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NATO AND THE UN SPONSOR TERRORISTS IN KOSOVO
by Jared Israel and Rick Rozoff
[Posted 16 September 2001]
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Most people began reading Emperor's Clothes
because of our articles on 9-11.
We urge you to read the following, about
Kosovo. Since NATO and the UN in
Kosovo are very much under U.S. domination,
their behavior towards the Kosovo
terrorists clarifies the real relationship
of the U.S. Establishment to
terror. And looking at Kosovo we find the
same patterns of dishonesty and
public obfuscation that we have witnessed
around 9-11.
To help understand how NATO and the UN
operate in Kosovo, consider the news
dispatch below. It was issued by KFOR on May
24, 2001. (KFOR stands for
Kosovo Force. KFOR is the NATO occupation
force in Kosovo. COMKFOR is the
Command of the NATO occupation force in
Kosovo.)
Here's the KFOR dispatch:
"KFOR News Update
Pristina, 24 May 2001
By Maj. Axel-Bernd Jandesek, KFOR Spokesman
"More Than 450 UCPMB Members Surrendered
"By the end of COMKFOR's soft policy towards
UCPMB extremists, more than 450
former extremists had taken advantage of
this policy. These people
voluntarily laid down their arms and turned
themselves in at several KFOR
checkpoints. KFOR screened and released all
UCPMB members who are not
suspected of having committed serious
crimes."--KFOROnline 24 May 2001 (1)
UCPMB are the initials used by ethnic
Albanian terrorists when they are
attacking inner Serbia.
Some thoughts:
1) Note that the headline of this news
update speaks of '450 UCPMB members
surrender[ing]' but the text suggests all
except perhaps a few have been
released.
2) The news update calls the UCPMB members
'extremists.' This suggests people
with far-out political positions. But in
fact these people are terrorists
organized in military units which conduct
heavily armed raids against inner
Serbia. They plant land mines. They
terrorize uncooperative ethnic Albanians.
They kidnap, torture and kill Serbian
villagers and policemen. They fight
battles against Yugoslav soldiers. Since all
this is illegal, and much of it
is murder, on what basis would KFOR conclude
that most of these terrorists
have not committed serious crimes?
3) Once the terrorists were released, why
wouldn't they return to their
previous occupation - laying land mines,
terrorizing, kidnapping and killing
people in inner Serbia?
To understand the significance of these
questions, consider the official
obligations of KFOR and its sister
organization, UNMIK (United Nations
Mission in Kosovo). These responsibilities
are laid out in the agreement
under which KFOR and UNMIK have occupied
Kosovo. That agreement is UN
Security Council Resolution 1244, or UNSCR
1244 (or just UN 1244 for short)
and the following is one of its overall
principles:
"Reaffirming the commitment of all Member
States to the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia and the other
States of the region, as set out in the
Helsinki Final Act and annex 2..."
Note: Helsinki Final Act can be read at
http://www.hri.org/docs/Helsinki75.html
Regarding specific responsibilities:
"[The Security Council] decides that the
responsibilities of the
international security presence [that is,
KFOR and UNMIK] to be deployed and
acting in Kosovo will include:
Deterring renewed hostilities, maintaining
and where necessary enforcing a cease-fire...;
Demilitarizing the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA) and other armed Kosovo
Albanian groups as required in paragraph 15
below;
Establishing a secure environment in which
refugees and displaced persons can
return home in safety, the international
civil presence can operate, a
transitional administration can be
established, and humanitarian aid can be
delivered;"
-- KFOR Online on UN Security Council
Resolution 1244 (2)
By setting free 450 terrorists who have been
committing mayhem in inner
Serbia (which is part of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia) KFOR flatly
contradicts its core principle:
"Reaffirming the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia..."
And what about:
Demilitarizing the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA) and other armed Kosovo Albanian groups...
[And] establishing a secure environment...
According to U.S. President William Clinton,
these requirements were largely
fulfilled by June 2000. In a letter to
Congress, Clinton stated:
"The KLA agreed on June 21, 1999, to a cease
fire, to withdraw from the zones
of conflict in Kosovo, and to demilitarize
itself. On September 20, 1999,
KFOR Commander Lieutenant General Sir Mike
Jackson accepted the KLA's
certification that the KLA had completed its
demilitarization in accordance
with the June 21 agreement. The UNMIK
thereafter established a civil
emergency services entity known as the
Kosovo Protection Corps that is
intended to provide civic assistance in
emergencies and other forms of
humanitarian assistance.
...The KFOR personnel provide a security
presence in towns, villages, and the
country-side."
--President Clinton's Letter to Congress on
U.S. Forces in Kosovo. 16 June 2000 (3)
CLINTON'S LIE # 1: "ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1999
THE KLA HAD COMPLETED ITS
DEMILITARIZATION"
Regarding this, the Russian Press Digest
commented:
"The head of the U.N. mission in Kosovo,
Bernard Kouchner, has announced that
KLA representatives had turned in 10,000
units of various types of weapons
which allows the mission to speak about the
completion of the disarmament
process. 'We are satisfied that the OAK
[KLA] handed in 10,000 firearms, even
if we know that they still have another
100,000 guns,' joked one of the
members of the U.N. mission in Kosovo."
--Russian Press Digest 21 September 1999 (4)
Reports in other newspapers confirm that the
supposed demilitarization of the
KLA was a bad joke. Thus it is no surprise
that, following this
'demilitarization,' the KLA continued its
practice of gangsterism and
terrorism. This is documented in the
chilling article, 'Concentration Camps
and Gangster/Terrorism in Kosovo.' (4a)
CLINTON'S LIE # 2: "UNMIK Established the
Kosovo Protection Corps [which
is]...civic and humanitarian"
An article in La Stampa, the Italian
newspaper, vividly described the way the
civic and humanitarian Kosovo Protection
Corps (KPC) was set up.
"Shortly after midnight a local commander of
the KLA delivered to the Italian
KFOR troops the first shipment of weapons.
The delivery was preceded by a
short ceremony ...in the course of which a
group of KLA guerrillas
symbolically turned over six machine-guns to
a squad of Italian troops,
receiving in exchange new uniforms of the
'Kosovo Protection Corps,' the
civil protection group into which the KLA
have to be transformed. The base
commander, Gezim Ostremi was asked if his
forces were still part of the
Kosovo Liberation Army, to which he replied,
after looking at the clock,
'It's after midnight, so we are Kosovo
Protection Corps.'"
--La Stampa, 20 September 1999 (5)
This was not the exception; it was the rule.
KFOR and UNMIK simply changed Kosovo
Liberation Army (terrorist) to Kosovo
Protection Corps (civic and humanitarian).
The KLA war criminals were not given jail
terms. They weren't even forced to
attend re-education classes, like a person
convicted of drunk driving.
Instead they were rewarded with new KPC
uniforms, a respectable title, UN
status (!) and paychecks (!).
And they got a leader. This was Agem Ceku.
For Mr. Ceku's curriculum vitae,
see 'UN Appoints an Alleged War Criminal in
Kosovo.' (6)
In brief, until he was appointed to the top
position in the KPC, Agem Ceku
led the KLA. And before that he was a
Croatian military officer, implicated
in war crimes against thousands of Serbian
civilians in the Krajina section
of Yugoslavia. (7)
Did KFOR and the UNMIK somehow transform the
terrorists who staffed the KPC
into good citizens?
Consider the case of Gezim Ostremi, the KLA
commander mentioned in the La
Stampa article, above.
During the summer of 2001, two years after
the formation of the KPC, some
Western newspapers revealed that Ostremi was
leading the terrorist assault on
Macedonia! The Irish Times commented:
"Before launching war in Macedonia,
Commander Gezim Ostremi was paid by the
UN to help set up the Kosovo Protection
Corps (KPC), [then] being appointed
its chief-of-staff." --The Irish Times, 5
July 2001 (8)
According to the Irish Times, Ostremi's role
as terrorist leader was a shock
to the leaders of the UN and NATO in Kosovo:
"The co-ordination of the international
community in the Balkans has been
thrown into confusion [by the revelation]."
The Irish Times, 5 July 2001 (8)
Ahh, confusion.
It seems that anytime the leaders of our new
Empire are implicated in some
vicious act that suggests not only hypocrisy
but criminal misconduct, they
and the media put the 'blame' on confusion,
inefficiency, bewilderment, lack
of preparedness - that is, human error.
"These vast bumbling bureaucracies
don't plot evil deeds, they just totally
screw up," is the idea.
Apparently someone did a study which
revealed that ordinary people will
forgive any official misdeed as long as the
guilty party quickly and freely
'confesses' to stupidity or incompetence
(rather than evil intent...)
Thus when he was asked why no planes took
off from Andrews Air Force Base,
which is right beside Washington, DC, to
intercept American Airlines Flight
77 during the 55-or-so minutes it was flying
towards the Pentagon, Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld offered the
following 'confession:'
"RUMSFELD: Tony, it happens because the
United States has not said to itself
that it needs to stay on high alert every
minute of the day."
--Fox News Sunday, (09:00) 16 September 2001
(9)
And when U.S. war planes bombed the clearly
marked and geographically
isolated Red Cross warehouses in Afghanistan
for the second time, the media
universally called it a mistake. (Actually
the second bombing was carried out
in two or more waves by several different
types of bombers.) Here are several
samples of the coverage:
* "In a costly mistake Friday, a Red Cross
warehouse was accidentally bombed
again." (The Lexington Herald Leader, 30
October 2001)
* "...twice mistakenly hit a Red Cross
warehouse" (The Herald (Glasgow), 30
October 2001)
* "...a second mistaken strike on a Red
Cross warehouse" (USA TODAY, 30
October 2001).
Emperor's Clothes interviewed Red Cross
officials in Switzerland about the
bombings. Based on what these officials told
us, it is simply impossible to
believe the U.S. military bombed the
warehouses by mistake. (10)
Returning to Mr. Ostremi, the Kosovo
Protection Corp (KPC) Chief-of-staff,
how could his terrorist activities come as a
surprise to KFOR and the UNMIK?
According to the Irish Times,
"The lack of close supervision [of the KPC]
meant it was weeks before the UN
realised Commander Ostremi had left to
command the rebels in Macedonia - with
some assuming he had gone on holiday."--The
Irish Times, 5 July 2001 (8)
Ahh, lack of close supervision, the cousin
of confusion and the curse of the
'bumbling bureaucrat.'
Note that not one bureaucrat has been
arrested for the criminal neglect
involved in allowing the Chief-of-Staff of
the KPC, an official UN
organization, to run a terrorist invasion of
a sovereign state. All is
forgiven because 'we all make mistakes.'
But wait. It wasn't just Ostremi that the UN
and KFOR overlooked due to lack
of close supervision.
"Hundreds of KPC reservists were called up
by their Albanian commander, Agim
Ceku, in March. They subsequently
disappeared to former KLA training camps in
Albania and are now re-emerging [as
terrorist fighters] in Macedonia."
--London Times, 10 June 2001 (11)
Sounds like the whole skeleton of the KLA
organization was activated, in the
form of KPC reservists, to go off and fight
in Macedonia.
You might wonder how KPC 'reservists' would
be able to commit terrorist acts
on unfamilair Macedonian territory.Wouldn't
they get lost?
No problem.
"Embarrassingly for the alliance, they [the
KPC reservists attacking
Macedonia!] are making use of maps issued by
Nato for the Kosovo Protection
Corps."
--London Times, 10 June 2001 (11)
We comment on these maps in 'Sorry Virginia
But They Are Nato Troops, Not
'Rebels:'
[START QUOTE from 'Sorry Virginia']
"Isn't it charming how the Times employs the
term, 'embarrassingly,' as if
NATO had committed some breech of etiquette?
Let's see. Would that be
'embarrassingly' as in you order the wrong
wine to go with your date's
grilled shark? Or would that be
'embarrassingly' as in you get nabbed driving
the getaway car at the St. Valentine's Day
Massacre?
"Since NATO issued them and the KLA is using
them for an invasion, it is
reasonable to assume these are detailed
maps, including roads, the location
of various facilities and topographical
features such as hills, etc.
"Macedonia is a sovereign state. It is not
under NATO or UN control. The
Kosovo Protection Corps has no valid reason
to set foot on Macedonian territory.
"The KPC is officially not a military entity.
"Putting all this together, for what purpose
did NATO provide the KPC with
military maps of Macedonia? If not for the
obvious purpose: to attack it!"
[END QUOTE from 'Sorry Virginia']
This can be read at
'
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/mac/times.htm
For evidence that the KPC terrorists use
NATO-supplied weapons to attack
Macedonia, and that they are led by U.S.
'advisers,' see 'Emperor's Clothes
Articles on Macedonia,' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/mac/list-m.htm
CLINTON'S LIE # 3: '...KFOR personnel
provide a security presence in towns,
villages, and the country-side.'
This sounds comforting. But Emperor's
Clothes has published interviews with
eyewitnesses who report the exact opposite:
that KFOR and the UNMIK are
responsible for a massive reign of terror
since they took over Kosovo. For
example:
* KFOR opened the border with Albania,
allowing KLA-connected gangsters to
pass freely between Kosovo and their bases
in Northern Albania. (12)
* KFOR watched while people with the wrong
loyalties were terrorized and
driven from their homes. (13)
* Serbs who remained in Kosovo were forced
into concentration-camp-style
ghettos, run by KFOR and terrorized by the
KLA. (14)
* Those Serbs who remain in Kosovo live in
constant fear. Speaking the wrong
language can get one killed by making one
appear to be a Serb. (14a) Even
standing by one's window can be deadly if
you are a Serb in one of the new
Kosovo ghettos. (14)
UNMIK and KFOR are entirely aware of the
monumental terrorism of the
UN-created Kosovo Protection Corps. The UN
even prepared a special report for
Secretary General Kofi Annan documenting the
KPC's violent racism and
gangsterism. (15) But of course UNMIK and
KFOR don't need a special report.
These high-power management and military
organizations with their redundant
intelligence organizations are perfectly
capable of seeing what is going on
before their eyes.
Consider the following case in point.
On 16 February 2001:
"...[an] explosion destroyed a bus carrying
more than 50 Serbs who were
returning to Kosovo after visiting their
ancestors' graves in Serbia. [The
attackers] killed 11 Serb civilians,
including a two-year-old child."
--The Daily Telegraph (London), 28 March
2001 (16)
Four suspects were arrested but "the
identity of the men arrested is bound to
prove highly embarrassing for Western
governments." (The Daily Telegraph
(London), 28 March 2001) (16)
Why 'embarrassing?'
Isn't 'embarrassing' an odd word to use
regarding such a crime?
Embarrassing because:
"They are all members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps, the Western-backed
civil defence organisation which sprang from
the Kosovo Liberation Army when
it was demilitarised in 1999. Some members
of the KLA had been trained by the
SAS."
...
"Links between the KPC and organised crime
and political violence are an open
secret in Kosovo. The KPC's alleged
involvement in the killing of the 11
Serbs - an incident which was condemned
around the world - comes at a highly
sensitive time for Nato and the UN in
Kosovo."
--The Daily Telegraph (London), 28 March
2001 (16)
Note that when President Clinton was
claiming the Kosovo Protection Corps as
a victory for UNMIK, he wrote:
"UNMIK thereafter established a civil
emergency services entity known as the
Kosovo Protection Corps."
But in its laudably critical comments the
Daily Telegraph states that the KPC:
"sprang from the Kosovo Liberation Army when
it was demilitarised in 1999."
So, even in criticism, the Western media
pulls its punches. The
demilitarization is accepted as fact in an
article which provides evidence
that it is a lie! And the KPC is presented
as having popped out of the ground
like a weed when it was planted and watered
by the UNMIK and KFOR.
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NATO AND THE UN SPONSOR TERRORISTS IN KOSOVO
by Jared Israel and Rick Rozoff
[Posted 16 September 2001]
=======================================
Most people began reading Emperor's Clothes
because of our articles on 9-11.
We urge you to read the following, about
Kosovo. Since NATO and the UN in
Kosovo are very much under U.S. domination,
their behavior towards the Kosovo
terrorists clarifies the real relationship
of the U.S. Establishment to
terror. And looking at Kosovo we find the
same patterns of dishonesty and
public obfuscation that we have witnessed
around 9-11.
To help understand how NATO and the UN
operate in Kosovo, consider the news
dispatch below. It was issued by KFOR on May
24, 2001. (KFOR stands for
Kosovo Force. KFOR is the NATO occupation
force in Kosovo. COMKFOR is the
Command of the NATO occupation force in
Kosovo.)
Here's the KFOR dispatch:
"KFOR News Update
Pristina, 24 May 2001
By Maj. Axel-Bernd Jandesek, KFOR Spokesman
"More Than 450 UCPMB Members Surrendered
"By the end of COMKFOR's soft policy towards
UCPMB extremists, more than 450
former extremists had taken advantage of
this policy. These people
voluntarily laid down their arms and turned
themselves in at several KFOR
checkpoints. KFOR screened and released all
UCPMB members who are not
suspected of having committed serious
crimes."--KFOROnline 24 May 2001 (1)
UCPMB are the initials used by ethnic
Albanian terrorists when they are
attacking inner Serbia.
Some thoughts:
1) Note that the headline of this news
update speaks of '450 UCPMB members
surrender[ing]' but the text suggests all
except perhaps a few have been
released.
2) The news update calls the UCPMB members
'extremists.' This suggests people
with far-out political positions. But in
fact these people are terrorists
organized in military units which conduct
heavily armed raids against inner
Serbia. They plant land mines. They
terrorize uncooperative ethnic Albanians.
They kidnap, torture and kill Serbian
villagers and policemen. They fight
battles against Yugoslav soldiers. Since all
this is illegal, and much of it
is murder, on what basis would KFOR conclude
that most of these terrorists
have not committed serious crimes?
3) Once the terrorists were released, why
wouldn't they return to their
previous occupation - laying land mines,
terrorizing, kidnapping and killing
people in inner Serbia?
To understand the significance of these
questions, consider the official
obligations of KFOR and its sister
organization, UNMIK (United Nations
Mission in Kosovo). These responsibilities
are laid out in the agreement
under which KFOR and UNMIK have occupied
Kosovo. That agreement is UN
Security Council Resolution 1244, or UNSCR
1244 (or just UN 1244 for short)
and the following is one of its overall
principles:
"Reaffirming the commitment of all Member
States to the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia and the other
States of the region, as set out in the
Helsinki Final Act and annex 2..."
Note: Helsinki Final Act can be read at
http://www.hri.org/docs/Helsinki75.html
Regarding specific responsibilities:
"[The Security Council] decides that the
responsibilities of the
international security presence [that is,
KFOR and UNMIK] to be deployed and
acting in Kosovo will include:
Deterring renewed hostilities, maintaining
and where necessary enforcing a cease-fire...;
Demilitarizing the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA) and other armed Kosovo
Albanian groups as required in paragraph 15
below;
Establishing a secure environment in which
refugees and displaced persons can
return home in safety, the international
civil presence can operate, a
transitional administration can be
established, and humanitarian aid can be
delivered;"
-- KFOR Online on UN Security Council
Resolution 1244 (2)
By setting free 450 terrorists who have been
committing mayhem in inner
Serbia (which is part of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia) KFOR flatly
contradicts its core principle:
"Reaffirming the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia..."
And what about:
Demilitarizing the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA) and other armed Kosovo Albanian groups...
[And] establishing a secure environment...
According to U.S. President William Clinton,
these requirements were largely
fulfilled by June 2000. In a letter to
Congress, Clinton stated:
"The KLA agreed on June 21, 1999, to a cease
fire, to withdraw from the zones
of conflict in Kosovo, and to demilitarize
itself. On September 20, 1999,
KFOR Commander Lieutenant General Sir Mike
Jackson accepted the KLA's
certification that the KLA had completed its
demilitarization in accordance
with the June 21 agreement. The UNMIK
thereafter established a civil
emergency services entity known as the
Kosovo Protection Corps that is
intended to provide civic assistance in
emergencies and other forms of
humanitarian assistance.
...The KFOR personnel provide a security
presence in towns, villages, and the
country-side."
--President Clinton's Letter to Congress on
U.S. Forces in Kosovo. 16 June 2000 (3)
CLINTON'S LIE # 1: "ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1999
THE KLA HAD COMPLETED ITS
DEMILITARIZATION"
Regarding this, the Russian Press Digest
commented:
"The head of the U.N. mission in Kosovo,
Bernard Kouchner, has announced that
KLA representatives had turned in 10,000
units of various types of weapons
which allows the mission to speak about the
completion of the disarmament
process. 'We are satisfied that the OAK
[KLA] handed in 10,000 firearms, even
if we know that they still have another
100,000 guns,' joked one of the
members of the U.N. mission in Kosovo."
--Russian Press Digest 21 September 1999 (4)
Reports in other newspapers confirm that the
supposed demilitarization of the
KLA was a bad joke. Thus it is no surprise
that, following this
'demilitarization,' the KLA continued its
practice of gangsterism and
terrorism. This is documented in the
chilling article, 'Concentration Camps
and Gangster/Terrorism in Kosovo.' (4a)
CLINTON'S LIE # 2: "UNMIK Established the
Kosovo Protection Corps [which
is]...civic and humanitarian"
An article in La Stampa, the Italian
newspaper, vividly described the way the
civic and humanitarian Kosovo Protection
Corps (KPC) was set up.
"Shortly after midnight a local commander of
the KLA delivered to the Italian
KFOR troops the first shipment of weapons.
The delivery was preceded by a
short ceremony ...in the course of which a
group of KLA guerrillas
symbolically turned over six machine-guns to
a squad of Italian troops,
receiving in exchange new uniforms of the
'Kosovo Protection Corps,' the
civil protection group into which the KLA
have to be transformed. The base
commander, Gezim Ostremi was asked if his
forces were still part of the
Kosovo Liberation Army, to which he replied,
after looking at the clock,
'It's after midnight, so we are Kosovo
Protection Corps.'"
--La Stampa, 20 September 1999 (5)
This was not the exception; it was the rule.
KFOR and UNMIK simply changed Kosovo
Liberation Army (terrorist) to Kosovo
Protection Corps (civic and humanitarian).
The KLA war criminals were not given jail
terms. They weren't even forced to
attend re-education classes, like a person
convicted of drunk driving.
Instead they were rewarded with new KPC
uniforms, a respectable title, UN
status (!) and paychecks (!).
And they got a leader. This was Agem Ceku.
For Mr. Ceku's curriculum vitae,
see 'UN Appoints an Alleged War Criminal in
Kosovo.' (6)
In brief, until he was appointed to the top
position in the KPC, Agem Ceku
led the KLA. And before that he was a
Croatian military officer, implicated
in war crimes against thousands of Serbian
civilians in the Krajina section
of Yugoslavia. (7)
Did KFOR and the UNMIK somehow transform the
terrorists who staffed the KPC
into good citizens?
Consider the case of Gezim Ostremi, the KLA
commander mentioned in the La
Stampa article, above.
During the summer of 2001, two years after
the formation of the KPC, some
Western newspapers revealed that Ostremi was
leading the terrorist assault on
Macedonia! The Irish Times commented:
"Before launching war in Macedonia,
Commander Gezim Ostremi was paid by the
UN to help set up the Kosovo Protection
Corps (KPC), [then] being appointed
its chief-of-staff." --The Irish Times, 5
July 2001 (8)
According to the Irish Times, Ostremi's role
as terrorist leader was a shock
to the leaders of the UN and NATO in Kosovo:
"The co-ordination of the international
community in the Balkans has been
thrown into confusion [by the revelation]."
The Irish Times, 5 July 2001 (8)
Ahh, confusion.
It seems that anytime the leaders of our new
Empire are implicated in some
vicious act that suggests not only hypocrisy
but criminal misconduct, they
and the media put the 'blame' on confusion,
inefficiency, bewilderment, lack
of preparedness - that is, human error.
"These vast bumbling bureaucracies
don't plot evil deeds, they just totally
screw up," is the idea.
Apparently someone did a study which
revealed that ordinary people will
forgive any official misdeed as long as the
guilty party quickly and freely
'confesses' to stupidity or incompetence
(rather than evil intent...)
Thus when he was asked why no planes took
off from Andrews Air Force Base,
which is right beside Washington, DC, to
intercept American Airlines Flight
77 during the 55-or-so minutes it was flying
towards the Pentagon, Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld offered the
following 'confession:'
"RUMSFELD: Tony, it happens because the
United States has not said to itself
that it needs to stay on high alert every
minute of the day."
--Fox News Sunday, (09:00) 16 September 2001
(9)
And when U.S. war planes bombed the clearly
marked and geographically
isolated Red Cross warehouses in Afghanistan
for the second time, the media
universally called it a mistake. (Actually
the second bombing was carried out
in two or more waves by several different
types of bombers.) Here are several
samples of the coverage:
* "In a costly mistake Friday, a Red Cross
warehouse was accidentally bombed
again." (The Lexington Herald Leader, 30
October 2001)
* "...twice mistakenly hit a Red Cross
warehouse" (The Herald (Glasgow), 30
October 2001)
* "...a second mistaken strike on a Red
Cross warehouse" (USA TODAY, 30
October 2001).
Emperor's Clothes interviewed Red Cross
officials in Switzerland about the
bombings. Based on what these officials told
us, it is simply impossible to
believe the U.S. military bombed the
warehouses by mistake. (10)
Returning to Mr. Ostremi, the Kosovo
Protection Corp (KPC) Chief-of-staff,
how could his terrorist activities come as a
surprise to KFOR and the UNMIK?
According to the Irish Times,
"The lack of close supervision [of the KPC]
meant it was weeks before the UN
realised Commander Ostremi had left to
command the rebels in Macedonia - with
some assuming he had gone on holiday."--The
Irish Times, 5 July 2001 (8)
Ahh, lack of close supervision, the cousin
of confusion and the curse of the
'bumbling bureaucrat.'
Note that not one bureaucrat has been
arrested for the criminal neglect
involved in allowing the Chief-of-Staff of
the KPC, an official UN
organization, to run a terrorist invasion of
a sovereign state. All is
forgiven because 'we all make mistakes.'
But wait. It wasn't just Ostremi that the UN
and KFOR overlooked due to lack
of close supervision.
"Hundreds of KPC reservists were called up
by their Albanian commander, Agim
Ceku, in March. They subsequently
disappeared to former KLA training camps in
Albania and are now re-emerging [as
terrorist fighters] in Macedonia."
--London Times, 10 June 2001 (11)
Sounds like the whole skeleton of the KLA
organization was activated, in the
form of KPC reservists, to go off and fight
in Macedonia.
You might wonder how KPC 'reservists' would
be able to commit terrorist acts
on unfamilair Macedonian territory.Wouldn't
they get lost?
No problem.
"Embarrassingly for the alliance, they [the
KPC reservists attacking
Macedonia!] are making use of maps issued by
Nato for the Kosovo Protection
Corps."
--London Times, 10 June 2001 (11)
We comment on these maps in 'Sorry Virginia
But They Are Nato Troops, Not
'Rebels:'
[START QUOTE from 'Sorry Virginia']
"Isn't it charming how the Times employs the
term, 'embarrassingly,' as if
NATO had committed some breech of etiquette?
Let's see. Would that be
'embarrassingly' as in you order the wrong
wine to go with your date's
grilled shark? Or would that be
'embarrassingly' as in you get nabbed driving
the getaway car at the St. Valentine's Day
Massacre?
"Since NATO issued them and the KLA is using
them for an invasion, it is
reasonable to assume these are detailed
maps, including roads, the location
of various facilities and topographical
features such as hills, etc.
"Macedonia is a sovereign state. It is not
under NATO or UN control. The
Kosovo Protection Corps has no valid reason
to set foot on Macedonian territory.
"The KPC is officially not a military entity.
"Putting all this together, for what purpose
did NATO provide the KPC with
military maps of Macedonia? If not for the
obvious purpose: to attack it!"
[END QUOTE from 'Sorry Virginia']
This can be read at
'
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/mac/times.htm
For evidence that the KPC terrorists use
NATO-supplied weapons to attack
Macedonia, and that they are led by U.S.
'advisers,' see 'Emperor's Clothes
Articles on Macedonia,' at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/mac/list-m.htm
CLINTON'S LIE # 3: '...KFOR personnel
provide a security presence in towns,
villages, and the country-side.'
This sounds comforting. But Emperor's
Clothes has published interviews with
eyewitnesses who report the exact opposite:
that KFOR and the UNMIK are
responsible for a massive reign of terror
since they took over Kosovo. For
example:
* KFOR opened the border with Albania,
allowing KLA-connected gangsters to
pass freely between Kosovo and their bases
in Northern Albania. (12)
* KFOR watched while people with the wrong
loyalties were terrorized and
driven from their homes. (13)
* Serbs who remained in Kosovo were forced
into concentration-camp-style
ghettos, run by KFOR and terrorized by the
KLA. (14)
* Those Serbs who remain in Kosovo live in
constant fear. Speaking the wrong
language can get one killed by making one
appear to be a Serb. (14a) Even
standing by one's window can be deadly if
you are a Serb in one of the new
Kosovo ghettos. (14)
UNMIK and KFOR are entirely aware of the
monumental terrorism of the
UN-created Kosovo Protection Corps. The UN
even prepared a special report for
Secretary General Kofi Annan documenting the
KPC's violent racism and
gangsterism. (15) But of course UNMIK and
KFOR don't need a special report.
These high-power management and military
organizations with their redundant
intelligence organizations are perfectly
capable of seeing what is going on
before their eyes.
Consider the following case in point.
On 16 February 2001:
"...[an] explosion destroyed a bus carrying
more than 50 Serbs who were
returning to Kosovo after visiting their
ancestors' graves in Serbia. [The
attackers] killed 11 Serb civilians,
including a two-year-old child."
--The Daily Telegraph (London), 28 March
2001 (16)
Four suspects were arrested but "the
identity of the men arrested is bound to
prove highly embarrassing for Western
governments." (The Daily Telegraph
(London), 28 March 2001) (16)
Why 'embarrassing?'
Isn't 'embarrassing' an odd word to use
regarding such a crime?
Embarrassing because:
"They are all members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps, the Western-backed
civil defence organisation which sprang from
the Kosovo Liberation Army when
it was demilitarised in 1999. Some members
of the KLA had been trained by the
SAS."
...
"Links between the KPC and organised crime
and political violence are an open
secret in Kosovo. The KPC's alleged
involvement in the killing of the 11
Serbs - an incident which was condemned
around the world - comes at a highly
sensitive time for Nato and the UN in
Kosovo."
--The Daily Telegraph (London), 28 March
2001 (16)
Note that when President Clinton was
claiming the Kosovo Protection Corps as
a victory for UNMIK, he wrote:
"UNMIK thereafter established a civil
emergency services entity known as the
Kosovo Protection Corps."
But in its laudably critical comments the
Daily Telegraph states that the KPC:
"sprang from the Kosovo Liberation Army when
it was demilitarised in 1999."
So, even in criticism, the Western media
pulls its punches. The
demilitarization is accepted as fact in an
article which provides evidence
that it is a lie! And the KPC is presented
as having popped out of the ground
like a weed when it was planted and watered
by the UNMIK and KFOR.
CONTINUED PART 2