Another Kosovo Exclusive
On Friday, Balkanalysis.com published an unprecedented
interview with a veteran of law enforcement in
post-Milosevic Kosovo- Stu Kellock, a Canadian detective and former head of the
serious crime unit in Pristina, Kosovo. The Serbian province has been run by a
UN administration since the NATO intervention of 1999, as most of you probably
know.
In the interview, we get a sense for how trained, professional
international investigators and other law enforcement agents within the UN/NATO
structures were chronically prevented from targeting local mafia/militant
figures with close ties to the nascent political establishment. Numerous other
details of interest, for example how American munitions "donated" to a terrorist
group might have caused the death of a British journalist in 2001, pop
up.
Even for readers already familiar with the situation on the ground,
the interview is well worth a read. And, I have to add that it is gratifying to
see that the observations of unquestionably impartial professionals such as Mr.
Kellock tend to support the case I have made for the past 5 years, that is, that
the NATO "humanitarian" intervention was a colossal disaster and the subsequent
occupation, a still worse one.
This article represents just a taste of
things to come from us this year as we move to survey an ever wider range of
informed individuals. The fact that more of them are starting to go on the
record too is fantastic, and important, too. Aspiring whistleblowers should
always remember that there is strength in
numbers!
PS: We received a nice plug in this article on mass-media
content theft regarding the UPI plagiarism episode. Thanks to those of
you readers who have stood up for us- I appreciate it very much.
