Christophe Chatelot, Le Monde, January 21, 1999 The version of events spread by the Kosovars leaves several questions unanswered. Belgrade says that the forty-five victims were KLA "terrorists”, killed in combat, but rejects any international investigation. PRISTINA. Isn't the Racak massacre just too perfect? New eye witness accounts gathered on Monday 18thJanuary by Le Monde throw doubt on the reality of the horrible spectacle of dozens of piled up bodies of Albanians supposedly summarily...

The Scotsman November 30, 1998 Chris Stephen In Pristina The United States has asked Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels to distance themselves from so called Mujahideen fundamentalists, amid reports that Islamic extremists are arriving to fight in this war-torn province. KLA leaders have accepted the US request, prompted by fears in Washington that the war in Kosovo will provide fertile ground for Muslim fundamentalists to take root. Fundamentalists are well established in Albania, despite...

Sunday Times - London, November 29, 1998 Chris Stephen in Tirana ALBANIAN authorities working with the Central Intelligence Agency claim to have uncovered a terrorist network operated by Osama Bin Laden, the Islamic fundamentalist accused of masterminding the African embassy bombings last August. The network is said to have been set up to use Albania, a Muslim country, as a springboard for operations in Europe. Fatos Klosi, the head of Shik, the Albanian intelligence service, said last week...

AP: Report: Bin Laden operated terrorist network based in Albania 5.11 p.m. ET (2212 GMT) November 29, 1998 LONDON (AP) The man accused of orchestrating the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa operates a terrorist network out of Albania that has infiltrated other parts of Europe, The Sunday Times reported. The newspaper quoted Fatos Klosi, the head of the Albanian intelligence service, as saying a network run by Saudi exile Osama Bin Laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Bin...

London Times, November 26, 1998 by Tom Walker The arrival of Islamic fighters among the KLA augurs badly for a Balkans peace, reports Tom Walker in Malisevo MUJAHIDIN fighters have joined the Kosovo Liberation Army, dimming prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict and fuelling fears of heightened violence next spring. The Islamic fighters created havoc in the war in Bosnia, where they were regarded as a serious threat to Western peacekeeping troops, especially Americans. Their arrival...

The Jerusalem Post September 14, 1998 by Steve Rodan BATROVCI, Yugoslavia - The line of cars at this Serbian border town forms early in the morning as travelers head west from the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade toward Croatia and Bosnia. The Yugoslav security officers are thorough, checking each passenger and rummaging through the trunk of every vehicle. Many of the travelers are Moslems, and the adults wait quietly at the terminal as their children play tag between lines. A few years ago, these...

By Kevin C. Ruffner, Central Intelligence Agency, 1998

By Chrystia Freeland, John Thornhill and Andrew Gower, Financial Times, November 1, 1996 Every January, an extraordinary collection of politicians and senior business leaders from around the world descends on the Swiss resort of Davos to ski, eat, drink and make deals. Even by its own standards, however, this year's World Economic Forum was the backdrop for a bargain of unusual significance. Behind the scenes and without the knowledge of other participants, a small group of top Russian...

by Jean Heller, St. Petersburg Times [Florida], January 6, 1991 (Washington) Soviet satellite photos of Kuwait taken five weeks after the Iraqi invasion suggest the Bush administration might have exaggerated the scope of Iraq's military threat to Saudi Arabia at the time. The photos are not conclusive proof that the administration overestimated Iraq's buildup along the Saudi border, a buildup that was cited as a justification for the deployment of U.S. troops. But two American satellite...

By Knut Royce, Newsday, August 29, 1990 Iraq has told the White House it will withdraw from Kuwait and allow foreigners to leave, but in return it wants United Nations sanctions lifted, guaranteed access to the Persian Gulf and sole control of an oil field that dips into Kuwait, according to sources involved in the secret offer and memoranda detailing its content. Iraq's message was delivered to National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft on Thursday [August 23] by a former high-ranking U.S....

U.S. State Department, February 13, 1990

By Knut Royce, Newsday, January 3, 1991 Iraq has offered to withdraw from Kuwait if the United States pledges not to attack as soldiers are pulled out, if foreign troops leave the region, and if there is agreement on the Palestinian problem and on the banning of all weapons of mass destruction in the region, U.S. officials disclosed yesterday. Although the White House immediately dismissed the proposal as inadequate since it contains preconditions for a pullout, other government officials...

By Murray N. Rothbard This item in the Rothbard Papers bears the notation: "Written April 1959. Sent to National Review." It is with a heavy heart that I enter the lists against the overwhelming majority of my friends and compatriots on the Right; also with a sense of futility in trying to combat that tough anti-Soviet foreign policy to which the Right is perhaps even more dedicated than it is to anti-Socialism. But I must try, if only for the reason that no one else has done so (if, indeed,...

by William F. Buckley, Commonweal, January 25, 1952