-Caveat Lector- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Yugoslav war designed to build NATO Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:47:40 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Rozoff) Reply-To: "Activist Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist Published Saturday, October 9, 1999 Yugoslavia attack designed to build NATO, writer asserts Randy Furst / Star Tribune The bombing of Yugoslavia had little to do with defending a repressed ethnic minority and much to do with NATO flexing its muscles, says a woman who has written extensively on eastern Europe and is speaking in the Twin Cities this week. Diana Johnstone, former press officer for the Green members of the European Parliament, contends that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is "a bad leader like so many others" but that he was elected by Yugoslav voters and isn't a dictator as portrayed by the United States. Johnstone, 68, who is based in Paris but received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota, is speaking at 10 a.m. today at Sabathani Community Center, 310 E. 38th St., Minneapolis. Her appearance is sponsored by of Women Against Military Madness. "The whole version of the events in Yugoslavia have been extremely distorted," she said. "The NATO war has, in fact, not been a humanitarian adventure at all. . . . The war was waged for the benefit of NATO -- to prove its new mission." She said that after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, companies that sell defense systems to NATO countries wanted to see the alliance continue. She said new NATO members, such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, must make their armed forces compatible with NATO, which means purchasing jet fighters and other equipment. The plan is to make NATO "a strike force anywhere in the world," she said, so NATO needed a "humanitarian mission" prior to its 50th anniversary celebration earlier this year. So instead of negotiating with Milosevic, she said, NATO presented him with an ultimatum he could not accept, creating an excuse to bomb. Johnstone contends that it was more like a civil war in Yugoslavia in which "an armed band" -- the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) -- was "assassinating policemen and civilians." She said Milosevic had no choice but to respond. "You attack a police force, the police force is going to retaliate," she said. "Can you imagine, if some armed rebels were shooting at police in the United States, that the government would not do anything about it?" Milosevic's crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo led to a 78-day NATO bombing campaign that ended with the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from the province. Johnstone said that there weren't many incidents of Serbian atrocities prior to the NATO bombing and those that were reported were questionable and orchestrated by forces pressing for intervention. "The media has been used," she said. � Copyright 1999 Star Tribune. All rights reserved. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/ DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
