-Caveat Lector- Sunday May 2, 2:02 PM A Tale of Two 'Rapes' What do Sherife Alickaj and Juanita Broaddrick have in common? Both say they were physically over-powered and then raped by men currently on opposite sides of America's Kosovo conflict. In Saturday's New York Times, Alickaj identified her rapist as an unnamed Serbian policeman -- in the first firsthand account bolstering rumors that Serbs have been methodically brutalizing Kosovar women as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Broaddrick's has identified her rapist as President Clinton, the very same person who has rushed U.S. warplanes into the Balkans to the defend Alickaj and her countrymen against Serbian atrocities. But note the difference in New York Times coverage of the Alickaj and Broaddrick allegations. Saturday's page A8 headline prominently displayed the "R" word: "An Albanian Tells How Serbs Chose Her, 'the Most Beautiful,' for Rape". The Times coverage of Broaddrick's allegation was much more hesitant, beginning with its page A16, Feb. 24 headline, "On Tortuous Route, Sexual Assault Accusation Against Clinton Resurfaces". Alickaj told the Times that she and five female friends were intercepted by two Serbian policemen after fleeing their apartment in Pristina. The guards escorted them back home, where they were strip searched. Alickaj was isolated then told by a guard, "We are letting the other girls go because you are the most beautiful." Then the sexual attack occurred. Alickaj's unsworn account was backed by two of her friends interviewed by the Times, which gave a thoroughly unskeptical presentation of her story. Broaddrick, who also had supporting witnesses, came under much tighter scrutiny by the Times; in a story that ran only after it appeared elsewhere in the prestige print press. "The problems with Mrs. Broaddrick's accusation are obvious," explained the Times. "There is no physical evidence to verify it. No one else was present during the alleged encounter in a Little Rock hotel room nearly 21 years ago." And motives were important too, as the Times pointed out, "(Broaddrick's) accusation has long been fodder for Mr. Clinton's legal and political opponents." But wait. Doesn't Ms. Alickaj's allegation suffer from the same problems? There's no physical evidence of her month-old attack. She was assaulted only after her Serbian tormentor had removed witnesses from the room. And Alickaj and her friends are proud Albanians who evidently hate the Serbs, motive enough to perhaps exaggerate or even fabricate such an explosive charge. In fact, both Alickaj and the Times are guilty of gross exaggeration in this report. Only near the end, after the paper screamed "Rape" in it's headline and cited the word repeatedly throughout the text, does the reader learn that no such thing actually happened to the 18 year-old Albanian woman: "The officer, Ms. Alickaj said, then forced her to perform oral sex. 'I was lucky not to be raped in another way because I was having my period,' she said." Raped in another way? According to several dictionaries we consulted, heterosexual rape is defined exclusively as forcible sexual intercourse, i.e., coitus -- which did happen to Juanita Broaddrick, but not to Sherife Alickaj. With the new expanded definition of the "R" word here, Inside Cover wonders if Paula Jones would have gotten more favorable treatment from the Times and other press organs had she complained, perhaps, of attempted rape? http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover.shtml ================================= "Anyone who defends Clinton might as well hold down a woman while he rapes her." --- Cheryl Enyart --------------- Bard Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: ....a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
