-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Undisclosed. Recipients <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, 24 April 1999 7:42 AM Subject: Kosovo - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly >I don't think there has been any political event in recent times that has >polarised opinion so much as the Kosovo crisis. >To give you some idea of the "variety" of such opinion, we have collected >some samples for your edification! (in quote marks) >>From Exegesis Special Edition. April 18, 1999 >http://www.sm.org/exegesis >"According to the governments participating in the NATO bombing of >Yugoslavia, the justification for this military operation is to stop the >"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, never mind that the West ignored it in Bosnia, >Tibet, Rwanda and elsewhere. >It is said that Kosovo is seeking independence from Yugoslavia, a sovereign >nation which has not attacked or threatened any of its neighbors. Maybe so, >but what differentiates it from Chechnya, Scotland or the Palestinians? Are >we going to bomb Moscow, London and Jerusalem too? Shall we bomb Istanbul >and Athens in protest at the Cyprus problem? Shall we bomb Ottawa to help >the cause of Quebec? How about bombing China to free Tibet?" >>From Fritz Springmeier, who thinks that the Kosovo crisis is part >of a "script" that will lead to Russian attacking the USA, and >starting World War III >"Over two weeks ago, this author was given inside information that the New >World Order had pulled all their key people - specialists, and so forth out >of San Diego, CA. These people were given a secret high level briefing which >told them to leave San Diego by April 3rd, and that the reason they were to >leave was that Russia was going to drop nuclear bombs on San Diego, Seattle, >NYC, coastal cities on the eastern seaboard where U.S. naval forces (such as >subs) are kept, and Biloxi, Miss. These important people were then moved to >Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Utah where they could be secure underground. >Two of these people had lived through Vietnam, and no longer trusted their >government to care about the people, and it is through these two that this >information leaked to this author." >>From Stratfor's Global Intelligence Update. >http://www.stratfor.com/kosovo/crisis/ >"The war in Kosovo grew out of fundamental miscalculations in Washington, >particularly concerning the effect Russian support had on Milosevic's >thinking. So long as Milosevic feels he has Russian support, he will act >with confidence. If Russia wavers, Milosevic will have to deal. With the >air war stalemated and talks of ground attack a pipe dream, diplomacy >remains NATO's best option. That option depends on Russian cooperation. >However, Russian cooperation will cost a great deal of money. That brings >us to the IMF, the Germans, and former Russian Prime Minister Viktor >Chernomyrdin, who is Russia's new negotiator on Serbia, a leading economic >reformer and a good friend of the West." >>From Lt Gen Satish Nambiar (Retd.) >(First Force Commander and Head of Mission of the United Nations Forces >deployed in the former Yugoslavia 03 Mar 92 to 02 Mar 93. Former Deputy >Chief of Staff, Indian Army. Currently, Director of the United Services >Institution of India.) >"My year long experience as the Force Commander and Head of Mission of the >United Nations Forces deployed in the former Yugoslavia has given me an >understanding of the fatal flaws of US/NATO policies in the troubled region. >It was obvious to most people following events in the Balkans since the >beginning of the decade, and particularly after the fighting that resulted >in the emergence of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the former >Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, that Kosovo was a 'powder keg' waiting to >explode. The West appears to have learnt all the wrong lessons from the >previous wars and applied it to Kosovo." >>From Ian Bruce, The Herald Geopolitics Editor > >"The refugees targeted by mistake in the Nato raid involving the US Air >Force last Wednesday died because a Central Intelligence Agency undercover >operation involving the Kosovo Liberation Army went drastically wrong. >More than 70 fleeing men, women and children were killed as bombs straddled >their convoy of tractors and trailers on the Prizren to Djakovica road in >Kosovo, producing a propaganda disaster for Nato and triggering a furious >behind-the-scenes row between the Pentagon and the US intelligence >community. >The Herald can now reveal that the fatal strike was called in by the Serbs >using a mobile phone and security identification codes supplied to a KLA >"spotter" by the CIA. The man is believed to have been captured early last >week and tortured into telling what he knew. He was then executed. >Intelligence sources said last night that a joint CIA-US special forces >group operating out of the eastern Bosnian town of Tuzla is running a group >of KLA agents inside Kosovo. These men are tasked with reporting the >location and movements of all Serb troops and police units via mobile >phones. >The KLA spotters are being trained by the US equivalent of Britain's SAS - >Delta Force - in camps set up in Albania. They are taught to map read and >transmit exact co-ordinates of mobile Serb teams responsible for the ethnic >cleansing offensive inside the province. >The co-ordinates are then passed to allied air operations at Aviano air base >in Italy and fighter-bombers vectored in to attack with what was hoped would >be pinpoint precision." >And, finally, from Alexander Solzhenitsyn, (famous Russian author) >Moscow, April 8, 1999. >"Hurling aside the United Nations and trampling its Charter, NATO proclaimed >to the whole world and to the next century an ancient law - the law of the >jungle: he who is mighty is completely right. If you are technically >superior, excel your condemned opponent in violence a hundredfold. And they >want us to live in a world like this from now on. In the sight of humanity a >beautiful country is being destroyed while civilized governments applaud. >And desperate people leave bomb shelters and come out as living targets to >die for the salvation of Danube bridges... Is this not antiquity? I do not >see why Clinton, Blair, and Solana would not tomorrow burn and drown them." >(end of quotes) >One thing we should all remember - the first casualty of war is truth. It >pays to have a skeptical attitude to what you read in the papers or see on >TV. Propaganda in war is notorious for its ability to convince. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Neither public email list, open for the public and general discussion. To unsubscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe To subscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=subscribe For information on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neither.org/lists/public-list.htm For archives http://www.mail-archive.com/public-list@neither.org
