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Speaking about disinformation, am I mistaken, or has NATO and the US still
failed to produce the pilot who was "rescued" from that plane that was shot
down in the first days of the NATO offensive against Serbia? If they have
not, does it not suggest that the pilot was killed and that NATO and
traitors Cohen, Clinton, et al just lied to keep up the myth of the
casualty-less war? Does anyone know anything about that pilot?
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> Behalf Of Alamaine Ratliff
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 8:08 PM
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> Subject: [CTRL] Warp Speed
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> -Caveat Lector-
>
> >From AFP via Yahoo!
>
> <<And this is new(s)?>>
>
>
> > Media group charges NATO "distorted the truth" in Kosovo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > PARIS, June 15 (AFP) - The media organisation Reporters sans
> > Frontieres (Reporters without Borders, RSF) Tuesday criticized NATO
> > for "distorting the truth," and giving "false information and
> > impossible-to-check figures," about the war in Yugoslavia.
> >
> > In a report called "War in Yugoslavia, NATO's media blunders," the
> > group, which is based in Paris, questioned whether it was a matter of
> > "mistakes" or if the alliance made "deliberate attempts at
> > disinformation."
> >
> > "False information, exorbitant and impossible-to-check figures and the
> > use of debatable historical references have strengthened doubts about
> > the goodwill of certain western political and military leaders," RSF
> > said in a communique.
> >
> > In one example, the group cites NATO confirmation concerning the death
> > of ethnic Albanian leader Fehmi Agani along with five others.
> >
> > British General David Wilby had said at NATO headquarters in Brussels
> > the report came from a "very reliable source" in Kosovo, which his
> > department had checked carefully.
> >
> > "Wilby's source turned out to be the London-based Kosovo Information
> > Centre, which is run by Kosovar exiles," the report said, adding that
> > "one of them, Hafiz Gagica, had said the same day that Ibrahim Rugova
> > had been wounded and his whereabouts were not known."
> >
> > Agani was in fact killed, but some days later, while Rugova
> > subsequently met with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, bringing
> > blanket media coverage the Yugoslav leader was able to capitalize on.
> >
> > "Making a rumor official in this way, during the first week of
> > bombing, would appear to be less the result of a mistake than of a
> > deliberate decision; to tip the balance in favor of NATO air strikes
> > on Yugoslavia at a time when public opinion was still very sceptical
> > about their effectiveness," the report said.
> >
> > Another example cited was the April 14 air strike on a convoy which
> > killed 75 people according to Serb sources.
> >
> > After German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping initially accused Serb
> > planes of the attack, NATO acknowledged the strike, saying "that
> > apparently one of its planes dropped a bomb on a civilian vehicle
> > travelling with a convoy."
> >
> > On April 19, NATO admitted "it had hit two convoys with the help of
> > about a dozen planes that dropped a total of nine bombs," RSF said,
> > adding that the alliance made public a recording of a pilot
> > responsible for hitting the first.
> >
> > He said the vehicles in question were "of a military type," but two
> > days later NATO admitted the recording had no connection with the
> > bombing of the convoys.
> >
> > RSF says "other features of western communication are approximate
> > figures, debatable historic references and the use of vocabulary that
> > has the aim of making the adversary appear monstrous."
> >
> > "The term 'genocide' has been used systematically by British Prime
> > Minister Tony Blair, and in Germany officials have compared the
> > Milosevic government to that of Hitler," the report adds.
> >
> > "These historical references have led to protests from experts," RSF
> > said.
> >
> > "On April 27, NATO officials themselves admitted - although not in so
> > many words - that their communication strategy had failed," it added,
> > while also noting that "the workings of the propaganda machine hold no
> > secrets for the Serbs."
> >
> > "While remaining the defender of a 'just cause' in the eyes of western
> > public opinion, NATO has not shown goodwill in its relations with the
> > media, and has distorted the truth on several occasions," RSF charged.
> >
> > "It is obvious that in time of war, the information provided by one
> > side or the other may be liable to be used as a propaganda tool," it
> > said.
> >
> > "But it could still be hoped that a coalition of democracies, which
> > claims to have right on its side, would behave with more integrity
> > than the dictatorship it is fighting against," the group concluded.
>
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