By Peter Worthington – Toronto Sun, April 1, 2001 How the U.S., NATO and the western media were conned in Kosovo Back in March, 1999, what tipped the scales for then U.S. president Bill Clinton to launch an air war against Serbia, were reports of a massacre of 45 Albanian civilians by Serb security forces at the village of Racak, some 30 km from Pristina in southern Kosovo. Clinton told the world on March 19, 1999: "We should remember what happened in Racak ... innocent men, women and children...
SAS Faces Own Trainees in Balkans
The Herald, March 27, 2001, by Ian Bruce BRITISH special forces are being deployed to the Kosovo-Macedonian border to seal infiltration routes used by Albanian guerrillas to smuggle reinforcements and munitions to rebels threatening the stability of the southern Balkans. The elite troops, drawn from the SAS and from the Royal Marines' mountain and arctic warfare cadre, are being drafted in to try to end the confrontation between ethnic Albanian insurgents operating in the rugged Sar mountains...
The Balkan Limits to Power and Principle
by Col. Douglas A. Macgregor, ORBIS, January 2001 American foreign policy in the past century has frequently been shaped not by the realities confronted by diplomats and soldiers, but by an idealistic longing to remake the world in the United States' own image. [1] The first American attempt to do so in the Versailles Treaty ended in tragic failure. The supposedly moral peace that concluded Woodrow Wilson's "war to end war" actually perpetuated injustice and set the stage for World War II. [2]...
‘BP Accused of Backing ‘Arms For Oil’ Coup’
By David Leppard, Paul Nuki and Gareth Walsh, Sunday Times, March 26, 2000 *Political fallout: Lord Simon ran BP at the time of the coup A secret intelligence report accuses BP–Britain’s biggest company–of backing a military coup which installed a ruthless KGB hardman in the former Soviet state of Azerbaijan. Turkish secret service documents allege middlemen paid off key officials of the democratically elected government of the oil-rich nation just before its president was overthrown. An...
‘I Sensed Something Was Wrong’
Berliner Zeitung, March 23, 2000 In January 1999, over 40 Albanians died in Racak - secret reports contradict the thesis of a direct execution Bo Adam, Roland Heine and Claudius Technau BERLIN, March 23. A small village played a crucial role just as the course was set for the Kosovo war: Racak. In this hamlet, inhabited by Albanians, Serb security forces allegedly executed unarmed civilians in cold blood on January 15, 1999. That was the claim of US president Bill Clinton, among many other...
CIA Aided Kosovo Guerrilla Army
Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty THE SUNDAY TIMES, London, UK March 12, 2000 Disclosure angers European diplomats AMERICAN intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. The disclosure angered some European diplomats, who said this had undermined moves for a political solution to the conflict between Serbs and Albanians. Central Intelligence Agency officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, developing ties...
‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It.’
By Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas). From the Congressional Record of The House of Representatives, January 31, 2000 The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Green of Wisconsin). Under the Speaker’s announced policy of January 6, 1999, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul) is recognized for 60 minutes. Mr. RON PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I have taken this special order this evening to discuss the importance of the American Republic and why it should be preserved. Mr. Speaker, the dawn of a new century and millennium is upon...
Kosovo Killing Fields?
John Pilger, New Statesman November 21, 1999 Kosovo is today's slow news. Slow news is news that is ignored or minimised. It is a highly effective, though generally unrecognised, form of censorship in democracies. The expulsion and terrorising of 240,000 Serbs and other minorities from Kosovo since Nato took charge is of little media interest. The Society for Endangered People says 90,000 Gypsies have been forced to flee an ethnic-cleansing campaign conducted on a grand scale by the Kosovo...
Robin Cook Accused of Misleading Public on Kosovo Massacres
By Nicholas Rufford, Sunday Times, October 31, 1999 Cook accused of misleading public on Kosovo massacres, ROBIN COOK, the foreign secretary, is under pressure to answer claims that ministers misled the public over the scale of deaths among civilians in Kosovo to justify the Nato bombing of Belgrade. The all-party Balkans committee of MPs will ask the Foreign Office this week to comment on reports that the number of bodies of victims of Serbian ethnic cleansing is lower than the figures of...
Bin Laden Was Granted Bosnian Passport
Agence France Presse – September 24, 1999 Sarajevo: Osama bin Laden, the Saudi billionaire wanted by the United States for organizing bloody terrorist attacks, was granted a Bosnian passport in 1993 by the country's [i.e., Bosnia]embassy in Vienna, an independent weekly reported Friday. "The Bosnian embassy in Vienna granted a passport to bin Laden in 1993," Dani magazine said, quoting anonymous sources, emphasizing that files and traces linked to his case have recently been destroyed by the...
Testimony of Anne Williamson Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives
Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives September 21, 1999 Journalist Anne Williamson covered Russia in the 1990s for the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Before I begin my testimony, I want to take a moment to thank Chairman Leach and Ranking Member LaFalce for the opportunity to share with the House Committee on Banking some of the things I have learned over eight years of watching our Russian assistance program unfold....
The Intimate Hillary
by Lucinda Franks, Talk Magazine, Issue 1, Sept. 1999 As published in The Observer (UK) Aug 8, 1999 (No one cares about these degenerates' relationship, it's just that there's an important point about Kosovo in it.) HILLARY CLINTON, head covered in a flowing chador of golden silk, stands barefoot outside the Citadel of Cairo. The chants of the Muslim call to prayer echo through the winding streets. Quietly declining the slippers set aside for privileged visitors, she walks barefoot into the...
Cold War warrior scorns ‘new morality’
Boris Johnson interviews Henry Kissinger, Daily Telegraph, June 28, 1999 It's just too much: the celestial choirs, the haloes. Henry can't stand it. Never mind the conduct of the Kosovo war; he objects, to “the appalling, oozing self righteousness with which it is being presented to the American public — the distinction also being made by your people between moral wars and national interest wars.” Before Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, so the spin goes, the world was run by ruthless men and women...
Were the Racak Dead Really Massacred in Cold Blood?
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...
US Tackles Islamic Militancy in Kosovo
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...
