-Caveat Lector- >From OriginalSources.CoM <Picture: Original Sources Scroll> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Christiane Amanpour’s CNN Report - A Massacre Right on Schedule? Watching Amanpour in Albania is Like Watching a Who-dun-it You’ve Already Heard By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) May 20, 1999 Watching CNN these days is like watching a who-dun-it when you’ve already heard the ending. I’ve been receiving a flurry of e-mail from Macedonian, Russian, Yugoslav and Greek sources telling me that the public’s sagging interest in supporting the senseless bombing will shortly be beefed up with some kind of "burning the Reichstag" sort of propaganda ploy. Of course, NATO Bomb supporters were much incensed that I printed those e-mail which warned that Christiane Amanpour was already in place in Albania with three camera crews to create the hoped for public outrage. So, guess what? Right on schedule we have pictures, no less, taken by an Albanian who says they prove a massacre in Izbica in the Drenica Valley of Kosovo. Jamie Shea, NATO spokesman went to great lengths to try to convince the media that pictures he had "proved" that there had been a "massacre" at Izbica. What we TV viewers could see were presumed bodies on the ground and an overvoice of Christiane Amanpour pumping Albanian refugees to tell her about the atrocities they had seen. Back in 1991-92, when "massacres" were being reported from South Africa, I happened to BE in South Africa. One picture which went around the world was a photo of bodies lying on the grass in Johannesburg of blacks who had been killed, it was reported, by the evil white police of the F.W. DeKlerk government. The picture showed bodies scattered all over a grassy open place. The only problem was that the "bodies" were not dead bodies. They were sleeping bodies. An enterprising cameraman had taken pictures at midday on the Witwaterrand University Campus in Downtown Johannesburg when, as usual, a large number of black students were taking their mid-day nap. On several occasions I was asked to go to squatter camps to see how badly black South Africans were treated by the white regime. Each time I visited a squatter camp - and you really had to search for them in the black townships - I asked questions that I note Christiane Amanpour NEVER asks in the Albanian Refugee camps. My first question was: "Where did you come from?" and the second question was, "How long have you lived in this area?" In all my visits to squatter camps I never met a single South African citizen. The supposedly mistreated South African blacks invariably came from Mozambique, Zaire, one of the black homelands, Zimbabwe. They were illegal aliens who had come to South Africa in hopes of finding a job. The South African blacks I met in Soweto lived in 2-3 bedroom brick homes (built by the government) on small lots. I was in and out of Soweto almost daily for 18 months during a period of time when the US press was saying that no white people were EVER allowed in Soweto. Since the evil white government of South Africa was ousted, have you read anything about South Africa? Unlikely. CNN doesn’t cover South Africa any more. Of course, the value of the rand has dropped more than 50% and unemployment and crime have skyrocketed - but you never hear about the near anarchy going on there, or the numbers of white farmers being killed almost daily. Why? Because the media can no longer make the story a racial conflict story. The people being killed are mostly blacks killed by blacks or whites killed by blacks - and regardless of how many get killed, that doesn’t constitute a "massacre" for CNN purposes. So, they pretend nothing is happening. Hundreds of thousands of blacks have died violent deaths and millions are dying of AIDS, but the Clinton Administration has been totally unconcerned. That all may explain why I am skeptical of CNN’s timely "massacre" stories. We were told there was going to be an Albanian massacre, reported by Christiane Amanpour for the express purpose of getting the public worked up so they will support sending ground troops into Yugoslavia. And, sure enough, right on schedule, we have massacres - and we have camera crews claiming to have witnessed them. However, Jamie Shea was having a hard time with the pictures he was showing trying to prove any real trauma. What I saw was a man standing in the middle of a field waving his arms. Shea said he was explaining that was where the men of the village were killed. Were they KLA? They said no, even though the men were not young men because all the young men, Shea said, had "fled into the hills" leaving their wives and children, apparently, to face the evil Serbs alone. The men killed were older men - so we were told. Now, doesn’t that sound like the Albanian men are just great heroes? Christiane tells us the Serbs come in and rape all the women and their husbands just flee to the hills and leave their wives and children to their fate? Unfortunately, just as Jamie Shea was finishing up on his massacre story, the latest strike on Belgrade Thursday night was also reported by Brent Sadler announcing the NATO bombing of a major civilian hospital in Belgrade, destroying its emergency wing and the neurological section of the hospital, killing at least three and, of course, putting the emergency rooms out of commission. At 1:00 AM, I received, through Vladimir Konecni, a message from a teacher friend of his in Belgrade who wrote: "Since yesterday, the sky has been burning. Tonight they hit the Dragisa Misovic hospital in Dedinge (in Belgrade) and there are many dead. They hit obstetrics’ ward, the operating rooms where Cesarean sections were being performed and the nursery where the babies were. Many of the women were cut by flying glass." Perhaps there was a massacre at Isbica. I certainly could not tell from the pictures I saw. That, we are told, is a "war crime." I guess that what is going on over there actually IS a war if there are war crimes going on. If so, what does the rules of war tell us about countries that bomb hospitals, schools, embassies (they hit the Swedish Ambassador’s home last night) and apartment buildings? Is that just computer war games, but killing the men who are the enemy - the KLA and its supporter, THAT’s "war crimes" or "atrocities?" Over 1300 civilians have been killed by NATO bombs, but Christiane Amanpour tells us that we ought to get upset over 127 men being shot - men who are in villages supporting the KLA? Men who flee to the hills to save their own hides and leave their wives and children to the mercy of killers and rapists (according to Christiane Amanpour) Isn’t there something really wrong with this story, even for CNN and Christiane Amanpour’s twisted mind? Christiane Amanpour said the Izbica situation (and incidentally we as yet don’t have dead bodies to prove there was a massacre) was the "worst massacre in Kosovo. Remember, just a few weeks ago CNN was telling us, through Christiane Amanpour, that all the Albanians refugees were saying that they were GLAD that NATO was bombing Kosovo. They want Kosovo destroyed by bombs, which would certainly indicate they are enemies of the Yugoslav people, but if the Serbs kill the men -or make them work - THAT’s an atrocity? Something about all this just doesn’t ring true. Based on NATO reports, most of the cities and villages of Kosovo are either bombed out by NATO or burned out by the Serbs looking for KLA terrorists. This is what the ethnic Albanians wanted? I don’t believe it. I think Amanpour is trying to sell us a bill of goods. The other side of the media-horror story war, put forward by Serbia- info is: "The bestial stupidity was the information about the American cosmic satellites shoots of the mass graves in the village Izbica in Kosovo and Metohija with more than 2.500 Albanians in it. If anyone ever believed in that infantile lie, the brave and risky action of the Radio Television Serbia reporters changed their minds. The mass grave was the field, plowed one month before the broadcasting of the news. The satellite which could count the corpses under the ground if it existed, was the unbelievable achievement of the science." It would take a tremendous level of gullibility to believe, at this point, that our satellites could, as Serbia-info observes, "count the bodies underground" when we are told that our bombing embassies, hospitals, schools, Albanian refugees, etc., were the result of bad intelligence, mistakes, or "accidents." know, as a journalist, that the bombing of Yugoslavia has boosted the number of people watching, listening to and reading the news. I also know that many Americans are getting burned out by the horror of it and, as my sister told me yesterday, can no longer watch it because they are so ashamed of what America is doing. That has caused a drop in the number of people watching, listening to and reading the news. The Zogby poll (posted elsewhere today on this site), also shows a sharp drop in the number of people in America who are supportive of Clinton’s war and the stock markets posted sharp drops overnight. Clinton expected the Americans to follow him and support him if he went to war, and just forget about impeachment and his treasonous behavior in apparently trading nuclear secrets and super-computers for Chinese campaign contributions. But, the polls are showing a sharp decline in voter support for Clinton. Expect a sudden breakthrough for diplomacy over bombing in the near future. To comment: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORDER THE REAGAN MONITOR !: Start Your Subscription to the all new REAGAN MONITOR with the May edition which examines America's Military readiness, after six years of Clinton's downsizing, feminizing and politicizing. Is China's military a rising threat? Read the May issue. Could our co-ed army win a ground war against the Serbs? Read the interview with Kate Aspy, one of the first to receive the "co-ed" training. 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