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Join our email list at http://emperors-clothes.com/f.htm Receive articles from Emperor's Clothes Website www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] ======================================= CIVILIAN CASUALTIES AND THE FREEZER TRUCK HOAX by Francisco J. Gil-White and Jared Israel [Posted 23 September 2002] This is also the Appendix to "The Freezer Truck Hoax: How NATO framed Slobodan Milosevic, Part 1" which can be read at http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/freezer1.htm ======================================= According to the Freezer Truck Story, Yugoslav forces transported dozens of freezer trucks full of murdered Albanian civilians over hundreds of kilometers of roads, many of them partly bombed-out, and often over mountains, out of Kosovo and deep into upper Serbia. This was done, we are told, in the midst of around-the-clock NATO bombing. The idea of trying to hide bodies by transporting them hundreds of miles in freezer trucks (Mercedes Benz, no less!) is grotesquely absurd. But in addition we must factor in the risk, given what NATO was doing at that time to Serbia, including Kosovo. This is described in text and pictures in the "White Book on NATO Aggression Against Yugoslavia." The White Book is based on evidence compiled by forensic technicians and magistrates and was published by the Yugoslav government. You may access it at http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/kosovo_crisis/destruction/white_book2/ The White Book makes clear that NATO could bomb anything that moved in Kosovo. Anything. Had Serbian forces attempted to drive dozens of slow-moving freezer trucks cross-country, some surely would have been bombed while others would have been ambushed by Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists. The KLA terrorists had excellent rapport with the Western media. Within hours the news would have been broadcast worldwide. Anybody attempting such a hair-brained cover-up could be certain that some of their trucks would be bombed and others would end up illustrating a Carlotta Gall article in the New York Times. * NATO Bombs an Albanian Refugee Column * The first case the White Book explores is the bombing of a column of Albanian refugees who, according to Yugoslav officials, were attempting to return to their homes when NATO incinerated them. This internationally reported war crime took place 13 April 1999 near Djakovica in the Kosovo section of Serbia. As you may recall, NATO first denied it had bombed the refugees, suggesting that the slaughter was the work of Yugoslav forces. In response, the Yugoslav government brought reporters to the scene. They examined pieces of missiles and identified US markings. This was a bit embarrassing, but no problem: NATO simply changed the official story. According to the new story, yes, NATO pilots did bomb the refugees, but it was a mistake. They had attacked military vehicles responsible for burning an Albanian village and in the confusion they also bombed a refugee convoy. (Thus the Serbs, not NATO, were ultimately responsible...) To back up the new story, NATO held a press conference in which they played a tape of a voice, supposedly that of the pilot, explaining the confusion that led up to bombing the refugee column. Here's how Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported the NATO press conference: "*In a tape recording played at the daily briefing at NATO headquarters, the unidentified NATO pilot* made no mention of tractors or other signs of civilian life during the attack. "He said he was convinced he was targeting Yugoslav forces responsible for the burning of villages." --Deutsche Presse-Agentur (our emphasis) April 15, 1999, "Convoy tragedy 'will not undermine NATO resolve'" Because of what NATO would say in their *next* story, it is important to determine whether the mass media (such as Deutsche Presse-Agentur) was correct in reporting that NATO had indeed claimed that the voice on the tape was the *actual voice* of the *actual pilot* involved in the attack. Just to be clear on this, here is an excerpt from the press conference at which the tape was played. In the excerpt a reporter asks General Giuseppe Marani some questions about the supposed pilot's description of the attack. This part is irrelevant. The important things to notice are that: a) by asking a question about what "the pilot said," the reporter showed he believed he had just heard a tape of the *actual pilot who attacked the convoy* and, b) Note that in response to the reporter's question, General Giuseppe Marani did *not* say, "that was not the actual voice of the actual pilot." Instead he also spoke of what "the pilot said" thus confirming that the voice on the tape did indeed belong to the pilot who had dropped bombs on a column of refugees: [START, Excerpt from "NATO Briefing Regarding Military Action In Yugoslavia" - 15 April 1999] "QUESTION: I also note that *the pilot said* that he saw three dark green, two-and-a-half ton vehicles, which are obviously not tractors with trailers behind them or horses and carts. Is there some discrepancy here? Are we talking about two possible different incidents? GEN. MARANI: *The pilot said* he saw the houses burning on a road north of the road that we are talking about. [Our emphasis] [END, Excerpt from "NATO Briefing Regarding Military Action In Yugoslavia" - 15 April 1999] Unfortunately for NATO, the tape story also had problems. First, some of the Western reporters whom the Yugoslavs brought to the scene of attack actually reported that they saw no evidence of anything but a civilian convoy. Second, a few of the reporters interviewed Albanian survivors who said there were no military vehicles present. And Serbian TV (RTS) was broadcasting these facts around the world 24 hours a day. (RTS was bombed a few days later...) So NATO did another flip-flop, claiming they had never meant to say this was the *actual* tape of the *actual* pilot. Rather, they had only presented the tape as an *example* of what such a pilot might have said about such an incident! This remarkable claim was made by none other than General Giuseppe Marani, the very NATO spokesperson who, in the excerpt from the press conference, quoted above, referred to the tape as being what "the pilot said"! Here's the admission that the tape was fiction [START tortured admission from Agency France Presse] "Alliance officials admitted that a pilot's statement they released last week did not correspond to the specific incident for which NATO has accepted responsibility. "This is contrary to what the world's media was given to believe on Thursday when NATO broadcast a recording of a pilot talking about how he had taken the decision to bomb what he believed to be a military vehicle. "NATO spokesman Brigadier General Giuseppe Marani said the purpose of the broadcast was 'to clarify the process of a pilot involved in an action of that type.' "The alliance had not meant to imply there was 'a relationship between that pilot and the narrative on the tape and specific events on the ground.'" - Agence France Presse, April 18, 1999 [END tortured admission from Agency France Presse] In the popular image of the "free press," reporters are hell-bent on exposing wrongdoing by the powers-that-be. But note, in the real world, the strained gentleness of AFP's words. Phrases like, "Alliance officials admitted that a pilot's statement they released last week did not correspond to the specific incident [!] for which NATO has accepted responsibility. and "contrary to what the world's media was given to believe..." And consider the remarkable headline which AFP gave this piece. Please keep in mind that, with any news article, most people read *only* the headline, making it crucial. What would have been an accurate headline? How about: "NATO Admits Pilot Tape a Hoax," or, "NATO Botches Pilot Tape Lie." Perhaps you may think of a better headline but we doubt you can equal the one that AFP came up with. Here it is: "NATO pilot was not responsible for bombing of refugee convoy." Isn't that wondrous? It manages to be literally true - that is, since the tape was a hoax it follows that *that particular* NATO pilot (or whoever was the voice on the tape!) did not bomb the refugees - while at the same time communicating a lie - that *NATO* cannot be held responsible for bombing the refugees. One might ask, why *did* NATO bomb these particular refugees? Yugoslav officials stated that the refugees were attempting to return home. According to Kosovo historian Cedomir Prlincevic, in the spring of 1999 the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fascist-terrorists were attempting to take control of the clans that exert an all-powerful influence over Albanians in Kosovo. He explains the special features of Albanian culture which rendered these centralized clans especially susceptible to violent coercion. The text of his interview, "Why Albanians Fled Kosovo During NATO Bombing," can be read at http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/keys.htm According to Prlincevic, the KLA had ordered all Albanians out of Kosovo. The KLA, and its NATO handlers, filmed the exodus and, using carefully selected interviews, convinced the world that the Serbs were "cleansing" the province of Albanians, thus seeming to justify the NATO bombing. The KLA served as bombing spotters for NATO air attacks. If indeed these Albanians had rejected KLA orders to vacate and were trying to return home, it is possible that the KLA called in a NATO air strike as an object lesson to other refugees who might also be thinking of returning home. This would explain why, on a perfectly clear day, NATO bombed what was obviously a refugee column. The bombing would serve as a warning to Albanians. The denial would mitigate bad publicity in the West. To see the horrifying results of what was perhaps NATO's object lesson go to http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/kosovo_crisis/destruction/white_book2/0 1.htm -- Francisco Gil-White & Jared Israel Note: In case the "White Book on NATO Aggression" should become unavailable at the url given above, try the following: http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/yugoslavia/milosevic/bela/bela/00.htm To subscribe to the Emperor's Clothes email list go to http://www.emperors-clothes.com/f.htm You will receive texts posted at Emperor's Clothes Send a link to this article to a friend! If you receive this article by email, cut and paste this URL into your browser: mailto:ENTER FRIEND'S EMAIL ADDRESS HERE?subject=Here's a great article from emperors-clothes.com!&body=I just read the following article which I thought you would find most interesting. Here's the address: http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/freezer1app.htm To subscribe to the Emperor's Clothes email list go to http://www.emperors-clothes.com/f.htm You will receive texts posted at Emperor's Clothes Send a link to this article to a friend! If you receive this article by email, cut and paste the following URL into your browser: mailto:ENTER FRIEND'S EMAIL ADDRESS HERE?subject=Here's a great article from emperors-clothes.com!&body=I just read the following article which I thought you would find most interesting. Here's the address: http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/freezer1app.htm ======================================= JUDGMENT! Video Exposes the Phony 'Death Camp' Pictures that Fooled the World... ======================================= In August 1992, millions of people were shocked to see photographs of a supposed Bosnian Serb death camp. The photos were produced by ITN, the British TV news giant, from footage shot by an ITN film crew which spent 15 hours in Bosnia. Most of the photographs featured a tall, painfully thin man, stripped to the waist, apparently penned in behind barbed wire. Travelling with the authorization of Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, the ITN crew filmed at a detention center in Omarska and a refugee center in Trnopolje. The ITN photos were broadcast worldwide beginning August 6th, accompanied by sensational captions and comments. For example Ian Williams, one of the journalists who accompanied the ITN crew, appeared on U.S. Public Television's MacNeil-Lehrer Report on August 6th. Mr. Williams referred to the Trnopolje refugee center as a "camp," as in concentration camp, saying it was "at the center of allegations of atrocities." Williams claimed that: "Conditions at this camp were appalling. In 100 degree heat hundreds of men were forced to eat and sleep outside in the field behind barbed wire." -- MacNeil-Lehrer Report, 6 August 1992 And indeed, the ITN photos seemed to show people living outside, caged like animals behind barbed wire. But Mr. Williams knew this impression was false. He knew the Muslim refugees were moving about freely, that it was the ITN people who were filming from inside a small barbed wire enclosure. He knew the ITN pictures had been doctored to create the illusion of a death camp. This is *proved* in the Emperor's Clothes video, 'JUDGMENT!' How can 'JUDGMENT!' have proved this? By luck, a news crew from Serbian State Television (called RTS) covered the ITN visit. They went wherever ITN went, filming what ITN filmed and filming the ITN crew as well. Thus there is a visual record of what the ITN people did and what they actually saw. Using this footage, the 'JUDGMENT!' video shows, step by step, how pictures of a humanitarian refugee center at Trnopolje were transformed into 'death camp' photos that fooled the world. The 'JUDGMENT!' video proves that Ian Williams, now the UN correspondent for the NATION magazine, and other journalists who traveled to Bosnia with ITN, lied to the public. Mr. Bush Responds with Superhuman Speed On 6 August 1992, just *20 minutes* after the pictures were released, George Bush held a press conference at a Colorado Air Base: "Reports say that 20 minutes after the ITN footage was shown in the United States, President George Bush changed his hands-off policy and promised to 'press hard for quick passage' of a UN Security Council resolution authorising the use of force in the Balkans." -- "The Straits Times, August 16, 1992 "Holocaust images of Bosnia prison camps make the West sit up," by Lee Siew Hua Bush demanded that the Serbs be harshly punished, including: "tighten[ing] economic sanctions on Serbia so that all understand that there is a real price to be paid for the Serbian government's continued aggression." Bush also announced that the U.S. would recognize Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia as independent from Yugoslavia. He thus approved the break-up of Yugoslavia and guaranteed that the Bosnian war would continue. Consider the remarkable speed with which President Bush reacted. Some photos are shown on TV. Immediately, President Bush contacts his cabinet members, who, coincidentally, have also seen the photos. They confer. Somehow they determine that the pictures are genuine. They contact leaders of, at least, Germany and England, possibly other countries. They plan draconian anti-Serb measures including economic sanctions that will cut Serbia off from the world. They contact congressional leaders. They agree that Bush will announce the US intent to recognize no fewer than three new Yugoslav secessionist states. They call a press conference at a Colorado Air Base. They write a press release. They compose Mr. Bush's statement. The mass media receives the press release. Film crews travel to the Air base and set up their equipment. And all this is done in...20 minutes? Isn't it more likely that the timing of the TV broadcast of these pictures was coordinated between ITN and either the State Department, the CIA or some similar body? That Bush scheduled his press conference to be held just after the pictures were shown so ordinary people would believe that these terrible pictures compelled President Bush to endorse extreme measures? Perhaps ITN's trip to Bosnia, supposedly to "investigate claims that concentration camps had been set up" (Strait Times), was planned from the outset as a hunt for footage which could be used to produce such doctored evidence. ITN had a prior history of aggressively anti-Serbian coverage of the break-up of Yugoslavia. So one might ask, why did the Bosnian Serb leadership give ITN access to Trnopolje and Omarska, about which the Western media (for example, NEWSDAY, 21 July 1992) were already spreading nightmare tales? Perhaps they hoped that if they just let the ITN people see for themselves, ITN would be fair. 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