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WILMER'S COMPLAINT: DJINDJIC WARNS WASHINGTON
by Jared Israel [19 July 2001]
The threat of blackmail is the last refuge of a minor accomplice: the
small-time crook taking the 'fall'; the expendable flunkey of Imperial Powers.
Essentially powerless, as a last resort such a person can always threaten to
Tell All. It is not a strategy with a future.
That's what struck me, reading Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic's
remarkable interview in last Sunday's issue of 'Der Spiegel,' the German
magazine.
In the interview, Djindjic confirmed that he and Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica are liars. He confirmed that they are flunkies for the U.S. He
confirmed that everything the SPS said in its statement, We Accuse:
Washington's Aid Promises Are A Traitorous Lie! about the 'Donors'
Conference and everything they said about Washington's disloyalty to its
flunkies was true. He confirmed the accusation that we at Emperor's Clothes
have made, that Washington wants Yugoslavia scaled down to zero.
Why would Djindjic give such a politically explosive interview?
In the brief summary preceding the interview, 'Der Spiegel' writes that
Djindjic feels the West is not being helpful enough, is not coming across
with sufficient aid, and so on and so forth. None of which provides a motive
for the extreme content of the interview.
But at the end of this pre-interview summary, 'Der Spiegel' cuts to the quick
with the following short comment from Mr. Djindjic: I warn the west.
I WARN THE WEST!
By confirming the truth of charges that have been made by the Socialists and
other critics, Zoran Djindjic is sending the following message to Washington:
Zoran Djindjic is highly displeased with the way Washington is handling that
most important of questions, the well-being of Zoran Djindjic; and he is not
about to be a fall- guy for NATO.
Why is Djindjic worried?
He and his sometime partner, Vojislav Kostunica, obeyed U.S. dictates and
tried to push through the Federal Parliament an unconstitutional law to
extradite Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague 'Tribunal.' When the attempt to
pass this illegal legislation failed, Djindjic obeyed U.S. dictates and
played the open role in kidnapping Mr. Milosevic. The kidnapping was followed
by massive protests.
As we have shown in 'THE TREASON OF VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA,' it is absurd to
argue that Djindjic is guilty in the kidnapping but that Kostunica is
innocent - yet, since the kidnapping, that is precisely what Kostunica has
argued.
KOSTUNICA'S APOLOGY
Hunching over a long table, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica squinted
into the television lights, turned to his people and confessed that higher
powers had gotten the best of him.
Kostunica said that others in the government had ''overruled'' his
opposition to Slobodan Milosevic's extradition to the U.N. war crimes
tribunal a week ago. Then, as if that wasn't humiliating enough, he was kept
in the dark about the handover itself. Like millions of ordinary Serbs, he
heard about it from the media. ('AP Online' July 6, 2001)
Right. Tell us another.
This 'self criticism' is an attempt to pin the blame on Djindjic. And it
isn't only Kostunica who is trying to protect Kostunica at Djindjic's
expense. Indicating which way the wind is blowing, virtually the entire
Western media plus some critics and would-be critics of NATO have chimed in,
accepting President Kostunica at his word, as if a politician's protestations
of patriotism and innocence after the fact were proof that he actually
opposed an attack on Mr. Milosevic, the key defender of Yugoslav sovereignty,
but was overruled before the fact.
Not to mention, how can this genius Kostunica tell us he was 'overruled'
regarding an event he claims not to know was going to take place?
Has Kostunica hired speech writers who used to work for the comedy team of
Abbot and Costello?
Abbot: I can't find my cookies. You wouldn't happen to know their
whereabouts, would you Costello?
Costello: How could you accuse me of eatin' them three chocolate chip
cookies you hid under the napkins when I didn't know they was there?
Does Kostunica mistake us for six year old children watching Saturday
afternoon TV?
THERE IS NO ARGUMENT SO MORONIC BUT THE MEDIA CAN MAKE IT SEEM TRUE
Djindjic draws no comfort from the idiocy of Kostunica's self- defense for he
The Love Song of Arbour and Albright [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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Dutch Expert: Milosevic Has A Good Case [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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Dear people,
Amidst the insanity of this trial-by-international-piracy (kidnapping with
full guarantees that all norms of international law will be respected!!) it
is not suprising, I suppose, that the Left should sound a little strange too.
I keep getting emails in which I am told that the kidnapping contradicted
the decisions of the President of Yugoslavia. It did? What decisions? I
will pay $5 (and I am POOR) to any human or beast who can tell me ONE
decision Kostunica made (other than the decision to engage in double talk)
that contradicted this kidnapping. Any takers? Five bucks, guys.
Here is a piece that Richard Hugus, Chris Black and I wrote, refuting the
kostunica-is-innocent' stuff.
Best regards,
Jared Israel
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THE TREASON OF VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA
By Chris Black, Richard Hugus and Jared Israel [2 July 2001]
A chorus of voices of remarkable diversity is proclaiming Vojislav Kostunica
innocent of kidnapping President Slobodan Milosevic. This chorus includes not
only the mainstream media, which uniformly supports the kidnapping, but also
various groups and individuals who oppose the kidnapping. Their common view
is that Kostunica was out of the loop; that the kidnapping was a big surprise
or even an attack on him by Serbian Prime Minister Djindjic.
The evidence doesn't support this view.
KOSTUNICA BLAMES THE VICTIMS
Yesterday Mr. Kostunica issued a statement on the kidnapping. In it he blamed
everyone but himself. Remarkably, the blame extended to the Montenegrin
Socialists (SNP).
According to Kostunica, by refusing to support his proposed extradition law,
the SNP had blocked an:
opportunity to legally regulate cooperation with the tribunal so that our
citizens could be protected. {Kostunica's statement, as translated by
Emperor's Clothes}
Huh?
Mr. Kostunica's proposed law would have established regulations to speedily
extradite anyone demanded by NATO's Hague Tribunal. How can that be portrayed
as protecting citizens? When a government regulates Injustice, does that
make it Just?
In his statement, Kostunica whitewashed Washington and blamed Mr. Milosevic
for getting kidnapped:
From the arsenal of Milosevic's politics, which was truly defeatist for the
state and the people, are now adopted and revived precisely its most
undemocratic elements: illegality and the pulling off of humiliating
maneuvers that no one in the international community asked for, at least not
explicitly. {Ibid.}
Huh?
First of all, the international community definitely did demand Milosevic
be brought to The Hague. And they praised the kidnapping once it happened.
Why does Kostunica deny these publicly known facts? And what is the meaning
of at least not explicitly?
Second, as far as the kidnapping having roots in Milosevic's practices, what
practices? Kostunica doesn't say.
Did Milosevic kidnap people and send them to the Tribunal? No. Did he rule by
decree? No. If Milosevic was such a terrible dictator, how come he didn't
even arrest Mr. Kostunica, whose Presidential election campaign last year
accepted tens of millions of illegal U.S. dollars, smuggled into Serbia in
'suitcases of cash?' (1)
SHOW PROOF OR BE SILENT
It seems that every time Vojislav Kostunica makes a statement he manages to
include an attack Slobodan Milosevic, accusing him of various crimes. But
Kostunica never provides evidence to support his accusations.
A hundred times Kostunica has said, Milosevic should be tried at home for
his crimes. This suggests to the casual listener (that is, most of us) that
the existence of crimes is a proven fact.
The opposite is true.
Mr. Milosevic was arrested and held in Belgrade jail for 13 weeks, supposedly
for purposes of investigation. He was not allowed out on bail because he
might try to influence witnesses. During that time no evidence of any kind
was presented. No witnesses testified against him. Is it a coincidence that
Milosevic was kidnapped from jail precisely when the legally allowed three
month investigation period had expired? When prosecutors had to produce
evidence or release him?
If Vojislav Kostunica possessed facts implicating Milosevic in any crime he
would have turned that evidence over to prosecutors. Therefore he had no
evidence. Therefore Kostunica's constant accusations have been lies that
relied on and reinforced the
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THE TREASON OF VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA
By Chris Black, Richard Hugus and Jared Israel [2 July 2001]
A chorus of voices of remarkable diversity is proclaiming Vojislav Kostunica
innocent of kidnapping President Slobodan Milosevic. This chorus includes not
only the mainstream media, which uniformly supports the kidnapping, but also
various groups and individuals who oppose the kidnapping. Their common view
is that Kostunica was out of the loop; that the kidnapping was a big surprise
or even an attack on him by Serbian Prime Minister Djindjic.
The evidence doesn't support this view.
KOSTUNICA BLAMES THE VICTIMS
Yesterday Mr. Kostunica issued a statement on the kidnapping. In it he blamed
everyone but himself. Remarkably, the blame extended to the Montenegrin
Socialists (SNP).
According to Kostunica, by refusing to support his proposed extradition law,
the SNP had blocked an:
opportunity to legally regulate cooperation with the tribunal so that our
citizens could be protected. {Kostunica's statement, as translated by
Emperor's Clothes}
Huh?
Mr. Kostunica's proposed law would have established regulations to speedily
extradite anyone demanded by NATO's Hague Tribunal. How can that be portrayed
as protecting citizens? When a government regulates Injustice, does that
make it Just?
In his statement, Kostunica whitewashed Washington and blamed Mr. Milosevic
for getting kidnapped:
From the arsenal of Milosevic's politics, which was truly defeatist for the
state and the people, are now adopted and revived precisely its most
undemocratic elements: illegality and the pulling off of humiliating
maneuvers that no one in the international community asked for, at least not
explicitly. {Ibid.}
Huh?
First of all, the international community definitely did demand Milosevic
be brought to The Hague. And they praised the kidnapping once it happened.
Why does Kostunica deny these publicly known facts? And what is the meaning
of at least not explicitly?
Second, as far as the kidnapping having roots in Milosevic's practices, what
practices? Kostunica doesn't say.
Did Milosevic kidnap people and send them to the Tribunal? No. Did he rule by
decree? No. If Milosevic was such a terrible dictator, how come he didn't
even arrest Mr. Kostunica, whose Presidential election campaign last year
accepted tens of millions of illegal U.S. dollars, smuggled into Serbia in
'suitcases of cash?' (1)
SHOW PROOF OR BE SILENT
It seems that every time Vojislav Kostunica makes a statement he manages to
include an attack Slobodan Milosevic, accusing him of various crimes. But
Kostunica never provides evidence to support his accusations.
A hundred times Kostunica has said, Milosevic should be tried at home for
his crimes. This suggests to the casual listener (that is, most of us) that
the existence of crimes is a proven fact.
The opposite is true.
Mr. Milosevic was arrested and held in Belgrade jail for 13 weeks, supposedly
for purposes of investigation. He was not allowed out on bail because he
might try to influence witnesses. During that time no evidence of any kind
was presented. No witnesses testified against him. Is it a coincidence that
Milosevic was kidnapped from jail precisely when the legally allowed three
month investigation period had expired? When prosecutors had to produce
evidence or release him?
If Vojislav Kostunica possessed facts implicating Milosevic in any crime he
would have turned that evidence over to prosecutors. Therefore he had no
evidence. Therefore Kostunica's constant accusations have been lies that
relied on and reinforced the evidence of rumor and smear spread by the
Western media and the Yugoslav media controlled by Mr. Djindjic and - Mr.
Kostunica.
Kostunica's accusations are frequently quoted in the Western media where they
help NATO sustain anti-Milosevic (read: anti-Serb) public opinion. Why do
Serbian patriots tolerate this man? Isn't it obvious that his slanders do
great harm, particularly now that Slobodan Milosevic (read: the Serbs and all
loyal Yugoslav people) stands accused at NATO's Hague?
Which brings us back to the question at hand:
IS KOSTUNICA GUILTY IN THE KIDNAPPING OF MILOSEVIC?
It is a matter of record that Vojislav Kostunica worked hand in hand with
Zoran Djindjic to 'deport' Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague.
Their campaign
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STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- In a message dated 7/1/01 12:59:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know I've been using them [old emails revealaing NATO lies] when I call talk radio. That's the spirit, TOOL! We may not have the media, but there are lots of us. Let's hit them like an army of Vicious Ants of Truth. I know, it's a weird metaphor. Best I could do. Jared __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KOSTUNICA: JUST AS TRAITOROUS AS DJINDJIC [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay -- In a message dated 6/29/01 8:44:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Behind the sudden extradition of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, lies another event: the demise of the fragile coalition in Belgrade. It is clear that the Yugoslav president was locked out of the decision to extradite Milosevic. In Belgrade, Kostunica stands isolated. There is a chorus from a remarkably diverse assortment of throats, including of course Mr. Kostunica himself, but also everyone from Justin Raimondo, an hysterical commentator on the right, to mainstream media, to Straford, to some people on the Left, all saying that Kostunica was not part of the decision to kidnap Milosevic. It occurs to me that it is vital for Washington to preserve Kostunica because he still has work to do: namely, to be a Washington Quisling while maintaining some support among Serbs, enough to diffuse popular anger while the critical remaining task is carried out, namely the destruction of the Yugoslav Army of which he is conveniently the commander. Always best to command that which you are assigned to destroy. As to his innocence, touted on all sides, allow me to ask: If a crime of treason is justified for weeks, if lies are spread saying this crime is needed for the country to survive, if various methods of carrying it out are tried and fail until finally one succeeds, isn't a top leader who participated in all these steps responsible for the crime? If such a leader pretended to care about his country, isn't he all the more guilty? Mr. Kostunica openly participated in every step of the terrible crime of kidnapping of Slobodan Milosevic - including the final step, the deed itself. In the last step, after the kidnapping had been ordered halted by the Constitutional Court, Mr. Kostunica played the vital role. Was he present at the final planning meeting? We don't know. Some report he was. He says he wasn't. But whether he dirtied his hands with the actual details is irrelevant. The important thing, the vital thing, was that he NOT do his job as president. His job as President was to a) command the army and b) protect the constitution. Djindjic announced days before the kidnapping, and so did other leaders, that Milosevic would be kidnapped regardless of the decision of legal procedures. It was then Kostunica's duty to arrest these plotters and order the army to take control of the Belgrade Prison to make sure the publicly threatened action could not occur. That was precisely what Kostunica promised when he told the SPS two days and one day before the kidnapping that he would permit no unconstitutional action. He was like the sheriff of a town who knows the KKK plans to murder a black man and refuses to provide protection. His refusal to do his duty constitutes a crime just as conscious and serious as that of the flunkies who carry out the lynching - the only difference is, his superior position allows him not to dirty his hands. In a sense, perhaps, such a sheriff is worse than the actual lyncher. But in any case: in Washington Kostunica called for extradition and promised to fight for an unconstitutional law to allow it; then he tried to coerce the Montenegrin socialists to vote for the illegal law; then he condoned the illegal decree of the Federal Government; then he falsely promised to prevent kidnapping; and then (assuming he was not also one of the direct planners) he betrayed his oath and looked away while it happened And then - hypocrite! - he expressed shock and blamed everyone but: HIMSELF. This is treason. Mr. Kostunica deserves the most severe punishment possible under Yugoslav law. Jared Israel __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MILOSEVIC IS BEING ATTACKED BECAUSE HE RESISTED THE US - KOSTUNICA IS JUDAS [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- In a message dated 6/30/01 6:45:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If he [Kostunica] is angry because that move [i.e., the kidnapping of Milosevic], it is only because he realizes how close is the end of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. I don't think he is so stupid to want to lose his job. He knows that if that happens, his power is *over*. His complains about Dji My dear Javier, First, thank you for providing this so unusual forum, on which I and others get to read much information that we pass on through Emperor's Clothes and so much of the best thinking in the world. Like air, one takes it for granted. May I respectfully disagree just a bit? FIRST - You assume he is basically what he appears - i.e., that he conceives his job as being president rather being US agent - and proceed from there to conclude the above. Of course nobody knows his thoughts. But we do know this: he a) participated in the receipt of vast bribes - his campaign was impossible without total US support b) Der Spiegel says he was picked in Dec. 1999 at a meeting in Germany presided over by Fischer and Albright c) he has done everything to bring this moment, that you in your kind heart feel he must not like, to pass. If in fact he was MAINLY motivated by desire to hold Yugoslavia together he would have done what he was REQUIRED BY THE CONSTITUTION to do - seize Djindjic and surround the prison. But that of course assumes that he was not at the end one of the conspirators - and I say this: only a fool would have proceeded unless he was sure that Kostunica would stand aside at the crucial time, and Djindjic is not a fool. It reminds me of the assassination of Malcom X.. He had been threatened with death by Louis Farrakan, but at the crucial time, for some reason, his bodyguards were not present... Kostunica was the KEY man in this kidnapping. SECOND - Many people are now saying that the main thing here is not the extradition of Milsoevic it is the assault on Yugoslavia. I am pleased that people say this, but I also have my own view: that the removal of Milosvic was very important to the US because even in jail in Belgrade he could provide critical leadership to the SPS and because he had to be defeated because of what he signifies for people in vast setions of the world - people who DESIRE revolutionary change see him as a great rebel leader against the US empire. That is why hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians signed petitions demanding his release. In my opinion, he has not been defeated. He has been elevated in importance. Let's not shrink from challenging their demonization of him because they demonize him for a reason: in 1990 he led in the creation of a new, broader party that stood up to the U.S./German attempt to destroy Yugoslavia, instead of becoming a US flunky and aiding (with great regret!) that destruction - as Kostunica has done. The US and its puppies have been attacking him ever since. I better finish the transcription of my scribbled notes from the conversation I and others had with him on March 23rd, so that people will understand better why I say this. Warm regards, Jared __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is Peter Bein [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- I believe he is travelling in Europe right now. jared __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OUTRAGE TO JUSTICE: THE CASE AGAINST SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE can be viewed with photos of Saturday's huge Belgrade rally and march. Go to http://emperors-clothes.com/petition/black.htm www.tenc.net * Emperor's Clothes ..On Saturday, June 16th, tens of thousands marched to the Belgrade jail, while Prosecutors told an investigator: We're Only Doing What the US Wants. OUTRAGE TO JUSTICE: THE CASE AGAINST SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC by Jared Israel Includes: Investigative Report on Milosevic Case by Canadian Lawyer Chris Black On Saturday, June 16 a huge crowd rallied and marched 7 kilometers to the Belgrade jail. Protesters demanded: * No extradition to the Hague Tribunal! * Keep Kosovo in Serbia! * End Repression in Serbia! * End destruction of Yugoslav economy! * Free Slobodan Milosevic Now! People on the scene estimated about 50,000 were at the rally. This writer spoke by mobile phone to march Monitors who waited two hours for everyone to pass a given point. It was a very big demonstration. The marchers were driven by a passion for justice that elicited a like response from tens of thousands of onlookers. They cheered from balconies or joined in the streets, swelling the ranks as protesters marched to the jail where Slobodan Milosevic has been held 10 weeks without evidence, without charge, imprisoned, as prosecutors have now admitted, for the crime of resisting NATO. The mass media in Yugoslavia broadcasts ever more bizarre rumors of war crimes while leaders in Washington, Berlin and London, who committed the real war crimes of creating the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army and bombing Yugoslavia, yank the strings of the Belgrade authorities. Contrary to news accounts, many of the marchers were young. When they got to the jail they tried to tear the fence down. March Monitors restrained them, believing this could be a trap set by the Belgrade authorities, who are increasingly isolated, under harsh pressure from NATO to produce results, and desperate. Once these 'Democrats' promised great improvements if Yugoslavia stopped opposing NATO. Now, in the ruin of the Yugoslav economy, they threaten disaster if Yugoslavia doesn't give Washington everything it wants. Belgrade is disgusted. What have the 'Democrats' delivered? * Sky high prices - the cost of electricity now vastly exceeds wages; (1) * Arbitrary rule - the 'police' who tried to arrest Slobodan Milosevic March 28 had women's stockings pulled over their faces like minor actors in a gangster film. (2) * The dismantling of Yugoslav industry under the guise of repaying foreign debts via a Donors [read: Creditors'] Conference; (3) * And the threat that thousands who defended their country in the honorable Yugoslav Army will now be arrested on rumor of war crimes and possibly sent to what most Yugoslavs consider the Serb-killing Court at the Hague. (4) Several leading members of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) were in town to attend the demonstration. The ICDSM sponsors the petition to FREE MILOSEVIC! which Emperor's Clothes has been hosting. (5) These ICDSM members formed a temporary Working Committee and met Sunday the 17th, after which they issued the report below, which speaks eloquently, and for itself. --Jared Israel OUTRAGE TO JUSTICE: THE CASE AGAINST SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Belgrade, June 17, 2001 The International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM) Working Committee has considered and accepted the preliminary report presented by Christopher Black, after his week long mission in Belgrade. CHRIS BLACK'S CREDENTIALS Mr. Black is a Canadian lawyer with a great deal of experience with and knowledge of the so-called International War Crimes Tribunals. He has written several papers on their structure, financing and role in the New World Order. Mr. Black is one of the group of lawyers, led by Professor Michael Mandel, who in May, 1999 brought war crimes charges against NATO leaders and officials for their responsibility for the criminal aggression against Yugoslavia. During the week of June 11, Attorney Black was in Belgrade on behalf of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Miloshevich. His goal: to determine the facts concerning the arrest and detention of Mr. Miloshevich and to report his conclusions to the ICDSM and to the public. FINDINGS The following findings are based on Mr. Black's report, as well as other well-known facts: After meeting with Mr. Toma Fila, counsel for Mr. Milosevich, with officials of the Ministry of Justice, with the Deputy Presiding Judge of the Belgrade District Court and with the Investigative Judge and others involved in Mr. Miloshevich's case, it is clear that
SORRY VIRGINIA BUT THEY ARE NATO TROOPS, NOT 'REBELS' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times2.htm Send this article to a friend! www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] SORRY VIRGINIA BUT THEY ARE NATO TROOPS, NOT 'REBELS' by Jared Israel with research by Rick Rozoff, George Thompson and Max Sinclair. [11 June 2001] [News flash! Last night we received word from an employee at the airport in Skopje that a Russian plane landed, was surrounded by Western personnel and was forced to take off without unloading. We'll post more information if it becomes available. - Emperor's Clothes.] The Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists (Oops! I'm supposed to say, 'The National Liberation Army or NLA;' plus I'm supposed to call them 'rebels,' not 'terrorists') are now directly threatening Skopje, capital of Macedonia. The Western media pictures these people as indigenous rebels although a large section are mujahideen terrorists from all over the world and most of the rest are members of the Kosovo Liberation Army fresh from training camps in Northern Albania. As an article in the Sunday London 'Times' notes: Intelligence agents have pinpointed 16 illegal border crossings from Kosovo used by the NLA... (My emphasis. Sunday London 'Times,' 10 June 2001) The London 'Times' article, called Macedonia on Brink of War, is packed with information that unwittingly supports the charge that, despite the public relations image of 'indigenous rebels,' these terrorists are an arm of NATO in general and the U.S. military in particular. You can read the 'Times' piece at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/10/stifgneeu01001.html? Or read the following comments first. TERRORISTS: ORGANIZED BY THE UN The 'Times' article states that at least 800 of the Albanians attacking Macedonia are members of the Kosovo Protection Corps: [These] KPC reservists were called up by their Albanian commander, Agim Ceku, in March. The Kosovo Protection Corps was created by the UN, or UNMIK, the UN apparatus in Kosovo. In creating the KPC, the UN simply adorned the Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists with new uniforms and equipment and a new name. Of course, their nature did not change: Murder, torture and extortion: these are the extraordinary charges made against the UN's own Kosovo Protection Corps in a confidential United Nations report written for Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The KPC stands accused in the document, drawn up on 29 February, of 'criminal activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal policing, abuse of authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and hate-speech'. The 5,000-strong corps, funded by UN members including Britain, has a £30 million aid budget for Kosovo. It was set up to provide 'disaster response services'; instead, says the UN, it has been murdering and torturing people. (March 12, 2000) The above quote is from the London 'Observor.' Kofi Annan has not denied the existence of the UN report. Nor has he denied the truth of the charges against the KPC. But he has also not ordered the KPC dissolved. And, finally, and perhaps most damning, he has not punished the UN officials who made these terrorist-gangsters into a UN-sanctioned, UN-paid organization. And in doing so, who criminalized the UN. Now the KLA/KPC torturers and murderers have invaded Macedonia. Even if the UN hadn't officially organized the KPC, it is the sworn duty of UN officials to uphold the UN charter and try to prevent aggressive wars rather than hiring terrorists and giving them nice new uniforms in which to launch them. Moreover, UN Security Council Resolution 1244, under which the UN and NATO occupy Kosovo, calls on the occupation forces to protect the sovereignty of Macedonia: * The KLA and other armed Kosovo Albanian groups [must] end immediately all offensive actions and comply with the requirements for demilitarization... * [The United Nations Security Council] condemns all terrorist acts by any party [and reaffirms] the commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other States of the region, as set out in the Helsinki Final Act... * [The UN and the security forces operating under its jurisdiction in Kosovo will see to the] demilitarizing the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and other armed Kosovo Albanian groups. http://www.nato.int/kosovo/docu/u990610a.htm CALLING UP THE RESERVISTS...IS THAT LIKE 'NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD?' According to the 'Times,' in March, KPC chief Agim Ceku called up the KPC 'reservists.' Concerning Mr. Ceku, he was (and still is) one of the two top leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The other top leader is
Re: FW: Bodies Found May Harm Milosovic [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK In a message dated 5/31/01 12:21:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Branka Josilo-Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please can someone confirm that 4000 albaninan bodies have been exhumed since Yugoslav forces left Kosovo. This is definitely news to me Dear Jay, Branka and other friends, Rick Rozoff and I are working on a refutation of the Refrigerator Truck insanity including the 4000 albanain charge which is simply a fabrication since a) even the red cross doesn't say that many albanians are missing - how do these poor people manage to be dead without first being missing? and b) the report on Kosovo forensic work last last August there were 2000 something (that is, under 3000) bodies total exhumed - so how does under 3000 of all ethnic groups= 4000 albanians? If anyone has any arguments or facts to assist this labor of Sisyphus (as Rick says, it takes a lifetime to refute the nonsense spewed out in an hour by a fool) (in this case, by liar-fools) - if you have suggestions or facts, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Jared Israel __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
