Foreign Correspondence

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7. US goals in the Balkans

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* "NATO Buildup in the Balkans: Part of a Deadly Game,"
by Jared Israel
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/farish.htm

* 'Nothing Is Forever...'
Text of Interview with US Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmerman
Comments by Jared Israel
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/nothing.htm

In this 1992 interview, the U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia reveals the US foreign policy
establishment's intention to destroy Yugoslavia and create an Islamist state in Bosnia.

* "Stranger than Fiction: NATO and the US Sponsor Terror in Kosovo and Macedonia"
by Jared Israel

EDIT .. excerpt .. :)

Have NATO and US forces opposed terrorism, supporting a peaceful life
for all? Or have they sponsored terror as a central weapon of policy?

As a point of departure, consider the news dispatch below.

It was issued by the NATO command in Kosovo last year, on 24 May 2001.
(NATO's occupation force in Kosovo is called KFOR. The command is called COMKFOR)

Here's the KFOR dispatch:

"KFOR News Update
Pristina, 24 May 2001
By Maj. Axel-Bernd Jandesek, KFOR Spokesman

"More Than 450 UCPMB Members Surrendered

"By the end of COMKFOR's soft policy towards UCPMB extremists, more than 450 former extremists had taken advantage of this policy. These people voluntarily laid down their arms and turned themselves in at several KFOR checkpoints. KFOR screened and released all UCPMB members who are not suspected of having committed serious crimes."--KFOROnline 24 May 2001 (1)

(UCPMB are the initials used by ethnic Albanian terrorists attacking inner Serbia, which is north of the province
of Kosovo. As we shall see, the UCPMB is really just the KLA, the supposedly dissolved Kosovo Liberation Army, with new initials.)

Some thoughts:

1) Note that the headline of this KFOR report speaks of "450 UCPMB members surrender[ing]"
but the text suggests that all except a few "serious" criminals were subsequently released.

2) KFOR refers to the UCPMB members as 'extremists.' This suggests people with far-out politics. But these are not just people with very radical views; these are terrorists. They are organized in military units. The units conduct heavily armed raids against inner Serbia. They plant land mines. They terrorize uncooperative ethnic Albanians. They kidnap, torture and kill non-Albanian villagers and all policemen. They ambush Yugoslav soldiers. All of this is illegal; all of it contradicts NATO's UN-defined mandate in Kosovo; much of it is murder. And yet KFOR reports that it has:

"...screened and released all UCPMB members who are not suspected of having committed *serious crimes*." [My emphasis]

On what basis could KFOR have concluded that the crimes of some - apparently most - of these terrorists are not serious?

3) Once the terrorists were released, what possible reason would they have *not to return* to their previous occupation - laying land mines, terrorizing, kidnapping and killing people in inner Serbia? After all, by arresting but then releasing the terrorists, hadn't KFOR made it clear to them and to potential recruits that such activities were acceptable?

Shocking as KFOR's behavior already seems, it is actually worse. For by implementing this soft policy on anti-Serbian terror, KFOR explicitly contradicted the principles and responsibilities laid down in UN Security Council Resolution 1244, under which KFOR and UNMIK occupy Kosovo.

Resolution 1244 states as one of its governing principles:

"Reaffirming the commitment of all Member States to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other States of the region, as set out in the Helsinki Final Act and annex 2..."
Note: Helsinki Final Act can be read at http://www.hri.org/docs/Helsinki75.html

Inner Serbia is part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia whose "sovereignty and territorial integrity" KFOR is bound to defend. Does KFOR honor that commitment by freeing 450 terrorists who have previously attacked Inner Serbia and who will now return to that occupation reassured that they are not "serious" criminals? By releasing these terrorists, doesn't KFOR affirm that murderously attacking "the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" is not a "serious crime"?
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/nocrime.htm

http://emperors-clothes.com/yugo.htm#7