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[Emperor's Clothes]

ARTICLES ON SREBRENICA (with brief descriptions)
[3 August 2001]

The media is using the - in our opinion -
outrageous conviction of General
Krstic by NATO's Hague 'Tribunal' to
broadcast massive amounts of sheer
misinformation about what happened in
the town of Srebrenica 6 years ago. The
following list of articles about Srebrenica
includes brief descriptions:

1 - MISTREATMENT OF GENERAL KRSTIC. The
following two articles deal with the
brutal mistreatment of General Krstic.
(Abuse of Serbs by The Hague
'Tribunal' is commonplace; the latest
example is the completely unjustified
confinement of President Slobodan Milosevic
in total isolation from other
prisoners, and even from his wife.)
The articles on Krstic are: 'Appeal:
Help Save The Life of Gen. Krstic, Tormented at the Hague' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/news/citizens.htm
and 'Statement of the Daughter of General Krstic' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/news/child.htm

2- SINISTER SUGGESTION FROM A SURPRISING SOURCE:
'Refuting the Srebrenica Myth: An Islamist
Perspective' by Konstantin Kilibarda.
Statements from embittered leaders of the
Islamist forces in Srebrenica and
information from the United Nations
suggest that Washington and the
Izetbegovic government in Sarajevo
conspired to fabricate a massacre story
for propaganda purposes. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/kilibarda/islamist.htm

3 - Jared Israel's 'Five Years On & the
Lies Continue' appeared last year as
a full page ad in the 'Sydney Herald'
and the 'New York Post.' The article,
which can be read at http://emperors-
clothes.com/articles/jared/texts.htm ,
argues that it wasn't the Islamists but
ordinary Serbian villagers who were
slaughtered by the terrorists under Nasir
Oric at Srebrenica. The Australian
advertisement led to an intense debate
on Australian Public Radio between
Israel and the 'NY Times' Srebrenica 'expert' David Rohde.
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/texts.htm

3- David Rohde vs. Max Sinclair and Jared Israel

David Rohde wrote the original Srebrenica
massacre story when he was a
'Christian Science Monitor' reporter in
1995. By making loud if unsubstantiated
accusations against the Bosnian Serbs he landed a perch at
the 'NY Times' from which he has been
issuing fanciful Srebrenica updates at
strategic intervals ever since.

The debate between Emperor's Clothes
and Rohde began with the publication of
'Why has the War Crimes Tribunal
suppressed testimony about Srebrenica?' by
Max Sinclair and Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/sinclair/why.htm

David Rohde replied to Sinclair and
Israel in an email which he sent to Prof.
Drasko Jovanovic, with whom he had been
corresponding about Srebrenica. Go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/inaccurate.htm

Jovanovic forwarded Rohde's comments
to Sinclair and Israel who answered
Rohde by email at
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/reply.htm

Prof. Jovanovic also sent Emperor's
Clothes a short memoir concerning his
experience as a boy in Nazi occupied
Yugoslavia. which can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/letterj.htm
Here Prof. Jovanovic dealt
with real genocide, as opposed to
the Rohde's unsubstantiated claims.

Rohde then took his dispute with
Emperors Clothes to the pages of the 'NY
Times,' writing an article in which he
omitted nothing but Israel and
Sinclair's actual arguments. Jared
Israel replied to Rohde's 'Times' piece at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/fulltext.htm.

Prof. Jovanovic also replied, at
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/farewell.htm

4 - George Pumphrey has written perhaps
the two best- documented articles
exposing government and media fabrications
about Srebrenica. The first is
'Srebrenica: 3 Years Later and Still Searching;' it can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/pumphrey/Srebrenica.html'
The more recent piece is 'Scandal in the Hague' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/pumphrey/scandal.htm,
which includes an introduction by Jared Israel
dealing with 'justice' as practiced at the Hague 'Tribunal.'

5 - Ren� Gr�maux and Abe de Vries'
analysis, 'The Construction of a Trauma.'
is ostensibly noncommittal regarding
whether there was in fact a massacre,
but the documentation argues against.
Here you will find firm refutation from
the Dutch -UN command as well as
self-contradictory testimony from supposed
witnesses. Can be read at http://emperors-
clothes.com/analysis/falsely.htm

6 - Sarah Standefer has written a
sharp rebuttal to the Srebrenica argument
which has been revived, as she points
out, to suit NATO's current propaganda
needs. See 'Thoughts On Srebrenica ' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/standefer/hoax.htm

7 - Here are some Useful Articles
on the 'International Criminal Tribunal for
Yugoslavia' (ICTY) also known as The Hague 'Tribunal'

* In 'Illegal Tribunal - Illegal Indictment'
Dr. Hans Koechler, the distinguished philosopher
and social-legal analyst associated with the United
Nations examines the Tribunal and does not
like what he finds. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/prog2.htm

* In 'An Impartial Tribunal? Really?',
Attorney Chris Black examines the
Tribunal's history and methods of operations. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/Impartial.htm

* Dr. Kosta Cavoski, a distinguished
Yugoslav legal scholar, has written a
mind-boggling four-part series.


In 'The War Crimes Tribunal vs. Gen. Djordje Djukic' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-1.htm
and 'The Mistreatment of Col. Aleksa Krsmanovic' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-2.htm
Professor Cavoski deals with the torture and
physical destruction of Serbian 'defendants'.

In Illegal Origins' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-3.htm
Professor Cavoski analyzes the Tribunal's
legal rationale, or lack of same.

In 'Learning from the Inquisition' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/cavoski/c-4.htm
Professor Cavoski describes the practices of
the Tribunal, which thoroughly violate what we
would consider natural legal guarantees

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[Partial translation; original in German follows.]

DER SPIEGEL (Hamburg), Monday, July 30, 2001

MACEDONIA: THE DOUBLE GAME OF THE AMERICANS

by Renate Flottau, Olaf Ihlau, Susanne Koelbl and
Alexander Szandar

There is growing irritation among the Europeans over
Washington's dubious actions in the Balkans: As
godfather of the UCK it shares responsibility for
the worsening conflict between Albanians and Macedonian
Slavs. [3 paragraphs omitted in translation]

Europe looks at its southeastern back yard with dismay.
Once again the fuse of an ethnic explosion is
smoldering. After the decade of the Yugoslav
succession wars that cost the lives of almost 300,000
people, another bloodbath in the Balkans looms with
the open civil war between two ethnic groups that
could plunge the entire region into chaos. [3
paragraphs omitted in translation]

So as not to appear as the clear villain, before the
new round of talks began the UCK cleared its forward
positions at Tetovo and withdrew to mountain posts, from
which it can easily strike again. But the separatist
Albanians will do the same if they do not obtain by the
political route what they are actually striving for:
First certified equality as an ethnic group through a
constitutional amendment, then the de facto
division of Macedonia, and finally a greater Albanian
fatherland.

There are reasons behind the outcry of Skopje's head of
government Ljubco Georgievski, himself a dedicated Slav
nationalist, over the West's alleged partisanship. In
this sad spectacle over Macedonia's future the UCK is
the main villain and the Americans play the shady part.

The UCK fighters were once schooled by American and
British trainers in Albanian camps for use against
Milosevic's soldiers in Kosovo. No one knows the main
actors, the UCK's commando structure and its financiers
and arms suppliers as well as the CIA, which keeps the
Albanian secret service close to its side as a subsidiary.

When in February UCK irregulars from Kosovo instigated
skirmishes in the West Macedonian border region,
initially the KFOR peacekeeping troops idly
observed. At that time Prime Minister Georgievski
accused Washington, but also Berlin, of having
withheld key information on planned terrorist
actions. The US government knew of at least 300
rebels, he said.

To confidants German defense minister Rudolf Scharping
complained that the "international community," meaning
first of all the Americans, had "not acted consistently"
and thus "shared responsibility" for the current crisis.

In fact, German soldiers in Macedonia are already
standing between the fronts. Last week they hastily
evacuated a depot in Tetovo when the barracks
was caught in a cross-fire between UCK marksmen and
the Macedonian army.

The great oversight of the Alliance is that, under
Washington's influence, after the air war against the
Serbs it treated the UCK independence fighters
as allies. Top Bundeswehr soldiers internally complain
of the constant camaraderie since 1999.

The Kosovo example: It should not have happened that
after the KFOR troops marched in the UCK made thousands
of guns, pistols and mortars disappear.
German soldiers who acted firmly against UCK members
who were carrying weapons despite the ban were reined
in by their superiors. 'That is not in compliance with
the NATO policy' was their commanders' implicit message.

The earlier UCK supreme commander Hashim Thaci, a protege
of then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, put a
few thousand of his fighters in the so-called Kosovo
Defense Corps (KPC for short), a sort of technical
relief organization officially intended to help in
repairing destroyed houses.

German KFOR commander Klaus Reinhardt warned in vain of
new activities by the underground UCK; the Americans
kept flirting with it. Reinhardt later complained that
politicians, diplomats and the NATO supreme commander for
Europe, Wesley Clark, regularly brushed aside warning
cries from the KFOR headquarters in Pristina.

As early as the start of December 1999, when the NATO
peacekeeping force had not yet been in the country for
half a year, KFOR reconnaissance patrols in the Presevo
valley noticed suspicious young Kosovars. The area belongs
to the so-called Ground Safety Zone (GSZ), a demilitarized
buffer zone between the Serbian heartland and Kosovo.

The Americans monitored the main traffic arteries so
loosely that the area quickly became a trading center
for arms runners, drug dealers and traffickers in young
women, controlled by the UCK and mafia. A "Presevo,
Medvedja and Bujanovac Liberation Army" (UCPMB) quickly
occupied villages, drove out Serb residents and called
for annexation to Kosovo.

KFOR leader Reinhardt called in vain on US officers
to act vigorously against illegal border crossers. NATO
supreme commander Clark always merely answered the
warnings about the firebrands in the Presovo valley with
questions about the old enemy: "And where do the Serbs
stand?"

When Serbian security forces moved into the Presevo valley
last March with NATO's consent, many UCK members went over
the land border to Macedonia or back to Kosovo. Scharping
suspiciously asked NATO colleagues how UCK members
were being prevented at checkpoints in the American Kosovo
sector from giving up their weapons but "two kilometers
further are taking up new weapons and continuing on to
Macedonia?" The news tickers gave the answer:
Freshly armed UCK members were again proclaiming "liberated
zones" in Macedonia.

While NATO had long been making plans for the
intervention, including disarming the UCK rebels, in
late June US special units evacuated 400 UCK fighters
from the guerilla stronghold of Aracinovo surrounded
by Macedonian troops, right in front of the gates to
Skopje. Not only UCK fighters found refuge in armored
personnel carriers and buses with KFOR markings, but
also 17 American civilians. They were declared to be
"observers" but instead of dissuading the UCK members
from playing with fire they served them as trainers.

Moreover, thanks to US assistance the UCK's command center
was set up in Aracinovo, with direct satellite phone
connection to the Pentagon. "We have confiscated weapons,"
a police representative said with annoyance in Skopje,
"whose serial numbers clearly indicate NATO resources."
Also videocassettes of Macedonian military positions that
in his opinion had been filmed from KFOR helicopters and
made available to the UCK by the Americans.

A questionable maneuver: In NATO the USA urges the allies
to intervene in Macedonia while at the same time the
Americans are training the UCK, and the Macedonian army
also receives help from Washington as well.

Once again the Germans and the other allies are
irritated at the dual strategy of NATO supremacy.
Reports "of American ex-officers as trainers with the
Macedonian UCK," notes Green Bundestag deputy
Winfried Nachtwei, "once again raise doubts about US
policy in the region." And CDU deputy Willy Wimmer
speculates that the USA is supporting a "greater
Albania well-disposed toward it" in the Balkans,
obviously for strategic reasons.

The suspicion is well-founded. The Berlin government
knows from secret service reports that in Macedonia
the same court clique being pampered by the USA is
stoking the fires of war: Since May the head of the
purportedly civilian Kosovo defense force, Agim Ceku,
has been assembling UCK reservists to prepare them in
Albanian training camps for the new war. The military
supreme command of the Macedonian UCK is under former
Ceku deputy Ramush Haradinaj.

The person procuring the money is a man who already
enjoyed the Americans' trust at the talks in
Rambouillet as a negotiator next to Thaci: Xhavit
Haliti was already collecting donations for the UCK
before the Kosovo war; in recent weeks, the secret
services report, he has collected another 43 million
marks from Albanians in Germany and Switzerland.

The trio of Haliti, Thaci and Haradinaj has not by
any means funded their Kalashnikov policy from
donations alone: "The unrest in Macedonia and the
related instability in the region," a secret service
file states, are "the absolute precondition for their
criminal business" - meaning illicit dealings in
drugs, weapons and young women.

Fed by such facts, the Europeans' pressure on the USA
is clearly beginning to show an impact. In late June
President George W. Bush prohibited 21 UCK leaders
from traveling to the USA and barred US citizens from
money transactions with the extremists. Top people of
the Kosovo Defense Corps were also on the Bush list;
only later were they fired.

Meanwhile, the pathetic praise expressed by Bush for
the American border patrols in a drop-by visit last
week in Kosovo struck Scharping and his military
people as scornful. As Bush said in all seriousness
in his appearance in the fortress-like Camp
Bondsteel, they prevented "weapons from falling into
rebel hands," which is why there is now "hope for
peace" in Macedonia. But Bush also warned the UCK to
keep quiet in neighboring Macedonia: "The Kosovars
should concentrate on Kosovo."

Now the Berlin government is wondering: Is Bush doing
an about-face, or is he once again just lulling the
suspicious NATO partners? After all, at the end of
the day they are the ones to pick up the pieces of
the questionable US policy in Macedonia.

The Americans themselves do not want to send any
combat troops to Macedonia to disarm the UCK. They
feel troops of the European NATO allies should be the
only ones doing the risky dirty work.

But no one knows better than the Americans what the
UCK irregulars are up to. The US force in the Balkans
has low-flying satellites and its own mobile
communication system that enables encrypted telephone
calls. Obviously thus far neither the West European
secret services nor the Russian spy service has
technically succeeded in penetrating and listening in
on this "low-flying satellite-based system."

The UCK, however, can use the Americans' exclusive
communication network with a radio circuit of its
own. As a result, Washington's professional
eavesdroppers are always perfectly well informed when
the Albanian irregulars plan to attack and where they
plan to withdraw.


=======================================================
DER SPIEGEL 31/2001

URL:
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,147569,00.html

Mazedonien

Das Doppelspiel der Amerikaner

Unter den Europ�ern w�chst die Irritation �ber das
zwielichtige Agieren Washingtons auf dem Balkan: Als
Paten der U�K sind die USA mitverantwortlich f�r die
Zuspitzung des Konflikts zwischen Albanern und
Slawo-Mazedoniern.

Unsere Regierung hat uns verkauft, der Westen auch",
schimpft der Slawo-Mazedonier Ljubco, 45. Nachts
schl�ft er mit seiner Familie im gro�en Park der
mazedonischen Hauptstadt Skopje, tags�ber sitzt er
mit Hunderten Vertriebenen unter gl�hender Sonne vor
dem Parlament. "Ihr habt uns verraten", steht auf
einem Transparent. Bis Anfang vorvergangener Woche
neun Granaten bei seinem Haus einschlugen, hatte
Ljubcos Familie in einem Vorort von Tetovo gewohnt,
der Albaner-Hochburg im Westen der zwei Millionen
Einwohner z�hlenden Mini-Republik. F�nf Monate lang
hatte sie Schie�ereien ertragen, die fast jede Nacht
aus den Bergen herunter-hallten.

Dort oben nisteten Sto�trupps der albanischen
Befreiungsarmee U�K. "Oft haben wir uns gefragt:
Kommen die jetzt und bringen uns um?", berichtet
Ljubco, dem in diesen f�nf Monaten das Vertrauen zu
seinen albanischen Nachbarn abhanden kam, "denn die
hatten sich l�ngst mit der U�K solidarisiert und
wollen Westmazedonien ethnisch von uns s�ubern."

Dann die Granaten, die Panik und Flucht. Wie Ljubco
verlie�en bis Mitte voriger Woche mehrere tausend
Slawo-Mazedonier ver�ngstigt nur mit ein paar
Habseligkeiten ihre D�rfer um Tetovo. Viele, die
keine Verwandten zum Unterschlupf haben, strandeten
in Skopje. Dort kam es zu Protestz�gen,
nationalistischen Gewaltaktionen und antiwestlichen
Demonstrationen, wurden Fahrzeuge internationaler
Organisationen in Brand gesetzt, die Botschaften
Deutschlands, Gro�britanniens und der USA mit
Steinw�rfen attackiert.

Verst�rt blickt Europa in seinen s�d�stlichen
Hinterhof. Erneut glimmt dort die Lunte f�r eine
ethnische Explosion. Nach der Dekade der
jugoslawischen Erbfolgekriege, die nahezu 300 000
Menschenleben forderten, droht nun mit dem offenen
B�rgerkrieg zweier Volksgruppen ein weiteres Blutbad
auf dem Balkan, das die gesamte Region ins Chaos
st�rzen k�nnte.

Mazedonien balanciere "auf des Messers Schneide",
warnte Nato-Generalsekret�r George Robertson.
Gemeinsam mit einer Garde von EU-Vermittlern
versuchte der Brite Ende voriger Woche verbissen in
Verhandlungen, doch noch eine politische �bereinkunft
zwischen den zerstrittenen Volksgruppen
herbeizuf�hren. Denn nur mit �u�erstem
internationalem Druck scheint in Europas historischem
Pulverfass ein weiterer, sich mit erschreckender
Dynamik aufpumpender Konflikt noch abwendbar zu sein.

Und nur bei einer soliden politischen �bereinkunft
sowie einem dauerhaften Waffenstillstand w�re die
Nato bereit, eine Friedenstruppe von 3000 Mann -
darunter wohl auch 500 deutsche Soldaten - ins Land
zu schicken und die Waffen albanischer Freisch�rler
einzusammeln.

Aber ein auf dem Balkan geschlossener Burgfrieden,
das lehrt die historische Erfahrung, ist br�chig.
Drei Granaten, abgefeuert von Extremisten, k�nnen ihn
jederzeit torpedieren. "Das Selbstverst�ndnis der
V�lker ist f�r viele wichtiger als alles andere",
sagt der deutsche Nato-Botschafterin Skopje,
Hans-J�rg Eiff, ein ausgewiesener Balkan-Kenner, und
er meint damit: Symbolische Fragen sind hier
wichtiger als ein paar tausend Tote.

Um nicht als der eindeutige B�sewicht dazustehen,
hatte die U�K vor Beginn der neuen Verhandlungsrunde
ihre vordersten Positionen bei Tetovo ger�umt und
sich auf Bergstellungen zur�ckgezogen. Von denen aus
kann sie ohne Schwierigkeiten erneut zuschlagen. Das
aber werden die separatistischen Albaner auch tun,
wenn sie auf dem politischen Weg nicht kriegen, was
sie in Wahrheit anstreben: zun�chst die durch
Verfassungs�nderung verbriefte Gleichstellung als
Volksgruppe, dann die De-facto-Teilung Mazedoniens
und schlie�lich ein gro�albanisches Vaterland.

Der Aufschrei von Skopjes Regierungschef Ljubco
Georgievski, selbst ein hartleibiger
Slawo-Nationalist, �ber die angebliche Parteinahme
des Westens hat seine Gr�nde. In diesem tr�ben Spiel
um die Zukunft Mazedoniens ist die U�K der
Hauptschurke, und die Amerikaner geben den
zwielichtigen Part.

Die K�mpfer der U�K wurden einst von amerikanischen
und britischen Ausbildern in albanischen Camps f�r
den Einsatz gegen Milosevics Soldaten im Kosovo
trainiert. Keiner kennt die wichtigsten Akteure, die
Kommandostruktur der U�K sowie deren Finanziers und
Waffenlieferanten so gut wie die CIA, die sich den
albanischen Geheimdienst nebenher als Filiale h�lt.

Als im Februar U�K-Freisch�rler vom Kosovo aus
Scharm�tzel in der westmazedonischen Grenzregion
anzettelten, schaute die Kfor-Friedenstruppe zun�chst
tatenlos zu. W�tend warf Premier Georgievski damals
Washington - aber auch Berlin - vor, wesentliche
Informationen �ber geplante terroristische Aktionen
zur�ckgehalten zu haben. Mindestens 300 Rebellen
seien der US-Regierung bekannt gewesen.

Vor Vertrauten schimpfte Bundesverteidigungsminister
Rudolf Scharping, die "internationale Gemeinschaft" -
gemeint sind vor allem die Amerikaner - habe sich
"nicht konsequent verhalten". Sie trage deshalb
"Mitverantwortung" f�r die aktuelle Krise.

Tats�chlich stehen deutsche Soldaten in Mazedonien
bereits jetzt zwischen den Fronten. Vergangene Woche
r�umten sie fluchtartig ein Depot in Tetovo, als die
Kaserne ins Kreuzfeuer von U�K-Sch�tzen und
mazedonischer Armee geriet.

Das gro�e Vers�umnis der Allianz: Unter dem Einfluss
Washingtons verfuhr sie nach dem Luftkrieg gegen die
Serben mit den Unabh�ngigkeitsk�mpfern der U�K wie
mit Verb�ndeten. F�hrende Bundeswehr-Milit�rs
beklagen intern die seit 1999 ungebrochene
Kameraderie.

Beispiel Kosovo: Es h�tte nicht sein m�ssen, dass die
U�K nach dem Einmarsch der Kfor-Truppen Tausende
Gewehre, Pistolen und M�rser verschwinden lie�.
Deutsche Soldaten, die rigoros gegen U�K-Leute
vorgingen, die trotz Verbots Waffen trugen, wurden
von oben zur�ckgepfiffen. Das entspreche nicht der
Nato-Linie, lie�en ihre Kommandeure durchblicken.

Der fr�here U�K-Oberbefehlshaber Hashim Tha�i, ein
Proteg� der damaligen US-Au�enministerin Madeleine
Albright, brachte einige tausend seiner K�mpfer im so
genannten Kosovo-Schutzkorps (K�rzel: KPC) unter -
einer Art technischem Hilfswerk, das offiziell beim
Herrichten zerst�rter H�user behilflich sein soll.

Vergebens warnte der deutsche Kfor-Kommandeur Klaus
Reinhardt vor neuen Umtrieben der Untergrund-U�K. Die
Amerikaner blieben auf Schmusekurs. Politiker,
Diplomaten und der Nato-Oberbefehlshaber f�r Europa,
Wesley Clark, so beschwerte sich Reinhardt sp�ter,
wischten Alarmrufe aus dem Kfor-Hauptquartier in
Pristina regelm��ig beiseite.

Bereits Anfang Dezember 1999, die Nato-Friedenstruppe
war noch kein halbes Jahr im Land, fielen
Kfor-Sp�hern im Presovo-Tal verd�chtige junge
Kosovaren auf. Die Gegend geh�rt zur so genannten
Ground Safety Zone (GSZ), einer entmilitarisierten
Pufferzone zwischen dem serbischen Kernland und dem
Kosovo.

An den Hauptverkehrsadern kontrollierten die
Amerikaner so lax, dass das Gebiet rasch zum
Umschlagplatz f�r Waffenschieber, Drogendealer und
M�dchenh�ndler wurde - beherrscht von U�K und Mafia.
Prompt besetzte eine "Befreiungsarmee Presovo,
Medvedja und Bujanovac" (U�PMB) D�rfer, vertrieb
serbische Bewohner und verlangte den Anschluss an das
Kosovo.

Erfolglos forderte Kfor-Chef Reinhardt US-Offiziere
auf, energisch gegen illegale Grenzg�nger
einzuschreiten. Nato-Oberbefehlshaber Clark
quittierte die Warnungen vor den Brandstiftern im
Presovo-Tal stets nur mit Fragen nach dem alten
Kriegsgegner: "Und wo stehen da die Serben?"

Als serbische Sicherheitskr�fte mit Einverst�ndnis
der Nato vergangenen M�rz in das Presovo-Tal
einr�ckten, gingen viele U�K-Leute �ber die gr�ne
Grenze nach Mazedonien oder zur�ck in das Kosovo.
Argw�hnisch fragte Scharping Nato-Kollegen, wie
verhindert werde, dass U�K-Leute an Kontrollposten im
amerikanischen Kosovo-Sektor ihre Waffen abgeben,
aber "zwei Kilometer weiter neue Waffen aufnehmen und
nach Mazedonien weiterziehen?" Die Antwort lieferten
die Nachrichten-Ticker: Frisch bewaffnete U�K-Leute
riefen in Mazedonien erneut "befreite Zonen" aus.

W�hrend die Nato l�ngst Pl�ne f�r das Eingreifen samt
Entwaffnung der U�K-Rebellen schmiedete, evakuierten
US-Spezialeinheiten Ende Juni 400 U�K-K�mpfer aus der
von mazedonischen Truppen eingeschlossenen
Guerrilla-Hochburg Aracinovo, unmittelbar vor den
Toren Skopjes. Nicht nur U�K-K�mpfer fanden Zuflucht
in Sch�tzenpanzern und Bussen mit Kfor-Bemalung,
sondern auch 17 amerikanische Zivilisten. Die waren
zwar als "Beobachter" deklariert. Aber statt die
U�K-Leute vom Z�ndeln abzubringen, dienten sie
ihnen als Ausbilder.

In Aracinovo soll dank US-Assistenz zudem die
Befehlszentrale der U�K installiert gewesen sein -
mit direkter Satellitentelefonverbindung ins
Pentagon. "Wir haben Waffen beschlagnahmt", �rgert
sich in Skopje ein Polizeivertreter, "deren
Seriennummern eindeutig auf Nato-Ressourcen
hinwiesen." Au�erdem Videokassetten mazedonischer
Milit�rstellungen, die seiner Meinung nach von
Kfor-Hubschraubern aufgenommen und der U�K von den
Amerikanern zur Verf�gung gestellt wurden.

Ein fragw�rdiges Man�ver: In der Nato dr�ngen die USA
die Verb�ndeten zum Eingreifen in Mazedonien,
zugleich trainieren Amerikaner die U�K - und nebenbei
erh�lt auch die mazedonische Armee Hilfe aus
Washington.

Einmal mehr sind die Deutschen und die �brigen
Verb�ndeten �ber die Doppelstrategie der
Nato-Vormacht irritiert. Berichte "�ber amerikanische
Ex-Offiziere als Ausbilder bei der mazedonischen
U�K", urteilt der Gr�nen-Bundestagsabgeordnete
Winfried Nachtwei, "sch�ren erneut Zweifel an der
US-Politik in der Region". Und der CDU-Abgeordnete
Willy Wimmer mutma�t, die USA unterst�tzten
offensichtlich aus strategischen Gr�nden auf dem
Balkan ein "ihnen wohlgesinntes Gro�albanien".

Der Verdacht ist begr�ndet. Aus Geheimdienstberichten
wei� die Berliner Regierung, dass in Mazedonien
wieder die gleiche Kamarilla den Krieg anheizt, die
von den USA geh�tschelt wurde: Der Chef der
vorgeblich zivilen Kosovo-Schutztruppe, Agim �eku,
sammelt demnach seit Mai U�K-Reservisten, um sie in
albanischen Ausbildungscamps f�r den neuen Krieg zu
trainieren. Dem vormaligen �eku-Stellvertreter Ramush
Haradinaj untersteht das milit�rische Oberkommando
der mazedonischen U�K.

Als Geldbeschaffer fungiert ein Mann, der bereits bei
den Gespr�chen in Rambouillet neben Tha�i als
Unterh�ndler das Vertrauen der Amerikaner genoss:
Xhavit Haliti sammelte schon vor dem Kosovo-Krieg
Spenden f�r die U�K; in den vergangenen Wochen,
berichten die Geheimdienste, tribe er bei Albanern in
Deutschland und der Schweiz wieder satte 43 Millionen
Mark f�r die Kriegskasse ein.

Das Trio Haliti, Tha�i und Haradinaj finanziert seine
Politik der Kalaschnikow keineswegs nur aus Spenden:
"Die Unruhen in Mazedonien und die damit verbundene
Instabilit�t in der Region", hei�t es in einem
Geheimdienst-Dossier, seien "absolute Voraussetzung
f�r ihre kriminellen Gesch�fte" - gemeint sind
schmutzige Deals mit Drogen, Waffen und M�dchen.

Gespeist durch solche Fakten, beginnt der Druck der
Europ�er auf die USA offenbar Wirkung zu zeigen. Ende
Juni untersagte Pr�sident George W. Bush 21
U�K-F�hrern, in die USA einzureisen und verbot
US-B�rgern Geldgesch�fte mit den Extremisten. Auf der
Bush-Liste fanden sich auch Topleute des
Kosovo-Schutzkorps. Danach erst wurden sie gefeuert.

Wie Hohn erschien Scharping und seinen Milit�rs indes
das pathetische Lob, das Bush vergangene Woche bei
einer Stippvisite im Kosovo f�r die amerikanischen
Grenzpatrouillen aussprach. Die h�tten verhindert, so
Bush bei seinem Auftritt im festungsartigen Camp
Bondsteel allen Ernstes, "dass Waffen in
Rebellenh�nde fallen" - weshalb es nun eine "Hoffnung
auf Frieden" in Mazedonien gebe. Bush ermahnte aber
auch die U�K, im Nachbarland Mazedonien Ruhe zu
geben: "Die Kosovaren sollten sich auf das Kosovo
konzentrieren."

Nun r�tselt die Berliner Regierung: Leitet Bush eine
Kehrtwende ein, oder geht es wieder einmal nur darum,
die argw�hnischen Nato-Partner einzulullen? Die
sollen ja schlie�lich in Mazedonien die Scherben der
fragw�rdigen US-Politik aufklauben.

Die Amerikaner selbst wollen zur Entwaffnung der U�K
keine Kampftruppen nach Mazedonien schicken. Die
riskante Drecksarbeit sollen Soldaten der
europ�ischen Nato-Verb�ndeten allein leisten.

Niemand aber wei� besser als die Amerikaner, was die
U�K-Freisch�rler im Schilde f�hren. Die US-Truppe auf
dem Balkan verf�gt mit niedrig fliegenden Satelliten
�ber ein eigenes, mobiles Kommunikationssystem. Darin
l�sst sich verschl�sselt telefonieren. Weder
westeurop�ischen Geheimdiensten noch dem russischen
Spionagedienst gelang es bislang offenbar, in dieses
"low-flying satellite based system" technisch als
Mith�rer einzudringen.

Die U�K aber darf das exklusive Kommunikationsnetz
der Amerikaner mit einem eigenen Funkkreis nutzen.
Washingtons professionelle Lauscher sind somit stets
bestens informiert, wann die albanischen Freisch�rler
zur Attacke und wo sie zum R�ckzug blasen.

RENATE FLOTTAU, OLAF IHLAU, SUSANNE KOELBL, ALEXANDER
SZANDAR

� DER SPIEGEL 31/2001
Alle Rechte vorbehalten
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FREE MILOSEVIC, SAYS PINTER

Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
Thursday July 26, 2001
Front Page
The Guardian


The playwright Harold Pinter has joined a
campaign to free the former Serb leader Slobodan
Milosevic.

Pinter, who was a fierce opponent of the Nato
bombing of Serbia and once defined US policy to
the former Yugoslavia as "kiss my arse or I'll
kick your head in", said that Mr Milosevic's
extradition to face trial at the war crimes
tribunal in the Hague was illegal.

"I believe his arrest and detention by the
international criminal tribunal is
unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and
international law. They have no right to try
him," he said.

His decision to lend his name to the
International Committee to Defend Slobodan
Milosevic, a loose coalition of leftwingers,
human rights activists and Serb sympathisers
formed in March, follows years of criticism of
what he sees as the west's selective morality in
the Balkans and its "persecution" of ordinary
Serbs.

Although he believes that Mr Milosevic was
"ruthless and savage", he has long argued that he
has been unfairly demonised as the "butcher of
the Balkans". He blames his former
vice-president, the ultra-nationalist Vojislav
Seselj, for much of the ethnic cleansing.

Pinter also says that if Mr Milosevic is to be
tried, former US president Bill Clinton should
join him in the dock for dropping millions of
"cluster bombs that cut children to pieces - from
those brave bombers at 15,000ft. And this is an
act which [Tony] Blair, with his moralistic
Christianity, applauds".

He also said the bombing of the Yugoslavian
television station in Belgrade by Nato was
"murder" and made him "ashamed of being British".

Although Pinter - currently working at a festival
of his work in New York - has not given any money
to the Milosevic defence fund, the committee
hopes to start raising cash soon.

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Subject: Fw: Milosevic
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:09:34 -0400
From: "Christopher Black"

A letter the Toronto Star still has refused to
publish even though they pursue me for stories.
The letter was in response to a vicious
propaganda piece against Milosevic and the Serbs
they ran as an editorial.

DEFEND MACEDONIA! STOP THE NATO JACKBOOT!

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Black
To: lettertoed@...
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:32 AM
Subject: Milosevic

The Editor,
Toronto Star

Your piece on Milosevic entitled "No place To
Hide" constitutes nothing less than criminal
journalism. A series of lies from beginning to
end, it attempts to control public opinion about
the truth of events in Yuglosavia in order to
justify the criminal aggression by Canada and the
other Nato countries on the last progressive
country in eastern Europe and cover the war
crimes of Chretien and Arbour and the rest of
gangsters who pretend to control the New World
Order.

Mr. Milosevic was never "undisputed master" of
Yugoslavia. He was duly elected in popular
elections unlike President Bush in the United
States who was installed against the popular
will. He was never a notorious nationalst as you
claim and never seduced his people with dreams of
a greater Serbia. In every speech and in his
actions he did what he could to preserve a
multiethnic state against the Machiavellian
scheming of the United States and Germany which
promoted the Albanian's bloody thirst for a
Greater Albania, a blood soaked ambition fuelled
and directed by the United States and its axis
and which is today destroying Macedonia and
threatens Greece.

It was not Milosevic who delivered ethnic hatred.
It was Nato and its tightly controlled media that
sowed that hatred with every press release and
every article.

It was not Milosevic who brought war and
disintegration, sanctions and ruin. It was the
United States and Germany, Britain and Canada and
the rest of the Nato gangsters who decided to
destroy the last progressive government in the
east for the benefit of their economic elites.
It was not Milosevic who dropped bombs. It was
the cowards in the armed forces of all the Nato
countries who failed in their duty to defy
illegal and immoral orders and instead dropped
cluster bombs on innocent women and children. It
was not Milosevic who destroyed international
law. It was Chretien and the rest of Nato. It was
not Milosevic who has contempt for the rule of
law and democracy. It is every leader of every
governmnent in Nato who never consulted their own
people before attacking a small innocent country,
and who broke their own domestic laws in that
attack.

Where were you when Chretien broke the law in the
National Defence Act which forbids the use of the
Canadian Armed Forces to attack another country
unless attacked first or under UN mandate? Where
were you Chretien lied to the Canadian people
about the reality in the Balkans? Where were you
when Chretien and the rest broke the UN Charter
and threw it in the mud? Where were you when they
destroyed every principle established at
Nurmberg,in the Geneva Conventions and in dozens
of other international protocols.

You talk about the "reformist" government" in
Belgrade when in truth it is a fascist regime
which has shut down the oppositon press, arrested
hundreds of people on political charges and fired
over 40,000 people in a population of only 11
million from jobs in factories, government,
schools, hospitals, unions who had any
progressive or patriotic beliefs.

You praise Louise Arbour whose crass political
indictment of Milosevic on May 27, 1999 occurred
under US instruction at a point at which the Nato
alliance was fracturing and domestic support for
the bombing was waning. Her action justified the
continued violation of international law and
criminal aggression against a sovereign state
whose only crime was to resist the diktats of
Madaleine Albright. You praise a woman who
refused to investigate Chretien and other Nato
leaders for war crimes as lawyers and jurists
around the world insisted, including the group of
Canadian lawyers of whom I was one lead by
Professor Michael Mandel. Far from shattering
Milosevic's credibility, the indictment against
him by Arbour shattered completely the
credibility of the Hague Tribunal viewed around
the world by esteemed jurists as a kangaroo court
partly funded by people like George Soros, who
also just happened to fund the KLA at the same
time.

Milosevic is not a broken man. I visited with
President Milosevic in the Belgrade Central
Prison on June 15 and again on July 12, in The
Hague, as a representative of the International
Committee To Defend Slobadan Milosevic. The
Committee is composed of jurists, writers,
scientists, politicians, professors and other
esteemed citizens from over 20 countries who are
convinced that the charges against Milosevic are
false and a slander against the people of
Yugoslavia and an insult to the intelligence of
the people in the Nato countries. It includes
members such as the great British playwright
Harold Pinter, and the former Attorney general of
the Untied States, Ramsay Clark.

Mr. Milosevic is in good spirits. He is not
suicidal. That is a lie put out to explain in
advance his possible murder at the hands of the
Nato Quislings presently in power in Belgrade
because they know very well that any trial before
the Hague tribunal will be an embarrassment for
Nato because there is no evidence of crimes that
never took place except in the pages of the
western press ever anxious to please the economic
powers that own them and who are linked with the
governments that want to eliminate those, like
Milosevic who have the courage to defy them.

Milosevic told me one thing he wanted the world
to know. He has a clear conscience. He stated to
me, "The only reasons I am in this prison are
because I am a socialist and because I stood up
to Nato. I am a political prisoner." The
corruption charges against him are false. The
Investigative Judge told me that there is no
evidence of any criminal wrongdoing by Mr.
Milosevic at all and that he is detained because
of strong political pressure until he can be
handed over to Carla Del Ponte. A Ministry of
Justice official told me that there is no
evidence against him but that I must understand
that "there are many members of the new regime
who would like to see all the socialists hanged
from lampposts."

The Toronto Star which prides itself on its
liberalism and support of democracy is so blinded
by its subservience to its masters that it openly
supports the decree stating that Milosevic can be
extradited despite the fact that the Yugoslavian
parliament opposed the extradition law that
Kostunica tried to pass and the Djindjic decree
was suspended by the Constituional Court.
Apparently, the Star's support of democracy only
goes so far. When the Yugoslav parliament opposes
the extradition, an unconstitutional decree,
which openly violates the will of the people and
the Yugoslav constitution, is praised as
courageous. When Nato and Chretien violated and
threw under the Nato jackboot every international
law you said nothing. Still you say nothing and
still you want Canadians to believe that
Milosevic's extradition is a shining example of
the benefits of international law. Hypocrisy we
know your name.

Christopher Black, Barrister
Head, Legal Committee
International Committee To Defend Slobodan Milosevic
Toronto, Ontario

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Subject: U.S. CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL: A BAD OMEN
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:37:31 +0200
From: TARGETS <redactie@...>
To: office@...

U.S. CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL: A BAD OMEN

The trial of Slobodan Milosevic threatens U.S.
sovereignty. The fact that this trial can be
carried out, in the name of international
justice, should cause all the Americans to cast a
wary eye on the whole principal of the U.N. War
Crimes Tribunal. The prosecution of Milosevic, a
democratically elected and properly disposed
leader of a sovereign country, could not be
carried out without full U.S. military and
financial support. Since we are the only world
superpower, the U.N. court becomes our court
under our control. But it is naive to believe our
world superpower status will last forever. The
precedence now being set will one day surely come
back to haunt us.

The U.S. today may enjoy dictating policy to
Yugoslavia and elsewhere around the world, but
danger lurks ahead. The administration adamantly
and correctly opposes our membership in the
permanent International Criminal Court because it
would have authority to exercise jurisdiction
over U.S. citizens without the consent of the
U.S. government. But how can we, with a straight
face, support doing the very same thing to a
small country, in opposition to its sovereignty,
courts, and constitution. This blatant
inconsistency and illicit use of force does not
go unnoticed and will sow the seeds of future
terrorist attacks against Americans or even war.
Money, as usual, is behind the Milosevic's
extradition. Bribing Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic, a U.S.-sponsored leader, prompted
strong opposition from Yugoslavian Prime Minister
Zoran Zizic and Yugoslavian President Vojislav
Kostunica.

A Belgrade historian, Aleksa Djilas, was quoted
in The New York Times as saying: "We sold him for
money, and we won't really get very much money
for it. The U.S. is the natural leader of the
world, but how does it lead? This justifies the
worst American instincts, reinforcing this
bullying mentality.''

Milosevic obviously is no saint but neither are
the leader of the Croats, the Albanians or the
KLA. The NATO leaders who vastly expanded the
death and destruction in Yugoslavia with 78 days
of bombing in 1999 are certainly not blameless.
The $1.28 billion promised the puppet Yugoslavian
government is to be used to rebuild the cities
devastated by U.S. bombs. First, the American
people are forced to pay to bomb, to kill
innocent people and destroy cities, and then they
are forced to pay to repair the destruction,
while orchestrating a U.N. kangaroo court to
bring the guilty to justice at the Hague.

For all this to be accepted, the press and
internationalists have had to demonize Milosevic
to distance themselves from the horrors of others
including NATO.

NATO's air strikes assisted the KLA in cleansing
Kosovo of Serbs in the name of assisting Albanian
freedom fighters. No one should be surprised when
that is interpreted to mean tacit approval for
Albanian expansionism in Macedonia. While
terrorist attacks by former members of the KLA
against Serbs are ignored, the trial of the new
millennium, the trial of Milosevic, enjoys daily
support from the NATO-U.S. propaganda machine.
In our effort to stop an independent-minded and
uncooperative with the international community
president of a sovereign country, U.S. policy was
designed to support an equally if not worse
organization, the KLA. One of the conditions for
ending the civil war in Kosovo was the disbanding
of the KLA. But the very same ruthless leaders of
the KLA, now the Liberation Army of Presevo, are
now leading the insurrection in Macedonia without
NATO lifting a finger to stop it. NATO's failed
policy that precipitated the conflict now raging
in Macedonia is ignored. The U.N. War Tribunal
in the Hague should insult the intelligence of
all Americans. This court currently can only
achieve arrest and prosecution of leaders of
poor, small, or defeated nations. There will be
no war criminals brought to the Hague from China,
Russia, Britain, or the United States no matter
what the charges. But some day this approach to
world governing will backfire. The U.S. already
has suffered the humiliation of being kicked off
the U.N. Human Rights Commission and the
Narcotics Control Commission. Our arrogant policy
and attitude of superiority will continue to
elicit a smoldering hatred toward us and out of
sheer frustration will motivate even more
terrorist attacks against us.

Realizing the weakness of the charges against
Milosevic the court has quietly dropped the
charges for committing genocide. In a real trial,
evidence that the British and the United States
actually did business with Milosevic would be
permitted. But almost always, whoever is our
current most hated enemy, has received help and
assistance from us in the past. This was
certainly the case with Noriega and Saddam
Hussein and others, and now it's Milosevic.

Milosevic will be tried not before a jury of his
peers but before a panel of politically appointed
judges, all of whom were approved by the NATO
countries, the same countries which illegally
bombed Yugoslavia for 2 1/2 months. Under both
U.N. and international law the bombing of Serbia
and Kosovo was illegal. This was why NATO pursued
it and it was not done under a U.N. resolution.

Ironically, the mess in which we've been engaged
in Yugoslavia has the international establishment
supporting the side of Kosovo independence rather
than Serbian sovereignty. The principle of
independence and secession of smaller government
entities has been enhanced by the breakdown of
the Soviet system. If there's any hope that any
good could come of the quagmire into which we've
rapidly sunk in the Balkans, it is that small
independent nations are a viable and reasonable
option to conflicts around the world. But the
tragedy today is that no government is allowed to
exist without the blessing of the One World
Government leaders. The disobedience to the one
worlders and true independence is not to be
tolerated. That's what this trial is all about.
"Tow the line or else,'' is the message that is
being sent to the world.

NATO and U.S. leaders insist on playing with
fire, not fully understanding the significance of
the events now transpiring in the Balkans. If
policy is not quickly reversed, events could get
out of control and a major war in the region will
erupt.

We should fear and condemn any effort to escalate
the conflict with troops or money from any
outside sources. Our troops are already involved
and our money calls the shots. Extricating
ourselves will get more difficult every day we
stay. But the sooner we get out the better. We
should be listening more to candidate George
Bush's suggestion during the last campaign for
bringing our troops home from this region.

The Serbs, despite NATO's propaganda, will not
lightly accept the imprisonment of their
democratically elected (and properly disposed)
president no matter how bad he was. It is their
problem to deal with and resentment against us
will surely grow as conditions deteriorate. Mobs
have already attacked the American ambassador to
Macedonia for our inept interference in the
region. Death of American citizens are sure to
come if we persist in this failed policy.

Money and power has permitted the United States
the luxury of dictating terms for Milosevic's
prosecution, but our policy of arbitrary
interventions in the Balkans is sowing the seeds
of tomorrow's war. We cannot have it both ways.
We cannot expect to use the International
Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia when it pleases
us and oppose the permanent International
Criminal Court where the rules would apply to our
own acts of aggression. This cynical and arrogant
approach, whether it's dealing with Milosevic,
Hussein, or Kadafi, undermines peace and presents
a threat to our national security. Meanwhile,
American citizens must suffer the tax burden from
financing the dangerous meddling in European
affairs, while exposing our troops to danger.

A policy of nonintervention, friendship and
neutrality with all nations, engagement in true
free trade (unsubsidized trade with low tariffs)
is the best policy if we truly seek peace around
the world. That used to be the American way.

CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL (R-TEXAS)

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TRE PARTITI LOCALI CHIEDONO L'INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE
DEL "PROBLEMA" DELLA VOJVODINA

THREE LOCAL PARTIES URGE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF "VOJVODINA ISSUE"
NOVI SAD, July 25 (Tanjug) Three regional parties in Vojvodina
Wednesday expressed readiness to seek the internationalization of the
socalled Vojvodina issue if the ruling Democratic Opposition of Serbia
(DOS) kept on postponing the process of granting bigger autonomous
rights to the northern Serbian province.
League of Vojvodina Hungarians President Jozef Kasa said today
after a meeting in Novi Sad with leaders Nenad Canak of the
Socialdemocratic League and Miodrag Isakov of the Vojvodina Reformists,
that by internationalization he meant "seeking help from the
international community to realize our demands using all means except
military."
The leaders of the three leading, socalled authentic Vojvodina
parties, which are within the DOS coalition, agreed to ask the DOS
Presidency immediately to meet in session and open a debate on the
status of Vojvodina.
Moreover, the DOS Presidency is asked to secure in the republican
parliament the adoption of a law amending and abolishing legislature
which prevents the Constitutionally guaranteed autonomy of Vojvodina
before a new Serbian Constitution is adopted.
The three party leaders underscored that these demands did not
imply their exit from DOS.
Today's meeting was marked as the beginning of creating a wide
political front for fighting for the realization of Vojvodina's
autonomy.
All authentic Vojvodina parties will join this front, Isakov said, "but
also some Belgradebased parties which have provincial boards and support
the demands for resolving the problem of Vojvodina."

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IL LEADER DELLA D.O.S. CANAK SOFFIA SULLA "AUTONOMIA"

VOJVODINA CITIZENS WILL DECIDE ABOUT VOJVODINA
BELGRADE, April 17 (Tanjug) The platform on Vojvodina's autonomy
is a legalistic document which should enable an acceptable functioning
of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina until the Constitution is
amended, Vojvodina parliament Speaker and Vojvodina SocialDemocratic
League President Nenad Canak told the Belgrade daily Blic on Tuesday.
The platform has not been met with understanding in Belgrade,
Canak said, warning that "they should pay much greater care and
attention to what is coming from Novi Sad, so that it is not too late
one day."
"Who does not grant autonomy will have to grant republic status,
and who refuses to grant republic status will not be asked anything any
more," Canak said.
Unless we find partners in Serbia who will realize the importance
and complexity of the Vojvodina issue, "then the Vojvodina issue will
become a Vojvodina problem," Canak said.
"If the Vojvodina problem appears, then the Vojvodina parliament
will call a referendum in which Vojvodina citizens will declare
themselves on it," he said.
The plan is that Vojvodina's position will be resolved with a vote
at the Serbian parliament, but this will not pass, since Vojvodina is a
legal entity, Canak said.

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L'AMBASCIATORE STATUNITENSE IN VISITA A NOVI SAD SOSTIENE LA
"PIENA AUTONOMIA"...

US AMBASSADOR VISITS NOVI SAD
NOVI SAD, Jun 4 (Tanjug) The Vojvodina (Serbia's northern
province) parliament Speaker Nenad Canak received Monday in provincial
capital Novi Sad the US Ambassador to Yugoslavia William Montgomery, the
provincial information secretariat said in a statement.
Canak briefed Montgomery of the proposals for amending about a
dozen Serbian laws submitted by the Vojvodina parliament to the Serbian
parliament, and of the lack of understanding with which the proposals
have been met.
Systemrelated changes in Serbia are slow, Canak said, pointing to
the failure to pass important laws, such as a law on privatization.
Canak reiterated Vojvodina's demand that the money from privatization be
reinvested immediately instead of being directed to Serbia's budget.
The talk also focused on redefining relations within the Yugoslav
federation and on Vojvodina's endeavors for determining its status and
for full autonomy.

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DELEGAZIONE OSCE IN VISITA SOSTIENE IL "PROCESSO DI DECENTRAMENTO"...

OSCE DELEGATION VISITS SERBIA'S VOJVODINA PARLIAMENT
NOVI SAD, June 19 (Tanjug) A delegation of the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) had talks on Tuesday at the
Assembly (parliament) of the Yugoslav federal unit Serbia's northern
Vojvodina province.
The delegation, headed by OSCE Yugoslav Mission Chief Stefano
Sannino, met with Vojvodina Parliament Speaker Nenad Canak. A Vojvodina
government statement quotes them as reviewing the political and economic
situation in Vojvodina and the rest of the country in the light of new
Serbian legislation, and rights acquired by the provincial parliament in
the decentralisation process.

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IL PARLAMENTO UNGHERESE PASSA LA LEGGE PER LA PROTEZIONE
DEGLI UNGHERESI ALL'ESTERO...

LJAJIC: BELGRADE TO MONITOR CONTROVERSIAL HUNGARIAN LAW
BELGRADE, June 20 (Sense/AFP) Yugoslavia said today it would
monitor a controversial law passed by the Hungarian parliament yesterday
offering benefits to some 3.5 million ethnic Hungarians living abroad.
The legislation grants ethnic Hungarians or Magyars living in
neighbouring states the right to work legally for three months in
Hungary, to claim social and health care rights, free university
education, training courses and travel allowances.
"If the purpose of the law is to preserve the identity of ethnic
Hungarians in other countries, including Yugoslavia, we will not look on
it with caution. But we will monitor its implementation and react
accordingly," Yugoslav Minister for Ethnic Minorities Rasim Ljajic
announced.
Yugoslavia has an ethnic Hungarian minority in the north of the
country but has reacted to the bill with less concern than other
neighbouring states - Romania and Slovakia.
Ljajic expressed understanding for their misgivings and insisted
Yugoslavia would be cautious, monitor implementation of the law and act
accordingly.
In many ways the attitude of Hungary's other neighbours differs
from that of Yugoslavia, the minister for ethnic minorities explained,
commenting, "We don't want and are not in a position to open up a new
front towards Hungary."
"There are at least three good reasons for this," he added:
"Hungary is our neighbour, it is our gateway to Europe and we have a
considerable Hungarian minority."

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WAR CRIMES AND THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL
July 30, 2001


[Stan Goff is a Retired U.S. Special Forces Master
Sargent, an author, Organizer for the North Carolina
Alliance for Democracy and a member of the
International Committeee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic.
(ICDSM)]

What do you call someone who pays officials to break
the law, threatens people with violence if they don't
do what he demands, spreads outrageous lies to impugn
people's reputations, and participates in a plot to
illegally take an unwilling person out of the country
in captivity?

Guilty of bribery, extortion, slander and kidnapping.

What do you call a government which does precisely
those things?

The United States in Yugoslavia.

Let's get something straight here. The International
Tribunal at the Hague is no more an impartial
judiciary (1) than Geraldo Rivera is a neurosurgeon,
and Slobodan Milosevic is no war criminal. These are
just simply facts, and the thing that--even at
50--still amazes my ass is the sheep-like, gullible,
we-just-fell-off-the-turnip-truck acceptance of the
capitalist media's horse-manure by comfortable fellow
Americans.

United States military troops are occupying the
Balkans, many of them with relatives who might read
this, and very few people seem the least bit inclined
to find out what's really going on there. So they
listen to CNN, read the 'New York Times' or the 'News
and Observer,' watch PBS, or listen to NPR, brought to
you by... name your favorite agribusiness or weapons
contractor... and believe them.

I've got a news flash for you, folks. The media lie.
They lie early and often, and they keep on telling the
same lies over and over, apparently in the
well-founded hope that we will simply and finally
equate repetition with accuracy. (2)

Slobodan Milosevic is no war criminal. Nor was he a
dictator. (3)

Until the US started a massive campaign of extortion,
bribery and election-rigging in Serbia, he won his
elections fair and square--unlike the current de facto
President of the United States. Nor did Milsoevic ever
lead the non-existent movement for Greater Serbia. Nor
do Serbs collectively "share" any blame for whatever
flavor-of-the-day atrocity is being invented by the
IMF, the State Department, NATO Headquarters in
Brussels, or that fake Tribunal.

Serbs are as fractious and pluralistic as any group,
especially about politics, deeply split even today
between nationalists and socialists. What they are
not, contrary to the recent resurgence of
Serb-bashing, is self-pitying and paranoid. They are
one of the most stoic, and tolerant, people in Europe.


The distortions that underwrite this latest violation
of Yugoslav and International law--the veritable
kidnapping of a former head of state--would make
Joseph Goebbels blush. Crimes were invented to fit the
punishment of the Serbs. Allegations were reported as
facts, then referenced later as if they really were
facts. The mounting evidence of a giant hoax in almost
every case has been completely ignored by capitalist
media. The effect--intended I think--is to create an
impression so overwhelming of Serbian guilt that to
question it is to be regarded as a miscreant holocaust
denier. Guilt by analogy. Milosevic equals Hitler,
therefore defending Serbians equals defending Nazis (a
huge irony here, since Serbs were tenacious and
fearless fighters against the Third Reich). There's
only one little rub. The Holocaust has been well
documented by the physical evidence. The Serbians'
guilt, and that of Milosevic, has not.

But skepticism, fact-checking, and logic have become
forbidden foreign languages in the United States,
especially our (laugh track here) "free" press.

The overwhelming evidence is that there was never any
coordinated campaign of genocide or ethnic cleansing
by Serbs, no massacres at either Racek or Srebrenica,
and never any such thing as Serbian "rape camps." The
Kosovo violence was initiated by Albanian
heroin-gangsters, who named themselves the Kosovo
Liberation Army once they started to get weapons and
training from German and US Intelligence. The mass
exodus out of Kosovo was not triggered by Serb
violence, but by NATO bombing. The reports of 100,000
Kosovar Albanians killed has yet to be corroborated
with bodies, and is being quietly scaled ever downward
as the bodies fail to appear. Racek was shown to be
staged. The bodies from the Srebrenica "massacre" were
never located either, and in fact many of the
"missing" later turned up alive and accounted for in
Bosnian Muslim combat units outside Srebrenica. The US
and the psuedo-Tribunal have an answer for the missing
evidence, those tens of thousands of corpses, that is.
Right under the noses of US surveillance
satellites--and I have seen imagery from them that can
spot a motorcycle and rider--the crafty Serbs,
undetected, moved thousands of decomposing bodies to
other locations... still to be discovered. (4)

Right!

The break-up of Yugoslavia has been largely due to the
efforts of US and German gambits, with substantial
help from the International Monetary Fund, since the
late 1980's. To justify this economic warfare, this
trampling of sovereignty, this military aggression,
these massive violations by NATO and the US of the Law
of Land Warfare and the Geneva and Hague Conventions,
and the military occupation of the Balkans, our
government and its international financier pals have
had to concoct an elaborate Manichean fantasy with
Serbs as the heavy.

Don't take my word for it, but don't look for a
one-paragraph rebuttal either. Understanding requires
study and work. If you're inclined to swim upstream in
this perennial flood of stubborn American ignorance,
read the research and reports from Michel
Chussodovsky, Diane Johnstone, and Jared Israel - none
of them Serbian or Yugoslav, and all of them proud
progressives. They are archived at
www.emperors-clothes.com . An apt name for that web
site, if ever there was one. (5) (6) & (7)

The Hague Tribunal is about war crimes, all right.
It's about covering up the war crimes of the North
American Treaty Organization and the US Government.

- SG

***

Stan Goff is author of "Hideous Dream: A Soldier's
Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti," Soft Skull
Press, 2000. The book is available online at
www.softskull.com . For a review of 'Hideous Dream'
that appeared in the 'Chicago Tribune,' go to
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/bell-on-goff.htm


Mr. Goff's article, 'In Your Name: A Soldier's Story,'
can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/waronthe.htm

Further reading:

1) 'An Impartial Tribunal? Really?' by Christopher
Black. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/Impartial.htm

2) 'Media in Serbia' by Diana Johnstone Can be read at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/SerbMedi.html


3) 'Official German Documents Contradict Humanitarian
Claims in Kosovo'. In these documents, the German
Courts and Foreign Ministry ruled on requests made by
ethnic Albanians from Kosovo that they be granted
status as refugees from persecution. The rulings were
prior to the onset of NATO bombing in March, 1999. The
findings: the claims of perseuction were false. Can be
read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/german/Germany.html


4) 'Were NATO's Aerial Photo's of Mass Graves Faked?'
by Jared Israel at
http://emperors-clothes.com/misc/graves.htm

5) 'The UN appoints an alleged war criminal in Kosovo'
by Michel Chossudovsky. Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/unandthe.htm


6) 'COLLECTIVE GUILT AND COLLECTIVE INNOCENCE,' by
Diane Johnstone at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/Johnstone/GUILT.html


7) 'Barbarians At The Gate,' by Jared Israel. Can be
read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/Barbaria.html



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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING REALLY SHRILL ABOUT MACEDONIA...
by Rick Rozoff and Jared Israel [27 July 2001]

Below is a 'news' report from Agence France
Presse (AFP) concerning recent
protest demonstrations in Macedonia.

The 'AFP' report contains the shrill,
defamatory stereotypes used with
increasing frequency in the Western media to
describe Macedonians, both
ordinary citizens and officials.

We are witnessing one of those media
campaigns so uniform, scripted and
predictable - and consistently inaccurate -
that one has to suspect
coordination between the controlling elements
of the news media and certain
Western foreign offices and covert services.

Examples abound in this brief 'AFP' dispatch.
Macedonians are pointedly,
repeatedly and gratuitously identified as
'Slavs' (as opposed to what they
are - Macedonians!) and their actions are
labeled with such pejorative terms
as: 'irate,' 'mob,' 'incited,' 'escalated,'
'irresponsible' and 'immature.'

"Mob of angry Slavs" is the phrase of choice
indicating the mental image
intended for the reader. And it is have some
effect. Yesterday on one of the
major American liberal news Websites a press
wire headline read:
"Anti-Albanian Riots Explode In Macedonia."

'HONEY, IS SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE
ANTI-ALBANIAN RIOTS?' 'WHY YES, DEAR,
THEY AREN'T ANTI-ALBANIAN.'

We have read a dozen or so reports on the
protests and saw nothing factual to
suggest an anti-Albanian flavor. Rather, even
in these hostile Western media
reports one could see that the protesters
were focused and informed, with
clear political, not ethnic, targets: NATO,
the U.S., Britain and Germany,
all for their role in undermining Macedonian
sovereignty and assisting the
so-called NLA terrorists. And really,
shouldn't they be angry? NATO (led by
the U.S.) is after all trying to destroy
their country and their lives.

But "crowd of angry Slavs" is the message
that Western officials and their
always-obliging media are drilling into the
public's imagination.

Make no mistake, these distortions have a
purpose: to dehumanize the victims
of what is in fact going on in Macedonia,
that is, large scale ethnic
cleansing and national destruction

As has been the case throughout the assault
on Yugoslavia, the tone of
Imperial war propaganda is faux-liberal.

Here's how it worked starting with the
secession of Croatia and Slovenia back
in 1991, and, alas, how it is still working today.

A secessionist force is organized by the U.S.
and or Germany and or England.
This Western proxy force draws on elements
which hark back to the old Nazi
alliance of World War II - in this case, the
descendents of pro-Nazi
Albanians, mainly from Kosovo. This force is
ordered to attack, a process the
media misdescribes as a rebellion by an
oppressed local population. The
fascist flavor of the 'rebels' is hidden from
Western eyes. (In this case, we
hear little about the rallying cry of the
NATO proxy army attacking
Macedonia, which is "Greater Albania," i.e.,
the re-creation of the map of
the Balkans that existed only under Hitler.)
Moreover, the media ignores the
easily documented involvement of Western
operatives (in this case the
official NATO organization in Kosovo) in
sponsoring and directing the attack.
The attempts of the nation under attack to
defend itself are misdescribed as
brutal repression and the victims are accused
of racism.

What is the goal of this propaganda today? To
prevent the development of a
support movement for Macedonia among the
public in NATO countries. The
logical basis for supporting Macedonia is
that a) it is the victim of
Imperial attack, organized from Washington
and b) it is being attacked on a
racist basis, i.e. the attack appeals to
anti-Slavic racism within the
Albanian populations of the area. To prevent
this kind of support movement
from developing, the Western media and
government officials turn matters
upside down, portraying Macedonians as ethnic
chauvinists and opponents of
peace. One might call this strategy
"Outflanking opposition from the Left."
By feeding Western citizens the lie that
Macedonia's "problem" is
discrimination against Albanians which has
spawned an "extremist" response,
direct NATO intervention and occupation of
territory can be presented as
"peacekeeping" to "rebuild civil society" and
other fairy tales.

The propaganda works. After she had watched
the TV news, a decent but
uninformed American told one of us, "It's a
mess over there - I guess we
better do something." Little did she know:
'we' have!

President Bush's brief visit to the massive
U.S. military base ("Bondsteel"
of all things) in Kosovo Tuesday was meant to
deliver a message about
Macedonia. Or rather, several messages.

MESSAGE ONE: THE MEANING OF KOSOVO

First, he said Kosovo is for Washington the
model of progress through
intervention. He told U.S. troops (and, of
course, the world):

"Thanks to you and those who served before
you, the people of Kosovo are able
to buy food and find shelter, go to school,
and get medical help."

Since Kosovo's current reality is that an
estimated 350,000 non-Albanians and
anti-fascist Albanians have been driven from
their homes and are refugees in
Serbia or elsewhere, or are dead, since the
remaining Serbs and Roma
("Gypsies") live in conditions of terror,
including daily beatings rape and
murder, and we have documented the fact of
this terror, since the U.S. has
created in Kosovo a regime of open
gangsterism - for Bush to say:

"the people of Kosovo are able to buy food
and find shelter, go to school, and get medical help."

means that fascist tyranny is the U.S. model
for progress; thus in Macedonia as well.

Bush called for:
"a political settlement that 'addresses the
legitimate grievance of the
Albanian population while protecting
Macedonia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.'

Since in fact the issue in Macedonia has
nothing whatsoever to do with
"legitimate grievances" but rather involves
an invasion by U.S.-armed
terrorists, what is this but a call for the
Macedonians to surrender. Bush
emphasized that such was his intent by the
almost funny way he "threatened"
the KLA terrorists (many of them
UN-employed!) who are attacking Macedonia:

"..he also urged Kosovo Albanians to stop
fueling the Macedonian conflict and
'focus on Kosovo.'"

Surely that sent terror through the ranks of
the KLA or NLA or Kosovo
Protection Corps - or NATO! - take your pick.

MESSAGE TWO: "LISTEN UP YOU DARN ALBANIANS!"

All of this constitutes a message also to
those whom NATO's "NLA" proxy army
has been targeting for recruits: Macedonians
of Albanian descent. These
ethnic Albanians have not been sufficiently
receptive to the mix of terror
and promises of 'Greater Albania' which the
Kosovo Liberation Army invaders
have used in the effort to elicit their
"participation" in the "rebellion."
Bush is telling these ethnic Albanians:
Kosovo is our model. We are backing
the terrorist secessionists in Macedonia just
as strongly as we backed them
in Kosovo, so join up or when our boys take
over you can kiss your behind
goodbye. This, as we have discussed
elsewhere, is the basic 'recruiting'
strategy of the U.S. proxy force, the Kosovo
Liberation Army.

If you think this sounds terribly
conspiratorial, that a U.S. president would
never promise ethnic harmony and deliver
racist terror, just read the
article, "What NATO Occupation Would Mean For
Macedonians." Prior to
occupation, NATO promised everything to Serbs
in Kosovo. After occupation, it
delivered a nightmare.

MESSAGE THREE: THE U.S. IS READY TO OPENLY
SEND IN TROOPS

But perhaps the key thing said by Bush was:

"America's contribution is essential, both
militarily and politically."
('N.Y. Times,' 25 July 2001).

Many people were fooled by Bush's election
promise to pull out of the
Balkans. Instead of pulling out, he has
continued with Clinton's policies,
including the attack on Macedonia and the
further encirclement of Russia with
NATO bases. The continuity of these policies
from elder Bush to Clinton to
baby Bush means that U.S. policy is not
dependent on the whims or personal
economic interests of members of this or that
US presidential administration,
but rather is part of far-ranging strategic
goals of the U.S. establishment,
that is, the financial interests usually
called Wall Street. The big prize is
the former Soviet Union, the attempted
conquest of which requires securing
the Balkans as the southern staging ground
for attack.

The "Kosovication" of Macedonia is part of
that strategy. Bush's trip set the
stage for a greatly intensified attack,
including heightened demonization of
Macedonia in the Western media, and direct
NATO intervention. An ominous
note: the U.S. is pulling its Embassy
personnel out of Skopje. That is
precisely what the U.S. did before bombing
Yugoslavia.

And of course, the story below says it all:
the Macedonians' justified
protests at NATO's sponsorship of terrorist
invaders can be used as an excuse
for - NATO invasion!

Here's the report from Agence France Presse (AFP):

JI & RR
Thursday July 26, 9:43 AM

US troops placed on alert after violence in
Macedonia

WASHINGTON, July 25 (AFP) - An unspecified
number of US troops in Europe were
on alert Wednesday after attacks by irate
protesters threatened the US and
other Western embassies in Macedonia, a US
defense official said.

"We do have units which have been alerted,"
the official said on condition of
anonymity, refusing to elaborate.

Any decision whether to seek extra protection
rests with US ambassador to
Macedonia, Michael Einik, the official said,
though the State Department was
unaware of any such request late Wednesday,
an official with that agency told

The troop alert follows attacks late Tuesday
by violent protesters on
embassies in the Macedonian capital of
Skopje. A mob of angry Slavs, incited
by allegations NATO tacitly supports ethnic
Albanian rebels, damaged the US
and other embassies with hurled projectiles,
State Department officials said.

Despite the attacks, the United States
remained determined in its efforts to
help bring peace to Macedonia, though US
officials and Balkan experts
privately voiced concern the escalating
strife and emergence of anti-NATO
sentiment could complicate facilitating any
settlement.

"We continue to reach out to all the
political parties in the multi-ethnic
Macedonian government to continue promoting
their working together to find a
peaceful solution to this," State Department
spokesman Philip Reeker told reporters.

Reeker added that US special envoy for the
Balkans, James Pardew, met earlier
Wednesday with Macedonian President Boris
Trajkowski to discuss the situation.

The mob violence came as clashes between
Macedonian security forces and
ethnic Albanian rebels flared anew, while
refugees streamed out of the
contested northwestern town of Tetovo as
rebels advanced across northern Macedonia.

The Slav-dominated Macedonian government
neither condemned the violence nor
appealed for restraint Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the government of Prime Minister
Ljubco Georgievski, an opponent
of Trajkovski's, has accused NATO of siding
with the rebels and of seeking to
turn Macedonia into an international
protectorate under the control of the
Western alliance.

The State Department refuted the charge.

"These kind of irresponsible press reports...
irresponsible, immature
statements from certain political leaders,
are not helpful to the situation,"
Reeker said, denying that the United States
or other NATO countries backed Albanian rebels.

The administration of President George W.
Bush supported Macedonia "in its
territorial integrity, in its sovereignty and
in a future as a multi-ethnic
state," Reeker insisted.

Washington has become all too-aware that the
feud between Georgievski and
Trajkovski is increasingly compromising the
search for peace, with a top
administration official warning that
"political agendas aren't going to have
anything to do when they are in the midst of
a civil war and fighting for their lives."

Former National Security Council Balkans
analyst Ivo Daalder directly accused
Georgievski of trying to extract political
mileage from the conflict.

"He has no interest in negotiating because he
thinks he can win through the
use of force," Daalder told AFP.

"He doesn't want a compromise," making a
settlement in Macedonia "more
difficult but not impossible."

***

Articles Documenting U.S./Euro/Terrorist Link
in Assault on Macedonia [24 July 2001]
A must-read list of articles with brief
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allies are waging terrrorist war in Macedonia
and have kidnapped the former
head of state of Yugoslavia. And this is just
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E' STATO ATTUATO UN "GOLPE BIANCO"?

Secondo una delle spiegazioni pi� largamente condivise,
l'uso di una violenza cos� efferata da parte delle forze
dell'ordine a Genova sarebbe derivato dalla scelta politica
dell'attuale governo di criminalizzare e quindi spezzare
e indebolire il movimento antiglobalizzazione - e nello stesso
tempo, pi� in generale, i movimenti di sinistra e di opposizione -
con operazioni di vero e proprio terrorismo nei confronti dei
partecipanti alle manifestazioni.
Per quanto questo obiettivo sia stato sicuramente calcolato
all'interno del piano messo in atto a Genova, questa sola
motivazione sembra, a mio avviso, insufficiente a giustificare
tutte le violenze gratuite contro tanti manifestanti pacifici
che il pi� delle volte avevano le mani alzate, e soprattutto
il blitz nella notte di sabato 21 alla Diaz e gli incredibili
eccessi nei confronti degli arrestati all'interno del carcere
di Bolzaneto.
Per il successo di un piano volto a demolire moralmente e
materialmente il movimento, erano infatti sufficienti l'uso
calcolato dei gruppi violenti sapientemente diretti, e
l'utilizzo delle TV e dei giornali in buona parte
ormai asserviti al potere economico. (Anzi, gli "eccessi" della
Scuola Diaz e di Bolzaneto, considerati alla luce di questo
solo obiettivo, sarebbero stati addirittura un errore, in quanto
si poteva prevedere che suscitassero reazioni e sdegno portando
alla riapertura del dibattito e delle indagini anche sugli eventi
precedenti).
C'� una spiegazione pi� convincente. Il salto di qualit� nell'uso
di una violenza senza scrupoli e di comportamenti apertamente fuori
da ogni regola � servito in realt� in primo luogo a spostare i
rapporti di forza all'interno della maggioranza a favore della
componente pi� reazionaria e schiettamente fascista (appoggiata
sicuramente, come minimo, dai servizi segreti statunitensi),
coinvolgendo le restanti componenti in un "bagno di sangue" dalle
cui responsabilit� possono sottrarsi adesso soltanto coprendole,
diventando quindi complici e di conseguenza ricattabili. Se le
cose stanno cos�, a partire da questo momento le scelte politiche
saranno determinate e imposte dalla componente uscita (per ora)
vittoriosa da questa operazione politico-militare. E forse
non � un caso se l'unico risultato politico di rilievo del vertice
dei G8 di cui siamo a conoscenza sia lo schierarsi dell'Italia
cos� platealmente al fianco degli USA nel momento in cui questi danno
il via a una nuova stagione di confronto politico e militare, fatto
che probabilmente divide i governi europei, e li divide anche al
loro interno.
Si tratta di un meccanismo collaudato che ha un nome, e che si
ricollega ai ben noti piani piduisti e quindi americani che hanno
attraversato come un filo rosso tutta la storia del dopoguerra in
Italia (paese a sovranit� limitata, e dopo questi avvenimenti,
limitatissima). Questo nome � "colpo di stato bianco".

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30/7/2001

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Ligue Anti-Imp�rialiste
http://www.lai-aib.org

Nouveaux articles

Fran�ais

Balkans

Djindjic :�O� est l'argent promis?�
14-07-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBAA&object_id415

Djindjic se montre nerveux. Il ne re�oit pas l'argent
esp�r� de ses 'protecteurs' occidentaux. La premi�re
tranche sera symbolique puisque sa presque totalit� sera
directement retenue pour appurer des dettes. La traitrise
ne paye pas? "Je suis en train de perdre ma cr�dibilit� [...].
Quand j'�tais dans l'opposition, l'Union Europ�enne nous
avait promis trois billions de Deutch Mark en cash pour la
chute de Milosevic. O� est cet argent?"

Goran Ivanisevic, 1993: 'Comme cela aurait �t� agr�able de
tirer sur quelques Serbes'
Steve Tesich
24-02-1993
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACAB&object_id417

En f�vrier 1993, le New-York Times publiait dans ses pages
sportives, un article sur le jeune champion croate Goran
Ivanisevic, o� celui-ci d�crivait comment il apprenait �
tirer � la mitraillette en ces termes "C'�tait dur � contr�ler,
mais, oh, quelle agr�able sensation - toutes ces balles qui
sortaient. Je pensais comme cela aurait �t� agr�able
d'avoir quelques Serbes en face de moi."
Le r�alisateur Steve Tesich �crivit en r�action une lettre au
journal, s'interrogeant sur les raisons de la propagande
anti-serbe et pro-croate. Voici quelques extraits de cette lettre.

L'OTAN au service de la globalisation
Michel Collon
24-03-2000
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACAD&object_id433

Extrait de "Monopoly, l'OTAN � la conqu�te du monde", pp 90-93

Comment l'Allemagne a aid� la 'd�mocratie' en Serbie
09-10-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACBB&object_id404

Extraits d'un article paru dans le magasine allemand,
'Der Spiegel', o� on parle de l'ing�rence allemande lors
des �lections de septembre 2000 en Yougoslavie, au nom de la
d�mocratie.

Le Tribunal criminel international pour l'ancienne
Yougoslavie: Quelques �l�ments
qu'il est bon de savoir.
William Blum
01-01-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACBC&object_id408

L'article ci-dessus est tir� de "Rogue State: A Guide to the
World's Only Superpower", par William Blum < bblum6@... >
> http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.html

Milosevic au TPIY : manipulation et hypocrisie
Caroline Andreani
21-07-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACBE&object_id426

�Nous sommes dans une phase de recul id�ologique o� les
criminels sont ceux qui s'opposent au syst�me dominant.[...]
Mais ceux qui cr�ent, qui entretiennent et qui tirent profit de
la mis�re, de la faim, des pand�mies, des guerres, de la
r�pression polici�re et militaire, etc., ceux-l� sont les
d�fenseurs de la "d�mocratie" et de la "libert�".�

'Sale jeu' en Mac�doine
29-06-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACBH&object_id405

Interview par un journal grec de l'envoy� sp�cial de la
r�publique de Mac�doine � Ath�nes qui se montre perplexe
face au pressions occidentales sur son gouvern! ement.
Pourtant, "nous avons essay� d'�viter une r�p�tition du
'sc�nario Milosevic', selon lequel nous aurions �t� les
mauvais, et les Albanais les victimes"...

English

Balkans

Djindjic attacks West over aid delay-report
14-07-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBAA&object_id416

"I am losing my credibility [...]. When I was in the opposition,
the European Union promised us three billion marks in cash for
the fall of Milosevic. Where is it?"

Letter To the Editors of The Nation
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
11-07-2001
> http://www.lai!-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACAB&object_id429

Apart from the problems of the non-existent evidence of a
bloodbath and NATO's underwriting of provocations, with the
Racak case there is strong evidence that those "Western
policy-makers" didn't just "seize too fast" on claims of a
massacre at Racak, they even helped create those claims in
order to justify a decision taken perhaps as early as the summer
of 1998 to bomb Serbia and teach it as well as other potential
"rogue states" a lesson in who's the boss, and to teach the
peoples of Europe that they cannot live without NATO's protection.

Thoughts On Srebrenica
Women Against Military Madness
20-07-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACAC&object_id419

With the illegal and dubious "extradition " of Milosevic to the
Hague, once again the airwaves and newspapers are referring to
the "massacre" of 8000 Muslims by Serbs in Srebrenica, Bosnia in
July 1995 when the city was taken over by the Bosnian Serb Army.

Who are the "Albanian rebels"?
20-07-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACAF&object_id432

The western media (BBC + CNN) has been working hard to display
the terrorist as two separate groups that does enjoy the support
of the local population. This can not be further from the truth.

The roots of Kosovo fascism
George Thompson
19-02-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACAF&object_id431

THAT WAS THEN: "The Serbian population in Kosovo should be removed
as soon as possible. Serbian settlers should be killed." (Albanian
fascist leader Mustafa Kroja, June 1942.)
...AND THIS IS NOW : "He, like many KLA officers, says openly that
he dreams of a Kosovo without Serbs." (Description of KLA death
squad commander "the Teacher", Agence France Presse, August 19, 1999)

Washington Behind Terrorist Attacks in Macedonia
Michel Chossudovsky
23-07-2001
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACAF&object_id425

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia: Some things you should know about it
By William Blum
> http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/
article_lai.phtml?section�ABBBACBC&object_id407

Excerpt from "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower"
(http://members.aol.com/superogue/)

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LA KFOR RIFORNISCE CON ELICOTTERI I TERRORISTI PAN-ALBANESI A TETOVO

MACEDONIA: MISSIONE ELICOTTERI KFOR, E' GIALLO
(ANSA) - SKOPJE, 23 LUG - Giallo in Macedonia su una presunta,
misteriosa missione compiuta da due elicotteri della Kfor,
forza di pace a guida Nato, nella parte nord-occidentale del
paese sotto il controllo della guerriglia albanese.
Il ministero della difesa macedone ha chiesto ufficialmente
chiarimenti sulle ragioni che sabato pomeriggio - una prima
volta alle 17:45 e una seconda alle 18 - avrebbero indotto due
elicotteri della forza Nato provenienti dal Kosovo ad atterrare
in territorio macedone, in particolare nei
pressi dei villaggi di Shpikovica e di Brodec (nella regione
di Tetovo) entrambi sotto il controllo dei guerriglieri
albanesi dell'Uck.
Il ministero della difesa sostiene che i due velivoli Nato
avrebbero scaricato casse ''dal contenuto misterioso: durante
le fasi dell' atterraggio dagli elicotteri sarebbero stati
lanciati fumogeni per coprire l'attivita'. Il ministero sostiene
di avere ''la documentazione che prova l'avvenuto
atterraggio'', e chiede alla Kfor di conoscerne le ragioni
''poiche' tali missioni non erano state concordate ne' richieste
dalle autorita' militari'' di Skopje.
La Kfor oggi ha risposto smentendo l'accusa e affermando che
sabato pomeriggio elicotteri Nato hanno effettuato delle missioni
ma solo in territorio del Kosovo, a ridosso del confine macedone,
per installare i sistemi di radiocomunicazione. Nella sua nota
la Kfor respinge l'allusione a un suo possibile appoggio a
sostegno della guerriglia, che in verita' le autorita' macedoni
non hanno osato avanzare. (ANSA). BLL/ROM
23-LUG-01 12:13 NNNN
23/07/2001 13:20

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ORA DI RELIGIONE ANCHE ALLE ELEMENTARI

Il governo anti-serbo (ed antijugoslavo) guidato da Zoran Djindjic,
colluso con i bombardieri della NATO e resosi gia' responsabile di
gravi violazioni dell'ordine costituzionale (ad esempio attraverso
il sequestro dell'ex Presidente della Repubblica Milosevic), dopo
aver steso il tappeto rosso per accogliere gli eredi della monarchia
Karadjordjevic ha compiuto un ulteriore passo di grande rilevanza
anche emblematica introducendo l'ora di religione persino nelle
scuole elementari.

Ricordiamo che questa banda di reazionari oggi al governo della Serbia
e' stata salutata, nella sua presa del potere, da tutta la "sinistra"
italiana, specialmente con urla di giubilo dalle prime pagine di
"Liberazione" ed "Il Manifesto", giornali che hanno esplicitamente
fatto il tifo per la coalizione di destra con a capo Kostunica, lo
"specchietto per le allodole" usato come copertura per
Djindjic. Come spiegheranno "Liberazione" ed "Il Manifesto" ai
loro lettori l'ennesima scelta di segno ultraconservatore da parte
del governo della DOS?

(Italo Slavo)

SERBIAN GOVERNMENT ADOPTS DECREE ON INTRODUCING
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS
BELGRADE, July 25 ( Beta) -On July 24, the Serbian government
adopted a decree regulating the introduction of religious
instruction and an alternative course in ethics as optional
subjects in elementary and secondary schools in the republic.
The Serbian government said in a press release that religious
instruction and the alternative course in ethnics will be
taught in grades one of all elementary and secondary schools
starting Sept. 1. (...)

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Subject: Circle Of Deception: Mapping The Human Rights Crowd In The
Balkans
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:12:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff


[As the following contains scores of indispensible
hyperlinks, it's best viewed in its original version
at: http://www.swans.com/library/art7/ga110.html )


Swans

The Circle of Deception

Mapping the Human Rights Crowd in the Balkans
by Gilles d'Aymery
July 23, 2001

Following a conversation with a Serbian acquaintance
we investigated a report on the Destruction of
Evidence on Crimes against Kosovo Albanians that was
posted on balkanhr, the Balkan Human Rights List, that
he had found through the Balkan Academic News.

>>From there, one thing leading to another and following
Ariadne's thread, an unambiguous picture developed.
Some people and some organizations are at the center
of a vast circle of deception. They all look genuine,
many are certainly well-intentioned but behind the
veil of legitimacy and humanitarian concerns can be
found the same powerful people and organizations such
as the Open Society Institute of the billionaire and -
as always characterized - philanthropist, George
Soros, the Ford Foundation, the United States
Institute of Peace, the National Endowment for
Democracy and many more, financing and using a maze of
well known NGO's such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International, the International Crisis Group, etc.,
as well as more obscure entities such as the Southeast
European Politics (SEEP), the Balkan Academic News
(BAN), the Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR),
the Minority Rights Group International (MRG), the
Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) and myriad others. But,
among all of them, shining as the Southern star, is
George Soros who, like an immense Jules Verne octopus,
extends his tentacles all over Eastern Europe,
South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus as well as the
republics of the former Soviet Union. With the help of
these various groups, their partners and associates,
all having laudable names, all receiving lavish
funding, and again quite possibly most of them
well-intentioned, they are able not only to shape but
to create the news, the agenda and public opinion to
further their aims which are, in short, the control of
the world, its natural resources and the furtherance
of their uniform ideal of a perfect world polity made
in America.

This paper goes through a maze of connections. As said
it starts with a report about the Destruction of
Evidence on Crimes against Kosovo Albanians that was
posted on the balkanhr Distribution List in May, 2001
and that covered the story -- disseminated by the main
media later on in June -- of a refrigerated truck full
of corpses that was pulled out of the Danube at the
Iron Gates near Kladovo, in Serbia, on 6 April 1999.
The report was unsigned. Its provenance, the message
said, was the Humanitarian Law Center by the way of
the Greek Helsinki Monitor. The next logical move was
to visit the Greek Helsinki Monitor that is a part of
The BALKAN Human Rights Web Pages. There, the report
was linked....back to the Balkan Human Rights List
(which was founded in February 2000 by....The BALKAN
Human Rights Web Pages)!

Facing our first circle we decided to visit the
Humanitarian Law Center but, after an hour or so, we
could not find the original report (at least
originally -- please see the Note at the end of this
report). So we went back to square one and decided to
visit the Balkan Academic News (BAN). BAN is part of
the Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR) and
affiliated with Southeast European Politics (SEEP). It
is hosted by the Southeast European Politics (SEEP).
BAN has its own distribution list on Yahoo. The
creator of BAN is one Florian Bieber who happens to be
a co-editor of SEEP. SEEP is sponsored by the Albanian
Political Science Association, Tirana, Albania, the
Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary, Central
European University, Budapest, Hungary, and
Independent Macedonian Political Science Association,
Skopje, Macedonia (no Web site). SEEP's Web site also
happens to be hosted by the Central European
University (CEU). CEU was founded in 1994 by George
Soros. CEU's related institutions are the Open Society
Institute-Budapest and the Soros Foundations Network.
"The Open Society Institute-Budapest was established
in 1993 to develop and implement programs in the areas
of educational, social and legal reform in Central and
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
OSI-Budapest is part of the Soros foundations network,
a group of autonomous organizations created and
supported by George Soros," says the Web site. Florian
Bieber, the co-editor of SEEP and creator of BAN
worked from October 1998 to June 2000 at CEU. He holds
a M.A. in Southeast European Studies from CEU (he
currently is a lecturer, Regional Masters Program in
Democracy and Human Rights at the University of
Sarajevo). If you take the time to carefully read his
resume you will notice his many connections.

The other two sponsors of SEEP are The Independent
Macedonian Political Science Association, Skopje,
Macedonia that has no Web site and the Albanian
Political Science Association, Tirana, Albania
(ALPSA). ALPSA, was founded in 2000 to "contribute to
the establishment and advancement of studies in all
branches of political science (comparative politics,
political economy and public choice, international
relations, political theory, public policy, area
studies, etc.) in Albanian-language institutions and
universities in Albania and elsewhere." ALPSA does not
provide any information about its funding. However,
two of its board members have a diploma from CEU and
the site mentions that the organization is a "joint
publisher of SEEP"

As said, BAN, aside from being affiliated with SEEP,
is part of the Consortium of Minority Resources
(COMIR). COMIR, says the Web site, is "an
Internet-based cooperative project that aims at
promoting the free flow of information and dialogue in
the field of ethnic relations, multicultural politics
and minority rights. COMIR aims to establish a
clearinghouse of information and activities relevant
to Europe (OSCE region) to support democratic
governance of multiethnic and multinational societies.
To this end, COMIR develops and promotes virtual
libraries, mailing lists, a database of full text
documents, training materials, etc. Major initiatives
include a Virtual Library, coordinated mailing lists,
a meta-search engine across founders' web sites, a
Minority Rights Practitioners Resource Pack, a best
practice database, curriculum development and advocacy
training." COMIR is hosted by The Local Government and
Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI). LGI "was
launched in January 1997 by the Board of the Open
Society Institute-Budapest. The Initiative replaces
the Institute for Local Government and Public Service
and builds on its achievements," says the Web site.
"The development of democratic and effective
government at sub-national levels [emphasis added]
remains one of the central tasks of the transition.
The sharing of expertise between countries can
contribute significantly to the reform process in the
region. The primary mission of LGI is to foster such
cross-border cooperation and to support and
disseminate throughout the region potentially
important policy studies which should have a
significant impact on public policy reform." COMIR is
theretofore hosted by George Soros' Open Society
Institute.

COMIR's partner sites are: Center of Documentation and
Information on Minorities in Europe - Southeast
Europe; Minority Rights Group MRG LGI MMCP; Local
Government and Public Service Reform Initiative;
European Centre for Minority Issues; Roma Rights
Center; Forum Institute for Social Studies; Balkan
Academic News; Human Rights Watch; Constitutional &
Legal Policy Institute; European Academy Bolzano/Bozen
and World Organisation Against Torture.

COMIR being a partner of the Greek Helsinki Monitor
(GHM), we decided to revisit GHM.

According to the Web site, "Greek Helsinki Monitor
(GHM) was founded in 1993 by members of Minority
Rights Group - Greece, affiliated to Minority Rights
Group - International since 1992. In 1993, GHM became
the Greek member of the International Helsinki
Federation. In 1998, GHM became a member of the
International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX);
and in 2000 of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
Network (EMHRN) and the Southeast Europe Media
Organization (SEEMO). GHM monitors, publishes and
lobbies on human rights issues in Greece and,
occasionally, in the Balkans. It has participated in
and often coordinated the monitoring of Greek and
Balkan media for stereotypes and hate speech. It has
prepared detailed reports on ethnonational,
ethnolinguistic, religious and immigrant communities,
in Greece; and on the Greek minorities in Albania and
Turkey. [...] Since 1997, in cooperation with the
European Roma Rights Center (ERRC), it runs a Roma
Office for Greece. Since 1997, it also operates the
Athens editorial office of the Alternative Information
Network (AIM), while in 2000 it launched the
electronic monthly "Dikaiomatika!" (Rightly!) in
Greek. In 1998, GHM was a co-founder of the Center of
Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe
- Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE) which operates a web
site (http://www.greekhelsinki.gr) and two web lists
covering human rights issues and comprehensive and
comparable presentations of all minorities in the
region. In 2000, CEDIME-SE was one of the co-founders
of the Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR)."

"Greek Helsinki Monitor and Minority Rights Group -
Greece would like to acknowledge the sponsorship of
Open Society Institute, European Union's PHARE and
Euromosaic programs, Austrian Government - Federal
Chancellery, Nikos Dimou, "Artos Zois" Foundation,
European Roma Rights Center, Berghof Foundation for
Conflict Research, Aspen Institute Berlin,
International Helsinki Federation, Communication and
Political Research Society, Greek General Secretariat
for Youth, and a few others."

So, GHM is funded, among others, by OSI. But what of
the various "organizations" with which GHM is
associated?

Minority Rights Group International (MRG): MRG is a
"non-governmental organization based in London, UK,
MRG promotes the rights of ethnic, linguistic and
religious minorities." MRG does not disclose funding
and sponsorship but GHM mentions that at least
MRG-Greece is supported, among others, by OSI (see
above). It has a link to COMIR on its front page.

The European Roma Rights Center (ERRC): ERRC is "an
international public interest law organisation which
monitors the human rights situation of Roma and
provides legal defence in cases of human rights
abuse." Major sponsors are: Open Society Institute,
Ford Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation,
Ruben and Elisabeth Rausing Trust, Rockefeller
Brothers Fund, and J.M. Kaplan Fund.

Please note that while GHM is partly "sponsored" by
OSI, it is also partly "sponsored" by ERRC which in
turn is partly "sponsored" by....OSI!

International Freedom of Expression exchange (IFEX):
IFEX "was born in 1992 when many of the world's
leading freedom of expression organizations came
together in Montreal to discuss how best to further
their collective goals." IFEX support organizations
are: Canadian International Development Agency,
Canada; Open Society Institute, U.S.A.; Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Denmark; The Ford Foundation, U.S.A.;
Freedom Forum, U.S.A.; Humanistic Institute for
Co-operation with Developing Countries (Hivos), The
Netherlands; Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, U.S.A;
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland; Robert R.
McCormick Tribune Foundation, U.S.A.; Swedish
International Development Agency, Sweden; and United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO).

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN):
EMHRN, established in January 1997, "is a network of
human rights organisations based in more than 20
countries from the Euro-Mediterranean region."
Funding/sponsors are not disclosed. Among its members
are Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (see
below).

GHM is also related to the Institute for War & Peace
Reporting (IWPR). "Founded in 1991, IWPR is an
independent educational charity based in the United
Kingdom." "IWPR supports democratisation and
development in crisis zones by providing an
international platform, professional training and
financial assistance to independent media, human
rights activists and other democratic voices." The
IWPR Web site acknowledges the following "private and
governmental foundations and agencies supporting its
regional reporting and media development activities:"
Carnegie Corporation of New York; Department for
International Development (UK); European Commission,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Freedom Forum; Ford
Foundation; National Endowment for Democracy;
Community Fund (UK); Open Society Institute; Press
Now; Samuel Rubin Foundation; Swedish International
Development and Cooperation Agency; US Institute for
Peace and Winston Foundation for World Peace.

GHM disseminates the reports of Human Rights Watch
(HRW) and is related to HRW at least through COMIR and
EMHRN. George Soros is known as the "financier of
HRW." For the readers who are not familiar with HRW we
recommend the report by Paul Treanor, Who is behind
Human Rights Watch? The European section of the Board
of HRW (or committee), called the Europe and Central
Asia Division is affiliated with the International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (the latter, by
the way, is financed by, among others, the Ford
Foundation. See
http://www.ihf-hr.org/about.htm#Funders).

The Council for the Defense of Human Rights and
Freedoms (funding unknown) publishes a weekly report
on the "situation of human rights and freedoms in
Kosova" [please note the spelling]. These reports are
disseminated by, among others, GHM and BAN.

So are the reports and analysis of the International
Crisis Group (ICG). ICG "is a private, multinational
organisation committed to strengthening the capacity
of the international community to anticipate,
understand and act to prevent and contain conflict."
Readers may recall the ICG report dated November 26,
1999 on Trepca: Making Sense of the Labyrinth which
advocated that UNMIK and KFOR take control of the
Trepca mining complex - which they did. ICG is an
intriguing organization that would deserve to be
reviewed on its own. ICG states on its Web site that
"Maintaining a diverse funding base is critical to
preserving ICG's political independence and
credibility." It adds that "ICG raises funds from
governments, charitable foundations, companies and
individual donors. The following governments currently
provide funding: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of China (Taiwan)
[ed. please note how they characterize Taiwan],
Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Foundation
and private sector donors include the Ansary
Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Open Society
Institute, the Ploughshares Fund, the Sasakawa
Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Ford
Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace."

The best way to form an opinion in regard to ICG's
"political independence and credibility" is to look at
its Board. Among its 50+ members are the following
names: Stephen Solarz (Vice-Chairman, ICG and former
U.S. Congressman); Morton Abramowitz (former U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State and former U.S.
Ambassador to Turkey); Kenneth Adelman (former US
Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Ambassador to the UN);
Richard Allen (former Head of US National Security
Council and National Security Advisor); Louise Arbour
(Supreme Court Judge, Canada and former Chief
Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for former
Yugoslavia); Wesley Clark (former NATO Supreme Allied
Commander, Europe); Allan J. MacEachen (former Deputy
Prime Minister of Canada); Barbara McDougall (former
Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada);
Wayne Owens (President, Center for Middle East Peace
and Economic Co-operation); George Soros (Chairman,
Open Society Institute); and Mortimer Zuckerman
(Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News and World
Report).

So, from little-known organizations or people such as
SEEP, COMIR, BAN, GHM, IFEX, ERRC, etc. and Florian
Bieber to bigger fish like ICG, HRW, IPWR, etc., and
Louise Arbour, Morton Abramowitz or Wesley Clark -- to
cite just a few -- the agenda, the ideology, the
sources of funding are the same. They originate with
the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for
Democracy, the US Institute for Peace, the Open
Society Institute and many, many more wealthy
institutions; and George Soros can invariably be found
at the epicenter of this concentric maze (which will
not surprise the readers who have read our August 2000
essay, Armies of Compassion: The Missionary, the
Businessman and the Military).

Not only do they shape and form opinion, they create
the news, they pay for -- they literally buy -- the
news to be shaped and created (remember the
"suitcases" of cash being funneled to the opposition
-- DOS, Otpor, B92, etc. -- before the Yugoslav
elections in October 2000?), to control how public
opinion is shaped and created; a public who has little
or no idea of how the news and their opinions are
created, sculpted like a fake Rodin, and from where
they really come. Total manipulation, total deception
and total mind control.

Pathetic, isn't it?



Note: To demonstrate the above with a case study we
are reviewing the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and
the report, "Destruction of Evidence on Crimes against
Kosovo Albanians," that was found on balkanhr, the
Balkan Human Rights List (but that originated with
HLC) in our next commentary, The Fabrication and
Dissemination of Deception.


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