At 14:36 21/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
>The following was forwarded by Andre Gunder Frank to the World Systems
>Network. I cannot vouch for its accuracy or authenticity but it rings
>true to me.
A reply to 'Hitler from Goebbels'
So, what exactly is the point of this? Is it to be taken at face value?
Personally, I'm getting more than a little exasperated, not to say
sickened, by NATO and the west always being painted as the 'bad boys'. From
the picture painted here, one could almost get the impression that Serbia
is the poor 'victim'of some vast conspiracy.... I am well aware that the
situation in the Balkans is complicated, and has been for at least the last
400 years, and will continue to be. Anyone who claims to know precisely the
'rights' and 'wrongs' of the situation doesn't understand it at all. And
yes, Serbia certainly does have a legitimate claim to Kosovo. And yes, in
terms of past atrocities, there are no innocents here, on any side. If we
want to get lyrical about it, we are all 'steeped in blood' (Hamlet). But
does this mean that Serbia is no more than an unfortuate victim of the
West's propoganda? No, it does not. Milosevic is a monster - note that I
don't say inhuman, because that is just what he isn't - of the highest
order, a man whose principles are non-existent, whose aims are no more than
to stay in power, who shamelessly manipulates Serb nationalism to further
his own egotism. If Serb ethnic pride hadn't been enough, another cause
would have sufficed. The man is evil. Obviously the media hypes up his
'high barbarity' - I don't think anyone is naive (or innocent) enough to
think of the media as a defender of truth - but please, lets have a bit
less of the belief that this hype means, ipso facto, there is no truth in it.
Okay, enough said on the man Milosevic. The overall view of the the west's
intellectuals is that because of a) the west's far from good record when it
comes to the rights of Others; b) our non-intervention in other dubious
situations (Turkey for starters), we should sit back, drowning in
post-modern angst and not intervene militarily. Well, it's one view. It
can be put forward as 'pacifism', as respect for international law, as an
indication that the west somehow repents of all its former sins.... Well,
I'm sorry, but heres how I think of it. I think of it as rank cowardice.
It's akin to standing by in the school playground while the school bully
kicks seven shades of shit out of the next kid. There has to come a moment
when - albeit recognising that you yourself are far from perfect; indeed,
that you may actually have played a large and active role in producing
conflict - you have to ask yourself the following questions: 1) What do I
believe in? 2) Do I believe in it enough to fight, inflict injury and
suffer injury in the name of it? In this case, e-mail exchanges and
Chomskian critiques are precious little help to the Albanians that have
been forced out of their homes. They live in the real world of disease, of
misery, of filth, of not being wanted, of a people that could very quickly
become an embarresment to the world if Milosevic is not crushed (and I use
that word to mean exactly that) extremely quickly. It seems that some
people are very quick to criticise, but far less able to offer constructive
solutions. Lets actually imagine, if only for a moment, that at least some
of those in the west might not just neo-imperialist oppressors and
upholders of NATO hegemony that they are sometimes painted to be, and
actually genuinely want a solution to this that will respect the human
rights of all those involved; and that the strategies they have employed
towards these ends may be in the form of violence, but are actually case of
making a choice of 'doing the least harm' rather than having that easy
choice between 'do good' and 'do evil'.
Okay, polemic ends.
Graham Gardner
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
At 14:36 21/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
>The following was forwarded by Andre Gunder Frank to the World Systems
>Network. I cannot vouch for its accuracy or authenticity but it rings
>true to me.
>
>Jim Blaut
>
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> ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
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>Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC Fax: 1-514-933 6445
>Canada H3Z 2G8 e-mail:[log in to unmask]
>
>My Personal/Professional Home Page> http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html
>My NATO/Kosovo Page> http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/nato_kosovo/
>My professional/personal conclusion is the same as Pogo's -
> We have met the enemy, and it is US
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:43:49 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Gunder Frank <[log in to unmask]>
>To: agf <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: To Hitler from Goebbels: A belated Kosovo/Yugoslavia present for
your April 20 birthday (fwd)
>
>
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
>250 Kensington Ave - Apt 608 Tel: 1-514-933 2539
>Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC Fax: 1-514-933 6445
>Canada H3Z 2G8 e-mail:[log in to unmask]
>
>My Personal/Professional Home Page> http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html
>My NATO/Kosovo Page> http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/nato_kosovo/
>My professional/personal conclusion is the same as Pogo's -
> We have met the enemy, and it is US
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:15:42 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Gunder Frank <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Cc: Michael Brun <[log in to unmask]>, Marianne Brun <[log in to unmask]>,
> agf <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: To Hitler from Goebbels: A belated Kosovo/Yugoslavia present for
your April 20 birthday
>
>
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>A German Insider's View of Kosovo Conflict
>
>BONN, Apr. 17 - The following report, which TiM has now received from a
>multitude of sources, has been attributed to a "German insider." Since we
>normally don't publish articles from sources which we cannot authenticate,
>we have sat on this text for several days now.
>
>But not only have some credible sources from the international intelligence
>community also forwarded the same report to us, but it has now also been
>passed on by Jurgen Reents, Press-spokesman of PDS at the German
>parliament. The original text, posted at the German, can be found at the
>PDS site: http://www2.pds-online.de/bt/themen/99041303.htm
>
>[AGF editorial note: I can at least certify the verity of the above:
> Diese Seite ist Teil des WWW-Angebotes der PDS im Bundestag
> Erklarung eines Insiders aus dem Bonner Regierungsapparat zum
> Balkan-Krieg vom 7. April 1999
> Beiliegende "Erklarung eines Insiders aus dem Bonner
> Regierungsapparat zum Balkan-Krieg vom 7. April 1999" ging dem
> Presseburo der PDS-Fraktion am 8.4. anonym zu. Der Absender hat
> ausdrucklich um Veroffentlichung gebeten.
> Jurgen Reents, Pressesprecher der PDS im Bundestag ]
> Diese Seite ist Teil des WWW-Angebotes der PDS im
>Bundestag
> Die Startseite mit allen Menus konnen Sie in diesem oder
>einem neuen Fenster laden!
>
> Erklarung eines Insiders aus dem Bonner Regierungsapparat zum
> Balkan-Krieg vom 7. April 1999
>
>
>
> Beiliegende "Erklarung eines Insiders aus dem Bonner
> Regierungsapparat zum Balkan-Krieg vom 7. April 1999" ging dem
> Presseburo der PDS-Fraktion am 8.4. anonym zu. Der Absender hat
> ausdrucklich um Veroffentlichung gebeten.
> Jurgen Reents,
> Pressesprecher der PDS im Bundestag
>
>
>
>
>
>And so, without further ado, here's a "German insider's" story about what
>the "Kosovo Crisis" is all about
>
>"PLOTTING THE WAR AGAINST SERBIA: AN INSIDER'S STORY
>
>1. Personal Preliminary Remarks
>
>2. About the current lies told by [Chancellor] Schroeder, [Defense
>Minister] Scharping, and [Foreign Minister] Fischer
>
>3. CIA covert action aimed at dismembering Yugoslavia
>
>Personal Preliminary Remarks:
>
>This text I am giving to a Catholic priest, who is a member of the Order
>for Peace [Ordensleute fur den Frieden] here in Germany. I am doing so
>while maintaining confessional confidentiality, and divulging no
>information as to my identity. He will transmit this text on my behalf to
>those who need to know the truth.
>
>I hold a high-security post in the government apparatus in Bonn, and for
>reasons of conscience can no longer remain silent. The facts that I am
>about to divulge are, for the better informed, examinable and verifiable.
>
>Both the entire NATO propaganda staff as well as the Infernal Trio,
>Schroeder, Scharping and Fischer, here in Germany are unabashedly lying to
>the public with nearly every "fact" they present about the Balkans War,
>while a willing media pack is keenly spreading these lies, unverified, as
>gospel truth.
>
>About the current situation:
>
>The Federal Government knows the true reasons why the people are fleeing
>and is cynically playing with the calculated misery of the refugees in the
>border regions of Kosovo, in order to maintain an image comparable to WW II
>deportations and "ethnic cleansing".
>
>Neither the military intelligence arm of the Bundeswehr nor that of the
>NATO have at their disposal photographic evidence, intelligence knowledge,
>indications and proof leading to the conclusion that there is systematic
>expulsion or deportation of refugees by the Yugoslav special forces, army
>or police. According to internal acknowledgement of the defense ministry
>the reasons for flight are more or less equally distributed:
>
> (1) Excess on the part of Yugoslav soldiers and police force, often
>triggered in part by KLA attacks carried out under cover of Kosovo-Albanian
>civilians. Information is on hand that Yugoslav soldiers caught looting are
>summarily court-martialed;
>
> (2) The results of the NATO bombing, such as the lack of potable water in
>nearly all cities of Kosovo and general devastation;
>
> (3)Understandable fear of getting caught in the crossfire between the
>KLA, the Yugoslav military, and NATO attacks;
>
> (4) Constant spreading of panic and horror stories in the broadcasts of
>dozens of small KLA, NATO or Albanian shortwave radio stations located in
>the mountains, alongside the propaganda broadcasts of the KLA over Radio
>Tirana;
>
> (5) Pillaging bands of the Albanian mafia, who with their weapons stolen
>during the Albanian civil war, extort money, search abandoned houses for
>anything of value and then burn the houses down to create political effect;
>
> (6) KLA irregular troops, who have declared a "general mobilization" and
>are forcing every available man into their military service. Those
>objecting are submitted to grave physical abuse and released only upon
>paying a ransom, and having sworn under threat of vendetta, not to tell the
>truth but to tell family and the media that they had been mishandled by
Serbs.
>
> (7) The announcement by the KLA that NATO will inevitably have to carry
>out a ground attack and that this attack is imminent.
>
>Some sectors of NATO welcome the mass exodus of refugees. The military in
>Germany favorably greeted the Pentagon's April 5, [1999] commentary to the
>effect that when all had fled, Kosovo could be carpet bombed with no
restraint.
>
>The German government knows that there are no concentration camps, that no
>houses where marked with "S" by Serbs. This, as well as the news that
>people are not being detained in a stadium in Pristina, was reported by
>representatives of the catholic church in Pristina in a direct telephone
>conversation with employees of the German government. Still Scharping is
>spreading these lies.
>
>The German government is also aware that on the borders American and
>European private media are offering up to US $200,000 for video footage of
>massacres - real or posed.
>
>NATO and the German army are logistically supporting the KLA. Food,
>uniforms and instructors are furnished mainly by the Bundeswehr as well as
>the USA. All KLA commanders are in constant radio contact with NATO.
>
>NATO ground forces are already operating doing reconnaissance inside
>Kosovo. They are German and US units whose task is to detect and give the
>coordinates of ground targets. Furthermore, NATO officers are functioning
>as liaison commandos for the KLA. The contacts that were necessary for this
>mission were established by US and German officers, in violation of their
>mission as OSCE observers, preceding NATO-attacks. Here the German
>parliament is being as much taken for a fool as the general public.
>
>With the deployment of German Tornado aircraft, our Defense Minister has
>chosen to premeditatedly violate the Geneva Convention and other
>international laws of warfare. This applies to the targeting and
>destruction of the military hospital in Belgrade, as well as the attacks
>carried out against the Danube bridges and among other things, the
>disturbance/interruption of the continuation of international traffic on
>the Danube between Regensburg and the Black Sea, which also Germany as a
>bordering state to the Danube has guaranteed under international law to
>protect.
>
>The Chancellor and Foreign Minister knew from the outset that no Yugoslav
>government could ever sign the occupation statute, as it appeared in
>articles 6, 8 and 10 of Annex B of the Rambouillet Treaty. Both understood
>clearly that this would mean the end of Yugoslavia as a sovereign state.
>War was therefore inevitable.
>
>Experts of the Justice Ministry poked fun at these passages, these clauses
>NATO would give NATO the rights of a medieval robber-knight throughout the
>whole of Yugoslavia. Furthermore, according to Filippo di Robilant, the
>Italian legal advisor at Rambouillet to Rugova, the moderate
>Kosovo-Albanian, Rugova only signed after he was given assurance by Robin
>Cook, that NATO would attack exclusively military targets and that measures
>would be taken to safeguard the civilian population in the whole of
Yugoslavia.
>
>Code named "Roots" - a covert action under which the CIA prepared the war -
>the objective is the destruction of Yugoslavia though loss of Kosovo,
>Montenegro and Vojvodina.
>
>Under the "Roots" operations, the USA has since the beginning of the first
>term of Clinton's Administration been working - in close collaboration with
>Germany - on this covert action of the CIA and the DIA, and supported by
>the German secret service. The objective of "Roots" is the military and
>ethnic destabilization of Yugoslavia, the last bastion of resistance in the
>Balkans.
>
>The objective of "Roots'" is the dissociation of Kosovo as the principal
>source of raw materials for Yugoslavia though a comprehensive autonomy, by
>Albanian annexation or total independence; the secession of Montenegro, its
>the only remaining access to the Adriatic, and the dislocation of Vojvodina
>the "bread basket," and another source of raw materials for Yugoslavia
>leading to the total collapse of Yugoslavia as a viable, industrial state.
>
>Behind this action is Germany's and the USA's fear that Yugoslavia will
>ally itself with Russia and other former Soviet states once Yeltsin is
>replaced by communist and nationalist forces in the near future. [ ... ]
>-------------
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>Jim Blaut
>
>-------- Forwarded Message --------
>
>Subject: To Hitler from Goebbels: A belated Kosovo/Yugoslavia present for
your April 20 birthday (fwd)
>Date: 20-Apr-99 at 23:13
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>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
>250 Kensington Ave - Apt 608 Tel: 1-514-933 2539
>Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC Fax: 1-514-933 6445
>Canada H3Z 2G8 e-mail:[log in to unmask]
>
>My Personal/Professional Home Page> http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html
>My NATO/Kosovo Page> http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/nato_kosovo/
>My professional/personal conclusion is the same as Pogo's -
> We have met the enemy, and it is US
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:43:49 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Gunder Frank <[log in to unmask]>
>To: agf <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: To Hitler from Goebbels: A belated Kosovo/Yugoslavia present for
your April 20 birthday (fwd)
>
>
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
>250 Kensington Ave - Apt 608 Tel: 1-514-933 2539
>Westmount/Montreal PQ/QC Fax: 1-514-933 6445
>Canada H3Z 2G8 e-mail:[log in to unmask]
>
>My Personal/Professional Home Page> http://www.whc.neu.edu/gunder.html
>My NATO/Kosovo Page> http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank/nato_kosovo/
>My professional/personal conclusion is the same as Pogo's -
> We have met the enemy, and it is US
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:15:42 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Gunder Frank <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Cc: Michael Brun <[log in to unmask]>, Marianne Brun <[log in to unmask]>,
> agf <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: To Hitler from Goebbels: A belated Kosovo/Yugoslavia present for
your April 20 birthday
>
>
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>A German Insider's View of Kosovo Conflict
>
>BONN, Apr. 17 - The following report, which TiM has now received from a
>multitude of sources, has been attributed to a "German insider." Since we
>normally don't publish articles from sources which we cannot authenticate,
>we have sat on this text for several days now.
>
>But not only have some credible sources from the international intelligence
>community also forwarded the same report to us, but it has now also been
>passed on by Jurgen Reents, Press-spokesman of PDS at the German
>parliament. The original text, posted at the German, can be found at the
>PDS site: http://www2.pds-online.de/bt/themen/99041303.htm
>
>[AGF editorial note: I can at least certify the verity of the above:
> Diese Seite ist Teil des WWW-Angebotes der PDS im Bundestag
> Erklarung eines Insiders aus dem Bonner Regierungsapparat zum
> Balkan-Krieg vom 7. April 1999
> Beiliegende "Erklarung eines Insiders aus dem Bonner
> Regierungsapparat zum Balkan-Krieg vom 7. April 1999" ging dem
> Presseburo der PDS-Fraktion am 8.4. anonym zu. Der Absender hat
> ausdrucklich um Veroffentlichung gebeten.
> Jurgen Reents, Pressesprecher der PDS im Bundestag ]
> Diese Seite ist Teil des WWW-Angebotes der PDS im
>Bundestag
> Die Startseite mit allen Menus konnen Sie in diesem oder
>einem neuen Fenster laden!
>
> Erklarung eines Insiders aus dem Bonner Regierungsapparat zum
> Balkan-Krieg vom 7. April 1999
>
>
>
> Beiliegende "Erklarung eines Insiders aus dem Bonner
> Regierungsapparat zum Balkan-Krieg vom 7. April 1999" ging dem
> Presseburo der PDS-Fraktion am 8.4. anonym zu. Der Absender hat
> ausdrucklich um Veroffentlichung gebeten.
> Jurgen Reents,
> Pressesprecher der PDS im Bundestag
>
>
>
>
>
>And so, without further ado, here's a "German insider's" story about what
>the "Kosovo Crisis" is all about
>
>"PLOTTING THE WAR AGAINST SERBIA: AN INSIDER'S STORY
>
>1. Personal Preliminary Remarks
>
>2. About the current lies told by [Chancellor] Schroeder, [Defense
>Minister] Scharping, and [Foreign Minister] Fischer
>
>3. CIA covert action aimed at dismembering Yugoslavia
>
>Personal Preliminary Remarks:
>
>This text I am giving to a Catholic priest, who is a member of the Order
>for Peace [Ordensleute fur den Frieden] here in Germany. I am doing so
>while maintaining confessional confidentiality, and divulging no
>information as to my identity. He will transmit this text on my behalf to
>those who need to know the truth.
>
>I hold a high-security post in the government apparatus in Bonn, and for
>reasons of conscience can no longer remain silent. The facts that I am
>about to divulge are, for the better informed, examinable and verifiable.
>
>Both the entire NATO propaganda staff as well as the Infernal Trio,
>Schroeder, Scharping and Fischer, here in Germany are unabashedly lying to
>the public with nearly every "fact" they present about the Balkans War,
>while a willing media pack is keenly spreading these lies, unverified, as
>gospel truth.
>
>About the current situation:
>
>The Federal Government knows the true reasons why the people are fleeing
>and is cynically playing with the calculated misery of the refugees in the
>border regions of Kosovo, in order to maintain an image comparable to WW II
>deportations and "ethnic cleansing".
>
>Neither the military intelligence arm of the Bundeswehr nor that of the
>NATO have at their disposal photographic evidence, intelligence knowledge,
>indications and proof leading to the conclusion that there is systematic
>expulsion or deportation of refugees by the Yugoslav special forces, army
>or police. According to internal acknowledgement of the defense ministry
>the reasons for flight are more or less equally distributed:
>
> (1) Excess on the part of Yugoslav soldiers and police force, often
>triggered in part by KLA attacks carried out under cover of Kosovo-Albanian
>civilians. Information is on hand that Yugoslav soldiers caught looting are
>summarily court-martialed;
>
> (2) The results of the NATO bombing, such as the lack of potable water in
>nearly all cities of Kosovo and general devastation;
>
> (3)Understandable fear of getting caught in the crossfire between the
>KLA, the Yugoslav military, and NATO attacks;
>
> (4) Constant spreading of panic and horror stories in the broadcasts of
>dozens of small KLA, NATO or Albanian shortwave radio stations located in
>the mountains, alongside the propaganda broadcasts of the KLA over Radio
>Tirana;
>
> (5) Pillaging bands of the Albanian mafia, who with their weapons stolen
>during the Albanian civil war, extort money, search abandoned houses for
>anything of value and then burn the houses down to create political effect;
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> (6) KLA irregular troops, who have declared a "general mobilization" and
>are forcing every available man into their military service. Those
>objecting are submitted to grave physical abuse and released only upon
>paying a ransom, and having sworn under threat of vendetta, not to tell the
>truth but to tell family and the media that they had been mishandled by
Serbs.
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> (7) The announcement by the KLA that NATO will inevitably have to carry
>out a ground attack and that this attack is imminent.
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>Some sectors of NATO welcome the mass exodus of refugees. The military in
>Germany favorably greeted the Pentagon's April 5, [1999] commentary to the
>effect that when all had fled, Kosovo could be carpet bombed with no
restraint.
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>The German government knows that there are no concentration camps, that no
>houses where marked with "S" by Serbs. This, as well as the news that
>people are not being detained in a stadium in Pristina, was reported by
>representatives of the catholic church in Pristina in a direct telephone
>conversation with employees of the German government. Still Scharping is
>spreading these lies.
>
>The German government is also aware that on the borders American and
>European private media are offering up to US $200,000 for video footage of
>massacres - real or posed.
>
>NATO and the German army are logistically supporting the KLA. Food,
>uniforms and instructors are furnished mainly by the Bundeswehr as well as
>the USA. All KLA commanders are in constant radio contact with NATO.
>
>NATO ground forces are already operating doing reconnaissance inside
>Kosovo. They are German and US units whose task is to detect and give the
>coordinates of ground targets. Furthermore, NATO officers are functioning
>as liaison commandos for the KLA. The contacts that were necessary for this
>mission were established by US and German officers, in violation of their
>mission as OSCE observers, preceding NATO-attacks. Here the German
>parliament is being as much taken for a fool as the general public.
>
>With the deployment of German Tornado aircraft, our Defense Minister has
>chosen to premeditatedly violate the Geneva Convention and other
>international laws of warfare. This applies to the targeting and
>destruction of the military hospital in Belgrade, as well as the attacks
>carried out against the Danube bridges and among other things, the
>disturbance/interruption of the continuation of international traffic on
>the Danube between Regensburg and the Black Sea, which also Germany as a
>bordering state to the Danube has guaranteed under international law to
>protect.
>
>The Chancellor and Foreign Minister knew from the outset that no Yugoslav
>government could ever sign the occupation statute, as it appeared in
>articles 6, 8 and 10 of Annex B of the Rambouillet Treaty. Both understood
>clearly that this would mean the end of Yugoslavia as a sovereign state.
>War was therefore inevitable.
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>Experts of the Justice Ministry poked fun at these passages, these clauses
>NATO would give NATO the rights of a medieval robber-knight throughout the
>whole of Yugoslavia. Furthermore, according to Filippo di Robilant, the
>Italian legal advisor at Rambouillet to Rugova, the moderate
>Kosovo-Albanian, Rugova only signed after he was given assurance by Robin
>Cook, that NATO would attack exclusively military targets and that measures
>would be taken to safeguard the civilian population in the whole of
Yugoslavia.
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>Code named "Roots" - a covert action under which the CIA prepared the war -
>the objective is the destruction of Yugoslavia though loss of Kosovo,
>Montenegro and Vojvodina.
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>Under the "Roots" operations, the USA has since the beginning of the first
>term of Clinton's Administration been working - in close collaboration with
>Germany - on this covert action of the CIA and the DIA, and supported by
>the German secret service. The objective of "Roots" is the military and
>ethnic destabilization of Yugoslavia, the last bastion of resistance in the
>Balkans.
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>The objective of "Roots'" is the dissociation of Kosovo as the principal
>source of raw materials for Yugoslavia though a comprehensive autonomy, by
>Albanian annexation or total independence; the secession of Montenegro, its
>the only remaining access to the Adriatic, and the dislocation of Vojvodina
>the "bread basket," and another source of raw materials for Yugoslavia
>leading to the total collapse of Yugoslavia as a viable, industrial state.
>
>Behind this action is Germany's and the USA's fear that Yugoslavia will
>ally itself with Russia and other former Soviet states once Yeltsin is
>replaced by communist and nationalist forces in the near future. [ ... ]
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