[CTRL] Fw: Bulgaria Started the War!!!

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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From: Blagovesta Doncheva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mrs. Jela Jovanovic Secretary General <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 4:52 PM
Subject: Bulgaria Started the War!!!

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>SEGA, Bulgarian daily, March 29, 2000
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>Bulgaria Started the War!!!
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>Spiegel: :"Horseshoe" Plan comes from the poisonous kitchen of the
Bulgarian Secret Services."
>Frankfuhrter Rundshaw announced last week  that Bulgarian Secret Services
had been the origin of the information for that Serb plan, used as a
justification for NATO strikes on Yugoslavia (My God! Why haven t they
written Milosevic?!!?).
>Folker Pele (?) the German Foreign Affairs Ministry speaker did not answer
if Bulgaria had been asked to release additional data for the West to clear
out the doubts in connection with the source and reliability of the
information received by secret agency service.
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>The German Foreign Minister has confirmed the German pres releases about  a
Bulgarian secret analysis of our information services for Kosovo.
>On April 1, 1999 Minister Mihailova had given Joshka Fisher the Serb plan
"Podkova" (=Horseshoe) for pending ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians.
Fisher gave it to Rudolph Scharping, the German Minister of Defence.
>Only Bulgarians and Germans had discussed that plan last year.
>"Horseshoe" Plan was mentioned openly on April 8, 1999 for the first time.
>Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) quotes the General Bundesweher Inspector
Hans-Peter von Kierhbach (?), who explained the plan on a press-conference.
According to him, the Serb plan "Horseshoe" aimed at liquidating KLA even if
that would mean extermination of all the Albanians in Kosovo. Its essence
was the Albanians to be expelled from the country stage by stage to be
achieved demographic change in the province.
>These explanations were necessary because two weeks after the March 24
there were already civilian victims and the refugees were increasing. The
apprehensions for the war end were increasing too.
>A week later the "horseshoe" plan was mentioned in an articleby Wiliam
Pfaff (?) in "International Herald Tribune". The aim was to convince the
public that  there was no moral justification to stop the bombing.
"According to the German government sources that program  for Kosovo
Albanians ethnic cleansing  had been worked out at the end of 1998 under the
code name "Horseshoe".. In fact, it had been under implementation before the
the Rambouillet Negotiations in February", Pfaff writes. According to him
the Yugoslavian government should receive a lesson.
>On April 24 Kostov (the Bulgarian Premier) also quotes the operation
"Horseshoe" to justify the pending Bulgarian coroboration  and war
interference. He underlined that Albanians had fled from Kosovo in great
numbers long before the bombing start. " Who has made 400,000 (?!?)
Albanians flee out of Kosovo before March 24?.. Operation "Horseshoe began
at February 26 and aimed at two things: to exterminate KLA and to turn
Kosovo into a desert. What can explain the flows of refugees to the
countries from the region when there were no bombings? And now, when there
are bombings, why only Albanians flee from Kosovo? And how it happened so
that those people have been deliberately loaded on buses, trains, etc., and
in an organised manner had been deported to Macedonia?  We witness a quite
deliberate deportation carried out by and army of 40000 soldiers, police and
paramilitary formations", Kostov said.  In the same interview he declares
also that Milosevic s aim (i.e., Yugoslavians government - translator note)
was to destabilise Macedonia. " Bulgaria is the last country , which should
close the ring around Milosevic (i.e., Yugoslavia - translator s note). All
the countries have given their consent to support the peacekeeping
operations.. If we do not close the ring, we in fact help destabilising
Macedonia."
>"Horseshoe" is not mentiond in any of the thousands Reuter informations for
the the Kosovo conflict.
>The former US Ambassador in Bulgaria Avis Bowlen (?) declared in an
interview on Radio "Darik"(shamelessly pro UDF radio!) that she knew nothing
about that plan.
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>The article continues on two pages but I need a rest form that squalor.
>If you are interested, I ll do the next part as well.
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>Comments:
>1/ Bulgaria has almost no information services: they were very thoroughly
broken down during the several de-communising hysterical outbursts here;
>2/ Some people told me that such information do not change hands at a level
Foreign Ministers;
>3/ I and all my friends think the following:
>CIA (through the US Ambassador Bowlen (who knows nothing) and her staff had
called "Pretty Nadja" (Minister Mihailova) and had given their girl on a
call the plan "Horseshoe" worked out in their poisonous kitchens.
>And she had run (flied) to meet the German boy on call, dear Joshka.
>The public had to be kept heightened on the bombing. Raytheon, Lockhead,
Boing, Microsoft and the others hadn t realise the planned profits yet - the
favourable conditions for building Bondsteel hadn t been achieved yet. So,
circulate "Horseshoe" through two of the most grovelling lackeys, and bomb
non-stop!.
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>The Sunday Times (UK)
>April 2 2000
>Serbian ethnic cleansing scare was a fake, says general
>John Goetz, Berlin
>and Tom Walker
>A REPORT purporting to show that Belgrade planned the systematic ethnic
>cleansing of Kosovo's entire Albanian population was faked, a German
>general has claimed.
>The plan, known as Operation Horseshoe, was revealed by Joschka Fischer,
>the German foreign minister, on April 6 last year, almost two weeks
>after Nato started bombing Serbia. German public opinion about the
>Luftwaffe's participation in the airstrikes was divided at the time.
>Horseshoe - or "Potkova", as the Germans said it was known in Belgrade -
>became a staple of Nato briefings. It was presented as proof that
>President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia had long planned the
>expulsion of Albanians. James Rubin, the American state department
>spokesman, cited it only last week to justify Nato's bombardment.
>However, Heinz Loquai, a retired brigadier general, has claimed in a new
>book on the war that the plan was fabricated from run-of-the-mill
>Bulgarian intelligence reports.
>Loquai, who now works for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation
>in Europe (OSCE), has accused Rudolf Scharping, the German defence
>minister, of obscuring the origins of Operation Horseshoe.
>"The facts to support its existence are at best terribly meagre," he
>told The Sunday Times. "I have come to the conclusion that no such
>operation ever existed. The criticism of the war, which had grown into a
>fire that was almost out of control, was completely extinguished by
>Operation Horseshoe."
>Scharping reported in his wartime diary that he had received the
>intelligence report on Horseshoe from Fischer. But according to Die
>Woche, the German news weekly, the report was a general analysis by a
>Bulgarian intelligence agency of Serbian behaviour in the war.
>Loquai has claimed that the German defence ministry turned a vague
>report from Sofia into a "plan", and even coined the name Horseshoe. Die
>Woche has reported that maps broadcast around the world as proof of
>Nato's information were drawn up at the German defence headquarters in
>Hardthvhe.
>The Bulgarian report concluded that the goal of the Serbian military was
>to destroy the Kosovo Liberation Army, and not to expel the entire
>Albanian population, as was later argued by Scharping and the Nato
>leadership. Loquai also pointed to a fundamental flaw in the German
>account: it named the operation Potkova, which is the Croatian word for
>horseshoe. The Serbian for horseshoe is Potkovica. "A state prosecutor
>would never think of going to trial with the amount of evidence
>available to the German defence ministry," said Loquai.
>Nato sources rejected Loquai's claims, but admitted it was impossible to
>prove the origins of the Horseshoe story. "There's never any absolute
>certainty about these things," said one source. "But the idea that there
>was nothing pre-arranged is counter-intuitive.
>"Look at the speed with which the Serbs moved. It was systematic. Until
>we get into Belgrade and start tearing the files apart, we will never be
>certain - and that's never going to happen."
>In Belgrade, government sources said several Yugoslav army officers had
>dismissed Operation Horseshoe as part of Nato's propaganda war.
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