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...
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...
Bin Laden’s 1998 Fatwa: Declaration of Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
February 23, 1998, Source. Shaykh Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin Ayman al-Zawahiri, amir of the Jihad Group in Egypt Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Egyptian Islamic Group Shaykh Mir Hamzah, secretary of the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Pakistan Fazlur Rahman, amir of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh Praise be to Allah, who revealed the Book, controls the clouds, defeats factionalism, and says in His Book: "But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, seize...
The Brzezinski Interview with Le Nouvel Observateur (1998)
The Brzezinski Interview with Vincent Jauvert of Le Nouvel Observateur (1998) "Yes, the CIA entered Afghanistan before the Russians..." Translated from the French by William Blum and David N. Gibbs. This translation was published in Gibbs, "Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Retrospect," International Politics, Vol. 37, no. 2, 2000, pp. 241-242. Original French version appeared in "Les Révélations d'un Ancien Conseilleur de Carter: 'Oui, la CIA est Entrée en Afghanistan avant les Russes...'"...
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...
Bin Laden’s 1996 Fatwa: Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places
August 23, 1996 Source. Praise be to Allah, we seek His help and ask for his pardon. we take refuge in Allah from our wrongs and bad deeds. Who ever been guided by Allah will not be misled, and who ever has been misled, he will never be guided. I bear witness that there is no God except Allah-no associates with Him- and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and messenger. {O you who believe! be careful of -your duty to- Allah with the proper care which is due to Him, and do not die unless...
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....
