-Caveat Lector- 'I Was Told To Blow-up Blair', Yugoslav General Claims >From Ananova Sunday July 1, 2001 10:52 am The Yugoslav army's chief of staff claims he was ordered to assassinate Tony Blair in Macedonia in 1999. General Nebojsa Pavkovic said the orders came from "the top" - an apparent reference to Slobodan Milosevic. The commander says he was under pressure to blow up Mr Blair's helicopter at Petrovac airport in Skopje. He didn't do it because he feared civilian casualties, loss of support from Macedonia and being charged with war crimes. Cherie Blair was with her husband on the helicopter at the time, along with chief of defence staff Sir Charles Guthrie and press secretary Alastair Campbell. The attack was to be carried out using a multiple rocket launcher system capable of firing 288 bomblets at a time from bases in Kosovo at the airport in Macedonia. Mr Pavkovic, who is married to a cousin of Mr Milosevic's wife, Mira, said: "We had the possibility to do it and we had the political decision to strike at the airport when Blair was coming. We knew from our intelligence sources when he was coming. "I was under pressure to do it since Nato was destroying Yugoslavia. But since I did not have the precise possibility of monitoring the airport, my main worry was massive civilian casualties." Mr Pavkovic is reported by The Sunday Times to have made the claims to two journalists, Dejan Lukic and Pero Simic, who plan to produce a book called Milosevic - Rise and Fall. According to the newspaper, Nato officials and British intelligence sources had no information at the time about the planned attack, but now consider it to have been plausible. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions 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, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== 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
