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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the March 19, 1998
issue of Workers World newspaper
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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.
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