September 4, 2001 Mr. Tom Hundley Chicago Tribune 435 N. Michigan Avenue Chicago IL 60611 Mr. Hundley, Are you not permitted to write the truth? You are repeating stories of the president who lied to us: "there is no improper sexual relationship with that woman." W. Clinton also thanked Mr. Pelley of CBS TV (January 1999 - before Columbine) for reminding him of the "massacre" at Racak. Then, Mr. Hundley, you echo the shill Scott Pelley (CBS TV News), who, in a White House "press conference" in January 1999, as part of the propaganda build-up to the US undeclared war against a small country, lobbed an easy ball to the man that Monica looked up to, "asking" him about the "massacre" at Racak. This had been so-termed by Ambassador Walker who knows a massacre when he perpetrates one, as in the murders he oversaw of Jesuit priests in El Salvador, when he was US Ambassador there... You foster yet another hoax: " 'Operation Horseshoe'. ... The police .even more than the army, were responsible for executing Operation Horseshoe, Milosevic's plan to 'cleanse' Kosovo of ethnic Albanians." (Copyright C 2001, Chicago Tribune) Mr. Hundley, life must be hard, having to lie for your daily bread. Professor J. P. Maher Chicago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Attachments on the Racak Hoax and Germany's hoax about Plan "Potkova" (Horseshoe in Croatian) About Operation Horseshoe Ben Works. SIRIUS www.siri-us.com As to Operation Horseshoe, The Sunday Times of London reported on April 2 that the whole thing was a propaganda tale, spun in haste by German intelligence. Here in America, Joseph DioGuardi, Bob Dole, President Clinton and others quickly took up the lie to cover over what was an increasingly lengthy war with no end in sight. Horseshoe helped sustain the illusion until the Columbine High School massacre allowed the administration to divert the media's attention away from the Kosovo mess entirely. Here's part of what "The Times" reported on April 2: "Horseshoe - or "Potkova", as the Germans said it was known in Belgrade - became a staple of Nato briefings. It was presented as proof that President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia had long planned the expulsion of Albanians. James Rubin, the American state department spokesman, cited it only last week to justify Nato's bombardment." All those people were fleeing the bombs and it must have been deliberate province wide cleansing, wasn't it? Heinz Loquai, a retired brigadier general, explained in a new book that it was all made up. The proof is indicated by the fact that those who made it up mistakenly used the Croat term for horseshoe, "potkova," rather than the Serb "potkovica." Time after time, I have found, it is that extra little embellishment, which liars cannot resist and which only "gilds the lily" that gives the lie away." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ September 5, 2001.War tribunal seeks next batch Serb president among the wanted By Tom Hundley Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Most people who have met Milan Milutinovic say the Serbian president is a nice guy, not at all the war criminal type. "Smooth, affable, beautifully dressed, at ease in the language and style of international diplomacy," is how Richard Holbrooke, the veteran U.S. envoy, describes him in his memoir of the Dayton accords.But when former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was indicted by the war crimes tribunalin The Hague in May 1999, Milutinovic and three other senior officials were named co-defendants. All are charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the campaign of violence against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Milosevic was delivered to The Hague by authorities at the end of June. The four others remain at large. Unlike Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his top general, Ratko Mladic, two other prominent names on the Hague's most-wanted list, Milutinovic and his colleagues have not gone into hiding. They live openly in Serbia. Milutinovic serves in what is theoretically the most powerful political post in Yugoslavia. The presidency of the Serbian Republic was Milosevic's power base from 1989 until 1997. When Serbian Constitution precluded him from seeking a third term, Milosevic adjusted the Yugoslav Constitution so he could slide into the Yugoslav federal presidency--a largely symbolic post, but for the needs of the dictator. Milutinovic, who had served as Milosevic's foreign minister, moved into the Serbian presidency, the he holds today. A recent telephone call to his office resulted in a chat with a staffer who said that Milutinovic was not iving interviews but that the president "still has a job, he still gets correspondence and he still gets calls--just not as many as before." These days, the main rivals for political power in Yugoslavia are Vojislav Kostunica, the federal president who defeated Milosevic in elections a year ago, and Zoran Djindjic, the Serbian prime minister. Both have an eye on Milutinovic's job. Kostunica is interested in the Serbian presidency because if Montenegro, the junior partner to Serbia in what remains of Yugoslavia, makes good on its threat to leave the federation, there will not be a Yugoslavia for Kostunica to govern. Opinion polls show Kostunica as heavy favorite in any race for the Serbian presidency. Djindjic has effectively consolidated political power in Serbia but remains unpopular with voters. Because he could not defeat Kostunica in a head-to-head election, he would like to find a way to give the job to an ally. No vote is planned until Montenegro decides its fate, and for now both men find it politically convenient to let the compliant Milutinovic occupy the office. "They've made a deal with him. They left him in office and he agreed to become invisible. He signs whatever they tell him to sign," said Stojan Cerovic, a political commentator in the weekly magazine Vreme. `Immunity' seen As Serbian president, Milutinovic could have blocked Milosevic's extradition to The Hague. He didn't. Inreturn, Djindjic has taken the position that Milutinovic, as Serbia's lawfully elected president, enjoys "immunity" from the Hague indictment. Carla Del Ponte, The Hague's chief prosecutor, disagrees. She was in Belgrade on Tuesday, insisting there is no immunity for war crimes and that Milutinovic and several other prominent figures must be extradited. "It does not mean we are presently banging on the table demanding that Milutinovic and the others bedelivered to The Hague immediately. But as with any other indictee, they will have to be arrested transferred here," said Jean-Jacques Joris, the prosecutor's adviser. "In all fairness, the arrest and transfer of Slobodan Milosevic was a good sign of cooperation, and we actively pressing the Yugoslav authorities to resume that cooperation," Joris said But with Milosevic behind bars, it seems that international pressure to bring the others to justice has slackened. "When you've got No. 1, who cares about Nos. 2 and 3?" said Cerovic. "It's true, Milutinovic was president of Serbia [during the Kosovo war], but everyone here knows he wasn't anywhere close to decision-making process. The Hague would be smart to forget about him." Even some senior Western officials concede that Milutinovic probably was out of the loop, but the same cannot be said for Nikola Sainovic, Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic and Vlajko Stojiljkovic, the three other named in the Milosevic indictment. Sainovic, a political ally of Milosevic, was deputy prime minister of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo war. Communications intercepts leaked to the media indicate he was in direct contact with Serbian police they slaughtered 45 ethnic Albanians in the village of Racak on Jan. 15, 1999, an event that stirred West to intervene in Kosovo. [YESTERDAY'S TRIB 'REPORTED' THAT CATHOLIC SHCOOLGIRLS WALKING TO SCHOOL IN BELFAST 'SPARKED' A RIOT. ] After Milosevic was pushed from power, Sainovic retained a senior position in the Socialist Party and hisseat in the federal parliament, which in theory gives him a claim of immunity from The Hague. Serb authorities suspect that Sainovic was responsible for smuggling large quantities of gold out of country on behalf of the Milosevic family. According to police sources, he recently was detained at the Romanian border and may be cooperating with Serbian authorities trying to recover the gold. Ojdanic, a Milosevic loyalist, was appointed army chief of staff in November 1998, replacing Gen. Perisic, who was increasingly reluctant to carry out Milosevic's orders in Kosovo. Earlier, Ojdanic involved in questionable military actions in eastern Bosnia during the war there. Now retired and living on his pension in Zlatibor, a mountainous area near Montenegro, Ojdanic undoubtedly at the top of the chain of command of the army, which coordinated the violence against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. `Operation Horseshoe' So, too, was Stojiljkovic, who during this period served as interior minister with responsibility for the Secret police and regular police. The police, even more than the army, were responsible for executing Operation Horseshoe, Milosevic's plan to "cleanse" Kosovo of ethnic Albanians. Stojiljkovic, in poor health these days, is retired and living in Milosevic's old neighborhood in Belgrade. Because all four are named with Milosevic on the indictment, Del Ponte would prefer to try all of them together rather than wasting time and money repeating the same trial for each, said Joris. -- Copyright C 2001, Chicago Tribune NSP Lista isprobava demokratiju u praksi ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrBE8.bVKZIq Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================