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WorldNet Daily
Joseph Farah
Our 'friends' in Kosovo
Posted: April 18, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
© 2008
In 1999, the U.S., in collusion with its NATO allies, attacked the
sovereign nation of Serbia, which posed no threat to America or Europe.
The excuse for the bombing campaign that killed thousands of innocent
Serbs and destroyed civilian infrastructure was that Serbs were
responsible for human rights abuses in its own province of Kosovo and
that the government was responsible for backing a campaign of "genocide"
against ethnic Albanians there.
It was all a lie, of course.
Serbia posed no threat to the United States whatsoever. Serbia had no
weapons of mass destruction. Serbia did not support international
terrorism. Serbia had no ill intentions toward the U.S.
It turns out that as few as 2,108 people were actually killed in Kosovo
over a period of months leading up to and including the period of heavy
bombardment of Serbia by NATO forces.
This is hardly "genocide," as it was billed by Clinton, Defense
Secretary William Cohen, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Sen. Chuck Hagel,
R-Neb., former Sen. Bob Dole and David Scheffer, U.S. ambassador for war
crimes.
By whipping up hysteria for an illegal bombing campaign, all of these
men have blood on their hands.
It wasn't hundreds of thousands of dead in Kosovo, as some reports
suggested. It wasn't even tens of thousands. It was, at worst, a couple
thousand over a considerable period of time. That, of course, is still a
dreadful and grisly toll. But, to put it in perspective, no global
authority – not the United Nations, nor NATO – ever advocates
intervention in the United States or anywhere else when the annual
murder toll hits 2,000, which it does early in the first half of every year.
Think of the hyperbole we heard prior to the bombing campaign:
* "By the time the snows fall next winter, there will be genocide
documented on a large scale in Kosovo," said Biden.
* "History will judge us harshly if we do not take action to stop
this rolling genocide," said Hagel.
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* "What we have in Kosovo and what (we) had in Bosnia was genocide,
and that's why I think we should intervene," said Dole.
* "There are indications genocide is unfolding in Kosovo," said
State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin.
* Cohen characterized the bombing campaign as a "fight for justice
over genocide."
* Scheffer said Kosovo was one of the top three genocides since
1950, rivaled only by Rwanda and Cambodia.
But no one laid it on as thick as Clinton. He compared the atrocities in
Kosovo to the Holocaust. Kosovo, he said, "is not war in the traditional
sense. Imagine what would happen if we and our allies instead decided
just to look the other way as these people were massacred on NATO's
doorstep."
Nine years later, the true nature of our "friends" in Kosovo is becoming
clear.
While the U.S. and NATO were pretending the bloodshed was all one-sided
– conducted exclusively by Serbs – a new book reveals some of the
hideous, provocative human rights abuses being conducted by the
so-called "good guys," the supposed "victims" of genocide.
Investigators for the Hague tribunal for war crimes in the Balkans found
a house where living Serb prisoners had their internal organs removed
and sold by the ethnic Albanians. The money raised in this grisly trade
supported the Kosovo Liberation Army, a Muslim band of terrorists allied
with al-Qaida.
Today, the U.S. and much of Europe is supported the creation of an
independent, breakaway, autonomous state of Kosovo, presided over by
Hashim Thaci, a prominent leader of the KLA.
The allegations are hardly frivolous. They are made in "The Hunt: Me and
War Criminals" by Carla Del Ponte, who stepped down earlier this year as
chief prosecutor of the tribunal.
According to her sources, hundreds of young Serbs were taken by truck
from Kosovo to northern Albania where their organs were removed. Some
prisoners were sewn up after having their kidneys removed. They were
then locked up again, inside barracks, until the moment they were killed
for other vital organs. Other prisoners, aware of the fate that awaited
them, pleaded in abject terror to be killed immediately.
The people who committed these crimes were backed up militarily by the
U.S. Air Force, by NATO forces, with your tax dollars under the
direction and leadership of President Bill Clinton.
How does that make you feel?
