----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 7:47 PM Subject: [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] NATO wanted war in Yugoslavia, says German general STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ===================================== GERMAN GENERAL: NATO WANTED WAR IN YU ===================================== BERLIN, Germany, September 22, 2000 (Tanjug) A German general is on Friday quoted as saying that the true reason for last year's NATO aggression on Yugoslavia was that, by attacking Serbs, NATO wished to emplace its new strategy. The war was not caused by any alleged violation of Kosovo-Metohija Albanians' human rights, but by NATO's choice of a small, puny nation on which to demonstrate its credibility and pave the way for a new global strategy, retired General Heinz Lockwei said. Speaking for Berlin's Neues Deutschland newspaper, Lockwei said it was no wonder that U.S. President Bill Clinton on March 24, 1999, the day the air strikes began, stressed NATO's credibility rather than a "humanitarian catastrophe" as the reason for the campaign. Lockwei is the author of the book Der Kosovo Konflikt (The Kosovo Conflict), in which he puts forward a series of accusations against NATO. Until this summer, he was Germany's representative to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, when he was replaced after exposing the lies of German Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping. In his book and numerous television interviews, Lockwei has offered proof that Scharping himself had thought up the so-called Horshoe Plan, which purported to be a Serb plan for driving the ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo-Metohija. According to Lockwei, five of the six members of the Contact Group on Yugoslavia had maintained before the February 1999 Rambouillet, France, conference that a military intervention in Kosovo-Metohija would require a mandate from the United Nations. However, he explained, the United States were against this, and then Germany changed sides, to be followed eventually by all the others. ======== THE NEWS ======== The news edited by Milka Zrnic AIM, Belgrade, September 23, 2000 17:00 http://www.aim.ac.yu/ ===== Join with Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace and others to give "NATO Supreme Commander" General Wesley Clark a special Berkeley welcome in October! Information: http://www.speakerseries.net/speaker.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------- Advertisement: New Customers at Vitamins.com get a FREE bottle of St. John's Wort and take $10 off your first order of $10.01 or more! Just enter the discount code SAINTJ at checkout to get your free gift. Shop Now! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/HealthCentral
