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Michael Andrews wrote:
Date: 
            Sun, 12 Mar 2000 09:46:57 -0000
       From: 
            "Michael Andrews" <mike@no.mail.co.uk>
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            alt.war.yugoslavia, soc.culture.greek, soc.culture.british,
soc.culture.yugoslavia


Which we knew about all along, but which the media
prostitutes that read the news on television never reported.
Now look at the hypocritical shits pretend they never knew
about it. Is the mass media an accomplice to pre-meditated
mass murder? (Of course the media prostitutes sleep very
well at night knowing that they receive a five-figure salary
for doing a valuable service for the British and American
rulers.)

From today's Sunday Times:

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CIA aided Kosovo guerrilla army

Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty
March 12 2000


AMERICAN intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the
Kosovo Liberation Army before Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. The
disclosure angered some European diplomats, who said this had
undermined moves for a political solution to the conflict between
Serbs and Albanians.

Central Intelligence Agency officers were ceasefire monitors in
Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, developing ties with the KLA and giving
American military training manuals and field advice on fighting the
Yugoslav army and Serbian police.

When the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE), which co-ordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week before
airstrikes began a year ago, many of its satellite telephones and
global positioning systems were secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring
that guerrilla commanders could stay in touch with Nato and
Washington. Several KLA leaders had the mobile phone number of
General Wesley Clark, the Nato commander.

European diplomats then working for the OSCE claim it was betrayed
by an American policy that made airstrikes inevitable. Some have
questioned the motives and loyalties of William Walker, the American
OSCE head of mission.

"The American agenda consisted of their diplomatic observers, aka
the CIA, operating on completely different terms to the rest of
Europe and the OSCE," said a European envoy.

Several Americans who were directly involved in CIA activities or
close to them have spoken to the makers of Moral Combat, a
documentary to be broadcast on BBC2 tonight, and to The Sunday Times
about their clandestine roles. Walker dismissed suggestions that he
had wanted war in Kosovo, but admitted the CIA was almost certainly
involved in the countdown to airstrikes.

Initially some "diplomatic observers" arrived, followed in October
by a much larger group that was eventually swallowed up into the
OSCE's "Kosovo Verification Mission".

Walker said: "Overnight we went from having a handful of people to
130 or more. Could the agency have put them in at that point? Sure
they could. It's their job. But nobody told me."

Walker, who was nominated by Madeleine Albright, the American
secretary of state, was intensely disliked by Belgrade. He had
worked briefly for the United Nations in Croatia. Ten years earlier
he was the American ambassador to El Salvador when Washington was
helping the government there to suppress leftist rebels while
supporting the contra guerrillas against the Sandinista government
in Nicaragua.

Some European diplomats in Pristina, Kosovo's capital, concluded
from Walker's background that he was inextricably linked with the
CIA. The picture was muddied by the continued separation of American
"diplomatic observers" from the mission. The CIA sources who have
now broken their silence say the diplomatic observers were more
closely connected to the agency.

"It was a CIA front, gathering intelligence on the KLA's arms and
leadership," said one.

Another agent, who said he felt he had been "suckered in" by an
organisation that has run amok in post-war Kosovo, said: "I'd tell
them which hill to avoid, which wood to go behind, that sort of
thing."

The KLA has admitted its long-standing links with American and
European intelligence organisations. Shaban Shala, a KLA commander
now involved in attempts to destabilise majority Albanian villages
beyond Kosovo's border in Serbia proper, claimed he had met British,
American and Swiss agents in northern Albania in 1996.

Belgrade has alleged the CIA also helped to arm the KLA, but this
was denied by the guerrillas and agency sources.

"It was purely the Albanian diaspora helping their brothers," said
Florin Krasniqi, a New York builder and one of the KLA's biggest
financiers. He described how sniper rifles were exported from
America using a loophole in federal law that allowed them to be
shipped to "hunting clubs". Armour-piercing Barratt rifles made
their way to the KLA's "hunting club" in Albania.

Agim Ceku, the KLA commander in the latter stages of the conflict,
had established American contacts through his work in the Croatian
army, which had been modernised with the help of Military
Professional Resources Inc, an American company specialising in
military training and procurement. This company's personnel were in
Kosovo, along with others from a similar company, Dyncorps, that
helped in the American-backed programme for the Bosnian army.


www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/03/12/stifgneur02002.html