[CTRL] Fw: [Anti-imperialiste_2006] [stopnato] Iran Congratulates Belarusian President On ElectionVictory
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stop NATO Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:50 AM Subject: [Anti-imperialiste_2006] [stopnato] Iran Congratulates Belarusian President On ElectionVictory +ANTI-IMPERIALISTE la liste dehttp://resistance.chiffonrouge.orgARCHIVES ACCESSIBLE HERE/ICI:http://chiffonrouge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/anti-imperialiste/NOTE:Pour modifier les options de votre compte (mettre fin à votre abonnement, changer la périodicité des envois) rendez vous sur - If you wish to change the options of your account (resiliate your account or change the frequency of the mailing) please go to: http://listdiff.chiffonrouge.org Entrez votre identifiant et votre mot de passe pour accéder à votre compte - Enter your login and password to access your account's page+ http://en.rian.ru/world/20060321/44619308.htmlRussian Information Agency (Novosti)March 21, 2006Iranian president congratulates Lukashenko onlandslide victory TEHRAN - Iran's president Tuesday congratulatedAlexander Lukashenko on his reelection as president ofBelarus. "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed confidence thatduring Alexander Lukashenko's new presidential term,relations between Iran and Belarus will continue toadvance in all spheres," the Iranian presidentialpress service said. Ahmadinejad said he hoped Lukashenko would make anofficial visit to Iran within the next few months. Lukashenko, dubbed "the last dictator in Europe" byWashington, won a landslide victory Sunday that hadbeen widely predicted by both his supporters and theopposition. Turnout at the elections was 92.6%,officials said Monday. Despite criticism in the West, Lukashenko, 53, ispopular at home for providing relative economicstability in the turbulent 1990s compared to otherformer Soviet states. Lukashenko said Belarus' presidential elections hadcome under unprecedented pressure from outside thecountry, and added that the "color revolution" similarto the one that had brought pro-Western authorities topower in Ukraine and Georgia, had failed in Belarus. Opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich, whogarnered 6% of the vote, said the European Union andthe OSCE, Europe's major election monitor did notrecognize the elections. He said protestors had come to the demonstration fromUkraine, Lithuania, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and thatthe British ambassador in Belarus had attended duringthe night. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com SPONSORED LINKS Military loan Military loan company Military loan personal loan North atlantic treaty organization American government and politics YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "stopnato" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ___Anti-imperialiste mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://chiffonrouge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/anti-imperialiste www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: U.S./NATO Charged with Criminal Negligence in Death of Pres. SlobodanMilosevic
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: International Action Center NYC To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 11:50 AM Subject: U.S./NATO Charged with Criminal Negligence in Death of Pres. SlobodanMilosevic In this email:1) Press Release from the International Action Center "U.S./NATO Charged with Criminal Negligence in Death of President Slobodan Miloevic"2) Letter from the The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Miloevic to the UN Security Council3) Statement from the International Action Center on the Death of Slobodan Miloevic, President of Yugoslavia International Action Center 39 West 14th St, #206, New York, NY, 10011 www.iacenter.org - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press Contact: John Catalinotto, Sara Flounders, Dustin Langley - 212-633-6646 March 11, 2006 U.S./NATO Charged with Criminal Negligence in Death of President Slobodan Milosevic Upon learning of the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in prison in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 12, the International Action Center in the United States joined organizations and individuals around the world in condemning the court, prison authorities and the forces behind them with criminal negligence in ignoring the prisoners medical care. The IAC also condemned the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for holding a fraudulent trial for the last four years in an attempt to blame President Milosevic and Yugoslavia for NATOs criminal war in the Balkans. IAC co-director Sara Flounders said, The full responsibility for the death of President Slobodan Milosevic lies directly with the fraudulent court created by the U.S. and NATO governments at The Hague the ICTY. Ever since the illegal kidnapping of President Milosevic from Serbia in June 2001 and his forcible detention at Scheveningen prison on fraudulent war crimes charges, the court has consistently denied adequate medical care. Flounders cited the last action of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) continuing efforts to save the life of the seriously ill defendant. The Defense Committee appealed on March 8 to the 15 ambassadors of the members of the United Nations Security Council. Their letter signed by prominent supporters urged that Milosevic be transferred to Russia under secure guarantees for his return, for emergency medical care, given his critical medical condition, after the ICTY had refused this treatment. The IAC delivered the letters to the UN Security Council members. During this trial, now over four years old, said Flounders, the prosecution failed to present a coherent case against President Milosevic. In addition, his vigorous defense exposed step by step the crimes of the imperialist powers, especially the U.S. and Germany, in conspiring to destroy the Yugoslav Socialist Federation through subversion and direct military assault. As the case was drawing to a close this presented a terrible dilemma for the court. Flounders traveled with international human rights lawyer Ramsey Clark to Yugoslavia during the U.S.-NATO bombing in the spring of 1999. Based on that trip Flounders met with President Milosevic in Scheveningen prison at The Hague and was on the schedule to be a witness at the trial for the defense on the impact of the NATO bombing. The UN Security Council established the ICTY in 1993, at the insistence of Secretary of State Madeline Albright. Its role from the beginning was restricted to prosecuting solely people from the Yugoslav Federation. Almost all the cases were directed against Serbs and all of the cases served to deflect responsibility from the U.S. and NATO. The ICTY rejected attempts by a group of international attorneys to bring war crimes charges against the United States for the 78 days of bombing primarily civilian targets in Yugoslavia. Ramsey Clark has often described the ICTYs establishment as an explicit violation of the UN Charter and a political court used as an instrument of war against the Yugoslav peoples. The Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter also described the court. The U.S./NATO court trying Slobodan Milosevic was always totally illegitimate. It could never be taken seriously as a court of justice. Milosevic defense is powerful, convincing, persuasive and impossible to dismiss. The ICTY received its financing from the U.S. and other NATO powers and from international financial organizations such as those connected with billionaire George Soros, an enemy of socialism in Eastern Europe. Although there was an extremely unequal financing of the ICTYs prosecution compared with Milosevics defense effort, NATO governments still interfered with all attempts to collect funds from human rights organizations to support the Yugoslav presidents effort to make his case. The German and Austrian governments closed the Defense Committees bank accounts in both countries in the last few months before
[CTRL] Fw: [Anti-imperialiste_2006] [stopnato] Foreign Minister: Russia Has Right To Question MilosevicAutopsy Results
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stop NATO Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:34 AM Subject: [Anti-imperialiste_2006] [stopnato] Foreign Minister: Russia Has Right To Question MilosevicAutopsy Results +ANTI-IMPERIALISTE la liste dehttp://resistance.chiffonrouge.orgARCHIVES ACCESSIBLE HERE/ICI:http://chiffonrouge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/anti-imperialiste/NOTE:Pour modifier les options de votre compte (mettre fin à votre abonnement, changer la périodicité des envois) rendez vous sur - If you wish to change the options of your account (resiliate your account or change the frequency of the mailing) please go to: http://listdiff.chiffonrouge.org Entrez votre identifiant et votre mot de passe pour accéder à votre compte - Enter your login and password to access your account's page+ http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060313/44246551.htmlRussian Information Agency (Novosti)March 13, 2006Russia has right to question Milosevic autopsy results- FM MOSCOW - Russia has the right to study and questionthe results of the autopsy conducted on SlobodanMilosevic, the country's foreign minister said Monday.Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had been ready to offer theformer Yugoslav president treatment, which herequested in December 2005, but the proposal wasrejected amid fears that Milosevic would flee histrial. "Given that we were not believed, we also have theright not to trust [the autopsy results]," Lavrovsaid. "We have already asked the tribunal to allow ourdoctors to take part in the autopsy or, at the veryleast, see its results." Lavrov said that Russian experts were preparing to flyto The Hague. Milosevic, who was on trial for war crimes at theInternational Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, wasfound dead in his cell in The Hague Tribunal's prisonMarch 11. Preliminary reports suggest he died of aheart attack. Lavrov confirmed that Milosevic had sent a letter tothe Russian Foreign Ministry complaining abouttreatment in the prison. "In a letter, Milosevic expressed concerns about somemethods used in his treatment, which he said hadharmed his health," Lavrov said. Lavrov also said the ministry had only received theletter, dated March 8, on Sunday, March 12, addingthat he did not know what had caused the delay. Theletter, in which Milosevic asked the Russiangovernment again to voice its willingness to receivehim for treatment, was not addressed to himpersonally, but to the ministry, Lavrov said. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com SPONSORED LINKS Military loan Military loan company Military loan personal loan North atlantic treaty organization American government and politics YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "stopnato" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ___Anti-imperialiste mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://chiffonrouge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/anti-imperialiste www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Murder of Milosevic: first reactions of Sloboda and ICDSM
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nerajov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:46 AM Subject: Murder of Milosevic: first reactions of Sloboda and ICDSM ** INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ICDSM Sofia-New York-Moscowwww.icdsm.org ** Velko Valkanov, Ramsey Clark, Alexander Zinoviev (Co-Chairmen), Klaus Hartmann (Chairman of the Board), Vladimir Krsljanin (Secretary), Christopher Black (Chair, Legal Committee), Tiphaine Dickson (Legal Spokesperson) ** 11 March 2006 Special Circular ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +381 63 8862 301 fax: +318 11 630 549 ** Statement President Slobodan Milosevic, the biggest fighter for freedom and dignity of the Serbian people and the greatest international symbol of the struggle fore peoples' rights, have been murdered this morning in the detention unit in Scheveningen. For this crime, the Hague tribunal is directly responsible, by its denial to allow his medical treatment in Moscow, in spite of his critical medical condition. We demand from the UN General Secretary to immediately suspend the works of this criminal institution, and from the UN Security Council we demand to abolish it. We demand from Serbian authorities to immediately cut any cooperation with the tribunal and to make possible to the people to express the honor to President Milosevic. If they decline to do that, they will respond before the people. Who was and what for was struggling Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian people and the whole freedom-loving world knows best. His death has to mark the end of the treacherous and servile policies that lead the country and the people into disaster. We call upon the people to unite in defense of its freedom and dignity, as it was always done by Slobodan Milosevic. The book of condolences will be open on Sunday, 12 March at 9 am in the premises of Sloboda/Freedom Association, 16 Rajiceva street in Belgrade. Sloboda/Freedom Association National Committee for the Liberation of Slobodan Milosevic *** SAOPSTENJE Predsednik Slobodan Milosevic, najveci borac za slobodu i dostojanstvo srpskog naroda i najveci simbol borbe za prava naroda u svetu, ubijen je jutros u pritvorskoj jedinici u Seveningenu. Za ovaj zlocin direktno je odgovoran haski tribunal koji je, uprkos kriticnom zdravstvenom stanju predsednika Slobodana Milosevica, odbio da omoguci njegovo lecenje u Moskvi. Zahtevamo od generalnog sekretara UN da odmah obustavi rad ove zlocinacke institucije, a od Saveta bezbednosti UN da je ukine. Zahtevamo od srpskih vlasti da odmah prekinu svaku saradnju sa tribunalom i da omoguce narodu da oda du`nu postu predsedniku Milosevicu. Ukoliko to ne ucine, odgovarace pred sudom naroda. Ko je bio i za sta se borio Slobodan Milosevic, najbolje zna srpski narod, ali i citav slobodoljubivi svet. Njegova smrt mora oznaciti kraj izdajnicke i udvoricke politike koja zemlju i narod vodi u propast. Pozivamo narod da se ujedini u odbrani svoje slobode i dostojanstva, kao sto je to uvek cinio Slobodan Milosevic. Knjiga zalosti bice otvorena u nedelju, 12. marta u 9 casova u prostorijama Udruzenja SLOBODA, ul. Rajiceva br. 16 u Beogradu. Udruzenje SLOBODA Nacionalni komitet za oslobo|enje Slobodana Milosevica ** The International Committee For the Defence of Slobodan Milosevic condemns the deliberate refusal of the fascist Hague tribunal to honour all civilized codes of decency and law which have resulted in the death of President Slobodan Milosevic in their hands today, March 11, 2006. Their actions are tantamount to the murder of a man who stood as a symbol of resistance to the New World Order and a symbol of and fighter for the independence and sovereignty of the peoples of Yugoslavia and for social justice in the world. This was his only crime. We demand that there be an international, independent enquiry into the circumstances and cause of his death and that his family, his party and his supporters be party to that enquiry. We also demand the right of his wife and family to attend his funeral without fear of persecution, arrest or any other impediment to their right to honour their beloved husband, comrade and father. To the people of Yugoslavia we offer our profound sympathies. Yet, though he is no longer with us in body, his
[CTRL] Fw: Call to Unite Around Immediate, Complete, Unconditional Withdrawalof All Occupying Forces from Iraq - from the Troops Out Now Coalition
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Troops Out Now Coalition To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:25 PM Subject: Call to Unite Around Immediate, Complete, Unconditional Withdrawalof All Occupying Forces from Iraq - from the Troops Out Now Coalition Troops Out Now Coalition Statement on Withdrawal from Iraq On the 3rd Anniversary of the war, let's make our message clear:A Call to Unite Around the Demand for an:ImmediateCompleteUnconditionalWithdrawal of All Occupying Forces from IraqThe best way that the antiwar movement can mark the third anniversary of the criminal war and occupation of Iraq is to unite around the demand for an immediate, unconditional and complete withdrawal of all occupying troops from Iraq. Immediate - not in 10 years or in six months--as soon as it takes to put soldiers on planes and bring them home. Not waiting for the "Iraqi" army to be trained or for the establishment of a government subject to U.S. control, or for any other reasons that really only amount to one thing: an excuse to justify and extend the occupation.Complete - not in phases, not with bases left behind, not redeployment across the border, but a complete removal of all occupying forces from all Iraqi territory.Unconditional - The Iraqi people have an absolute right to govern themselves today, without any conditions imposed on them by Bush and Halliburton. The principal argument advanced against the immediate and complete withdrawal of all occupation troops is that the occupation must continue until Iraq is stabilized in order to establish democracy and prevent a civil war. The basic premise underlying this argument is the racist assumption that the people of Iraq are somehow inherently incapable of governing themselves, and require the paternal tutelage of the U.S. We believe that the Iraqi people have the ability and the absolute right to govern themselves, without the presence of any occupying forces.However, stabilizing Iraq was never an objective of the invasion. Ted Koppel's op-ed in the Feb.24 New York Times made this clear. Koppel explained that oil has been the driving force of U.S. policy in the Middle East for "more than a half-century," and was the motive for the CIA overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh 53 years ago. He concluded, The reason for Americas rapt attention to the security of the Persian Gulf is what is has always been. Its about the oil. U.S. troops are in Iraq to subjugate the people in order to ensure U.S. control of the Iraqi people's oil reserves. If the troops are there tomorrow, they will be there for the same reason. If they are there in six months or ten years, this will still be their goal. Stability and democracy has never been and will never be the goal of this brutal occupation. If an armed gang invaded your home, destroyed much of the furnishings and tortured and killed members of your family--the idea of asking them to hang around with their guns to help fix up the place would be absurd. You would want them out immediately--not on a timetable, not when they decided that they had trained you in how to put your house in order, not when they had finished robbing you--but immediately. We've all seen the photos of what the invasion and occupation have done -- the devastation wrought by U.S. bombers, the torture and abuse at U.S. prison camps. The U.S. announced on March 9 that it would soon be opening a new prison at Camp Cropper to take over the work of the torture chambers at Abu Ghraib. This new prison camp will join some 38 U.S. Donate to help mobilize for March 18 19 military-run detention centers where Iraqi people are routinely abused and held in conditions clearly violating international law. There is no justification for these crimes to continue one more day.Moreover, the U.S.-led occupation is not preventing civil war, it is fomenting it. The violence plaguing Iraq today is the direct result of the occupation. There are some strategists in the Pentagon and the CIA that even look at civil war as an opportunity to carve up the country, based on a divide-and-rule strategy. As Gen. William E. Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, said, "We created the civil war when we invaded; we can't prevent a civil war by staying." Those concerned about the violence in Iraq should demand that the occupying forces, who are the cause of that violence, leave today.The problem with phased withdrawal and relying on politicians for answersIt is critical that the antiwar movement steer clear of taking any position that condones the continuation of the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq for even another hour. One reason why antiwar activism is not as consistent and militant as it should be, despite the overwhelming opposition to the war, is that it has not rallied around a clear and principled position independent of the politics of the two
[CTRL] Fw: [JUGOINFO] KOSMET 2006 (english)
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Coordinamento Nazionale per la Jugoslavia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:03 AM Subject: [JUGOINFO] KOSMET 2006 (english) (attacchi a mano armata contro case di non-albanesi, incendi, aggressioni, una donna strangolata, profughi impossibilitati a rientrare... e poi la gestione politica del protettorato del Kosovo, dove pochi giorni fa la NATO ha imposto Agim Ceku, già ufficiale dell'esercito ustascia di Tudjman e poi comandante dell'UCK , a fare da primo ministro...) KOSMET 2006 (english) 1. Selection of news from various sources 2. WAR CRIMINAL CEKU APPOINTED AS PRIME MINISTER 3. War Criminal, Ally, or Both? The KLA's new leader, Agim Ceku, may have helped mastermind the most brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign in post-communist Yugoslavia's history. Now he's on NATO's side in the war over Kosovo. by Jeffrey Benner, May 21, 1999 === 1 === http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=33690style=headlines Beta (Serbia and Montenegro) - January 23, 2006 Another attack on Serbian home GNJILANE - A hand grenade was thrown into the yard of Slobodan Todorovic's home, in the village of Cernica, near Gnjilane. According to Serbian sources in Kosovo, the attack occurred slightly before 10 pm last night and is the fourth such attack on the Todorovic household in the last several years. No one was injured in the attack, but some property was damaged. The police have yet to come and investigate the scene. There are about 40 remaining Serbian families in the village of Cernica. In June 1999, there were 712 Serbs in the village, there are now only about 200 left. http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newssummary/#setimes/newsb riefs/2006/01/23/nb-04 Southeast European Times - January 23, 2006 New ethnic incident reported in Kosovo VITINA, Kosovo, Serbia-Montenegro - Two Serb teenagers, aged 17 and 19, were attacked and beaten by a group of ethnic Albanians in the southeast village of Mogila on Sunday (22 January). It happened in front of the local Serb Orthodox Church, according to local media reports. The case was reported to the Kosovo Police Service and to KFOR. (Politika - 23/01/06; Tanjug - 22/01/06) http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/fonet012406b.htm Young Serb injured in incident near Gnjilane, Kosovo Police Service states BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - January 24, 2006 Tuesday Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1649 gmt 23 Jan 06 Copyright 2006 British Broadcasting Corporation Posted for Fair Use only. Kosovska Vitina, 23 January: The Kosovo Police Service [KPS] spokesman in Gnjilane, Naser Ibrahimi, told FoNet today that an incident had occurred at a playground in the village of Mogila last Sunday [22 January], which had left a 17-year-old Serb boy injured. Ibrahimi said that a conflict between young men of Albanian and Serb nationality had occurred at the playground, and that a young Serb man had been slightly injured. Police have detained five young men, taken their statements and handed them over to an investigative judge. Serbs living in Mogila have specified that a big group of Albanians attacked two young Serb men in the St Theodore church back yard, where these had gone to make a phone call, since the signal for mobile phones is best there. Villagers said that Bojan Djuzic (17) and Dejan Nojkic (18) had been beaten up. http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/ap020806.htm Kosovo Serbs demand return to homes and jobs in troubled province Associated Press Worldstream - February 8, 2006 Wednesday 12:40 PM GMT Copyright 2006 Associated Press Posted for Fair Use only. ZVECAN Serbia-Montenegro - Hundreds of Serbs displaced from Kosovo since the 1998-1999 war held a protest rally Wednesday demanding a safe return to their homes and jobs. About 500 protesters gathered in the town of Zvecan, where the province's U.N. administrator, Soren Jessen-Petersen, had arrived for talks with the leaders of the dwindling Kosovo Serb community. Our right to work and live in freedom has been suspended more than six years ago, protest leader Dragisa Terencic said, referring to the 1999 change of authority when NATO intervened in the armed conflict between Serbs and ethnic Albanian separatists over Kosovo. As NATO bombing forced Serbia to relinquish control over its southern province, more than 200,000 Serbs fled while about 100,000 remained, living mostly in enclaves surrounded by the ethnic Albanian majority. The Wednesday rally gathered representatives of more than 7,000 Serbs who worked in Kosovo's coal mines and power plants before the war. Jessen-Petersen made no comment as he entered the talks with the Serb leaders, but he was expected to address reporters after the meetings. International negotiations on a
[CTRL] Fw: Alert! - U.S. Military Document - Official U.S. Army Plans Regulations For Civilian Slave Labor Concentration Camps On U.S.Soil.
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: mart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 11:11 PM Subject: Alert! - U.S. Military Document - Official U.S. Army Plans Regulations For Civilian Slave Labor Concentration Camps On U.S.Soil. Forward from martMOST URGENT! PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!U.S. Military Document- Official U.S. Army Plans Regulations For Civilian Slave Labor Concentration Camps On U.S. Soil.==(Official U.S. Military Document)Source:http://www.usapa.army.mil U.S. Army Regulation 210-35 Civilian Inmate Labor Program Click here to view: (Adobe Acrobat .pdf reader required)http://www.usapa.army.mil/pdffiles/r210_35.pdf Excepts: Army Regulation 210-35 dated Jan 14, 2005Military responsibilities for creating/operating civilian inmate labor and detention camps within USA.11. Purpose --This regulation provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations. Sources of civilian inmate labor are limited to on and offpost Federal corrections facilities, State and/or local corrections facilities operating from onpost prison camps pursuant to leases under Section 2667, Title 10, United States Code (10 USC 2667), and offpost State corrections facilities participating in the demonstration project authorized under Section 1065, Public Law (PL) 103337. Otherwise, State and/or local inmate labor from offpost corrections facilities is currently excluded from this program." === www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: ICDSM: UN Tribunal against the UN
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nerajov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 4:40 PM Subject: ICDSM: UN Tribunal against the UN ** INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ICDSM Sofia-New York-Moscowwww.icdsm.org ** Velko Valkanov, Ramsey Clark, Alexander Zinoviev (Co-Chairmen), Klaus Hartmann (Chairman of the Board), Vladimir Krsljanin (Secretary), Christopher Black (Chair, Legal Committee), Tiphaine Dickson (Legal Spokesperson) ** 24 February 2006 Special Circular ** UN TRIBUNAL AGAINST THE UN On the occasion of today's decision of the Hague Tribunal Trial Chamber not to allow the urgently needed medical treatment of President Milosevic in Moscow, Vladimir Krsljanin, foreign relations assistant of President Milosevic and secretary of the ICDSM and Sloboda, made the following statement for the press: By this decision, the Hague Tribunal has shown clearer than ever that it does not take care about law and human rights. President Milosevic is denied his right to get medical treatment in the institution of his choice in spite of the guarantees of one of the most serious and most powerful countries in the world, a member of the UN Security Council. This decision has criminal character and at the same time it further shakes the UN system. We expect this decision to be changed and call upon all who care about justice and human rights to contribute to that end. *** URGENT FUNDRAISING APPEAL ** President Milosevic has the truth and law on his side. In order to use that advantage to achieve his freedom, we must fight this totally discredited tribunal and its patrons through professionally conducted actions. The funds secured in Serbia are still enough only to cover the expenses of the stay and work of President Milosevic's legal associates at The Hague (one at the time). After the unlawful attack of the German financial authorities on the ICDSM fundraisning in Germany, that lead to freezing of the ICDSM account in Germany, the simmilar attack took place recently in Austria, where the account of the Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity was frozen. These unlawful acts, aiming to undermine and block the President Milosevic's defence, will be fought back legally. *** To carry on the normal defence work - 3000-5000 EUR per month is our imminent need. Please send your donations to the following account: Committee Intersol Postbank N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands Accountnumber 4766774 IBAN NL07 PSTB 0004766774 BIC/Swiftcode: PSTBNL21 *** For truth and human rights against aggression! Freedom for Slobodan Milosevic! Freedom and equality for people! SLOBODA urgently needs your donation. Please find the detailed instructions at: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm To join or help this struggle, visit: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association) http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic) http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM) http://www.free-slobo-uk.org/ (CDSM UK) http://www.icdsm-us.org/ (US section of ICDSM) http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland) http://www.pasti.org/milodif.htm (ICDSM Italy) http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council) http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
[CTRL] Fw: Stop War On Iran Campaign
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: StopWarOnIran.org To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:30 AM Subject: Stop War On Iran Campaign Join Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Howard Zinn, Harold Pinter, Bishop Filipe C. Teixeira, George Galloway, Ramsey Clark, Tony Benn, and others in an International Campaign to STOP the War on Iran before it starts! StopWarOnIran.org Click here to Send emails to Bush, Cheney, Congress, the UN, and the media saying No War On Iran! Stop the war on Iran before it starts! Sign the statement It is with grave concern that we observe the growing threat of a new U.S. war--this time against the people of Iran. The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. to take military action. These reports recall the Help place this ad in major newspapers across the U.S. Donate to help get the word out StopWarOnIran.org, a grassroots effort, has launched a massive public education campaign to oppose the drive towards a new war against the people of Iran. As part of this effort, we need your help to place this full page ad in major newspapers across the U.S. "Weapons of Mass Destruction" stories issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq. In the lead up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Bush Administration asserted that Iraq possessed massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and that it was capable of launching an attack - nuclear, chemical and biological - on the U.S. within 45 minutes. President Bush said that the U.S. had to attack immediately, and could not "wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." We all know now that this propaganda campaign was a complete fabrication created to justify a war of aggression. Now we see reports that are all too similar being made to justify military action against the people of Iran. Taking Iran to the UN Security Council is a prelude for unilateral action. Just as in the case of Iraq, none of the claims made by the U.S. government stand up to unbiased scrutiny. Iran has submitted to the most intrusive and humiliating inspections, above and beyond what is required by Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). None of the inspections have found any evidence that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program. There is only one government that has used nuclear weapons against civilian populations, and that same nation has the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction on the planet. Most dangerous and incredible it is at this very moment developing a new generation of tactical nuclear weapons that it intends to use, not merely to threaten. That country is, of course, the United States. Shouldn't any real discussion of the dangers of nuclear weapons include the weapons stockpiled by the Pentagon and the history of U.S. aggression and interventions? Iran has suffered greatly at the hands of the U.S. We recall the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Dr. M. Mossadegh and returned the Shah to the Peacock Throne "the proudest achievement of the CIA". For 25 years the Shah ruled Iran with an iron fist for the benefit of U.S. oil corporations before the people of Iran, in the millions, overthrew his tyranny at a terrible cost in lives. For the past 27 years U.S. sanctions have impeded Iran's right to development and brought great suffering to the people. It is essential that all voices opposed to the devastation of a new war in the Middle East speak out now. We urge an immediate end to Washington's campaign of sanctions, hostility, and falsehood against the people of Iran. We oppose any new U.S. aggression against Iran. We need funds for human needs, not endless war for empire. Initial Signers (add your name) Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Detroit Archdiocese, Founding President of Pax Christi* The Most Rev. Filipe C. Teixeira, OFSJC, Diocesan Bishop, Diocese of Saint Francis of Assisi, CCA Michael Parenti, author Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney GeneralHoward Zinn, author, historian George Galloway, MP, BritainTony Benn, MP, BritainHarold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Margarita Papandreou, former First Lady of GreeceArdeshir Ommani, co-founder of American-Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC) David Sole, President UAW, Local 2334*, DetroitSteve Gillis, President, USWA Local 8751*Elena Everett, Chair, NC Green Party*, Co-Chair, GPAX (Green Party Peace Action Committee)* Dirk Adriaensens, coordinator SOS Iraq, exec. committee Brussells Tribunal)Hani Y. Awadallah, President, Arab American Civic OrganizationAxis of LogicDr. Barbara Nimri Aziz, Executive producer of RadioTahrir-WBAI-NYBrian Barraza, AMAT, Association of Mexican American WorkersSharon Black, All Peoples CongressJean Bricmont, Brussels
[CTRL] Fw: For Information
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:23 AM Subject: For Information Dear Sirs and Madams, Friends, We want to try to organise a campaign against Bulgaria's membership in EU. Would you - could you - provide some contacts with EU-alert persons/groups/ authentic organisations in EU-alert countries like f.i. France and Holland, Ireland or UK? We will furnish lots of data/proofs why Bulgaria is NOT worthy to enter the Sacred Union (keeping in mind its hypocritical standards). Here are some of the reasons why Bulgaria SHOULD NOT become a member of the European Union: 1/ Street assassinations in broad daylight of - high positioned bankers; - businessmen from the flourishing shady business in Bulgaria; - customs officers; - Security firms' bosses, their brothers, wives, children etc. 125 in the recent years according to the official statistics! (Far from the monthly CIA's achievement surely, but the talk is only about a small operational theatre and population.) 2/ Corruption at all levels - fraudulent privatisation schemes without any bidding continue to be signed non-stop. Precious Bulgarian assets are sold to shady offshore firms for next to nothing (if one does not take into account the great sums given away as commissions to the corrupted politicians arranging these criminal deals!) The last one is the sell of Bojana Film Centre on about 300 decares of very expensive land in Vitosha Mountain skirts by Sofia to a 3rd class USA film company. 3/ Police murders through cruel beating of the arrested to cover corrupted police officers both at local and higher levels. 4/ The gypsy minority torture - kill - rape - burglar the Bulgarian majority - stop trains by blocking the railways - stone trains and wound people in them, and so on, and so forth! Still some politicians (and their police!) support and cover the gypsy criminals because they depend on the gypsies' votes in all elections. Imagine what will happen to the pretentious Europeans when the hordes of ferocious Bulgarian gypsies - accustomed to steal - burglar - torture - rape and kill even 80-year-old women and invalids for small sums with impunity - rush to the snobbish countries of Central Europe and start to do the same to their citizens! 5/ GM food production: only some evenings ago some ignorant fools bragged on one of the Bulgarian TV channels that they were raising GM maize and sunflowers on hundreds of decares! 6/ Hot news: the Minister of Home Affairs (from the so-called Bulgarian Socialist Party, ex Bulgarian Communist Party!) has filed in the Parliament a new law concerning the rights of the Bulgarian Police. According to an article of that law, the police are given the right to - directly said - beat children and pregnant women at civic protests. (If they are given the right to beat pregnant women and children at civic protests, it logically follows that they surely are given silently the right to shoot at the others!) It sounds so nice and - most of all - democratic! And very much in harmony with the much talk about European Values! Still, what is happening to the democratic right of protest? When after 1989 the Western capitalist greedy vultures flocked in Bulgaria to organise the stealing of our life from us together with our common national assets, we were promised that same right of protest - besides the torrents of other bla-bla-bla promises that were poured over our heads like dirty flow from a broken sewer! 16 years later their servants here have written down and will accept a law giving right to the police to beat (and shoot) at protesters - no matter if they are children and pregnant women! 7/ Several USA(?!) bases in Bulgaria. They are already functioning although officially the Agreement will be signed in March 2006. Mind: not EU bases. Not even NATO bases. But USA bases. Crammed with nobody knows what kind of weapons. Bases that surely will be used against the coming USA war on Iran. And later - on Russia. (Maybe they will start with Byelorussia?) One of them - in Novo selo's land of many decares by the town of Sliven in the skirts of Stara Planina (the Balkans) - might well be one of the (in)famous CIA's European prisons! Bulgaria is such an obedient - such an ardent USA's flunkey! It is unbelievable that its USA Masters might not have demanded such a minor service from it! Bulgaria is Puerto Rico of USA in Europe! Question: What is EU status to USA? Is it dependent? Is it independent? If EU is independent, how is it possible that it is intending to accept as a member a country like Bulgaria jammed with USA military bases - and maybe prisons? We are amazed that NOBODY from EU questions the USA military bases (maybe prisons) in Bulgaria? Shall we accept
[CTRL] Fw: [houstonpeaceroundtable] FW: Two good ones
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Ken Freeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:25 PM Subject: [houstonpeaceroundtable] FW: Two good ones Two good ones: An old Arab lived close to New York City for more than 40 years. One day he decided that he would love to plant potatoes and herbs in his garden, but he knew he was alone and too old and weak. His son was in college in Paris, so the old man sent him an e-mail explaining the problem: Beloved son, I am very sad, because I can't plant potatoes in my garden. I am sure, if only you were here, that you would help me and dig up the garden for me. I love you, your father. The following day, the old man received a response e-mail from his son: Beloved father, please don't touch the garden. That is where I have hidden 'the *THING*.' I love you, too, Ahmed. At 4pm the FBI and the Rangers visited the house of the old man and took the whole garden apart, searching every inch. But they couldn't find anything. Disappointed, they left the house. The next day, the old man received another e-mail from his son: Beloved father, I hope the garden is dug up by now and you can plant your potatoes, that is all I could do for you from here; Your loving son Ahmed. ST. GEORGE: President George W. Bush was scheduled to visit the Methodist Church outside Washington. Karl Rove made a visit to the Bishop and said to him, We've been getting a lot of bad publicity among Methodists because of Bush's position on stem cell research, the War, and such. I'll gladly make a contribution to the church of $100,000 if during your sermon, you'd say the President is a saint. The Bishop thinks it over for a few moments and says, The Church is in desperate need of funds. I will do it. Bush pompously shows up that following Sunday, looking especially smug, sneering for his photo ops, while strutting his way, cowboy-style, into the church. As the sermon starts, the Bishop begins his homily: George Bush is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite as well as a nitwit. He is a liar, a cheat, probably still a drunk, and a low-intelligence sneaky weasel. He has lied about his military record, and then had the gall to put himself in uniform on a military jet, landing on a carrier, and then posing before a banner stating 'Mission Accomplished.' He invaded a country for oil and money, all the while lying to the American people about the war, with nary a care for the thousands of lives it has taken and continues to take. He is the worst example of a Methodist I've ever personally known or known of. But compared to Dick Cheney, George Bush is a saint. Save the date! SATURDAY28 JAN 06..7PM..Learn the Truth!911 EYEWITNESS...BLACK LABRADOR PUB...4100 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006 -- an HCJNW Guerilla Theater Brigade presentation Support Hugo Chavez and the people of Venezuala -- buy Citgo gas! Locations in Houston can be found here: http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/houstonpeaceroundtable/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [DU-WATCH] Warning to SE ASian countries about Iran war and monsoon rains depositing radiation in environment
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 2:41 AM Subject: [DU-WATCH] Warning to SE ASian countries about Iran war and monsoon rains depositing radiation in environment For Immediate Release Rrquest Wide Distribution Contact: Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, Leuren Moret [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a deadly message to Southeastern Asian Countries about the upcoming IRAN War and the monsoon rains depositing deadly radiation in the environment. The message is from Leuren Moret, a world famous geoscientist and radiation expert and myself, Bob Nichols, newspaper correspondent and writer. I request that you send this to everyone in your address book and that you Be the Media. Help us stop the Fifth US Nuclear War in 15 years from even starting. Thank you, Bob Nichols Project Censored Award Winner Correspondent, San Francisco Bay View newspaper To: All People concerned about American Wars Worldwide From: Leuren Moret [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Warning to SE Asian countries about Iran war and monsoon rains depositing radiation in environment Dear Editor and staff - The United states has now caused depleted uranium illnesses in more than 50% of our soldiers who have served on the depleted uranium battlefields in Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets http://www.sfbayview.com /081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml People at the top of the US govt and Military know this: Terrell E. Arnold, who has been responsible for training our most senior and most promising military officers as chairman of the Department of International Studies at the U.S. National War College in Washington, reports that Coalition dead and wounded may actually be twice what the US government admits and that, including the effects of our use of depleted uranium and other toxic weapons, a long-term casualty rate for American forces of 40-50 percent appears realistic. The US and Israel are threatening nuclear war on Iran. The Chinese intelligence have already warned countries that will be contaminated with radiation from monsoon rainout of nuclear materials: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/dec30-jan606.htm Page Down the page for the article on Chinese Intelligence. Southeast Asian intelligence sources report that Burma's (Myanmar's) recent abrupt decision to move its capital from Rangoon (Yangon) to remote Pyinmana, 200 miles to the north, is a result of Chinese intelligence warnings to its Burmese allies about the effects of radiation resulting from a U.S. conventional or tactical nuclear attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. There is concern that a series of attacks on Iranian nuclear installations will create a Chernobyl-like radioactive cloud that would be caught up in monsoon weather in the Indian Ocean. Reports from Yemen indicate that western oil companies are concerned about U.S. intentions in Iran since the southern Arabian country catches the edge of the monsoon rains that could contain radioactive fallout from an attack, endangering their workers in the country. Low-lying Rangoon lies in the path of monsoon rains that would continue to carry radioactive fallout from Iran over South and Southeast Asia between May and October. Coastal Indian Ocean cities like Rangoon, Dhaka, Calcutta, Mumbai, Chennai, and Colombo would be affected by the radioactive fallout more than higher elevation cities since humidity intensifies the effects of the fallout. Thousands of government workers were given only two days' notice to pack up and leave Rangoon for the higher (and dryer) mountainous Pyinmana. Moret continues: I have been on SAHAR TV - Teheran Office - warning about this radiation and discussing other issues. Please contact Afsaneh Ostovar, the Producer of the programs if you would like more information. You should do a big story on this coming nightmare from the Infidels. I have lived in Iran briefly. I love Iran and the people. This cannot be allowed to happen to Iran by the people of the world. It will make the country radioactive forever. Please do what you can to help. Here is an article I wrote for the World Affairs Journal. Look at the map and see where Iran is in this nuclear war: Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs /2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04 .htm Or, *http://tinyurl.com/7dydm* Here is a Letter to the Editor for you to post everywhere: BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER - Letter to Editor/Opinion, August 9, 2005 Depleted uranium is WMD by Leuren Moret http://www.battlecreekenquirer .com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID =/20050809/OPINION02/508090332/1014/OPINION Or, *http://tinyurl.com/87crs* Thank you, Leuren Moret [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Brought to you by HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
[CTRL] Fw: Urgent Appeal to Save Iraq's Academics
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 7:48 PM Subject: Urgent Appeal to Save Iraq's Academics URGENT APPEAL TO SAVE IRAQ'S ACADEMICS. Call for action to save Iraq's Academics http://new.petitiononline.com/Iraqacad/petition.html To: special rapporteur on summary executions at UNHCHR in Geneva and international Human Rights Law organisations URGENT APPEAL TO SAVE IRAQ'S ACADEMICS. A little known aspect of the tragedy engulfing Iraq is the systematic liquidation of the country's academics. Even according to conservative estimates, over 250 educators have been assassinated, and many hundreds more have disappeared. With thousands fleeing the country in fear for their lives, not only is Iraq undergoing a major brain drain, the secular middle class - which has refused to be co-opted by the US occupation - is being decimated, with far-reaching consequences for the future of Iraq. Already on July 14, 2004, veteran correspondent Robert Fisk reported from Iraq that: University staff suspect that there is a campaign to strip Iraq of its academics, to complete the destruction of Iraq's cultural identity which began when the American army entered Baghdad. The wave of assassinations appears non-partisan and non-sectarian, targeting women as well as men, and is countrywide. It is indiscriminate of expertise: professors of geography, history and Arabic literature as well as science are among the dead. Not one individual has been apprehended in connection with these assassinations. According to the United Nations University, some 84 per cent of Iraq's institutions of higher education have already been burnt, looted or destroyed. Iraq's educational system used to be among the best in the region; one of the country's most important assets was its well-educated people. This situation is a mirror of the occupation as a whole: a catastrophe of staggering proportions unfolding in a climate of criminal disregard. As an occupying power, and under international humanitarian law, final responsibility for protecting Iraqi citizens, including academics, lies with the United States. With this petition we want to break the silence. 1. We appeal to organisations which work to enforce or defend international humanitarian law to put these crimes on the agenda. 2. We request that an independent international investigation be launched immediately to probe these extrajudicial killings. This investigation should also examine the issue of responsibility to clearly identify who is accountable for this state of affairs. We appeal to the special rapporteur on summary executions at UNHCHR in Geneva. This petition was launched by the BRussells Tribunal and is already endorsed by CEOSI (Spain), the Portuguese hearing of the WTI, Iraktribunal.de (Germany), the Swedish Antiwar committee, the IAC (USA), the International Association of Middle East Studies (IAMES), the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) and the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES), and several personalities, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Tony Benn, Eduardo Galeano, John Pilger and Michael Parenti. See the list of endorsers. See also the call for action underneath and more information on www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm _ Call for action to save Iraq's Academics 1. We call upon all people, especially academics and students, to help end the silence that surrounds the ongoing crime of the assassination of Iraqi academics and the destruction of Iraqi's educational infrastructure, and support Iraqi academics' right and hope to live in an independent, democratic Iraq, free of foreign occupation and hegemony. 2. We urge that academic institutions and organisations declare solidarity with their Iraqi colleagues. 3. We urge that academics forge links between Iraqi educators, both in exile and in Iraq, and universities worldwide. 4. We urge that student organisations link with Iraqi student organisations. 5. We urge that educators mobilise colleagues and concerned citizens to take up the cause of the salvation of Iraq's intellectual wealth, by organising seminars, teach-ins and forums on the plight of Iraq's academics. The world's academics and intellectuals must act now to save the lives of their colleagues in Iraq. [The Brussells Tribunal, in cooperation with other organisations, has started to build a network of contacts and raise public awareness and can provide information and support to individuals and groups who wish to mobilise on this issue. We are able to act as a depository and hub for this campaign] http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm ___ portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion
[CTRL] Fw: Russian Law Experts on 'Fairness' of Milosevic Trial
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nerajov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Russian Law Experts on 'Fairness' of Milosevic Trial On 29 November 2005, during the 'debate on his health and severance of the indictments' before the ICTY, President Milosevic gave a powerful lesson of law and politics to his inquisitors. The 'judges' made no decision yet, waiting for further medical reports, in spite it was lauded in the debate that all medical experts, including the ones appointed by the ICTY, agree that a period of rest for President Milosevic is absolutely needed. Instead, the proceedings continued. During the yesterday's debate, President Milosevic presented the written conclusions of a group of renown Russian International Law experts on 'fairness' of the Hague proceedings. Below we offer for the first time to the public the English translation of that important document. D E C L A R A T I O N of the Group of members of the Russian Association of International Law for Monitoring the Process Prosecutor v. S. Milosevic in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Group of members of the Russian Association of International Law for Monitoring the Process Prosecutor v. S. Milosevic in the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is expressing its concern over the violation of the fundamental right of the accused - the right to fair trial. The right to a fair trial was set out in a series of international legal acts (Art. 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948; Art. 14 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, 1966; Art. 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 1950; Art. 75.4 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Convention on the Protection of the Victims of War, 1977and other), and in the Statute of the very Tribunal (Art. 21.2). Hence, the assurance of that right is obligatory in any process ongoing in ICTY. The international legal term of fairness of court proceedings includes a number of elements, primarily the right of the defendant: to have adequate time and facilities for the preparation of his defense; to defend himself in person; to be tried in his presence; to examine, or have examined, the witnesses against him and to obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his behalf under the same conditions as witnesses against him. 1. Right of the accused to to have adequate time for the preparation of his defense. Since the signature of the first indictment against S. Milosevic till the beginning of the Prosecution Case two years and eight months have passed. All that time was used up for the preparation of the Prosecution Case. The preparation of the Prosecution Case went on even for eight months after detention of the accused in prison. Three months were allowed to S. Milosevic for the preparation of defense.[1] After certain prolongation of that period due to the illness of the defendant, the whole time for the preparation of defense came to six months. However, a considerable part of the prolongation could not be used for the preparation of defense because the Secretariat of the Tribunal kept denying to S. Milosevic to meet with his witnesses on the grounds of his ill health. It is absolutely clear that the period of time for the preparation of defense in the most complex international criminal case, which contains 66 counts and several thousand of episodes is inadequate, moreover in prison conditions. In compliance with the principles of equality of the parties in the process, the defendant must get at least the same time for the preparation of his defense as the prosecution had for the preparation of its Case - from the moment of signature of the Indictment till the onset of the trial. In compliance with the principle of granting the defendant an adequate time for the preparation of his defense, and taking into consideration the extraordinary complexity of the case, S. Milosevic must be given an adequate time span, because less than six months allowed can't be considered adequate. The appeal by the defendant to have more time was rejected by the Appeals Chamber too, stating by choosing to conduct his own defence, the Accused deprived himself of resources a well-equipped legal defence team could have provide and that he must be reciprocated by the acceptance of responsibility for the disadvantages this choice may bring[2]. In support to this conclusion the Appeals Chamber invoked four decisions of the national courts, but forgot to refer to the valid norms of the international law. So the highest chamber of the Tribunal, which is obliged to protect the violated rights of the defendant, confirmed illegal decision of the Trial Chamber, by having punished the defendant for choosing to defend
[CTRL] Fw: APPEAL: Ongoing Crisis in Gaza Demands World Attention
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Palestine Monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Palestine Monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 3:00 AM Subject: APPEAL: Ongoing Crisis in Gaza Demands World Attention The Palestine Monitor A PNGO Information Clearinghouse APPEAL: Ongoing Crisis in Gaza Demands World Attention Israel's Wanton Attacks Must Stop October 30, 2005 http://www.palestinemonitor.org/nueva_web/updates_news/updates/gaza_world_at tention.htm Since the Israeli settlers withdrew and the army redeployed from the Gaza Strip, the Strip has been subjected to constant attacks and unbearable collective punishments imposed by the Israeli army and aimed primarily at innocent civilians. The attacks are carried out in three main forms, the first of which is bombings by F-16 fighter jets, Apache gunship helicopters, and tanks. These attacks target civilian areas and infrastructure, including a school and a charitable organization, both of which were destroyed, as well as homes, businesses, and roads. Eight people were recently killed by an Israeli bombing in the crowded Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi attended the funeral of the eight victims, including two children and a 50-year-old school principle, all of whom happened to be in the area when Israel carried out its illegal assassination attack that killed one wanted man. Dr. Barghouthi said, It was unbelievably sad to see the eight bodies laid out, including the two small ones, at the funeral. These horrible attacks against innocent people must stop. Sonic Boom Attacks The second form of attack is sonic booms by low-flying jets that break the sound barrier. This causes unbearably loud noises and effects similar to an earthquake; broken glasses and dishes, damage to homes such as cracks in walls and ceilings, broken windows, etc. Worse, the sounds are indistinguishable from actual bombings, which are also ongoing. This terrorizes people and can cause permanent psychological damage, especially in children, who often become hysterical when they hear the shattering sounds. Immediate health effects include headaches, hearing loss, dizziness, and nausea. Heart patients are vulnerable, because the shock of fear causes a sudden spike in adrenaline in their blood, which can be deadly. The shock can also cause pregnant women to miscarry. Sonic booms are some of the most violent and terrifying forms of collective punishment against civilians, and on a recent night, sonic attacks occurred at 11:00 p.m., midnight, 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m., 2:30 a.m., 3:00 a.m., etc, depriving 1.4 million people of the basic necessity of sleep. The next day the attacks started again at random hours. The psychological effects of this terror cannot be overstated. This is the first time Israel has employed sonic boom attacks against Palestinians, presumably because now there is no chance that the collective punishment will affect settlers. Palestinians have called on the UN and other international organizations to investigate the extent of these attacks and the damage they cause as well as to condemn Israel and demand that the illegal attacks stop immediately. One Giant Prison The third form of collective punishment is that Gaza has indeed become a giant prison, with border restrictions much more severe than they were before the redeployment. Movement is blocked from every direction, including Rafah (to Egypt) and Erez (to Israel), which have been closed almost continuously since the redeployment. The situation is so bad that many have gone on hunger strike at the Rafah border to demand their freedom of movement and demand an end to the terrible and illegal collective imprisonment. Medicins du Monde (MDM) of France reported in a recent press release that restricted access through Erez and Rafah has denied a large number of Palestinian patients access to specialized medical care in Israel and Egypt. Since the redeployment, Rafah has only been randomly opened five times, while movement through Erez has slowed to a trickle; the terminal is currently completely closed. Patients who require heart operations, catheterization, dialysis, chemotherapy, etc. are particularly affected. This restricted access deprives the civilian population and hundreds of patients of their basic right to health, which is protected by international humanitarian law (IHL). IHL strictly condemns the use of collective punishment against civilian populations for political reasons. MDM demands that Israel guarantee access of the Palestinian population to medical services and to refrain from imposing collective penalties on the civilian population in clear violation of IHL principals. The West Bank, too, has been subjected to collective punishments, including blockages of movement that have dire social, economic, and health consequences. A massive new
[CTRL] Fw: Pinter etc
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:30 PM Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Digest Number 1815 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Give at-risk students the materials they need to succeed at DonorsChoose.org! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Ryu7JD/LpQLAA/E2hLAA/xYTolB/TM ~- There are 3 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Nobel Prize Recipient Harold Pinter On NATO's War Against Yugoslavia From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Kosovo: Hague/West Lets KLA Killer, War Crimes Indictee Engage In Politics From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Kosovo: Hague Unleashes Haradinaj On Minorities, Ethnic Turkish Leader Slain From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:59:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nobel Prize Recipient Harold Pinter On NATO's War Against Yugoslavia http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/357999.stm BBC News June 1, 1999 Harold Pinter takes on Nato One of the UK's most important playwrights, Harold Pinter has challenged audiences around the world since his play The Birthday Party first hit London in 1958. He has become increasingly outspoken about the issues of the day and now talks to BBC HARDtalk about his current concerns over the Kosovo crisis. This Nato action is not only illegal, immoral, and also crazy and infantile, it will achieve absolutely nothing, says Harold Pinter. The playwright, who describes himself as a bit of an old warrior, has been speaking out on human rights issues since the overthrow of Chile's President Allende back in the 1970s, and how he is standing his ground over the crisis in the Balkans. Angry at Nato's intervention, Pinter claims the plight of the Kosovo people is irrelevant to the US and the UK. Instead he says the two nations are more interested in domination and assertion of power, and are pursuing a course which will only agravate the misery and the horror and devastate the country. Such outspoken views have seen Pinter attacked by the British press, but he remains determined to have his say. I live in a very hostile press world because I speak my mind, he says. The tradition for artists in Britain is to shut up and write. But Pinter feels that as British citizen he has an obligation to speak out about the bombing, Not as an artist, but as a man, he adds. -- http://www.haroldpinter.org/politics/politics_serbia.shtml Harold Pinter.org The Guardian June 7, 1999 Audrey Gillan The playwright Harold Pinter told an anti-war demonstration that he was ashamed to be British because of Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. At the gathering of more than 6,000 marchers in a park next to the Imperial War Museum in London on Saturday, he described the current peace talks as a sham, and claimed that the war had been totally unwarranted. Standing in the shadow of the two l5 inch naval guns that sit at the entrance to the museum, the playwright threw his words out like stones, each of them aimed at the Labour government. 'I am sure those people here today who voted the Labour party into power share the same feeling - a deep sense of shame, the shame of being British. 'Little did we think two years ago that we had elected a government which would take a leading role in what is essentially a criminal act, showing total contempt for the United Nations and international law. Pinter said Britain's leaders had been engaging in despicable hypocrisy, and he contrasted Tony Blair's calling the nail bombing of a bar in Old Compton Street, Soho, barbaric, with his defending the cluster bombs dropped on Yugoslavia as civilization against barbarism. These clusterbombs cut children to pieces and this is an act which takes place 15,000ft 'under 'those brave bombers. An act which Mr Blair, with his moralistic Christianity applauds, Pinter said. Let us face the truth. The truth is that neither Clinton nor Blair gives a damn about the Kosovar Albanians. This action has been yet another blatant and brutal assertion of US power using Nato as its missile. It set out to consolidate one thing - American domination of Europe. This must be fully recognised and it must be resisted. The march, which began at the Embankment, had been organised by the Committee for Peace in the Balkans before the peace talks began. The organisers went
[CTRL] Fw: Albanian mobsters 'new mafia'
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:08 AM Subject: Fw: Albanian mobsters 'new mafia' In thisnanosecond world of 2005, one wonders howit took 25 yearsfor this bit of ancientinformation to reach the desks of our global news outlets.The truth is nowconsistently obscuredby not just liars of the Republican and Democratic ilk, but also by a majority of our talking heads. Poor Edward R. Murrowor should I say,'Pinwheel' Morrow? FBI: Albanian mobsters 'new Mafia' From Justice Producer Terry FriedenWednesday, August 18, 2004 Posted: 10:06 PM EDT (0206 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of Albanians and others who fled the Balkans for the United States in recent years have emerged as a serious organized crime problem, threatening to displace La Cosa Nostra (LCN) families as kingpins of U.S. crime, top FBI officials said Wednesday. The Albanian criminal enterprises, operating largely in New York and other Eastern seaboard cities, represent a major challenge to federal agents because of their propensity for violence and brutality, the officials said. "They are a hardened group, operating with reckless abandon," said Chris Swecker, the newly named FBI assistant director for the Criminal Investigative Division. Swecker and other officials said some of the Albanians served as enforcers in the established Mafia families for several years. When the FBI dealt a major blow to the LCN families in recent years, the Albanians began to emerge, and now are taking over turf once controlled by the traditional mob bosses. Officials said ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro are included in the clans and crews that emerged in the organized crime world. FBI officials said Russian and many other organized crime groups operating in the United States are much more sophisticated and less violent than the Albanians. Part of the Albanian emergence stems from the FBI's success in busting the LCN. Operation Buttondown, the code name for the FBI's campaign to crush the Mafia, reduced the number of families operating in the United States from 24 to only nine, the FBI officials said. More than 100 leading members of LCN and more than 600 associates were arrested in the crackdown on organized crime. Although no terrorism connection has been discovered, the FBI says it is closely watching to see whether the militant Muslims in the emerging organized crime world demonstrate ties to organizations suspected of involvement in terrorist financing. (ROFLMFSAO! WHAT A WHOPPER!) http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Prof. Raymond K. Kent: PERSONAL CREDO
-Caveat Lector- These are trying times for all of us irrespective of national origins, faiths, or lack of any, political adherence, ideologies, ages, sexes as all of us belong to the same race, the HUMAN RACE, with all of its virtues , faults, promises, disappointments, victories, contradictions and asymmetries, lies and searches for truths, for kindness and consideration meeting with respect and disrespect, with contradictions and inabilities to comprehend or even perceive them. As an old man, who has gone beyond A.Murphys hell and back (kroz sito i reseto in Serb language) and along with the 20th Century , recently-departed, Saint Simon, The Hunter of WWII Criminals, I DO NOT BELIEVE IN COLLECTIVE GUILT. Thus, I refuse to hate the Croatian People because their Ustashe butchered the Serbs dune facon artisanalle in the early 1940s and because their neo Ustashe did much the same half a century later; I refuse to hate the German People because of their sadistic Nazi legacy, especially but not exclusively for the Jews and Slavs; I refuse to hate the Arabs and Muslims because their deviants have hi-jacked Islam which, like ALL RELIGIONS, rests on five categories to which no one can claim monopoly to wit, 1). what must be done; 2). what should be done; 3. what must not be done. What should not be done and a progressively more elastic neutral ground where much of material progress can pass and rest without challenging Islamic Correctness. Despite all of the 12 years of anti-Serb racism, I refuse to accept racism generated by another self-serving bunch of vipers; despite the long record of Kosovo Albanians in their long-lasting and persistent drive to have a pure Kosova, by removing, in any way possible, all of the other minorities, I cannot bring myself to detest the Albanians as a people; as an AMERICAN, I have fought for a long time the egregious amoralities of the Clintonian regime which destroyed the Democratic Party and ushered a new era of anti-Americanism, with alley-cat expediency and pure evil wrapped in utterly bogus humanism, as well as today- the naked application of Might is Right, by the current Administration and across the globe, tab to be yet picked up by the American People, the sheep, lead by their own wolves in sheep-skins, especially but not exclusively within a Pentagon that gobbles -up zillions of dollars as if these were pennies of yore. In short, it is high time to wake-up and spot the hate mongers some subtle and some obviousrefuse to honor theit hate-mongering jollies and save all the peoples of planet earth from self-destruction, from suicide not brought about by a gigantic meteor falling on the globe but by hate. WE must learn to love not to hate before it is really too late. Raymond K. Kent Emeritus, History Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (telephone 510/642-1971) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [stopnato] 'Either Ireland Declaring War On Iraq Or Not': US Military Flights At Record Level
-Caveat Lector- Forward from mart via Rick Rozoff and Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato [stopnato] 'Either Ireland Declaring War On Iraq Or Not': US Military Flights At Record Level Ireland Online -Oct. 1, 2005 http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=157620854p=y576zy56x More US military flights entering Irish airspace [ "Either Ireland is declaring war on Iraq, or Irelandis not declaring war on Iraq. The Taoiseach must make up his mind, and present the case to the Oireachtas if he wants to continue facilitating the progress of machines of war through our country"] The number of US military flights passing over Irelandthis year is on course to exceed the 2004 total, itemerged today. The Government has given permission for 964overflights so far this year, according to figuresreleased by Department of Transport. With three months remaining, the number of flightsgranted permission in 2005 is set to easily top the2004 total of 973. Labour Party Dublin South East TD Ruairi Quinn slammed the Government for their ever-increasing complicity in the war in Iraq. Mr Quinn said the Irish taxpayer will pay almost 5m Euros in charges for these flights this year alone - up from3.5m Eurosin 2004. "The statistics I received from Minister Cullen showthat already this year he has given permission for 964over-flights. This is almost the same as last year'stotal of 973," he said. "In addition to these appalling facts, I have alsolearned that neither the Customs Excise Department,the Gardaí nor the Defence Forces have examined orintend to examine a single aircraft landing at ourairports or at Casement Aerodrome to ensure that thedeclarations regarding weapons and passengers arecorrect. "This is extraordinary considering the evidence thatexists indicating that people have been illegallykidnapped and transported through Ireland todestinations unknown for torture." Mr Quinn said it was a disgrace that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was not only ignoring Ireland's complicity in this illegal war, but increasing it on a regular basis. "Already, we are about to pass the total for 2004, andwe are only three-quarters through the year," he said. "Either Ireland is declaring war on Iraq, or Irelandis not declaring war on Iraq. The Taoiseach must makeup his mind, and present the case to the Oireachtas ifhe wants to continue facilitating the progress ofmachines of war through our country. "There have been international reports which statethat prisoners have been illegally transported to theGuantanamo Bay base. Many may have passed through Shannon or Baldonnell, making Ireland a party to a breach of International Law." == To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato To subscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] === www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Lukashenko Belarus
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - Subject: Lukashenko Belarus Mr. President,Ladies and Gentlemen, To have an honest look at today?s world is the reason why state leaders haveconvened here at the United Nations. Together we must gain the understandingof the main thing: do we lead our countries and the mankind along the rightpath? We should answer this question for ourselves and our nations. Withoutthat we have no chance to get out of the deadlock that we are in.Fifteen years have passed since the break-up of my country, the USSR. Thatevent dramatically changed the world order. The Soviet Union, despite allmistakes and blunders of its leaders, was the source of hope and supportfor many states and peoples. The Soviet Union provided for the balance ofthe global system.Today the world is unipolar with all the consequences stemming from this.The once prosperous Yugoslavia was devastated and disappeared from the mapof Europe.The long-suffering Afghanistan became a hotbed of conflicts and drugs trafficking.A bloody slaughter in Iraq is continuing to the present day. The countryhas turned into a source of instability for the vast region.Iran and North Korea, Columbia, Cuba and other states are looked at throughgun sights.Belarus is a nation just like the majority represented in this hall. Havingemerged from the debris of the Cold War, Belarus has managed to become astate of advanced science and technology inhabited by ten million of highlyeducated and tolerant people. The UN ranked us as a developed country witha high level of human development.Like you, what we need from the world is peace and stability. Nothing more.The rest we shall create ourselves through our own efforts. My country isfree from conflicts. Different nations and nationalities peacefully coexistin Belarus each practicing religions of their own and having their own wayof life.We do not cause any trouble for our neighbours, do not have any territorialclaims, do not try to influence their choice of the way of development.We gave up our nuclear arms and voluntarily relinquished the rights of anuclear successor to the USSR.Today we shall sign the Convention for the Suppression of Acts of NuclearTerrorism. We also declare that we have decided to sign the Additional Protocolto the Agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the International AtomicEnergy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in Connection with the Treatyon the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.We have established a lasting and successful union with Russia as our veryclose neighbour.We build our country using our own wits and on the basis of our own traditions.But it is obvious that this very choice of my people is not to everyone?spleasure. It doesn?t please those who strive to rule the unipolar world.Wonder how?If there are no conflicts - they are invented.If there are no pretexts for intervention - imaginary ones are created.To this end a very convenient banner was chosen - democracy and human rights.And not in their original sense of the rule of people and personal dignity,but solely and exclusively in the interpretation of the US leadership.Has the world really become so black-and-white, deprived of its diversityof civilizations, multicoloured traditions and ways of life meeting aspirationsof people?Of course not! The simple thing is that it is a convenient pretext and aninstrument to control other countries.Regrettably, the United Nations, though it belongs to us all, allows itselfto be used as a tool of such policy. I am saying this with particular bitternessand pain as President of the country that co-founded the UN, after sacrificingthe lives of one third of its people during the Second World War for thesake of our own freedom and the freedom of Europe and the entire world.The Human Rights Commission keeps mechanically stamping resolutions on Belarus,Cuba and other countries. Attempts are being made to impose such resolutionsalso on the UN General Assembly.But how can the United Nations be minding imaginary "problems" while unableto see true disasters and catastrophes? Those which nobody other than theUN as community of civilized nations can cope with?Quite recently, in the room next to ours we were shown maps and graphs allegedlydepicting weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Were those weapons found?They do not exist. In the meantime, Iraq is bleeding, devastated, peoplebrought to utmost despair. Terrorists are threatening to use weapons of massdestruction against cities in Europe and America.Has there been an open and independent trial under UN supervision of theGuantanamo prisoners? How many of them are there and who are they?Who will defend the rights of the Abu Graib victims and punish all of theirtorturers without exception?Afghanistan was destroyed with rockets and bombs under the pretext of findingBin Laden. Was the world?s "number one terrorist" captured? Where is he now?He
[CTRL] Fw: [stopnato] US Military To Leave Uzbek Air Base With Tail Between Its Legs
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:21 AM Subject: Fw: [stopnato] US Military To Leave Uzbek Air Base With Tail Between Its Legs Forward from mart The U.S. was caught red-handed,financing, aidingand *arming*anotherone it's "Orange Revolution" coups, this timeusingso-called "Islamic" insurgentsin anattempt to the overthrow the (formerly and up until now) "U.S.' best friend and ally",Uzbek government. Once again,further irrefutable proof that with"friends and allies" like the U.S. and NATO,you don't needs enemies! - mart via Rick Rozoff and Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato US Military To Leave Uzbek Air Base With Tail Between Its Legs. Agence France-Presse- Sept. 27, 2005 http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050927215545.hyfdzuc0.html US military to leave Uzbek air base 'without further discussion': official TASHKENT - The US military will vacate a military airbase it had been using in Uzbekistan without furtherdiscussion, as demanded by the Uzbek authorities, asenior US official confirmed Tuesday. "We intend to leave the base without furtherdiscussion," Dan Fried, assistant secretary of statefor European and Eurasian affairs, told reportersafter meeting here with Uzbek President Islam Karimov. Fried also confirmed Washington would pay Uzbekistan23 million dollars for the past use of Karshi-Khanabadair base, also known as K-2, despite objections bymembers of the US Congress. Uzbekistan in July gave the US military six months toend operations at K-2, effectively severing apartnership that sprang up in 2001 on the eve of theUS military campaign to oust the Taliban inAfghanistan. Uzbek lawmakers ratified the evictionnotice last month. The base was a crucial staging area for US forcesoperating in northern Afghanistan, and after the warbecame a hub for flights carrying supplies for US and NATO forces in the country.Fried admitted to differences with Karimov during his meeting with the Uzbek leader. "We did not agree on all issues and made it clear we support civil society and NGOs around the world just like foreign NGOs can operate in the US [sic]," he said.He said his message to Uzbek officials was todetermine a basis on which US-Uzbek relations and cooperation could move ahead, provided such notions as democracy, human rights and political reforms were taken into account. He also denied allegations by one of 15 allegedIslamist insurgents on trial over the Andijanbloodshed that the US embassy had provided funding to his group. "The assertions about helping Islamic insurgents are ludicrous and not credible [sic]," he said. Fried was scheduled to meet representatives of Uzbek civil society groups on Wednesday, and was later due to visit Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan for talks on bilateral and regional issues, including the fight against terrorism, officials said. = Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato To subscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] == www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Afghanistan....Bosnia...Kosovo....Now London: - Brits Face Their Own Blowback in Tube Bombings Probe
-Caveat Lector- AfghanistanBosnia...KosovoNow London: - Brits Face Their Own Blowback in Tube Bombings Probe = - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:58 PM Subject: [NYTr] Brits Face Their Own Blowback in Tube Bombings Probe Via NY Transfer News Collective All the News that Doesn't Fit The Guardian - Sep 10, 2005http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5282550-103677,00.html Britain now faces its own blowback: Intelligence interests may thwart the Brits. by Michael Meacher The videotape of the suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan has switched the focus of the London bombings away from the establishment view of brainwashed, murderous individuals and highlighted a starker political reality. While there can be no justification for horrific killings of this kind, they need to be understood against the ferment of the last decade radicalising Muslim youth of Pakistani origin living in Europe. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, the US funded large numbers of jihadists through Pakistan's secret intelligence service, the ISI. Later the US wanted to raise another jihadi corps, again using proxies, to help Bosnian Muslims fight to weaken the Serb government's hold on Yugoslavia. Those they turned to included Pakistanis in Britain. According to a recent report by the Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation, a contingent was also sent by the Pakistani government, then led by Benazir Bhutto, at the request of the Clinton administration. This contingent was formed from the Harkat-ul- Ansar (HUA) terrorist group and trained by the ISI. The report estimates that about 200 Pakistani Muslims living in the UK went to Pakistan, trained in HUA camps and joined the HUA's contingent in Bosnia. Most significantly, this was "with the full knowledge and complicity of the British and American intelligence agencies". As the 2002 Dutch government report on Bosnia makes clear, the US provided a green light to groups on the state department list of terrorist organisations, including the Lebanese-based Hizbullah, to operate in Bosnia - an episode that calls into question the credibility of the subsequent "war on terror". For nearly a decade the US helped Islamist insurgents linked to Chechnya, Iran and Saudi Arabia destabilise the former Yugoslavia. The insurgents were also allowed to move further east to Kosovo. By the end of the fighting in Bosnia there were tens of thousands of Islamist insurgents in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo; many then moved west to Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Less well known is evidence of the British government's relationship with a wider Islamist terrorist network. During an interview on Fox TV this summer, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit Islamist militants with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo. Since July Scotland Yard has been interested in an alleged member of al-Muhajiroun, Haroon Rashid Aswat, who some sources have suggested could have been behind the London bombings. According to Loftus, Aswat was detained in Pakistan after leaving Britain, but was released after 24 hours. He was subsequently returned to Britain from Zambia, but has been detained solely for extradition to the US, not for questioning about the London bombings. Loftus claimed that Aswat is a British-backed double agent, pursued by the police but protected by MI6. One British Muslim of Pakistani origin radicalised by the civil war in Yugoslavia was LSE-educated Omar Saeed Sheikh. He is now in jail in Pakistan under sentence of death for the killing of the US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 - although many (including Pearl's widow and the US authorities) doubt that he committed the murder. However, reports from Pakistan suggest that Sheikh continues to be active from jail, keeping in touch with friends and followers in Britain. Sheikh was recruited as a student by Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), which operates a network in Britain. It has actively recruited Britons from universities and colleges since the early 1990s, and has boasted of its numerous British Muslim volunteers. Investigations in Pakistan have suggested that on his visits there Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London suicide bombers, contacted members of two outlawed local groups and trained at two camps in Karachi and near Lahore. Indeed the network of groups now being uncovered in Pakistan may point to senior al-Qaida operatives having played a part in selecting members of the bombers' cell. The Observer Research Foundation has argued that there are even "grounds to suspect that the [London] blasts were orchestrated by Omar Sheikh from his jail in Pakistan". Why then is Omar Sheikh not being
[CTRL] Fw: When London used terrorists...
Title: HTML Message -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Michel Collon To: Nerajov Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:39 AM Subject: When London used terrorists... Unsubscribe, add or change an address : DO NOT answer, just clickhttp://www.michelcollon.info/mailinglist_en.phpPLEASE CHANGE YOUR DICTIONARY :"Bad terrrorists" : active against UK or US."Good terrorists" : the same when used by UK or US against their ennemies.MCLondon bombs: former UK cabinet minister Meacher says MI6 is trying to cover its trackshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1566916,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1566916,00.html Michael Meacher was the UK's environment minister from 1997 to 2003.In 2003, he wrote in the Guardian that the war on terrorism is bogus and that the 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/comment/0,1320,1036772,00.html http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/comment/0,1320,1036772,00.html Now, in the 10 September 2005 Guardian, he is suggesting that the intelligence agencies may thwart the London bombings investigation.Meacher looks at the links between the security services and certain 'Moslem' groups who may be linked to the London bombs.The US used Pakistanis from Britain to fight in Bosnia, in order to weaken the Serb government's hold on Yugoslavia. Meacher writes:'According to a recent report by the Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation, a contingent was also sent by the Pakistani government, then led by Benazir Bhutto, at the request of the Clinton administration. This contingent was formed from the Harkat-ul- Ansar (HUA) terrorist group and trained by the ISI. The report estimates that about 200 Pakistani Muslims living in the UK went to Pakistan, trained in HUA camps and joined the HUA's contingent in Bosnia. Most significantly, this was "with the full knowledge and complicity of the British and American intelligence agencies".'As the 2002 Dutch government report on Bosnia makes clear, the US provided a green light to groups on the state department list of terrorist organisations, including the Lebanese-based Hizbullah, to operate in Bosnia - an episode that calls into question the credibility of the subsequent "war on terror".'For nearly a decade the US helped Islamist insurgents linked to Chechnya, Iran and Saudi Arabia destabilise the former Yugoslavia. The insurgents were also allowed to move further east to Kosovo. By the end of the fighting in Bosnia there were tens of thousands of Islamist insurgents in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo; many then moved west to Austria, Germany and Switzerland.'Less well known is evidence of the British government's relationship with a wider Islamist terrorist network. During an interview on Fox TV this summer, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit Islamist militants with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo. Since July Scotland Yard has been interested in an alleged member of al-Muhajiroun, Haroon Rashid Aswat, who some sources have suggested could have been behind the London bombings. 'According to Loftus, Aswat was detained in Pakistan after leaving Britain, but was released after 24 hours. He was subsequently returned to Britain from Zambia, but has been detained solely for extradition to the US, not for questioning about the London bombings. Loftus claimed that Aswat is a British-backed double agent, pursued by the police but protected by MI6. 'One British Muslim of Pakistani origin radicalised by the civil war in Yugoslavia was LSE-educated Omar Saeed Sheikh. He is now in jail in Pakistan under sentence of death for the killing of the US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 - although many (including Pearl's widow and the US authorities) doubt that he committed the murder. However, reports from Pakistan suggest that Sheikh continues to be active from jail, keeping in touch with friends and followers in Britain.Sheikh was recruited as a student by Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), which operates a network in Britain. It has actively recruited Britons from universities and colleges since the early 1990s, and has boasted of its numerous British Muslim volunteers.'Investigations in Pakistan have suggested that on his visits there Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London suicide bombers, contacted members of two outlawed local groups and trained at two camps in Karachi and near Lahore. Indeed the network of groups now being uncovered in Pakistan may point to senior al-Qaida operatives having played a part in selecting members of the bombers' cell. The Observer Research Foundation has argued that there are even "grounds to suspect that the [London] blasts were orchestrated by Omar Sheikh from his jail in Pakistan".'Why then is Omar Sheikh not being dealt
[CTRL] Fw: ASHDOWN mi6 sPOOK: Balkans: Web Site Lists 121 British MI6 Agents, Including Paddy Ashdown
-Caveat Lector- - - Original Message - From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 9:24 AM Subject: Balkans: Web Site Lists 121 British MI6 Agents, Including Paddy Ashdown http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Securityloid=8.0.203574523par=0 ADN Kronos International (Italy) September 3, 2005 BALKANS: SHOCK OVER ASHDOWN SPY CLAIM Belgrade - A list of alleged British secret agents posted on an American Internet site has provoked shock in the Balkans because the high representative of the international community in Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown, is one of the names that appears on it. The www.cryptome.org site published the names of 121 people it alleges are British MI6 secret agents, among them Ashdown, the current British ambassador to Croatia, John Charles Josslyn Ramsden, and his predecessor in Zagreb, Colin Andrew Munro. The site owner John Young told British media that London was trying to bloc the site to prevent further damage. He said that since 1999, he has published the names of 311 secret agents, listing their past missions and current assignments. They have taken part in world's greatest conspiracies and it would be dangerous if the world didn't know about them, Young was quoted as saying. Croatian daily, Vecernji list, expanded the story to include several lower rank diplomats that had served in Zagreb, and others that served in Bosnia and Serbia. Ashdown's office declined to comment on the report and directed journalists to British embassy in Sarajevo. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft also said that the embassy would not comment, but added that what the high representative has done for the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina was very efficient and he has done a lot in this country on its road to Europe. Ashdown has in his work in Bosnia so far used the opportunity to achieve progress and to bring Bosnia closer to Euro-Atlantic institutions, Rycroft said. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Atrocity Porn
-Caveat Lector- Subject: The Mask of Power, by Nebojsa Malic (Atrocity Porn, Human Rights, and Empire) Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:37:58 -0400 From: Boba [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: (Recipient list suppressed) BRAVO Nebojsa ! B. http://antiwar.com/malic/ June 30, 2005 The Mask of Power by Nebojsa Malic Atrocity Porn, Human Rights, and Empire Three weeks after it went public, the video of Serb militiamen shooting six Muslims in the mountains of Bosnia has turned into a media monster. The supposedly irrefutable evidence of Serbian involvement in the Bosnian war or the genocide in Srebrenica is nothing of the sort, but that has not stopped the pushers of atrocity porn from imposing their snuff reality on the people of Serbia, and any other unwary victim they may snag in the process. Disappointed and enraged by the Serbian parliament's refusal to accept a declaration drafted by a cabal of NGOs, the Empire has continued to push Belgrade to confess to the Official Truth and even to repent (!). The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Monday stating that what happened in Srebrenica in 1995 was genocide, and that the Serbs were guilty of it. Only one conscientious congressman voted against such a blatant attempt to impose truth by legislative fiat. In its unbridled arrogance of power, the Empire now seldom bothers to hide that it desires to shape reality itself with nothing more than its strength of will and weaponry. Yet it continues to use high-minded but utterly corrupt concepts of justice and human rights to cover up its abuses. Atrocity Spokesmodel Aware that dwelling on the atrocity video in itself could eventually invite unwelcome questions about its content, character and meaning - as it already has, to some extent - the media have now turned to features about the supposedly intrepid heroine whose brave, tireless efforts have helped bring truth to light. The Washington Post, a stalwart champion of imperial aggression, carried a puff piece Saturday on Natasa Kandic, the human rights activist who has spent the last decade peddling stories of Serb atrocities. Claiming that the video vindicated her long pursuit, the post lavished compliments on Kandic as much as it heaped scorn on the Serbs. She is described as a human rights sleuth. wisp of a woman with a boyish haircut, a former sociologist who decided to devote herself to documenting injustice when the Yugoslav wars began. At one point, amid the ceaseless ranting about the evil and criminal nature of Serbia, Kandic claims she documented atrocities against Serbs. If only the Post bothered to check as to when and where that miracle may have occurred. Or maybe mentioned that one time when she physically assaulted a Serb refugee from Kosovo who challenged her bona fides. Another paean to Kandic came out Monday, penned by the Associated Press, as if to make sure the Post's message got through. Once again, she is a nightmare for Serb nationalists and a leading rights activists on a quest for justice, who - as the AP headline says - rattled Milosevic's war heritage. Ah yes, Milosevic, the Empire's favorite bete noire. Whoever does not believe he single-handedly masterminded and conducted the savage wars that destroyed Yugoslavia (as the AP claims in the story) should expect a slap from Natasa Kandic. Maybe even an indictment from Carla Del Ponte. Openings and Possibilities Far from being a noble quest for justice or rights, Kandic and her deeds create an opening for U.S. policy in Serbia. So says Roger Cohen of the International Herald Tribune, the one who last fall spoke of solving the Serbian question. Cohen's piece is essentially a rehash of the Holbrookean/ICG thesis that only America can solve the Balkans problem because it has credibility based on force (and assumed moral rectitude), and that this solution would necessarily involve an independent Kosova and a centralized Bosnia-Herzegovina. This thesis has recently become the new Balkans policy of Bush II, with an old Clinton hand, Nicholas Burns, at the helm. Meanwhile, Natasa Kandic's fellow sociologist Eric Gordy, who has dedicated considerable effort to create a scientific framework for Serbophobia, gave a speech at a NGO conference in Serbia on Monday on the possibilities offered by the Srebrenica video. His speculative assertions presented as facts merit discussion some other time. But one thing he said about the video stood out: Whatever limitations the film may have as evidence, however, it has had tremendous value as publicity. And so it does. For the Empire has concerned itself less with evidence of anything it has bothered to assert over the years, so long as it could create the perception in public that would suggest it was true. Imperial Synergy Perhaps the most persuasive argument
[CTRL] Fw: [IAC] Help us publish: The Defense Speaks - for History and theFuture
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 2:06 PM Subject: [IAC] Help us publish: The Defense Speaks - for History and theFuture *Unless you help - U.S. and NATO forces will have succeeded in silencing the Defense of President Slobodan Milosevic* *Join with Ramsey Clark in supporting publication of this historic new book.* *Help us publish: The Defense Speaks - for History and the Future* * Your contribution is needed!* Donate and Pre-order at:http://www.iacenter.org/iacdonate.htm June 24, 2005 Dear Friends, *Four years ago* former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic was kidnapped in Belgrade and brought to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes and genocide in the wars leading to the break-up of Yugoslavia.* By charging the president of Yugoslavia, the U.S. and the NATO military alliance was charging Yugoslavia and, in particular the people of Serbia with total responsibility* for all of the wars and destruction that laid waste to a once prosperous and peaceful region. The media announced that this was to be the trial of the century. But once President Milosevic announced his intention to rebut his accusers by charging them with conspiracy and war crimes--the cameras and newspapers fell silent. The trial of Slobodan Milosevic dragged on for two years--*in silence and neglect *as the NATO-appointed prosecution presented their case. Again and again, defense motions were overruled and struck down. Finally on August 31, 2004 President Milosevic was able to present the rebuttal to the prosecution's charges and put forward Yugoslavia's defense. He challenged the status and legality of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. His clear, documented, well-reasoned two-day opening talk in the defense portion of the trial is *a presentation of historic importance*. Have you read one news article summarizing his rebuttal? Have you ever seen it quoted? Do you know how President Milosevic defended the Serbian people and all the people of the Balkans? Have you or anyone you know read his stinging expose of NATO's role? If you believe in free speech, don't you think President Milosevic's defense of Serbia should be available in every library and widely available on the internet and to journalists internationally? *Unfortunately free speech isn't free.* This historic speech, its defense of Serbia and the expose of NATO criminal conspiracy will only be known if we take active steps to make it widely available. We feel that it is a moral imperative to insure that the powers that bombed, sanctioned and profited from the war are not the only forces who write the history of this war. We are proud to announce that the International Action Center this summer will publish President Milosevic's rebuttal in a 150-page book entitled *The Defense Speaks - for History and the Future*. A great deal of preparation has gone into this book already. We felt that it was essential to go back to President Milosevic's speech which was given in Serbian and correct the rather awkward, stilted English version made by Croatian and Bosnian translators employed by the Hague Tribunal with a more accurate and readable translation. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is preparing a lengthy introduction that reviews the political nature of the Tribunal established by the U.S. The International Action Center has published *four other major books exposing the U.S. role in the wars,* sanctions and devastation of the region. In 1998 we published and twice reprinted NATO in the Balkans and in 1999 we published, War, Lies and Videotape: How Media Monopoly Stifles Truth. In 2002 we were proud to publish Hidden Agenda: U.S./NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia and the English translation of Michel Collon's Liar's Poker: The Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future. Now IPG, a major national academic distributor, has made these well-researched and documented books available in libraries, bookstores and university courses. These four books are a unique contribution to understanding the censored and suppressed history of the past fifteen years. *Each book was possible because people of conscience gave donations that covered all of the publication costs.* Today the whole world knows that the U.S. war in Iraq was based on a U.S. lie about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The bombing of Yugoslavia was also based on a lie about mass graves. Just as the weapons of mass destruction were never found in Iraq, the mass graves in Kosovo were never found. U.S. occupation in both regions continues. Both wars based on outrageous lies and wild propaganda must be opposed. You have an opportunity to help to bring the facts to a wider audience. We hope that you will give serious attention to this appeal to help us publish: *The Defense Speaks - for History and the Future*
[CTRL] Chronicles: Dmitry Rogozin: Russia's Man of the Future?]
-Caveat Lector- "James George Jatras, a Washington D.C.-based attorney and occasional Chronicles contributor, was for many years a senior policy analyst with the U.S. Senate Republican Leadership. He was in Moscow last weekend as a guest at the Rodina congress. In his opinion..." http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/newsviews.cgi/Russia/2005/06/14/Dmitry_Rogozin__Rus Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Dmitry Rogozin: Russias Man of the Future? The 5th congress of the Rodina (Motherland) party was held in Moscow on June 11. Some 1,000 delegates and guests heard the leader of this rising Russian political force, Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin, deliver the rousing keynote addressTo Slay a Dragonin which he offered the Russian equivalent of a Buchananite political, economic, and national program. Having followed his career with some interest over the past decade, I believe that Rogozin has now matured into a serious contender for Russias presidency in 2008. Rogozin accused Putins Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and the Kremlins economic liberals of corruption, of being insufficiently resolute in dealing with the hated oligarchs, and of economic incompetence. A social government should represent the interests of the majority of the peopleand the majority is against those in power, Rogozin declared. If the president pursued the same policy, we would say no to him, too. Seeking to pre-empt those Russians hoping to repeat the scenario of Ukraines stage-managed orange revolution in the streets of Moscow, Rogozin claimed any such regime change would be ginger in coloran obvious allusion to the hair color of Anatoly Chubais, the hugely unpopular pro-Western, reformist liberal. James George Jatras, a Washington D.C.-based attorney and occasional Chronicles contributor, was for many years a senior policy analyst with the U.S. Senate Republican Leadership. He was in Moscow last weekend as a guest at the Rodina congress. In his opinion, No one should take lightly Dmitriy Olegovich Rogozins prospects for becoming the next president of Russia. To start with, as a politician, he is an extremely attractive and personable candidate. His manner in private is indistinguishable from his appeal to a mass audience, connecting in both contexts as genuine and capable. More importantly, as a statesman, his political persona seems to have real substance behind it. Mr. Rogozin has his hand on the pulse of a broad segment of the Russian population, which, while not wishing to see a return of Marxist-Leninist ideology, are thoroughly disgusted with democracy and the free market as they have been marketed in debased form in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet system. Rodinas leftward economic platform should be taken less as an endorsement of dogmatic Soviet collectivism, says Jatras, than a rejection of the oligarchs looting of Russias national patrimony and the sink-or-swim economic Hobbesianism into which most Russians were plunged without benefit of either property or legal protection. Rogozin and his party take great pains to insist that their Russian patriotic appeal is not chauvinist nor even nationalist, and that respect for the identities and traditions of all of Russias many ethnic groups is itself part of what makes Russia what it is. The fact the most of the partys leadershipincluding Rogozin himself and a large portion of the Partys public followingare practicing Orthodox Christians, Jatras sees as conclusive evidence that Rodina is not a throwback to communism: At the same time, Mr. Rogozins and Rodinas desire to see the restoration of a strong Russian national state, and his seeking common ground with both Europe and China, points to a troublesome potential development for proponents of U.S.-led benevolent global hegemony and architects of the so-called color revolutions that are progressively transforming Russias strategic space into one dominated by Washington. Following successful U.S- Soros-supported efforts in Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine in 2004, speculation is rife as to who is next, with the leading guesses being Belarus and Kazakhstan. Most observers believe Belarus will be a tough nut to crack, however, with the Lukashenko government having imposed severe restrictions on the NGOs that serve as the essential transmission belts for mobilization of the pro-Western, reformist, democratic forces. Kazakhstan seemed to be a more likely bet for the next upheaval, with President Nazerbayevs government having been relatively open to outside influences. In early June, however, the Kazakh parliamentwith an eye to events in Kyrgystan and Uzbekistan, and their own upcoming presidential election in 2006enacted tight new restrictions on foreign-funded organizations. In foreign affairs Rogozin laments Russias effective abdication of its status as a great power in the post-communist period as dangerous not only for Russia but
[CTRL] Fw: John Pilger - 'The Forgotten 'Humanitarian' Invasion of Kosovo
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: mart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:49 AM Subject: John Pilger - "'The Forgotten 'Humanitarian' Invasion of Kosovo" Forward from mart.PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELYI recall at the time, all too well, how the trendy middle class pseudo-left bought Imperialism's lies regarding Kosovo, hook, line and sinker as fed to them by the corporate newsmedia and by their "hero's", Clinton and Blair .and then sat on their comfortable asses, wrenched their handand did nothing. I recall too, how the ultra-left - the Trots and the Maoists joined with their Imperialist strawbosses and paymasters and openly cheered when NATO bombs fell on Belgrade and NATO occupation troops rolled into Kosovo. I hope they're allnow very pleased with the results.and with themselves. Maybe they forgetor choose to. Others remember.mart==http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NSnewTop=Section%3A+Front+PagenewDisplayURN=200412130010New StatesmanMonday 13th December 2004 John Pilger reminds us of KosovoThe Forgotten 'Humanitarian' Invasion of Kosovo Kosovo - the site of a genocide that never was - is now a violent "free market" in drugs and prostitution. What does this tell us about the likely outcome of the Iraq war? By John Pilger Monday 13th December 2004 Muted by the evidence of the Anglo-American catastrophe in Iraq, the "humanitarian" war party ought to be called to account for its forgotten crusade in Kosovo, the model for Blair's "onward march of liberation". Just as Iraq is being torn apart by the forces of empire, so was Yugoslavia, the multi-ethnic state that uniquely rejected both sides in the cold war.Lies as great as those told by Bush and Blair were deployed by Clinton and Blair in their grooming of public opinion for an illegal, unprovoked attack on a European country. Following the same path as the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, the media coverage in the spring of 1999 was a series of fraudulent justifications, beginning with the then US defence secretary William Cohen's claim that "we've now seen about 100,000 military-aged [Albanian] men missing . . . they may have been murdered". David Scheffer, the then US ambassador-at-large for war crimes, announced that as many as "225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59" may have been killed. Blair invoked the Holocaust and "the spirit of the Second World War". The British press took its cue. "Flight from genocide," wrote the Daily Mail. "Echoes of the Holocaust," chorused the Sun and the Mirror. In parliament, the heroic Clare Short compared to Nazi propagandists those (such as myself) who objected to the bombing of defenceless people.By June 1999, with the bombardment over, international forensic teams began subjecting Kosovo to minute examination. The American FBI arrived to investigate what was called "the largest crime scene in the FBI's forensic history". Several weeks later, having not found a single mass grave, the FBI went home. The Spanish forensic team also returned home, its leader complaining angrily that he and his colleagues had become part of "a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines, because we did not find one - not one - mass grave".In November 1999, the Wall Street Journal published the results of its own investigation, dismissing "the mass grave obsession". Instead of "the huge killing fields some investigators were led to expect . . . the pattern is of scattered killings [mostly] in areas where the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army has been active". The Journal concluded that Nato stepped up its claims about Serbian killing fields when it "saw a fatigued press corps drifting toward the contrary story: civilians killed by Nato's bombs . . . The war in Kosovo was cruel, bitter, savage. Genocide it wasn't."One year later, the International War Crimes Tribunal, a body in effect set up by Nato, announced that the final count of bodies found in Kosovo's "mass graves" was 2,788. This included combatants on both sides and Serbs and Roma murdered by the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army. Like Iraq's fabled weapons of mass destruction, the figures used by the US and British governments and echoed by journalists were inventions - along with Serbian "rape camps" and Clinton's and Blair's claims that Nato never deliberately bombed civilians.Code-named "Stage Three", Nato's civilian targets included public transport, hospitals, schools, museums, churches. "It was common knowledge that Nato went to Stage Three [after a couple of weeks]," said James Bissett, the Canadian ambassador in Belgrade during the attack. "Otherwise, they would not have been bombing bridges on Sunday afternoons, and market places."Nato's clients were the Kosovo Liberation Army. Seven years earlier, the State Department had designated the KLA as a terrorist organisation
[CTRL] Europe and America love and create killers
-Caveat Lector- From: oliver vulovic Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:10 PM Subject: America and Europe love and create killers Oliver Vuloviæ 08.12.2004. Belgrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Europe and America love and create killers Inauguration of a fascist and war criminal, Ramush Haradinaj for prime minister of the occupied Kosmet, surprised only those not informed about, by now we can assert with certainty, way of acting of European-American coalition confirmed during several decades toward Slave people of Orthodox confession and all other ""disobedient" people of the Planet Earth. Is there world known murderer that was not made in modern history through the policy of acting or not acting of European and American politicians in these and other regions? Let us begin with Hitler and Mussolini, who, with help of British and American restraint and continuous policy of letting up, succeeded in the 1940s to occupy with great speed dangerous positions from which they immediately started to eliminate entire peoples. and states, with special spade against Slave people and Jews. Even this lesson was not enough to creators of the World Order of that time, so they have in the similar manner after World War II placed Court Waldheim, proven war criminal and killer of the weak Kozara civilians, in the position of the UN Secretary General. Due to the continuation of the confrontation policy against Slave people under the guise of the fight against communism, Anglo-Saxons with the help of their Vatican friends have even organized the operation "rat channels" through which they succeeded to rescue from justice many murderers of Haradinaj caliber. They did not keep still in the meantime either. They have thus pushed to the very top of the international sport Huan Antonio Samaran, former intellectual kicking fist of Francos fascist regime. Madeline Allbright, Hans Van Der Bruck, Karl Bildt, Kinkel, Fisher maintained continuity with such policy also during the civil war in the territory of former SFRY. It is their merit that in the so-called negotiation processes with Serbs were included such notorious terrorists and killers like Hashim Thachi in Rambuie or Ejup Ganic and Hasan Chengic in Dayton. Whom did Americans and Europeans position to be Albanian political leaders in Macedonia if not the same people whom they saved from surrounded Arachinovo, who had set on fire Tetovo monasteries and fired at the same city and drove from it entire not Albanian population? Does anybody still pose the question that created Al Keida and Bin Laden, Basajev, Al Zavkari and many other not mentioned criminals? No, nobody poses such questions any more because the answers are known so that nobody politically literate was really surprised by inauguration of Haradinaj to head position in Kosmet under the guise of democratic procedure observance". Such after the fact, distorted and essentially immoral observance of democratic procedure" by Europeans and Americans in this region, so characteristic for their policy, commenced already at the very beginning of the conflict in former SFRY through their insistence on the negotiations with secessionist leaders and commanders of para-military formations like Kuchan, Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic. Already since the first terrorist actions performed by the above mentioned, like the massacre of the Yugoslav People's Army recruits that were withdrawing or shelling of Serb villages, the scenario could be predicted on the basis of which would develop the story of Serb suffering to our days. Badinters commission, Dayton, Rambuie, Paris, Vienna, Ohrid, these are all the elements of the same matrix on the basis of which is persistently continued the war for territories at the cost of orthodox states of the former SFRY. From the mouth of the Washington-Brussels officials and their domestic "non-governmental" epigones, these days we listen how the insistence on the forced resignation of Haradinaj would provoke the wave of Albanian violence that would endanger realized security and political standards" in the Province, how the new situation is the product of Serb disobedience toward Hague Tribunal, the punishment for not voting in Kosmet elections and much more in the same style that fits well in the model of the Serbian denacification and self-culpabilisation" operation. In translation, we are threatened with the driving out of the remaining Serb population from Kosmet if we continue to rise waves after this wise" decision that somebody whispered to Rugova. Will after all this anyone in Serbia be again surprised when soon in Vojvodina, Rashka and Montenegro instead of Chanak, Ugljanin and Djukanovic, as negotiators appear aged Horty participant of the Novi Sad raid, the first replacement of Zakarijev or youngish flag bearer of the unit that will bear the name of Sekula Drljevic? This might well happen, believe it, since there is no end to Serbian
[CTRL] Fw: [ENWL-eng] Russia_Successfully_Tests_Anti-Missile_Defense_-_Minister
-Caveat Lector- The Nuclear Arms Race escalates, as does the arms race in space. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/11/29/antimissile.shtml Russia Successfully Tests Anti-Missile Defense - Minister Created: 29.11.2004 14:31 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:52 MSK , 13 hours 56 minutes ago Russia has conducted a successful test of an anti-missile missile, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told the Russian Cabinet on Monday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports. At 11-00 Moscow time on Monday we conducted a successful test of an anti-missile missile at the Sary-Shagaz testing grounds in Kazakhstan, the agency quoted Ivanov as saying. Russian strategic potential has been seriously decreased since the times of the Cold War, but President Putin pledges to bring back the country's might. In mid-November Putin said that Russia was working on new, unique, nuclear missile systems. Various experts interpreted the Russian president's words as an announcement that Russia may soon have weapons to counter the U.S. anti-missile defense system. We know that we have only to weaken our attention to such components of our defenses as the nuclear-missile shield, and new threats to us could appear, the Russian leader said at a meeting with the heads of the military forces. I am sure that in the near future weapons will appear... which other nuclear powers do not and will not possess, he said. Putin gave no further detail about what type of weapons he was referring to or what shape these new security threats could take. We will continue to consistently and successively build up the armed forces in general and its nuclear component, he said. Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CAMPAIGN: http://www.peaceinspace.org SIGN OUR U.N. PETITION: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/832338563 __ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: USraeli Ukraine Coup, Part II
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva November 2004 - USraeli UKRAINE Coup in its Last Phase HURRAY, HURRAY! Part II The Ukraine coup overpasses all imaginable limits! A horde of USA poodles puppets bootlickers from European Union (Solana) and the neighboring countries (Poland, Lithuania) rushed to Kiev spurred on by their Ugly Master! There are representative of the wide range of servants The Ugly Master works on for years. Here is Solana one of the European Killers of Yugoslavia. Kvashnevski, that Polish spittle, is trotting there too. And the Lithuanian USA Servant of a president has also clicked most obediently heels. The administrative buildings are not seized anymore, it seems. The coordinated provocation has reached its aim: the horde of USA poodles puppets bootlickers poured into Kiev almost immediately after it happened. The still acting (?) Ukraine President, Leonid Kuchma, explained on the TV Inter just that the buildings were blocked and seized to provoke their coming here. Now negotiations are under way at a round table (I feel like puking!), Yushchenko and Yanukovic are there plus all the other local and foreign Players and the cards are delivered! Q. What are the so-called elections about? If a President of a country can be pointed out and appointed by negotiations orchestrated by a pack of poodles from abroad, then WHY THE ELECTIONS? Allow me some gloating. For years on a run I have written and talked about the true nature of the USA so-called democratic elections, the Globo Democratizers are forcing on all the people round the world to legitimize their killing and pillaging. Could there be a greater DISCREDITATION of THEIR PLAY AT ELECTIONS than what is going on in Ukraine now? Could a person right in the head and with all his senses in place take a part in any of their elections after the Ukraine Elections in November 2004 and the typical for the developments afterwards? Developments, typical for the era of the New Colonization. Other news: The Special Forces appeared briefly in the streets of Kiev, then packed and withdrew. Conflicting orders. People from all Ukraine demand from the acting (?) government to put a stop of the disorder. Kuchma is only writhing and doing nothing. Yanukovic keeps repeating he will follow the law he will do nothing unlawful bla, bla, bla. Yanukovic is still an acting (?) Premier and a part of his responsibilities is the public order and the security of the Ukraine people. By doing a Big Great Nothing together with Kuchma, the acting (?) President, they both break their vow and engagements to their people! Yanukovic is behaving UNLAWFULLY for several days already! Conclusion: He is NOT a leader, NEITHER a fighter. He is totally blocked, incapable to take any decisions, baffled like an old lady in a busy street. US Coup Planners could calmly change from Yushchenko to Yanukovic the only one better than an easily blocked and manipulated into total inaction president is only a Servant for a president. They want and insist on the Servant. Apparently the dislike the idea to spend energy for the regular need of tempering and adjusting the other one. Eastern and Southern Ukraine where people voted mainly for Yanukovic the Law Lover (which law?) declared they would get out of Ukraine, will create an autonomous region or directly join Russia. Words. Yushchenko of USA/CIA/NED etc. also talks about law. He repeats like a blocked robot (maybe he is one!) that the government should not use any force against his street army of YOUNG FOOLS, IGNORANTS, SHREWD FELLOWS and STRAITFORWARD H-A-T-E-R-S of their country and people. No violence of any kind on the part of the government. Violence is his Drugged Street Army prerogative. Note: The USA robots can break the law, use violence, kill if estimated as necessary the other, victimized side, has no right to do the same, protecting itself and its encroached territory! If they start resisting or even simply raise instinctively a hand to their bruised faces, they are called terrorists on the instant! How very damned convenient indeed! It seems that Kuchma and Yanukovic are more concerned with not to be classified as terrorists than with the security of their people and state NOW, and the future of their people and state afterwards. So, they SHAMELESSLY DO NOTHING! Poor Ukrainians. No true leaders at this crucial time, only vultures foreign and local grinding their knives for the Ukrainian land and riches. TV Inter entertained us with endless talks between representatives of both sides to prove how very impartial they are. Yushchenko people (represented by one of the highly paid singers who scream non-stop in front of the Yushchenko Artmy since Sunday unkempt, slovenly young man) talk about broken rights - and hence broken hearts because of the broken rights, la-la; truth:
[CTRL] Fw: 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 4:07 PM Subject: 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah Inter Press Service Friday 26 November 2004 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah By Dahr Jamail Inter Press Service Baghdad - The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.. Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah, 35- year-old trader from Fallujah Abu Hammad told IPS. They used everything -- tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground. Hammad is from the Julan district of Fallujah where some of the heaviest fighting occurred. Other residents of that area report the use of illegal weapons. They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud, Abu Sabah, another Fallujah refugee from the Julan area told IPS. Then small pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them. He said pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burnt the skin even when water was thrown on the burns. Phosphorous weapons as well as napalm are known to cause such effects. People suffered so much from these, he said. Macabre accounts of killing of civilians are emerging through the cordon U.S. forces are still maintaining around Fallujah. Doctors in Fallujah are reporting to me that there are patients in the hospital there who were forced out by the Americans, said Mehdi Abdulla, a 33- year-old ambulance driver at a hospital in Baghdad. Some doctors there told me they had a major operation going, but the soldiers took the doctors away and left the patient to die. Kassem Mohammed Ahmed who escaped from Fallujah a little over a week ago told IPS he witnessed many atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers in the city. I watched them roll over wounded people in the street with tanks, he said. This happened so many times. Abdul Razaq Ismail who escaped from Fallujah two weeks back said soldiers had used tanks to pull bodies to the soccer stadium to be buried. I saw dead bodies on the ground and nobody could bury them because of the American snipers, he said. The Americans were dropping some of the bodies into the Euphrates near Fallujah. Abu Hammad said he saw people attempt to swim across the Euphrates to escape the siege. The Americans shot them with rifles from the shore, he said. Even if some of them were holding a white flag or white clothes over their heads to show they are not fighters, they were all shot. Hammad said he had seen elderly women carrying white flags shot by U.S. soldiers. Even the wounded people were killed. The Americans made announcements for people to come to one mosque if they wanted to leave Fallujah, and even the people who went there carrying white flags were killed. Another Fallujah resident Khalil (40) told IPS he saw civilians shot as they held up makeshift white flags. They shot women and old men in the streets, he said. Then they shot anyone who tried to get their bodies - Fallujah is suffering too much, it is almost gone now. Refugees had moved to another kind of misery now, he said. It's a disaster living here at this camp, Khalil said. We are living like dogs and the kids do not have enough clothes. Spokesman for the Iraqi Red Crescent in Baghdad Abdel Hamid Salim told IPS that none of their relief teams had been allowed into Fallujah, and that the military had said it would be at least two more weeks before any refugees would be allowed back into the city. There is still heavy fighting in Fallujah, said Salim. And the Americans won't let us in so we can help people. In many camps around Fallujah and throughout Baghdad, refugees are living without enough food, clothing and shelter. Relief groups estimate there are at least 15,000 refugee families in temporary shelters outside Fallujah. http://ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26440 ___ portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. For answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.portside.org/faq To subscribe, unsubscribe or change settings: http://lists.portside.org/mailman/listinfo/portside To submit material, paste into an email and send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (postings are moderated) For assistance with your account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the portside archive: http://people-link5.inch.com/pipermail/portside/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not
[CTRL] Fw: Jose SaramagO: Danger After Bush Re-election
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: Jose SaramagO: Danger After Bush Re-election Nobel Laureate Saramago Warns of Danger After Bush Reelection By Humberto Márquez November 27, 2004, Inter Press Service http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26451 CARACAS - U.S. politics over the next four years will be rooted in patriotism and religion, an 'explosive combination' that will require Latin Americans to 'arm themselves with strength, courage and bravery,' according to Portuguese writer José Samamago, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. Saramago spoke to writers and journalists this week in Caracas, and used the occasion to express his views on what a second term under U.S. President George W. Bush will mean for the region. 'Things will undoubtedly be very bad for Latin America,' the writer predicted. 'You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard,' he said. At an earlier speaking engagement in Bogotá, Colombia, Saramago called Bush 'the biggest liar on the planet.' He added that if the U.S. president ever decides to focus on the region, Latin America should tremble with fear. 'I could say the same about Africa, but I don't want to create an international panic,' he joked. Turning his attention to the rest of the world, Saramago told his audience in Caracas that the United States will never leave Iraq, 'because it needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.' He also predicted, however, that the situation will become more complex when new competitors emerge to challenge U.S. power, such as China, India and perhaps Brazil. 'I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been,' said the 82-year-old writer, adding that whenever he addresses the subject of international politics, 'I always ask two questions, and only two: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?' But he asked the journalists in Caracas a third question, to illustrate his point. 'Can you just imagine what Bush would say if someone like (Venezuelan) President Hugo Chávez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, even if it was way off in Alaska, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?' The question provoked an outburst of laughter from his audience. Saramago was in Venezuela ahead of an international congress that will be held next month, a gathering of intellectuals in solidarity with the process of political and social reforms being undertaken by Chávez, which the president refers to as a peaceful 'social revolution'. 'It's not that I'm pro-Chávez, nor do I believe in strongmen or messiahs, but Hugo Chávez is someone who wants to make changes, and he has found the way to reach straight into the hearts and minds of the Venezuelan people,' he stated. Saramago also had harsh words of criticism for the Venezuelan opposition. 'For someone like me, it is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. It is an insult to common sense, and I personally cannot comprehend it.' The writer recalled that Chávez and his associates have won a majority of votes in eight elections over the last six years in Venezuela. These include the presidential recall referendum on Aug. 15, when voter turnout was exceptionally high and 59 percent of those who cast their ballots wanted Chávez to remain as president of their country. Venezuela 'has had a highly troubled recent history,' noted Saramago, adding that he hoped Chávez would be able to bring 'this unique experience' to a successful conclusion, despite the fact that Latin America and the Caribbean are now facing 'four complicated years, which will be marked by tensions and neo-colonial aspirations.' Chávez was unable to meet with Saramago, as he is on a presidential tour to Russia and the Middle East. However, Venezuelan public television provided viewers with a unique interview with the Nobel laureate conducted by Vice President José Vicente Rangel, formerly a prominent investigative journalist. Saramago, who had just been in Rosario, Argentina to take part in the 3rd International Congress on the Spanish Language, emphasised that he speaks about politics 'willingly and deliberately.' He also noted that his most recent novel, Lucidity, is 'openly political, unlike the previous ones,' which include Baltasar and Blimunda, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, and The Caves. Lucidity is about an imaginary city (the same one in which his 1995 novel Blindness was set) where the majority of voters decide to cast
[CTRL] Fw: Ukraine Coup, Part III
-Caveat Lector- November 2004 - USraeli UKRAINE Coup: THE END - HURRAY, HURRAY, HURRAY, HURRAY! Part III (last) We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. - Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia La comedia est finita. Get out the corpses. The Ukrainian parliament of USA have declared the elections results were not valid and in addition humiliated the people of the Central Electoral Commission, and recommended to all of them to sign their resignations. Right. They have been rather naughty: they have declared the wrong candidate for the future president of the former comparatively independent state of Ukraine after today it will be only one more client state of USA/EU/NATO/OSCE/NED/CIA/MOSSAD/SOROS/ maybe even MPRI* and Madonna plus Arnold the Ugly Muscle from California. New members of the Central Electoral Commission will be elected when Yushchenko of USA is ready with the list of names of suitable people. It doesnt matter how people will vote and even whether they will vote or not. We know who will be the next president of Ukraine of USA. Hurray. The Ukrainian people should remember forever those MP who voted in such a way today 27.11.2004. In the next years they will have many reasons to remember that Day of Treason and the names of the Traitors who sold their Motherland to the Beast of USA without batting an eye. If you keep them under watch, you will soon mark the new flats houses cars that will crop/pop up in their families; you will soon notice the sweet life of their sons and daughters. Gold/dollars and swords/F16/Mothers of all Bombs, the long new range of deadly weapons*etc. These are the tools of the World Conqueror coups and military triumphs. (By the way, its interesting how much Mr. speaker of the ukrainian parliament has been given. How much is the Market Price now of a Parliamentary Speaker? How much is the Market Price of a country? Of a Motherland?) - "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared" -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC - I am not going to comment the coming grand pillage under the IMF titles of privatization/structural reforms, the kicking away of all the social protections the Ukrainian people enjoy now - the future pauperization of the Ukrainian people, that will naturally follow. Neither will I comment the political tightening the impossibility to protest anymore if you cannot steel yourself against getting dragged along the streets and in courts, the uniform servile media. I think about the people that will go with the winds like dry autumn leaves Some of us here, the Balkans people - especially the much suffering people of YUGOSLAVIA, know too well what will follow during the inevitable process of democratic hygienization of the newly acquired colony of USA. Because there are still people that can be neither frightened nor bought. They might threaten the democtratization and should be efficiently cleared away. Here step in MPRI and the other brother agencies advertised by Abu Graib, Iraq. And the Mossad professionals. Or maybe not maybe the UKRAINE FASCISTS will prove to be quite enough for all the wet operations planned? I see them even now fervently filling up their lists of the Doomed There will be numberless mysterious car accidents in Ukraine of USA, direct kills, mysterious deadly heart attacks in the police stations of the UKRAINIAN DEMOCRATS... Some Ukrainians will be charged - dragged to prison and sentenced to long prison terms. (That holds true especially for those who have talked today about referendums and autonomy in Ukraine. Do it really if you do not want to leave behind orphans and widows! And also for those MPs who have refused today to throw themselves on their bellies in front the USA blood-dripping boots - the ones that have not voted the right way - if there are such)
[CTRL] Fw: Ukraine
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 2:49 AM Subject: Ukraine November 2004 - USraeli UKRAINECoup on Hot Run: Hip, Hip HURRAY! Q: Why will there be never a coup detat in Washington? A: Because there is no American embassy there. From William Blums latest book, Freeing the World to Death, p. 226 (www.killinghope.com) We, who are still alive in the 21st Century, cannot complain of a lack of grandiose or not so grandiose but in both cases picturesque entertainments pertaining to a circus performance. One could have had a good laugh if the Empires circuses had not been dressed with a breath-taking abundance of blood, excruciating pain, suffering, broken hearts and hopes, wild destructions. The old passion for coup detat of the World Government Behind the Scene and its Hit Force, the contemporary Empire of Evil, USA the Great, at the moment is in full swing in poor UKRAINE, the fresh-new victim of CIA/NED (the Republican Institute, the Democratic Institute, and the other NEDs branches), SOROS Foundations plus the numberless NGOs (for human rights, ecology etc.) paid and instructed by the Empires specialists in these matters. The organizers INSIDE are assiduously helped and supported OUTSIDE by notorious OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), covered with the glory of their dirty doings in Kosovo in 1998-1999, in Belarus, in Georgia in 2003 and the internal conflicts there, in Chechnya - and everywhere the Empire of Evil needs their loyal supporting screams; the EUROPEAN UNION that, it seems, has at last taken the decision to stop being OLD and MOULDY and get YOUNG and MODERN i.e. to be supportive of the Empires plans, aspirations, coup detats - and maybe its coming War on IRAN?? (The Dutch EU puppet of USA will be allowed to lick the right boot of an Empires soldier, freshly back from FALLUJAH, the present democratic USA Paradise on Earth. The licking of the right one has been won by Schroeder who also declared he does NOT accept the UKRAINEs Elections results! Maybe he has a Ukraines citizenship? No? Schroeder! You should be sent to FALLUJAH!) by SAAKASHVILI of USAs Georgia, who are in Kiev waving the Georgia flag - imagine only! The (Georgian) Kmara = Otpor (Serb word) = resistance have WORKED in Ukraine for several months before the Elections, and it has ALL THE RIGHT to be now in Kievs streets waving the Georgian flag! CIAs (Serb) Otpor, experienced in some successful coup detat (Yugoslavia, October 2000, Georgia, November 2003/Adjaria, the summer of 2004), and some unsuccessful ones (Belarus) have WORKED in Ukraine for months on a run before the Ukraines Elections and now they are also in Kiev, organizing, kicking the YOUNG FOOLS and IGNORANTS in the streets. Lets rejoice that at least they are not waving the Serb Flag in Kievs streets and squares. (Here is what a disgusted Serb Friend wrote to me re CIAs Otpor: The OTPOR people are not from Serbia. They are from 'Soros-land" or "Money-land", whoever gives first.) Mistakes of the USAs Local Players The interesting thing is that, notwithstanding the number of the experienced Ukraines coup detat organizers helpers supporters both in practice and words the local players made some rude mistakes. First mistake They signed the Elections protocols and all the Elections paper, Putin said in Hague yesterday. It means they have accepted the results! And they were announced! The Ukraine TV Inter informed us the same in its expanded Wednesday evening broadcasting. Second mistake Yushchenko, the new USAs puppet on a string, also made a rude mistake: according to the Ukraine TV Inter Wednesday evening, he declared he would start negotiations. (By the way, what negotiations? Negotiations for what? Has Bush negotiated with Kerry? Could Yanukovic step back from his pre-Elections promises and accept Yushchenkos program? Not likely. Then, again, what negotiations? The CIA/NED clever ones keep gathering my eyes together with their non-stop flow of manipulative suggestions leading resisting people to blind alleys!) In Wednesday evening the 15 millions of Ukraine voters - supporters of Yanukovic - started celebrating! Alas, too early, it seems. The Beast of Empire is like a bulldog with its characteristic backward bite: when the Beast digs its awesome teeth in a country, it NEVER lets it go! These days I keep thinking about Yugoslavia of October 2000 About CIAs Otpor having gone berserk in the Belgrade streets about the despicable, criminal collaboration of the Belgrade police and army people about that very much democratic mayor of Chachak with his bulldozer roaring in the centre of Belgrade the burning Parliament The cruelly beaten people both men and women! - in the offices of the Socialist Party of
[CTRL] COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF SERBS FROM THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL - PODGORICA
-Caveat Lector- COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF SERBS FROM THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL PODGORICA The Bosnian(Notingham) sheriff, Paddy Ashdown, never stops surprising us. Just when we think that he is not able to invent any new misdeed, he comes up with the novelty. He is responsible for the recent arrest of one Karadzic, who recently made it public that Ashdown was for several years receiving from his brother Radovan, money for lobbying. As soon as he revealed this, and as soon as Radovan stopped giving money to Ashdown, Luka was arrested according to the order of the Montenegro police. Montenegro authorities with this proved again that they donot choose the way to play up to Europe, no matter which. If Ashdown was representative of cultural, civilized, just Europe, it would be easier to swallow, but he is the representative of the pickpocketing racketeering colonial Europe, he is plain pockets cuter, functional profiteer, deliverer, informant, in one word, European scum, that by some chance came to the position that enablescleverand cunning person to fill the pockets, to secure the pension, to buy houses and antiques, all that through turning the aborigines, as colonizerstreat the local population, one against the other. The European hypocrisy is so big that when you say to Ashdown that he is a scum, or to Carla Del Ponte that she is prostituting international law, entire petite bourgeois Europe screams, and accuses you for the bad and uncivilized manners. Simultaneously however it does not consider it to be uncivilized and in bad taste to take the racket from those indicted by the Hague Star Chamber. As if this was a refined conduct to take revenge for the public revelation of the criminal conduct through the arrest, removal from office of the entire set of elected officials just in one entity, persecution of the family and friends of the one who stopped to pay for the racket, kicking people with boots in the ass, sanding paid war dogs to beat the life out of priests, to kill innocent people, sadistically torturing presently weaker opponent. And the so called Montenegro authorities transform themselves gradually into comico-tragical variety: arrests innocent people (weaker side), drowns the river Tara, in spite of all protests from inside and abroad, (in order to get petty profit), drowns the language as well, in spite of history, tradition, literature, parents, children. So, why would not this "authority" than arrest as well Luka Karadzic, when this can bring one plus in the evaluation of the credits for the destruction, separatism, quarrel and divisions, that are maybe just the kind of relations needed by the Ashdowns masters. For the Committee, Nada Lazarevic Mitrovdan, 2004. Podgorica www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [JUGOINFO] Hasbro vs. Collon/EPO
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:46 AM Subject: [JUGOINFO] Hasbro vs. Collon/EPO --- ENGLISH --- Hasbro - Wolfowitz against Collon - EPO : new developments VANESSA STOJILKOVIC Our mail box could not follow. Since you answered so many after our article « Wolfowitz (Pentagon) tries to bankrupt Michel Collon's publisher ». Also to order the famous book Monopoly - From Kosovo to World Conquest via Control of Energy Corridors so ferociously attacked. The English edition is coming soon under a new title. Here some reactions from the public. In one word : general indignation and calls to defend firmly freedom of expression. And on Hasbro's side ? Interviewed by an important Belgian daily paper (see below), they seem changing their position, embarrassed because of this pressure from the public. Reactions from the public : - To Al Verrechia, president of Hasbro, and Alan Hassenfeld, president of the council, 1027 Newport Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island USA : « As an academic researcher interested in issues of Corporate Social Responsibility, I find it particularly deplorable that Hasbro, which prides itself on its commitment to CSR principles, demonstrates so little commitment to similar principles; namely, the right of opinion and of free speech. Clearly Hasbro's principal aim is censorship: to prevent EPO from publishing similar books in future. As a mother of two pre-school aged children, I plan to boycott your products as long as this trial continues and will encourage friends and family to do likewise until the proceedings are dropped. (N. P. Belgium) - « Since End Year Gifts are approaching, this makes us possible to become more conscious about the links between toys industry and weapons industry. Let' it known!!! » (Françoise B., France) - « Those bastards have no mailing on their web site, or am I wrong ? I would like to tell them I will never buy any product of their company anymore. Courage! » (D.P., professor at the University of Rennes, France) - « As an act of solidarity againt this trial indirectly organized by Wolfowitz, I am ordering 3 copies of Michel Collon's book, Monopoly » (C.C., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales, Paris) - « Crazy. We must do something here in Italy. I will forward this as much as I can! » (G.P., Roma) - « Disgusting, the Pentagon attacking EPO, the best publisher in Dutch language. I am 100% solidair. » (R.M. professor Universiy of Twente, Netherlands) - « This harassment is absurd, but potentially dangerous as well, as you know. I recall what happened to a British Marxist journal - was it Marxism Today? - that dared to criticize a journalist for concocting a Serbian death camp in the Balkans. » (G.P., London) - « From now on, be very carefull. Words 'War' and 'Love' were maybe also patented in the last days. » (mouvement antipub.be) - « Why this trial now ? They take the risk to make a strong promotion of that book! » (G.L. France) - « 'I am buying the Joseph Vernet street ! This happens in the Avignon - Monopoly just edited by Winning Moves France (filial of Hasbro), who invites you to bet on the main streets of the town, with the hope to become rich in a record time, the time of one game...' Non, I will not accept that invitation at lunch from Monopoly - Avignon, but I will write an article, reminding how the company sets on harming Michel Collon. And I find scandalous to make the apology of speculation in a town where it becomes difficult to find a home, precisely because of speculation» (A journalist from Provence, France) - « I hate that 3rd Court of Paris who just condemned publisher EPO to silence. They are making the best publications up to now. All those who worked to present the colonial war of Nato in the Balkans as a humanitarian intervention, have no interest the truth to be known. Many would not survive. Bravo for all what you do! » (G.J. Geneva) - « I find disturbing, considering the philosophy Hasbro pretends to have, this judiciary relentlessness againt company EPO for having published this book. (R.M. Belgique) - Many sites and medias published articles and comments in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Africa... Reaction from Hasbro : The Belgian daily De Morgen spent a long article on this : «Why would the firm that grew up so big with Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, My Little Pony, GI Joe, Beyblade, Playskool and plastics derived from Star wars and Superman would have as ambition to make crumble the publisher EPO ?» The very famous journalist Douglas De Coninck, interviewed Pascal François, director for judicial matters of 'Hasbro - Paris. François tried to demonstrate that Paul Wolfowitz had nothing to do with this case, that would be just commercial, and not politic. But he also admitted that Hasbro was not
[CTRL] Fw: Otp
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 5:50 AM Subject: Re: Otp Friends, I mail to you an excerpt from a mail of mine to a Serb friend - I think it is important that you read it too. ... In connection with Yugoslavia I am blocked additionally also because of another reason. It is called OTPOR. You surely know what the Serb OTPOR did in Georgia last year? What the Serb OTPOR did in Adjaria through - and with! the mirror Georgian organization Kmara (= OTPOR!) created by the same Serb OTPOR in Georgia around the Georgian Elections in 2003? You know maybe that the Serb OTPOR is in UKRAINE (!!!) - for almost a year already! - working for the Western candidate together with the Georgian KMARA and the Ukrainian PORA (created meanwhile in Ukraine)! The OTPOR-KMARA-PORA are in the streets in some of the Ukraine cities and towns since the Elections on Sunday, 31 October 2004, the idea being to attempt a coup before the second tour of Elections on 21 of December 2004! One couldnt help remembering the Yugoslavian Elections in September 2000! One couldnt help remembering the Georgian Elections in the Autumn of 2003! I have not heard that anybody in Yugoslavia has tried to do something about the Serb OTPOR of CIA from Langley, Virginia, US. The CIA thugs might be more than the Serb ones in the so-called OTPOR but all the world knows that it is the Serb OTPOR that is killing our hopes in Georgia and Ukraine! (They also tried to do the same in Belarus!) OTPOR - the CIA SERB team for coups all over the world! My personal problem is that OTPOR and its activities blocks me very effectively indeed when I try to write something about Serbia now or even about Yugoslavia. If OTPOR is a PR exercise, it is remarkably successful. It has grabbed even people like me - imagine only! Neither one of their gruesome PR exercises in 1998/1999 Racak, Srebrenica, Saraevo, etc. had reached me. But Their CIA SERB OTPOR has reached to and is sucking at me all right! It is very important for you, the Serb people and patriots, to start doing something about the Serb OTPOR of CIA. You are losing true friends very quickly - and it is not time for losing friends! Start writing about OTPOR! Get down the masks of the Serb highly paid mercenaries in it! Prove that it is CIA organized and NED financed! Publish the names of the Serb OTPOR thugs and point down the names of the CIA thugs - instructors working with them. There are Serb patriots all over the world - some of them have access to documentation, and specific Internet sites! Roll up your sleeves and start unmasking and denouncing OTPOR you have no time to lose! Denouncing the Serb OTPOR is much more important NOW than denouncing their PR lies re Srebrenica, Saraevo, Dubrovnik, Racak! It is high time that all the Serbs and their friends all over the world should understand what a BLACK spot (very mildly said!) is throwing on them the Serb OTPOR of CIA! PLEASE, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT! Blagovesta Do you Yahoo!?Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [Anti-imperialiste] Digest for ANTINATO@topica.com, issue 3785
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 1:37 PM Subject: [Anti-imperialiste] Digest for [EMAIL PROTECTED], issue 3785 + ANTI-IMPERIALISTE la liste de http://chiffonrouge.org + -- Topica Digest -- HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM --- Russia's Zyuganov: Western Intelligence Services Interfere With Ukraine Vote By [EMAIL PROTECTED] NATO To Train 1,000 Senior Iraqi Officers A Year: NATO Commander By [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ex-USSR: Four Autonomous Republics Hold Joint Exercises Against Attacks By [EMAIL PROTECTED] NATO Calls For Sole Command Of All Military Operations In Afghanistan By [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany: Serbia Is 'Strategic Partner To Be Euro-Atlantic Incorporated' By [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-200,000 Civilians Have Died From Iraq War And Aftermath: Lancet By [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Jackson Heads Up Think/Spy Tank Delegation To Georgia By [EMAIL PROTECTED] With NATO On Its Borders, Belarus Plans Major Boost In Air Defense By [EMAIL PROTECTED] Afghanistan: Bomb Attack On US Convoy Injures Three Troops By [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Absurd Concoction': Russia Reacts Angrily To US Iraq Explosives Charge By [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:46:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Russia's Zyuganov: Western Intelligence Services Interfere With Ukraine Vote http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10715524 Interfax October 28, 2004 Zyuganov blames West for interfering in Ukrainian vote MOSCOW - Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov believes that Western intelligence services have crudely interfered in the situation in Ukraine in the run-up to the October 31 presidential election. I have been in Kyiv for a third day and I see for myself that the numerous actions of local opposition bear the earmarks of those groups that at different times tried to destabilize Prague, Budapest and Bucharest - the earmarks of U.S. special services, he told Interfax on Thursday. Zyuganov said he would not forecast the election results or interfere in the electoral race in a neighboring Slavic country. Russian communists support Petro Symonenko, the leader of Ukrainian communists, who is running for the presidency, he said. Zyuganov would not say who Ukrainian communists will support if the choice in the second round of elections is between the two front runners, Viktor Yanukovych and Victor Yushchenko. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:53:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NATO To Train 1,000 Senior Iraqi Officers A Year: NATO Commander http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041028145729.of2ouuj0.html Agence France-Presse October 28, 2004 NATO chief says it hopes to train 1,000 senior Iraqi officers a year MONS, Belgium - NATO aims to train around 1,000 senior Iraqi military officers a year as part of its military aid programme, the organisation's supreme commander, US General James Jones, said Thursday. About a thousand a year - that is pretty significant, he told reporters at NATO headquarters in Mons in southern Belgium. Jones declined to say how many NATO instructors would be sent to Iraq or what kind of force would be deployed to protect them, saying it depended on the willingness of member states. Senior officers suggested the number could be between 350 and 3,000, though the higher figure was judged very unlikely. I think it would need not exceed 3,000,Jones said. I'm confident it will be less than that. The NATO contingent will work on three fronts - developing a military academy on the outskirts of Baghdad, channelling supplies of military equipment donated by alliance members and advising officers in the new Iraqi army. Jones submitted earlier this week an operation plan to put into effect the training mission. This is being considered by NATO's military committee before being passed to ambassadors from the 26 NATO member states for approval later this year. At present fewer than 70 NATO personnel are in Baghdad where they have already begun training military headquarters staff. Now we are working out of the Green Zone (a fortress-like compound in the centre of Baghad that also houses the US and British embassies among other official buildings) but we are looking at alternatives to base trainers outside, a senior NATO spokesman in Baghdad told AFP Wednesday. Jones said he could not say whether the military academy would be functioning by January, the date set for general elections in Iraq. Sixteen or 17 nations out of the 26 have
[CTRL] SLAVES DO NOT VOTE
-Caveat Lector- SLAVES DO NOT VOTE How are called people whose houses are torched with impunity, whose children are killed with impunity, whose women are abducted, who can not move freely, whose labour fruits and holly shrines are being destroyed and who must not have their homeland? Some call them Kosmet (shorthand for Kosovo and Metohija, the full name of this Autonomous Province of Serbia, meaning black-birds field and the church land, translators note) Serbs. I call them Serbian slaves, because Albanians and their tutors (KFOR and UMNIK) have taken everything from them, except the right to vote. Serbs have for long time now lost their faith in European Union and her Big Brother form across the Atlantic, and they also lost the hope that they would bring them anything good. It was only normal therefore that Serbs do not go out to vote for the Kosmet Assembly. They could not give the legitimacy to the creation of one more Albania on the territory of their country. We can also understand the frustration of European Union and of her Big Brother. No liar likes to be told that s/he is a liar, including Brussels and Washington, who do not like when one people, even when it is the case of demonised Serbs, shows them that it saw through their deceit. Kosmet is officially under the protectorate of the "International community" and NATO, but in essence it is the latifundium of Albanian narco dealers and terrorists that are masked in the clothes of businessmen and politicians. Serbs owned the majority of land in Kosmet, before the arrival of the Western occupation forces in 1999, and now when more than 30 Serbs are driven out, they still own one half of the Kosmet land. Serbian land, houses, their monasteries and churches form Middle ages Albanians are systematically destroying, and this is looked at kindly by both KFOR and UMNIK. Recently the representative of the Baptist community form New York, former American sportsman Michael Faucner visited Kosmet. Astonished by the destructive barbarism of Albanians, stated kneeling in front of the ruins of the monastery Devich: "This is racism of the kind I have never seen before, racism of the white man toward another white man. Faucner is by the way Afro-American and knows well what racism is. Albanian racism does not bother UMNIK and KFOR, like the racism of their temporary or permanent allies never bothered Americans. Sometimes I ask myself is not Kosmet experimental polygon for future enslavement and destruction off many states and people who hinder America to remain in the future as well the only superpower in the world? Representative of KFOR-a and UMNIK-a in Kosmet are well paid in order to snatch from one sovereign country, Serbia, the richest part of its territory and to drive away from it the autochthonous people, Serbs. I even think that many "officials" of KFOR and UMNIK are handsomely corrupted by additional resources coming from Albanian narco dealers, sometimes in money form, and sometimes, like in the case of Michael Schtiner, in the form by Albanian brides with big dowry. Even Albanians did not rush out in great numbers to voting polls for their Parliament. This surprised Western commentator, having in mind that Albanians as the national minority in Serbia are being offered independence of the Serbian Province of Kosovo and Metohija through secession and without ever asking the state whose part this Province is. It is the logical question with what is so dissatisfied at least one half of Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija? After the first euphoria of the Albanian population inspired by the terrorists of the "Kosovo liberation Army" that together with NATO pact soldiers from Albania (where they fled because Serbian army and police destroyed their strongholds within Kosmet) ordinary people Albanian minority affiliates began to gain consciousness. It is the fact that for four years during which Albanians rule Kosmet, the life for ordinary small citizens that live form their work did not improve. On the contrary, they lived better with their old-time neighbours Serbs in one lawfully ordered state in which the Constitution and laws were observed. Today in Kosmet sixty percent of work able Albanian population is unemployed, poverty is enormous and only criminalised groups have good living standard. Situation in Kosmet is particularly burdened by the inflow of several hundred thousand immigrants Albanians from Albania that occupied flats, houses and land of driven out Serbs, and accustomed to plunder began to attack even Kosmet Albanian population. Kosmet slowly but surely become the powder keg, what was probably also the intention of Euro-Atlantic allies. I think that the Big Brother from across the Atlantic gave to European Union as a present a kind of Trojan horse, unstable region that can explode any moment. If Kosmet gains independence, the fire will consume Macedonia, Greece and
[CTRL] Fw: [targets-news] KAY CALLS IT QUITS, BUT WILL THE TRIBUNAL LET HIM GO?
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: targetsmonthly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:10 AM Subject: [targets-news] KAY CALLS IT QUITS, BUT WILL THE TRIBUNAL LET HIM GO? Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center board member, Nico Steijnen appears to have successfully effected the resignation of Mr. Steven Kay and Ms. Gillian Higgins The Dutch Bar accepted this line of reasoning and agreed to hear the complaint on the grounds that Milosevic was being represented by Kay against his will Kay, confirming his resignation to the Serbian newspaper Blic, said on Wednesday that We are now forced to withdraw, otherwise we would violate the lawyer's codex. *** KAY CALLS IT QUITS, BUT WILL THE TRIBUNAL LET HIM GO? www.slobodan-milosevic.org - October 27, 2004 Written by: Andy Wilcoxson Slobodan Milosevic Freedom Center board member, Nico Steijnen appears to have successfully effected the resignation of Mr. Steven Kay and Ms. Gillian Higgins, the lawyers appointed by the Hague Tribunal to represent Slobodan Milosevic against his will. Mr. Kay's resignation came on the same day as the Disciplinary Board of the Dutch Bar Association served papers on him. They informed him that he was obliged to appear before the board to defend himself from the accusation that he is representing Milosevic against his will. Mr. Steijnen, who serves as Milosevic's attorney before the Dutch and international courts, filed the complaint against Kay earlier this month, after consultation with President Milosevic. Steijnen's complaint asserts that it is a violation of the Dutch Bar's ethical standards for a lawyer to represent somebody against their will. The Dutch Bar accepted this line of reasoning and agreed to hear the complaint on the grounds that Milosevic was being represented by Kay against his will. Under Rule 60(a) of the Dutch Lawyers Act, the rules and ethical standards of the Dutch Bar bind all lawyers who practice law in The Netherlands (including at The Hague Tribunal). The disciplinary board has the authority to temporarily suspend a lawyer's practice, or to disbar a lawyer so that he is permanently banned from practicing law in The Netherlands. Kay, confirming his resignation to the Serbian newspaper Blic, said on Wednesday that We are now forced to withdraw, otherwise we would violate the lawyer's codex. The Hague Tribunal confirmed that Mr. Kay and Ms. Higgins submitted their resignation. However, tribunal spokesman Jim Landale, said they will remain as defense counsel until the tribunal removes them, or accepts their resignation. I can confirm that the registry has received a request from Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins for their withdrawal from their role as assigned counsel in the Milosevic case, Landale said at a press conference on Wednesday. Both counsel are still assigned to the case until there is a decision otherwise, Landale said. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Kay and Higgins told Agence France Presse on Wednesday, Until the court makes a decision, they will continue to be involved in the case. Because Mr. Kay is the only lawyer familiar with the case, his resignation puts the tribunal in a very bad position, and leaves it with very limited options. The tribunal could reject Kay's resignation, and try to force him to represent Milosevic against both of their wills. In this case a conviction would have absolutely no credibility, because the argument would be made that no defense was put before the conviction was handed down. If Kay is forced to remain, the witness boycott will be intensified. Kay already admitted in the appeals hearing last week that he was ineffective in this trial and unable to say he was acting in the interest of justice. The witnesses will certainly not come and testify for an ineffective lawyer who doesn't want to be there in the first place. Furthermore, forcing Mr. Kay to continue representing Milosevic would put him in a very unfortunate situation. If he continues under any circumstances to represent Milosevic, then Nico Steijnen will proceed with the effort to have him disbarred. The tribunal's other option is to restore Milosevic's legitimate rights and allow him to present his own defense, but this is unattractive to the tribunal because Milosevic's defense would disprove the indictment and severely embarrass the NATO powers that fund the tribunal. Slobodan Milosevic's legal advisor Zdenko Tomanovic told Belgrade's B92 radio that Milosevic's views have not changed. All I can say is that Slobodan Milosevic will continue to insist on the court returning the right which was taken away from him, the right to lead his own defense case. He will not hire an attorney, he will ask for the right which he had, to question his witnesses himself, and to prepare the witness testimony on his own terms. Tomanovic said. According to Tomanovic, if
[CTRL] Fw: [targets-news] BOSNIA: TERRORISM'S LOGISTICAL BASE
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: targetsmonthly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 5:44 AM Subject: [targets-news] BOSNIA: TERRORISM'S LOGISTICAL BASE http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/ BOSNIA: TERRORISM'S LOGISTICAL BASE Defense Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, October 2004 [Terrorism - Staff report] Saudis and Iranians Work Together Through a Bosnian Terrorist Group to Support the Conflict in Chechnya INFORMATION OBTAINED BY Defense Foreign Affairs from a secret Wahabbi terrorist organization based in Bosnia shows how the Saudi and Iranian governments are working together to support combat operations against the Russian Government in Chechnya, and are building a base of future operations in Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus. Moreover, during 2004 the organization they support has expanded dramatically in terms of operations and funding, and has opened a string of new offices and facilities around Bosnia and into Southern Serbia's Raska (Sandzhak) Muslim area. The organization, Kvadrat (Quadrant), a nominally Sunni Wahabbi order, whose members practice Islam from the roots, was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 and uses as its cadres children orphaned during the Bosnia-Herzegovina civil war, indoctrinating and training them in the Wahabbist ideology and in terrorist and guerilla warfare tactics. Kvadrat sends its trained personnel through the green transversal- the Islamist and narco-trafficking safe-haven line - from Bosnia and, through Turkey and Georgia, to Chechnya, where they join al-Qaida- supported Chechen Islamist terrorist and guerilla operations against the Russian Government and the local population. Significantly, the Iranian Government has denied that it supports the Chechen Islamist separatists, a public stance which has enabled Iran to trade with Russia, and, particularly, to acquire Russian advanced military systems. Faced with virtual isolation from sources of supply of main weapons systems - it can still obtain some missile and rocket systems from the People's Republic of China (PRC) and North Korea (DPRK) - and essential political isolation, the clerical Iranian leadership publicly abandoned the Chechen cause, which they had ignited following the end of the Cold War, and proclaimed support for the Russian Government position on Chechnya. In fact, support for the Chechen Islamists has continued to flow unabated from Afghanistan, through Iran and (with bribery) Azerbaijan, into Chechnya. However, the now-clear involvement of Iranian VEVAK (Ministry of Intelligence and Security [MOIS] Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar) intelligence officers in training the youth of Kvadrat, supported by Saudi Government funding and officials, shows how both the Iranian clerics and Saudi Arabia have been working together on the common Islamist mission, despite Iranian claims of friendship with Russia, and despite Saudi Government claims that it is combating Islamist terrorism and, in particular, al-Qaida. Bosnian sources told Defense Foreign Affairs that Kvadrat was, to all intents, an al- Qaida-linked organization, given that its members use the al- Qaida pipeline and fight with al-Qaida forces in Chechnya. Sources close to Kvadrat indicate that the group's members frequently engage in verbal fights with other Muslim religious leaders and are highly critical of other Islamic leaders for not going down the right path. One source noted: The young Kvadrat members have been brainwashed for a decade; since they were little children in most cases. They have been taught to believe that only their zealous approach to Islam is correct; they are fanatical. Kvadrat now operates mainly in the triangle area between Zenica, Tuzla and Sarajevo, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Pezo Adnan is believed still to be the operational leader of the group, although he takes his orders from a leader in Vienna, Austria. Adnan lives in Zenica. and his bodyguard and driver is a known mujahedin, referred to by his nom de guerre, A?it, who came to Bosnia through Zagreb in 1993. A? it was a member of the el-Mujahid terrorist unit in Bosnia from October 20, 1993. El-Mujahid, during Operation Hurricane 95 in 1995, operated as part of the structure of the Bosnian Muslim Army and, as a unit, participated in major war crimes - including beheadings and mass murders of prisoners - against Serb civilians and military personnel in Ozren and Vozuca.[Rasim Deli?, wartime commander of the Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina (RBiH) Army, essentially the Bosnian Muslim force, ordered the formation of the el-Mujahid unit, made up of foreign citizens, on August 13, 1993, in the area of responsibility of the RBiH Army Third Corps. The order was based on a decision by the RBiH Presidency, led by Alija Izetbegovi?, which confirms that the BiH leadership was behind the formation of el- Mujahid. A?it was one of the foreign
[CTRL] KERRY CAMPAIGN FINANCED BY TERRORISTS
-Caveat Lector- KERRY CAMPAIGN FINANCED BY TERRORISTS October 18, 2004 http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kerry101804.htm Written by: Andy Wilcoxson Introduction John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, is being given money by an Albanian terrorist organization known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or UCK in Albanian). The KLA is currently smuggling weapons into Kosovo as part of a plot to attack American and other UN peacekeepers, should the UN Security Counsel refuse their demand for Kosovo's secession from Serbia and Montenegro. About the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA/UCK) In order to fully understand the significance of John Kerry's involvement with the KLA it is first necessary to understand what sort of an organization the KLA is. The KLA is a terrorist organization with ties to Osama bin Laden and the Iranian government. The KLA's main objective is to break Kosovo, which has been an integral part of Serbia for centuries, away from Serbia. The KLA began on the radical fringe of Kosovo-Albanian politics, originally made up of diehard Marxist-Leninists as well as by descendants of the fascist militias raised by the Italians in World War II. [1] The KLA made its military debut in February 1996 with the bombing of several camps housing Serbian refugees from wars in Croatia and Bosnia. [2] In early 1998 the KLA caught the attention of the U.S. Special Envoy for Kosovo, Robert Gelbard. Gelbard told Agence France Presse "We condemn very strongly terrorist actions in Kosovo. The UCK is, without any questions, a terrorist group." [3] The KLA has been credibly linked to the notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden. In 1999 The Washington Times obtained intelligence documents that showed what is described as a 'link' between bin Laden, and the KLA --including a common staging area in Tropoje, Albania, a center for Islamic terrorists. The reports said bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization has both trained and financially supported the KLA. [4] In 1998 Fatos Klosi, the head of SHIK, the Albanian intelligence service, told London's Sunday Times newspaper that Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. His was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, Klosi said. [5] In 2002 the U.S. State Department issued a report giving Iran the dubious distinction of being "the most active state sponsor of terrorism." Their report went on to report that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security were involved in the planning of and support for terrorist acts and continued to exhort a variety of groups that use terrorism to pursue their goals. [6] The Jerusalem Post reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen were training the KLA in 1998. The newspaper said that "Selected groups of Albanians were sent to Iran to study that country's version of militant Islam." The same article went on to report that "millions of dollars have been funneled through Bosnia and Albania to buy arms for the KLA. The money is raised from both Islamic governments and from Islamic communities in Western Europe, particularly Germany." [7] Yossef Bodansky, the Director of the U.S. House Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, wrote a report for the magazine Defense and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy saying that "In the Fall of 1997, the uppermost leadership in Tehran ordered the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps] High Command to launch a major program for shipping large quantities of weapons and other military supplies to the Albanian clandestine organizations in Kosovo. [Ayatollah] Khamene'i's instructions specifically stipulated that the comprehensive military assistance was aimed to enable the Muslims 'to achieve the independence' of the province of Kosovo." Bodansky's article corroborates the Jerusalem Post's account. He wrote that in 1997 "the Iranians began sending promising Albanian and UCK commanders for advanced military training in al-Quds [special] forces and IRGC camps in Iran." [8] In addition to the direct financing that the KLA receives from Islamic terror organizations, the organization also relies on funds raised by the Albanian mafia. [9] The Baltimore Sun, citing western intelligence officials, reported that part of the KLA's funding comes from "powerful Albanian mafia organizations that deal in narcotics, prostitution and arms smuggling across Europe." [10] The London Times reported that the KLA was "an outgrowth of the Kosovo Albanian mafia." Their report said, "these Kosovan criminals operate the most powerful drug-running network in Europe." [11] According to police in the Czech Republic, Kosovo Albanian drug traffickers fund the KLA with proceeds from the heroin trade. "Kosovo Albanian drug smugglers have become a major phenomenon," said Jiri Komorous,
[CTRL] KLA and Kerry - The Brooklyn Connection
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: ANTIC.org-SNN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:02 PM Subject: [srbija_medjusljivama] KLA and Kerry - The Brooklyn Connection Dear all, Go to http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/18793157/ to view Brooklyn Connectie, a Dutch documentary on how the KLA members in the U.S. raise funds for the Kerry Campaign 2004 and for arms and equipment to be sent to Kosovo. The level of frankness on behalf of the main character, Florin Krasniqi, a New Yorker from Kosovo, is more than shocking. The gem of the documentary is Richard Holbrooke's and Wesley Clark's conversation with these men at the Kerry fundraiser... To view the whole documentary, on the right-hand side click on the second link below the Video title that says Bekijk de uitzending DE BROOKLYN CONNECTIE online (breed- en smalband). Though subtitled in Dutch, most of it is in English and you can follow it easily. ENJOY! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/SR.olB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/srbija_medjusljivama/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 3:59 AM Subject: Re To whom it may concern Friends, I am sure many of you will agree with me that the recent developments in Russia are VERY DANGEROUS and THREATENING. We have watched the RAPE and DISMEMBERING of YUGOSLAVIA in silent horrified shock. We have started screaming and kicking TOO L-A-T-E! TOO LATE! All of us are burdened with that TRAGIC GUILT of having been helpless witnesses of a GRANDIOUS CRIME. We have left THE KILLERS of COUNTRIES, NATIONS and CHILDREN to be steps in front of us! We have left them we have watched them - demonize a whole country its leaders its people in silent consternation. And all of us have the pretences of being intelligent HUMAN BEINGS! Neither history nor the next generations if there are such - will forgive us. Now still in our lifetime! THE INSATIABLE VAMPIRES have hungrily dug their blood-dripping fangs into another country. It is clear that the turn of RUSSIA has come. They are starting RUSSIAs RAPE and DISMEMBERING in the same way the parallels are breath-taking. YUGOSLAVIA RUSSIA 1 Place of provoked conflict: Kosovo Chechnia 2 Local players: Kosovo Albanian separatists Chechen separatists 3 Financing: From the Crisis Planners for Political and Economic Global Dominance from beyond the ocean From the Crisis Planners for Global Political and Economic Dominance from beyond the ocean 4 Supervising and monitoring the artificial crisis at place: Carried out by the Usraeli military experts and specialists working mainly in the neighboring regions (Albania) Supervising and monitoring the artificial crisis: Carried out by the USraeli military experts and specialists working in the neighboring regions (Georgia) 5 Organized provocations in Kosovo: killing Serb policemen, both Serbs and Albanians, kidnapping people, burning police stations, houses, shooting Serb teenagers in cafes Organized provocations both in Chechnia and Russia: killing Russian troops, both Russians and Chechens, kidnapping people, carrying out terrorist attacks, blowing up schools, directly shooting children 6 The so-called international community forced the YUGOSLAV Government to let the spies of OSCE/CARE etc. to pour into Kosovo and that was the beginning of the END The USA is starting - directly this time! - the pressure to force the RUSSIAN Government to let -directly this time! - the so-called international peacemakers to pour into Chechnia and that will be the END ITSELF EuroNews is supporting the assault 7 Then infamous Rambouillet came YUGOSLAV Government refused to let the MONSTERS eat out and turn their country into dust without resistance. GLORY TO ALL OF THEM! The RUSSIAN Government? 8 Belgrade and whole YUGOSLAVIA were bombed and terrorized for 78 days. Children were killed infrastructures and plants destroyed How do They plan to proceed with Moscow and RUSSIA if the RUSSIAN Government do not comply with their demands? Any guesses? 9 Where is YUGOSLAVIA today? What about RUSSIA tomorrow? Will it be? Kosovo in YUGOSLAVIA - Chechnia in RUSSIA The most awful part for me is the position to the Chechen problem of people with pretences of being LEFT and PROGRESSIVE, screaming about the true nature of 11.09.2001, the lies in connection with the USraeli Second War on Iraq! But not about the US Administration PR manipulations regarding Chechnia and Russia! IT IS JUST AS IT WAS BEFORE THE START OF YUGOSLAVIAs ANNIHILATION! Then almost all believed the STUPID stories about BAD SERBS who are carrying a brutal war (N. Chomsky) on GOOD ALBANIANS, whose HUMAN RIGHTS were broken and needed protection courageous Albanian Liberty Fighters for Independence, aw-waw! Bla-bla-bla! Look at Palestine and Kosovo in 1998 when the violence in Kosovo was started by the murderous planners beyond the ocean! In the first case you have A PASSIONATE PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE for tens of years on a run! In the second a handful of well equipped, well trained, well instructed Albanian cutthroats, paid by the US taxpayers and working i.e. KILLING! diligently for the ultimate geo-strategical plans and aims of the present Empire of Evil! Now it is the SAME! RUSSIANS are BAD, they break the HUMAN
[CTRL] Open Letter to the so-called Hague Tribunal
-Caveat Lector- Prof. Raymond K. Kent12. 09. 04 To the so-called "Tribunal"To the so-called "Tribunal" trying Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal implicated in "genocide." trying Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal implicated in "genocide."The writer of the ensuing words. after half a dozen texts made public, should not be a stranger to this "Tribunal, "established by Madeleine Albright with initial funds from two Muslim states. >From its inital South African prosecutor, through his Canadian successor, down ro the current Swiss parody, called Carla del Ponte, the "tribunal" has already "convicted" Slobodan Milosevic IN THE PUBLIC MEDIA THROUGHOUT THE WEST FOR ALMOST THREE YEARS NOW. It has even denied him the most basic right of the COLLECTIVE Western Civilisation, namely self-defense.Under the cover of a transparent CHARADE about "concern" for his health, the "Tribunal" has declared, magister dixit, "that he is unable to defend himself," despite and because of the AMPLE DEMONSTRATION TO THE CONTRARY over a SUSTAINED period of time. My first question is WHY TRY HIM AT ALL? Just incarcerte him for the maximum, keep presenting "the Serbs" as neo-Nazi butchers of the Twentieth century's last decade, attack anyone who defends him as eitrher a neo-Communist, an Orthodox Greek, a pro-Milosevic Serb,or any other variety of "incorrect" persons.Just end this travesty of sick, insane, misguided, stupid, asinine, deplorable, disgusting, politically filthy, juridically contemptible, NATO-serving (with its cluster-bombs and depleted uranium war-crime) aggressions against civilians in the Serbian part of Bosnia, at Kosovo and in Serbia proper. Oh, yes, and have a nice day at the "Court." What you do not wish to know, is that all of you at the "Tribunal" are really watched, named and catalogued as footnotes to infamy that destroyed internatioanl law, and behaved in criminal, racist and Fascisto-Stalinist kangaroo ways toward the accused and his own ethnicity. You will be neither forgotten nor forgiven. Cancer has already taken "Judge" May, that non-entity from the bottom-ladder of the British court system (in the Midlands - no Sir Ifor Evans is he). Some other form of cosmic retribution will strike every one of you, sooner or later. Predictably, and at the very least, your guilty individual brains (assuming you have any left) will suffer individually from Catatonic Narcolepsy with all of its pernicious and unpredictable consequences. "Darkness at Noon" seemed like a novel but the Tribunal has gone beyond, into the Twilight Zone while it believed that it controls the vertical and the horizontal as a well-paid, perks-replete puppet. One last word to the "judges" at the Tribunal.: For a fistfull of dollars your souls are already in the Satan's twitching hand. Sleep well as you dehumanize yourselves with the pitiful amount of power granted from elsewhere. You can also laugh this text off but the last laugh will not be on thee. History Department, U. of Califormia Without respect,at Berkeley (510/642-1971)Raymond K. Kent(Emeritus) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [IAC] Letter to Pres. Slobodan Milosevic
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 2:55 PM Subject: [IAC] Letter to Pres. Slobodan Milosevic President Slobodan Milosevic 12 September 2004 Dear President Milosevic, We, the undersigned, are outraged by the decision of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) to impose counsel on you against your will and to deprive you of your lawful and fundamental right to self-defense. Although we previously had agreed to testify in your defense, under these conditions we cannot and will not participate as witnesses in these proceedings. Not only does the Tribunal's decision violate basic legal and ethical norms, it brazenly disregards its own rules. Under Article 21, paragraph 4 of the Statute of the ICTY, a defendant is entitled to certain minimum guarantees, including the right to defend himself in person or though legal assistance of his own choosing. The Statute furthermore states that a trial should be conducted with full respect for the rights of the accused. We can only comment that our understanding of the word guarantee evidently differs markedly from that of the Court's. We can assure you that we remain ready and willing to appear as witnesses in the event that your right to self defense is restored to you and you choose to invite us. We stand united in our belief that the charges against you are false and that they represent a continuation of the war against Yugoslavia and the Serbian people by the U.S. and its NATO allies. We are sending a copy of this letter to the court to inform them of our decision. Signed, Gregory Elich Sara Flounders Barry Lituchy Michael Parenti cc.: ICTY Registry, The Hague Iraq War Crimes Tribunal Thursday, August 26 call 212-633-6646 for more information http://www.PeopleJudgeBush.org for more information Contribute to the War Crimes Tribunal: http://www.PeopleJudgeBush.org/donate.shtml The International Action Center http://www.iacenter.org mail to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ActionCenter.balkan mailing list Anyone can subscribe. Send an email request to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribing and unsubscribing can also be done on the Web at http://www.organizerweb.com/mailman/listinfo/actioncenter.balkan www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [ENWL-eng] QUERY - Hurricanes: Is scalar electromagnetics being used?
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:51 PM Subject: [ENWL-eng] QUERY - Hurricanes: Is scalar electromagnetics being used? Vancouver Independent Media Centre Original article is at http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/09/161025.p hp QUERY - Hurricanes: Is scalar electromagnetics being used? by ecologynews.com =95 Sunday September 12, 2004 at 08:40 PM QUERY - Hurricanes: Is scalar electromagnetics being used? ENVIRONMENTAL WAR DESK http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenewsdes k.html What is your opinion? QUERY - Hurricanes: Is scalar electromagnetics being used? ENVIRONMENTAL WAR DESK http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenewsdesk.html What is your opinion? Here are some comments: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Charley - Scalar Electromagnetics Used? By Michael Edward World Vision Portal.org 8-30-4 First, a brief background regarding Scalar Electromagnetics and how they effect weather and the human mind. The key discovery made by Tesla in the late 1800,s was that the earth itself reverberated with a pulsing electrical current in the low ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) range. Tesla had also discovered the exact frequency at which the earth normally pulsates. These natural waves are created as a result of electrical activity in the atmosphere. Collectively, these waves are called The Schumann Resonance. These are quasi-standing [SCALAR] ELF waves that naturally exist in the earth's electromagnetic cavity, the space between the ground and the Ionosphere. By causing many towers [HAARP, GWEN, etc.] to pulse with the exact ELF frequency of the normal earth pulsation, scientists have learned how to not only create, but also how to maneuver and direct storms. Tesla,s discovery can duplicate almost every single phenomena of nature, from cyclones to tornados; and now, with Solar Power Satellites used in conjunction with land based towers, weather Control is just that simple. GWEN (Ground Wave Emergency Network) transmitter towers bathe the entire U.S. in an artificial magnetic field which can rise from the ground to 500 ft, but also goes down into the ground as deep as a normal basement. Everyone can be affected and mind- controlled. This entire artificial ground wave spreads out over North America like a spider,s web. The natural earth ELF waves are identical to the frequency spectrum of our human brainwaves, and it has been proven that the use of an ELF bombardment - at the same frequency as the human brain - can change a person's thoughts or emotions. In the early 1960,s, Dr Andrija Puharich discovered various mental effects of ELF, specifically that 7.83 Hz (the earth's pulse rate) made a person feel good, producing an altered-state; that 10.80 Hz caused riotous behavior; and that 6.6 Hz caused depression. It has since been discovered that 10 Hz puts people into a hypnotic state. In speaking with everyone I can who survived the direct path of Hurricane Charley, I have begun to see a definite pattern in their stories. At first, it appeared that this was the effect of rapid barometric pressure changes that accompany powerful hurricanes. But people were not just describing the pressure they felt in their ears or the other physical signs of rapid pressure changes. Rather, they were describing extreme mental and mood changes they could not control. About an hour before the center of Hurricane Charley passed over, survivors have described how they became very tired, depressed, and lethargic. While an approaching hurricane would depress just about anyone anticipating its arrival, the depression every survivor has described was not the anxiety depression such anticipation would typically invoke. This was an overall mental and physical depression that even affected them with general body aches and a widespread feeling of non-wellbeing. Almost all said it was as if they were drugged with a pain killer, but without the goofy side effects. They could do the things they needed to do, such as get mattresses into their bathrooms to huddle under, but their thinking seemed surreal. When the eye passed over, they described feeling numbed, both mentally and physically. While a few took a look outside to see if it was all over, most said they just didn,t have a thought to do anything other than sleep and not move an inch from where they were. When the backside of Charley came, the same numbness as in the beginning again overwhelmed them. But what is most interesting is what they all described after Charley had finished its fury, from 1 to 3 hours later. Stupor, hypnotized, trance, under a spell, and zombie were the most common descriptions. Even though they were aware that the hurricane had passed, they were mentally not able to do anything. Some knew it
[CTRL] Fear and Terror, Year Three
-Caveat Lector- ANTIWARThursday, September 9, 2004BALKAN EXPRESS by Nebojsa Malichttp://www.antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=3538 Fear and Terror, Year Three It may not have been obvious in the beginning, when the smoldering ruins ofthe Towers in New York and the burning ring of the Pentagon loomed large inpeople's minds, but the war that followed Black Tuesday three years ago wasdoomed from the start. For a brief moment, there was a historic opportunityto disavow the fundamentally anti-American project of global hegemony,including the support for terrorists who attacked potential rivals. Instead,the Imperial project cloaked itself in the guise of "War on Terrorism" andgained a new lease on life. Needless to say, such a war was subverted in itspurpose from the very beginning: while Afghanistan and Iraq were devastatedin the name of fighting Islamic terrorists, such terrorists enjoyed Americansupport in places such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Chechnya. As the third year of the unwinnable war draws to a close, the tragedy inBeslan testifies that the world is far from being safer; it has insteadbecome a darker and more dangerous place. Rumblings in KosovoOne genie had been left out of the bottle in 1999, when the U.S.-led NATOattacked and occupied the Serbian province of Kosovo, after an illegal78-day bombing campaign ostensibly aimed at protecting the "human rights" ofethnic Albanians. KLA, an Albanian terrorist organization whose claims NATOsupported, moved in with NATO troops and proceeded to ethnically cleanse theprovince. Some 200,000 non-Albanians were expelled while "peacekeepers"looked on, while the evidence for an alleged "genocide" failed tomaterialize. Five years later, 50,000 Albanians rampaged throughout Kosovo whilefrightened NATO troops and UN bureaucrats looked on again. After two days ofterror, 5,000 more Serbs were displaced, and the number of Orthodox churchesand monasteries destroyed since the occupation climbed to 150. A recent report by special UN investigators revealed that the pogrom"overwhelmed the United Nations' mission [UNMIK] and NATO peacekeepers[KFOR] to the point of near-collapse" and that "the 18,000-strong NATO forcecannot currently maintain safety and security in Kosovo." "The [UNMIK] line staff reflected a sense of futility, compounded by a senseof deep frustration over what they experience as an operation adrift, withan organizational culture that inhibits communication, frowns on candor andstymies initiative," says the report, describing the state of mind ofKosovo's occupiers. Even as the report came out, the outgoing German commander of KFOR tried tominimize the March pogrom, which German forces singularly failed to stop.Last week, the command of the occupation force passed to a French general.On that occasion, the French defense minister said: "We're entering a periodof maximum risk. . The situation is calm but extremely fragile." If anything, that is an understatement. Albanians are already sensing bloodin the water and speaking out for UNMIK's removal. Needless to say, theyenvision an independent, Albanian "Kosova" in the aftermath, rather than areturn of the occupied province to Serbia, where it belongs underinternational law. Oblivious to this self-evident desire, the EU isdemanding the remaining Kosovo Serbs to legitimize the occupation by takingpart in local elections. NATO troops, on the other hand, believe thatputting up billboards will enhance security. It seems the UN report was buta brief flash of sanity in a place where the Imperial agenda demandspersistent delusions. Volatile MacedoniaAnother clear-cut case of Empire supporting terrorism against its officialpolicy is Macedonia, where in 2001 the U.S. and the EU forced an isolatedgovernment to surrender to demands of a KLA branch. Under the "agreement"signed in the resort of Ohrid, Macedonia was supposed to be "decentralized"in order to give more power to Albanian ethnic parties on both the local andnational level. The recent proposed redistricting of Macedonia, designed tofavor Albanians, provoked protests and even riots, ultimately leading to areferendum. One would think that Brussels and Washington, posing as paragons ofdemocracy, would support a referendum on such a radical redefinition of acountry. But then, one would have also thought countries that opposeterrorism with words and bombs would not help terrorists - yet they did.Hence, the EU is pressuring Macedonia to drop the referendum, even asagitators for Greater Albania - the driving force of Albanian terrorism -work freely, and with the support of pro-Imperial organizations. Macedoniais in a truly explosive situation, while the Empire is merrily tossingmatches around. Muzzling JusticeAggression and occupation in Kosovo, and the support for terrorism inMacedonia aren't the only Imperial contributions to the ongoing unravelingof civilization. The so-called "international war
[CTRL] Fw: Milosevic on the counterattack
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: mart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:22 AM Subject: Fw: Milosevic on the counterattack - Original Message - From: Jim Yarker [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:21 PMSubject: Milosevic on the counterattackhttp://www.workers.org/ww/2004/edit20909.phpWorkers World, Sept.9, 2004 EDITORIAL Milosevic on the counterattackThe International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, seems incapable of presenting a convincing case against its most famous defendant, even when it stacks all the rules against him. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his defense case Aug. 31 with a blistering political attack, not only on the illegitimate court but also on the NATO forces that created it. Even as Milosevic was blasting the NATO aggressors for working over 10 years to destroy the multi-ethnic and multi-religious state of Yugoslavia, the factual testimony against him presented in two years of the prosecution case was evaporating. The latest pre-defense revelation came out in an article in the Ottawa Citizen, which interviewed a Canadian detective sergeant, Brian Honeybourn. The detective had joined the hunt for mass graves in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo. Honeybourn said, "It seems as though The Hague is beginning to panic" because no one could find mass graves in Kosovo. Honeybourn was on one of the United Nations teams searching for the "mass graves." But the biggest burial site contained 20 bodies--not an astonishing number after a year-long civil war and 79 days of NATO bombs. Milosevic had four hours to present his defense opening. The prosecutors had taken three days to present their opening arguments in February 2002. This is typical of the ICTY: The judges believe if they outweigh the defendant by at least six to one, they will beat him. The prosecution has a team of 1,300 employees at $100,000 each per year; Milosevic has a few assistants and almost no funds. Now, to make sure he will lose, the court plans to strip him of his right to defend himself. They plan to use his illness--high blood pressure and heart problems--as an excuse to impose unwanted counsel on him. Ninety internationally famous lawyers, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, have already protested this last unjust tactic. Milosevic's only advantage is that he is not guilty of the 66 charges against him. And that he can present a powerful political argument against the U.S.-NATO aggressors who tried to bomb Yugoslavia flat to intimidate those they didn't murder. === (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Support independent news http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php= www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: General Ivashov: The Hague and true war criminals
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:37 AM Subject: General Ivashov: The Hague and true war criminals STATEMENT === I, Leonid Grigor'evich Ivashov, citizen of the Russian Federation, in response to the invitation of President of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) Slobodan Milosevic, have agreed to testify for his defense in the process before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I have acted that way in full consciousness, aiming to contribute towards achieving the objectivity and truth on the issues of Europe and FRY in the period 1997-2000. For me, the participation in the Hague process was important due to the following circumstances. First, I was a direct participant of the events considered. Second, I cannot stay away from the fact that the prosecution had as its witnesses several persons who were directly preparing and executing the armed aggression against a sovereign state - the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and who are responsible for killing of hundreds of people and violation of the norms of the International Law. However, the recent decisions of the tribunal have forced me to change my earlier decision. The ICTY, in violation of its own Statute (Article 21, point 4) imposes a counsel on Slobodan Milosevic, who was until then exercising his right to defend himself in person. Among the duties of the imposed counsel are the ones to determine who will appear as defense witness, what will be the character of the testimony and its interpretation. It cannot be considered normal that the counsel imposed against the will of Slobodan Milosevic is a citizen of the country that has been stepping on the norms of the International Law, letter and spirit of the UN Charter and several times performed aggressions against sovereign states, including FR Yugoslavia. In such conditions, when my testimony as a defense witness can be used against Slobodan Milosevic and will not serve the objectivity and adoption of a just ruling, I refuse to take part in the process. At the same time, I confirm my readiness to appear in the process as soon as ICTY creates legally correct and just conditions and respect of norms of the International Law. Head of the Main Directorate for International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation 1996-2001, Vice-Chairman of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Doctor of Historical Sciences, general-colonel (in reserve) Leonid Ivashov Moscow, 9 September 2004 *** www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org * www.sloboda.org.yu * Uvodna rec Predsednika Milosevica u Hagu 31. avgusta i 1. septembra 2004. moze se naci na adresi: The opening speech of President Milosevic at The Hague of 31 August - 1 September 2004 (in Serbian) can be found at: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/uvodnarecC.htm (cirilica / Cyrillic alphabet) ili na / or at: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/uvodnarecL.htm (latinica / Latin alphabet) Grubi (ali zvanicni) stenogram na engleskom, moze se naci na sajtu tribunala: Rough (but official) transcript in English, can be found at the tribunal's web site: http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/040831ED.htm (prvi dan / first day) i / and http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/040901IT.htm (drugi dan / second day). * www.sloboda.org.yu * *** THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC AND THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ARE IN PERIL. JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS' PETITION: http://www.icdsm.org/Lawappeal.htm JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' APPEAL FOR MILOSEVIC: http://www.icdsm.org/more/artists.htm SUPPORT THE ICDSM: http://www.icdsm.org/ * You can find detailed instructions at: http://www.icdsm.org/battle.htm (please also follow the links therein) or * You can make transfers to ICDSM accounts in Europe: Peter Betscher Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Darmstadt, Germany IBAN: DE 21 5085 0150 0102 1441 63 SWIFT-BIC: HELADEF1DAS or Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität (VIS) 4000 Basel, Switzerland PC 40-493646-5 * * THE ILLEGAL HAGUE PROCESS MUST END. Statement by the President of the World Peace Council Orlando Fundora (Cuba) http://www.icdsm.org/more/fundora.htm *
[CTRL] Fw: Uvodna rec Predsednika Milosevica / Opening speech of President Milosevic
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 8:13 AM Subject: Uvodna rec Predsednika Milosevica / Opening speech of President Milosevic * www.sloboda.org.yu * Uvodna rec Predsednika Milosevica u Hagu 31. avgusta i 1. septembra 2004. moze se naci na adresi: The opening speech of President Milosevic at The Hague of 31 August - 1 September 2004 (in Serbian) can be found at: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/uvodnarecC.htm (cirilica / Cyrillic alphabet) ili na / or at: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/uvodnarecL.htm (latinica / Latin alphabet) Grubi (ali zvanicni) stenogram na engleskom, moze se naci na sajtu tribunala: Rough (but official) transcript in English, can be found at the tribunal's web site: http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/040831ED.htm (prvi dan / first day) i / and http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/040901IT.htm (drugi dan / second day). * www.sloboda.org.yu * www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org www.icdsm.org *** THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC AND THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ARE IN PERIL. JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS' PETITION: http://www.icdsm.org/Lawappeal.htm JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS' APPEAL FOR MILOSEVIC: http://www.icdsm.org/more/artists.htm SUPPORT THE ICDSM: http://www.icdsm.org/ * You can find detailed instructions at: http://www.icdsm.org/battle.htm (please also follow the links therein) or * You can make transfers to ICDSM accounts in Europe: Peter Betscher Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Darmstadt, Germany IBAN: DE 21 5085 0150 0102 1441 63 SWIFT-BIC: HELADEF1DAS or Vereinigung für Internationale Solidarität (VIS) 4000 Basel, Switzerland PC 40-493646-5 * * THE ILLEGAL HAGUE PROCESS MUST END. Statement by the President of the World Peace Council Orlando Fundora (Cuba) http://www.icdsm.org/more/fundora.htm * * VIDOVDAN PEOPLE'S RALLY IN BELGRADE ORGANIZED BY SLOBODA to mark the third anniversary of kidnapping of President Milosevic http://www.icdsm.org/more/galery2806.htm ** SLOBODA urgently needs your donation. Please find the detailed instructions at: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm To join or help this struggle, visit: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association) http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic) http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM) http://www.icdsm-us.org/ (US section of ICDSM) http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland) http://www.pasti.org/milodif.htm (ICDSM Italy) http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council) http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [houstonpeaceroundtable] Doing the math on Iraq
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Alyssa Burgin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:55 PM Subject: [houstonpeaceroundtable] Doing the math on Iraq I'm forwarding this timely e-mail from the founder of Texans for Peace. I think it's worth a look, Alyssa Burgin, Outreach Director, Press Secretary, Texans for PeaceOriginal Message Follows Subject: Doing the math on Iraq - 2 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:24:07 -0700 Yesterday (or today depending on how you count) marks the day that 1,000 US troops have been killed in Iraq (est. 36,000). Another 6-7,000 have been injured. In addition, tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed and injured. Bush's planners say the war will last 5-15 years more. Kerry says that he hopes to have troops home by the end of his first term. For the sake of argument let's take a look at the numbers if the war continues for 4 more years. Even without any escalation in the fighting we will see at a minimum: 4,000 US soldiers dead + 28,000 US soldiers injured 144,000 Iraqis killed and injured There are 135,000 US troops in Iraq at present. This would mean 23.7% of all US troops in Iraq killed or injured. Approximately 35,000 of those troops are from Texas. We must stop the war in Iraq http://www.texansforpeace.org/endthewar Charlie Jackson Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/nJ9qlB/TM ~- Houston Coalition for Justice Not War meets every first and third Monday of the month at 7:00 pm. at the HPJC 2115 Taft. For latest info: www.houstonjusticenotwar.org Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/houstonpeaceroundtable/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: North Ossetia, September 2004
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:14 AM Subject: North Ossetia, September 2004 As early as at the beginning of the 90-ies the present Bulgarian Minister of Foreign affairs, SOLOMON PASSI, announced with gusto that Russia will fall apart into three Russias (or more) and at the end (of the Mission!) it will disappear from the political card of the world. Just as They managed to do that to Yugoslavia. To Macedonia. As their plan for Iraq is: it should disintegrate into three Iraqs along religious lines North Ossetia, 1-3.09.2004 Bulgarian TV Channels: The Russians attacked the Beslan school, it was blown up, 100 of Russian troops were killed and hundreds of the hostages. It was most arrogantly insisted that information was coming from the Russian channels. The Russian channels themselves repeatedly announced that it was the murderous mercenaries that had started blowing the school and shooting at the running children. In his program Odnako Russian journalist Michael Leontiev commented on the real criminals who hired paid trained the children-murdering mercenaries. In connection with that he commented also on the way the French Liberacion gloated over the Beslan tragedy. Leontiev gave us the opportunity to have a look at an excerpt from the French Liberacion: it called the children-murdering mercenaries guerrillas and accused Russian authorities for the tragedy. BBC kept accusing Russia Russians Putin for the Beslan tragedy. Kept GLOATING. Kept underlining THEIR actual reason for Beslan horror: Putins hard politics towards Chechnia. Kept discussing the expected fall of his rating. Now, they said smugly, Putin could not escape the discussion of Chechnia at high EU Forums. Was that the end aim of those who ORDERED the murders? We were also informed that the BBC journalists and cameramen in Beslan managed to enter the school and count the dead bodies (at least 100 of them) while the Russian journalists and cameramen were kept at 300 meters at least (or more) from the school and while the Russian troops were still fighting the murderers in the school itself! Was the real plan to take the school - to keep it as long as it proves possible to kill at least a 100 children and as many as possible of the Russian troops - the aim being to achieve international resonance and a basis for attacking Russia and Russian authorities for their politics in Chechnia? That is what a Russian journalist from the Russian newspaper Kommersant announced on one of the Russian TV channels. And his conclusion seems quite logical having in mind the fact that the Children-murderers had no clear demands (!) refused any negotiations any proposals and simply stayed there and terrorized the town the country the world. It is interesting that yesterday nobody commented any demands. Today at last BBC dig out and clearly formulated the mercenaries demand: independence of Chechnia. Yesterday EUroNews commiserated with Russia Russians - Putin was indignant at the terrorists. Today they joined BBC and started talking about the bloody seizure of the school by the Russian troops and asked an explanation for the action of the Russian troops and the many victims. So it seems that the Grand Idea behind the bloody Beslan terrorist act and the other terrorist acts in Russia in the last 15 years and especially the recent ones is: 1/ Independence of Chechnia (from Russia) 2/ Full dependence of Abhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia of USrael. 3/ Joining North Ossetia to South Ossetia i.e. to USraeli Georgia. 4/ Independence of Ingushetia, Dagestan, Vladivostok, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow, Ural, Kamchatka, etc. from Russia. So they have started the long planned full destruction TOTAL ANNIHILATION of Russia. Look at Yugoslavia. Remember it and cry. Blagovesta Doncheva 04.09.2004 P.S. My comments for yesterday, today and tomorrow: The Soviet Union existed quite by itself for 28 years 1917-1945 hated by all the powerful countries in the world. During that tense period of time they tried non-stop to destroy it but COULD NOT! Terrorist acts against the population were UNTHINKABLE notwithstanding the hostile surrounding! The boundaries were SAFELY S-E-A-L-E-D. The Soviet Unions Security agencies were stimulated, adamant, and professional. Russias surroundings of today are EVEN MORE HOSTILE than they were. A practical plan for its full destruction is most diligently followed and recently definitely accelerated! And still its boundaries are DEMOCRATICALLY opened for the USraeli terrorists and their mercenaries! And still the army and the security agencies of new Russia are pitiably INCOMPARABLE to those of the Soviet Union! Conclusion: the terrorist acts inside Russia will continue - till Russia does not start really fighting for itself as the Soviet Union did! I accuse Russian
[CTRL] Fw: For the Annals of Totalitarianism and Dishonor
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From: Vladimir Krsljanin
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 9:57 AM
Subject: For the Annals of Totalitarianism and Dishonor
Case No.: IT-02-54-T
IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:Judge Patrick Robinson, PresidingJudge O-Gon KwonJudge
Iain Bonomy
Registrar:Mr. Hans Holthuis
Decision of:3 September 2004
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
_
ORDER ON THE MODALITIES TO BE FOLLOWED BY COURT ASSIGNED
COUNSEL
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Ms. Carla Del PonteMr. Geoffrey NiceMs. Hildegard
Uertz-RetzlaffMr. Dermot Groome
The Accused
Mr. Slobodan Milosevic
Court Assigned Counsel
Mr. Steven Kay, QCMs. Gillian Higgins
Amicus Curiae
Prof. Timothy L.H. McCormack
THIS TRIAL CHAMBER of the International Tribunal for the
Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International
Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991
("the International Tribunal"),
HAVING ORDERED ORALLY on 2 September 2004, that counsel
will be assigned to the Accused and that the Registrar should endeavour in the
first instance to secure the appointment of Mr. Steven Kay and Ms. Gillian
Higgins as the court assigned counsel for the Accused in these proceedings,
NOTING the assignment by the Registrar of Mr. Steven Kay
and Ms. Gillian Higgins as court assigned counsel for the Accused in these
proceedings on 3 September 2004,
CONSIDERING that it is necessary for the Trial Chamber
to set out the modalities by which court assigned counsel are to act,
PURSUANT TO Articles 20 and 21 of the Statute and Rule
54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,
HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
It is the duty of court assigned counsel to determine how to present the
case for the Accused, and in particular it is their duty to:
represent the Accused by preparing and examining those witnesses court
assigned counsel deem it appropriate to call;
make all submissions on fact and law that they deem it appropriate to
make;
seek from the Trial Chamber such orders as they consider necessary to
enable them to present the Accuseds case properly, including the issuance
of subpoenas;
discuss with the Accused the conduct of the case, endeavour to obtain
his instructions thereon and take account of views expressed by the Accused,
while retaining the right to determine what course to follow; and
act throughout in the best interests of the Accused;
The Accused may, with the leave of the Trial Chamber, continue to
participate actively in the conduct of his case, including, where appropriate,
examining witnesses, following examination by court assigned counsel;
The Accused has the right, at any time, to make a reasonable request to
the Trial Chamber to consider allowing him to appoint counsel; and
Court assigned counsel is authorised to seek from the Trial Chamber such
further orders as they deem necessary to enable them to conduct the case for
the Accused.
Done in English and French, the English text being
authoritative.
_Judge RobinsonPresiding
Dated this third day of September 2004At The Hague
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[CTRL] Fw: URGENT - HAGUE: Imposition of International Dictatorship
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:44 AM Subject: URGENT - HAGUE: Imposition of International Dictatorship HAGUE: IMPOSITION OF INTERNATIONAL DICTATORSHIP NATO/US/UN Tribunal at The Hague decided today to impose a counsel on Slobodan Milosevic against his will. This way this para-judicial creation overran the Nazi court which tried Dimitrov and Apartheid court which tried Mandela. The decision was made immediately after the opening speech of President Milosevic, which was the most concentrated presentation of arguments and historical facts that totally annulled the NATO anti-Serbian war propaganda. This speech also announced the President Milosevic's strategy - to beat the false indictments by proving the real guilt of those who broke-up, bombed and abolished the glorious European nation, Yugoslavia. This is another aggressive crime against this country and its people, against the International Law and against freedom and sovereignty of peoples. At the same time, this is a total denial of the whole international system of human rights protection. Brutal force imposes its own international law to silence, convict and eliminate each political opponent or freedom fighter. This new law is an art of punishing innocent. Our struggle enters a new phase - phase of open struggle against international dictatorship which has absolutely no scrupules. Our struggle, which is people's struggle, remains a struggle for freedom. In our struggle, truth remains our strongest weapon. Our main slogan and our imminent goal is: FREEDOM FOR SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC! RAISE YOUR VOICE NOW! LAUNCH A MOST POWERFUL ACTION NOW! The open dictatorship legitimizes all forms of resistance! SLOBODA/ICDSM 2nd September 2004-09-02 * COMPARE YOURSELF THE ARGUMENTS: ARGUMENTS OF JUSTICE AND LOW THROUGH THE VOICE OF 100 INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS AND LAW PROFESSORS AND POLITICAL ARGUMENTS OF THE EMPIRE THROUGH THE VOICE OF MICHAEL SCHARF, ALBRIGHT'S LEGAL ADVISER AND THE AUTHOR OF ICTY STATUTE. IMPOSITION OF COUNSEL ON SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC THREATENS THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE LIFE OF THE DEFENDANT H.E. Mr. KOFI ANNAN, Secretary General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. JULIAN ROBERT HUNTE, President of 58th Session of the UN General Assembly Russian Presidency of the UN Security Council, To all members of the UN Security Council, to all members of the UN Cc: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia We the undersigned, jurists, law professors, and international criminal lawyers, hereby declare our alarm and concern that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is preparing the imposition of counsel upon an unwilling accused, Slobodan Milosevic. This apparently punitive measure is contrary to international law, incompatible with the adversarial system of criminal justice adopted by the Security Council in Resolution 808, and ignores the court's obligation to provide adequate medical care and provisional release to the defendant. The ICTY, instead of taking appropriate measures to alleviate Slobodan Milosevic's long-standing medical problems, has compounded them. The ICTY has ignored repeated requests for provisional release, to which everyone presumed innocent is entitled, has imposed unrealistically short preparation periods on the defence, and has permitted the introduction of an inordinate quantity of Prosecution evidence, much of which was bereft of probative value, thereby increasing Mr. Milosevic's level of stress, the principal trigger of his illness. Chamber III has been informed of this by their chosen cardiologist. The defendant has been denied examination by his own physician, a further violation of his rights. Now, having brought about the very degradation of President Milosevic's health of which it had been warned, the ICTY seeks to impose counsel upon him over his objections, rather than granting him provisional release in order to receive adequate and proper medical care, a reasonable measure reflected in domestic and international law and practice. The envisaged imposition of counsel constitutes an egregious violation of internationally recognized judicial rights, and will serve only to aggravate Mr Milosevic's life-threatening illness and further discredit these proceedings. The right to defend oneself against criminal charges is central in both international law and in the very structure of the adversarial system. The fundamental, minimum rights provided to a defendant under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, as well as the under the Statutes of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, include the
[CTRL] Fw: An Article
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 5:44 AM Subject: An Article Enclosed I am mailing to you an article by R. Fisk (who keeps wondering all through the article who are the killers - and even suggests that they are maybe the Resistance Fighters! He is either half an idiot or is pretending at being such!)There are talks in Bulgaria that more than 3000 Iraqi scientists are deliberately killed after the fall of Baghdad.Besides the article of that h-id R.F., I havent come across any articles or other materials on the purposefully killing away of the Iraqi scientists, University lecturers and professors, doctors - of the Iraqi intelligentsia!Please, do help me to get articles on that subject - THANK YOU in advance! Best regardsBlagovesta DonchevaThe Balkans19.07.2004 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15ItemID=5882 The War on Learning by Robert Fisk July 14, 2004 UK Independent The Mongols stained the Tigris black with the ink of the Iraqi books they destroyed. Today's Mongols prefer to destroy the Iraqi teachers of books.Since the Anglo-American invasion, they have murdered at least 13 academics at the University of Baghdad alone and countless others across Iraq. History professors, deans of college and Arabic tutors have all fallen victim to the war on learning. Only six weeks ago - virtually unreported, of course - the female dean of the college of law in Mosul was beheaded in her bed, along with her husband.Just who the modern-day Mongols are remains a painful mystery of our story. Disgruntled students they are not. Baathist-hunters some of them might be - all heads of academic departments were forced to join Saddam's party - but none of the murdered Baghdad university staff were believed to be anything more than card-carriers.Even the former president of the university, Dr Mohamed Arawi - a surgeon shot at his clinic a y! ear ago - was regarded as a liberal, humane man. But professors now watch the doors of their lecture theatres as carefully as they do their students. And who can blame them? After all, Dr Sabri al-Bayatiy of the department of geography was shot dead only a month ago, just outside the arts department, in front of many of his students."He was gunned down just over there by the wall," one of his colleagues told me yesterday. "Many students saw his killer but they could do nothing. Two bullets. That's all."Talk to the academics at Baghdad University, and the names roll out. Dr Nafa Aboud of the department of Arabic was murdered just two months ago. Dr Hissam Sharif of the department of history was sitting at the door of his Baghdad home when the killers came, shooting him and two friends.Dr Falah al-Dulaimi, assistant dean of college at Mustansariya University in Baghdad, was shot in his college office last year."What can we do?" Saad Hassani of Baghdad University's Engli! sh department asked me. "Just a month ago, my son Ali - a student in our biology department - was kidnapped. He walked outside the campus on a hot day, took a taxi and the driver offered him a drink of cold water. Then he lost consciousness. When he came to he was in a dark room, blindfolded, and they beat him and tortured him with electricity."Then he heard two groups of men arguing, one lot saying, 'You've got the wrong one'. They threw him out of a car beside a road. But at least they didn't kill him. He will not leave his home now. He flunked his exams. What am I to think?"Other university staff suspect that there is a campaign to strip Iraq of its academics, to complete the destruction of Iraq's cultural identity which began with the destruction of the Baghdad Koranic library, the national archives and the looting of the archaeological museum when the American army entered Baghdad."Maybe the Kuwaitis want to take their revenge for what we did to them in 1991,"! a lecturer said. "Maybe the Israelis are trying to make sure that we can never have an intellectual infrastructure here."Yes, you suggest it could be the 'resistance'. But what is the 'resistance'? We don't know who it is. Is it nationalist? Why should they want to get rid of us? Is it religious? The arts department has become a pulpit for Islamism. But these people are part of the university."In the southern city of Nasiriyah, many departmental heads have received threatening letters, ordering them to leave Iraq. At least one professor in the university has been murdered. The dean of the college of law in Mosul, murdered last month, was the most gruesome killing. "She was in bed with her husband when they came for her," a Baghdad colleague told me yesterday. "They coolly shot both of them in their bed. Then they cut off both their heads with knives."Both arts and science faculty members have been victims. Dr Abdul-Latif al-Maya was working in urban planning in th! e Baghdad University geography department
[CTRL] Fw: Refugee Day
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 1:20 AM Subject: Refugee Day DELIBERATELY IMPOSED NON-DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS AND STRATEGIES - THE GREATEST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND A MAJOR THREAT TO CIVILIZED LIFE ON EARTH June 29th in Bulgaria - like in many other places in the world - was more or less widely marked and celebrated as the International Day of Refugees. Speeches and talks over TV channels and other media, concerts in the parks, cookies, candies and balloons for the children were supposed to show understanding and compassion with the dismal fate of hundreds of thousands of people from the countries in Africa, Asia and elsewhere who are continuously leaving their homes and their lands of birth in a search of a safer dwelling and living for themselves and their families. Many words of supposedly good feelings and good intentions were said. Meanwhile it was noted that most of the money for the support of the refugees in Bulgaria is coming from the so-called NGOs. And the money for the WELL-FUNCTIONING NGOs here (as everywhere else!) is coming mostly from various Institutions and Agencies in the USA and the West. How GENEROUS and HUMANE on their side to remember on that day those multitudes of forcibly displaced people throughout the world and to offer them some verbal or "pocket-money" consolation for their tragic lot! And - HOW NOBLE on the part of UN and the other respective International Organizations to introduce such a World Refugee Day! At the same time it brings however also the sad memories of a number of other, equally UNHAPPY International Days (and Holidays!) that have been somehow instituted and accepted as a kind of a VERY ROUTINE practice recently. The International Day of POVERTY, the International Day of HUNGER, the International Day of UNEMPLOYMENT, the international Day of CHILDRENS MORTALITY are just some of the Headlines in a long list that can be made even longer. PEIOPLE WITH MEMORY may also remember times when such HOLIDAYS simply DID NOT EXIST! It was not because such phenomena were completely ALIEN or even UNKNOWN throughout the history of Humanity or that it had been less susceptible, compassionate or capable of understanding them. The FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE between the world of today and the world of 40-50 years ago was that in those DAYS THEN there was both a WIDESPREAD BELIEF AND DETERMINATION that all those, mildly speaking, UNPLEASANT THINGS AND INJUSTICES could be done away with and SHOULD BE ERADICATED from the life of Humanity. And there was also the necessary POTENTIAL - both economic, technological or human for doing so. What was completely lacking however was the necessary GOOD WILL to encourage all those countries and nations of Africa, Asia and elsewhere to find their own adequate ways and means of developing their own resources and potential for their own good. More than that, even more apparent in the course of time, was the strong determination on the side of the former colonial masters (and USA!) NOT to allow any move towards whatever form of GENUINE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT in the "newly-liberated countries" from which they formally withdrew a couple of decades after the World War II. All those nations were not only progressively deprived of their riches and natural resources, but also got incorporated into a massively destructive NON-DEVELOPMENT "neocolonial" scheme which was started almost immediately with their formal independence. As time was passing by, the sad results of this DEVASTATING SCHEME were becoming - and are getting! - more and more apparent and vivid. For decades before that practically the same NON-DEVELOPMENT "neocolonial" scheme was widely practiced in the "Latin American backyard" of the USA. The many FREE AND INDEPENDENT republics of that, no doubt rich and large subcontinent, could flutter their picturesque national flags and perform their national songs and dances as long as they wished. Their puppet armies could majestically march on National Day, beat their drums and make operetta-style maneuvers in the open. Corrupt ruling "elites" could waste as much of the national wealth and assets as possible on parasitic spending both for themselves and their families. Most luxurious imported cars, shining offices and palaces, overpaid prostitutes - all those EXTRAS of Power were lavishly allowed, tolerated and even encouraged. The only thing UNCONDITIONALLY FORBIDDEN, however, was ANY THOUGHT or even intention of a somehow GENUINE DEVELOPMENT of the economy and the productive potential of the country that may have lasting positive implications on the standards of living and may contribute for a more dignified present and future of its people. In case of a certain VIOLATIONS of this SCHEME, the local puppet army would be requested, for example, to HAVE A MARCH from their barracks to the President' office to
[CTRL] Fw: Iraqi Civilian War Casualties
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:28 PM Subject: Iraqi Civilian War Casualties IRAQI CIVILIAN WAR CASUALTIES Covering the period of March 21 - July 31, 2003 data collection by CIVIC Worldwide Raed Jarrar, Director of Iraq Survey http://civilians.info/iraq/ a note from the director of the survey I was the country director of the first (and maybe only) door-to-door civilian casualties survey. Marla Ruzika was my American partner, the fund raiser, and the general director of CIVIC. Unfortunately, she didn't have the chance to publish the final results until now. I decided to publish my copy of the final results of the Iraqi civilian casualties in Baghdad and the south of Iraq on the 9th of this month in respect to the big effort of the 150 volunteers who worked with me and spent weeks of hard work under the hot sun of the summer, in respect to Majid my brother who spent weeks arranging the data entry process, and in respect to the innocent souls of those who died because of irresponsible political decisions. Two thousand killed, Four thousand injured. Each one of these thousands has a life, memories, hopes. Each one had his moments of sadness, moments of joy and moments of love. In respect to their sacred memory, I would appreciate it if you could spend some minutes reading the database file: read their names, and their personal details, and think about them as human beings, friends, and relatives -- not mere figures and numbers. I led the volunteers in their work in Baghdad, and the nine cities of the south: Karbala, Hilla, Najaf, Diwanyya, Simawa, Nasryya, Basra, Kut and Amara through my weekly visits. I went to the north for a couple of times, and arranged some smaller-scale surveys. The survey teams were from the local areas: I made sure to create groups that reflected the ethnical, religious and gender ratios of the targeted regions. And I designed the survey form, all of which relied on my scientific background I gained from my M.Sc. researches, and relied on the very cooperative spirits of the volunteers and of the Iraqi families. We preferred not to include the military casualties to give our survey a civilian perspective. Civilian: anyone killed outside the battlefield, even if his original job was military (e.g. a soldier killed in his house is a civilian). Military: anyone killed while fighting in a battle, even if his original job was a civic one (e.g. an engineer killed while fighting as a Fidaee). We had primitive and simple tools of research, yet I believe our survey is credible and accountable. I would like to thank my friend Michael Richardson, a writer and graphic designer from Northampton, MA, USA, for his huge effort in designing and publishing the casualties website. -Raed Jarrar, Baghdad ___ portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. For answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.portside.org/faq To subscribe, unsubscribe or change settings: http://lists.portside.org/mailman/listinfo/portside To submit material, paste into an email and send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (postings are moderated) For assistance with your account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To search the portside archive: http://people-link5.inch.com/pipermail/portside/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Reagan Was the Butcher of My People:
Title: "Reagan Was the Butcher of My People:" -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: mart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 1:29 AM Subject: Fw: "Reagan Was the Butcher of My People:" (and attached picture - please distrubute) Forward from mart. (Please see attached picture) = - Original Message - From: Michel Collon Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:12 AM Subject: "Reagan Was the Butcher of My People:" Tuesday, June 8th, 2004 "Reagan Was the Butcher of My People:" Fr. Miguel D'Escoto Speaks From Nicaragua http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/08/1453219 We go to Managua, Nicaragua to speak with Fr. Miguel D'Escoto, a Catholic priest who was Nicaragua's Foreign Minister under the Sandinista government in the 1980s. The 8 years Reagan was in office represented one of the most bloody eras in the history of the Western hemisphere, as Washington funneled money, weapons and other supplies to right wing death squads. And the death toll was staggering - more than 70,000 political killings in El Salvador, more than 100,000 in Guatemala, 30,000 killed in the contra war in Nicaragua. In Washington, the forces carrying out the violence were called "freedom fighters." This is how Ronald Reagan described the Contras in Nicaragua: "They are our brothers, these freedom fighters and we owe them our help. They are the moral equal of our founding fathers." RUSH TRANSCRIPT FATHER MIGUEL D'ESCOTO: First of all, let me start out by saying that, of course, Reagan is now dead. And I, for one, would like to say only nice things about him. I'm not insensitive to the feelings of many U.S. people mourning president Reagan, but as I pray that god in his infinite mercy and goodness forgive him for having been the butcher of my people, for having been responsible for the deaths of some 50,000 Nicaraguans, we cannot, we should not ever forget the crimes he committed in the name of what he falsely labeled freedom and democracy. More perhaps than any other U.S. President, Reagan convinced many around the world that the U.S. is a fraud, a big lie. Not only was it not democratic, but in fact the greatest enemy of the right of self-determination of peoples. Reagan, as you mentioned just a few minutes ago, was known as the great communicator, and I believe that that is true only if one believes that to be a great communicator means to be a good liar. That he was for sure. He could proclaim the biggest lies without even as much as blinking an eyelash. Hearing him talk about how we were supposedly persecuting Jews and burning down non-existent synagogues, I was led to believe really, that Reagan was possessed by demons. Frankly, I do believe Reagan at that time as much as Bush today was indeed possessed by the demons of manifest destiny. Of course, as I say this, I'm quite aware that to the people of say for example, Project for a New American Century, that is counted as a big plus. Because of Reagan and his spiritual heir George W. Bush, the World today is far less safe and secure as it has ever been. Reagan in fact was an international outlaw. He came to the Presidency of the United States shortly after Samosa, a Dictator that the U.S. has imposed over Nicaragua for practically half a century; had been deposed by Nicaraguan Nationalists under the leadership of the Sandinista Liberation Front. To Reagan Nicaragua had to be re-conquered. He blamed Carter for having lost Nicaragua, as if Nicaragua ever belonged to anyone else other than the Nicaraguan people. That was then the beginning of this war that Reagan invented, and mounted and financed and directed, the Contra War. About which he continually lied to the People. Helping the United States people to be the most ignorant people around the world. I said i! gnorant, I don't say not intelligent. But the most ignorant people around the world about what the United States does abroad. People don't even begin to see -- if they did, they would rebel. And so, he lied to the people, as Bushlies to the people today and as they push on, thinking that the United States is above every law, human or divine. And we took the United States, Reagan's United States, his government to court, the World Court. I was Foreign
[CTRL] Fw: Fallujah, Russia, World
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - t: Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:20 AM Subject: Fallujah, Russia, World 19.04. 2004 Irina Malenko For the Sake of Life! Battle goes on, battle sacred and just - deadly battle not for glory but for the sake of Life on Earth! (A. Tvardovski, Vasilii Tjorkin) The blond TV speaker smiled charmingly from the monitor, demonstrating perfect white teeth: A group of British doctors are going to Basra to help lessen the number of Iraqi women dying at child-birth. Children death rate in Iraq is among the highest ones in the world. The group includes nine gynecologists who will teach the local doctors methods that will save hundreds of lives. If I hadnt lived here for so long, I would have had shivers from that arrogant cynicism. Not a word was mentioned why the Iraqi children death rate was so high (or about the role of wonderful, high civilized Britain in the 13-year cruelest sanctions against that country that had eaten out the life of half a million of the Iraqi children!) Nine British gynecologists - for all the 22 million Iraq whose blood is flowing away now under the imperialist US-UK occupation boots Besides, they apparently are expecting applause for their courage and generosity. Just as in the good old times they will teach those savages/aborigines the most simple things. They will carry the light of civilization to the ignorant and the backward. Their ancestors had done just that in the conquered countries during the long colonial years. The majority of the British think so even now: that is what they are being taught at school. It doesnt matter that there is not a trace of the WMD promised by Pinocchio Blair. It was worth while to start that war and exterminate and disable thousands of mothers and children just to be able to send to the country of the most ancient civilization a team of 9 British gynecologists and save the life of hundreds of mothers. Indeed, it should be crystal clear for everybody how lucky these aborigines are! Otherwise they would never learn how to stop a bleeding without operation. At the same time a certain number of still not killed away terrorists dare to resist in some Fallujah! (The TV news reporters only mention Fallujah, and reluctantly at that manipulating us into concluding that what is going there is too insignificant to arrest our attention.) But I have lived here too long to wonder at that performance. Nobody wonders at the deep gratitude of the Iraqi boy to the British (according to the TV broadcasts), the same boy whose family they have assassinated with their smart bombs, and he himself was left without arms. So great British have taken him to Britain and have sewn him new arms in - quite free of charge It is not a joke. I just repeat what they kept saying on their TV news. To joke - for what? It is for crying not for joking. No, one should not cry but think how to prevent the offensive of these civilized no-men on the rest of the world. (Remember that the situation with the NWO and the human rights at home is not exactly what they wish it should be - besides, the most important: there are heaps of oil in Russia, arent there?) Maybe Roman Abramovic, the newly popped up richest man in Britain- the quantity of what he has plundered from our country has left far behind him the members of the! kings family! - will help them siphon the Russian oil without bombing and other military actions? At least for the fact that the British have included him in their list of the rich men in the country. The recognition of the most civilized representatives of human race - the masters of the world! - is a great achievement indeed for the former servant - he and his likes have looked up to them in admiration since childhood He is not an exception - it is the same with any plunderer of his peoples riches - as f.i Central African Jean Bedel Boccase (?) who has declared himself an Emperor When a nobody like Abramovic bought their best football team Chelsea, the British writhed for some time out of decency. But - money does not smell, does it? Everybody has noticed that now the British look upon that money as theirs - the same 7,5 billions, earned with the labor of our Russian people and siphoned abroad in growing degrees by Abramovic. Do you, Russians, agree with that? Of course, nobody will ask for your opinion on the subject. Still, maybe you, Russians, have at last started to ask yourselves how much truth there is in that widely distributed idiotic myth in Russia even now, namely, that the Western imperial nations as Britain have created their wealth only by their intelligence and hard work! And if we press on, as we should, we will live at least as the average Englishman if not like the Prince of Wales! Abramovic and Berezovskii have found the country most suitable for their mentality: a country built totally out of the cruel bloody pillage of other countries riches and their
[CTRL] Fw: Assasination of Nikita Domochko in the Ukraine
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 11:24 AM Subject: Assasination of Nikita Domochko in the Ukraine Comrades! We call on you to express solidarity with the struggle of the oppressed masses of the Ukraine. We ask you to send letter of protest to the bourgeois authorities of the Ukraine for the assassination in Kharkov of the student Nikita Domochko. We quote below the corresponding addresses. Comrades are also encouraged to address letters of protest to the embassies and consulates of the Ukraine abroad. Editorial board of Proletarskaya Gazeta Generalnaya Prokuratura Ukraini: 01601, Ukraina, MSP, Kiev-11 ulitsa Riznitskaya, dom 13/15. Generalnomu prokuroru. Fax: +380 44 290 26 03 President of the Ukraine: 01220 Ukraina, , Kiev-220, ulitsa Bankovaya, dom 11. President L.D.Kuchma, Fax +380 44 255 6161 Kharkov On April 10th 2004 the third year student of the sociological department of the state pedagogical university, Nikita, Demochko, the son of a well-known civil rights activist, Elena Ivanovna Domochko, was buried in Kharkov. Nikita was tortured and assassinated in his own apartment. His body was found with broken arm, leg, fingers, ribbons, numerous fractures in the skull and head. According to specialists, sympathizers of the left movement in that country, this assassination has been carried out by professional fanatic-sadists. We presume that this crime is meant to punish his mother for her active struggle against privatization and police brutality. In the Ukraine, the authorities have been turned into a common practice the indictment and arrest of innocent people and the application of physical, psychological and psychotic terror. Elena Ivanovna Domochko organized a picket line on April 2nd 2004. It was at that point that she noticed being followed by suspicious individuals. Group of comrades from Kharkov Kharkov, the Ukraine, www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fallujah again...
-Caveat Lector- In memoriam More than six hundred Iraqis children, women, men, both young and elderly people are killed only in Fallujah since 4th of April 2004 More than a thousand are wounded, and most of them will be disabled for life Iraq, Italy, Japan, Russia Falludjah? IRAN?!? Italy Has anybody heard what Berlusconis opinion on the USAs SLAUGHTER in Falludjah is? Has the Italian Foreign Minister - some Franco Frattini - made a statement on Fallujah? Has the Italian Parliament expressed an outrage at what is going on in that town and everywhere in Iraq? Have they all any opinion on the bloody events there? SHATTERING SILENCE IS THE ANSWER! Why should anybody comment the World Masters SLAUGHTER in Fallujah and in whole Iraq in general for more than a year? Why should anybody shed a tear plead for mercy shout a threat just because of the slaying of some flies sorry, some thousands of Untermenschen as the Iraqis? (It is not a good idea to spoil the good Master-servant relations with Uncle Sam, is it?) Re: Italian Hostages Four Italians were taken hostages in Iraq, one was killed. And a whole Italy started screaming: Assassins! Killers! Murderers! Italy cannot be blackmailed! We will stay (and continue KILLING) there! (Still nobody has insisted that God has trusted him or her with the MISSION to KILL IRAQIS non-stop maybe they have not thought of that possibility yet) "He died as a HERO", the Italian Foreign Minister said. Nobody asked several simple questions, namely: Who are those Italians? Why are they in Iraq? WHAT WERE THEY DOING THERE? Answer: They were in Iraq as MERCENARIES working for an American private SECURITY firm! (BBC, 14.04.04) They were KILLERS! Lucratively paid MURDERERS! (BBC pointed out that their "WORK" in Iraq was "lucratively paid"! They used just that phrase.) The four Italians were ASSASSINS! The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs calls a Highly Paid ASSASSIN working for an American Firm of ASSASINS a hero. Italians are PROUD of and SUFFER for their heroic ASSASSINS! Maybe some Italians will explain what is so HEROIC in the KILLING of the men, women and children of a foreign country? Because that is JUST what their HEROES were doing in Iraq! Some curious quotes: 1/ "Randolph Holhut on the Smirking Chimp estimated that America employs 15,000 highly paid mercenaries in Iraq, many of whom make $1,000 per day. Only two days before the high-profile murders of four American hitmen (yes, paid mercenaries who werent there to escort an oil convoy, but to kill Iraqis), these same "contractors" and other scumbags just like them had machine-gunned women and children in Fallujah, according to Peter Cockburns recent report in Counterpunch. Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar, an Iraqi who was witness to the recent events in Fallujah, told NPRs Democracy Now! the attack on the contractors on Iraq was not unprovoked, but revenge for the massacre of women and children in the city by U.S. mercenary "contractors". http://www.serendipity.li/iraqwar/hallelujah_in_fallujah.htm Hallelujah! In Fallujah Inexcusable American genocide slaughters defenseless Iraqis President who talks to God wishes dead innocents a Happy Easter By John Kaminski --- 2/ The "civilian contractors, killed in Fallujah proved to be "retired Special Operations forces employed by the private security firm Blackwater Security Consulting These soldiers-for-hire are veterans of some of the most repressive military forces in the world, including that of the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and South Africa's apartheid regime." Also: "According to the San Francisco Chronicle, an estimated 15,000 "private security agents" are currently operating in Iraq - http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16701 3/ "Some British experts claim that private policing is now the UK's biggest export to Iraq Some security men claim they can earn more than lbs 80,000 a year; but short-term, high-risk mercenary work can bring much higher rewards. Security personnel working a seven-day contract in cities like Fallujah, can make $1,000 a day. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15ItemID=5256 Coalition of the Mercenaries Occupiers Spend Millions on Private Army of Security Men by Robert Fisk and Severin Carrell, The Independent (UK), April 01, 2004 --- No need for more comments. Havent you the feeling that if Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) had been alive now, he would have chosen to be an Iraqi Freedom Fighter NOT AN ITALIAN? Havent you the feeling that Garibaldi would be very ashamed to be called an Italian NOW? And what would the REAL Italian HEROES those of the WWII Italian Resistance would say would feel would do - NOW, when their compatriots call a professional ASSASIN a hero smearing with bloody mud their names, their deeds, their sacrifice? Japan Has anybody heard what Japanese Prime Minister opinion on the USAs SLAUGHTER in Falludjah is? Has the
[CTRL] Fw: Falluja...
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva To: Mrs. Jela Jovanovic Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:26 AM Subject: Falluja... Re: Fallujah, the civil contractors, the three Japanese, etc. (Note: The following is more a plan for an article than an article. Still, Ive decided to mail it to you: I hope you will understand the urge - and forgive the lack of organization.) It has not been by accident that the slaughtering of Fallujah started the first week of April - just before one of the Christians greatest religious holiday. The Judeo-Americans (or the USraeli) love to bathe the Christian religious holidays in blood. The USraeli rape of Yugoslavia started on 24-25the of March - the Lady Day - Annunciation. The heaviest bombing of Belgrade was carried out just on 1999 Orthodox Easter. They diligently keep their bloodiest damned operations for some religious holidays - either Islamic or Christian. The same happened that year too: they started and kept MURDERING the people of Fallujah while all the Christian world - both Catholoic and Orthodox - were preparing for Easter celebration. And meanwhile people kept dying - or getting disabled for life And meanwhile a town was dying - getting erased from existence We understand the message, dont you? You damned FILTH, you are SHIT for the world - look, they are celebrating while we are BLOOD-FUCKING you! We will erase you from the face of Earth - and hardly anybody will notice it! We will bulldoze that damned town of yours into a desert - those left alive will see it happened! That is just their plan: to erase Fallujah from the face of Earth. In the long run they will do it - never doubt the enormity of their HATRID for anybody having dared to resist them - block them - stumble them! Never doubt the crystal clear messages the Haters of Humanity keep sending from Palestine to the rest of the world for years on a run And while Rivers of Blood are running merrily-merrily in Fallujah, the hostages stories swam to the surface. Three young Japanese - aw-waw - threatened with death. All the Fallujah people are threatened with death in their town and in their country! What are the Japnese looking for in Iraq? What are they doing in a country whose people are deliberately slaughtered away? Why arent they in their country with their families? 99 % of the so-called relief organizations are spying for USA and other well-known FASCIST states. My Serb friends surely remember the feats of the OSCE in Kosovo in 1999: the so-called OSCE relief workers prepared the USA bombing campaign by planting directing devices at the future targets! Besides they deliberately distributed lies about the real situation in Kosovo manipulating the people round the world to support the USAs aggression on Yugoslavia! In central Yugoslavia the same had been done even during the USA bombing by two Australian relief workers from the notorious CARE! (Serb Friends, please, find the articles on the diabolical role of OSCE and CARE relief -workers, and mail them in the Internet! There are people who know very little for the murder your country - especially, the 1999 bombing. Please, let them have those articles on OSCE and CARE to read - and cry over what they read) My thumb is down for all the relief workers - for all the so-called private contractors - i.e. highly paid professional cutthroats of mercenaries! Congratulations for the Fallujah Liberty Fighters about their successful hit at the so-called civil contractors who proved to be retired Special Operations forces employed by the private security firm Blackwater Security Consulting These soldiers-for-hire are veterans of some of the most repressive military forces in the world, including that of the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and South Africa's apartheid regime. Also: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, an estimated 15,000 "private security agents" are currently operating in Iraq - http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16701 So much for the mercinary Cutthroats in the name of which (officially) USA now is MURDERING the citizens of a whole Iraqi town! Now everybody is screaming about the hostages - but has anybody showed any mercy to the children, mothers, fathers, grannies and grandads of Fallujah? It is WAR - and when you go to WAR you expect to die, dont you? If you want to live you stay in your country with your family! All the foreigners in Iraq since 20th of March 2003 are participants in that WAR on the side of the OCUPANTS from USA and England! So they are LEGITIMATE targets for the Iraqi guerrillas! When a Liberty Fighter grabs a rifle - a Kalashnik - a granate in his hand, he should let it go only in two cases: if killed and if Liberty is achieved! No negotiations with the MURDERERS of the Iraqi people! What can a Liberty Figjhter negotiate with the MURDERERS of his country and his people?!? The negotiaters are
[CTRL] Falluja is under siege
-Caveat Lector- Iraq Solidarity Action HYPERLINK "_javascript_:tell_friend();"E-mail thisHYPERLINK "http://electroniciraq.net/news/printer1451.shtml"Print this Ewa Jasiewicz , Occupation Watch, 11 April 2004Ewa Jasiewicz lived in Baghdad and Basra for 8 months while working withVoices in the Wilderness and Occupation Watch. On Friday April 9th,2004, Ewa spoke to friends and colleagues currently in Iraq. Thefollowing contains excerpts from their conversations. Paola Gaspiroli, Italian, from Occupation watch and Bridges to Baghdad:Falluja is under siege. 470 people have been killed, and 1700 injured.There has been no ceasefire. They (Americans) told people to leave, andthey have 8 hours to do so. People began to leave, but became trapped inthe desert. The Americans have been bombing with B52s. Bridges toBaghdad are pulling out. We have flights booked out of Amman. Tomorrow ateam will go to Sadr City to deliver medicines. 50 people have beenkilled there. The sheikh in Sadr City has told me I should leave. Hesays that even he can't control his people. Foreigners are going to betargeted. 6 new foreigners have been taken hostage. Of the six, fourItalian security firm employees were kidnapped from their car. Baghdadwas quiet today except for Abu Ghraib (West Baghdad, where a vast prisonis located and is bursting at the seams with 12,000 prisoners). AnAmerican convoy was attacked there and 9 soldiers were injured and 27were kidnapped. Thats right 27. None of the newswires are reporting itthough. There are people in the desert. They've left Falluja but they're notbeing allowed into Baghdad. They're trapped in the dessert, likerefugees. It is terrible but the people, Iraqi people, are giving allthey can. Theyre bringing supplies. Everyone is giving all the help andsupport they can to Falluja. It is really, really bad. The Americanshave been firing on ambulances and snipers are following them. Theambulances cannot get in.I want to stay but I have to go. If I want to come back and be useful, Ithink its best to leave. Its getting really dangerous for Italians. Wefeel like were being targeted now. (Italy has a 2500+ force includingCarabinieri occupying Nassiriyah which has been subject to a number ofresistance attacks including the devastating attack on the Policestation which claimed the lives of 4 soldiers, one civilian, onedocumentary film maker, 12 Carabinieri police and 8 Iraqis.)Palestinian friend with family in Falluja and friends in the IraqiIslamic Party:Weve been seeing it with our own eyes. People were told to leaveFalluja and now there are thousands trapped in the desert. There is a 13km long convoy of people trying to reach Baghdad. The Americans arefiring bombs, everything they have on them. They are firing on Families!They are all children, old men and women in the dessert. Other Iraqipeople are trying to help them. In Falluja the Americans have beenbombing hospitals. Children are being evacuated to Baghdad. There is achild, a baby, who had 25 members of his family killed. Hes in thehospital alone without anyone. The Americans are dropping cluster bombsand new mortars, which jump 3-4 meters. They are bombing from the air.There are people lying dead in the streets. They said there would be aceasefire and then they flew in, I saw them, and they began to bomb. The people are fighting back and they are fighting well. But, we areexpecting the big attack in 24-48 hours. It will be the main attack. TheAmericans will be taking the town street by street, searching andattacking. They did this already in a village near-by, and now they willbe doing this in Falluja. People need to protest, go to the Embassies,and get them to do something to stop this. We are having a protest at anAmerican checkpoint tomorrow. Do everything you can.What to DoPlease contact active groups in your area. Demonstrations and protestsare already scheduled in many cities across the United States andelsewhere. For more complete updates on the situation in Falluja, please visitalternative media websites, including HYPERLINK"http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage"Al-Jazeera Page last updated: 11 April 2004, 00:01---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.596 / Virus Database: 379 - Release Date: 2/26/2004 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let
[CTRL] Fw: SUPPORT TO BA'ATHIST SYRIA AND IRAQI AND PALESTINIAN RESISTANCES
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: LCDP-ST To: LCDP-ST Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:54 PM Subject: SUPPORT TO BA'ATHIST SYRIA AND IRAQI AND PALESTINIAN RESISTANCES Press release of the "European Coordination to support the Arab Nation" Brussels April 9, 2004 Version française à la suite SUPPORT TO BA'ATHIST SYRIA AND IRAQI AND PALESTINIAN RESISTANCES AT THE OCCASION OF THE MEETING ORGANIZED IN DAMAS, THIS APRIL 9, TO INVITE TO HELP IRAQI PEOPLE A THE OCCASION OF THE 1st ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPATION OF BAGHDAD The Syrian popular Committee to fight against Zionism and support Palestine organizes in Damas, this April 9, first anniversary of the occupation of Baghdad by the American-Zionists forces, a popular meeting in order to denounce the occupation of Iraq and to call the Arabs to support the Iraqi people. On this April 9 will be, in all the Syrian cities, the day of anger and of support for the resistance of the Iraqi people against the occupation specifies our Arab comrades in an official statement. The committee also affirms that it is necessary to mobilize all the capacities and the efforts in order to help the Iraqi people to continue his resistance, in all its forms. The committee rejects any form of legitimation of the occupation. The members of the European Coordination to support the Arab Nation, engaged in Europe in the defense of the Arab cause and the support for Iraqi and Palestinian resistances, affirm their total solidarity with the organizers and the participants of the meeting organized this day in Damas. At the time when the American-Zionist offensive against the Arab ideology is developing, Ba'athism remains more than ever the vanguard of Arab Resistance ! Against the American-Zionist offensive, Syria is today in first line. Defend the last Ba' athist fortress, support Palestinian and Iraqi Resistances is a duty for any conscious anti-imperialist militant ! European-Arab Solidarity ! Free and united Iraq and Palestine ! The "European Coordination to support the Arab Nation" : Iraq committees Syria Solidarity Committees Transnational association "The Peoples Cause" PCN-NCP * Communiqué de presse de la «Coordination européenne de soutien à la Nation arabe» Bruxelles 9 avril 2004 SOUTIEN A LA SYRIE BAATHISTE ET AUX RESISTANCES IRAKIENNE ET PALESTINIENNE A LOCCASION DU RASSEMBLEMENT ORGANISE A DAMAS CE 9 AVRIL, POUR APPELER A AIDER LE PEUPLE IRAKIEN A L'OCCASION DU 1er ANNIVERSAIRE DE LOCCUPATION DE BAGDAD Le «Comité populaire syrien de lutte contre le sionisme et de soutien à la Palestine» organise à Damas, ce 9 avril, date du premier anniversaire de loccupation de Bagdad par les forces américano-sionistes, un rassemblement populaire en vue de dénoncer l'occupation en Irak et d'appeler les Arabes à soutenir le peuple irakien. «Le 9 avril sera, dans toutes les villes syriennes, la journée de la colère et du soutien à la résistance du peuple irakien contre l'occupation» précisent nos camarades arabes dans un communiqué. Le comité affirme aussi qu'il faut «mobiliser toutes les capacités et les efforts en vue d'aider le peuple irakien à poursuivre sa résistance, dans toutes ses formes. Le comité rejette toute forme de légitimation de l'occupation». Les signataires, unis dans la «Coordination européenne de soutien à la Nation arabe», engagés en Europe dans la défense de la cause arabe et le soutien aux résistances irakienne et palestinienne, affirment leur totale solidarité avec les organisateurs et les participants du rassemblement organisé ce jour à Damas. Au moment où loffensive américano-sioniste contre lidéologie arabe se développe, le Baathisme reste plus que jamais à lavant-garde de la Résistance arabe! Contre loffensive américano-sioniste, la Syrie est aujourdhui en première ligne. Défendre la dernière forteresse baathiste, soutenir les Résistances palestinienne et irakienne est un devoir pour tout militant anti-impérialiste conscient ! Solidarité euro-arabe! Irak et Palestine libres et unies! La «Coordination européenne de soutien à la Nation arabe»: Comités Irak de Base Comités Solidarité Syrie Association transnationale «La Cause des Peuples» PCN-NCP Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information: http://lcdp.st.free.fr/ http://comitesirak.free.fr/ http://www.pcn-ncp.com/editos/fr/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence
[CTRL] Fw: SB84:The War on Eastern Orthodoxy by Theodoros Georgiou Karakostas
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: sparta To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:08 PM Subject: SB84:The War on Eastern Orthodoxy by Theodoros Georgiou Karakostas The War on Eastern Orthodoxy byTheodoros Georgiou Karakostas 21 March 2004At the present time, the Serbian Orthodox faithful of Kosovo are being murdered. Ancient Churches and Monasteries that survived the centuries of Ottoman occupation stand no more. The religious heritage of Kosovois being destroyed by extremists and fanatics.The sacrifices made by Serbia to the West in both World Wars hasbeen forgotten, as has the Genocide of the Serbs that occurred during the Second World War. During the Second World War, the Serbsheroically resisted the Germans. Simultaneously, pro-Nazi Croats, Muslims, and Albanians engaged in Genocide that resulted in theextermination of 800,000 Serbian Orthodox faithful. The Germans and the Vatican who destroyed the first Yugoslavia in 1941, wouldlikewise destroy the second Yugoslavia in 1991.Forgotten are the sacrifices made by the Serbs who rescued over500 American pilots who were shot down over Yugoslavia during theSecond World War. During the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, the largest ethnic cleansing campaign occurred when pro-Nazi Croatia launchedan offensive that resulted in the massacres and forced expulsions ofover 200,000 Serb civilians from lands that they had been residing in for many centuries. During the 1990s, as Osama Bin Laden beganbuilding the most dangerous terrorist network in the world, Washingtoneither backed, or launched its own war against the Serbian nationthat had been a historic ally of the United States in two World Wars.Terrorism expert Youssef Bodansky, in his 1999 biography of OsamaBin Laden noted that Al Quada supported the wars against the Serbs.Muslim extremists from Al Quada, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey,and Afghanistan all gathered in Bosnia and Kosovo to wage "jihad" against the Orthodox nation of Serbia. The Kosovo Liberation Army, backed by the Clinton administration in 1999 has since been exposedas a network of drug dealers and terrorists with links to Muslimextremists.Since 1999, over 300,000 Serbian Orthodox have been ethnically cleansed.Victims include Monks like Father Chariton Lukic who was beheaded in2000. There has been no notice in the west of the destruction of the SerbianOrthodox population and culture over the past five years. For the record,it should be noted that the Serbs of Kosovo had been persecuted andethnically cleansed during the Communist period as well. This is a factthat the US media with its anti-Serb propaganda during the Kosovo warfailed to take notice of.Orthodoxy now mourns the loss of lives and the destruction of shrinesand Churches in Kosovo. The American "war on terror" apparently doesnot intend to target those terrorists who murder and ethnically cleanseOrthodox Christians. While the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Churchare suffering and dying in Kosovo, Washington is planning to help Ankarafinish off Cyprus.The Greeks and the Serbs have much in common. They were bothvictims of Genocide during the twentieth century, they were both alliesagainst the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria during the Balkan Wars,both supported the United States at crucial times, and both havebeen sacrificed to Islam. Present day events in Cyprus and Kosovoindicate that Washington is surrendering in the war on terror.The defeat of the Serbs during the 1990s has paved the way for theestablishment of Al Quada bases in Bosnia and Kosovo. The historicappeasement of Turkey by the United States has led to the rise ofIslamic fundamentalism. The sacrifice of the Serbs and Greeks willcome at a great cost for the West.After the horrors of the 9/11 attacks, I had hopes that the westernworld would come to recognize and acknowledge the enormoussuffering and martyrdom of the Eastern Churches over the centuries.Rather, it appears that Washington is going to help the perpetratorsof ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and occupied Cyprus finish the job.The American government today resembles the British governmentof 1938 which handed Czechoslovakia to Hitler. Such is the fateof the Kosovo Serbs and the Greek Cypriots. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
[CTRL] Fw: Kosovo...
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:27 AM Subject: Kosovo... Kosovo 2004 Serbs are being killed, wounded/crippled for life, churches are being burned - where is the news? It had already happened 5 years ago. It has kept happening at a smaller scale already for five long tragic years! It all started with the capitulation signed by Milosevic in June 1999 - several days after the significant visit of a Russian friend of the name of Chernomirdin as far as I remember Two years after that memorable visit Milosevic landed in Hague where he is already for three years Some days ago the betrayal scenario was repeated in Adjaria: the Moskow Mayor (Great Politician) visited his brother Aslan Abashidze, Adjarias President, and afterwards a compromise with Georgias Saakashvilli of USA was achieved USA thanked to Russia through their servant, Saakashvilli How very nice, indeed, how very touching... Now it remains to be seen where Abashidze will land after some months The handwriting is the same - where is the news? Maybe the pray meeting in Belgrade under the aegis of that faceless slimy kostuniza of USA while well-organized and well-armed Albanians kept killing Kosovo Serbs, kept burning Ortodox Slav Churches and Monasteries, and Serb houses? It was very touching and made a good TV show, no doubt about it. I bet that thanks to the Pray Meeting in Belgrade the souls of the killed Kosovo Serbs went to Their Creator calmed and happy. And the Churches and the Serb houses burned happily-happily away Great idea that of the Pray Meeting. The most important thing is that the Masters approved of the Pray Meeting. The Serb serving Premier will surely be treated to an extra licking of the USraeli stinking boots... But even the Pray Meeting is not news. We in Bulgaria had such meetings with burning candles every other night in 1990/1991 under the guidance of a would-be priest later nicknamed Fori the Glow-worm What is going on in Kosovo since 1999 is a logic consequence of Yugoslavias capitulation in June 1999 after that visit of Friend Chernomirdin. Why the surprise now? Blagovesta Doncheva Bulgaria 19.03.04 --- Kosovo, you, my love, my pain! Your churches burn in my heart, and it melts away in their tortured ashes Still some insist youre now a part of Mankind after my Brothers are cruelly murdered in planned and bloody clashes Your houses dance wildly in flame, downed crying under sparkles like rain Still some are arrogant enough to claim that justice is restored - is that so, Kosovo, my love, my pain? Your children were benevolently given not the right to live but the right to die Was that after what Mankind had striven? Were so much blood spilled away for a lie? Kosovo, you, my love, my pain I wish I burn to ashes in your flame I wish I saturate with my blood your agonized sacred earth Kosovo, you, my love, my pain Blagovesta Doncheva 20.03.04 Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] SABER CULMINATION OF CASEMATE DEMOCRACY
-Caveat Lector- "SABER" CULMINATION OF CASEMATE DEMOCRACY One year after a murder of Serbian prime minister dr Zoran Djindjic it is not clear who did it, and spetialy who is standing behind a mentioned murder. Official version notified that the direct executant is a deputy commander of Unit for special operations at Ministry of serbian internal affairs, and that it is organized and assisted by a clan from Zemun. If we accept this one as a truth one, it means that killers are from the same social milieu wich brought him the the power and wich formally was under his control. I am personally more inclined to the version that can be heard in public-shuly- that behind the murder stands powerfull forein informative service. In case this is the truly one, we will feel a premotion of it in one or two decades (but completly will newer know).In the same time it will also be confirm the presumption that the plot was born between those who were standing behind his coming to the power.So anyone of these two ,the motiv is already clear now-unsatisfied their expectations. Political violance became carrateristic of political serbian stage on October 5 th, 2000. It reflected in way of coming to the power, strike where were conquested and burned down building of RadioTelevision of Serbia,whose general director Dragoljub - Dragan Milanovic lived personal lynch, than the building of Federal Parliament(where were standing all electiv material, also burned), and building of Cittizen Commitee of Socialist party of Serbia(SPS) . The violance than continued by burning houses of well known membrs from mentioned party(drastic exemples we had in Leskovac and Secanj), with gathering in front of their flats and invitation to lynch (indeed, if someone opposed , like it had done courageously Gorica Gajevic, ex general secretaryu of SPS, that "brave" masse would be dispersed). There was also unseen medium hunt to people and created "shortage headquarter" wich with force of mob and kalasnikov (machine rifle) was taking over the goverment in the institutions and firms. In that persuit more than 40.000. members of Socialist serbian party had been replaced and rimaned without a job. Next phase of Democratic opposition of Sebia( DOS) persecution of political rivals was begining to carry out politic " casemate democracy". All socialists in jail, was main motto of leaders from new goverment ,regulary tansmit by mediums. Countless criminal charges, political arrests of officials from SPS ,accusations for tens robed miliards of dollars ( what kid knows what is a billion), also beginig with fixed processes , political processes in front of Courts managed by DOS regents where judges were frightened non to be dismissed and frigntened of everykind threats. All that reached a culmination with arrest of President Slobodan Milosevic in night between March 31th and April 1st 2001 and his kidnaping to Hag on St Vitus Day ,that same year. Arrest of the President Milosevic managed personally Legija, hero in that time in eyes of new goverment becouse of his role wich had on October 5th ,2000, but today first accused of murder of prime minister Djindjic. And about kidnaping to Hag we know something more today: according to statement of former deputy of head boss in State security police in Serbia, operation was managed personally by british military attache` in Belgrade, under the supervision of CIA delegate. Persecution of political opponents was continued. New chance for that to DOS goverment gave a murder of prime minister Djindjic. Instead of carring out an efectiv investigation and revealing killers , they took hold "SABER" - on unconstitutional way and proclaimed state of emergency in whole Serbia. It had also been killed John F. Kennedy in America, Aldo Moro in Italy, Olof Palme in Sweden, but only after a murder of dr Zoran Djindjic in Serbia was brougth into state of emergency. The reason was obvious - clash with criminals but also with political opponents. Natasa Micic with her Order gave to the police authorities that , according to the sermon of Law, can be given just in war, but not in state of emergency: police took the authorities of courts. The consequence was near 13.000. arrested during that period of time. Just to compare, when Pinochet in Chile had taken a power by killing socialist President Allende, he had arrested 4.000. person. During"SABER" rights of arrested wich they have according the Criminal Code, and according to obligatory international documents, brutaly were violated; a great number were newer leaded out in front of investigative judge or have been told the reason of their arrest, to all of them were deprived visits of lawyer or family members, even walk in prison`s courtyard wasn`t allowed. Someone was exposed to the pressure, false promises, and someone to abuse and open blackmail just to extract "desirable" statement ecc. Mediums in Serbia were
[CTRL] Fw: the FLRN and Guy Philippe are to Haiti what the KLA and Hashim Thaci are to Kosovo
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:42 PM Subject: [houstonpeaceroundtable] the FLRN and Guy Philippe are to Haiti what the KLA and Hashim Thaci are to Kosovo "For the CIA and the State Department the FLRN and Guy Philippe are to Haiti what the KLA and Hashim Thaci are to Kosovo." http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO402D.html The Destabilization of Haiti by Michel Chossudovsky Applying the Kosovo Model In February 2003, Washington announced the appointment of James Foley as Ambassador to Haiti . Foley had been a State Department spokesman under the Clinton administration during the war on Kosovo. He previously held a position at NATO headquarters in Brussels. In all likelihood, Foley was sent to Port au Prince, in advance of the CIA sponsored operation. He was transferred to Port au Prince in September 2003, from a prestige diplomatic position in Geneva, where he was Deputy Head of Mission to the UN European office. It is worth recalling Ambassador Foley's involvement in support of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1999. Amply documented, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was financed by drug money and supported by the CIA. It was involved in similar targeted political assassinations and killings of civilians, in the months leading up to the 1999 NATO invasion as well as in its aftermath. Following the NATO led invasion and occupation of Kosovo, the KLA was transformed into the Kosovo Protection Force (KPF) under UN auspices. Rather than being disarmed to prevent the massacres of civilians, a terrorist organization with links to organized crime and the Balkans drug trade, was granted a legitimate political status. At the time of the Kosovo war, the current ambassador to Haiti James Foley was in charge of State Department briefings, working closely with his NATO counterpart in Brussels, Jamie Shea. Barely two months before the onslaught of the NATO led war on 24 March 1999, James Foley had called for the "transformation" of the KLA into a respectable political organization: "We want to develop a good relationship with them [the KLA] as they transform themselves into a politically-oriented organization,' ..`[W]e believe that we have a lot of advice and a lot of help that we can provide to them if they become precisely the kind of political actor we would like to see them become... "If we can help them and they want us to help them in that effort of transformation, I think it's nothing that anybody can argue with..' (quoted in the New York Times, 2 February 1999) In the wake of the invasion "a self-proclaimed Kosovar administration was set up composed of the KLA and the Democratic Union Movement (LBD), a coalition of five opposition parties opposed to Rugova's Democratic League (LDK). In addition to the position of prime minister, the KLA controlled the ministries of finance, public order and defense." (Michel Chossudovsky, NATO's War of Aggression against Yugoslavia, 1999, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO309C.html ) The US State Department's position as conveyed in Foley's statement was that the KLA would "not be allowed to continue as a military force but would have the chance to move forward in their quest for self government under a 'different context'" meaning the inauguration of a de facto "narco-democracy" under NATO protection. (Ibid). With regard to the drug trade, Kosovo and Albania occupy a similar position to that of Haiti: they constitute "a hub" in the transit (transshipment) of narcotics from the Golden Crescent, through Iran and Turkey into Western Europe. While supported by the CIA and NATO, the KLA had links to the Albanian Mafia and criminal syndicates involved in the narcotics trade. Is this the model for Haiti, as formulated in 1999 by the current US Ambassador to Haiti James Foley? For the CIA and the State Department the FLRN and Guy Philippe are to Haiti what the KLA and Hashim Thaci are to Kosovo. In other words, Washington's design is "regime change": topple the Lavalas administration and install a compliant US puppet regime, integrated by the Democratic Platform and the self-proclaimed Front pour la libération et la reconstruction nationale (FLRN), whose leaders are former FRAPH and Tonton Macoute terrorists. The latter are slated to integrate a "national unity government" alongside the leaders of the Democratic Convergence and The Group of 184 Civil Society Organizations led by Andy Apaid. More specifically, the FLRN led by Guy Philippe is slated to rebuild the Haitian Armed forces, which were disbanded in 1995. In other words, what is at stake is an eventual power sharing arrangement between the various Opposition groups and the CIA supported Rebels, which have links to the cocaine transit trade from Colombia via Haiti to Florida. The protection of this trade has a bearing on the formation of a new "narco-government", which will serve
[CTRL] Fw: Inteview with Tiphaine Dickson on resignation of Richard May
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:35 AM Subject: Inteview with Tiphaine Dickson on resignation of Richard May Interview with Quebec ICDSM-lawyer Tiphaine Dickson on the resignation of presiding judge in the Milosevic-case, Richard May ** Q: Late Sunday, the President of the ICTY, Theodor Meron, announced the resignation of Richard May of the United Kingdom, the presiding judge in the Milosevic trial. Officially, the resignation is due to the ill health of judge May. What was your first take on these developments? Tiphaine Dickson: This is a spectacular development-- only days before the end of the presentation of the prosecution's evidence-- which has gone on for two years already. This resignation demonstrates that the length and complexity of this process, not to mention the hundreds of witnesses, 30,000 pages of transcripts, 500 videotapes, hundreds of audiotapes, and huge quantity of other exhibits cannot be adequately handled, let alone be meaningfully understood, by a person in ill health. It is unfortunate that Slobodan Milosevic-- whose health concerns similarly reduce his capacity properly to analyse and challenge the voluminous record generated so far-- has not been treated with the same deference accorded to Richard May. Much has been made in the mainstream press about President Milosevic's illness wasting the court's time, yet Richard May's undisclosed health problems are not treated with contempt, but rather with compassion and concern. Slobodan Milosevic cannot resign from the ICTY for health reasons, and on the contrary, he has confronted this process while struggling against a life-threatening illness, despite being denied provisional release or specialized medical care to treat his condition. Q: In recent days, the international press reported that the genocide charge has not been proven. Dickson: The press' assessment of the quality of evidence presented so far is accurate to the extent that the evidence presented by the ICTY prosecutor has been anemic, rife with hearsay, opinion, speculation and irrelevancies. It is evident that counts should be dismissed, and in my opinion, the prosecutor has not succeeded in presenting a coherent or compelling case, in accordance with the standards of criminal justice. Q: Some media went even further, saying that even evidence of war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia seems to be very shaky. If so, the remaining part would be the Kosovo indictment. Is that a way for the press to prepare the public for some charges being dropped or might there be something else behind this? For Mr. Milosevic it would not make any difference whether he gets one or five life sentences. But for the Western governments it would make a difference whether Milosevic's defense case covers all three indictments or is reduced to just Kosovo. If reduced to Kosovo, would Mr. Milosevic still be able to tell the whole story that there was a plan to destroy Yugoslavia-something to qualify the 'plan' not from his side but from the West, from Croatia and Bosnia? Or could we consider it an attempt to destroy a successful defense case? Dickson: If the Chamber were to dismiss both the Bosnia and Croatia indictments, it would still be possible for SM to present his defense as announced in his opening statement. Kosovo was the West's-- NATO, the EU, US and other powers-- pretext for a gruesome 78-day bombing campaign, executed in violation of international law, using weapons, targets, and tactics which violate the laws and customs of war. This aggression marked the culmination of the decade-long effort to dismember Yugoslavia. As such, and in particular given the fact that the Kosovo indictment was served in the course of the bombing, to neutralize the Yugoslav leadership's potential to negotiate peace-- which had always been successfully achieved by President Milosevic in the past-- it is open to him to contextualize this indictment It is highly likely that Mr. Milosevic will present the defense he has planned and will demonstrate that there was only one war: the war against Yugoslavia. In any event, the Prosecutor has chosen to allege, in the Kosovo indictment, that Slobodan Milosevic was the principal interlocutor for the international community since 1989, and was the primary representative of the SFRY and FRY: The Hague Conference in 1991; the Paris negotiations of March 1993; the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia in January 1993; the Vance-Owen peace plan negotiations between January and May 1993; the Geneva peace talks in the summer of 1993; the Contact Group meeting in June 1994; the negotiations for a cease fire in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 9-14 September 1995; the negotiations to end the bombing by the
[CTRL] STOP NORTH ATLANTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!
-Caveat Lector- The Committee for National Solidarity STOP NORTH ATLANTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION! Serbian weakly National revealed on 19.02.2004 existence of another peace of evidence that the so called "Racak massacre", used as an excuse for the criminal NATO bombardment of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999 by depleted uranium coated projectiles, was a hoax. So far it was widely known that government agencies of NATO member states co-planned, financed, militarily equipped, trained and diplomatically supported activity of a terrorist organization of Albanians operating in Kosovo and Metohija and wider. The new moment discovered by National is that government agencies of NATO member states did not only use local terrorist organization as a proxy for the realization of their geostrategic and geoeconomic interests in the region, but that they also used some of their own agents in direct combat. According to the Paris OESC source of National, five members of British special units SAS were killed on the side of terrorists during the legal operation of Serbian forces in Racak that was closely monitored by observers of OESC, but afterwards misrepresented by the head of the mission, American CIA man, William Walker, who organized the hoax through tempering with bodies of terrorists killed in a fight, bringing them to one place and presenting them as civilians. Entire documentation about Racak is kept in the archive of the German ministry of foreign affairs in Berlin, while American intelligence agencies threatened to kill the author of the report, Finnish forensic expert Helena Ranta, if she spoke of those detail that would discredit the Hague tribunal, financed also by NATO member states with the aim to blame the former president of the victimized people for attempting to carry out the Constitutional duty to resist terrorism and aggression. Recently Helena Ranta broke her silence and pointed out that Hague tribunal did not investigate the fight that was going on in Racak, while Bo Pellnas, representative of OESC in Belgrade, told to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter of 8 February 2004 that US members of OESC observation mission supported Albanian "guerillas" at least since the autumn 1998. After these public revelations that Racak was a hoax, the only thing that still is not clear is how long the international community will tolerate the deadly imperial march of the most dangerous terrorist producers and users of the forbidden weapons of mass destruction. - USA military-industrial complex and their closest allies within NATO. Secretary General Mrs Jela Jovanovic, art historian www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: SB140:The Forgotten War by John Horvath
-Caveat Lector- * "In addition to the their ethnic cleansing activities, these groups have turned Kosovo into one of Europe's biggest hubs for drug trafficking and terrorism. The province has become an important center for heroin, cigarette, gasoline and people smuggling. More than 80% of Western Europe's heroin comes through Kosovo, where several leading drug laboratories have also been set up." http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/16765/1.htmlThe Forgotten WarJohn Horvath 17.02.2004Remember Kosovo?With our modern-day communications systems of radio, television, and the internet, we tend toforget many important things, even when it comes to crucial issues such as war and peace. Mosthad already started to forget about Afghanistan, and would have done so, if it were not for therecent spate of attacks which saw one Canadian, one British, and seven American soldiers killedin one week, leading to talk of a spring offensive against a "Taliban rebellion". The Taliban?Weren't they already defeated long ago, with a new Afghanistan rising from the ashes?Sadly, the same holds true much closer to home, and our blindness is all the more unforgivingconsidering that wars within Europe, which cost over tens of thousands of lives, have promptlybeen forgotten. There was a time when almost everyone in the western world knew where Kosovowas, and journalists were falling over each other to cover what was happening. Even on theinternet, hip and over-hyped intellectuals like Richard Barbrook would tag the end of eache-mail message with "Victory to the KLA!"But for those intent on pursuing a programme of perpetual war for perpetual peace, it would dono good to dwell on the past. Thus, Kosovo is to this day trumpeted as a victory for the conceptof humanitarian warfare. Everyone is happy, and the mission was accomplished; been there, donethat, time to move on to the next target.Yet Kosovo is anything but the happy and prosperous place that it was supposed to be. Nor haspeace been brought to region. Crime, terror, ethnic cleansing, and smuggling is rampant -- thistime under the aegis of the UN and not Belgrade.Four years after it was "liberated" by a NATO bombing campaign, Kosovo has deteriorated into ahotbed of organized crime, anti-ethnic violence, and even al-Qaeda sympathizers. Thoughnominally still under UN control, this southern province of Serbia is today dominated by atriumvirate of Albanian paramilitaries, mafia gangs, and terrorists. They control a host ofsmuggling operations and are implementing what many observers call their own brutal ethniccleansing of minority groups, namely Serbs, Roma and Jews. This, despite an 18,000-strongNATO-led peacekeeping force and an international police force of more than 4,000.Typically, the response by the international community to this is to look the other way, forit's far easier to do this than explain why NATO should go against the ones they "liberated"just a few years ago. Furthermore, it would distract the west from other "nation-building"projects that are currently underway around the world.So as to not have an uncomfortable news item suddenly hit the headlines of the western media, afortified concrete barrier around the UN compound on the outskirts of the provincial capitalPristina was constructed recently -- just in case. The barrier is supposed to protect the UNagainst terrorist strikes by "Muslim extremists" who have set up bases of operation in what hasbecome a largely outlaw province.Meanwhile, minority Serbs, who were supposed to have been guaranteed protection by theinternational community after the 78-day NATO bombing campaign ended in the spring of 1999, haveabandoned the province en masse. The last straw for many was the recent round of attacks byethnic Albanian paramilitaries bent on gaining independence through violence. Last summer sawone of the more grisly massacres, in where two Serb children were killed and four others woundedby ethnic Albanian militants while swimming in the Bistrica River, near Pec.Attacks on Serbs in Kosovo, a province of two million people, have risen sharply over the pastyear. Serbs, who now make up 5% of the population of Kosovo, down from 10% before the NATOcampaign, are the main targets of the paramilitary groups. According to statistics collected bythe UN criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, 1,192 Serbs have been killed,1,303 kidnapped and 1,305 wounded in Kosovo in 2003 alone. In June, 1999, just after the NATObombing, 547 Serbs were killed and 932 were kidnapped.The bombing campaign was partly launched by NATO countries to end what was viewed as asystematic ethnic cleansing program of Albanians by Serb security forces in the region. In itsimmediate aftermath, many Serbs left Kosovo to settle in other parts of Serbia and Montenegro.While NATO was at war against Milosevic, the
[CTRL] Fw: [Anti-imperialiste] [Fwd: Iraq Carnage Mounts As Deadly Rocket Attack Hits US Base[WWW.STOPNATO.COM]]
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: + ANTI-IMPERIALISTE la liste de http://chiffonrouge.org + HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM --- 1) Two US Soldiers Killed, 12 Wounded In Rocket Attack On US Army Base 2) Four Iraqi Policemen Injured In Grenade Attack In Kirkuk 3) Ethnic Turkmen Leader Killed, Another Injured In Post-War Internecine Violence 4) 82 Killed, Over 200 Injured In Iraq Suicide Attacks, Explosions 5) 100 Feared Dead In Suicide Bombings 6) Iraq's Calendar Of Death 7) British Soldier Killed In 'Tragic Accident,' Bringing UK Fatalities To 58 8) Cold Comfort: Spouse Killed In Iraq, Afghanistan? Fast-Talking, Purple-Suited 'TV Entrepreneur' Offers Cash 1) http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2479598 The Scotsman February 2, 2004 Two American Soldiers Killed in Central Iraq PA One American soldier was killed and 12 others injured in a rocket attack today on an Army base in central Iraq, the U.S. military said. Another soldier was killed and two others hurt in a vehicle accident, when their Humvee overturned near the town of Haditha, 175 kilometres (105 miles) west of Balad, the military said. It said the condition of the two injured soldiers was not known The rocket landed inside a logistics support base of the 4th Infantry Division in Balad, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the division's headquarters in Tikrit, an Army statement said. It said two of the injured soldiers were in a serious condition. Following the attack, troops detained 16 people including four women for questioning, it said without elaborating. Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, is part of the Sunni Triangle, where most of the anti-U.S. insurgency has taken place. The deaths raised to 524 the number of U.S. service members who have died since the Iraq war began in March. - 2) http://www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=197635 Islamic Republic Of Iran Broadcasting February 1, 2004 4 Iraqi police injured Kirkuk, Feb 1 - Four Iraqi police were injured Sunday in an attack in the northern city of Kirkuk, where security forces have been deployed en masse amid fears of an attack timed to coincide with major muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, police said. Unknown attackers threw a grenade at a police patrol at 5:30 am, before dawn prayers in the al-Uruba district of eastern Kirkuk, police colonel Khattar Abdullah Aaref said. Four police were injured, one seriously, he said. On Saturday, more than 5,000 officers were deployed across Kirkuk, 255 kilometres (160 miles) north of Baghdad, after threats of an attack during the Eid al-Adha feast of the sacrifice which begins sunday. Police general Turhan Yussef said 15 police stations had been reinforced while vehicles had been dispatched to guard mosques across the district. Senior coalition officials on Friday said they were bracing themselves for a possible increase in violence during the three-day Eid festivities. A homemade explosive device on Saturday killed three US soldiers riding in a convoy southwest of Kirkuk, a US military spokesman said. -- 3) http://www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=197607n=38 IRIB (Iran) February 1, 2004 Turkmen official killed in Iraq Kirkuk, Iraq, Jan 31 - An Iraqi Turkmen party official was killed Saturday and another injured in an attack near this northern oil city, a police official said. Mahdi Hussein Turkmani was killed and Hussein Abbas injured when assailants opened fire from a car on their car in the mostly Turkmen town of Taza, 15 kilometres (nine miles) south of Kirkuk, police colonel Turhan Yussef said. The two men are leadership members of the Iraqi Turkmen front, a group opposed to Kurds' demand of a federated state in northern Iraq. The Kurds view the Turkmen front as a pro-Turkey party. Kirkuk, 255 kilometres (160 miles) north of Baghdad, has been the scene or ethnic rivalries between Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen. -- 4) http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_2-2-2004_pg1_3 Daily Times (Pakistan) February 2, 2004 82 killed, over 200 injured in Iraq suicide attacks and explosions * US troops arrest 35 Iraqis * Wolfowitz makes surprise visit to Iraq BAGHDAD: Some 56 people were killed and approximately 200 wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at two Kurdish party offices in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil and an explosion at an arms depot killed 20 Iraqis on Sunday. Suicide attackers detonated belts of explosives inside two Kurdish political offices packed with people celebrating Eid ul Azha, officials said. US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy head of coalition operations, told a press conference that
[CTRL] Fw: SB123:Exclusive: Wesley Clark Admits Targeting Civilians In Yugoslavia
-Caveat Lector- http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/26/1632224 Monday, January 26th, 2004 Democracy Now! Exclusive: Wesley Clark Admits Targeting Civilians In Yugoslavia In a Democracy Now! exclusive, General Wesley Clark responds for the first time to in-depth questions about his targeting of civilian infrastructure in Yugoslavia, his bombing of Radio Television Serbia, the use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium, the speeding-up of the cockpit video of a bombing of a passenger train to make it appear as though it was an accident and other decisions he made and orders he gave as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander. Click here to read transcript of Jeremy Scahill questioning General Wesley Clark Since the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, General Wesley Clark has not answered any in-depth questions about his targeting of civilian infrastructure in Yugoslavia, his bombing of Radio Television Serbia, the use of cluster bombs and depleted uranium, the speeding-up of the cockpit video of a bombing of a passenger train to make it appear as though it was an accident and other decisions he made and orders he gave as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander. With the New Hampshire primary just 24 hours away, the remaining Democratic candidates are in their final push to win votes in the key poll in the Granite state. Whether or not Howard Dean wins or loses, he set the tone very early for what has become a definitive issue in the race early on: opposition to the war in Iraq. Among the Democrats, Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun held the most clear antiwar stances. But Braun has pulled out of the race, Al Sharpton is not in New Hampshire and Dennis Kucinich - well the media hardly gives him any airtime. With the exception of Senator Joseph Lieberman, all of the candidates have sought to portray themselves as opponents of the war. But only Kucinich has announced a concrete plan for withdrawing US forces from Iraq. The theme of Iraq is the main issue on which General Wesley Clark is running his campaign. Gen. Wesley Clark, speaking at a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on January 24, 2004. TRANSCRIPT GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: We went to war with Iraq without an imminent threat from Iraq. Without any connection between Iraq and the events of 9-11. We went to war with Iraq before all diplomatic options were exhausted. We went to war with Iraq without our allies all on board. We went to war with Iraq without a clear understanding and a plan for what was going to happen when we did get to Baghdad, and we didn't have the forces on hand to handle the situation. In short, I don't consider the war with Iraq patriotic. It was simply bad leadership and deceptive practices. It was wrong, and Im going to hold the president of the United States accountable. He didn't do the right thing for America. It's that simple. He didn't do it! Clark portrays himself as the antiwar warrior and his rhetoric against the war has escalated significantly over the past week of campaigning in New Hampshire. At his campaign stops, he has been saying regularly, "The war is wrong." This is not always what he said as one voter pointed out to him onstage. Gen. Wesley Clark, responding to a voter asking about his previous comments on Iraq as a CNN commentator. TRANSCRIPT GENERAL WESLEY CLARK: I was a military analyst and so I looked at everything in great detail. I wasn't allowed on television to talk politics at all. I testified in front of the senate, but the "Boston Globe" did a long piece on my military stuff about three or four days ago. You can find it there. Joanna Weiss wrote it, and she said what's changed is my rhetoric. My rhetoric has changed, because when I wasn't a politician, I couldn't speak out this forcefully, because I didn't have any basis for doing it. I had a military commentary that I gave. I said from the beginning of the war with Iraq, that Iraq wasn't an imminent threat. I said in the beginning that we shouldn't rush into war. I said that it was an elective war. I always believed that he had weapons of mass destruction because that's what the intelligence told us. And I wasn't -- I didn't know how much to rely on the intelligence. In fact, at one point, I had lunch with a bunch of other retired generals, with Donald Rumsfeld just a few months in front of the war and Rumsfeld told me that he knew where 30% of the weapons were. Well, if the secretary of defense tells you personally, I still didn't think it was an imminent threat, but I wasn't privy to the intelligence. He was. They misled the American people, so I didn't think we had to go to war, but I will admit my rhetoric has gotten harsher
[CTRL] Fw: U.S Occupied Iraq- First hand report from Baghdad - IGC Turns the Clock Back on Women's Rights
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: mart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 12:55 PM Subject: U.S Occupied Iraq- First hand report from Baghdad - "IGC Turns the Clock Back on Women's Rights" Forward from mart IMPORTANT! - Another first hand report from mycontact Dahr Jamailin Baghdad -"IGC TURNS BACK THE CLOCK ON WOMEN' RIGHTS". PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!! http://www.newstandardnews.net/content/?action=""> IGC Turns the Clock Back on Women's Rights by Dahr Jamail Baghdad, Iraq , Jan 21 - On January 16, the Iraqi Womens Organization and womens rights activists held a conference at the Al-Sayd Club in Baghdad in response to the December 29, 2003 decision by the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) to pass a bill canceling what is known as the Personal Status Law, a set of rules that has long provided opportunities for and protected the rights of women here. The cancellation of this law would mean that Iraqi women will have to rely on religious institutions for personal issues such as marriage and divorce, rather than being allowed to use civilian courts for these matters. It is seen by many as a step toward the implementation of fundamentalist Islamic law. Aljazeera reported on Wednesday, January 21, that around 5,000 Kurdish women marching in the Northeastern Iraq town of Suleimaniyah in protest of the recent IGC decision, while in the Shiite town of Najaf, some 500 women demonstrated in support of the decision. The US occupation command (Coalition Provisional Authority, or CPA) in Iraq has stated that it will not endorse the decision by the IGC because it would deprive women of their rights. CPA head L. Paul Bremer must sign off on decisions in order for them to take effect. The CPA also has the power to overrule decisions of the IGC, but has yet to overrule the recent decision, nor stated as to whether they will do so. The bill, known as Decision 137 of the IGC, has triggered a large wave of objections and outcry from the Iraqi people. When asked if he would annul the decision, Adnan al-Pachachi,the current chairman of the IGC, told Kurdsat TV, I think the decision will not be implemented. It is a decision that is full of legislativeloopholes. It was not even approved by the IGC in a normal way. Neither Al-Pachachi, nor any of the people interviewed for this story, provided justifications for the passing of the bill by the IGC. It is believed by many that certain clerics in the IGC were behind this decision. Only three of the IGC's 25 members are female. Demonstrations by Iraqi womens organizations and activist groups have ensued, for they say the decision not only threatens the status of women in Iraq, but it endangers the future of Iraqi families. The conference called by the Iraqi Womens Organization, a Kirkuk-based grassroots group, was attended by Al-Pachachi along with other IGC members, a representative of the CPA, representatives from womens organizations and various other associations. Several Iraqi ministers also attended to express their rejection of Decision 137. Head of the Gathering of Iraqi Humanitarian Societies and Organizations, Adnan Abdul Aziz, stated to the conference that this move by the IGC is a concentration of sectarianism, and called on them to cancel it immediately. Hundreds of Iraqi women held a sit-in in Baghdad to express their rejection of the IGCs decision. Women activists also stated the need for the women of Iraq to participate strongly in the rebuilding of their country, saying Decision 137 would greatly impede that. The formulation of the Personal Status Law was originally triggered on July 14, 1958, the day Iraqis toppled the British-installed monarchy. The Law provided Iraqi women a role in their country and granted them many rights. These rights were enjoyed even throughout the reign of Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party. Rana Al-Aiouby, an Iraqi woman who works as an interpreter, stated, I cant believe these men. What are they trying to do? I thought they were supposed to be trying to help the people of their country? This does nothing but infuriate us! Al-Aiouby also stated, It is clear to all of us that the more fundamentalist members of the IGC are using their power to try to make Iraqi women live like the women in Saudi [Arabia]. Now we are all wondering why the CPA doesn't overrule this decision, when they have the power to do so at anytime? Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar, an Iraqi ex-engineer, stated, Of course I know what those idiots at the IGC decide. As if Iraq doesnthave enough problems right now, they need to make a problem with womens rights! Nisreen Brwari, Iraqs Minister of Public Works, joined a womens demonstration which condemned the decision. Dr. Genan al-Jabari, an Iraqi woman who teaches physics at
[CTRL] Fw: Three Months at The Hague: AN ATTEMPT TO SILENCE THE TRUTH
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 5:11 PM Subject: Three Months at The Hague: AN ATTEMPT TO SILENCE THE TRUTH We expect to provide you soon with the full text of the ICTY's Appeals Chamber decision refusing to prolong the time for the preparation of the President Milosevic's case from three months earlier decided by the Trial Chamber. We urge your reactions. In the meantime, we repost the statement of the Quebec-Canada section of ICDSM, drafted by ICDSM lawyer and candidate for President Milosevic's legal associate Ms. Tiphaine Dickson. URL for this article is http://www.icdsm.org/more/canada2909.htm THREE MONTHS TO PREPARE THE DEFENCE IN THE "TRIAL OF THE CENTURY": AN ATTEMPT TO SILENCE THE TRUTH The Québec and Canada sections of the International Committee for the Defence of Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) wish to register our outrage at the decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to grant President Slobodan Milosevic only three months preparation time for the presentation of his defence against a "case" built only on the cynical distortion of the ten most turbulent years of Yugoslavia's history. This decision is yet another illustration of the ICTYs contempt for the most basic international norms of jurisprudence and prisoners rights. This decision is also a clear signal that this institution, born of political pressure from the US administration which has institutionalized legal impunity for its own, ongoing crimes was not designed for and does not intend to conduct a trial. This process merely seeks to divert scrutiny from the West's responsibility for the destruction of a nation. Faced with President Milosevic's refusal to accept the political manipulations of The Hague, his principled defence of his people and their history, and successful courtroom performance, the ICTY is now attempting to prevent him from presenting his case. This is, as the renowned Canadian criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan put it, a lynching. Imposition of counsel? On April 4th 2003, the ICTY acknowledged Slobodan Milosevic's right to defend himself in person, and denied a Prosecution motion to impose counsel against his will. This fundamental right to self-representation without the imposition of counsel over the will of an accused is paramount. The United States Supreme Court has held that imposition of counsel on an unwilling accused is unprecedented with the exception of the Star Chamber, which carried out political trials. The Prosecutor now seeks to revisit this issue, and will petition for the imposition of counsel against President Milosevic's wishes, despite the fact that this very applicartion betrays the political nature of this process. The ICTY's decision to permit Slobodan Milosevic to represent himself held, in reference to Article 21 of the ICTY Statute, that it has indeed an obligation to ensure that a trial is fair and expeditious; moreover, where the health of the Accused is in issue, that obligation takes on special significance. Article 21 states that the Chamber must exercise this obligation with full respect for the rights of the accused. More expeditious than fair! The Chambers decision to grant Mr. Milosevic three months to prepare his defence flies completely in the face of its stated concern to ensure a fair trial and respect for the rights of the accused. It is a wholly unrealistic preparation time for a trial of this magnitude, especially so since Mr. Milosevic is defending himself while detained. The Chamber has visited an additional hardship upon Mr. Milosevic by ordering him to provide, within six weeks of the close of the Prosecution's case, a detailed list of witnesses he intends to call, including a summary of the facts on which each witness will testify, and an indication of whether the witness will testify in person or by way of written statement or use of a transcript of testimony from other proceedings before the Tribunal. He must also list the exhibits he intends to offer in his case, and serve the Prosecutor copies of same. The Chamber cannot even guarantee that Mr. Milosevic will have "permission" to call any witness he chooses, as the decision states it will hold a Pre-Defence Conference to review the witness list for approval and determine the time allowed to him to present his case. Equality of arms? Numerous international conventions affirm the right of anyone accused of a criminal offence to adequate time and facilities to prepare their defence. This right is an important aspect of the fundamental principle of equality of arms, which holds that the defence and the prosecution must be treated in a manner that ensures that both parties have an equal opportunity to prepare and present their case during the course of the proceedings. The Tribunal has claimed
[CTRL] Fw: Surprise! Surprise! - War Criminal And Murderer Wesley Clark Defends U.S Army School of Assassins
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: mart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:55 PM Subject: Surprise! Surprise! - War Criminal And Murderer Wesley Clark Defends U.S Army "School of Assassins" Forward from mart.Surprise! Surprise! - War Criminal And Murderer, Wesley Clark Defends U.S Army "School of Assassins"[ "Nineteen graduates also were involved in the killings of seven Jesuit priests and two of their co-workers in El Salvador in 1989."] -The graduates (and a whole lot more than just the 19 mentioned here) of this school have not just murdered "seven Jesuit priests and two of their co-workers in El Salvador" as the article attempts to imply, but literally *many hundreds of thousands* of innocent people throughout all of Central and South America and the Carribbean.The leaders of every right wing military coup that has taken place anywhere in the Americas in the last 40 years have graduated from the U.S Army S.O.S. - mart["At a retirement home in Concord this month, one woman told Clark that the school's graduates have been accused of murder. Clark responded that when white-collar criminals are arrested for fraud, nobody faults their alma mater"] - Nice try. The difference is that most ordinary schools do not specifically teach or offer courses in white collar crime, fraud and theft, while the of the whole purpose of the U.S. Army "School of Assassins" is to teach murder, torture, subversion and terrorism - mart===http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0117-01.htmhttp://www.boston.com/news/politics/primaries/new_hampshire/articles/2004/01/17/facing_questions_clark_backs_army_school?mode=PFBoston Globe Saturday, January 17, 2004 Facing Questions, Clark Backs Army School by Joanna Weiss CONCORD, N.H. -- Retired General Wesley K. Clarksometimes downplays his Army background, andcriticizes the military's "don't ask, don't tell"policy on gays. But there is one military institutionhe vigorously defends: the controversial academy onceknown as the US Army School of the Americas.Opposition to the school, which trains militaryofficers from Latin American countries, has long beena cause celebre among some Democrats and liberalactivists, who say the academy has trained some of themost notorious criminals of the region and teachesskills that Latin American armies sometimes useagainst their own citizenry. Supporters of the schoolpoint to reforms from the 1990s, and say its coursesteach foreign soldiers about democracy and humanrights.But many critics have not wavered in their opposition,and voters on the campaign trail -- in New Hampshireand elsewhere -- have been questioning Clark about hissupport.Clark never headed the school but had dealings with itwhen he led the US Southern Command from 1996 to 1997.He delivered a graduation speech there in 1996 and haspraised the school before Congress. George Bruno, thecochairman of Clark's New Hampshire campaign and aformer ambassador to Belize, was a paid adviser to theschool when it reopened with a new charter in 2001.Now, on the stump, Clark strongly defends the school,without denying that some graduates have committedatrocities in their home countries.At a retirement home in Concord this month, one womantold Clark that the school's graduates have beenaccused of murder. Clark responded that whenwhite-collar criminals are arrested for fraud, nobodyfaults their alma mater."There's been a lot of rotten people who've gone to alot of rotten schools in the history of the world,"Clark said. "And a lot of them went to this school.But a lot of them have gone to Harvard Business Schooland a lot of other places."The US Army School of the Americas, created in 1946,has been located since the 1960s in a building at FortBenning, Ga., and trains 800 to 1,000 Latin Americanmilitary officers each year, in courses that last fromsix weeks to one year. Former Panamanian leaderGeneral Manuel Noriega is a graduate, along with someof the most notorious criminals of Latin America,critics say. Nineteen graduates also were involved inthe killings of seven Jesuit priests and two of theircoworkers in El Salvador in 1989.Allegations against the school intensified in 1996,after the Pentagon declassified a report that saidmanuals used there in the 1980s advocated fightinginsurgents with execution, blackmail, kidnapping, andtorture.In 1997, as commander in chief of the US SouthernCommand, Clark praised the school before the SenateArmed Services Committee, saying its mission hadchanged since the Cold War days. "This school is thebest means available to ensure that the armed forcesin Latin America and the armies in Latin Americaunderstand US values and adopt those values as theirown," Clark said at the time.But some members of Congress, including Massachusetts'late Representative J. Joseph Moakley and formerRepresentative Joseph P. Kennedy II,
[CTRL] Fw: [JUGOINFO] George Soros: Imperial Wizard/Double Agent
-Caveat Lector- - [en francais: George Soros : Magicien impérial et agent double http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3021] http://www.left.ru/inter/2003/december/soros.html George Soros: Imperial Wizard/Double Agent Covert Action Quarterly e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Heather Cottin December 9, 2003 This is not a case of narcissistic personality disorder; this is how George Soros exercises the authority of United States hegemony in the world today. Soros foundations and financial machinations are partly responsible for the destruction of socialism in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. He has set his sights on China. He was part of the full court press that dismantled Yugoslavia. Calling himself a philanthropist, billionaire George Soros' role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain. Soros' commercial and philanthropic operations are clandestine, contradictory and coactive. And as far as his economic activities are concerned, by his own admission, he is without conscience; a capitalist who functions with absolute amorality. Master-builder of the new bribe sector systematically bilking the world He thrusts himself upon world statesmen and they respond. He has been close to Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel and Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski. He supports the Dalai Lama, whose institute is housed in the Presidio in San Francisco, also home to the foundation run by Soros' friend, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Soros is a leading figure on the Council of Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum, and Human Rights Watch (HRW). In 1994, after a meeting with his philosophical guru, Sir Karl Popper, Soros ordered his companies to start investing in Central and Eastern European communications. The Federal Radio Television Administration of the Czech Republic accepted his offer to take over and fund the archives of Radio Free Europe. Soros moved the archives to Prague and spent over $15 million on their maintenance. A Soros foundation now runs CIA-created Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty jointly with the U.S. and RFE/RL, which has expanded into the Caucasus and Asia. Soros is the founder and funder of the Open Society Insti tute. He created and maintains the International Crisis Group (ICG) which, among other things, has been active in the Balkans since the destruction of Yugoslavia. Soros works openly with the United States Institute of Peace - an overt arm of the CIA... When anti-globalization forces were freezing in the streets outside New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel in February 2002, George Soros was inside addressing the World Economic Forum. As the police forced protesters into metal cages on Park Avenue, Soros was extolling the virtues of the Open Society and joined Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel Huntington, Francis Fukuyama and others. WHO IS THIS GUY? George Soros was born in Hungary in 1930 to Jewish parents so removed from their roots that they once vacationed in Nazi Germany. Soros lived under the Nazis, but with the triumph of the Communists moved to England in 1947. There, Soros came under the sway of the philosopher Karl Popper, at the London School of Economics. Popper was a lionized anti-communist ideologue and his teachings formed the basis for Soros' political tendencies. There is hardly a speech, book or article that Soros writes that does not pay obeisance to Popper's influence. Knighted in 1965, Popper coined the slogan Open Society, which eventually manifested in Soros' Open Society Fund and Institute. Followers of Popper repeat his words like true believers. Popperian philosophy epitomizes Western individualism. Soros left England in 1956, and found work on Wall Street where, in the 1960s, he invented the hedge fund. ...hedge funds catered to very wealthy individuals... The largely secretive funds, usually trading in offshore locations. . produced astronomically superior results. The size of the bets often became self fulfilling prophecies: 'rumors of a position taken by the big hedge funds prompted other investors to follow suit,' which would in turn force up the price the hedgers were betting on to begin with. Soros organized the Quantum Fund in 1969 and began to dabble in currency manipulation. In the 1970s, his financial activities turned to: Alternating long and short positions... Soros won big both on the rise of real estate investment trusts and on their subsequent collapse. Under his 20-year stewardship, Quantum returned an amazing 34.5% a year. Soros is best known (and feared) for currency speculation.. . In 1997 he earned the rare distinction of being singled out as a villain by a head of state, Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad, for taking part in a highly profitable attack on that nation's currency. Through such clandestine financial
[CTRL] Fw: [Anti-imperialiste] [Fwd: Belarus Says It Must Be Prepared Against US Attack[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]]
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: [Anti-imperialiste] [Fwd: Belarus Says It Must Be Prepared Against US Attack[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]] + ANTI-IMPERIALISTE la liste de http://chiffonrouge.org + HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- http://news1.iwon.com/world/article/id/65362|world|12-26-2003::11:03|reuters .html Reuters December 26, 2003 Belarus Says to Prepare Against U.S. Attack MINSK (Reuters) - President Alexander Lukashenko, isolated by the West for his lack of political and economic reforms, said on Friday Belarus must be prepared to defend itself against U.S. attack. Lukashenko, once called Europe's last dictator by U.S. officials, has criticized Washington's military campaign against Iraq, saying it had created a precedent whereby undesirable leaders could be unseated with military force. Belarus has to be vigilant and pay particular attention to strengthening its fighting efficiency. The world has returned to times when war and brute force were real instruments of foreign policy, Official news agency BelTA quoted him as saying. The United States declared its particular right to use military force toward countries that dare to implement independent foreign and internal policies, he said. Washington and the European Union, which will share a border with Belarus when it absorbs Poland, Latvia and Lithuania next year, have criticized Lukashenko for breaching human rights, cracking down on the opposition, suppressing demonstrations and having a poor record on press freedom. Belarus, an impoverished former Soviet country of 10 million, had achieved considerable progress in reforming its armed forces, Lukashenko said, pledging to increase state financing for the military next year. We are not going to do any saber-rattling. We are not going to threaten anybody. We are talking only about defending our motherland, he said. ___ Anti-imperialiste mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chiffonrouge.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/anti-imperialiste www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Blagovesta Doncheva To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 11:16 AM Subject: Re: H Re: HORRORS The Horrors of Stalinism/Communism/ A1. An Opening Note At the beginning of the 90ties we here in Bulgaria were told that Stalin had killed (!) 60 (sixty!) millions in his concentration camps. That figure is still rolling shamelessly from time to time from the Bulgarian TV Channels. In his October 2003 article "In defense of the SU" http://www.left.ru/inter/2003/oct/jones.htm, Simon Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) quotes Seumas Milne in the "Guardian Weekly" September 19-25 2002: "the latest Soviet archives show just under 800,000 executed and a peak gulag population of 2.5 millions". We were also told that the "Communists" killed (!) hundreds of thousands (!) of Bulgarians in their concentration camps here. The book "Quo vadis, Humanitas?" (2000, Sofia) informs us the following: Total number of people killed in Bulgaria between 1944 and 1989: 2730 are sentenced to death by the Peoples Court after the end of WWII and executed 3255 are killed without any sentence in the period of September-October 1944 150 died in the concentration camps (!) 6135 totally ~25,000 have passed through the concentration camps ~25,000 have been interned ~50,000 totally repressed (Author: Georgi Andreev, a Bulgarian scientist, writer, investigator, translator, editor of the unique progressive newspaper "ZOV" = Appeal). Note of no importance: In 1989 Bulgarians were almost 9 millions In 2003 the Bulgarians are about 6 millions When one starts counting "the horrors" of the Communist era, objectivity demands to compare the real numbers of the real victims to the number of millions who enjoyed the privileges of the Communist socialist system, namely the RIGHT to work to receive a pension providing for a normal human life of totally free of charge health care of totally free of charge education of 80-90-100% paid sick-leave - depending on the numbers of the years of work of paid year holidays and the possibility for everyone to spend them in the state holiday rest homes at the seaside or in the mountain to cheap medicine. to cheap railway, road and city transport to students hostels at a symbolic price to workers and students canteens at symbolic prices to accessible prices of all the communal services like electricity, water, telephones to secure real protection from all kinds of violence and crimes against individual persons and their property! and so on and so forth The simple truth is that the Communist system provided a living space for the ORDINARY people! They felt protected economically and also in all other possible ways. It was NOT only Gulags and PRs horrors. The neo-liberal capitalist system rejects arrogantly even our RIGHT TO LIFE! That system turns purposefully the ORDINARY people into humiliated, broken slaves! It deliberately is carrying out a specific Low Intensity GENOCIDE on the ex Soviet Unions peoples, on the people of Bulgaria, on the other ex-Communist countries already for 14 years! The ugly truth is that the real horrors have unleashed in the ex-Soviet Union and the East-European peoples only after the Berlin Walls Great Fall Humpty Dumpty sat on the Wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. And all the kings horses, And all the Kings men Cannot gather Humpty Dumpty Together again Poor Humpty Dumpty. Poor us all here B. The Horrors on the Balkans: YUGOSLAVIA Lets look back at that country in the 90ties of the last century. Lets leave aside the RPs stories re the "genocide" on Kosovo Albanians - Srebrenica - Saraevo, which the USrael media repeats shamelessly again and again. But if all these stories are PRs lies whats the truth? Why did the Globo Master targeted Yugoslavia? The main reasons to victimize Yugoslavia were that Milosevic kicked the IMF and WB out, refused to "open" Yugoslavias boundaries for "free" trade and preserved the state ownership on most of the prosperous Yugo plants and factories then - i.e. rejected the demand for privatization! He was NOT a greedy raving Zionist Jew - as the murderous couple of Gorbachov-Elzin in the Soviet Union or Anananieva-Lukanov in Bulgaria. He was a person with a strong feeling of responsibility for both his people and his country. and he could not sacrifice either of them at the bloody altar of the insatiable USrael neo-liberal God named "Free Market"! He did his best to preserve and protect Yugoslavia as a social state - and both Yugoslavia and he had to go! A state that demonstrates an alternative should not be allowed to exist! In 1999 USA-NATO smart DU bombs kicked most successfully Yugoslavias peoples into the roaring Hell Furnace of the so-called "market economy" Clintons address to the White House on March 23 1999: " And if were going to have a strong economic relationship that includes our ability to
[CTRL] Fw: HAPPY ALBANIANS MEMBERS OF KLA
-Caveat Lector- Happy members of KLA with the haed of Bojan Cvetkovic, Serbian soldierkidnapped duriing the 99 war against Yugoslavia and executed by well knownmembers of the "former" UCK, who have not yet been arrested.Jela Jovanovic www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance??not soap-boxing??please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'??with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds??is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om attachment: Odsecene glave kladecapit1.jpg
[CTRL] Fw: ICDSM-US for 8 Novemeber Hague Demos
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:13 AM Subject: ICDSM-US for 8 Novemeber Hague Demos ICDSM-US U.S. National Section of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic Press Release #2 November 2, 2003 Telephone: 212-726-1260 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.icdsm-us.org Yahoo group: icdsm-us For Immediate Release: 1. U.S BASED DEFENSE COMMITTEE TO JOIN PROTEST OVER TRIAL OF MILOSEVIC IN THE HAGUE ON NOVEMBER 8TH 2. THE ICDSM-US ALSO ANNOUNCES ITS NEW WEBSITE AS EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATION RESOURCE 1. ICDSM-US TO DEMONSTRATE AT THE HAGUE NOV. 8TH: The U.S. section of the International Committee for the Defense of Slobodan Milosevic announced on Nov. 1st that it supports the demonstration called for the following week, Nov. 8, in The Hague, Netherlands. The protest is directed at the illegitimate NATO frame-up of the former Yugoslav president. The ICDSM-US also announced that it will be sending one of its members, John Catalinotto, to represent them at the protest. While the ICTY purports to be concerned with crimes committed in Yugoslavia, the ICDSM-US concurs with the many legal experts who say the ICTY was illegally established and conducts itself in violation of all judicial norms. Worse still, its actions and barbaric two and a half year detention of the former President of Yugoslavia have so severely damaged Milosevics health that his very life now hangs in the balance. The Hague Tribunal is tantamount to a calculated murder. The Hague rally in defense of President Milosevic coincides with a massive upsurge of political protest in Serbia. Over the last several days there have been demonstrations of thousands of workers and trade union activists in Belgrade demanding that the pro-NATO government step down. The government then ordered vicious police attacks on the protesting workers, who call for an end to privatization of state companies. This comes in the wake of the Western takeover of the Serbian economy following the ouster of Milosevic three years ago. The ICDSM-US comprises a team of more than two dozen writers, academics, attorneys and peace and human rights activists, all of them long and prominently associated with the issue of Yugoslavia and now determined to win the freedom of the imprisoned President. The ICDSM-US also sees Milosevic's defense as part of the struggle of the people of Serbia and of the former Yugoslavia to resist being turned into a colony of the West and that is why we consider this defense important. The Hague protest, initiated by the Sloboda organization in Belgrade, is supported by organizations of Yugoslav and Greek immigrants living in Western and Central Europe and by the national sections of the ICDSM in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. It demands that Milosevic be released from prison and be given a minimum of two years to prepare his defense. The prosecution has presented its case, which many have commented is rather weak, over the past 18 months. A similar demonstration last June drew several hundred people to The Hague. For more information, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. ICDSM-US LAUNCHES A NEW WEBSITE: WWW.ICDSM-US.ORG The ICDSM-US also announced on November 1st that it had established a website at http://www.icdsm-us.org/ to provide information about the trial, ongoing protests, and a selection of news and analyses about developments relating to the defense work in the U.S. and around the world. The site currently features an archive of over 130 speeches, interviews and statements of President Milosevic relevant to the trial and recent events in the Balkans. The central purpose of the ICDSM-US website is to publicize the struggle for truth and justice that characterizes the career of the worlds most famous political prisoner Slobodan Milosevic. The site will in time include all of Mr. Milosevics most important public statements since 1987. The site will also contain a well organized collection of ICTY transcripts (soon available with a search engine). This website is a unique resource for anyone interested in the history of the Balkans over the last 15 years. The documents speak for themselves. They dispel the myths about the conflict in Yugoslavia and reveal the massive falsification of recent history by NATO governments. Indeed, the government and media demonization of President Milosevic has been so filled with lies and calumnies that it is revelatory to read Milosevic's own statements. And since the demonization of Milosevic extends to both Yugoslavia and the entire Serbian people, the ICDSM-US hopes that its website serves as an antidote to combat this type of racism. The ICDSM-US in its founding statement last September wrote that it "rejects the legitimacy of this trial and that of the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia as well. But at the
[CTRL] Fw: [JUGOINFO] Milosevic trial: A modern play from real life...
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 10:06 PM Subject: [JUGOINFO] Milosevic "trial": A modern play from real life... THE COURT WHERE YOU MUST NOT MENTION THE CRIME- a modern play from real life -CAST OF CHARACTERS:PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC four times democratically elected head of Serbian and Yugoslav state; leader of Serbian people and its resistance against the aggression of the worst tyranny in the history of humankind (US/NATO); abducted from his own country, kept in illegal detention for more than two years and put on trial by NATO illegal tribunalGENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH NATO military commander, man who ordered bombing of Bosnian Serbs and who took part in the bombing of YugoslaviaJUDGE RICHARD MAY failed politician from a NATO country promoted into a judge; selected and paid by NATO to play a role of presiding judge in the show-trialPROSECUTOR GEOFFREY NICE unscrupulous barrister from the same NATO country, selected and paid by NATO to fabricate charges against President MilosevicJUDGE O-GON KWON a judge from a country occupied by NATO, selected and paid by NATO to play a minor role***The Hague, Thursday, 9 October 2003, the "court room"[Open session][The accused entered court]Upon commencing at 9.06 a.m.JUDGE RICHARD MAY: Yes, Mr. Nice. Yes.PROSECUTOR GEOFFREY NICE: Your Honour, the next witness is General Sir Rupert Smith. ()GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH: I solemnly declare that I will speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.PROSECUTOR GEOFFREY NICE: Your full name, please.GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH: Rupert Anthony Smith.PROSECUTOR GEOFFREY NICE: Retired general of the British army, with a service history from 1964 covering experience in many theatres around the world, serving in the Gulf War, and involving yourself in the Balkans as early as late 1992 and early 1993 when you were in London at a desk position which gave you an overall view of the Balkans. Did you take command of the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina in January 1995, holding that position until December of 1995?GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH: Yes. ()PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: That, unfortunately, was discovered subsequently. But you believe that Mladic, at the time when he was negotiating with you, knew that somebody had killed those people [in Srebrenica]?GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH: Yes.PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: On what grounds, General? Do you believe -- you met Mladic. I assume you knew -- came to know him quite well. You had a large number of meetings with him, didn't you?GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH: I met him. I don't believe I know him well.PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: Do you have any, any knowledge to the effect that General Mladic could have ordered such a dishonourable act?GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH: I have no evidence that he ordered the act, but he was, nevertheless, the commander, and I believe he knew what was happening in his command.PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: General Smith, you were deputy NATO commander when Yugoslavia was bombed; isn't that right?GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH: Yes.PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC: Do you know that NATO planes bombed refugee columns, that they bombed the Chinese Embassy, that they bombed buses and trains?JUDGE RICHARD MAY: Just wait a minute. We'll deal with one thing at a time. The witness can only give evidence about the time when he was in Sarajevo. During that time, General, were, to your knowledge, any refugee columns bombed?GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH: When I was in Sarajevo, no.JUDGE RICHARD MAY: The other -- no. Look, what happened later, what happened later, which we've heard very much about in this trial, is not for this witness. We have other witnesses who will give evidence about what happened then. We're talking about events in 1999.PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC:Mr. May, the witness said that Mladic must have known because he was in command. Now, I'm asking the witness since he was in command in 1999, whether he knew or should have known, must have known that columns of civilians were being bombed, buses, hospitals, the Chinese Embassy, Radio-Television Serbia, et cetera.JUDGE RICHARD MAY:It's all totally irrelevant.He has dealt with the matter concerning General Mladic. I in fact let him do so, although it's doubtful if it was a question which was properly directed at him. It's a matter that we're going to have to determine as to how much Mladic knew about what was going on, whether he ordered it or did not. Now, those are all matters for us. Now, peripheral issues of that sort are not relevant.JUDGE O-GON KWON: General, I noticed -- just a moment. I notice that you have not answered to the question when the accused asked you what is your base in believing Mr. Mladic should have known what had happened in Srebrenica. Could you help us with that.GENERAL SIR RUPERT SMITH:He
[CTRL] Fw: Army probes soldier suicides - Alarmed by the number of suicides in Iraq
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:32 AM Subject: Army probes soldier suicides - Alarmed by the number of suicides in Iraq Army probes soldier suicides - Alarmed by the number of suicides in Iraq By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY USA Today - October 13, 2003 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=676ncid=716e=21u=/usatoda y/20031013/ts_usatoday/11899022 Alarmed by the number of suicides among soldiers in Iraq the Army has asked a team of doctors to determine whether the stress of combat and long deployments is contributing to the deaths. The number of suicides has caused the Army to be concerned, said Lt. Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a psychiatrist at the Army's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. Ritchie is helping to investigate the suicides in Iraq. Is there something different going on in Iraq that we really need to pay attention to? In the past seven months, at least 11 soldiers and three Marines have committed suicide in Iraq, military officials say. That is an annual rate of 17 per 100,000. The Navy also is investigating one possible suicide. And about a dozen other Army deaths are under investigation and could include suicides. The numbers suggest the rate in Iraq is above normal. Last year, the military services reported 8 to 9 suicides per 100,000 people. The Army rate is usually higher, 10 to 13 per 100,000. That mirrors the rate for the same age group in the general population. Army officials caution against drawing general conclusions based on small changes. But they sent a mental-health team to Iraq last month to study various issues, including suicides and treatment available for soldiers suffering from depression. Dispatched by the Army surgeon general's office, the team consists of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and the manager of the Army's suicide-prevention program. The team has surveyed 700 soldiers and held discussions in which GIs were encouraged to talk freely. They are ... looking at the stresses on the troops, how well the troops are coping and how well the basic principles of battlefield psychiatry are working, Ritchie said. Most of the suicides have occurred since May 1, after major combat operations were declared ended. Experts say harsh and dangerous living conditions combined with a long deployment can worsen existing depression. And the accessibility of weapons in a war zone can quickly turn a passing thought into action. It just takes a second to pull it out and put it to your head and pull the trigger, Ritchie said. The Army has sent 478 soldiers home from Iraq for mental-health issues. Officials say that in previous wars, many of those cases would have been treated in the war zone. The Army doesn't have enough mental-health resources in Iraq to treat many of the cases. The Army responded to a 26% increase in active-duty suicides from 1997 to 1999 by implementing the suicide- prevention program in 2001. __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 portside (the left side in nautical parlance) is a news, discussion and debate service of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. It aims to provide varied material of interest to people on the left. Post: mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subscribe : mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Unsubscribe : mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Faq : http://www.portside.org List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web address : http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/portside Digest mode : visit Web site Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A
[CTRL] Fw: U.S / NATO OCCUPIED IRAQ- The quagmire continues....and deepens....and deepens.......
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==Date:
Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:40:54 -0700 (PDT)From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:
New NATO In Iraq: Hungarian Troops Shelled, Ukrainian Soldier Dies1)
Mortar Rounds Fired At Hungarian Troop Base In Iraq2) Defense Ministry
Confirms Death Of UkrainianSoldier3) 1,500 Angry Iraqis Besiege
Czech Military Compound In Basrah4) Turkey: Bomb Explodes Outside
Polish Consulate,Latest Attack On Iraq Occupation Nations5)
Bulgarian Defense Minister, Military Chief Of StaffLeave For Iraq6)
Defense Minister: Bulgaria Prepared To Work WithTurkey In
Iraq1)http://www.budapestsun.com/full_story.asp?ArticleId={6DE07022325F4E459B0F6D9642123E6D}From=News
Budapest SunOctober 2, 2003Magyar
troops under fireBy Gareth CorsiThe base housing the
Hungarian troops in Iraq cameunder fire last week. Although there were no
militarycasualties, three children received minor injuries. In total
three mortar rounds were fired at theinternational military camp in al
Hillah. Two roundsmissed the base entirely and there were no
militarycasualties reported. However, there were civilian casualties
when one ofthe shells went wide of the camp, exploding in anapartment
block nearby. Three children were said to have suffered
lightinjuries. "Sometime after 10pm on Monday evening
unknownperpetrators launched three 60mm shells at thelogistics base
serving as the camp for the Hungarianarmy," said Major Dezsô Kiss, press
officer for theunit. "Out of these three shells one fell within the
camp.No one was hurt and no damage was done to thefacility. "One
shell hit an apartment near the camp. Threechildren sustained light
injuries. The third shell hitthe ground outside the camp. The launcher was
foundoutside the camp. The case is being investigated bylocal police,"
Kiss explained. "Precautionary measures were put in place right
afterthe blast. We are not responsible for protecting the camp but
theunit in charge took up defensive positions. "We put on flak
jackets and helmets and armedourselves. We maintained alert for an
hour-and-a- half before standing down," the officer added. The
question as to why Hungarians should be involvedin Iraq has been raised in
Parliament on more than oneoccasion. It was even suggested in press
reports at one pointthat should the soldiers come under fire, then
theywould be brought home. However, Kiss was under no illusion about
their job,"We are soldiers. When we volunteered for this job, wewere
aware of the possible dangers."
---2)http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-44781.html
UNIAN (Ukraine)October 1, 2003Defense
Ministry Confirms Death of Ukrainian Soldier in Iraq
The Defense Ministry of Ukraine confirms the death
ofthe Ukrainian soldier in Iraq. As the press-service of the Defense
Ministry hasreported to UNIAN, commander of crew of thereconnaissance
patrol machine military man of the #5mechanized brigade from the staff of
the internationalstabilization forces in Iraq sergeant of
thecounter-active service Yury Koydan perished as aresult of a traffic
accident at 22.15 (Kyiv time) onSeptember 30. The accident took
place during fulfillment ofpatrolling in the district of Al-Kut airdrome.
Duringan unsuccessful maneuvering at the territory of theUkrainian base,
an armored transporter turnedupside-down and pressed a Ukrainian soldier.
A criminal case was brought on the fact of theaccident. The
leadership of the Defense Ministry of Ukrainepresented condolences to the
relatives of the perishedsoldier.
---3)http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=27397
Czech HappeningsOctober 2, 2003Demonstration outside Czech base in Basra, Czechs in
orderBASRA- A demonstration attended by about 1,500
peopletook place outside the base of the Czech contingent inBasra,
southern Iraq, the Czech Defence Ministry pressdepartment said. The
protest was connected with the case of an allegeddefilement of the Koran,
which, according to an Iraqireligious leader, was committed by the Czechs.
The religious leader demanded an apology from allcountries operating
in Iraq, saying that members ofthe Czech 7th filed hospital allegedly
circulatedtexts from the Koran with disrespectful sloganswritten on
them. The Czech military command has denied these claims andcalled
the matter a provocation. The Defence Ministrysaid earlier that the official
Iraqi sources haddistanced themselves from the activities of
thereligious leader. The ministry press department said today that
allmembers of the Czech contingent were in order. Thedemonstration,
which lasted two hours, was called by aleaflet which was distributed at the
local marketplacethis morning. The situation in the region in which
the Czechmilitary hospital operates, has not yet calmed down,even though
the Iraqi officials have
[CTRL] Fw: ICDSM: Intervention at The Hague
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:54 AM Subject: ICDSM: Intervention at The Hague ICDSM: INTERVENTION AT THE HAGUE. On Tuesday 30th September 2003 The Hague Tribunal heard a submission from the Prosecution that if accepted would mean the imposition of Defence Counsel on President Milosevic against his will, and would enable the trial to proceed without the presence of the accused. This basic denial of the right of the accused to conduct his own defence is yet further proof of the political nature of the ICTY. The arguments for the Prosecution, presented by Mr Nice, would be comical if they were not so tragic. To an outbreak of derisory laughter from the public gallery, Nice tried to suggest that the Presidents health problems would be eliminated if he gave up smoking cigarettes! He further proposed that on his rest days Mr Milosevic could study Court documents and watch hours of witness videos to save time and expedite the trial proceedings. Moreover, according to Mr Nice, the accused brought his ill health upon himself because he would insist on cross-examining the Prosecutions witnesses. How very inconsiderate of Mr Milosevic! In contrast to the Prosecutions absurd arguments, which follow the equally absurd ruling that Mr Milosevic provide the Court and the Prosecution with his defence details and list of defence witnesses within six weeks, Mr Milosevic has proposed that their be a two-year recess in the trial in order to prepare his defence and that he be released from custody where his medical condition can be treated by doctors of his own choice. It was these two key demands that gained an interest from journalists at Tuesdays hearing when members and supporters of the ICDSM distributed their Press Release and gave interviews outside the Tribunal building. Such was the impact of the ICDSM intervention that the Tribunals security staff felt obliged to harass the journalists and demand to see their passports and credentials. It was to the credit of the ICDSM supporters that all copies of the Committees literature were distributed even in the face of such intimidation. The only ruling given by the Court on the day was that from next Monday (6th October), following the advice of the Court appointed doctors, Mr Milosevic should attend trial for three days and rest for the next four. A decision regarding the Prosecutions latest submission would be announced shortly, though it is worth noting that to accept this submission would mean yet a further rewriting of the Tribunals existing rules. Objective observers of the trial cannot fail to note the sheer desperation of both the Court and Prosecution at their inability to break the resistance of President Milosevic and their inability to prevent the development and growth of his Defence Committee. ICDSM. The Hague. 30th September 2003. Copythe Press Release at: http://www.icdsm.org/press300903.htm SLOBODA urgently needs your donation.Please find the detailed instructions at:http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm To join or help this struggle, visit:http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association)http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic)http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM)http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland)http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council)http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Newsletter AL BA'ATH AL IRAQI - N°17
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: COMITES IRAK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: COMITES IRAK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:54 PM Subject: Newsletter AL BA'ATH AL IRAQI - N°17 AL BA'ATH AL IRAQI RESURRECTION IRAQUIENNE IRAQI RESURRECTION == Newsletter of the « Iraq Committee » in support of the Iraqi Resistance - Lettre d'information des Comités Irak de Base en soutien de la Résistance irakienne http://comitesirak.free.fr/ == N° 17 (18 septembre 2003) - Issue 17 (september 17, 2003) == Webmaster : Luc MICHEL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] == In this issue 17 / Dans ce numéro 17 : - Communiqué de presse des « COMITES IRAK DE BASE » (15 septembre 2003) : LE PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN N'A JAMAIS « GAZE DES KURDES » A HALABJA ! - MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE : WE ARE ONE PEOPLE, BORN AS ONE AND WE FIGHT AS ONE (17 September, 2003) - MESSAGE DU PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN AU PEUPLE IRAKIEN : « NOUS SOMMES UN SEUL PEUPLE, NE COMME UN SEUL PEUPLE ET NOUS COMBATTRONS COMME UN SEUL PEUPLE » (17 septembre 2003) === 1) Communiqué de presse des « COMITES IRAK DE BASE » - 15 septembre 2003 LE PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN N'A JAMAIS « GAZE DES KURDES » A HALABJA ! Powell, en visite en Irak, a évoqué l'attaque chimique de Halabja, à l' occasion de l'inauguration d'un « Mémorial » par les forces d'occupation yankee et leurs Kollabos kurdes. Et à nouveau les grandes orgues de la propagande yankee se déchaînent. Jamais autant que dans ce cas exemplaire les mediamensonges de la presse occidentale n'ont été aussi évidents. Car à Halabja, crime de guerre honteusement exploité par les impérialistes occidentaux et leurs mercenaires féodaux kurdes, c'est l'Armée iranienne qui a gazé le village kurde ! Et dans le cadre d'une opération militaire, Halabja se trouvant alors sur la ligne de Front ! Il ne s'agit donc pas de « représailles contre des populations civiles ». Et tout le monde le sait. LE MYTHE DU SOUTIEN OCCIDENTAL ET AMERICAIN A SADDAM HUSSEIN LORS DE LA GUERRE CONTRE L'IRAN Le massacre de Halabja à l'arme chimique remonte à mars 1988, soit à la fin de la guerre Iran-Irak, à une époque où les Américains, avec à leur tête le président républicain Ronald Reagan, étaient engagés en plein « Irangate ». C'est-à-dire qu'ils aidaient et armaient, en compagnie de leurs complices israéliens, les fondamentalistes chiites iraniens. A ce sujet, il faut aussi dénoncer un autre mediamensonge, selon lequel ce seraient les Etats- Unis qui auraient armé l'Irak. En fait, le « STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE » a montré qu'entre 1973 et 2002 l'Union soviétique puis la Russie ont fourni 57% des armes importées par Bagdad, la France 13% et la Chine 12%, contre 1% pour les Etats-Unis et moins encore pour la Grande-Bretagne !!! Saddam a toujours été anti-américain, favorisant après la Révolution du 17 juillet 1968 le rapprochement avec l'URSS et la France gaulliste - la politique du Ba'ath irakien étant alors vue comme un « Gaullisme arabe ». L' Irak ba'athiste sera ainsi le premier état arabe à reconnaître la DDR. Le « soutien des USA à l'Irak dans la guerre contre l'Iran islamiste » est un mythe, du autant à la propagande occidentale qu'à l'inculture historique de nombreux journalistes. Kissinger affirmera, avec son cynisme habituel, qu 'il fallait « laisser les deux adversaires s'entretuer ». LA VERITE SUR HALABJA EST BIEN CONNUE : IL S'AGIT D'UN CRIME DE GUERRE IRANIEN ! La vérité sur Halabja est en effet bien connue depuis le début des Années 80. Et la presse aux ordres du Pentagone ment sciemment. Voici ce qu'écrit à ce sujet le « RESEAU VOLTAIRE » : « Le 16 mars 1988, en pleine guerre Iran-Irak, 5 000 Kurdes du village d'Halabja, situé dans le Kurdistan irakien, sont tués par des gaz. Mais les seules informations dont nous sommes sûrs est qu'une bataille entre l'Iran et l'Irak a eu lieu dans la zone d'Halabja, que les deux camps ont utilisé des gaz de combat interdits et que des civils kurdes, pris entre deux feux, ont été tués par ces gaz. En mars 1988, le massacre d'Halabja n'avait pas soulevé de protestation de la communauté internationale. A l'époque, il était admis que les civils avaient été tués « collatéralement » à la suite d'une erreur de maniement des gaz de combat. Deux ans plus tard, lorsque la guerre Irak-Iran prit fin et que les Occidentaux cessèrent de soutenir Saddam Hussein, le massacre d'Halabja fut attribué aux Irakiens ». Un rapport classifié de l' « ARMY WAR COLLEGE » (USA) démontra, en 1990, que cette imputation était peu crédible. Le « WASHINGTON POST » du 4 mai 1990 le résuma en ces termes : « L'affirmation iranienne du 20 mars [1990] selon laquelle la plupart des victimes d'Halabja ont été empoisonnées
[CTRL] Fw: Citizen Clark?
-Caveat Lector- Or, Why Electing a Mass Murderer Is a Really Bad Ideahttp://www.antiwar.com/malic/m091803.htmlANTIWARThursday, September 18, 2003Balkan Expressby Nebojsa MalicAntiwar.com PHOTO: KLA leader Hashim Taqi, Viceroy Bernard Kouchner, General SirMichael Jackson, KLA commander Agim Ceku, and General Wesley Clark celebrate the victory of their joint enterprise; Pristina, 1999, credit unknown It is normally not within the bounds of this column to offer commentary on internal American issues, with the notable exception of consistent advocating of non-intervention in foreign quarrels and stepping back from the assumed role of World Empire. Such policies, harmful as they are tothe very fabric of American society, nonetheless do far more damage intarget countries, where any "help" that is proffered soon proves to be butanother form of grievous injury. Many a harsh word has been expended here upbraiding the misguided andmalicious politicians of the Balkans for a veritable train of abusesagainst the lives, liberty and property of their own people and others. In theprocess, similar harshness has been employed against the agents ofEmpire, who have set to remake the fractious and complex peninsular tapestry bybrute force and power of prejudice. Now one such agent seeks to applyhis Balkans experiences at home, here in the United States, seeking theoffice of President ? but in truth, coveting the laurels of Emperor. Candidate Number TenWesley Clark, former US Army general and Supreme NATO Commander inEurope, announced Wednesday that he will run for President of the United Statesin 2004 as a Democrat, joining nine other Democratic candidates vying forthe opportunity to challenge George W. Bush. Incongruously, Clark supporters and mainstream media seem to purportthat he is running on an "antiwar" ticket. Only a few, including the ChristianScience Monitor, believe that Clark could outflank Bush in hisbelligerence. It's as if everyone has forgotten Wesley Clark was the Bomber ofBelgrade, the highest-ranking military official in a cabal that systematicallyviolated international law, the NATO Charter (and with it the USConstitution, Article 6, Section 2) and committed the greatest crimeunder the Nuremburg principles: that against peace. Even Michael Moore, the gut-punch filmmaker who challenged the NATOattack (after a fashion) in his Oscar-winning feature "Bowling for Columbine,"recently gushed over Clark. What has possessed all these people tobelieve that the answer to George W. Bush's policy of Global Balkanization liesin a man whose hands are drenched in Balkans blood? War CriminalClark's BBC profile notes the general's words at the beginning of NATO's1999 aerial aggression: "We're going to systematically and progressively attack, disrupt,degrade, devastate and ultimately, unless President Milosevic complies with thedemands of the international community, we're going to destroy hisforces and their facilities and support," he said. Systematically, he said. Destroy, he said. Facilities and support, hesaid. The bombing was indeed systematic ? bridges, schools, hospitals,passenger trains, buses, refugee columns, marketplaces, anything that could be hitexcept the Yugoslav military, which successfully camouflaged its systemsand avoided most attacks. Apparently, for Clark and his coterie, the"facilities and support" of the Yugoslav military were the people and infrastructureof Serbia itself, from the roads and bridges to the power grid and TVnetworks. One of the Nuremberg prosecutors warned in vain that war crimes lawsapplied to Americans also. Comfortable in their knowledge that no court in theworld would ever touch them ? proven later on by their ICTY pawns' abjectrefusal to even consider an investigation ? Clark and Co. committed war crimesfreely and often. Unlike Slobodan Milosevic, who was accused of "command responsibility"for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in the Balkan Wars withouta shred of reliable evidence, there is plenty of proof in Clark's case.That is, if there were an honest war crimes court in the world. Starting World War IIIDespite the barrage of propaganda, and a tailor-made "indictment" ofMilosevic by NATO allies at the Hague Inquisition, the campaign ofterror was failing. Only the intercession of a Russian government envoy and the"neutral" Finn Martti Ahtisaari (later amply rewarded by NATOsupporters) convinced the Serbian authorities to make a truce with their attackers.No one knows whether Chernomyrdin or Ahtisaari knew that the Alliance hadno intention of honoring the agreement, or the UN resolution that codifiedit. Russia tried to ensure NATO lived up to the bargain by sending troops toKosovo. When the invading British troops encountered the Russians at thePristina airport, Clark hysterically ordered British commander GeneralSir Michael Jackson to dislodge them by force. Jackson refused, reportedlysaying, "I'm
[CTRL] Fw: The weapons of mass-destruction that disappeared
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: TFF Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TFF PeaceTips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:04 AM Subject: The weapons of mass-destruction that disappeared Lund, Sweden - September 17, 2003 Where have all the weapons of mass destruction gone? Three items in the War Theatre of the Absurd - the Americans who, more than Saddam, refused co-operate with UN weapons inspectors can't find any WMDs - Hans Blix believes Iraq destroyed its WMD about 10 years ago. - Go to Google and have a good laugh... Iraq weapons report shelved *** David Leppard The Times (UK) September 14, 2003 BRITAIN and America have decided to delay indefinitely the publication of a full report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction after inspectors found no evidence that any such weapons exist. Efforts by the Iraq Survey Group, an Anglo-American team of 1,400 scientists, military and intelligence experts, to scour Iraq for the past four months to uncover evidence of chemical or biological weapons have so far ended in failure. It had been expected that a progress report would be published tomorrow but MPs on Westminster's security and intelligence committee have been told that even this has been delayed and no new date set. British defence intelligence sources confirmed last week that the final report, which is to be submitted by David Kay, the survey group's leader, to George Tenet, head of the CIA, had been delayed and may not necessarily even be published. In July Kay suggested on US television that he had seen enough evidence to convince himself that Saddam Hussein had had a programme to produce weapons of mass destruction. He expected to find strong evidence of missile delivery systems and probably evidence of biological weapons. But last week British officials said they believed Kay had been kite-flying and that no hard evidence had been uncovered. The hunt for weapons is seen in London and Washington as a vital step in convincing an increasingly sceptical public that the war was justified. There have already been false alarms. One early suggestion, by Downing Street and the White House, was that an unmanned plane found by UN inspectors could have been used to spray chemical weapons. But a US air force report leaked yesterday said such drones were primarily used for reconnaissance. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,2-523-816274,00.html Hans Blix says Iraq destroyed its weapons 10 years ago * September 17, 2003, 07:04 AM Hans Blix, the former UN chief weapons inspector, now believes that Iraq destroyed its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago and that intelligence agencies were wrong in their weapons assessment that led to war. In an interview with Australian radio from Sweden, Blix said that the search for evidence of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons would probably only uncover documents at best. The more time that has passed, the more I think it is unlikely that anything will be found, Blix said in the interview, which was broadcast today. I am certainly more and more to the conclusion that Iraq has, as they maintained, destroyed almost all of what they had in the summer of 1991, Blix said. http://www.sabcnews.com/world/the_middle_east/0,2172,65930,00.html 1) Go to Google.com 2) Type in (but don't hit return): weapons of mass destruction 3) Hit the I'm feeling lucky button, instead of the normal Google search button; 4) Read what appears to be a normal error message carefully. http://www.google.com/ Yours truly TFF Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research http://www.transnational.org Vegagatan 25 S - 224 57 Lund Sweden Phone +46 46 14 59 09 Fax + 46 46 14 45 12 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Public not-for-profit charity 845001-4637 I don't want TFF PressInfo, PeaceBrowser and PeaceTips mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory
[CTRL] Fw: [anti-imperialiste] Need Your Urgent Action
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: All Pakistan Trade Union Federation! IRENE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Ant.Barb.Pub.S ; ANPA Nepal ; Annie Delaney Australia Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:18 PM Subject: [anti-imperialiste] Need Your Urgent Action Dear Comrades, On the behalf of All Pakistan Trade union Federation we would like to inform you with our deep concern and anxiety that yesterday on 17th of September 2003, under the umbrella of Pakistan workers Confederation Punjab, workers organized Protest rally in Lahore against anti workers policy, price hike, unemployment, privatization, down sizing, banned on trade union activities, discrimination and violence against women. Fascism and Aggression, thousands of workers belongs to nine-national trade union federations participated in this rally. When demonstration reached at Lukshmi Chock. Lahore, heavy-armed police contingent stopped the procession and put barriers in the way of demonstrators. But demonstrators strongly agitated and refused to stop their march. In spite of police hurdles demonstrators continued their march towards Parliament house. Workers use their basic right of agitation but police register Criminal case against Mr. Gulzar Ahmed Chaudhary, President Pakistan Workers Confederation Punjab, General secretary of All Pakistan Trade Union Federation, Mr. Khrshid Ahmed, General secretary of Pakistan Workers Confederation, and 6 other trade union leaders, on the basis of holding procession without the permission of district administration and critics Government policies and chanting slogan against the government. Violation of section 144, stoppage of Traffic etc. All these cassis are baseless and unfounded and register due to trade union activities. We strongly condemn and protest this anti-workers practices and urge take immediate action for fulfillment of workers following demands. Ø Drop the charges against the all trade union leaders accused of taken out the procession without the permission of district administration and critics Government policies and chanting slogan against the government. Ø Stop workplace threats and harassment of union leaders. Ø Negotiate with the union leaders in good faith. Here we would like to request you that kindly write Protest letter to President of Pakistan, Prim Minster of Pakistan, chief minister of Punjab, Minster of labour, I.G Punjab their address is below. We assure all the peace loving and democareting workers and people of the world that our struggle will continue till the emancipation of the working class. We do hope you would take urgent action for protection of workers representatives of Pakistan Sincerely, Nasir Chaudhary Press Publication Secretary All Pakistan Trade Union Federation 14 N, Gulberg Industrial Area, Gulberg II, Lahore, Pakistan Tel: 92- 42-5755078 - 5755079 Fax:042-6686519 Honorable Mr. General Pervaiz Musharaf President of pakistan Chief Executive House Islamabad. Pakistan E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Honorable Mr. Zafrullah Khan Jamali Prime Minister of Pakistan Prime Minister House Islamabad, Pakistan Honorable Ch Pervaiz Elahi Chief Minister of Punjab Chief Minister House Punjab, Pakistan Honorable Governor Punjab Governor House Lahore. pakistan Fax: 92-42-9200077 Mr. Abdus Sattar Lalika Federal Minister of labour UBL building, 9th Floor Jinnah Avenue Branch Islamabad, Pakistan Fax: 92 51- 9228490 I.G Punjab Civil Secretariat Fax: 92-42-9210026 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Russian Parliamentarians Stand for Rights of President Milosevic
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:49 AM Subject: Russian Parliamentarians Stand for Rights of President Milosevic Moscow, September 12th, 2003 Around 30 MPs of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, from several parliamentary factions, have signed today a joint communiqué, reacting in strongest terms to the violation of the fundamental rights of President Milosevic at The Hague and fully endorsing his request for a two-years break of the process, combined with his release from detention. Among the signatories are Gennadi Zyuganov, head of the Communist Faction, the most numerous in Duma, Nikolai Charitonov, head of Agroindustrial Faction, Nikolai Rizhkov, former Soviet Prime Minister and chairman of the Duma Commission for Yugoslavia, general Andrei Nikolaev, chairman of the Duma Committee for Defense and several other chairmen and vice-chairmen of various Duma committees. The Communiqué states that the indictment against President Milosevic already totally collapsed, in spite the enormous resources used to prepare it. If now President Milosevic would not be provided with adequate conditions to prepare his case and if the visit ban and other forms of pressure, lack of medical care in particular, continue, it would be a definitive confirmation that political harassment which goes on at The Hague has nothing in common with judiciary, is the conclusion of the Communiqué. Since the autumn session of the State Duma has not been started yet, the important Russian MPs decided to appear with this public statement, considering it urgent to react to last week's developments at the Tribunal, when judges stated that they might determine conditions for preparation of President Milosevic's case which would be far below the necessary minimum. Signatures for the Joint Communiqué are still being collected. Below we give the full text of the statement of the Russian MPs. SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC HAS TO OBTAIN TIME AND CONDITIONS NECESSARY TO PREPARE HIS DEFENSE - Joint Communiqué - The process against the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic is lasting for almost two years already. During all that time, after they have submitted mountains of suspicious documents, brought hundreds of false witnesses and spent hundreds of millions of dollars from the UN budget, the prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) haven't succeeded to show any evidence of guilt of the Serbian leader for the alleged crimes. The Prosecution undergoes a total fiasco. Soon, the phase of defense of Slobodan Milosevic (who was until now allowed only to cross-examine witnesses of the Prosecution) should start. Slobodan Milosevic has numerous and convincing confirmations of his innocence. Nevertheless, the organization of the defense requires serious preparations. The indictment against Slobodan Milosevic has been prepared for more than four years with participation of hundreds of ICTY employees. Slobodan Milosevic presents his own defense in person and alone. For preparation of his defense he has the right to use the same amount of time as the ICTY prosecutors spent preparing the indictment. Equality of arms, in fact of conditions for defense and prosecution is one of the fundamental norms of International Law, guaranteed by many documents, including the European Convention on human rights. And that assumes the right for adequate time and necessary conditions for the preparation of defense. We condemn the recent decision of the ICTY to ban visits with Slobodan Milosevic by the members of the Socialist Party of Serbia and Sloboda (Freedom) Association, the committee for his support. The aim of this decision is to strengthen the isolation of President Milosevic. This is obviously a dangerous measure of moral and psychological pressure against a political prisoner. Slobodan Milosevic has to have the possibility to conduct his defense not from the prison cell, but from freedom. Otherwise, an adequate preparation for defense is impossible. At the same time, he has to have the possibility to recuperate his health, seriously damaged by the several years of imprisonment, by the exhausting court process and by the lack of qualified medical assistance. We are deeply worried by the fact that Slobodan Milosevic is still deprived of qualified medical care. That creates a real threat to his life. Taking all the above-mentioned into account, and also considering the seriousness and the broadness of the accusations, we demand a break in the process against Slobodan Milosevic, lasting at least two years. We also demand his immediate release
[CTRL] Fw: Sep. 27,28 worldwide/ANSWER to Bush/Unity statement/
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: John Catalinotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 6:33 AM Subject: Re: Sep. 27,28 worldwide/ANSWER to Bush/Unity statement/ We have heard directly from people planning demonstrations on Sept. 25- 28 in Canada, the U.S., Poland, Britain, Turkey, Greece, Finland, Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Japan, Spain, and indirectly of protests in Italy, Palestine, India. There are undoubtedly other protests planned. In the U.S., Canada, Norway, Belgium, Japan there are Oct. 25 actions planned. I also include an ANSWER statement on Bush's speech and a unity statement of ANSWER UFPJ for the Oct. 25 protest.--John Catalinotto POLAND In Warsaw, Poland, there is going to be a national demonstration on Sept. 27 - against the occupation of Iraq and for the withdrawal of Polish troops. Poland is governing one of the occupations zones in Iraq and has sent around 2,500 troops. We are building for a big demonstration to show that people in Poland don't agree with the government's striving to be Bush's best friend and to become a colonial master. Demonstrators will walk to the President's Palac, the American Embassy and the Premier's office. Hoping for a successful day of protest on Sept. 27 Ela Inicjatywa Stop wojnie, Poland TURKEY In Turkey there is going to be an important anti-occupation anti- collaboration demonstration in Ankara on Sept. 27. You can imagine its importance with all the discussion going on about Turkey sending troops to Iraq. In fact, I wish some of you could come there in solidarity. Ayse GREECE Stop the War coalition with Trade Unions will organize a national demonstration in Athens on Sept. 27 with slogans, End occupation in Iraq now-Free Palestine! The demonstration will go to UK,U.S. and Israeli embassies. Petros Constantinou FINLAND Anti-war demonstration in Helsinki, Finland, on Sept. 27. Juhani GERMANY On September 27 in Berlin, Germany, at 14 h we start with an action between the U.S. and UK embassy, where we mark the trace of blood with red hands. Then we will march through the city to Leipziger Platz where we tear down a symbolic wall between Israel and Palestine and plant olive trees. The final act will be at Potsdamer Platz where we have international speakers from Iraq, Palestine, USA and Israel and Germany. Organized by Aktionsbündnis 27.09. Peter FRANCE A concert will take place in Paris collecting funds for medical care in Palestine. JS BELGIUM We are planning a demonstration in Brussels on Sept.27 followed by a meeting. It will be a common organization of all the anti-war forces. STOP USA has negociated a platform against the occupation of Irak and for solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. Jo Cottenier (PTB) NORWAY Here in Norway there will be a rally in Oslo sept 27th (plus some smaller activities some other places) concentrated on Palestine. The main initiative comes from the Palestine solidarity committees here, in cooperation with the main Trade Union Association of Oslo and The Peoples Aid (One of the four major humanitarian associations in Norway, supported by the trade unions), and, of course, the Anti-war Nettwork. In the appeals Iraq, of course, also will be mentioned, and mobilizing for the Oct 25 manifestation on Iraq, with the main issue to bring back the 150 Norwegian soldiers. Arnljot A. BRITAIN as you probably know, we are holding a national demo here in London on September 27. The slogan is: 'No more lies, no more war, end the occupation of Iraq, freedom for Palestine' In the context of a completley discredited war government we are expecting a very big turnout. Chris Nineham StWC Britain JAPAN On Sept. 27 Stop War World Action will hold a rally and wage demonstration in Shibuya in Tokyo. Anti-War Joint Ation Committee, Secretary Kikuchi Takao SPAIN In Madrid at 7 p.m. on Sept. 27, with the slogans End the occupation of Iraq, withdraw the Spanish troops, for the national rights of the Palestinian people. CSCA web site United States: San Diego, Sept. 27, Seattle, San FRancisco, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Sept. 28, Alexandria, VA., Sept. 25. Other cities (see www.internationalanswer.org) Canada -- Vancouver, others. Also, In Palestine and Israel AIC and other organizations (including surely the ISM) prepare mobilisations. There may be a demonstration in Barcelona. There are undoubtedly other demonstrations that we have not heard from yet. --A.N.S.W.E.R. COALITION RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S NATIONAL TELEVISION ADDRESS OF SEPTEMBER 7, 2003 President Bush's illegal war and occupation of Iraq has left the Administration in a position of extreme political vulnerability. He now wants the United Nations and U.S. taxpayers to bail him out. Having defied U.S. and world public opinion - which preemptively
[CTRL] Fw: Truth or Inquisition - make your choice! (SLOBODA to UN Secretary General and Permanent Members of SC)
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 9:11 PM Subject: Truth or Inquisition - make your choice! (SLOBODA to UN Secretary General and Permanent Members of SC) To: Secretary General of the Organization of United Nations, H.E. Kofi A. Annan (via UN Office in Belgrade) To the Governments of: Peoples' Republic of China Republic of France Russian Federation United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United States of America (via their embassies in Belgrade) The Association of Citizens Sloboda/Freedom - Yugoslav Committee for the Release of Slobodan Milosevic, expressing the opinion of the large number of citizens, stresses the hard violations of human rights, as well as of generally accepted legal, juridical and moral norms by the so-called International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague (acting on the basis of the mandate by the UN Security Council) in the process conducted against the long-term President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia Mr. Slobodan Milosevic. In the so-called Pre-defense Hearing, hold at The Hague on September 2nd, 2003, the Tribunal has shown its unwillingness to satisfy, even in minimum extent, the principle of equality of arms between its own Prosecution and the right to defense, allegedly recognized by the Tribunal. If this expressed unwillingness would remain, every impartial observer will come to the conclusion that a modern inquisition exists within the UN system with the only objective to protect interests of NATO in the Balkans and that the most responsible for that are the permanent members of the UN Security Council. The Tribunal has shown unwillingness to accept a gentleman proposal by President Milosevic. President Milosevic requested two-years break of the process, during which period he could prepare presentation of his evidence and witnesses in order to confront with truth, in the second phase of the process, the distorted facts and fabricated evidence, the Prosecution is presenting for two years already. He had in mind that in preparing its case, the Prosecution used several years of work of several hundred of people, financed by the enormous UN budget and assisted by the intelligence services of some big countries. For its work, with practically unlimited resources, the Prosecution had at least four and a half years (since May 1999), although everybody knows that many materials collected since the founding of the Tribunal in 1993, have been used as well. Furthermore, The Hague Tribunal by the length and rhythm of the process and by the denial of the appropriate medical care threatens the life and health of President Milosevic. President Milosevic is deprived of visits of his inner family members. By the recent Tribunal's decision, he is also deprived of visits of his closest associates, members of the Committee for his release and members of his Party, by which the right to defense is also denied. Besides, any contact with media is totally forbidden to President Milosevic, while at the same time, the Prosecution talks to media daily. Due to the state of health of President Milosevic, due to equality and right to defense, and in the interest of truth, we demand a two-year break of the Hague process, during which President Milosevic would be set free, in order to recuperate his health and in order to have minimum conditions to prepare evidence and witnesses for the second phase of the process. We also demand cease of other violations of his rights. The only alternative to this, with which the reputation of the World organization and of the governments most responsible for its decisions, would not be most seriously damaged, is immediate abolition of the Hague Tribunal. Belgrade, September 3rd, 2003 Respectfully, On behalf of Sloboda/Freedom Association - The Yugoslav Committee for the Release of Slobodan Milosevic, Bogoljub Bjelica, Chairman SLOBODA urgently needs your donation. Please find the detailed instructions at: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/pomoc.htm To join or help this struggle, visit: http://www.sloboda.org.yu/ (Sloboda/Freedom association) http://www.icdsm.org/ (the international committee to defend Slobodan Milosevic) http://www.free-slobo.de/ (German section of ICDSM) http://www.icdsmireland.org/ (ICDSM Ireland) http://www.wpc-in.org/ (world peace council) http://www.geocities.com/b_antinato/ (Balkan antiNATO center) www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not
[CTRL] Fw: CALL FOR OCTOBER 25 ANTI-WAR ACTIONS WORLDWIDE
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: John Catalinotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 5:05 AM Subject: CALL FOR OCTOBER 25 ANTI-WAR ACTIONS WORLDWIDE CALL FOR OCTOBER 25 ANTI-WAR ACTIONS WORLDWIDE Momentum is growing inside the United States for a successful national demonstration in Washington on October 25 against the occupation of Iraq and to bring the U.S. troops home now. The ANSWER Coalition is asking the world movement to consider making this same date - October 25 - a date for worldwide actions against the occupation. From mid-to-late August-a time when there is usually a low level of political activity in the U.S.-there were surprisingly significant protests in New York, Chicago, Richmond, Va., and Taos, N.M., most demanding and end to the occupation of Iraq. The Aug. 23 demonstration in Washington commemorating the 1963 Civil Rights March gave its biggest applause to anti-war statements. In addition, a Newsweek poll showed more people now opposed the continued occupation than supported it. The Iraqi people's refusal to accept U.S./UK domination of their country has made the continued occupation unpopular among the rank-and-file U.S. troops, their relatives and the U.S. population in general. The ANSWER Coalition has been working for the past two months to build a strong national march on October 25 in Washington. By late August some 2,000 organizations and individuals, including Not In Our Name, NY Labor Against the War, the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation and the San Francisco Labor Council, had endorsed this initiative. The latest step toward a successful demonstration was the decision as August ended by the other major national coalition, United for Peace and Justice, to accept an ANSWER invitation to jointly sponsor the demonstration. This means the October 25 action will be the first national demonstration supported by the entire U.S. anti-war movement since the Pentagon took Baghdad last April. It will come a month after important local actions-expected to be strongest on the West Coast-September 25-28 to end the occupations of Iraq and Palestine, part of internationally supported protests on the anniversary of the second Intifada. A major U.S.-based protest of the occupation Oct. 25 will undoubtedly have a strong impact on the worldwide anti-war movement. Already movements have called actions for Oct. 25 in Belgium, in Canada, in northern Italy, Japan, and in Madrid, Spain, where a Donors' Conference of countries aiding the occupation is set Oct. 23-24. These are just a beginning. Last year's global demonstrations that began Oct. 26, grew on Jan. 18 and peaked with the Feb. 15-16 actions, involved at least 10 million worldwide and were repeated in March and April, showed what is possible. Now this movement should consider if it can use the U.S.-based action as a catalyst for protests in other countries. Can October 25 be the next powerful international day of protest? John Catalinotto www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: [houstonpeaceroundtable] MURDER MOST FOUL, by Israel Shamir
Title: Message -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Ken Freeland To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:52 PM Subject: [houstonpeaceroundtable] MURDER MOST FOUL, by Israel Shamir A differenttake on the assassination ofSaddam's sons. Peace,Ken MURDER MOST FOULBy Israel ShamirWar is crime, but this is the manly crime defying effeminate mores and rigidsociety. The most convinced pacifist can be carried away by the sight ofcharging cavalry, attacking troops, roaring tanks and fighter jets takingoff a desert strip. Not in vain, women admired warriors, poets sung theirmighty deeds, and priests anointed their heads. We can fetch a Roman adageor a Koranic verse, a line from Shakespeare or Nietzsche to praise a leaderof men and disregard the costs of war. We can forgive a bloodshed, it'ssordid affairs that can't ever be forgiven.Murder of the deposed Arab ruler's young sons is the ultimate sordid crimeof President Bush. It transformed him from a fool into a villain, from thedubious vanquisher of a disarmed state into a vile murderer, from a deceiverinto a bloody crook, from the vainglorious chieftain on board of theaircraft carrier into a vicious monster. Whatever we think of SaddamHussein, cynical and cruel murder of his sons is an abysmal collapse intoarchaic mode. This is worse than Napoleon's murder of young Duc d'Enghien,worse than the crimes of Richard III. Stalin and Hitler, Churchill andRoosevelt killed millions, but they did not hunt down children of theiradversaries.If the president would tear their noble hearts and gobble them drippingblood on his starched shirt he would not be more disgusting. It is a moralcollapse of the ruling class: his schools, Harvard and Yale, oncearistocratic breeding ground of American gentlemen, reached moral nadirunder the guidance of Lawrence Summers the Platitudinous, Samuel Huntingtonthe Trivial, Leo Strauss the Godless and Alan Dershowitz the Torturer.Probably Sing Sing would produce a more suitable ruling class at lessercost.It is a moral collapse of the army. Hundreds of heavily armed Americansoldiers who participated in the execution brought shame on themselves andthe Armed Forces. Copycatting the Israeli assassins, they shot missiles atunprotected men. They are not soldiers anymore, their place is with hangmen.Their cowardly deed will delegate them into lower recesses of Hell, within ashouting distance from Judas.It is a moral collapse of the media. This docile tool of Empire stepped intomoral abyss beyond the cowardly murder. TV pundits discussed price of bloodin dollars and shekels, they argued whether the murder will put paid to theIraqi resistance. The TV screens were turned into stakes posting thebloodied heads of two handsome young men, a scary sight, but even scarierwas the joyous crowd of brokers and investors at Wall Street, celebratingthe Dow Jones' rise by guzzling Arab blood. It was not the first viciousmurder in mankind's history; but the first one met with equanimity; a bloodysacrifice to Mammon. The healing spasm of moral disgust did not shake thesick society.The dead and torn body of the fourteen-year-old boy, a grandchild of SaddamHussein, will haunt Bush whenever he looks at his own children andgrandchildren, like Banquo's bloody ghost on Macbeth's feast. Indeed, theTexan killer of Hussein's sons is but a remorseless replica of the Scottishmurderer of Macduff's sons.In a Christian land he would be excommunicated, for a vengeful murderer ofhis enemies' children has no place in Kingdom of Christ. Not in vain hebefriended Sharon and Perle who are used to laud murder of Haman's childrenat the feast of Purim.Noble and brave, the sons of Saddam Hussein did not escape to a farawayland; they did not pocket billions for surrender, they did not lounge inMinsk or Riyadh as the dishonest mainstream media suggested. The Young Lionsof Baghdad, they fought the superior forces of aggressor, and fell defendingtheir homeland. Kusai and Udai were together in their lives; and in theirdeath they were not divided. They will be forever cherished in thecollective memory of mankind, with other tragic and courageous fightersagainst the Empire from Vercingetorix the Gaul to the Sioux chief SittingBull, from Che Guevara of Santa Clara to Abdel Kader al Husseini of Qastal.Their last stand and their death redeemed Iraq and returned self esteem tothe Arabs. They died in flesh but remained alive in spirit; their murderersare but living dead. When the Middle East will regain its independence,their names will be written on the precious porphyry of our monuments.Israel Shamir is an Israeli journalist based in Jaffa. His articles can befound on the site www.israelshamir.net In order to subscribe to this listplease send blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You mayfreely display this article on the Web or forward it, but ask for permissionin order to publish as hard copy.To subscribe to this
[CTRL] Fw: [anti-imperialiste] US Killing Of Hussein Family Members
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:59 AM Subject: [anti-imperialiste] US Killing Of Hussein Family Members HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- 1) Russia Criticizes US Killing Of Hussein Family Members As 'Beyond Bounds Of International Law' 2) Russian Lawmakers Deride US's 'Desperate Measures' 3) French Intelligence Source: Uday Hussein Was Negotiating His Surrender Before Being Killed 4) Analysts: Death Of Hussein's Sons Won't Halt Attacks On US Forces http://www.dawn.com/2003/07/24/int5.htm Dawn (Pakistan) Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 24, 2003 Russia criticizes action -Konstantin Kossachyov, the chief international politics expert of the Kremlin-loyal Russian Unity Party, said the incident was equally beyond the bounds of international law as the overall American action in Iraq. MOSCOW, July 23: The deaths of Saddam Hussein's two sons drew a muted and even critical response in Russia, one of the most outspoken opponents of the invasion. This situation will lead to new casualties among the coalition forces and the civilian population of Iraq, the chairman of the Russian Duma parliament's foreign affairs committee, Mikhail Margelov, said in Moscow. The violent deaths of Uday and Qusay were further proof that a political solution in Iraq was still a remote prospect, he said. Konstantin Kossachyov, the chief international politics expert of the Kremlin-loyal Russian Unity Party, said the incident was equally beyond the bounds of international law as the overall American action in Iraq. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow, meanwhile, said that there were no plans to include Russian troops in the peacekeeping force in Iraq. --- http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bd/Qiraq-sons-russia.R8_v_DlN.html Russia says death of Saddam's sons no guarantee of Iraq stability Dmitry Zaks -Some Russian lawmakers said the killing showed the desperate measures US forces were resorting to as they grapple with anarchy in post-war Iraq. The fact that Hussein's sons were not brought to trial but were killed in fighting proves that a genuine political process in Iraq is a long way off. MOSCOW, July 23 (AFP) - Russia held back Wednesday from celebrating news that US troops have killed Saddam Hussein's two sons and warned that their demise still gave no guarantee of security in Iraq. Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov said it was difficult for Moscow to judge how the killing Tuesday of Uday and Qusay Hussein in a shootout with US troops would improve stability in a nation where skirmishes rage on daily. Of course we are following the situation in Iraq. We judge any set of events first of all by how they affect the actual situation, Fedotov told reporters. The regime in Iraq has changed and the main efforts must now be focused on the process of reconstruction, an end to crime, the formation of state authorities, and the restoration of the very basic needs of the Iraqi people. But Fedotov added in reference to the sons' death: It is difficult for me to say how this fact can affect the future situation in Iraq. Some Russian lawmakers said the killing showed the desperate measures US forces were resorting to as they grapple with anarchy in post-war Iraq. The fact that Hussein's sons were not brought to trial but were killed in fighting proves that a genuine political process in Iraq is a long way off, said the upper house of parliament's foreign affairs chief Mikhail Margelov. Two US soldiers were killed in separate blasts in Iraq on Wednesday, the day after the battle in the northern city of Mosul that left the two sons and two other people dead. Uday and Qusay Hussein were among the most reviled men in Iraq. Qusay was the seldom-seen heir apparent to the Iraqi strongman's throne and headed his dreaded security and intelligence apparatus. Uday commanded the Fedayeen paramilitary fighting force. US authorities said their demise boosted hopes that American and British troops could soon wrap up the most crucial part of their military operations. Moscow opposed the Iraqi campaign from the start and regarded Saddam as a guarantor of Russia's massive oil investments in Iraq even though relations with him had long turned frosty. Fedotov said those investments remained in jeopardy because US and British troops had so far failed to restore order in Iraq despite US President George W. Bush's May 1 pronouncement that the war had been all but won. The work of Russian oil companies and other utilities is being complicated by a sense of uncertainty and lack of proper security guarantees, said Fedotov, who oversees UN affairs in the Russian foreign ministry. Moscow said it fully supported UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's call Tuesday for an early end to the military
[CTRL] Fw: Urgent from Sloboda: HELP THE TRUTH!
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Vladimir Krsljanin To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:00 PM Subject: Urgent from Sloboda: HELP THE TRUTH! Dear friends, We really and urgently need your support. That's why we repeat our appeal. Please do whatever you can - donate, encourage others, organize your own campaign.Please distributeour appeal widely. The defense of President Milosevic and even his daily cross-examinations are in danger. Only your donations can help him to further fight injustice and help the truth come out. The NATO "court" and its Belgrade agents should not be allowed to stop the truth! Vladimir Krsljanin, SLOBODA/Freedom Association URGENT APPEAL TO ALL FRIENDS OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IN THE BALKANS Dear friends, on behalf of SLOBODA/Freedom Association I am addressing you today because we are facing the most serious financial crisis since the beginning of the trial in The Hague which puts our work in serious risk. As you know, the financial situation of the defense team of Slobodan Milosevic always has been very critical and we were forced to work in difficult circumstances. Since we have spent all our resources and donations, we are now in a situation in which even the very existence of President Milosevics only legal assistant in The Hague is in question, not to mention the preparation of President Milosevics defense case. Due to this extreme worsening of the situation, we urgently need your help! ·THE STATE OF EMERGENCY AND THE TRUE DICTATORSHIP IN SERBIA PRODUCED A FEAR AMONG PEOPLE IN SERBIA WHO WERE FINACIALLY SUPPORTING THE DEFENSE OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC IN THE PAST. · THE DEFENSE DEPENDS IN FULL ON VOLUNTARY WORK AND DONATIONS. ·THE MONEY IS USED ONLY FOR IMMINENT TECHNICAL EXPENSES OF THE DEFENSE. AT PRESENT IT IS THE STAY OF ONE LEGAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC AT THE HAGUE, PHONE CALLS, FAXES, INTERNET. AT PRESENT THEREARE NO FUNDS AT ALL TO PREPARE THE DEFENSE CASE. AT PRESENT EVEN THE STAY AT THE HAGUE OF THE ONE AND ONLY ASSISTANT IS AT STAKE. · VICTORY IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE TRUTH AT THE HAGUE IS A PRECONDITION OF THE NATIONAL SURVIVAL. TO MAKE DONATIONS, YOU CAN SEND CASH OR CHECKS TO: SLOBODA Rajiceva 16 11000 Belgrade Serbia and Montenegro OR MAKE MONEY TRANSFERS (SWIFTS) TO THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT: Peter Betscher/ICDSM, Account Number (Konto-Nr.): 102013409, Bank: Volksbank Darmstadt, Bank Number (BLZ): 508 90 000, use: defense Because the seriousness of the situation leaves no time, we have to ask you to donate as much as you can immediately! To secure our future activities, we also have to reach out with our appeal to more people. We rely on you to spread this appeal and to help the collection of further donations. Following, you will find a more specific description of the situation which you are free to use to help the urgent fundraising campaign. THE DEFENSE AT THE HAGUE CANT CONTINUE WITHOUT YOUR AID - SAVE MILOSEVICS STRUGGLE FOR THE TRUTH SAVE OUR HOPE! Vladimir Krsljanin SLOBODA/Freedom Association Belgrade, July 4th, 2003 SLOBODA/FREEDOM ASSOCIATION YUGOSLAV COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC URGENT FUND RAISING APPEAL DUE TO THE TREMENDOUS WORSENING OF THE FINANCIAL SITUATION OF THE DEFENSE-TEAM OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC TO ICDSM MEMBERS, NATIONAL COMMITTEES FOR THE DEFENSE OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, TO ALL SERBS AND YUGOSLAVS AND ALL PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE Dear friends! After the trial chamber repeatedly accepted the demands of the prosecution to prolong the prosecutions half-time, the second phase of the heroic struggle of President Milosevic against the ruthless NATO machinery at The Hague, the case on Bosnia and Croatia, will not finish before the beginning of next year. The so-called "prosecution case on Kosovo" was finished without any evidence. Our common demand was - stop that dangerous farce and admit the truth seen to everybody - even in accordance with the Rules of the so-called "tribunal" there is no ground to continue! Our clear and well-founded demand was not accepted. Knowing the enemy, we cannot count on justice and have to proceed. From the start, the financial situation of abducted President Milosevic and his support team (The Freedom Association - The Yugoslav Committee) was much worse than the situation of any other Hague prisoner, whose lawyers recognize the "tribunal" and receive substantial financial backing by the tribunal. Our whole achievements in preparing the facts necessary for President Milosevic's struggle are based on voluntary work and submissions of Yugoslav patriots. Until now, our small funds were enough to cover the stay at The Hague of one legal assistant to President Milosevic. Our resources always were completely insufficient, but now, we dont even know how to continue without urgent and substantial donations. After we
[CTRL] Fw: Guantanamo: Australian Al-Qaeda Militant Ex 'Freedom Fighter' In Kosovo, Kashmir
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: RicK Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:46 PM Subject: Guantanamo: Australian Al-Qaeda Militant Ex 'Freedom Fighter' In Kosovo, Kashmir http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bs/Qaustralia-attacks-us.RnsH_Dl8.html [Note: The second feature, below, is from a transparently Ustashe Internet site [see: http://www.cfiva.org/cfiva/home/index.cfm?CFID=345918CFTOKEN=99319605] and is only reproduced because it says more than it intends to, both about David Hicks' involvement in Kosovo and the Indian state of Kashmir and about the close - inseparable - ties between the neo-Ustashe in Croatia and the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army in Serbia.] Australian held by US military was trained by al-Qaeda, PM reveals SYDNEY, July 8 (AFP) - Australian-born Taliban fighter David Hicks, who is now in US military detention, has admitted training with the al-Qaeda terrorist network, Prime Minister John Howard revealed for the first time Tuesday. Howard's disclosure came as US lawyers protested that Hicks will not receive a fair trial by a US military tribunal because he is being denied proper access to legal representation. The 27-year-old former Adelaide poultry process worker has been held by the US military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since he was captured fighting with the Taliban by US forces in Afghanistan in November, 2001. Hicks' lawyers have conceded he was a Taliban fighter but denied persistent allegations he had links to al-Qaeda. But Howard said the government was satisfied that Hicks would receive a fair trial and that he was linked to al-Qaeda. What is not an allegation, because the man in question has admitted it, is that he trained with al-Qaeda, Howard told ABC radio when asked about Hicks. Howard said the government had lengthy discussions with US officials about the case and was satisfied that Hicks would receive a fair hearing, that the presumption of innocence would prevail and that there would be access to lawyers. One of Hicks' Adelaide-based lawyers, Frank Camatta, said he was shocked by the prime minister's comments. It's a total surprise to us, he said. We have no basis to understand that to be the case. Maybe the prime minister has had access to briefings from the security services. We would have been very pleased to have been told that, rather than hear it through the media. Why he would say that without at least letting the family know is disappointing. Hicks was named by the US administration last week as one of an initial group of six detainees eligible to be tried by a US military tribunal, although no date has been set for a hearing and no charge has yet been laid. His family has appointed a civilian legal team, although his lawyers say he is being denied the usual confidentiality between lawyer and client, which is a basic tenet of legal representation, and without which they say it would be virtually impossible for him to receive a fair trial. Hicks' US-based lawyer Joseph Margulies said there was scant chance of a fair trial. They would never countenance these kinds of proceedings in an Australian court, Margulies told ABC radio. One of the real problems with the tribunal is that it is not transparent. We may never shed light on that dark corner. US National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers (NACDL) president Lawrence Goldman said the military court was likely to be biased because the judges, who would probably be senior officers would find it difficult to acquit someone whom the president of the United States has recommended for trial. I would not walk into these trials as a defence lawyer with the confidence that my client would get a fair shake, he said. Al-Qaeda expert Rohan Gunaratna, who has written extensively about Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and who initially described Hicks as a small fry in the terror organisation, now believes he was more than a foot soldier. There is more recent information to indicate that he has undergone more advanced and more specialised training, Gunaratna told The Australian newspaper. -- http://www.cfiva.org/cfiva/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=showItemnewsID=13 Croatian Forces International Volunteers Association CFIVA News KOSOVO VOLUNTEER LINKED TO AL-QAEDA Thursday, August 1, 2002 David Hicks training with the UCK prior to joining the Taliban -The details of his service in Kosova [sic] come to us direct from the UCK and are as follows: He joined a group of the UCK circa February 1999. He was accommodated at one of three UCK training camps in the Tropolje area in Albania for six weeks. He was moved to another UCK training camp as a prospective instructor after he made exaggerated claims about being in the Australian Army. -[H]e was placed on active duty near the border town of
[CTRL] Fw: FW: Stratfor Weekly: U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategies in Iraq
-Caveat Lector- Please feel free to send the Stratfor Weekly to a friend or colleague. THE STRATFOR WEEKLY 7 July 2003 by Dr. George Friedman U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategies in Iraq Summary The appointment of Gen. John Abizaid as head of U.S. Central Command opens a new phase in both the Iraq campaign and the war on al Qaeda. In order to wage follow-on operations against al Qaeda, an effective counterinsurgency operation must be launched against the Iraqi guerrillas. This is a politico-military imperative. Politically, the United States must demonstrate its effectiveness against the full spectrum of opponents. Militarily, the United States must show it can project forces from Iraq while the base of operations remains insecure. Directly suppressing an insurrection without indigenous support historically has been difficult, but Iraq has a built-in opposition to the guerrillas: the Shiites in the south. But their desire to dominate an Iraqi government -- and their ties to Iran -- runs counter to U.S. policy. This means Washington will have to make some difficult choices in Iraq, and in the end will give away some things it does not want to give away. Analysis U.S. Army Gen. John Abizaid will officially take over as head of Central Command during the week of July 7. His mission will be not only to stabilize the situation in Iraq, but also to command the main U.S. offensive against al Qaeda. The summer offensive that Stratfor has written about has begun, and Abizaid's mission will be to wage war, integrate the various operations into a coherent whole and achieve the goal of the offensive: to further undermine al Qaeda's ability to strike at the U.S. homeland. In war, no plan unfolds as expected. This war began in a completely unexpected fashion on Sept. 11, 2001. As is inevitable, the course of the war has taken unexpected turns. The most recent and significant turn of this war has been the emergence of a guerrilla war in Iraq. To be more precise, it appears to us that in Iraq, as in Afghanistan, the fighters on the ground understood that they could not win a conventional war. Rather than engage in the sort of conflict at which the United States excels, they put up token conventional resistance, all the while planning to engage the United States in unconventional warfare over an extended period. In other words, the Iraqi forces understood that they could not defeat the United States in conventional war. Instead, the Iraqi war plan consisted of declining conventional engagement and subsequently engaging U.S. forces in operations in which their advantages were minimized and their weaknesses were exposed. This has left the United States with the following battle problem: It must wage the broader summer offensive while simultaneously containing, engaging and defeating the Iraqi guerrillas. This is not an easy task, not only because it spreads U.S. forces thinner than planned, but also because the challenge posed by the guerrillas has trans-military implications, politically and psychologically. Abizaid must not ignore these considerations and must integrate them into his war plan. This is neither easy nor optional. It is useful to begin by recalling the overarching strategic purpose of all of these operations: the disruption of al Qaeda and potential follow-on groups to prevent further major attacks on the United States. The Iraq campaign was an element in this broader strategy, designed to achieve these three goals, in increasing importance: 1. The elimination of a regime that potentially could support al Qaeda operations. 2. The transformation of the psychological architecture of the Islamic world. The perception in the Islamic world, developed since the U.S. withdrawal from Beirut in 1983 and reaffirmed by events since then, was that the United States was incapable of resolute action. The United States was seen as powerful militarily, but as lacking the political will to use that power. U.S. forces withdrew after taking minimal casualties in Beirut and Somalia. In Afghanistan, the United States halted operations after seizing major cities, apparently because it was unwilling to engage in more extended conflict. The U.S. invasion of Iraq was designed to change the Islamic world's perception -- accepting anger at the United States in exchange for greater fear. 3. The creation of a base of operations that would allow the United States to bring political and military pressure to bear on a cluster of nations the U.S. administration sees as directly or indirectly sustaining al Qaeda operations -- in particular Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran. Riyadh began shifting its position prior to the Iraq invasion. Immediately after the end of the campaign, the United States turned its attention to follow-on operations against Syria and Iran. These operations have been primarily political since the end of the Iraq campaign, but
