-Caveat Lector- [Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?] Is there a CIA war in Kosovo? By Gary Wilson News reports here about the Yugoslav province of Kosovo have presented greatly exaggerated tales. The stories have been "enhanced" by those with an interest in either promoting a civil war or weakening the Yugoslav government. The Western big-business-controlled media all report the same thing. They say Yugoslav government forces are engaged in "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, forcing a flood of refugees from Kosovo to Albania. The Yugoslav government says its military operations against armed mercenaries entering over the Albanian border ended June 1. It also says there has been no significant exodus from Kosovo to Albania. So what is the truth of the situation? First, it should never be forgotten that the big media like the New York Times and CNN have close ties to the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies. These media giants usually serve as propaganda arms for U.S. foreign policy. They can lie about events and frequently do. Sometimes they admit much later that their original reports weren�t exactly true. KLA is mercenary army For example, most reports don�t make it clear that the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army is a foreign mercenary army in the pay of the Western imperialist powers. The KLA did not exist until recently. It became active only in the last few months. The June 6 New York Times reported that KLA forces are entering Kosovo through Albania. But they are not from Albania. According to the report, most of them come from Germany- where they were born- and most speak only German, not Albanian. The report claims that many of them, but not all, have parents or grandparents who emigrated from Albania. All the funds for the mercenary army come from abroad, primarily from the United States, reported the May 26 Washington Post. The money is funneled through Albanian immigrant groups. These are the sort of anti-communist groups long promoted by the CIA. Since March, the Post reported, the U.S. group has sent $4 million to the KLA. These are the openly reported funds. There is more "cash carried in suitcases" that hasn�t been disclosed, the Post said. The article said the U.S. State Department has encouraged the transfer of funds to the KLA. It is all legal, State Department spokesperson John Russell said, because the KLA has not been classified by the U.S. government as "terrorist." This is in contrast to every genuine national liberation movement in the world. The U.S. government routinely labels them all as terrorists. For example, groups like the Palestine Liberation Organization have been labeled as terrorist. Anyone in the U.S. sending funds to the PLO would risk arrest and prison. The KLA has no known leaders, political platform, publications or anything else to indicate that it is a liberation force. In fact, the tactics used by the KLA are more akin to those used by fascist terror squads. In its long report of May 26, the Washington Post buried a paragraph describing how KLA mercenaries have targeted Serbs. One out of every 10 people in Kosovo is Serbian. The paragraph described KLA mercenaries stopping a train. They proceed to search the train, and then abduct a man traveling with his family because he is a Serb. "About a dozen Serbs have been kidnapped in the past week. Two have been found dead," the Post reports. The mercenaries don�t just kill Serbs. They also kill Albanians considered to be friendly to Serbs. As for the press reports of a mass exodus from Kosovo, none shows pictures of masses of people. A photo of a family of eight walking through a field, for example, accompanied the New York Times report. The caption said "thousands of refugees are fleeing." In the meantime, the United States is waging a two-pronged war against Yugoslavia. Since 1991, Washington has imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia. Sanctions are like an army surrounding your house. They may not be firing weapons at the house, but they are stopping all kinds of supplies and food from entering. It is a policy of starvation once favored during sieges by medieval armies. These sanctions continue to this day. Now the United States is proposing to stiffen them. Will U.S. troops be next? U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said in London June 7: "The sanctions regime of the Contact Group led by the U.S. and Great Britain has been very tight and is poised to tighten further if the situation deteriorates, and NATO is already making contingency plans if everything falls apart." (French News Agency, June 7) The contingency plan Holbrooke referred to is the threat of military occupation by U.S./NATO forces. U.S. Senate leader Trent Lott supported a U.S. military operation in Kosovo on CNN�s "Late Edition" June 7. According to news reports, the U.S. State Department recently confirmed that U.S. policy has not changed since December 1992. That is when President George Bush declared that the United States would intervene militarily in Kosovo if it decided that it was "necessary." The French News Agency reported on June 6 that the United States and Britain have put into place everything needed to assert authority for sending a military force into Kosovo. - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if source is cited. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY,NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) [but what could the "US" possibly want in Kosovo that is worth this?]: -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kingsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 2:33 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Kosovo, a "leftist" perspective > -Caveat Lector- > >4-4-1999, Mark wrote: >>(snip) >>> As for her point about the mines, it is indeed likely that these >>> mines play a role in motivating the current holocaust -- on the >>> Serbian side. If, as she claims, the mines are worth $5 billion, >>> that would certainly explain Milosevic' determination to hold on >>> to them. It would not explain the US interest in the Kosovo >>> genocide, which is going to end up costing the United States >>> a lot more than $5 billion ... > > > Probably this should read '$5 trillion' - (not $5 billion) ... > > As posted recently here ( Kosovo: 'The war is about the mines' ) > [following the same article by Sara Flounders] : > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > from: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36fd198d79a4.htm > > Topic: Kosovo > > There is another factor in this, something the rapacious > World Bank, IMF and the UN are interested in -- the estimated > $17 trillion in natural resources in Serbia/Kosovo. > > Kosovo has one of Europe's largest reserves of coal and lignite > while Serbia alone has huge deposits of aluminum ore. Albania has > large reserves of crude oil, which was part of the reason why > Marshal Tito, after WWII, wanted to absorb Albania into Yugoslavia. > > The other was that Tito feared an extreme Maoist Albania (which > retained the USSR Stalinist policy until 1961) being a Red Chinese > version of Cuba in Europe, one whose seacoast straddled the > eastern part of the only seaborne way in and out of the Adriatic, > the Strait of Otranto. > > Given the fact that Albania was not absorbed into Yugoslavia, > Tito for years attempted to keep Tirane's Stalinist/Maoist maniacs > happy by allowing ethnic Albanian migration into Kosovo beginning > with some 400,000 being allowed in during 1945-48. Pre-WWII Serb > land deeds in Kosovo were cancelled and Albanians were given the > Eastern European version of "affirmative action" in jobs, housing > and the like. > > In the 1970s, the Albanians began their terror campaign against > the Serbs, banning the Serb Cyrillic alphabet, banning the works of > Serb authors and other artists and getting Serbs fired from their > jobs. Violence began to escalate in the early 1980s after Tito's > death, and got so bad by 1988 (the worst being mass rape of Serb > Orthodox nuns) troops had to be sent in. This is where Milosevich > rose to power, in successfully quelling the violence, at least for > a brief time. > > In 1991, the news media insisted that "Albanians represented 1.2 > million in Kosovo." In 1994 they said 1.4 million. In 1996 they > insisted it was 1.6 million. Today we are told Albanians are "90% > of 2 million" - as though we are unable to calculate this means > 1.8 million, another mysterious 200,000 increase. Borrowing from > Socrates, "scarcely a word of what they said is true." The media > continues to omit that more than 400,000 Albanians are illegal > aliens who crossed the border into Kosovo as easily as illegals > cross our border into San Diego, Tucson, El Paso and Brownsville > each night as we sleep. How compelling that US troops are > defending borders in 100 countries, we aren't defending our own. > > Today, the US State Department claims Serbs are 10% of Kosovo, > with no explanation that they claimed Serbs were 14% in 1991. > Were 4% killed, expelled, or just made invisible? They also > tell us the Gypsies are 7%, the Greeks 2.3%, the Turks 1.5%, the > Montenegrins 2%, and others 1%. By my calculations that means the > Albanians can't possibly represent more than 50% of Kosovo, after > subtracting the 400,000 illegals and the 300,000 who fled to > England, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, most of whom have no > desire to return to the poverty and terror in Kosovo. > > Another point that hasn't been raised much is that Tito, for all > of his faults and mistakes in postwar Yugoslavia, never subscribed > to gun control or disarming the populace. I recall when I visted > Yugoslavia in the late 1970s, every home at which I was a guest > had at least one modern firearm, be it a handgun, rifle or shotgun. > In fact, at the time, villagers could obtain surplus WWII German, > Italian, British and even US firearms very easily. > > I recall that many Serb villagers especially would coat the weapon > in some kind of heavy grease, wrap it in plastic and put it in a > box and bury it in the ground usually near the barn or house. > > From: MK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * > 03/27/99 10:02:32 PST > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >. > >DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER >========== >CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic >screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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