[news] Bin Laden Already Dead
Pakistan paper reported Bin Laden dead December, 2001 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html Report: Bin Laden Already Dead Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Usama bin Laden has died a peaceful death due to an untreated lung complication, the Pakistan Observer reported, citing a Taliban leader who allegedly attended the funeral of the Al Qaeda leader. The Coalition troops are engaged in a mad search operation but they would never be able to fulfill their cherished goal of getting Usama alive or dead, the source said. Bin Laden, according to the source, was suffering from a serious lung complication and succumbed to the disease in mid-December, in the vicinity of the Tora Bora mountains. The source claimed that bin Laden was laid to rest honorably in his last abode and his grave was made as per his Wahabi belief. Serbian News Network - SNN news@antic.org http://www.antic.org/
[news] Nothing depleted about DU
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7252~3210205,00.html# Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Saturday, January 21, 2006 Nothing depleted about 'depleted uranium' Photos: http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/DU-Baby2003.htm By Abel Bult-Ito Community Perspective Iraqi and visiting doctors, and a number of news reports, have re ported that birth defects and cancers in Iraqi children have in creased five- to 10-fold since the 1991 Gulf War and continue to in crease sharply, to over 30-fold in some areas in southern Iraq. Currently, more than 50 percent of Iraqi cancer patients are children under the age of 5, up from 13 percent. Children are especially vulnerable because they tend to play in areas that are heavily polluted by depleted uranium. The Pentagon has been using ra dioactive weapons for at least a decade and a half with full complicity of at least three White House administrations and Republican and Democratic congressional legislators. Conservatively, at least 300 tons and 1,700 tons of de pleted uranium were used in the Gulf War and the current Iraq War, re spectively. This is about 70 grams of depleted uranium per Iraqi citizen, and if inhaled or in gested, it is enough to kill them all. Is this not radioactive genocide, es pecially when our troops used and continue to use most of the de pleted uranium munitions in den sely populated areas such as Baghdad and Fallujah? Depleted uranium has a half-life of billions of years. Consequently, Iraq will be a wasteland forever and essentially uninhabitable for anyone. After the 1991 Gulf War, about 1 in 4, or 150,000, U.S. veterans came down with what is referred to as Gulf War Syndrome. Most of the ailments characteristic of Gulf War Syndrome are consistent with ra diation or heavy-metal poisoning. Veterans' children are now also born with higher proportions of birth defects and other genetic dis orders, according to sporadic ac counts. The Pentagon continues to deny the harmful effects of depleted uranium or its role in Gulf War Syndrome. As described by a report of the World Health Organization De pleted Uranium Mission to Kosovo, uranium can be found in rocks and soil and contributes to natural background levels of radioactivity. Depleted uranium is a waste product of uranium enrichment for nu clear reactors and is about 60 percent as radioactive as naturally oc curring uranium. Depleted uranium is considered weakly radioactive. Nevertheless, depleted uranium is considered nuclear waste and has to be disposed of accordingly, which is expensive and a potential en vironmental hazard. The nu clear industry must be very pleased the U.S. military has found a way to get this stuff off their hands cheaply. Depleted uranium is really a mis nomer, because the potentially harmful effects are by no means de pleted. Research reports have found that when depleted uranium is ingested or inhaled, it can cause cancers and birth defects. It has considerable heavy-metal toxicity. As stated in the WHO report, because of its high density, depleted uranium is used in armor-piercing ammunition and as reinforcement against conventional wea pons. Upon impact, the depleted uranium fragments burn at in tense heat, and 10 to 35 percent of it becomes aerosolized. This aero solized uranium dust is the most harmful component because it can easily be ingested or inhaled. Wind and people walking through it also easily disperse the depleted uranium dust. This dust is a predominant byproduct of military use of depleted uranium, in contrast to, for example, exposures in uranium mines or nuclear reactors. Our troops in Iraq will be severely affected by this radioactive war, not only because a lot more depleted uranium has been used and continues to be used, but also because they have been there a lot longer than during the Gulf War. Hundreds of thousands of our troops will come down with Gulf War Syndrome as a result of de pleted uranium poisoning, and thousands will die from it. Thousands of their children will be born with genetic diseases, cancers and birth defects. The continued use of depleted uranium harms our own troops and innocent civilians exposed to our war machine, is un-American, and a crime against humanity. We need a worldwide ban on depleted uranium use. You have probably noticed Fairbanks Daily News-Miner staff writer's reports as an embedded journalist with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team in Mosul, Iraq. Her feel-good stories do not tell you the reality of what is happening in Iraq. Will she report on de pleted uranium poisoning as a re sult of heavy U.S. bombing of Mosul? Sadly, she and those of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, if they survive the war, will have a high chance of coming down with Gulf War Syndrome. How much support do you think they will then get from our government or their employers? Abel Bult-Ito is an associate professor of biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is a member of the
[news] The best news for Serbia
http://euobserver.com/9/20732 EUobserver News Headline News Serbia to choose Mladic or EU, Rehn and del Ponte say 20.01.2006 - 10:44 CET | By Teresa Küchler EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn together with UN chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte said the EU could suspend accession talks with Serbia and Montenegro if Belgrade does not hand over war crime suspect Ratko Mladic to the UN tribunal in The Hague. At a joint press conference in Brussels on Thursday (19 January), Ms del Ponte repeated her belief that the former Bosnian Serb military commander, one of the two top war crimes suspects in the Balkans, is in Serbia and is being protected by the army, European media say. She urged the EU to suspend EU-Serbia and Montenegro talks on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) - the first legal step to EU membership - unless Mr Mladic was brought before the UN court (ICTY) by July. What I need, and what is an international obligation from Belgrade, is to arrest him and deliver him to The Hague, she said, adding that the EU was an important means of bringing pressure to bear against Belgrade. I need full co-operation from Serbia and I need help from the EU to obtain that full co-operation, Ms del Ponte declared. Enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn said after the meeting I would see it as extremely difficult to conclude negotiations on the SAA with Serbia without the full cooperation [of Serbia] with the ICTY. I need to consult member states, but suspension of the negotiations is one alternative, Mr Rehn said. Serbia has to choose now between its nationalist past and a European future. I hope it will choose a European future. Where is he? Meanwhile, contradicting reports on Mr Mladic's hiding place have been circulating in the press during the past few days. Bosnian Serb police announced earlier this week that they had launched a dawn raid on a potential location in an eastern Bosnian region. A Belgrade newspaper on Wednesday claimed that Mr Mladic is hiding in Russia, but Ms del Ponte quashed the report on Thursday. I have no need to get in touch with the Russian authorities about Mladic, because Mladic is in Serbia, and, as you know, Mladic is protected by the power of the army, she stated. Meanwhile, another Serb suspect - 51 year-old Dragan Vasiljkovic - has been arrested in Sydney, Australia, early reports on Friday morning indicate. Mr Vasiljkovic was allegedly part of a Serb paramilitary unit that ordered the torture and murder of soldiers and civilians during the Serbo-Croat war in the early 1990s. Serb minister speaks out Serbian foreign minister Vuk Draskovic toed the EU line on war crimes in an interview published in El Pais on Friday. Capturing war crime suspects Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic is the best news Serbia could possibly imagine for a European future, he said. But the minister also revealed just how strongly Belgrade feels about the prospect of full Kosovan independence - one of the options on the table in current UN and EU-sponsored talks on the province's future status. He said a free Kosovo could be a dangerous tumour for Europe, asking if the international community would be prepared to recognise the sovereignty of Turkish-controlled Cyprus and Chechnya or separatist regions of Spain and Italy as well. ## http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-smajlovic21jan21,0,3073642.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions The Los Angeles Times latimes.com : Opinion : Commentary The bad guys who got away By Ljiljana Smajlovic LJILJANA SMAJLOVIC is the editor of the Politika daily newspaper in Belgrade. January 21, 2006 THE WEST BLAMES the East, the East blames circumstances. Meanwhile, Europe's two most-wanted men — indicted Bosnian Serb war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic — have for the last 10 years freely roamed impoverished Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia-Montenegro with U.S. bounties of $5 million on their heads. In the minds of some of their die-hard supporters, these outlaws of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war have become romantic, almost glamorous, villains — the Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, if you will, of the Balkans. Why haven't they been arrested? After a decade of lame excuses, NATO recently came up with a truly novel explanation. Maj. Gen. David Leakey announced that the fugitives were very unlikely to be arrested soon because coordinated international action had made it virtually impossible for them to move around freely. In other words, the NATO posse had been so effective at scaring them and encircling them as to preclude the possibility of nabbing them. Clever, huh? It's generally assumed that Mladic, indicted in the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and other war crimes, is holed up somewhere in Serbia, where he could, presumably, be caught if authorities had the will and the skill. Western intelligence agencies have regularly placed Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb president held responsible
[news] Kosovo and the Holocaust: Falsifying History
Xinhua: Serbia and Montenegro Condole Kosovo President's Death http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2239/2006-1-22/[EMAIL PROTECTED] AFP: Serb leaders appeal for peace after Kosovo president's death http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_Newssubsection=Rest+of+the+Worldmonth=January2006file=World_News2006012231325.xml Radio Kontakt Plus: Kosovo Romanies split over independence http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kp012206.htm Economist: Conditional independence http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid=1137799508487call_pageid=1020420665036col=1112188062620 ## http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/060.shtml Book Review: Rescue in Albania, by Harvey Sarner, Brunswick Press, 1997, 106 pages. Kosovo and the Holocaust: Falsifying History By Carl Savich History is in many ways a myth we create for ourselves. History is constantly falsified to justify wars and territorial claims. Albanian apologists have falsified the role Albania played in the Holocaust to justify an illegal US/NATO war against Serbia and to allow for the creation of a Greater Albania that would include the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija. The Albanian role in the Holocaust was falsified and manipulated to advance the creation of an independent Kosova, an ethnically pure Albania statelet, a second Albanian state in eastern Europe. The Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Albania are estimated at 591 from 1941 to 1944, when a Greater Albania was sponsored by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. There were 33 known families of Albanian Jews living in pre-war Albania. The largest Jewish community consisted of 15 Jewish families living in Vlora. According to the 1930 census, there were 204 Jews living in Albania. At the Wannsee Conference in 1942, when the Final Solution was organized, the total Jewish population of Albania was listed as 200 Jews. By 1939 there were Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. The two factors that explain why more Jews in Albania were not killed are that Albania was under Italian control and Albania had a very small Jewish population. Italian forces in Albania rejected the Final Solution as the German disease and did not enforce anti-Jewish measures. This is why Albanian Jews were rescued in Albania, not because of anything the Albanians did themselves. There was no history of ideological anti-Semitism in Albania. But this was true of every country in the Balkans. A history of anti-Semitism did not exist in Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Hungary, or Romania. So Albania was not unique in this regard in any way. The small number of Jews in Albania also played a key role in why they were not killed. During the Italian occupation, they were able to disperse and blend in the general population. When Germany occupied Albania in 1943, the Jewish population was already beyond reach. What role did Albania play in the Holocaust? Albanian apologists maintain that no Jews were killed in Albania during the Holocaust. Is this accurate? What is the context of this statement? Albanian apologists have consciously and methodically falsified the Albanian role in the Holocaust. The way this was done was to totally suppress the fact that Kosovo-Metohija was a part of Albania from 1941 to 1944. Also left out is the fact that a Greater Albania was in fact created that included not only Kosovo-Metohija, Kosova in the Greater Albania ideology, but southern Serbian territory, territory in southern Montenegro, and western Macedonia, or Illirida. Albanian apologists distort history by implying that it was Albanians that rescued Jews. But in fact it was the Italian occupation forces that opposed the Final Solution and who rescued Jews. Another falsification is the omission of the role played by Xhafer Deva, a Kosovar Albanian Muslim, in the Greater Albanian state and in the Holocaust. Albanian apologists falsify the history of the Holocaust by suppressing the fact that it was Adolf Hitler who first created a Greater Albania that included the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija. They assiduously cover-up the fact that it was Adolf Hitler who set the precedent for an independent Kosova, an ethnically pure Albanian Kosova. Albanian apologists have carefully suppressed and deleted this fact. Rescue in Albania by Harvey Sarner was published in book form in 1997 just in time for the Kosovo conflict and the start of the KLA terrorism campaign sponsored by the US/EU/NATO. It began being used as a propaganda tract immediately. The book was to pave the way for US military intervention in Serbia. It was first published as a booklet in 1992 as The Jews of Albania. It was released following the aliyah or emigration of the entire Jewish population out of Albania. They settled in Tel Aviv and other towns and cities in Israel. Little is revealed about the author. This throws up red flags. But Sarner did play a major role in the emigration
