J P Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Editor, Independent
M. Ross's letter of this date (29 July 2008) was a whiff of fresh air amidst the blast out of the xerox chorus that journalism has become. A generous dose of fresh air from John Laughland can be found at www.<http://www.brusselsjournal.com/> *brusselsjournal.com <http://www.brusselsjournal.com/> *There are, surprisingly to most, Irish connections with the late Yugoslavia. I refer readers to the Church of Ireland cleric Hubert Butler ("Escape from the Anthill"), who taught in Croatia in 1938 and returned there to document the massacre of a million humans, mostly Orthodox Serbs, then Jews and Gypsies, by Fascist Catholic Croatia. The biggest death camp in Europe, after Auschwitz, was in the Nazi puppet "Independent State of Croatia", close to Zagreb. All was known to the Vatican. The forced conversion of a quarter million Orthodox Christians by the Catholic statelet of Croatia was never rescinded by the Holy See, though all communists were excommunicated. In Ireland, and in the garb of a Catholic priest ("Father Anic"), the Himmler of Croatia, Andrija Artukovic, arrived after WW II. His escape via Austria and Switzerland and concealment in Ireland was arranged by the Order of Friars Minor, with the collusion of the Irish hierarchy; it's doubtful if the government knew who and what "Father Anic" was. He subsequently found refuge in California and was returned to communist Yugoslavia in 1986, where he was tried for crimes he did not commit and not tried for crimes that he did commit. The "Troubles" there are not the fruit of Serb nationalism. "Greater Serbia" is the WMD war cry of Austro-Hungary up to 1914 and from the 1991 of "the West" and "The International Community" (address unknown). Ireland has not only permitted CIA "rendition flights" but in 1999 lent her airports to the Pentagon in violation of Ireland's constitutionally mandated neutrality for logistic support against the Christian Serbs and in support of creating new German puppet states (Croatia and Slovenia), as well as Islamic states in Bosnia and Kosovo.. Targets in the 78-day blitzkrieg of 1999 were empty government buildings across the street from the US Embassy in Belgrade, Danube bridges, markets (priest beheaded), trains (civilian), TV Serbia (make-up girls and camera men killed), the Chinese embassy, schools and hospitals. Serb mothers delivered under NATO/US bombs with doctors working by the light of torches... Over a quarter million Serbs were expelled from lands which were theirs since the time of the Battle of the Boyne. Not "Connaught or hell", but Serbia or hell.-- Milosevic, by the way barred the refugees entering Serbia, while he held a May Day (1995) parade in Belgrade. --Some nationalist! -- The refugees were for the most part put up in Serb Bosniat. Last, but not least, the goal of the US/NATO humanitarian bombing -- RAF & Luftwaffe flying wingtip to wingtip --was the creation, at the sacrifice of Christians, of Islamic states in the heart of Europe. --That's why we got the cheap oil. Sincerely J.P. Maher Ph. D. Professor Emeritus Citizen of Ireland and the USA Veteran US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps Yugoslav Desk 430th MI Bn Serb-Croat linguist Northern Italy 1959-61 address 4934 W. Winnemac Avenue Chicago IL 60630 USA telephones: 773 427 9723 home; 773 240 2946 mobile (just attended a course in Old irish at trinity) Poisonous feuds *Brussels* *Journal* <http://www.brusselsjournal.com/> >From the desk of John Laughland on Wed, *2008*-07-*23* 15:15 *...* Spain on *July* 15 became the 23rd EU member state to ratify the Lisbon Treaty. *...* www.*brusselsjournal.com* -
