> Vuk Draskovic to the French Intelligence Service several times, and that
> Mr. Draskovic asked for money while "Danica was much more talkative".
>
> Stating that Draskovic is "directly talking with the heads of foreign
> Intelligence services, with whom he wants to reach agreements regarding
> certain activities in Yugoslavia", Matic stressed that this way Draskovic
> showed his real and true interests "while a multiple killer, whose
> employers are the French, was taking him to conversations in that
> country".
>
> Federal Minister of Information pointed to the significance of "Filmske
> Novosti" in filing data on who was who in Yugoslavia and who fought to
> defend it from those who attacked its independence and freedom, and
> who secretly offered various services to the aggressors.

Benche' sui nostri organi di informazione la storia di questa rete terroristica
sia stata trattata in maniera frammentaria e non sia stata piu' ripresa
in seguito, va detto che l'eco dello scandalo relativo alla operazione
"Ragno" in Jugoslavia non si e' affatto spento, e non solo dal punto di
vista della polemica politica ma anche nelle sedi giudiziarie.

--- UN ALTRO "ESERCITO DI LIBERAZIONE"...

Ancora il 2 febbraio il notiziario di Radio B92 riportava le accuse
formulate contro un sedicente "Esercito di Liberazione della Serbia" che
sarebbe anche responsabile del fallito attentato proprio contro Vuk
Draskovic. Su quell'incidente stradale dello scorso autunno, nel quale
Draskovic e' scampato per un pelo, si e' scatenata una ridda di ipotesi e
recriminazioni. E' bene pero' ricordare che in Occidente non sono state
certo gradite le prese di posizione di Draskovic contro la aggressione della
primavera 1999, ne' la sua partecipazione al governo della Serbia nei
momenti piu' "caldi" della crisi del Kosmet, ne' la sua continua polemica
contro gli altri settori della opposizione filo-occidentale, da Djindjic agli
ambienti secessionisti montenegrini.

> Serbian Liberation Army members charged with Milosevic murder plot
>
> BELGRADE, Wednesday - The Belgrade Military Court today charged members
> of the Serbian Liberation Army with planning to assassinate Yugoslav
> President Slobodan Milosevic and senior army officer Nebojsa Pavkovic.
> Defence lawyer Borivoje Borovic told media that the defendants were also
> charges with forming a terrorist organisation and attempting to assassinate
> the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic. The Belgrade
> Military Court today remanded the defendants in custody and passed the case
> to the military court in the southern Serbian city of Nis.

--- IL CASO TOMLISON

Ancora pochi giorni prima dell'assassinio di Bulatovic e' stata diffusa la
notizia di un coinvolgimento, stavolta, del servizio segreto britannico in
un complotto per assassinare Milosevic. La notizia, uscita in evidenza sul
"Times" di Londra, veniva riportata come segue sul bollettino di B92:

> The Times: British Secret Service involved in plot to assassinate Milosevic
> (FreeB92, 29/1/2000 - http://www.freeb92.net/)
>
> LONDON, Saturday - Scotland yard have set up an investigation into the
> alleged cooperation between the British Secret Police and a Dutch Art
> smuggler who claims to have been involved a plot to assassinate Yugoslav
> President Slobodan Milosevic, London's daily The Times writes today.
> Michael van Rain was allegedly given the go ahead by the British
> Secret Service to smuggle works of art in exchange for assassinating
> President Milosevic and is now concerned about possible revenge
> attacks since he has not received the money he requires to pay off
> underworld criminals from the Former Yugolsavia who were also involved
> in the plot. According to Van Rain, he demanded the equivalent of the
> fighter Harrier which is valued at around fifteen million pounds for
> his part in the alleged plot.

Questa notizia sembra riecheggiare una vicenda meno nota rispetto a quella
del "Ragno", ma altrettanto imbarazzante per i servizi di intelligence
britannici. Essa viene raccontata nell'articolo che segue, scritto
dall'editorialista del sito ANTIWAR.COM Justin Raimondo subito dopo
l'assassinio di Bulatovic.

> Behind the Headlines by Justin Raimondo - Antiwar.com
> February 9, 2000
>
> WHO KILLED PAVLE BULATOVIC?
> The assassination of Yugoslavia's defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, by
> gunmen inside a Belgrade restaurant throws the spotlight once again on
> the former Yugoslavia ^Ö and dramatizes the developing crisis. For
> Bulatovic was a key component of Milosevic's ruling coalition of
> Socialists, Radicals, and Montenegrin loyalists, and his sudden violent
> death has thrown the country into a whirlpool of apprehension and even
> panic. As the chief official of the Montenegrin branch of Milosevic's
> Serbian Socialist Party, Bulatovic played a leading role in the effort
> to keep the tiny republic in the Yugoslav federation; he was the
> organizer of quasi-military police units in the northern part of the
> country, and was fully prepared to lead a secession movement if
> Montenegro should finally make its move and break away. As I warned in a
> previous column, the Montenegrin time bomb has been ticking ever since
> the NATO warplanes stopped dropping their payloads on Belgrade. The
> cold-blooded murder of Pavle Bulatovic may be only the first of many
> explosions.
>
> BALKAN GANGSTERS
> Belgrade has been hit by a veritable wave of political violence: first
> the attempted assassination of Vuk Draskovic, the novelist who is also
> the leader of the biggest opposition party, the Serbian Renewal
> Movement; once a member of Milosevic's government, he is the most
> popular and charismatic of the opposition leaders. Then there was the
> killing of Arkan, the notorious leader of Serbian paramilitary outfits
> blamed for most of the prewar killing on the ground in Kosovo, gunned
> down after dinner at one of Belgrade's finer hotels. And now this. It is
> like something out of a grade "B" movie, Balkan Gangsters, in which hit
> men and gun molls frolic through the Weimaresque backdrop of Milosevic's
> Belgrade, strafing the streets with gunfire to the strains of "Cabaret."
> But who are these Balkan gangsters?
>
> THE USUAL SUSPECTS
> While the Serbian police have captured Bulatovic's assassin, the New
> York Times reports that "they say that the organizers of the deed remain
> at large." Who be they? There are several schools of thought on that
> question, best summarized by Radio B-52's very interesting account,
> which quotes a Serbian government official as saying that
> "the murder could easily be the work of the Kosovo Liberation. Other
> speculation went further afield, with the Serbian Radical Party accusing
> US, British and French intelligence services of masterminding the
> murder. The US State Department said today that the murder of Bulatovic
> was new proof that the Belgrade regime was maintaining power by
> spreading fear, crime and violence. State Department spokesman Philip
> Reeker told media that only a democratic Serbia could relieve its
> citizens of the evil which controlled their destiny."
>
> TO FAR AFIELD?
> But why is it too far afield to suggest that Western intelligence
> agencies may have been behind the cold-blooded murder of their declared
> enemies? It was Bill Clinton, after all, who declared in May of last
> year that the US would launch covert operations to overthrow Milosevic;
> since the end of phase one of the Kosovo war, the US has been openly
> supporting the Alliance for Change, a quarrelsome coalition of tiny
> parties with more officials than actual members, and continuously
> declaring that Milosevic and his allies must go ^Ö voluntarily if
> possible, violently if need be. While the Administration denied reports
> that the President's Top Secret executive order would authorize KLA
> operations inside Yugoslavia, no one expected them to admit it.
> Certainly this theory, favored by the Yugoslav government, is more
> credible than the Orwellian explanation put out by the US State
> Department, which expects the world to believe that Milosevic killed a
> loyal henchman ^Ö one who was, moreover, a key figure at the focal
> point of the developing crisis in Montenegro.
>
> THE MURDER OF ARKAN
> The US line on the Bulatovic assassination was meant to echo an
> undercurrent in the reporting of the Arkan murder, in which it was
> widely remarked that perhaps Milosevic was trying to get rid of someone
> who knew too much. But that, too, was not believable. For how did
> Milosevic benefit from Arkan's death? The idea that he was trying to
> silence a witness complicit in war crimes is laughable: in order to
> really achieve this, Milosevic would have to execute each and every
> surviving Serbian paramilitary, in what would amount to a highly
> improbable act of self-immolation.
>
> COLLABORATION OR ANARCHY
> On the other hand, Arkan's death fed into the atmosphere of uncertainty
> and disintegration inside Yugoslavia, and we all know who benefits from
> that development. It was all too predictable that some elements of the
> opposition would use these killings to carry out their role as NATO's
> fifth column, and presenting themselves as the only alternative to
> anarchy. The headline on the Reuters story said it all: "Serbia in
> Chaos, Milosevic Opponents Say." The most immediate beneficiaries of the
> assassination, the government of President Djukanovic of Montenegro,
> solemnly echoed this assessment: "Serbia has become a country of chaos,
> dictatorship and despair,'' said Miodrag Vukovic, a senior official of
> Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists. In this atmosphere, the
> decision to hold a referendum on Montenegro's membership in the Yugoslav
> federation could be implemented as promised by Djukanovic ^Ö without
> the threat of Bulatovic leading a rump loyalist Montenegro in the north.
>

Dopo avere inquadrato le possibili ragioni ed i possibili beneficiari
della eliminazione di Bulatovic, Raimondo ripercorre la storia del
progetto di eliminazione di Milosevic approntato dal MI6 (servizio segreto
britannico) nel 1992.
La dinamica prevista in effetti e' la stessa con la quale sarebbe stata
uccisa a Parigi la moglie di Carlo d'Inghilterra, Diana, divenuta troppo
scomoda alla monarchia britannica anche a causa dei suoi sempre
piu' stretti rapporti (finanche sentimentali) con il mondo arabo.

In pratica, Tomlison, un ex agente dei servizi britannici, parlo' della
questione circa un anno fa, nell'ambito di una serie di rivelazioni sulle
operazioni e sugli agenti dell'MI6. Tra le altre cose, Tomlison rivelo'
pure una azione progettata per uccidere Gheddafi, e diffuse un lungo elenco
di agenti dell'MI6 dislocati in vari paesi nel mondo, che ha avuto larga
circolazione in Internet.
Della vicenda Tomlison e del progetto di assassinio di Milosevic si fa
riferimento anche nel sito http://www.insight-news.ch/Shayler/!milosev.htm
Ma vediamo cosa scrive Raimondo:

>
> MORE EVIDENCE
> It is always good to ask "who benefits?" But we must also have another
> kind evidence, if not straight from the crime scene then from the
> history of the suspects. There is plenty in the known history of Western
> intelligence agencies to verify their ruthlessness, their willingness to
> commit murder, mayhem, and worse. The CIA's assassination attempts aimed
> at Fidel Castro are common knowledge, perhaps because of the comic
> inability of our Covert Keystone Kops to pull off the job ^Ö in spite
> of trying virtually everything, from slow poison to an exploding cigar.
>
> THE TOMLINSON REVELATIONS
> In the case of the former Yugoslavia, however, the evidence we have is a
> bit more solid: the testimony of a former employee of M16, the British
> intelligence service, who says that the Brits were involved early on, in
> 1992, in a scheme to assassinate Slobodan Milosevic. Richard Tomlinson
> caused a sensation last year when he posted the names of M16 agents on
> his website, blowing their cover and bringing the wrath of the British
> and US governments down on his head. Tomlinson's book on his experiences
> in M16 was suppressed by the British government, and censorship was
> imposed on British newspapers and other media in order to prevent them
> from publishing the information, or giving out the address of
> Tomlinson's site. Naturally this edict had the exact opposite of the
> intended effect: in the age of the Internet, the list was soon posted
> practically everywhere you looked in cyberspace, in spite of fruitless
> attempts by the US and British authorities to close Tomlinson down.
> Among his more interesting revelations was of M16's plan to assassinate
> Slobodan Milosevic, a project described by Tomlinson in a letter to his
> lawyer made publicly available. Addressed "to whom it may concern," it
> demonstrates how the Brits ^Ö always the most gung-ho in Kosovo war ^Ö
> would stop at nothing in their effort to overthrow the duly elected
> government of a sovereign nation. Tomlinson writes:
> "From March 1992 until September 1993 I worked in the East European
> controllerate of MI6 under the staff designation of UKA/7. My role was
> to carry out natural cover operations (undercover as a businessman or
> journalist etc) in eastern Europe. The Balkan war was in its early
> stages at this time, and so my responsibilities were increasingly
> directed to this arena.
> "My work thus involved frequent contact with the officer responsible for
> developing and targeting operations in the Balkans. At the time, this
> was Nicholas Fishwick, who worked under the staff designation of P4/OPS.
> We would frequently meet in his office on the 11th floor of Century
> House to discuss proposed and ongoing operations that I was involved in
> and, indeed, many other operations which I was not myself involved in.
> "During one such meeting in the summer of 1992 Nick Fishwick casually
> mentioned that he was working on a proposal to assassinate President
> Milosevic of Serbia. I laughed, and dismissed his claim as an idle boast
> as I (naively) thought that MI6 would never contemplate such an
> operation. Fishwick insisted that it was true, and appeared somewhat
> offended that I did not believe him. However, I still presumed that he
> was just pulling my leg, and thought nothing more of the incident
>

In pratica, Tomlison rivelo' in una lettera di essere venuto a conoscenza
del progetto da Nicholas Fishwick, un altro agente che come lui era stato
destinato al settore dell'Europa orientale proprio nei mesi dello scoppio
del conflitto in Bosnia (marzo 92 - settembre 93).

>
> "A few days later, I called in again to Fishwick's office. After a few
> moments of conversation, he triumphantly pulled out a document from a
> file on his desk, tossed it over to me, and suggested I read it. To my
> astonishment, it was indeed a proposal to assassinate President
> Milosevic of Serbia. The minute was approximately 2 pages long, and had
> a yellow minute card attached to it which signified that it was an
> accountable document rather than a draft proposal. It was entitled "The
> need to assassinate President Milosevic of Serbia". . . .
> "The first page of the document was a political "justification" to
> assassinate President Milosevic. Fishwick's justification was basically
> that there was evidence that Milosevic was providing arms and support to
> President Radovan Karadzic in the breakaway republic of Bosnian Serbia.
> The remainder of the document proposed three methods to assassinate
> Milosevic. The first method was to train and equip a Serbian
> paramilitary opposition group to assassinate Milosevic in Serbia.
> Fishwick argued that this method would have the advantage of
> deniability, but the disadvantage that control of the operation would be
> low and the chances of success unpredictable. The second method was to
> use the Increment (a small cell of the SAS and SBS which is especially
> selected and trained to carry out operations exclusively for MI5/MI6) to
> infiltrate Serbia and attack Milosevic either with a bomb or sniper
> ambush. Fishwick argued that this would plan would be the most reliable,
> but would be undeniable if it went wrong. Fishwick's third proposal was
> to kill Milosevic in a staged car crash, possibly during one of his
> visits to the ICFY (International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia)
> in Geneva, Switzerland. Fishwick even provided a suggestion about how
> this could be done, such as by disorientating Milosevic's chauffeur
> using a blinding strobe light as the cavalcade passed through one of
> Geneva's motorway tunnels."
>

Fishwick avrebbe sottoposto a Tomlison un documento interno dei servizi
contenente una "giustificazione" della necessita' di assassinare
Milosevic e tre ipotesi su come procedere. In particolare, la
terza ipotesi - la meno rischiosa - prevedeva di causare un incidente
automobilistico a Ginevra nel corso di una delle visite di Milosevic alla
Conferenza Internazionale sulla ex-Jugoslavia.
Il piano non ebbe un seguito immediato, e comunque nel giro di due anni
(1995) Tomlison avrebbe rotto completamente il suo rapporto con l'MI6 per poi
incominciare a rendere pubbliche una serie di informazioni. Per questo suo
attuale comportamento da "delatore" gli viene oggi vietato l'ingresso in
tutta una serie di paesi alleati della Gran Bretagna (dallo scorso anno
anche in Svizzera, da dove pure Tomlison aveva rilasciato le ultime
clamorose rivelazioni).

>
> THE FUGITIVE
> Tomlinson goes on to say that "there was no doubt in my mind when I read
> Fishwick's proposal that he was entirely serious about pursuing his
> plan. Fishwick was an ambitious and serious officer, who would not
> frivolise his career by making such a proposal in jest or merely to
> impress me. However, I heard no more about the progress of this
> proposal, and did not expect to, as I was not on its distribution list."
> He published the names on the distribution list, however, and presumably
> further inquiries should be directed at them. As to Tomlinson's
> veracity, one can only surmise that his motives have nothing to do
> either with financial gain or personal ambition: since 1995, when he
> broke with M16 and started making his extraordinary revelations, he has
> been banned from coming to Britain, the US, Australia, and France, and,
> last we heard, was on the run from spooks, having just been driven out
> of Switzerland.
>
> AN EVIL CONTROLLING AUTHORITY
> Tomlinson's testimony is powerful evidence that the "evil" controlling
> Serbia's destiny is not centered in Belgrade, as State Department
> spokesman Philip Reeker would have it, or even in Kosovo, as the
> Yugoslav authorities suspect, but in London, Washington, and Berlin. The
> idea is to create chaos, to destabilize the country to the point where
> even the cowardly collaborators of the US-controlled "Alliance for
> Change" will start to look good ^Ö and seize the opportunity to break
> off yet another slice of Yugoslavia.
>
> WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
> In this context, even the attempted assassination of Vuk Draskovich begs
> to be seen from a new perspective: for he is the only opposition leader
> who has failed to cooperate in any significant way with the NATO-crats,
> insisting on retaining his independence and unequivocally calling for an
> end to the Allied assault on his country. If the attempt on his life had
> succeeded, Milosevic would surely have been blamed ^Ö and a prominent
> obstacle to the US goal of consolidating the opposition under its
> control would also have been achieved. Of course, that's just a
> coincidence ^Ö right?
>
> REMEMBER MUSSOLINI
> The terrorist campaign now being waged against Yugoslav government
> officials is aimed, first and foremost, at Milosevic. Remember that
> hours after NATO bombed his mansion, the Serbian leader was at the
> negotiating table and the war began to wind down. If assassins can off
> Arkan and Bulatovic in the heart of Belgrade, then isn't Milosevic next?
> The Bulatovic assassination is clearly a warning to Milosevic: back down
> or face the consequences. Once again, the NATO-crats seem to be
> underestimating both the Serbians and their leader. Whatever else he may
> be, Milosevic is a survivor: the death of Communism, the dissolution of
> Yugoslavia, the loss of Kosovo, the humiliation and decimation of defeat
> ^Ö after all that, old Slobo is still standing. If the NATO-crats think
> he will turn himself in to the International Tribunal at the Hague, and
> deliver not only himself but his country up to the Allied conquerors
> without a fight, perhaps they are engaging in wishful thinking. Whatever
> course the Serbian leader may take, it would be an error to mistake
> Milosevic for the Serbian people. In the unlikely event that Slobo runs
> up the white flag of surrender, his own people will doubtless string him
> up in its place.

Per concludere, Raimondo ricorda che un tentativo reale, pratico di
uccidere il presidente della RFJ c'e' stato effettivamente: si tratta del
bombardamento della sua residenza a Belgrado, nel quartiere di Dedinje,
completamente distrutta durante un "raid umanitario" la scorsa primavera.

--- L'ARTICOLO DI "ORIGINAL SOURCES"

Per terminare, riportiamo integralmente il recentissimo articolo apparso
sul sito "Original Sources". In esso sono citate altre fonti ancora sul
caso Tomlison e si fa un parallelo con l'assassinio di Salvador Allende,
organizzato dalla CIA nel 1973.

*** Would Clinton Try to Assassinate Slobodan Milosevic?

Will Creating Anarchy in Other Nations Become American policy?
By Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)

February 14, 2000

One of my readers, T.V. Weber, who is very knowledgeable on what has and
is happening in Kosovo, e-mailed me a question:


In your February 8, 2000 article entitled "Is It Democracy or Anarchy that
Clinton and Blair Demand in Europe? America Found About KLA the Hard Way
in Kosovo" you end with the powerful paragraph: "Increasingly, it appears,
if voters in other countries don't vote the way the White House wants them
to vote, they are treated as enemies and either isolated, sanctioned or
bombed. And where does that lead? Quite often to the kind of anarchy that
now exists in Kosovo." My only question is: will this become domestic
policy? I would write myself off as paranoid, however I have several
friends in the mental health profession who insist that I am NOT suffering
from that particular neurosis.

My sister Roberta has a little saying about paranoia. "If someone really
IS out to get you, you are not being paranoid for thinking someone is out
to get you." We have this huge organization called the Central
Intelligence Agency which has a budget of nearly $27 billion. We don't
know how many people are employed there, nor do we know much about what
the people there do. It's a secret. Would the CIA do things that might
lead to anarchy in other countries, like assassinating people elected
leaders of other nations, for instance? Would any NATO country do such a
thing, do you suppose?

Well, spying and spies may be changing since the fall of the Soviet Union,
since the reason for the very existence of the CIA, which was created in
1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Truman,
was to coordinate the nation's intelligence activities. It was primarily
concerned with the threat of Communism and the Soviet Union. For the last
decade, of course, it has had to find other goals to justify the
expenditure of that $27 billion. The British intelligence agency has had
much the same problem.

What appears to have happened is an expansion of intelligence activity in
all kinds of areas and some of those areas have really bothered some of
the spies working in the agencies. Richard Tomlinson, a former British
Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) agent who had tried to tell the people
of Great Britain what some of their money was being used for. In 1998 he
said, in part, in an affidavit which was posted on the Internet to the
horror of the intelligence community:
(http://www.anaserve.com/~wethepeople/tomlin3.htm)


In 1992, as the civil war in the former Yugoslavia became increasingly
topical, I started to work primarily on operations in Serbia. During this
time, I became acquainted with Dr Nicholas Bernard Frank FISHWICK, born
1958, the MI6 officer who at the time was in charge of planning Balkan
operations. During one meeting with Dr Fishwick, he casually showed to me
a three-page document that on closer inspection turned out to be an
outline plan to assassinate the Serbian leader President Slobodan
Milosevic. The plan was fully typed, and attached to a yellow "minute
board", signifying that this was a formal and accountable document. It
will therefore still be in existence. Tomlinson named names, dates and
places and added: "This plan contained a political justification for the
assassination of Milosevic, followed by three outline proposals on how to
achieve this objective." Last week the latest in a series of
assassinations or near assassinations took place in Belgrade when the
federal minister of defense Pavle Bulatovic was gunned down by someone who
was able to "shoot with precision with an automatic rifle." The Bulatovic
assassination came only three weeks after the murder in similar style of
Zeljko Raznatovic, a militia leader and Milosovic supporter known as Arkan
in the lobby of Belgrade's plush Intercontinental Hotel. In early October,
on a lonely road south of Belgrade, a truck loaded with sand plowed into a
convoy carrying Serbian opposition leader Vuk Draskovic and four others to
a Sunday picnic. Only Draskovic survived. Draskovic supported Milosevic
throughout the bombing and was critical of other minority party leaders
for taking money offered to Milosevic opponents.

Of course, the spin put on all these assassinations and assassination
attempts is that they are all Milosevic's fault. For some reason we are
all supposed to believe that Milosevic would hire assassins to kill his
supporters and cabinet officers in highly public mafia style executions.

Would our beloved CIA do such dastardly deeds? Well, apparently even the
New York Times has its suspicions. In a front page story yesterday,
entitled, "U.S. Victims of Chile's Coup: The Uncensored File" the Times
reports that documents recently declassified by Clinton "make clear for
the first time that the State Department concluded from almost the
beginning that the Pinochet government had killed the men, Charles Horman,
31, and Frank Teruggi, 24." Horman and Teruggi were Americans who
supported the socialist government of Salvador Allende. Those documents
indicate that the CIA and the Pentagon of collaborated with General
Augusto Pinochet, who is now being accused of human rights violations, to
get the two men killed.

The Times reported: "U.S. intelligence may have played an unfortunate part
in Horman's death," said one newly declassified memo. "At best, it was
limited to providing or confirming information that helped motivate his
murder by the government of Chile. At worst, U.S. intelligence was aware
the government of Chile saw Horman in a rather serious light and U.S.
officials did nothing to discourage the logical outcome of government of
Chile paranoia." In 1980 the Government was forced to release these
documents through the Freedom of Information Act. However, they were
heavily censored in black ink, and appeared to clear the American and
Chilean governments of any responsibility. Now that Clinton has released
the total document, it is increasingly apparent that the CIA was involved
in helping the Pinochet regime find the Americans, who were summarily
executed by Pinochet's uniformed troops.

On April 23, 1999 when three laser-guided bombs landed in Milosevic's
bedroom, living room and dining room, the Serbs called it an
"assassination attempt." Kenneth Bacon, Pentagon spokesman, when asked if
the bombing of Milosevic's home was an assassination attempt, said that
assassination of foreign leaders was not "US policy."

I wrote in an analysis of the event
(http://www.originalsources.com/OS4-99MQC/4-23-1999.1.html), "Of course,
the reporter didn't ask what US policy is. He asked if the purpose of
bombing Milosevic's home was to kill him. Bacon didn't answer that
question. However, it is doubtful that the decision was made to bomb
Milosevic's bedroom and living room to improve his health."

So, to answer T.V.'s question, do I think Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are
capable of adopting a policy which is DESIGNED to create anarchy in other
countries? Yes. They are. I don't know if it is through sheer stupidity or
by design, but it sure is obvious to me that Clinton's expressed
determination to "get rid" of Slobodon Milosevic has simply moved from
bombing his bedroom in April of 1999 to trying to create fear, distrust
and internal wars among the Serbs who haven't figured it out yet.

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