---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 18:39:32 +1200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bilderberg Meeting - media blackout continues >From http://www.the-news.net/ & http://www.the-news.net/archives/bilburg22-5.htm - Bilderberg Meeting - media blackout continues With only two weeks to go before some of the world's most famous and influential men and women arrive in Portugal for the Bilderberg conference at Penha Longa in Sintra, little or nothing is known about their secret "world" agenda. More... According to James P. Tucker Jr. writing in Washington's The Spotlight: "The US led Nato attack on a sovereign nation is part of a much bigger Bilderberg plan than stopping Serbians from butchering ethnic Albanians according to a high U.S State Department source. 'It is important to the Bilderberg scheme for world government to get Nato out from the limitations of its own charter' said the source, a reliable observer for more than a decade." It would not seem unlikely that the current situation in Kosovo will be high on this year's Bilderberg agenda. Just how strong the security around the meeting is likely to be, can be judged from an article published in the UK Press Gazette regarding a freelance journalist Campbell Thomas who attempted to cover the 1998 conference in Turnberry Scotland for the Daily Mail. Thomas decided to gain neighbours' opinions and reactions on the secret meeting being held nearby. Thomas went on to interview a young woman who told him that he was in the hotel's staff quarters and that he should leave immediately, he duly obliged. A short while later, two local police officers arrested Thomas. Thomas was kept in custody for eight hours. "I was treated in an appallingly heavy-handed way, like a common criminal, the holding cell I was put in was in a disgusting state, with excrement on every wall, and I was in that cell for the best part of five hours." Thomas was charged with a breach of peace for putting the young woman he spoke to in a "state of fear and alarm", Thomas added "they took my shoes, my belt, my glasses, even the wedding ring off my finger. The whole thing was ridiculous". Interestingly, Prime Minister António Guterres, listed his attendance at the 1994 Bilderberg conference on his personal CV at the government internet site, which can be accessed at http://www.primeiro-ministro.gov.pt/p-curriculo.html, Guterres was made Prime Minister the following year, and his name has not appeared on the "guest lists" since that date. Margarida Marante, an extremely successful television journalist with the Portuguese television channel SIC, is alleged to have been invited to attend this year's Bilderberg group meeting in Sintra. The television presenter declined to make any comments to The News through her press secretary. The News was, after three days of making phone calls and waiting, given the following response: "Dr. Margarida Marante prefers not to respond (to The News' allegations that she will be attending the Bilderberg meeting), and with all due respect to our publication, she is very busy". The secretary, apparently oblivious to the Bilderberg meeting, asked how Bilderberg was spelt, though she admitted that her employer did not appear surprised when told about the meeting and the interest of our newspaper, adding that no further comment was forthcoming from Margarida Marante. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 18:36:30 +1200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Partial Bildererg list Clinton, Pope to attend 1999 Bilderberg meeting CLINTON, POPE TO ATTEND BILDERBERG '99 U.S. President Bill Clinton and the aging Pope John Paul II are found on a "Partial Guest List" of individuals expected to attend the 1999 Bilderberg meeting that will be taking place in Portugal June 3rd - June 6th. The meeting is expected to include a globilization summit wherein nations that cling to their sovereign identities will be denounced by its leadership. BILDERBERG '99: Partial Guest List __________ Ackerman, Duane - CEO Bell South Ahern, Bertie - Prime Minister of Ireland Alberthal, Les - CEO of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Albright, Madeleine - US Secretary of State Al Saud, Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz - Saudi Prince Amichai, Yehuda - Israeli poet Annan, Kofi - UN Secretary General Arafat, Yasser - Chairman Palestinian Authority Armstrong, Michael - CEO of AT&T Corrporation Arison, Ted - Israeli Financier Assad, Hafez - President of Syria Aznar, Jose Maria - President of Spain Belluzzo, Richard - CEO - Silicon Graphics-SGI Berkshire Hathaway - Warren Buffet Bolkiah, Hassanal - The Sultan of Brunei Byers, Brook - Partner KPCB Beyster, J. R. - Founder and CEO of SAIC Bialkin, Ken - Skadden Arps bin-Mohamad, Mahathir - PM of Malaysia Blair, Tony - Prime Minister of UK Bondevik, Kjell Magne - Prime Minister of Norway Bonsignore, Michael - CEO Honeywell Braverman, Avishai - President of Ben-Gurion University Bronfman, Charles - Canadian businessman Buffet, Warren, CEO Berkshire Hathaway Cardoso, Fernando Henrique - President of Brazil Case, Daniel - Chairman & CEO of H& Q Case, Stephen - CEO of America On-Line-AOL Caufield, Frank - AOL Board & Partner KPCB Cayne, James - CEO of Bear Stearn Chalsty, John - CEO of DLJ Chambers, John - CEO of Cisco Systems Chirac, Jacques - President of Franc Chrétien, Jean - Prime Minister of Canada Clinton, Bill - President of the United States Cohen, Abby - Market Strategist, Goldman Sachs Corzine, Jon - CEO of Goldman Sachs Coulter, David - Former CEO of Bank of America Cresson Edith - EC Commissioner Daschle, Thomas - Senator, Minority Leader, US Senate DeGier, Hans - CEO of Warburg Dillon Read Dehaene, Jean-Luc - Prime Minister of Belgium Dell, Michael - Dell Computers Denham, Bob - Salomon Smith Barney Dinstein, Yoram - President of Tel Aviv University-TAU Disney, Roy - Vice Chairman & Nephew - Walt Disney Ebtekar, Massoomeh - Vice President of Iran Eisenberg, Erwin - Heir to Eisenberg Group Ellison, Larry - CEO of Oracle Engibous, Tom - Texas Instruments-TI Esrey, Bill - CEO of Sprint Estrada, Joseph - President of the Phillipines Fahd, King - Leader of Saudi Arabia Fan, Rita - Chairwoman Provincial Legislature China Fisher, Max - Chairman, Republican National Jewish Coalition-NJC Fisher, Richard - CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Fortune 1000 - Group Focus Letter Frankel, Jacob - Bank of Israel Friedlander, Yehuda - Rector of Bar Ilan University Fuld, Fichard - CEO of Lehman Brothers Gates, Bill - CEO of Microsoft Gerstner, Lou - CEO of IBM Glavin, Christopher - Motorola - Strategy Focus Goh Chok Tong - Prime Minister of Singapore Goldberg, Ed - Merrill Lynch - Strategy Focus Grafton, Bob - CEO of Arthur Andersen Worldwide Grasso, Richard - CEO, New York Stock Exchange-NYSE Greer, Phil - Weiss Peck & Greer Grove, Andy - Former CEO of Intel Gujral, I.K. - Former Prime Minister of India Habibie, B. J. - Indonesia's Prime Minister Hammerman, Stephen - Vice Chairman Merrill Lynch Harari, Chaim - President of Weizmann Institute Hariri, Rafik - Prime Minister of Lebanon Hashimoto, Ryutaro - Former Prime Minister of Japan Hastert, Dennis - GOP - Speaker of the US House of Representatives Hayuth, Yehuda - President of Haifa University Honeycutt, Van - CEO Computer Sciences Corporation-CSC Horovitz, Avraham - GM - UMI Israel Chief Scientist Howard, John - Prime Minister of Australia Hussein, King - of Jordan and The Crown Prince Hassan (HK: Deceased) Ichan, Carl - Wall Street Financier Jackson, Judge Thomas Penfield - US District Court - Washington D. C. Jiang Zemin - President of China Jobs, Steven - Apple Computers Jospin, Lionel - Prime Minister of France Kangas, Edward - CEO Deloitte, Touche, Tohmatsu - International-DTTI Kaveh, Moshe - President of Bar Ilan University Khatami, Mohammed - President of Iran Kim, Dea.jung - President of South Korea Kim Young-sam - Former President of South Korea Kissinger, Kissinger - former US Secretary of State Kok, Wim - Prime Minister of the Netherlands Koller, Arnold - President of Switzerland Komansky, David - CEO of Merrill Lynch Kohl, Helmut - Former Chancellor of Germany Lane, Neal - Former Director of the NSF Laskawy, Phil - CEO of Ernst & Young-EY Lavie, Arie - Former Chief Scientist - Israel Lee Kuan-Yew - President of Singapore Lee Teng-hui - President of Taiwan Leon, Moshe - Director General, PM's Office Israel Lerner, Alex - Israeli Scientist Levin, Gerald - CEO Time Warner, Inc. Li Peng - Prime Minister of China Livingston, Robert - GOP Nominee as - US Speaker of the House Lott, Senator Trent - GOP Senate Majority Leader - US Senate Magidor, Menachem - President of Hebrew University Mahathir Mohamad - Malaysian Prime Minister Mandella, Nelson - President of South Africa Marron, Donald - CEO of Paine Webber Group - Enterprise Strategy McGinn Richard - CEO of Lucent- Enterprise Strategy McNealy, Scott - CEO of Sun Microsystems Middelhoff, Thomas - CEO Bertelsmann & AOL Director Mitchell, George - Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Moore, Nicholas - Chairman of PriceWaterhouse Coopers-PWC L.L.P. Mubarak, Hosni - President of Egypt Murdoch, Rupert - Austrialian Media Owner Narayanan, K.R. - Former President of India Ne'eman, Yaacov - Former Israeli Finance Minister Ne'eman, Yuval- Israeli Physicist Obuchi, Keizo - Prime Minister of Japan Oz, Amos - Israeli writer Palmer, Robert - CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation-DEC Paulson, Henry - Co-Chairman Goldman Sachs Persson, Goran - Prime Minister of Sweden Pfeiffer, Eckhard - CEO of Compaq Phelan, John - Former CEO NYSE & Director of ML and the BCG Phypers, Dean - Former CFO of IBM Platt, Lewis - CEO Hewlitt Packard-HP Pope John Paul II - Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church-RCC Pottruck, David - Charles A. Schwab & Company Primakov, Yevgeny - Russian Prime Minister Prodi, Romano - Former Prime Minister of Italy Purcell, Philip - CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Ramos, Fidel - Former President of Philippines Raymond, Lee - CEO Exxon Redstone, Sumner - CEO of Viacom - HBO Reichman, Uriel - President of the Inter Disciplinary Center- IDC Israel Reichmann, Paul - Canadian Businessman Rodin, Judith - President of the University of Pennsylvania Roosa, Robert - Former Chairman Brown Brothers Harriman (of blessed emory) Samuelson, Paul - MIT Economics Nobel Laureate Santer, Jacques - President of the European Commission-EC Schiro, James - CEO PriceWaterhouse Coopers-PWC Schroeder, Gerhard - German Chancellor Schwab, Charles - Charles A. Schwab & Company Sharman, Colin - Chairman KPMG Shipley, Walter - CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank Spielberg, Stephen - Hollywood Film Producer Slahor, Paul - Founding Investor in IPC Slavin, Shmuel - Director General of Israel's Finance Ministry Smith, Jack - CEO of General Motors-GM Soros, George - President of the Soros Fund Spector, Norman - Publisher Jerusalem Post Tadmor, Zeev - President of Technion Trotman, Alexander - CEO of Ford Motor Company Tung Chee-hwa - Hong Kong Chief Executive Turner, Ted - CEO Turner Broadcasting Systems-TBS - CNN Vajpayee, Atal Behari - Prime Minister of India Wang Changyi - China's Ambassador to Israel Wang, Charles - CEO of Computer Associates International-CAI Weill, Sandy - CEO Travelers-Citigroup Weinbach, Arthur - CEO of Automatic Data Procesing-ADP Weinbach, Lawrence - CEO of Unisys Yair, Yoram - Former Israel Defense Forces Yehoshua, A.B. - Israeli writer Yeltsin, Boris - President of Russia Zedillo, Ernesto - President of Mexico Zeroual, Liamine - President of Algeria -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:27:10 +0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: cyberjournal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: cj#944> Workers World News Service: CROATION GENERAL COMMANDS KLA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 24 22:48:14 1999 Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:46:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Wittry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CROATION GENERAL COMMANDS KLA (fwd) Hi, Thought you might be interested in this. I have know way of knowing *for sure* if this is true, however it does fit with the current scenario. -paul ------------------------- Via Reprinted from the May 27, 1999 issue of Workers World newspaper ------------------------- NO "LIBERATION ARMY" " CROATION GENERAL COMMANDS KLA By Gary Wilson It has been revealed that the top commander of the so- called Kosovo Liberation Army is Agim Ceku, a brigadier general who took a leave from the Croatian Army in February. The source for this is Jane's Defense Weekly of May 10. Jane's is a British publication known around the world as authoritative on military matters. This news may help dispel some of the many myths surrounding the KLA. However, it is not surprising to those who have known for a long time that the KLA is a mercenary contra army promoted by foreign imperialist powers, not a home-grown operation. Ceku's new position is also ominous news for opponents of NATO's brutal war. In August 1995 Ceku presided over "Operation Storm," the massive bombing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Serb farmers from the part of Croatia known as the Krajina. The revelation that he is now heading the KLA is widely seen as a sign that a ground-force invasion is being prepared. Ceku's military career began in the Yugoslav Army. But after Croatia became a separate state under the reactionary leadership of Franjo Tudjman, he defected to the Croatian Army. Ceku, an ethnic Albanian, was then trained by the United States. He is closely tied to Military Professional Resources, Inc. MPRI is a semi-official Pentagon contractor headed by retired U.S. military officers. It specializes in sending mercenary armies under Pentagon contract into wars without even the figleaf of congressional oversight. Jane's Defense Weekly describes Ceku as "one of the key planners of the successful `Operation Storm.'" Many reports have shown in detail that MPRI planned and directed this operation in the Krajina. "Operation Storm" was, until the current U.S. bombing, the bloodiest and most brutal military campaign in the Balkans since the Nazi invasion during World War II. The Pentagon contracted MPRI to organize and train the Croatian Army--which carried out the August 1995 offensive against Serbian farmers in the Krajina region. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless. This vast refugee population was never allowed to return home. A report in the July 28, 1997, issue of the Nation magazine detailed the role MPRI and the Pentagon played in this criminal campaign. Back in 1995 when it happened, however, the media here suppressed the U.S. role in this major assault. Finally, this March 21, the New York Times carried a front-page story about a report from the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague that characterized this attack as probably the most brutal event in the Balkans in the last decade. But no commentators picked up on this. The report was quickly forgotten. The Croatian government has now confirmed that it gave "special leave" to several of its generals to go lead the KLA. While NATO denies it, there is glaring evidence of close military coordination between its operations and those of the KLA. In a briefing aired May 11 on MSNBC, a NATO general showed a map said to be the area of KLA military operations in Kosovo. Then he showed a map of where NATO's bombings have been concentrated in Kosovo. The two maps matched almost exactly. He then said, without cracking a smile, that while this might seem to indicate that the efforts were coordinated, it was purely a coincidence. WHERE DID KLA COME FROM? Many myths persist about the KLA. These myths include claims that its founders were Marxists. Although few could believe that a genuine Marxist-based liberation army would allow itself to be an agent of the imperialists, reports in the media continue to allude to this claim. The origins of the KLA are murky at best. Some say it was founded in 1993. Others put the organization's beginnings in 1996, when a letter was sent to the media announcing its formation. The letter took credit for a February 1996 massacre of Serbian refugees from the Krajina region of Croatia who had fled to Kosovo for safety. Throughout 1996 and 1997, most of the KLA attacks were on Albanians who it called "collaborators." These were Albanian opponents of the separatist movement in Kosovo. >From 1995 to 1997 there had been a great influx of Kosovo Albanians into the Serbian Socialist Party (SPS). Qamil Gashi, the Albanian chairperson of the SPS municipal council in Kosovo, said this was because solutions to the problems in Kosovo were clearly being worked out. On Feb. 6, 1996, Gashi said: "We should not be labeled `traitors' to our own people because we have joined the SPS. It was us, the Socialists and the SPS leadership, who initiated actions to solve numerous economic and municipal problems more swiftly." (From "Between Serb and Albanian, a History of Kosovo," by Miranda Vickers) The KLA killed Gashi in November 1997. It was the KLA that was targeting Albanian socialists and calling them traitors. According to reports in the Yugoslav media, the Yugoslav government believed that KLA operations were being carried out by mercenaries trained in Bosnia. Government reports said that the Albanian government of Sali Berisha was coordinating the actions through the Albanian Embassy in Pristina. Berisha was widely seen as a puppet of the U.S. government. U.S. support had put him into power. He then allowed the U.S. military to put a base in Albania and turned over control of the Albanian secret police to the U.S. CIA (French Press Agency, Oct. 26, 1997). The KLA does not attempt to hide that its headquarters is on Sali Berisha's estate in Albania. The KLA was never an organization like the liberation armies that are well known around the world. It never had a recognized leadership. It never even had a spokesperson until last year. It never issued any documents or statements of purpose. It doesn't even have a newspaper or magazine. The grouping that called itself the KLA at first was actually an odd assortment of various opponents of the Yugoslav government who joined together with gangsters, mercenaries and other opportunists. Those who called themselves KLA ranged from people claiming to be followers of Albania's former Marxist leader, Enver Hoxha, to those who claimed roots in the fascist, nationalist Greater Albanian organizations of the 1940s. It was a combination of convenience, with no central agreement on anything but their hatred of the Yugoslav government. In an article on the history of the KLA in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Chris Hedges describes it in a similar way, saying that the KLA is divided into factions. Hedges says the KLA inside Kosovo is "led by the sons and grandsons of rightist Albanian fighters." These were from the "Skanderbeg volunteer SS division raised by the Nazis, or the descendants of the rightist Albanian kacak rebels who rose up against the Serbs 80 years ago. Although never much of a fighting force, the Skanderbeg division took part in the shameful roundup and deportation of the province's few hundred Jews during the Holocaust. The division's remnants fought Tito's Partisans at the end of the war, leaving thousands of ethnic Albanians dead. The decision by KLA commanders to dress their police in black fatigues and order their fighters to salute with a clenched fist to the forehead has led many to worry about these fascist antecedents." Even by Hedges description, the KLA leaders in exile don't say they are Marxist. He quotes one of them, Jakup Krasniqi, as saying, "I do not think we have an ideology." That is why there is no political organization or political platform. "We do not have time for such things," Krasniqi said. The KLA has nothing in common with Marxist-based liberation movements, which are known for their alliances based on political principles and their working-class orientation. The early unholy alliance that called itself the KLA mostly targeted Albanian socialists. It also killed isolated Serbian farming families. Its operations were minor compared to those of the KLA that would later emerge. SHIFT IN 1997-98 In late 1997 and early 1998, there was a sudden shift. The KLA went through a "rapid and startling growth," according to a report in the April 25, 1998, New York Times. Foreign mercenaries, money and arms started to pour in to the KLA. The erstwhile KLA bands were quickly overwhelmed by an influx of mercenaries coming from Germany and the United States, who quickly took over command. It took a year before a representative from Kosovo could be produced to represent the KLA publicly. The new KLA began serious military operations--not only killing isolated Albanian and Serbian individuals but attacking government buildings and police stations. This open warfare could only be stopped by strong police measures. But when the government forces responded, the U.S. and NATO powers accused them of repression. This became the excuse for their war on Yugoslavia. Some reports indicate that there were objections to the "new" KLA from some of those who had called themselves the KLA early on. But they were quickly silenced. By the time of the Rambouillet talks in France, the U.S. government was openly declaring who were legitimate KLA representatives and who were not. Today, according to various news reports including reports in Jane's Defense Weekly, KLA forces inside Kosovo include U.S. military Special Forces as well as British SAS forces. This is no liberation army. It is an arm of NATO's imperialist invasion of Yugoslavia. - END - (Copyleft Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. 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