-Caveat Lector- http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Operation Allied Farce NATO to Serbs: We will grind you to pieces (Wasn't Timothy McVeigh put in prison for this?) BRUSSELS, April 10 (AFP) - NATO said Saturday its 18 days of bombing had seriously weakened Yugoslavia's armed forces and warned it was prepared to "grind them into pieces" if that was required for victory. After a night in which three of four planned bombing raids had to be aborted because of poor weather, alliance officials were keen to talk up the cumulative damage inflicted over the last two and a half weeks. Chief spokesman Jamie Shea said a total of 150 major targets had been hit since the bombing began on March 24. "It is our belief that this operation is being effective," Shea said. "We have done a hell of a lot of damage." His comments came as one of the alliance's top generals issued a chilling warning to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic not to underestimate NATO's resolve or hope for cracks to appear between the allies. "We will see it through and we will win," General Klaus Naumann, the chair of NATO's military committee, said. Milosevic had a choice between backing down or being left "presiding over rubble." "He should know we have the ability to grind his forces into pieces." NATO claims its airstrikes have destroyed the central direction of Serbia's air defence system, 29 of Yugoslavia's MiG fighter jets (half the total), two of the three main Yugoslav army headquarters and fuel depots containing 50 percent of the military's stocks. The security forces' command and control systems and lines of communication had also been severely damaged, Shea said. The overnight attacks had taken out a radio transmission tower in Pristina, the main town in Kosovo. Although NATO has pulled back from a threat to bomb Serbian radio and television transmitters, it insisted the tower was a "legitimate target" because it was being used for military communications. Despite the upbeat presentation of the current situation, NATO admits it is some way from achieving its declared objectives in Kosovo. Milosevic has so far shown no sign of pulling his troops out of Kosovo, putting an end to the ethnic cleansing of the province's ethnic Albanian community or agreeing to the deployment of an international peace force. Naumann implicitly acknowledged that the allies' tactics had not produced the expected results. "Quite honestly we had all hoped that Milosevic would blink and give in," he said. That objective had not been achieved, so "now we are in a phase of attrition." As a coalition of 19 countries, NATO did not have the option of changing tactics swiftly and using "overwhelming force" the way a single country might have opted to do, he said. Naumann admitted that NATO would never be able to wipe out every last Serb soldier in Kosovo from the air. But the alliance's strategy of isolating them by cutting their lines of supply and communication will ultimately leave them, "psychologically at least, with a broken neck." AFP, April 10, 1999 Commercial Espionage US Spy Satellites "Raiding German firms' secrets" NSA listens in on corporate communication SECURITY experts in Germany have uncovered new evidence of a big American industrial espionage operation in Europe using satellite listening posts in Britain and Germany. German business is thought to suffer annual losses of at least �7 billion through stolen inventions and development projects. With Europe already locked in a trade war with its American ally over bananas, Germany's high-tech industry wants its government to back a counter-offensive. The main centres used for satellite tapping of millions of confidential company telephone calls, fax and e-mail messages are believed to be terrestrial listening posts run by the American National Security Agency (NSA) at Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and Bad Aibling, Bavaria, with the backing of the American government. "Industrial espionage is becoming increasingly aggressive. Secrets are being siphoned off to an extent never experienced until now," said Horst Teltschik, a senior BMW board member and a former security adviser to Helmut Kohl. He is trying to co-ordinate a German business response to the spying problem. The practice of lifting industrial secrets via satellite listening posts has grown steadily in central Europe since the decline in political espionage that followed the collapse of communism. But it has been further encouraged by advances in communications technology. Victims have included such German firms as the wind generator manufacturer Enercon. Last year it developed what it thought was a secret invention enabling it to generate electricity from wind power at a far cheaper rate than before. However, when the company tried to market its invention in the United States, it was confronted by its American rival, Kenetech, which announced that it had already patented a near-identical development. Kenetech then brought a court order against Enercon banning the sale of its equipment in the US. In a rare public disclosure, a NSA employee, who refused to be named, agreed to appear in silhouette on German television last August to reveal how he had stolen Enercon's secrets. He said he used satellite information to tap the telephone and computer link lines that ran between Enercon's research laboratory near the North Sea and its production unit some 12 miles away. Detailed plans of the company's allegedly secret invention were then passed on to Kenetech. "The theft of the secrets was a severe blow amounting to the loss of several millions," an Enercon spokesman, Carlo Reeker, said last week. "Nowadays we never talk about confidential projects on the phone, nor are the details transmitted anywhere by computer. Secret business is dealt with purely on a face-to-face basis." Similar fears are voiced at Mannheim University where scientists are developing a system enabling computer data to be stored on household adhesive tape instead of conventional CDs. Last month researchers on the project noticed that their computers had been electronically raided by hackers. Since then the project's scientists have had to resort to the Cold War ruse of walking in the woods to discuss confidential subjects. "We just don't know how much of our research work has gone elsewhere. We are just hoping that our patent comes through as soon as possible," said one research physicist, Steffen Noehte. The headquarters of the firm working on the project, the European Media Laboratory in Heidelberg, has fitted special fire-walls in sensitive areas to guard against electronic spying. Security services in Baden-W�rttemberg, the Silicon Valley of German states where the laboratory is located, say that since the early Nineties industrial espionage has burgeoned. Experts have little doubt that the NSA is at the forefront of the European industrial espionage war, not least because Washington has instructed its security services to collect information for the benefit of American industry. Early in his presidency, Bill Clinton decreed that industrial espionage should be one of the main tasks of the CIA. "What is good for Boeing is good for America," he was quoted as saying. The NSA operates a global data surveillance network involving 52 super computers. Specialists in European industrial espionage, such as the journalist Udo Ulfkotte who is to publish a book on the subject, entitled Market for Thieves, later this year, say there is strong evidence that Britain's Menwith Hill is at the forefront of the offensive. "My research suggests that 70 per cent of the spying is done in Yorkshire," Mr Ulfkotte said. >From both the Yorkshire and Bavarian sites, data is transferred to the NSA's headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland where 10,000 military personnel and 30,000 civilian employees trawl the information with the help of the British Memex computer identification system. German industry complains that it is in a particularly vulnerable position because the Bonn government forbids its security services from conducting similar industrial espionage. "German politicians still support the rather naive idea that political allies should not spy on each other's businesses. The Americans and the British do not have such illusions," Mr Ulfkotte said. But for Germany's Association for Industrial Security, which backs the idea of a counter-industrial espionage drive, the situation has become intolerable. "We will have to get used to the fact that industry is a part of our national security," said the association's president Wolfgang Hoffman. The London Telegraph, April 11, 1999 Der Fuhrer Invades Yugoslavia The Meaning of Kosovo: Cold War II The illusion in the West Leading moderate politicians in Moscow -- staggered by the intensity of Russians' emotional response to NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia -- say the conflict poses dangerous implications for the country's internal political situation. They say they are also concerned by the widening gulf between Moscow and the West -- particularly the United States -- over the issue. NATO began air strikes two weeks ago and says they will continue until Belgrade ends a crackdown on the ethnic Albanian majority in Serbia's Kosovo province. NATO also insists that Belgrade allow international peacekeeping troops into Kosovo. In response to the air strikes, Russia froze most defense cooperation with NATO and -- in what is widely seen in the West as a provocative move -- sent an intelligence-gathering ship to the Adriatic to monitor the conflict. The Duma also recently commemorated the victims of what it called the "NATO aggression" with a minute's silence. Protestors have staged anti-Western rallies outside the U.S. and British embassies in Moscow. In one incident, gunmen tried to fire a grenade launcher at the U.S. embassy. Russian economist and former reformist Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar recently went to Belgrade -- along with two other liberal politicians -- in an unsuccessful effort to mediate a peaceful end to the conflict. Gaidar says NATO's actions have, so far, failed to achieve their goal. At the same time, Gaidar argues, the air strikes have greatly enhanced the opportunities for Russia's Communist and nationalist forces to grab hold of power in the not-so-distant future. He recently told RFE/RL that he does not think Western officials understand the risk. "What is going on has a very serious and negative influence on Russian-U.S. relations. I am afraid this [outcome] can be a long-term one. If today's tendency continues, [I think] it could inevitably bring the restoration of the Cold War -- in a different form, not as in the '60s. Russia [now] is different. The world is different. But the creation of relations like during the Cold War [is possible,] with a Russia that is afraid of the world, of NATO, of America, has missiles, a mobilized economy, is friendly with authoritarian and rogue regimes, helps them with technologies, helps them create nuclear weapons." Many Western observers, however, say Russia's desperate economic situation and its appeals for Western financial support place severe limitations on its ability to influence NATO actions and could restrain Russian officials. Gaidar disagrees and says the analysis is mainly the result of wishful thinking. "What is the illusion now [in the West]? It is that Russians have plenty of problems on their own -- small salaries, pensions that are not paid, [while] foreign policy issues are always of secondary importance for any society." A moderate Russian politician who wishes to remain anonymous told an RFE/RL correspondent in Moscow that the West is wrong if it thinks "Russia's present authorities can be contained on the basis of good behavior in exchange for economic support." The politician -- who held a top cabinet job until last year's financial meltdown -- says much of the Russian reaction over Yugoslavia is not rational. He says logic and rational behavior are being overtaken by feelings of frustration and humiliation that Russia is now feeling toward the West. Andrei Kozyrev was Russia's foreign minister after the breakup of the Soviet Union and has been a Duma deputy since being replaced at the Foreign Ministry by Yevgeny Primakov, who is now prime minister. Kozyrev says the current anti-NATO and anti-U.S. outbursts in Russia are falling on extremely fertile soil. He says it is easier for Russians to blame the outside world for what is going wrong instead of sorting out the real reasons for the country's problems. "The Russian government has managed in the last three or four years to restore a Soviet-world outlook, where on the one side there is Moscow and on the other all the democratic countries. I think this obviously is a happy hour for our corrupt bureaucracy, as [it was] with the Soviet bureaucracy. We are re-creating an international situation in which nobody asks anymore if there is corruption or not [in Russia], if the economy is managed in a qualified way or not, if there are or are not economic reforms. Now the talk is already about building up a pro-war camp against imperialism." According to Kozyrev, this situation has been slowly building during the last few years and has emerged now -- in all its force -- not by chance. "This situation did not start today. Anti-NATO hysterics have been inflated in the last three years. Anti-Western lines of argument have increased. We dropped the postulate of partnership as a [kind of] safeguard in foreign policy, and we adopted the postulate of the so-called multi-polar world. This means basically [creating] an anti-imperialistic front." Kozyrev agrees with Gaidar and other moderate Russian politicians who say the crisis in Yugoslavia plays mainly into the hands of Russia's Communists. Academic Yury Ryzhev -- who served until recently as Russia's ambassador to France and who enjoys widespread respect in Moscow -- spoke late last month on the tenth anniversary of the first multi-candidate election in the Soviet Union. He said the Russian view of the world has not changed fundamentally in the last decade. "It is hugely difficult to change the economic, political and mental outlook of society. What happened in the last 10 years is due not only to the mistakes made by authorities -- if we don't count Chechnya -- but on the absolutely deformed consciousness of society." Ryzhev said that the Russian outlook has, in his words "been deformed not only by 70 years of Soviet power, but [also] by the militarist, super power-like consciousness of the last 300 years." Russia Today, April 10, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. 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