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March 14, 2002
Nebojsa Malic
A Superbly Organized Crime
Imperial Occupation of the Balkans
The Voice of America, Empire's official propaganda
broadcasting service, reported this Monday that NATO
pledged to "crack down on organized crime in Kosovo."
Well, that's just wonderful. NATO stormtroopers should
be knocking down the door of their Secretary-General
any minute now, along with the entire state leadership
of Britain, France, Germany - and oh yes, the United
States. Not that we should hold our breath.
It is Lord George Robertson himself the VOA report
quotes, claiming that "criminal groups made Kosovo a
center for drug smuggling, arms contraband and the
trafficking of human beings." He also said these
groups were "undermining progress made in the province
since the U.N. and NATO took charge of the
administration there nearly three years ago" and
"stealing Kosovo's future from its people."
How can this be, Your Lordship? Did these groups
appear before 1999, when the "clearly terrorist" KLA
was attacking police officers and civilians with
weapons bought with drug funds? Or after, when NATO's
intervention brought the KLA into power? Did they
spring up as part of "resistance" to Serbia, or under
the protection of NATO occupation troops? Shocking!
And since the "people of Kosovo" are routinely
referred to as "Kosovars," and that in turn is a
synonym for "Albanian," is Robertson saying these
"gangs" are Serbs?
Organized And Other Crimes
Not exactly. It turns out "several ethnic Albanian
politicians are suspected of being linked to the
gangs." Like who? Hashim Taqi, head of the KLA,
nicknamed "Snake" for assassinating his rivals? Agim
Ceku, former general in the Croatian army who
specialized in ethnic cleansing? Bajram Rexhepi, the
current Prime Minister, who is said to have
decapitated a Serb prisoner during the NATO-KLA "war
of liberation"? Robertson does not say, and neither
does the VOA. All that matters is that NATO (good) is
pledging to fight some unspecified organized crime
(bad).
NATO has committed the worst crime under international
law by attacking Yugoslavia in 1999 to begin with. It
has occupied Kosovo for three years, with 50,000
troops and God only knows how many civilian clerks. It
watched (even helped?) as 300,000 non-Albanians were
driven out of the province, and their homes looted,
seized or torched. It stood idly by as over 100
Serbian churches and thousands of other cultural
monuments were destroyed. It did nothing as scores of
Albanians were murdered by their fellow Albanians. It
intervened to legitimize the Albanian bandits as they
seized a part of Macedonia, and forced the government
in Skopje to give them special rights. It has
tolerated (fueled?) the explosion of sex slavery, gun-
and drug-running in Kosovo since 1999. After all this,
how can anyone in their right mind believe NATO is
against "organized crime"? Please.
Fudding Around in Bosnia
Two weeks ago, NATO stormtroopers descended on a Serb
hamlet in Eastern Bosnia. They smashed doors on
houses, ransacked a church, held schoolchildren and
teachers hostage, and turned the entire village upside
down. They were looking for Radovan Karadzic, wartime
leader of the Bosnian Serbs accused by The Hague
Inquisition of genocide and other war crimes. He was
nowhere to be found, though.
If the raid itself was ugly, the aftermath was even
uglier. The fuming Americans accused the French of
tipping Karadzic off. The Associated Press blamed the
Bosnian Serbs. Everyone was trying to shift blame from
NATO - and more specifically the US troops, who were
behind the operation - and ignore the obvious. The
entire affair looked like one of Elmer Fudd's
hare-hunts, as NATO spokesman Mark Laity - former BBC
"journalist" who found his true calling as paid
mouthpiece of the Alliance - told his former
colleagues, "Shhh, we'we hunting waw cwiminaws," and
pretended nothing was wrong when the whole thing
exploded in their faces.
This sudden interest in catching Karadzic and his
former military commander, General Ratko Mladic, might
have more to do with Empire's propaganda needs than
with some imaginary effort to "help Bosnia heal."
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen brazenly
suggested back in November that Karadzic and Mladic
should be "bagged" to show the Muslim world the US is
after other people, too. And in a Sunday Telegraph
guest column on March 10, former BBC editor John
Simpson made a direct comparison between Karadzic and
Osama Bin Laden. Ironic, given that Osama's mujahedin
fought against Karadzic's troops in Bosnia - but hey,
back then they were our terrorists, not yet Evil
Incarnate.
What, Me Unhappy?
Given Bosnia's realities under NATO occupation, should
it be surprising that some Serbs sympathize with
Karadzic? Just one glance at recent headlines offers a
plethora of clues. Muslim leaders still advocate a
monolithic state in which they would be a majority - a
fixation that caused the 1992-95 war. Croats have
named a major new bridge after Croatia's late
president Franjo Tudjman, whose troops invaded Bosnia
in 1992 and are responsible for many atrocities
against Serbs and Muslims. Serb and Croat cemeteries
in Muslim-dominated areas have been desecrated. At US
behest, Islamic charities are raided and their assets
seized under suspicion of links with terrorism. Yet
the Bosnian Prime Minister found time to thank Iran
for its support to "the Bosnian people" during the
war. Iran sent money, weapons and volunteers to the
Bosnian Muslims, not the Bosnian "people" - unless
those two have somehow come to mean the same thing,
just as the Muslim integrationists have been
advocating all along...
Besides, it is extremely difficult to find Karadzic's
methods of waging war objectionable now that NATO has
made them legitimate. Bombing civilians, starving them
out and depriving them of food, water and other
supplies, killing journalists and targeting hospitals
is wrong regardless of who does it - it can't be wrong
only if Karadzic and Mladic are accused of it, and
acceptable if NATO pilots are pulling the trigger.
With all that in mind, favoring Karadzic over his
persecutors is actually a drop of reason in the vast
sea of insanity that is the Bosnian protectorate.
Earlier this week, twelve Bosnian police officers were
fired by the UN police oversight mission, because they
had helped organized a post office robbery in order to
foil it and thus gain recognition. Now where could
they have possibly gotten that idea??
Instances of Advanced Dementia
Events in Macedonia and Serbia further prove the
extent to which the Empire's all-pervading presence
has already corrupted all aspects of Balkans life,
beginning with the process of logical thinking.
Vlado Popovski, Macedonia's defense minister, told the
national radio last week that the country's only
future was in joining NATO and the EU. According to
him, this would be the only way to stabilize the
country and the region. Even if they did not admit
Macedonia, he averred, the Skopje government would
still implement all of their practices and demands, so
it could be a virtual member.
Has Mr. Popovski by any chance lain his hands on some
primo Afghan heroin the Albanian mafia specializes in
smuggling through his country? NATO and the EU have
just about destroyed Macedonia by giving aid and
comfort to the Albanian militants. Last week,
Macedonian police discovered irrefutable proof that
international terrorists were at work in the country,
aiding the UCK. Now the man who should be in charge of
defending Macedonia advocates joining the sponsors of
Macedonia's destruction?
Under Zoran the Foul, Serbia has long been a
logic-free zone. Recent news from another official
Imperial propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty, is thus not surprising, though it is superbly
ironic. RFE/RL reported last week that Djindjic's
government has started a campaign against corruption,
one criticized as not serious enough by the
"government watchdog" organization Otpor. This is the
same Zoran Djindjic who sold Slobodan Milosevic to the
Hague Inquisition in exchange for empty promises of
financial aid. This is the same Otpor which was
organized and funded by the CIA to topple Milosevic's
government. And they are investigating corruption?
Good luck.
The Obvious Truth
It takes a major case of block-headedness to ignore
the obvious: the Empire is the source of most Balkans
problems, and thus cannot - now or ever - provide a
solution to them. Like those police officers in
Bosnia, who probably only sought to please their
foreign masters by demonstrating "efficiency," the
Imperial occupiers of the Balkans seek credibility by
claiming to be "solving" problems their very presence
is responsible for creating.
Just look at the facts. Terrorism, smuggling, graft,
slavery, drug-running, murder and prostitution - were
there any in the former Yugoslavia prior to 1991, when
outside forces first intervened in local disputes? No
more than elsewhere in Europe, and often less. Now,
after ten years of Imperial meddling, and thanks to
the presence of at least 100,000 foreign occupiers
(civilian and military), the place is a den of darkest
depravity.
The truth speaks for itself. It is the masters of lies
who make it seem otherwise.
March 14, 2002
Nebojsa Malic
A Superbly Organized Crime
Imperial Occupation of the Balkans
The Voice of America, Empire's official propaganda
broadcasting service, reported this Monday that NATO
pledged to "crack down on organized crime in Kosovo."
Well, that's just wonderful. NATO stormtroopers should
be knocking down the door of their Secretary-General
any minute now, along with the entire state leadership
of Britain, France, Germany - and oh yes, the United
States. Not that we should hold our breath.
It is Lord George Robertson himself the VOA report
quotes, claiming that "criminal groups made Kosovo a
center for drug smuggling, arms contraband and the
trafficking of human beings." He also said these
groups were "undermining progress made in the province
since the U.N. and NATO took charge of the
administration there nearly three years ago" and
"stealing Kosovo's future from its people."
How can this be, Your Lordship? Did these groups
appear before 1999, when the "clearly terrorist" KLA
was attacking police officers and civilians with
weapons bought with drug funds? Or after, when NATO's
intervention brought the KLA into power? Did they
spring up as part of "resistance" to Serbia, or under
the protection of NATO occupation troops? Shocking!
And since the "people of Kosovo" are routinely
referred to as "Kosovars," and that in turn is a
synonym for "Albanian," is Robertson saying these
"gangs" are Serbs?
Organized And Other Crimes
Not exactly. It turns out "several ethnic Albanian
politicians are suspected of being linked to the
gangs." Like who? Hashim Taqi, head of the KLA,
nicknamed "Snake" for assassinating his rivals? Agim
Ceku, former general in the Croatian army who
specialized in ethnic cleansing? Bajram Rexhepi, the
current Prime Minister, who is said to have
decapitated a Serb prisoner during the NATO-KLA "war
of liberation"? Robertson does not say, and neither
does the VOA. All that matters is that NATO (good) is
pledging to fight some unspecified organized crime
(bad).
NATO has committed the worst crime under international
law by attacking Yugoslavia in 1999 to begin with. It
has occupied Kosovo for three years, with 50,000
troops and God only knows how many civilian clerks. It
watched (even helped?) as 300,000 non-Albanians were
driven out of the province, and their homes looted,
seized or torched. It stood idly by as over 100
Serbian churches and thousands of other cultural
monuments were destroyed. It did nothing as scores of
Albanians were murdered by their fellow Albanians. It
intervened to legitimize the Albanian bandits as they
seized a part of Macedonia, and forced the government
in Skopje to give them special rights. It has
tolerated (fueled?) the explosion of sex slavery, gun-
and drug-running in Kosovo since 1999. After all this,
how can anyone in their right mind believe NATO is
against "organized crime"? Please.
Fudding Around in Bosnia
Two weeks ago, NATO stormtroopers descended on a Serb
hamlet in Eastern Bosnia. They smashed doors on
houses, ransacked a church, held schoolchildren and
teachers hostage, and turned the entire village upside
down. They were looking for Radovan Karadzic, wartime
leader of the Bosnian Serbs accused by The Hague
Inquisition of genocide and other war crimes. He was
nowhere to be found, though.
If the raid itself was ugly, the aftermath was even
uglier. The fuming Americans accused the French of
tipping Karadzic off. The Associated Press blamed the
Bosnian Serbs. Everyone was trying to shift blame from
NATO - and more specifically the US troops, who were
behind the operation - and ignore the obvious. The
entire affair looked like one of Elmer Fudd's
hare-hunts, as NATO spokesman Mark Laity - former BBC
"journalist" who found his true calling as paid
mouthpiece of the Alliance - told his former
colleagues, "Shhh, we'we hunting waw cwiminaws," and
pretended nothing was wrong when the whole thing
exploded in their faces.
This sudden interest in catching Karadzic and his
former military commander, General Ratko Mladic, might
have more to do with Empire's propaganda needs than
with some imaginary effort to "help Bosnia heal."
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen brazenly
suggested back in November that Karadzic and Mladic
should be "bagged" to show the Muslim world the US is
after other people, too. And in a Sunday Telegraph
guest column on March 10, former BBC editor John
Simpson made a direct comparison between Karadzic and
Osama Bin Laden. Ironic, given that Osama's mujahedin
fought against Karadzic's troops in Bosnia - but hey,
back then they were our terrorists, not yet Evil
Incarnate.
What, Me Unhappy?
Given Bosnia's realities under NATO occupation, should
it be surprising that some Serbs sympathize with
Karadzic? Just one glance at recent headlines offers a
plethora of clues. Muslim leaders still advocate a
monolithic state in which they would be a majority - a
fixation that caused the 1992-95 war. Croats have
named a major new bridge after Croatia's late
president Franjo Tudjman, whose troops invaded Bosnia
in 1992 and are responsible for many atrocities
against Serbs and Muslims. Serb and Croat cemeteries
in Muslim-dominated areas have been desecrated. At US
behest, Islamic charities are raided and their assets
seized under suspicion of links with terrorism. Yet
the Bosnian Prime Minister found time to thank Iran
for its support to "the Bosnian people" during the
war. Iran sent money, weapons and volunteers to the
Bosnian Muslims, not the Bosnian "people" - unless
those two have somehow come to mean the same thing,
just as the Muslim integrationists have been
advocating all along...
Besides, it is extremely difficult to find Karadzic's
methods of waging war objectionable now that NATO has
made them legitimate. Bombing civilians, starving them
out and depriving them of food, water and other
supplies, killing journalists and targeting hospitals
is wrong regardless of who does it - it can't be wrong
only if Karadzic and Mladic are accused of it, and
acceptable if NATO pilots are pulling the trigger.
With all that in mind, favoring Karadzic over his
persecutors is actually a drop of reason in the vast
sea of insanity that is the Bosnian protectorate.
Earlier this week, twelve Bosnian police officers were
fired by the UN police oversight mission, because they
had helped organized a post office robbery in order to
foil it and thus gain recognition. Now where could
they have possibly gotten that idea??
Instances of Advanced Dementia
Events in Macedonia and Serbia further prove the
extent to which the Empire's all-pervading presence
has already corrupted all aspects of Balkans life,
beginning with the process of logical thinking.
Vlado Popovski, Macedonia's defense minister, told the
national radio last week that the country's only
future was in joining NATO and the EU. According to
him, this would be the only way to stabilize the
country and the region. Even if they did not admit
Macedonia, he averred, the Skopje government would
still implement all of their practices and demands, so
it could be a virtual member.
Has Mr. Popovski by any chance lain his hands on some
primo Afghan heroin the Albanian mafia specializes in
smuggling through his country? NATO and the EU have
just about destroyed Macedonia by giving aid and
comfort to the Albanian militants. Last week,
Macedonian police discovered irrefutable proof that
international terrorists were at work in the country,
aiding the UCK. Now the man who should be in charge of
defending Macedonia advocates joining the sponsors of
Macedonia's destruction?
Under Zoran the Foul, Serbia has long been a
logic-free zone. Recent news from another official
Imperial propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty, is thus not surprising, though it is superbly
ironic. RFE/RL reported last week that Djindjic's
government has started a campaign against corruption,
one criticized as not serious enough by the
"government watchdog" organization Otpor. This is the
same Zoran Djindjic who sold Slobodan Milosevic to the
Hague Inquisition in exchange for empty promises of
financial aid. This is the same Otpor which was
organized and funded by the CIA to topple Milosevic's
government. And they are investigating corruption?
Good luck.
The Obvious Truth
It takes a major case of block-headedness to ignore
the obvious: the Empire is the source of most Balkans
problems, and thus cannot - now or ever - provide a
solution to them. Like those police officers in
Bosnia, who probably only sought to please their
foreign masters by demonstrating "efficiency," the
Imperial occupiers of the Balkans seek credibility by
claiming to be "solving" problems their very presence
is responsible for creating.
Just look at the facts. Terrorism, smuggling, graft,
slavery, drug-running, murder and prostitution - were
there any in the former Yugoslavia prior to 1991, when
outside forces first intervened in local disputes? No
more than elsewhere in Europe, and often less. Now,
after ten years of Imperial meddling, and thanks to
the presence of at least 100,000 foreign occupiers
(civilian and military), the place is a den of darkest
depravity.
The truth speaks for itself. It is the masters of lies
who make it seem otherwise.