Here is my letter to The Athens News on Barry Levin. Most of you have read this information so it is old hat to you. The trick is to get new sources to publish our letters. I followed my letter up by forwarding to the ambassador and the editor of The Athens News the photo of the KLA holding the heads of Serbs and asked the ambassador if he was even aware of the photo. I also wish to thank all the others who sent in their letters. Hopefully, one of them will get published. If not, at least the editor will have gotten the message. Stella
----- Original Message ----- From: sparta <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:42 PM Subject: Your attention please. Fw: In response to: "Kosovo inaccuracies"- Barry Levin -American embassy-Athens News Ambassador Charles P. Ries United States Department of State Athens, Greece Dear Ambassador Ries, it appears your Counselor of Public Affairs, Mr. Barry Levin, has opened up a can of worms with his insensitive letter (Kosovo inaccuracies) that was published in The Athens News on 13 April. Mr. Levin's letter is certainly not helpful for public relation between the United States and Greece considering that over 95 percent of the people of Greece were against the bombing by NATO of their fellow Orthodox Christians. As the U.S. Ambassador to Greece, it would behoove you to read the letter I sent to The Athens News regarding Mr. Levin. I request that you share my letter with Mr. Levin. Best regards, Stella L. Jatras ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Athens News Letter to the Editor 22 April 2007 As an American of Greek descent, I would like to respond to "Kosovo inaccuracies," by Barry Levin (13 April 2007). Unfortunately, Mr. Levin doesn't give the whole story of atrocities such as the beheadings of Serbs by the Kosovo Liberation Army, (KLA,) nor the "granny" rapes and drownings (in bathtubs) targeted by the KLA as reported in The Washington Times, nor the raping of the Serbian nuns and the beatings and killings of Serbian priests. Nor does he mention the beheadings of Serbs by mujahedin who were sent to fight the Christian Serbs from Iran as early as 1992. It should be noted that the Serbs were once the majority in Kosovo until they were driven out by the Nazis, followed by the communist dictator Josip Broz Tito, who in his hatred for Orthodox Christian Serbs (Tito was half Croat and half Slovene) encouraged Albanians Muslims to cross illegal into Christian Kosovo. While the US administration was supporting the now-deceased Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, his embassy in Vienna issued a passport to Osama bin Laden in 1992 thereby enabling bin Laden to visit both Bosnia and Kosovo. Consider the following connection between the KLA and al-Qaeda that Mr. Levin conveniently omits but was reported in The Wall Street Journal, Europe (it was never reported in the United Stated), titled, "Al Qaeda's Balkan Links," that, "For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks through Albanian, Kosovo, [FYRO] Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia. This has gone on for a decade." Daniel Pearl gave his life for truth. One of those truths was his report in The Wall Street Journal of 31 December 1999, that "Despite Tales, the War In Kosovo Was Savage, but Wasn't Genocide." In its story of the March 2004 pogrom against the Serbs by Albanians mobs, National Review reported, "A pogrom started in Europe on Wednesday. A UN official is quoted as saying that 'Kirstallnacht is under way in Kosovo.' Serbs are being murdered and their 800 year old churches are aflame. Much of the Christian heritage in Kosovo and Metohija is on fire and could be lost forever. By these deeds too many Kosovo Albanians have shown that all the speeches about democracy and multiethnicity we have been hearing in Kosovo since June 1999 and the naive repetition of them by the international community, are false." In an interview with Bishop Artemija of Kosovo, The Washington Times' correspondent David R. Sands reported that "more than 200,000 Kosovo Serbs - two-thirds - have been forced to flee the province since the war because of ethnic and religious intimidation and violence. More than 150 Christian churches and monasteries have been destroyed, and the remaining Orthodox Serbs live in small, often isolated pockets surrounded by hostile Muslim neighbors." At one time there were over 40,00 Serbs living in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Today, there are fewer than 150, mostly elderly, too terrified to leave their ghetto in search of their daily requirements for fear of losing their lives to Albanian mobs. Former Canadian UNPROFOR Commander, Lewis MacKenzie, said it best: "The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo. We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early ´90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world." In civil wars, all sides do terrible things, but in the war against the Serbian people, atrocities against Serbs were either frequently never reported, or even distorted, as is the case with Mr. Levin, to make the Serbs the perpetrators instead of the victims. Some in the media even suggested the Serbs of committing atrocities because they were "Orthodox" Christians. As for the Racak massacre, again Mr. Levin omits the fact that the reporting of the Racak massacre was declared a hoax by "Berliner Zeitung," as did other newspapers such as Le Figaro that reported the village of Racak was known "as a bastion of UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA) separatist guerrillas." Forensic evidence by independent investigators indicated that the "victims" had been killed at another location, their bodies moved to "massacre" location. This ocurred during the hours before the "discovery, while the site was under the control of the KLA. If Mr. Levin lied about the Racak massacre, how can we believe the other atrocities that he claims? Today there is an effort by some in Congress to grant Kosovo Albanians independence. Such an act would lead to the final eradication of Serbia's culture, language, society and religion, not to mention the fact that it would create another jihadist state in the heart of Europe. In the final analysis, this was (and continues to be) a war against an Orthodox Christian people in order to appease the Muslim world, a world that cannot be appeased. If the Greek people don't think it can happen to them, ask the Serbs, our ally of two world wars. Stella L. Jatras to the editor: I have the photo of Saudi mujahedin holding the head of Serbs. If you would like to see it, I would be happy to forward it. Also the report by Bill Schiller of The Toronto Star, the gruesome details of the slaughter of Serb villagers by the Muslim commander, Nasir Oric. As a career military officer's wife, Stella Jatras has traveled widely and has lived in many foreign countries where she not only learned about other cultures but also became very knowledgeable regarding world affairs and world politics. With the advent of the war in Bosnia, Mrs. Jatras immediately recognized the bias of the Western media and the Clinton administration's flawed foreign policy in the Balkans and began her efforts to present to the American people a more accurate view of that tragic situation. Her letters and articles have been published in The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The Arizona Republic, The Patriot- News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), Chronicles, The Stars and Stripes, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as a number of magazines and periodicals such as ODYSSEY and AHEPAN. In addition her writings have had worldwide distribution via the Internet such as Citizen Soldier and Jihad Watch. Stella Jatras lived in Moscow for two years (where her husband, George, was the Senior Air Attaché), and while there, worked in the Political Section of the US Embassy. Stella has also lived in Germany, Greece and Saudi Arabia. Her travels took her to over twenty countries.
