FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA All 108 earlier Special Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletins on NATO's war on Serbia can also be seen at our Web site: www.truthinmedia.org, along with numerous photos and other memorable images from this war. Issue S99-109, PostScript 3 ---------------------------------- June 15, 1999; 11:00PM EDT HEADLINES Belgrade 1. Serb Holy Synod Calls on Milosevic to Resign Phoenix 2. A Standing Ovation after Djurdjevic's Speech at the WHTT Luncheon Slovakia 3. The X-Files: Whose Mass Graves? (by Martin Lipocky) Prizren 4. Conflicting News Reports About the Sunday Shootout: Another "Wag the Dog" Production ---------------------- 1. Serb Holy Synod Calls on Milosevic to Resign BELGRADE, June 15 - The influential Serbian Orthodox Church on Tuesday demanded that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resign, the Associated Press reported from Belgrade today. The Holy Synod, the church's highest body, insisted that the ouster of Milosevic and his government was "in the interest of the people and their salvation." The church is the most prominent Serb institution to call for Milosevic to step down since NATO began air strikes March 24. "Every sensible person has to realize that numerous internal problems and ... the isolation of our country on the international scene, cannot be solved or overcome with this kind of government and under the present circumstances," the Holy Synod's statement said. Many of the church's holiest sites are in Kosovo, and the church is concerned that the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from the province, and the accompanying exodus of Serbs, will leave the sites unprotected from vandalism by mostly Muslim ethnic Albanians. The church called for immediate protection of Serb Orthodox shrines and monasteries throughout Kosovo, including the ancient seat of the Serb Church in the town of Pec (the Pec Patriarchate) in western Kosovo. The church's statement struck a defiant note in referring to the international war crimes tribunal's indictment of Milosevic, saying the church is "convinced that the final justice is with our Lord and not in the hands of a politicized court in The Hague." The church expressed deep concern about the flight of Serbs from Kosovo and called for international troops to protect Serbs as well as the ethnic Albanian refugees, who began returning to Kosovo after Milosevic agreed to a peace deal last week. It issued an appeal to Kosovo's Serbs urging them to "remain on their ancient homesteads and not abandon their shrines, convinced of the truth in Christ's words: 'Salvation shall come to the steadfast'." -------------- 2. A Standing Ovation after Djurdjevic's Speech at the WHTT Luncheon PHOENIX, June 15 - As we announced last week, the TiM editor was the luncheon speaker at today's meeting sponsored by the "We Hold These Truths" organization (see S99-107, Postscript 1, Item 3, June 11). The topic, of course, was NATO's war on Serbia. As a part of the promotion for the event, the TiM editor was also a guest last Sunday for an hour on John Dale show, which airs live between 5PM-6PM on the popular Phoenix KFYI talk radio station. Before the keynote speech, all those present at the "Beefeaters" restaurant rose to participate in a prayer led by a WHTT director, and to pledge their allegiance to the flag. TiM editor's speech was frequently interrupted by applause of the crowd. So in the interest of readability, we will not record the crowd reactions within the text of the speech, as we usually do. Suffice it to say that the last 5-10 minutes of the speech, nearly every sentence was followed by applause. Sometimes the speaker was even interrupted by spontaneous cheers and/or applause in mid-sentence. At the end of the speech, all present rose spontaneously and gave the speaker a long, standing ovation. What's especially interesting is that such boisterous reactions were emoted by a crowd of mostly "older people" (as this writer's 21-year old assistant put it). Meaning the 50+year old Americans, fairly evenly divided between men and women. And now, keeping in mind that the actual delivery may have varied slightly from the prepared remarks, here's the text of the speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, Right off the bat, I have to apologize to you.... What I am about to tell you may not be the most opportune luncheon topic. I came here today to tell you the truth about war. And the truth sometimes can be hard to digest. So, sorry if I spoil your excellent Beefeaters' meal. Ladies and gentlemen, twice in the last six weeks, I traveled to our nation's capital to speak out against the NATO war on Serbia. The first time, I did it at the Ellipse, just back of the White House south lawn, on May 1, right after I had returned from the bombed-out Belgrade. The second time was just over a week ago, when I addressed tens of thousands of anti-NATO protesters at the Vietnam Memorial. It was by far the largest anti-war protest in this country since the days of the Vietnam war. Yet, our national media either ignored this event altogether, or tried to play it down. CNN said, for example, that only 5,000 people took part in the march from the Vietnam Memorial to the Pentagon. Yet the truth was closer to 30,000. The column of demonstrators, 20 to 30 abreast, was over a mile long. You can see for yourself the photos at the Truth in Media Web site. And they came to Washington form all over - Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Alabama, and yes, even Arizona. Whatever the exact number, the tens of thousands of Americans who gathered at the Vietnam Memorial on June 5, were NOT going to be denied their rights, even though the Arlington police initially tried to ban the march. In the end, the police kept their distance and there were no incidents. But even their attempt to block our right of peaceful assembly is an indication of how low the liberty has sunk in this country. Which is why I started my speech at the Vietnam Memorial with the following remarks: I have come to Washington from the Grand Canyon state of Arizona to join you in your righteous protest against an American government which has become so un-American. This is no longer a government "OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people." This is a government OF and FOR a group of "death merchants," bankers and industrialists, run BY corrupt politicians, like Bill Clinton. And it is a government AGAINST the interests of the American people. Is it in our interest to have a $5.6 trillion national debt? Is it in our interest to pay for the IMF bailouts of Wall Street bankers in Mexico, Asia, Russia or Brazil? Is it in our interest to have American troops stationed in over 100 countries around the world? Is it in our interest to have to build a Kosovo Memorial right next to the wall of tears where we were standing? Is it in our interest to have American pilots rain death and destruction upon innocent civilians in Yugoslavia? I agree, it is not. And that had to be stopped! And now, we must start removing the stains from our Stars and Stripes which Clinton's disgraceful government has left. Ladies and gentlemen, I said on March 24, the day the first NATO bombs struck Yugoslavia, a sovereign country which has done us no harm, that March 24, 1999 will be remembered in history as the new Day of Infamy. Except that this time, American missiles and pilots did to Yugoslavia what the Japanese did to us at Pearl Harbor. And worse... Because NATO has been waging war on civilians. In late April, I traveled to Serbia, where I spent five days under NATO's bombardment. What I saw was wanton and senseless devastation. NATO was waging war on old age homes, hospitals, schools, embassies, factories, churches, bridges, railroads, TV and radio stations... In the wake of such bombings, over 2,000 civilians have been killed; 30% of them children. Like the 11-month old Bojana Tosovic, killed by NATO's bombs on Apr. 11 at her home near Podujevo, along with her father. Like the 4-year old Dejana Pavlovic, and her 7-year old brother, Stefan, killed by NATO's bombs at their home in the Belgrade suburb of Ralja on May 27. Like Father Milivoj Ceric, a brave and unselfish Serb priest, whose head was literally blown off by a NATO bomb on Sunday, May 30. Take a look at the Truth in Media photos and handouts available at the back of the room. Just see that blonde young lady seated at the table over there. And what was Fr. Ceric doing at the time of his death? God's work. Right after his Sunday church service, he rushed to help his injured parishioners after the first NATO strike on the Varvarin bridge. Only to be killed by the second one. As we celebrated the Memorial Day weekend... Ladies and gentlemen, Clinton was not waging war on Milosevic; he was waging war on Serb civilians. A cowardly war. The only kind of a war, I suppose, draftdodgers know how to wage. Are we going to stand by idly and let our Draftdodger-in-Chief carry on such slaughter - in our name, under our flag? And then, there are human tragedies I came across during my trip to Serbia which never get reported in the media - Serb or American. Like that of the four-year old Mina. A Serb doctor treating this little girl told me that this four-year was losing her hair. From the constant trauma caused by air raid sirens and bombs. Asked by the doctor what she feared more - the sirens or the bombs - the little Mina said the dreaded the sirens more. And now, YOU will have a chance to find out why. What you're about to hear is no Hollywood soundstage product. It is a live recording of an air raid siren made on a Belgrade balcony in late April... (PLAYED THE TAPE) What usually followed this was the sound of anti-aircraft artillery fire... then of the bombs... then, of the fire trucks... And then, the silence of the dead… Now, imagine having to live through that for 79 days, mostly at night, but sometimes in also daytime hours - such as when I was meeting with the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, for example. Imagine that, and then you may understand why a four-year old is losing her hair. And why 10 million civilians have been traumatized, not just those already killed or maimed. Ladies and gentleman, this was not war. This was terrorism! And we must charge the NATO terrorists responsible for such barbaric acts with war crimes. Already, many among the millions of Truth in Media readers in 100 around the world have answered our call, and filed their personal "home-made" complained against the NATO war criminals... Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Wesley Kanne Clark, Tony Blair, Bill Cohen, Jacques Chirac... and about 70 other NATO leaders responsible for these crimes against humanity. No wonder most Americans who write to us say that they are outraged by such war crimes. No wonder some of them write to us to apologize for Clinton's crimes, taking personal responsibility for the actions of the U.S. government. Others write and say they want to volunteer to go and help Serbia. That is why, I also told the Serbian people, both in person and through the Belgrade media, that they should not hate all Americans. Nor burn American flags. That not all Americans are as bad as Bill Clinton. I told them that CNN and others in the media are lying through their teeth when they say that a majority of Americans support NATO's war on Serbia. Like that "fraud hero," Senator John McCain, who has egged on, and backed Bill Clinton in all his crimes - crimes against humanity, as in Bosnia and Kosovo; and crimes against our wallets, as in Mexico, Asia or Brazil. And now, some people even want this "Keating Five" senator to run for president!? Isn't one disgraceful president already one too many for this country? I have been saying for years that the real motto of the New World Order terrorists is not "world peace through world trade," it is "perpetual commerce through perpetual war." First you knock them down; then you build them up. Either way, America's "death merchants" and their industrial and media partners-in-crime win. Serbia is just the latest case in point. Bottom line? War is good business. Always has been. Just ask the CEOs of Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop-Grumman, United Technologies, Textron, Litton Industries and other top Pentagon suppliers whose shares soared as mankind lost. The stocks of the top 10 Pentagon suppliers outperformed the rest of the bullish stockmarket (S&P 500) by a 2.5-to-1 ratio during the first 60 days of the war. Furthermore, this NATO "humanitarian mission" was premeditated mass murder. It had little to do with what Milosevic did or did not do. And here's the proof... Would it surprise you to learn, for example, that the Clinton administration requested an additional $112 billion for the Pentagon budget in February of this year - almost six weeks before the NATO bombing started? Would it surprise you to learn that last year's Pentagon spending on the arms was "only" $44 billion - the lowest level in more than a decade? Would it surprise you to learn that, following the NATO war on Serbia, the spending will go up to $60 billion next year, for a total Pentagon budget of $319 billion in year 2005? Ladies and gentlemen, what we are seeing at work in the Balkans, therefore, is the latest example of an evil, genocidal, parasitic, Machiavellian military-industrial-financial complex enriching itself on the backs of other fellow-humans' pain and suffering. Not that long ago, in 1983, President Reagan justifiably called the Soviet Union an Evil Empire. Now, Washington is the seat of an Evil Empire and Belgrade is the capital of the Free World! If Winston Churchill were to deliver his famous "Iron Curtain" speech today, he might say: "But a shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Cold War victory. From Belfast on the Irish Sea, to Trieste in the Adriatic; to Budapest on the Danube - an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." President Dwight Eisenhower similarly warned Americans in his 1961 farewell speech to the nation: "In the councils of government, we must guard against acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of that combination endanger our liberties or democratic process." And yet here we are, 38 years later... we are witnessing our liberties endangered. We are seeing our democratic process turned into a "demo farce." We are watching our Constitution trampled by the New World Order stooges, like Clinton, McCain and others in Washington, who whose job is to protect them. This has got to stop! And we've got to do it. It is time for all decent, God-fearing Americans to sound the alarm and "just say no" to a government which uses our money to kill innocent people so that Raytheons of this world can improve their earnings per share. We still have the legal means at our disposal to throw off the New World Order yoke. All we need to do is apply the Constitution. Rigorously and vigorously. All we need to do is throw out of office the politicians who sold us out to the "death merchants" and other industrialists - the 57 Senators and the 219 Representatives who voted in March for Clinton's bombing of Serbia. All we need to do is cut off the blood supply to the Evil Empire - the IRS tax vacuum attached to our pay checks. All we need to do is throw out of office the politicians who abuse the good faith service our armed forces. Our men and women in uniform have sworn to protect our country, not Wall Street wallets! Which is why we must DEMAND that our Draftdodger-in-Chief provide to the American people a FULL ACCOUNTING of OUR losses in HIS war on Serbia. It is an insult to every American's intelligence to hear the president assert, as he did last week, that we have fought a 79-day war, and have suffered zero combat casualties. And it is certainly an insult to the memory of our fallen soldiers to be killed twice - once on a field of battle, and then again by having to remain anonymous. So that the president can keep on lying and killing without causing an outrage of the American people, as the Vietnam body bags did. In short, all we need to do is exercise our rights. But do we have the courage to do it? Do our men and women in uniform have the guts to say, "hell no, I won't go?" Not when a man who would not qualify even for the lowest security clearance - were he not president - issues unlawful orders to kill innocent people in an undeclared and illegal war. But even if Clinton somehow dodges a war crimes trial, as he had dodged the military service to his country - he, his Secretary of Hate, Madam Halfbright, and all other NATO leaders will face a trial, sooner or later, in a higher court. "Don't be afraid of anything except of sin," the Serb Patriarch Pavle once told me, asking me to pass this message to the faithful among the Serbian-Americans. For, in the end, he said, God "will weigh everything precisely and fairly." Including the sins of our Liar-in-Chief! And now a mass murderer, too, So I say, and I want to thank for so many of you for adopting and repeating the slogan… Drop Clinton, Not Bombs! And I also say… Freedom! Let us fight for freedom from the Federal Reserve's taxation without representation! Let us fight for freedom from the media which lie! Let us fight for freedom from the Presidents who lie and kill! Let us fight for freedom from the Arizona Senators and Reps who sell us out! In short, let us fight to win back our country and our Constitution - as our Founding Fathers had passed them on to us! Thank you." --- EPILOGUE Following a long standing ovation at the end of the speech, the speaker stayed on to answer questions from the audience for about 15-20 minutes. Here's a synopsis of some the topics covered in that segment of the meeting: NUMBER OF U.S. CASUALTIES: One member of the audience wanted to know how many American casualties there have been during this war. The TiM editor replied that he didn't know the exact number, which is why he said in the speech that we must demand that the President disclose the full truth about that. But according to a report in the Athens newspaper "Athinaiki" from early April, for example, even after only the first two weeks of war, 88 NATO soldiers had been killed. Not all of them Americans, of course (see Day 15-16, Update 1, Item 1, Apr. 8; Day 12, Update 1, Item 1, Apr. 4 and Day 13, Update 2, Item 1, Apr. 5). NATO TO ASSASINATE MILOSEVIC? Another listener wanted the speaker to comment on the reported rumor that NATO had been ordered to assassinate Milosevic. The TiM editor replied that he had never heard of any such thing, and that the whole idea sounded far-fetched. It was implausible because the New World Order terrorists need the bogeys like Saddam Hussein and Milosevic so as justify their military interventions and crimes. "So should Milosevic be killed or removed from power peaceably, that would be a great day for Serbia and the free world, and a day of mourning in Washington and Brussels." Chuckles and giggles spread through the room. The TiM editor then talked about how many people in Serbia were outraged with Milosevic, not only because he caved in, but because he gave up Kosovo only after the tremendous suffering through which he had put the entire Serbian nation. "So it would not surprise me if Milosevic were to not last very long - not because of NATO, but due to the Serb anger at him." WHO STARTED THE WAR? One listener asked who started the war. The questioner got a one-word answer: "NATO," as the chuckles and giggles again spread through the audience. GEOPOLITICS OF THE WAR? One member of the audience wanted to know what the real reasons were for NATO's starting this war. The speaker explained the geopolitical aspects of it (see the "Green Interstate - http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim95-11.html), and then pointed out that the first NATO expansion into Eastern Europe was not Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary, as most people seem to think; it was Bosnia, where NATO arrived in 1995, using similar methods to those applied to Kosovo. ALBRIGHT AN ALBANIAN? Another listener wanted to know if Madeleine Albright's hatred of the Serbs stems perhaps from the fact that she is a Jew and supposedly born in Albania. The TiM editor replied that Albright was born as Madlenka Korbel in Czechoslovakia, not Albania. And that she and her family sought refuge and were given safe haven by the Serbs when they, as Jews, escaped the Nazi pogroms in their native country. The speaker further added that Mr. Korbel was a great Serbophile, who once said that if he were to be born again, he'd like to be born as a Serb. Which is why he is probably now turning in his grave, seeing what kind of a Serbophobe his daughter has turned out to be. COMMUNIST MEDIA - THEN AND NOW. One member of the audience wanted to know how one might explain the national media's virtual silence about such a major news story as the June 5 Washington anti-war protest. The TiM editor replied by basically summarizing our recent editorial, "Communist Media - Then and Now" (http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/day75.html). This TiM piece compared the Belgrade communist media's lack of coverage of the student anti-government uprising in 1968 with that of the DC and New York media on June 5, 1999. The TiM editor added that using the term "communist" in relation to the current situation in the U.S. may be technically incorrect, if you were a political scientist (an oxymoron, by the way); that a term such as "liberal state capitalism," may be more accurate. But since everybody knows that communism has been thoroughly discredited, he will keep using that term until such time that the "liberal state capitalism" reaches the same level of derogation as the communism. CLINTON NOT LEARING FROM HISTORY? Another listener asked the speaker to explain why Clinton has not learned from the Balkans' history - alluding to the defeats of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, as well as that suffered by Hitler at the hand of the freedom-loving Serbs. The TiM editor repeated the old saw - that, "those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it." But in Clinton's case, it is not a matter of ignorance. This Rhodes scholar has studied history both at Georgetown and at Oxford. He knows his Balkan history very well. And he is very smart. Which is why he is all the more dangerous. Because he has no morals. So the TiM editor said that we must continue to fight such people vigilantly. Unless we want what has just happened in Serbia to happen in our country: "If they manage to install a totalitarian regime in Washington." --- TiM Ed.: This reply was also followed by a long applause from the crowd. -------------- 3. The X-Files: Whose Mass Graves? (by Martin Lipocky) SLOVAKIA, June 15 - We received the following comment from a TiM reader in Slovakia (also see a photo from the daily protests against NATO by a group of Slovaks). "I've totally been fed up of all the recent brainwashing reports I can see on TV, especially on CNN. The sick reporters who support fascist NATO and Albanian killers and drug handlers without any factual obstacles and with their X-ray eyes are telling you the 'truth:' CNN: "Nato soldiers have found a mass grave in Kacanik that is believed to be a grave of ethnic Albanians killed by Serb troops." CNN simultaneously shows pictures of the alleged mass graves in Kacanik and the reporter thinks that we are so stupid and will believe his story when I see individual (not mass) graves with numbered stakes stuck in the ground. "Slovak" US-shared commercial TV Markiza, that takes NATO's side, reported yesterday that the mass graves had been masked by grass. It's like a game of Dumb and Dumber. Who is dumber - the reporters who said this nonsense, or the 'forgetful' Serbs who left the stakes? The reporters themselves who systematically try to seek atrocity indications got to believe their own brainwashing anti-Serb propaganda and, they and clever George Robertson with their X-ray eyes know, yet before examination, there are Albanians buried and how they were killed. They seem to do a better job than the TV couple of detectives Dempsey & Makepeace. And what if they were victims of NATO bombing, no matter Albanians or Serbs? I have the reason not to believe such non-senses. All 'mass-grave evidence' has been doubted, contradicted and disproved so far. The first 'mass grave' was disproved by RTS TV as a potato field and the left comparing photo was detected to be taken in winter last year. The next alleged 'mass-grave evidence' in Izbica was allegedly shot by a poor Albanian farmer with his own V-camera (I wonder how much it cost). But the individual graves were shot again, and according to the pictures, the killed persons were Albanians (what if they were Serbs?) and Serbs were hardly digging out graves (each for one). And the reporters probably with the IQ of a plush teddy-bear call the cemetery mass graves. Don't you think to be easier to dig out a large mass grave by a bulldozer and bury all bodies together without hard shoveling? This would be mass grave. And don't you find it much better to burn out all the bodies in high-power oven without any traces if the Serbs really want to hide the victims of "their atrocities"? Moreover, the place of alleged 'mass graves' on the video-pictures in Izbica was not identical with the spy-satellite photo of Izbica. On the day of signing The Technical Agreement between NATO and Yugoslav military, Jamie Shea, the champion of lies, showed at the press conference a spy-satellite photo of alleged Serb hiding of mass-grave crime by bulldozer as black-colored. My IQ tells me that soil is of the same gray color also after bulldozing. The evidence of brainwashing the viewers is clear when Shea or Robertson at press conferences tell journalists that the pictures are indications of mass graves and Serb atrocities and on the other hand they say that it is not clear yet what there is exactly. Another ethnic cleansing? And what if in Kosovo there are mass graves full of Serbs murdered by illegal fascist KLA terrorists who publicly proclaim that they shall fight until Kosovo is clean from Serbs? That's the evidence that KLA terrorist criminals don't hide their fascist intentions to ethnically cleanse Kosovo. And if Yugoslav authorities try to convince us that they don't ethnically cleanse Kosovo, no one wants to believe them. I may be blind, but I never saw any pictures on TV how Serbs were expelling Albanians. All the 'evidence of Serb ethnic cleansing' was filmed on the other side of Yugoslav border at the refugee camps. We have now been able to see on TV, for the first time right inside Kosovo, how the Serbs were being expelled under the threats of aggressive Albanians (probably innocent) under the rain of stones and insults. The reporters with the IQ of a teddy-bear have not gotten it yet and interestingly have not called it ethnic cleansing. Anyone who has studied history of Serbia must know that 450,000 native Serbs were forced to flee out of Kosovo this century, and 220,000 foreign Albanians migrated with intention to take over the region. Now we can be witnesses of a new Serb exodus and we will never learn how many foreign Albanians are moving to a wealthier Kosovo. Terror overlook of piss-keepers The "peacekeepers" who should prevent such provocative actions are not worthy to be called that. They are piss-keepers. Instead of disarming KLA cutthroats to prevent humanitarian crisis and ethnic cleansing, NATO fascists speculate about the difference between disarming and demilitarization as implemented in UNSC resolution with intention to let Albanian terrorists keep their weapons. Moreover, NATO dares to offer KLA terrorists to be integrated into the piss-keeping mission. The brainwashing TV news giants show how courageous piss-keepers are disarming Yugoslav soldiers and policemen to the last cartridge. The NATO killers are letting the Albanian cutthroats kidnap Serbian women and children, kill the legal Serb policemen who are on their own territory. Aggressive Albanians, presumably citizens of Yugoslavia, tear down Yugoslav flags and signs, which is a criminal violation of law on the state symbols. Reporters first showed Albanians how they were weeping and now they have shown how Albanians are smiling. Whereas the same reporters somehow forgot to show the Serbs how they have been weeping before, during, and after the criminal NATO bombing campaign. That's the emotional evidence of intentional brainwashing of the viewers. When I insert the last set of facts into the puzzle I get the intention of piss-keepers to split Kosovo and bring total anarchy. Diplomacy on their own Just let's have a look at the UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo Annex 2, Point 1: "An immediate and verifiable end of violence and repression in Kosovo." All I can see on TV screen is that violence and repression from Albanian side encouraged by NATO passive presence against native Serbs. Or have a look at the Article II, Point 1 of The Technical Military Agreement: "The FRY forces shall immediately ... refrain from committing any hostile or provocative acts of any type against any person in Kosovo and will order armed forces to cease all such activities. They shall not encourage, organize or support hostile or provocative demonstrations." And what about the rude Albanians? Who will order them to refrain from provocative acts they are doing at the moment causing fear (not peace) among the native Serbs? It's like telling the Serbs: "Shut up and leave!" Really cool! Where are the proclaimed human rights? Is this peacekeeping or piss-keeping? In the UNSC resolution the demilitarization of KLA is mentioned three times! Look at the main part of the resolution on this issue in paragraph 15. It is evident that NATO officials keep on ignoring UNSC. The war has divided the Albanians apart. The fascist NATO killers, together with KLA drug mafia and cutthroats, have united Albanians against the Serbs- to cleanse Kosovo and totally to take it away from the native Serb inhabitants. The entire war-making NATO should be expelled from Europe! KLA terrorists should be arrested, and both NATO and KLA should be put on trial for the criminal secession of Kosovo." Martin Lipocky, Slovakia --- TiM Ed.: What evidently so outraged Mr. Lipocky has been actually a pattern in western media's reporting of the alleged atrocities in Kosovo all along. If the KLA terrorists commit mass murder (yes, killing their fellow-Albanians, too, who wanted to cooperate with the Serbs), the media report the news as crimes committed by "unidentified assailants." But when "unidentified assailants" perpetrate crimes, such atrocities are always blamed on the Serbs. Such as in Prizren, earlier this week, for example. As the Albanians were taking their revenge on the Serbs by burning their homes and forcing them out, western media were reporting that the departing Serbs were taking one last act of revenge against Albanians before leaving. Unfortunately, we have seen it all before. Check out our story from Gorazde (Bosnia), for example, where this writer photographed back in 1994 the burnt out Serb homes the western public was told were Muslim houses (see "Fishing for Corpses in the River Drina"). ------------- 4. Conflicting News Reports About the Sunday Shootout PRIZREN, June 15 - Conflicting news reports about the Sunday shootout in the Prizren street, in which the German NATO soldiers killed two Serb civilians (see S99-108, Postscript 2, Item 1. June 13), is a perfect case in point. The TV footage showed in the U.S. by ABC and CNN showed the beige car, which ABC said was a Lada, driving in REVERSE, while being raked over by bullets fired by the German "peacekeepers." Even before this film had been broadcast, NATO had already said that the German troops fired in self-defense. Yet, there was no evidence whatsoever that anyone was firing from that beige Lada in the footage which the American TV audiences saw. But some media did report that unidentified snipers had fired at the German troops in Prizren. Now, several TiM readers from Europe (Germany, Norway) have come forth and reported to us that their TV channels showed a completely different footage from that which Americans saw. The beige Lada was reportedly driving FORWARD toward the German troops, with a person firing a pistol at the them. The Germans returned fire. It was only after that, the Europeans saw the beige car starting to back out of an evidently tight spot. And presumably the same footage after that, which the Americans were shown. So what's going on here? (a) Are the American TV networks trying to protect the Serbs by editing out the crucial footage which shows them as aggressors in this shootout? (b) Or are the Europeans being duped by their media having the alleged Serb pistol shooter "punched in," using the same TV technology which had "punched in" a calico cat in place of a potato chip bag in the "Wag the Dog" movie? Feel free to decide for yourself whom to believe, of course. But as you're doing it, ask yourself the following questions: 1. Why would the American media, which has led the world in the demonization of the Serbs during the last decade, suddenly slacken off, and protect the Serbs by such editing? 2. Why was there no pistol found in the car, according to the subsequent media reports which TiM has seen? (various sources alleged that an AK-47 assault rifle and a hand grenade had been retrieved). 3. Some TiM readers reported seeing the passenger window closed, making it impossible that the alleged initial shots at the Germans could have been fired from that side of the beige Lada. Others claimed it was "open" - after the car had already come under fire, leaving a possibility that it been "opened" by the German gun shots. 4. If there was a pistol shooter "punched in" to this TV "news report," who would benefit the most from such news manipulation - the Europeans or the Americans? The answer to the question 4. above, is the Europeans, of course. Most Americans don't care about either the Serbs, Albanians or the Germans. But the German public, already jittery about its troops' participation in this illegal war on Serbia (see S99-65, Day 42, Update 2, Item 6, May 4), might have become outraged had they seen the American TV footage about a Serb civilian car being raked over in a cold-bloodied murder committed in a Prizren street by the German Kosovo "peacekeepers" - on the first day of their peacekeeping duties. So what does a creative "Dustin Hoffman"-like producer of the German TV do? He says: "That's nothing! When we filmed the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,' three of the four horsemen died! (And we still managed to finish the film). So why not do the same with only a couple of dead Serb "extras?" Rerun the original film in reverse, making the reversing car look as if it's driving forward; "punch in" the shooter with the pistol, and then let the truth be seen after that? We're not saying that's what happened. We just want you to consider such possibilities before answering our (a) or (b) quiz above. And we don't envy you on your task... ------------- NOTE: To cancel the e-mail editions of our reports, just reply REMOVE or UNSUBSCRIBE, followed by the e-mail address at which you're receiving them. ---- Bob Djurdjevic TRUTH IN MEDIA Phoenix, Arizona e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Truth in Media Web site http://www.truthinmedia.org/ for more articles on geopolitical affairs.
