[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:24 PM Subject: Why Havel Love$ NATO [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [With the standard skimming of monies, not to mention rigged contract bids, Havel and his cronies - and his friends, relatives and neighbors - should make quite a handsome killing off this deal. If Havel plays his 'diissident' cards right, he'll be able to build himself another family palace...Wouldn't want a Czech 'Republic' that couldn't accomodate US military aircraft. Who would defend Havel against imminent attacks from Slovakia or Bavaria?...Military officials who sell their services to another country: Mercenaries. Government leaders who betray their country to a military occupier: Quislings.] NATO to Give Czechs 5 Billion Crowns to Improve Air Bases PRAGUE, May 14, 2001 -- (CTK - Czech News Agency) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which the Czech Republic joined in 1999, will by 2006 provide the Czech Republic with about 5 billion Czech crowns to pay for improvement of military air bases as well as information systems and radars, the paper Pravo writes today. "Every member country of NATO must on its own territory be capable of receiving a large number of allied troops in the event of war. It is not sufficient if, for example, American aircraft cannot land here, because our air bases do not comply with needs," an unnamed high ranking Czech officer is quoted by today's edition of Pravo as saying. The daily adds that it has available to it documentation from the Czech Defense Ministry, according to which NATO will mostly invest in infrastructure of air bases and construction of spaces for fuel reserves. NATO is to spend 2.5 billion Czech crowns on 30 projects, while it will provide 1.85 billion crowns for installation of two long range radar systems and around 1 billion crowns for creation of a joint system of command and guidance for NATO's air forces, Pravo writes. Frantisek Ridzak, who for the Czech Republic coordinates investment preparations at NATO headquarters in Brussels, confirmed for Pravo that next year around 1.4 billion crowns is expected to be provided for improving air bases and that in 2003 the Czech Republic could expect to receive 1.7 billion crowns in aid for its armed forces, followed by another billion in 2004. Ridzak also said that the Czech armed forces are supposed to get nearly half a billion crowns in 2005 and 200 million crowns in 2006. Pravo writes in its article that NATO is not satisfied either with the condition of civilian infrastructure in the Czech Republic. "Our [Czech] highways and bridges, for example, are in a catastrophic condition, and in many parts of the country we also have low tunnels and underpasses. Heavy technology probably would not get through them," an unnamed Czech officer is quoted as saying. The paper points out that the Czech Republic annually contributes around 200 million crowns for NATO. ((c) 2001 CTK - Czech News Agency) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
