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Several people have raised the question: are we sure this dispatch is real? One gentleman wrote: << Are they nuts? Is it a fake dispatch? I can see how Bundeswehr would be "greeted" in Yugoslavia. Joschka probably thinks the rest of Yugoslavia is like Kosovo. Even kids would shower them with stones. Will SS and Gestapo follow? The fellow should be locked up in an asylum. >> We're not competent to judge whether they're nuts, but the dispatch is authentic. It does indeed come from 'German AP'. Here's what happened and how we checked the authenticity: 1) A reader in Germany wrote us wondering why no Website critical of NATO had posted an 'AP' dispatch he'd found on the German language Yahoo Website. (Some people have written us that "AP doesn't have a German Website." Perhaps not, but 'AP' does have a German language service which issues dispatches and Yahoo does post these dispatches on its German language Website.) The German reader translated part of the dispatch into English. It was amazing. Could German Foreign Minister Fischer actually have said he wants to permanently station the German Army in Yugoslavia? Could he, a leader of the country has been trying to destroy Yugoslavia for a hundred years, and which committed and supported the worst atrocities in Yugoslavia during World War II - could he really have said that Yugoslavs need to learn democratic culture in order to relate to Germany? Was he aware that, when the Germans set up a puppet regime in Belgrade during World War II and demanded that the quislings round up the Jews, the quislings refused? Does Fischer know that the German commander then responded that the Serbs had "low culture"? Could Fischer have actually said these things? It did not seem unlikely that the German Foreign Ministry would want to permanently station troops in Yugoslavia. But could Fischer have been so reckless as to admit it publicly? None of us at Emperor's Clothes were personally acquainted with the reader who sent us the email. We decided to investigate thoroughly before posting: 1) First we went to http://de.news.yahoo.com/4/ . That's the German Yahoo site where the reader said he found the article. Scrolling down to the phrase "Nachrichten suchen" which means "news search" , we typed in "Fischer will Jugoslawien mit Bundeswehr helfen" (Fischer wants German Army to help Yugoslavia) We clicked the usual button and were taken to the web address "http://de.news.yahoo.com/001011/12/14aun.html" This URL had the right title, ("Fischer will Jugoslawien mit Bundeswehr helfen"), but when we clicked on it we got the message "Seite nicht gefunden" or "Website not found". So the article had been there but now it was gone... Curious. And also curious that the other links on the page worked fine. (Note: In case the link were to be removed entirely, we have made copies of the entire web page; if it is still there when you check you might want to do likewise.) So now we knew the 'AP' dispatch existed but we couldn't be sure our German reader had sent us an accurate text. We contacted a writer for Emperor's Clothes who works for a German outfit that subscribes to 'German AP'. He found the dispatch. He did an impromptu phone translation. His translation matched what the German reader had sent us almost word for word and the meaning was identical. So now we had the actual dispatch, just as it been sent out by 'German AP'. That dispatch is posted at the end of this article. Was the Fischer Story Suppressed? And Why? This 'AP' dispatch is big news. We subscribe to Lexis Nexis. It allows us to instantly scan thousands of English language and non-English language newspapers, TV news programs and wire services (not including 'German AP') We went to Lexis and typed in: Fischer and Bundeswehr or "German army" and Yugoslavia. There were no entries. Had no newspaper, TV news program, or wire service in the Western world picked up this highly newsworthy story? We called people in Germany. None of them had seen the Fischer story in the German media. 'AP-Germany' is a self-contained entity but of course it is read by people from newspapers and news services around the world. Why hasn't this sensational story been reported? The only explanation we can think of is: it was suppressed. Perhaps Fischer revealed a plan he was not supposed to reveal, a plan for German troops to be sent into Yugoslavia in the event that certain forces succeed in creating such instability and chaos that "a firm hand is needed." Perhaps after Fischer blabbed and 'German AP' erred by reporting his speech there was a hasty effort at damage control. This would explain the dispatch first being posted at German Yahoo and then apparently being pulled and it would explain the fact that newspapers and TV stations failed to report Fischer's remarks. Taken alongside a slew of highly provocative and destabilizing actions by the Djindjic and Kostunica forces in Yugoslavia, this statement by Fischer, and the apparent suppression of the news reporting that he made this statement, are ominous. Below is the exact text of the 'German AP' dispatch followed by the English translation. German Text The top part of the 'AP' dispatch gives the date and identifies the dispatch as coming from 'AP'. Following that the comes the category, "Bundestag/Jugoslawien/Fischer", which means "Parliament/Yugoslavia/Fischer" and then the headline. The text is the same as the English, which follows. 11.10. 17:29 ap 4 Bundestag/Jugoslawien/Fischer Fischer will Jugoslawien mit Bundeswehr helfen Utl: Demokratie als Voraussetzung f�r dauerhaften Frieden Berlin (AP) Bundesau�enminister Joschka Fischer hat sich am Mittwoch im Bundestag daf�r ausgesprochen, sich in Jugoslawien nicht nur materiell zu engagieren, sondern dauerhaft mit der Bundeswehr und mit zivilen Kr�ften vor Ort zu sein. Es biete sich nun die Chance, eine Demokratie in einem sich einigenden Europa zu schaffen. Das wiedervereinigte Deutschland habe eine besondere Verantwortung dazu beizutragen, dass sich die Demokratie in Serbien konsolidiere. Demokratie sei Voraussetzung f�r einen dauerhaften Frieden auf dem Balkan. Es sei richtig gewesen, der gro�serbischen Politik des jugoslawischen Pr�sidenten Slobodan Milosevic Einhalt zu gebieten und sich auf Seiten der demokratischen Opposition zu engagieren, sagte Fischer. Das blutige Morden auf dem Balkan k�nne nun ein Ende haben. Der Stabilit�tspakt m�sse daf�r eingesetzt werden, sich unter anderem an der R�umung der Donau zu beteiligen. Zudem solle eine demokratische Kultur aufgebaut werden, um die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Serbien zu normalisieren. Erste Schritte seien durch die Aufhebung des �l- und Flugembargos durch die EU gemacht worden. So k�nne Serbien auf dem Weg nach Europa begleitet werden. Nach den Worten Fischers m�ssen diejenigen zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden, die schwerste Schuld auf sich geladen haben. Vorrang habe zun�chst jedoch, dass die demokratischen Ver�nderungen friedlich durchgesetzt w�rden und sich Gerechtigkeit durchsetze. Der westliche Balkan sei Teil einer europ�ischen Gesamtverantwortung. Ende AP/str/rg 111728 okt 00 English translation Fischer wants German Army to help Yugoslavia. (Berlin), AP, Oct. 11, 2000 German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, addressing Parliament on Wednesday, expressed his opinion that Germany should not only provide material help to Yugoslavia but that the Bundeswehr [the German Army] and non-military organizations should establish a permanent presence there. He declared that this was a unique chance to create a democracy in the context of further European unification. Reunited Germany has a special responsibility for stabilizing democracy in Serbia. Democracy, said Mr. Fischer, is the basis for a lasting peace in the Balkans. But the priority is for the moment that the democratic changes be carried out peacefully and that justice prevail. The Western Balkans is a part of the European comprehensive responsibility. It was truly correct at the time to stop Slobodan Milosevich's policy of Greater Serbia and to engage oneself on the side of the democratic opposition, says Joschka Fischer. Now the bloody murdering in the Balkans can be stopped. The Stability Pact has to be used, among other things, for the clearing of the Danube. Also democratic culture has to be built up [in Serbia] to make possible the normalization of relations between Germany and Serbia. The first steps have been taken through the lifting of the oil and the flight embargoes by the European Union. Now Serbia can be accompanied on its route toward Europe. In the words of Fischer, all those who have made themselves guilty of grave crimes have to be brought to justice. www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] **************************************** The URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/doncheva/rumors.htm Do not Weep, Yugoslavia! Rumors of Serb Refugee Camps by Blagovesta Doncheva (9-16-2000) The CIA Boss was in Bulgaria recently: reason for and aim of visit - the Yugo Coup. Task fulfilled. The CIA salutes and flies somewhere else to organize another coup in the interest of Big Profit. Now the FBI Boss is here. Some say the FBI is the USA's Gestapo. Some say the visit is proof that the USA's Gestapo has chosen Bulgaria for its Gestapo base regarding Yugoslavs. Some say the FBI Boss' visit to Bulgaria is mainly practical - confirmation and looking over the chosen prisons or adapted former concentration camps and other suitable places for the Serbs that will be kidnapped, dragged here and lectured on democracy using some specific Gestapo-FBI methods before being killed. Some say the Serbs will be very grateful indeed when at last they are mercifully killed. Some say the Serbs dragged here will be represented to the Bulgarian public (that happens to see them) as "refugees". There is a talk about building "refugee camps" in Bulgaria. Some say the Americans have reconstructed an old concentration camp on the Danube island of Belene for a "Serb refugee" camp. Some think they will prefer the regions in Western Bulgaria near the boundary with Yugoslavia. The terrain there is mountainous, sparsely populated and rarely visited. Some of the people who say these things have connections with high ranking police officers. Others have knowledge of the secret machineries' work in such cases. It cannot be proved. But it seems logical enough. PS - Since writing that I read an official statement that the FBI will have a permanent office in Bulgaria. It was announced in the Bulgarian media. I think it is a kind of a proof of the rumors that circulate here about so-called "Serb Refugee Camps"... Every Second Mother Bulgaria Today - Yugoslavia Tomorrow by Madlen Kircheva and Blagovesta Doncheva (9-16-2000) "...And you will pick the fruit of grapevine and of olive tree you have not planted..." Old Testament Today the Bulgarian daily 'SEGA' screams from its first page: "EVERY SECOND BULGARIAN MOTHER BANISHES HER CHILD ABROAD." Every second mother. At one of his regular star-performances on Bulgarian TV some days ago, the US Ambassador, properly called "Governor", Richard Miles, consoled the Bulgarians in proper fatherly fashion, advising them not to cry about the young emigrants. "They will come back, enriched with the experience, accumulated in the USA when life in Bulgaria gets better." Who drives the children of Bulgaria away? The one who turned our life in hell the last ten years. The young emigrants were the hope of our country, they are its intellectual treasure, created by their parents' efforts and the efforts of the whole society. That unique human potential has been constructed over the course of years by means of the Bulgarian social, health and educational systems - all of them deliberately and thouroughly annihilated today. And now that same insatiable cannibal, who has plundered our country and life, is consuming the children without having invested even half a cent or a minimal effort to give them birth, to raise or educate them. And later he will use them as Janissaries (1) for the full extermination of their birth cradle: Bulgaria. The cynicism of Governor Miles can be compared only to that of a rich slave-owner from the South states. The United States now is acquiring a quality offspring raised in a foreign farm. Why should Governor Miles "improve" life in this US protectorate, Bulgaria? And for whom, in fact, are the US Special Forces, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank conducting their deadly "reforms" i this country, ruining both our people and Homeland? After some years there will not be any young people here, no children. And the old ones will be dead... Don't deceive yourselves: the rape of our Homeland is carried out only and solely in the interests of the Metropolis Beyond the Ocean and the colonial servants here, known as a political "elite" - nobody knows why. Do not weep, Yugoslavia! Madlen Kircheva and Blagovesta Doncheva October 9, 2000 - Sofia, Bulgaria (By the way we have sent the above to all Bulgarian media. It has not been published. ) *** Footnotes and Further Reading (1) Our Bulgarian authors use the term "Janissaries" which is explained in an excedrpt from the article 'Kostunica & the Yugoslav Election' at http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/kostunic.htm In the article I was discussing the spending of immense amounts of US dollars to finance an "independent" (?!) apparatus in order to destablizie Yugoslavia. The article continues: This lavish use of money is linked to what could be called a Jannisary strategy. The old Ottoman Empire used this strategy to control the Serbs. They would kidnap Serbian children, bring them to Turkey at a young age, raise him as Muslims, and then send him back as the elite Ottoman army. It happens today, though of course the appearance is somewhat different. It is in essence what the US elite does with young people from all over the world, especially Yugoslavia. They are literally (or figuratively, by means of TV and movies) brought to the US and other Western capitals and dazzled with glamour and glitz, with superficiality made into a virtue - and then sent back to dumb old Yugoslavia. You can see these young Yugoslavs at elite US universitieis - aloof, super cool, ashamed of their country. Ashamed of dumb old Yugoslavia that has more richness of culture than all Western Europe and the US put together. Full of grubby farmers and outmoded economic notions etc. etc. In Belgrade these Janissaries flock to institutions such as "free" radio B292. I interviewed two staff members from B292. The interviews are posted on Emperor's Clothes. These young people have the attitude of smug treason. Consider this exchange with Gordan Paunovic: " Jared: [Are you getting any] money coming from foundations in the US? "Paunovic: Probably, but I don't know which Foundations. I am pretty much pissed off in putting this kind of argumentation, like Soros equals B92. That really comes from people who are not in a position to see what we are doing. We will take money from anyone. To make a good production on many levels, from radio, to TV and video productions to Internet, Books, music. You need money." Elsewhere he says: " Paunovic: And another thing I don't like the way we are - Like Robin Cook and Jamie Shea they made a huge damage to our image when Robin Cooke said in a Press Conference which was directly broadcast on CNN "You know we helped B92 to get satellite access" and things like that." But then he and the news editor, whom I also interviewed, admitted it was true. It was true they were getting time on the BBC satellite - the BBC, which supported the bombing of Yugoslavia. But Gordan scorns those who think there's anything shameful about this. After all, one needs money to do glamorous things. This Janissary mentality, contemptuous of the ordinary people of Yugoslavia, must be supplied with money. Absent money and it fails. The new global culture is just money and a paint job. And because they loathe the backward (i.e. truly cultured) soul of their country they are useful tools. Hooked on the most superficial aspects of Western life, in their hearts they can justify anything. No price is too high for other people to pay for "modernizing" (i.e. subjugating) their country. http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/kostunic.htm www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] ******************************************* I Remain Optimistic Because the Only Other Option Is Suicide BELGRADE, Oct. 8 - We received the following letter from a TiM reader in Belgrade, who asked to be identified only by his initials - M.L., but whose full identity is known to TiM: "Dear Sir, I'd like to express my views of the events in Belgrade and Serbia over the past couple of days, as well as my reactions to some of your articles. I spoke last night to some of my friends who participated in the events. They told me that a great many demonstrators, especially those coming from outside Belgrade, were armed! One of the DOS leaders admitted that they wouldn't come back unless they achieve their goal, no matter what the cost (in human lives). I kept silent throughout the night. It is obvious that anything I say would create a chorus of hysterical disapproval. Any common sense had left their heads long since. I imagine you experienced the same when you warned about Milosevic 10 years ago. As for your remark that quislings waste no time, get a load of this: I had just heard on TV that Zoran Djindjic said in an interview to a Zagreb(!!!) weekly "Nacional" that there will be no more Yugoslavia, but an alliance of states of Serbia and Montenegro with a common foreign policy. And that there would be no more federal President, Parliament or Government. Hmm... I wonder what Mr. Kostunica has to say about that? Talking about TV, since the "liberation" of the media, they have been none short of disastrous. Reactions from Clinton, Blair, Chirac on the "democratic changes", greetings from Zagreb, Sarajevo... O, Sancta Simplicitas!!! I would like to reply to Mr. Alverson, who I truly believe is a dear friend of my people but has obviously fallen under this hysteria (see (see An American at the Serb "Revolution"): He compared this to 96/97 protests. It is, to say the least, inappropriate. In 96/97, the streets were inhabited by people wanting democracy and freedom. This October, it was a mob out for blood (just go and see the movie "Gladiator," and see if there is any difference between the mob in the Coliseum and that in Belgrade). You say we will never forget the spring of 1999, Mr.Alverson. Well, I'm afraid some already have. And judging by who has taken over the media, in time a great many will. In spite of everything I still remain optimistic simply because I have to. The only other option is suicide." M.L., Belgrade, Serbia Truth in Media ****************************************************** Global Reflexion - Amsterdam - The Netherlands
