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>The URL for this article is www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/elich/newwar.htm
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>
> NATO Prepares New Balkans War
> By Gregory Elich (8-30-00)
>
> Introductory Note from Emperor's Clothes - The following article by Greg
>Elich is a good source of information about current US schemes regarding
>Yugoslavia. However, there are two important matters where we differ.
>
> First, Mr. Elich says that the US plans to attack Yugoslavia again. We
>agree that the US has taken steps partly setting the stage for attack. But
>setting the stage and attacking are two different matters. The Yugoslav
>Army and people are formidable forces, more so now than before the bombing
> campaign because some people who may have harbored illusions about the
>intentions of the US elite have shed those illusions.
>
> Maybe the US would like to attack, but under what conditions can it attack?
>
> The US has been telling the Yugoslav people: Milosevich is the problem.
>Get rid of him, put in a government to our liking, (the 'democratic
>opposition') and we'll be nice to you. If you don't, we'll be terrible.
>
> In our opinion, this "if you don't change governments we'll be terrible"
>is a bluff, and in fact the opposite is true: it is precisely "getting rid
>of Milosevich" that would encourage the US to attack..
>
> The US is not in good a position to make a full assault on Yugoslavia. It
>has not been able to secure broad European support for such an attack. Its
>key proxy forces, in Croatia and Kosovo, are in disarray. This is
>especially true in Kosovo where the KLA has ascended to new heights of
>gangsterism; increasingly hated even by secessionist-minded Albanians, and
>with no resemblance to an army. The Europeans are uncomfortable with the
>obvious US alliance with the KLA, which it is now absolutely clear is a
>fascist terrorist force which has driven out over a dozen different ethnic
>minorities, including Serbs, "Gypsies" Jews, Egyptians, Turks, Gorani
>{Slavic Muslims] and even non-racist Albanians.
>
> Recent visitors to Yugoslavia report that the morale of ordinary people is
> actually high. The danger of widespread death due to the Western embargo
>on heating fuel last winter - which we at Emperor's Clothes were afraid
>would happen - did not happen. We were wrong. We in the antiwar movement
>underestimated and continue to underestimate the intelligence and heroism
>of the Yugoslav people. Much of the bombing damage has been repaired. Some
>projects that were dragging on for years have now been completed.
>
> In that situation, a victory for the current Yugoslav leadership - the
>coalition based on the Socialist party, the conservative Radical party and
>the Party of the Yugoslav Left - such a victory will tell the US: stay
>away. We mean business. But a victory for the so-called 'democratic
>opposition' which
> includes quislings who are paid millions of dollars by the US would send a
> very different message. It would provide the US with friendly forces in
>key positions, making internal disruption and provocations easier to
>launch. That could encourage the US elite, which is a Cowardly Bully, to
>attack
>
> Mr. Elich, with the best intentions, wanting to mobilize all antiwar
>forces to prevent further harm to the Yugoslav people, unfortunatly
>implies that a victory for Milosevich would encourage US attack. Mr. Elich
>is responding to the psy-ops threats coming out of the US propaganda
>machine, which hopes to intimidate the Yugoslav people and its government.
>
> This unintentionally plays into the hands of those who misrepresent the
>source of the US attack on Yugoslavia. The US has not spent 10 years
>dismembering Yugoslavia because the US hates Milosevich (as the US and
>British governments presently claim). The US government knows that the
> Serbian and other Yugoslav loyalists have for a hundred years been the key
> resistance to Imperial control of the Balkans; and Imperial domination of
>the Balkans is crucial to dominate the Caucuses and Russia. Russia is the
>prize of prizes.
>
> The US wants to weaken or destroy the Serbs and other Yugoslav loyalists
>as a political force so that it can take control of these vital areas.
>Control of the Balkans, the Caucuses and Russia means - control of the
>world. It is not for nothing that the German Nazis combined the slogans
>"Drive to the East" and "Today Germany, Tomorrow the World." Perhaps the
>US elite learned the importance of Yugoslavia (and the Serbs) from all
>those Nazi and Ustashe (Croatian Fascist) agents it incorporated into the
>CIA after World War II.
>
> The victory of Mr. Milosevich will discourage US attack. The Western
>claims that "if you just get rid of Milosevich we'll be good to you" are
>simply a lie. It is as if the fox were to say to the hen: just get rid of
>this annoying fence and let me in, and then you'll see what love is..
>
> The second point of disagreement we have with this otherwise excellent
>article is Mr. Elich's insistence on labeling quislings "right wing".
>Unfortunately it isn't accurate and it confuses the issue. There are
>quislings who call themselves socialists and anarchists, or communists,
>and there are
> quislings who call themselves liberals, conservatives or monarchists.
>
> Focusing on labels is counter-productive, in our opinion, since it avoids
>the real issue, the need to defend Yugoslavia's sovereignty, and because
>it offends people unnecessarily.
>
> Let's call on all decent people to defend the Yugoslav land - because
>today it's Yugoslavia that is ripped apart, but tomorrow any other country
>could be attacked in the same way. Even Western countries.
>
> www.tenc.net
> [Emperor's Clothes]
>
> NATO Prepares New Balkans War
> By Gregory Elich (8-30-00)
>
> Quietly, NATO is laying plans for a new military strike against
>Yugoslavia. On August 13 through 15, CIA Director George Tenet visited
>Bulgaria. In a series of extraordinary meetings, Tenet met with Bulgarian
>President Petur Stoyanov, as well as the Prime Minister, Interior Minister
>and Defense
> Minister. Officially, the purpose of Tenet's visit was to discuss the
>problem of organized crime and narcotics. However, Tenet spent a combined
>total of only 20 minutes at the headquarters of the National Security
>Service and the National Service for Combating Organized Crime. Unnamed
>diplomatic sources revealed that the proposed oil transit pipeline from the
>Caspian Sea was also topic of discussion.
>
> The driving motivation for Tenet's visit, though, was to discuss
>Yugoslavia. According to an unnamed diplomatic source, Montenegrin
>secession from Yugoslavia topped the agenda. Following the meeting between
>Tenet and Major General Dimo Gyaurov, Director of the National Intelligence
>Service, a public statement was issued which stressed their "commonality of
>interests." Reports in the Bulgarian press revealed that various options
>were discussed with Bulgaria's president and prime minister. Tenet's
>preferred option is the removal of the Yugoslav government, either as a
>result of that country's election on September 24, or by a NATO military
>assault that would install a puppet government. Another scenario would
>follow the secession of Montenegro from Yugoslavia. If open warfare breaks
>out over Montenegro's secession, then the United States plans to wage a
>full-scale war against Yugoslavia, as it did in spring 1999. Sofia's
>Monitor reported that the "CIA coup machine" is forming. "A strike against
>Belgrade is imminent," it adds, and "Bulgaria will serve as a base." (1)
>
> The Italian army recently signed a lease contract to conduct training
>exercises beginning in October at the Koren training ground, near Kaskovo
>in southeast Bulgaria. The French army signed a similar agreement, in which
>French soldiers and tanks will train at the Novo Selo grounds in central
>Bulgaria from October 11 to December 12. Talks are also underway for the
>U.S. military to lease the Shabla training grounds in northeastern
>Bulgaria. Scheduled to take place following the election in Yugoslavia, the
>training exercises could serve as a launching pad for NATO's planned
>military strike. It was recently announced that the British aircraft
>carrier HMS Invincible is to be redeployed to the Adriatic over the next
>few months in support of a potential conflict over Montenegro (2)
>
> Military force is only one component of the West's destabilization
>campaign against Yugoslavia. NATO's plan for military intervention emanates
>from a history of persistent Western meddling. In November 1998, President
>Clinton launched a plan for the overthrow of the government of Yugoslavia.
> The initial emphasis of the plan centered on supporting secessionist
>forces in Montenegro and the right-wing opposition in Serbia. (3) Several
>months later, during the bombing of Yugoslavia, Clinton signed a secret
>paper instructing the CIA to topple the Yugoslav government. The plan
>called for
> the CIA to secretly fund opposition groups and the recruitment of moles in
>the Yugoslav government and military. (4)
>
> On July 8, 1999, U.S. and British officials revealed that commando teams
>were training snatch operations to seize alleged war criminals and Yugoslav
>President Slobodan Milosevic. As an encouragement to mercenaries, the U.S.
>State Department also announced a $5 million bounty for President
>Milosevic. (5)
>
> Several Yugoslav government officials and prominent individuals, including
>Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic, have been gunned down. Most of these
>crimes remain unsolved, as the assassins managed to escape. Police
>apprehended one assassin, Milivoje Gutovic, after he shot Vojvodina
> Executive Council President Bosko Perosevic at an agricultural fair in
>Novi Sad. During interrogations, Gutovic admitted to police that he worked
>for the right-wing Serbian Renewal Movement. (6)
>
> Goran Zugic, security advisor to secessionist Montenegrin President Milo
>Djukanovic, was murdered late on May 31, 2000. The assassin escaped,
>allowing Western leaders to blame President Milosevic. Coming just one week
>before crucial local elections in Montenegro, forces opposing President
>Milosevic stood to gain from the murder, as the effect would tend to sway
>undecided voters in favor of secessionist parties. A few days after the
>assassination, Yugoslav Minister of Information Goran Matic held a press
>conference, at which he accused the CIA of complicity in the murder. Matic
>played a taped recording of two telephone conversations between head of the
>US mission in Dubrovnik Sean Burns, US State Department official James
>Swaggert, Gabriel Escobar of the US economic group in
> Montenegro and Paul Davies of the US Agency for International Development.
>Excerpts of the conversations, recorded 20 minutes after the assassination
>and again three hours later, included comments such as, "It was
>professional," and "Mission accomplished." (7)
>
> The first publicly known Western plan to assassinate President Milosevic
>was drafted in 1992. Richard Tomlinson, a former British MI6 employee,
>later disclosed the plan. His task as an MI6 agent was to carry out
>undercover operations in Eastern Europe posing as a businessman or
>journalist. Tomlinson frequently met with MI6 officer Nick Fishwick. During
>one their meetings, Fishwick showed Tomlinson a document entitled, "The
>Need to Assassinate President Milosevic of Serbia." Three methods were
>proposed for the assassination of Milosevic. The first method, Tomlinson
>recalled, "was to train and equip a Serbian paramilitary opposition group,"
>which would have the advantage of deniability but an unpredictable chance
>of success. The second method would employ a specially trained British SAS
>squad to murder President Milosevic "either with a bomb or sniper ambush."
>Fishwick considered this more reliable, but it lacked deniability. The
>third method would be to kill Milosevic "in a staged car crash." (8) Seven
>years later, on October 3, 1999, the third method was employed against the
>leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic, when a truck filled
>with sand plowed into his car, killing everyone inside except for
>Draskovic. The temperamental Draskovic had been a major factor in the
>chronic fragmentation of the right-wing opposition, frustrating
>Washington's efforts to forge a unified opposition. (9)
>
> During NATO's war against Yugoslavia, a missile struck President
>Milosevic's home on April 22, 1999. He and his wife were staying elsewhere
>that evening. Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon was quick to announce that "we
>are not targeting President Milosevic." It is impossible, though, to view a
>missile striking Milosevic's bedroom at 3:10 AM as anything but an
>assassination attempt. (10)
>
> In November 1999, members of an assassination squad, code-named "Spider,"
>were arrested in Yugoslavia. According to Minister Goran Matic, "French
>intelligence was behind" the Spider group, whose aim was the assassination
>of President Milosevic. Planned scenarios included a sniper
> attack, planting an explosive device alongside a route they expected
>Milosevic to travel, planting an explosive in his car, and organizing 10
>trained commandos to storm the presidential residence. The leader of the
>group, Jugoslav Petrusic, had dual Yugoslav and French citizenship. Matic
>claimed that Petrusic worked for French intelligence for ten years. During
>interrogations, Petrusic said that he had killed 50 men on orders by French
>intelligence. Matic announced that one of the members of Spider was a
>"specialist for killings with a truck full of sand" - the same method used
>against Draskovic the previous month.
>
> Following the Bosnian war, Petrusic organized the transport of 180 Bosnian
>Serb mercenaries to fight for Mobutu Sese Seku in Zaire, an affair that was
>managed by French intelligence. According to a Bosnian Serb businessman,
>Petrusic "did not hide the fact that he was working for the French
>intelligence service. I have personally seen a photo of him next to
>Mitterand as his bodyguard." In younger days, Petrusic was a member of the
>French Foreign Legion. During NATO's war against Yugoslavia, the Spider
>group infiltrated the Yugoslav Army, supplying information to the French
>and guiding NATO warplanes to their targets.
>
> Yugoslav secret service sources revealed that the Spider group trained at
>NATO bases in Bosnia where "buildings resembling those where Milosevic
>lives were constructed�" Money from the French intelligence service for
>Spider was brought to the border between Hungary and Yugoslavia by a man
>named Serge Lazarevic. (11)
>
> One month later, the members of a second hit team, calling itself the
>Serbian Liberation Army, was arrested. Their aim was to assassinate
>President Milosevic and restore the monarchy. (12)
>
> At the end of July 2000, a squad of four Dutch commandos was apprehended
>while attempting to cross into Serbia from Montenegro. During the
>investigation, they admitted that they intended to kill or kidnap President
>Milosevic. The four said that they were informed that $30 million had been
>offered for "Milosevic's head," and that they intended to "claim a reward."
>One of the men said that the group planned to abduct Milosevic or former
>Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and "surrender them to The Hague."
>The group planned to put them atop a car "in a ski box and transport
>them�out of the country." If the abduction failed, one of the men "had the
>idea to kill the president, to decapitate his head, to put it in the box
>and to send it home" to the Netherlands.
>
> One of the arrested men, Gotfrides de Ri, belonged to the openly racist
>neo-nazi Center Party. During the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, the Center
>Party sent Dutch mercenaries to fight in right-wing Croatian paramilitary
>units. At the time of their arrest, the four were found with several
>knives, including one with a swastika, and wires with hooks for
>strangulation. All four admitted that they had trained under the British
>SAS. At a news conference on August 1, Goran Matic accused the U.S of being
>the prime
> sponsor of assassinations and attempted assassinations. "It is obvious
>that they are recruiting various terrorist groups because they are
>frustrated with the fact that their military, political and economic goals
>in southeastern Europe have not been realized� [They are] trying to send
>them into the country so that they can change our political and social
>environment." (13) Jonathan Eyal, an advisor to the British government,
>commented recently, "I can't say when it will happen, but I can guarantee
>that Milosevic will end up dead, and he will be followed by a more
>pro-Western government." (14)
>
> Flagrant Western interference is distorting the political process in
>Yugoslavia. U.S. and Western European funds are channelled to right-wing
>opposition parties and media through such organizations as the National
>Endowment for Democracy and George Soros' Open Society Institute. The
>National Democratic Institute (NDI) is yet another of the myriad
>semi-private organizations that have attached themselves like leeches on
>Eastern Europe. The NDI opened an office in Belgrade in 1997, hoping to
> capitalize on opposition attempts to bring down the government through
>street demonstrations. By 1999, the NDI had already trained over 900
>right-wing party leaders and activists on "message development, public
>outreach and election strategy." NDI also claimed to have provided
>"organizational training and coalition-building expertise" to the
>opposition. (15)
>
> The New Serbia Forum, funded by the British Foreign Office, brings Serbian
>professionals and academics to Hungary on a regular basis for discussions
>with British and Central European "experts." The aim of the meetings is to
>"design a blueprint for post-Milosevic society." The Forum develops reports
>intended to serve as "an action plan" for a future pro-Western government.
>Subjects under discussion have included privatization and economic
>stabilization. The Forum calls for the "reintegration of Yugoslavia into
>the European family," a phrase that translates into the dismantling of the
>
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