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...
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...
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...
Bin Laden Opens European Terror Base in Albania
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...
Bin Laden Operated Terrorist Network Based in Albania
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...
US Alarmed as Mujahidin Join Kosovo Rebels
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...
Kosovo Seen as New Islamic Bastion
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...
Cold War Allies: The Origins of CIA’s Relationship with Ukrainian Nationalists
By Kevin C. Ruffner, Central Intelligence Agency, 1998
Moscow’s Group of Seven
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...
Public Doesn’t Get Picture With Gulf Satellite Photos
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...
Middle East Crisis: Secret Offer: Iraq Sent Pullout Deal to US
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....
