STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you waiting for? Try eBay today. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Some choice excerpts from an Associated Press "report," probably written weeks/months/years in advance and now taken out of mouthballs for the occasion. A small preview of what the ICTY's case will look like.] June 30, 2001 Racak Witness Prepares Testimony by COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press Writer RACAK, Yugoslavia (AP) [Perhaps a possible ICTY anthem here] When they were finished they sang a nationalist song: ''Who is saying, who is lying Serbia is small? Serbia is not small. Serbia is not small.'' [Intriguing trajectory. Any ballistics experts care to comment on ths?] A bullet had ripped a hole through Shabani's leather jacket and nicked his belt, but spared him. He was meant to be a witness, and could provide key testimony at Milosevic's war crimes trial in The Hague, Netherlands. [Brave man. NATO's best will be surrounding Milosevic, of course.] ''I am not afraid any more even to stand in front of him,'' Shabani, 34, said with a steady gaze. [Odd, as not even William Walker tried to pass on fabrications this lurid and gruesome. In fact, bullet wounds were all that were reported.] He imagines the scene: ''That day is going to be interesting for me, to say I saw people with their hearts cut out, with their eyes gouged and ears cut off. A 70-year-old man decapitated.'' [Oh well, if the Balkan prophets predicted that the CIA/MI6/BND would transform narco-trafficking, white slaving criminal syndicates into the liberators of Kosovo, then I guess it was fated to occur. Though what makes my sceptical self suspect that the prophets and clairvoyants in question resided in Washington, London and Berlin?] ''They weren't wrong, all the Balkan prophets who have said it started in Kosovo and it will end in Kosovo,'' the Kosovo Albanian daily Koha Ditore wrote in a special issue announcing Milosevic's demise. [Indeed, international monitors - both Western press reporters and OSCE officials - observed events on January, 15, 1999. Because they had been invited by Yugoslav authorities to do so. What none of them did observe, however, is anything resemblng a massacre.] The Racak (RAH-chak) massacre on Jan. 15, 1999 marked the beginning of the end for Milosevic. [B]ut this time, international monitors observed the Serb assault from across the valley. [The following day, after *not* observing anything during the fighting of the day before, William Walker, repicient of a double paycheck - from the OSCE and the US CIA - found *no* bodies strewn in houses and yards, much less "mutilated" ones, but instead was led by KLA officials to a ravine where bodies were placed in neat rows, almost all males of fighting age. Subsequent forensic investigations establish that the cause of death was handheld weapons fired at *long range.*] After the Serb retreat, they entered the village and found mutilated bodies strewn in houses and yards. In all, 45 people were murdered, three of them women, including the 25 dead on the Racak hillside. The others were murdered in and around the village. [The fabricated "massacre" was designed precisely to "outrage" the world, which is to say certain people in Western Europe and North America, and to stampede public opinion into "coalescing" around the 78-day bombing horror visited on the people of Yugoslavia.] The world was outraged -- and the outrage eventually coalesced into the 78-day air campaign that drove Serb fighters out of the province. [It wouldn't surpise me to learn that the indictment had been written even before the Racak "massacre."] The Racak killings were cited in the original indictment against Milosevic and four members of his inner circle. [Is this the same person who was acquitted of murder but convicted of genocide? With four Albanian and one "international" judges officiating at the trial? Would someone kindly explain to me what the word genocide can possibly mean if no killing occurs?] Popaj already has testified at the first local war crimes trial in Kosovo, which ended in the conviction of a local Serb police officer on June 14. Cedomir Jovanovic got 20 years in prison from an internationally administered court in Prizren. [There will be no Calle de William Walker in El Salvador in the near future, I'm sure.] The road to Racak has been renamed Rruga William Walker for the American diplomat who announced the massacre to the world. [Part of the sentence?] The Hague is too good for Milosevic, Shabani said. ''I would smoke a cigarette. I would beat him until he had open wounds, I would pour salt in the wounds, then I would leave him to live like that,'' he said. � __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! 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