
Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com.
The “Humanitarian War” In Yugoslavia Set the Stage for Subsequent “Humanitarian” Interventions In Libya, Syria and Other Nations
The first “humanitarian war” in the post-Cold War era was in the Kosovo, Bosnia and Serbia regions of Yugoslavia (Croatia and Slovenia were regions of Yugoslavia which also played into the war).
Wikipedia notes:
Humanitarian bombing is a phrase referring to the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (24 March – 10 June 1999) during the Kosovo War …. The closely related phrase humanitarian war appeared at the same time.
Indeed, the war in Yugoslavia set the pattern for all subsequent “humanitarian wars” … in Libya, Syira, Nigeria (think Boko Haram), and elsewhere.
Leading anti-war activist David Swanson gives an overview:
What your government told you about the bombing of Kosovo was false. And it matters.
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NATO’s breakout war of aggression, its first post-Cold-War war to assert its power … this was put over on us as an act of philanthropy.
The killing hasn’t stopped. NATO keeps expanding its membership and its mission, notably into places like Afghanistan and
Libya. It matters how this got started, because it’s going to be up to us to stop it.
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The United States worked for the breakup of Yugoslavia, intentionally prevented negotiated agreements among the parties, and engaged in a massive bombing campaign … This was accomplished through lies, fabrications, and exaggerations about atrocities, and then justified anachronistically as a response to violence that it generated.
After the bombing, the U.S. allowed the Bosnian Muslims to agree to a peace plan very similar to the plan that the U.S. had been blocking prior to the bombing spree. Here’s U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:
“In its first weeks in office, the Clinton administration has administered a death blow to the Vance-Owen plan that would have given the Serbs 43 percent of the territory of a unified state. In 1995 at Dayton, the administration took pride in an agreement that, after nearly three more years of horror and slaughter, gave the Serbs 49 percent in a state partitioned into two entities.”
These many years later it should matter to us that we were told about fake atrocities that researchers were unable to ever find, any more than anyone could ever find the weapons in Iraq, or the evidence of plans to slaughter civilians in Benghazi, or the evidence of Syrian chemical weapons use.
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NATO had to bomb Kosovo 15 years ago to prevent a genocide? Really? Why sabotage negotiations? Why pull out all observers?
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It is Yugoslavia, not Iraq or Afghanistan, that war proponents will continue pointing to for years to come as a model for future wars — unless we stop them. This was a war that broke new ground ….
John Pilger is a highly-regarded journalist (the BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson remarked, “a country that does not have a John Pilger in its journalism is a very feeble place indeed”). Pilger writes this week:
The “humanitarian war” against Libya drew on a model close to western liberal hearts, especially in the media. In 1999, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair sent NATO to bomb Serbia, because, they lied, the Serbs were committing “genocide” against ethnic Albanians in the secessionist province of Kosovo.
David Scheffer, U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes [sic], claimed that as many as “225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59″ might have been murdered. Both Clinton and Blair evoked the Holocaust and “the spirit of the Second World War.”
The West’s heroic allies were the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), whose criminal record was set aside. The British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, told them to call him any time on his mobile phone.
With the NATO bombing over, and much of Serbia’s infrastructure in ruins, along with schools, hospitals, monasteries and the national TV station, international forensic teams descended upon Kosovo to exhume evidence of the “holocaust.” The FBI failed to find a single mass grave and went home. The Spanish forensic team did the same, its leader angrily denouncing “a semantic pirouette by the war propaganda machines.”
A year later, a United Nations tribunal on Yugoslavia announced the final count of the dead in Kosovo: 2,788. This included combatants on both sides and Serbs and Roma murdered by the KLA. There was no genocide. The “holocaust” was a lie. The NATO attack had been fraudulent.
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Behind the lie, there was serious purpose. Yugoslavia was a uniquely independent, multi-ethnic federation that had stood as a political and economic bridge in the Cold War. Most of its utilities and major manufacturing was publicly owned. This was not acceptable to the expanding European Community, especially newly united Germany, which had begun a drive east to capture its “natural market” in the Yugoslav provinces of Croatia and Slovenia.
By the time the Europeans met at Maastricht in 1991 to lay their plans for the disastrous eurozone, a secret deal had been struck; Germany would recognize Croatia. Yugoslavia was doomed.
In Washington, the U.S. saw that the struggling Yugoslav economy was denied World Bank loans. NATO, then an almost defunct Cold War relic, was reinvented as imperial enforcer. At a 1999 Kosovo “peace” conference in Rambouillet, in France, the Serbs were subjected to the enforcer’s duplicitous tactics.
The Rambouillet accord included a secret Annex B, which the U.S. delegation inserted on the last day. This demanded the military occupation of the whole of Yugoslavia — a country with bitter memories of the Nazi occupation — and the implementation of a “free-market economy” and the privatization of all government assets. No sovereign state could sign this. Punishment followed swiftly; NATO bombs fell on a defenseless country. It was the precursor to the catastrophes in Afghanistan and Iraq, Syria and Libya, and Ukraine.
And see this.
Jack Cashill writes:
The House’s Benghazi select committee may want to ask how the U.S. got involved in Libya in the first place. What they will discover is that Barack Obama borrowed a page from the Clinton playbook on Kosovo, a lethal exercise in mendacity unparalleled in recent American history.
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In 1999, Serbian authorities were attempting to suppress an insurrection by ethnic Albanian Muslims in the Kosovo province of their fracturing nation. Like Obama, President Bill Clinton had not bothered getting congressional approval before unleashing America’s air power.
To bolster public support, Clinton and his people began a drumbeat about mass graves, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. As in Libya, there was no stated reason for this war other than to prevent genocide.
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President Clinton compared the work of the Serbs in Kosovo to the German “genocide” of the Jews during the Holocaust and assured America that “tens of thousands of people” had been murdered.
In the war’s wake, however, international teams could find no signs of genocide. The ethnic Albanian dead numbered in the hundreds, not in the hundreds of thousands.
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In 2001, a United Nations court ruled, “Serbian troops did not carry out genocide against ethnic Albanians.”
William Blum writes:
Kosovo, overwhelmingly Muslim, was a province of Serbia, the main republic of the former Yugoslavia. In 1998, Kosovo separatists – The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – began an armed conflict with Belgrade to split Kosovo from Serbia. The KLA was considered a terrorist organization by the U.S., the UK and France for years, with numerous reports of the KLA having contact with al-Qaeda, getting arms from them, having its militants trained in al-Qaeda camps in Pakistan, and even having members of al-Qaeda in KLA ranks fighting against the Serbs. [RT TV (Moscow), May 4, 2012]
However, when U.S.-NATO forces began military action against the Serbs the KLA was taken off the U.S. terrorist list, it “received official US-NATO arms and training support” [Wall Street Journal, Nov. 1, 2001], and the 1999 U.S.-NATO bombing campaign eventually focused on driving Serbian forces from Kosovo.
In 2008 Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia, an independence so illegitimate and artificial that the majority of the world’s nations still have not recognized it. But the United States was the first to do so, the very next day, thus affirming the unilateral declaration of independence of a part of another country’s territory.
The KLA have been known for their trafficking in women, heroin, and human body parts (sic). The United States has naturally been pushing for Kosovo’s membership in NATO and the European Union.
Nota bene: In 1992 the Bosnian Muslims, Croats, and Serbs reached agreement in Lisbon for a unified state. The continuation of a peaceful multi-ethnic Bosnia seemed assured. But the United States sabotaged the agreement. [New York Times, June 17, 1993, buried at the very end of the article on an inside page]
The “Humanitarian War” In Libya
The same thing happened during the “humanitarian” war in Libya.
Pilger explains:
The public sodomizing of the Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi with a “rebel” bayonet was greeted by the then U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, with the words: “We came, we saw, he died.” His murder, like the destruction of his country, was justified with a familiar big lie; he was planning “genocide” against his own people.
“We knew … that if we waited one more day,” said President Barack Obama, “Benghazi, a city the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.”
This was the fabrication of Islamist militias facing defeat by Libyan government forces. They told Reuters there would be “a real bloodbath, a massacre like we saw in Rwanda.” Reported on March 14, 2011, the lie provided the first spark for NATO’s inferno, described by David Cameron as a “humanitarian intervention.”
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For Obama, Cameron and Hollande, Gaddafi’s true crime was Libya’s economic independence and his declared intention to stop selling Africa’s greatest oil reserves in U.S. dollars. The petrodollar is a pillar of American imperial power.
Gaddafi audaciously planned to underwrite a common African currency backed by gold, establish an all-Africa bank and promote economic union among poor countries with prized resources. Whether or not this would happen, the very notion was intolerable to the U.S. as it prepared to “enter” Africa and bribe African governments with military “partnerships.”
Following NATO’s attack under cover of a Security Council resolution, Obama, wrote Garikai Chengu, “confiscated $30 billion from Libya’s Central Bank, which Gaddafi had earmarked for the establishment of an African Central Bank and the African gold backed dinar currency.”
The reality of what happened in Benghazi is not pretty:
According to a 2007 report by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center’s center, the Libyan city of Benghazi was one of Al Qaeda’s main headquarters – and bases for sending Al Qaeda fighters into Iraq – prior to the overthrow of Gaddafi:
The Hindustan Times reported in 2011:
“There is no question that al Qaeda’s Libyan franchise, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, is a part of the opposition,” Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer and a leading expert on terrorism, told Hindustan Times.
It has always been Qaddafi’s biggest enemy and its stronghold is Benghazi.
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Gaddafi was on the verge of invading Benghazi in 2011, 4 years after the West Point report cited Benghazi as a hotbed of Al Qaeda terrorists. Gaddafi claimed – rightly it turns out – that Benghazi was an Al Qaeda stronghold and a main source of the Libyan rebellion. But NATO planes stopped him, and protected Benghazi.
In other words, the only real “bloodbath” which would have occurred if Gaddafi had been allowed to take Benghazi was among members of Al Qaeda.
Cashill notes:
For the Libyan conflict, Alan Kuperman, a Democrat and author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention, did the calculations that the media refused to do. Just two weeks after the president’s address on Libya, Kuperman made the simple point, “The best evidence that Khadafy did not plan genocide in Benghazi is that he did not perpetrate it in the other cities he had recaptured.” He cited the Human Rights Watch data from Misurata, a city of 400,000 that Qaddafi’s forces had recently seized. There, in nearly two months of war, only 257 people were killed, including combatants. In Rwanda by contrast, more than 800,000 Tutsis were killed in just ninety days.
What did happen in Libya, Kuperman explained, is that rebel forces, fearing imminent defeat, faked a humanitarian crisis. On March 14, a rebel spokesman told Reuters that if Khadafy attacked Benghazi, there would be “a real bloodbath, a massacre like we saw in Rwanda.’’ On March 21, The New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick reported, “The rebels feel no loyalty to the truth in shaping their propaganda, claiming nonexistent battlefield victories, asserting they were still fighting in a key city days after it fell to Qaddafi forces, and making vastly inflated claims of his barbaric behavior.”
No matter, the U.S. military had already started bombing. A month later, Obama co-signed a letter claiming, “The bloodbath that he had promised to inflict on the citizens of the besieged city of Benghazi has been prevented.” In the retelling, the “he” doing the promising was Qaddafi. In reality, the only people who promised bloodbaths were the rebel spokesmen and the Western leaders. By this time, Obama had to know that the pretext for war was false, but he would continue to pursue it for another six deadly months.
As the insurgency dragged on, the insurgents began spreading the myth that Qaddafi had been using African mercenaries. This falsehood, said the Times, “Rebels repeat as fact over and over.” Fired up by rumors of black mercenaries on Viagra-fueled rape sprees, the rebels did some ethnic cleansing on their own. Patrick Cockburn of the Independent saw the evidence up close. “Any Libyan with a black skin accused of fighting for the old regime may have a poor chance of survival,” he concluded. Obama chose not to notice. These young men may have looked like his son, but they were not being killed in a battleground state during an election year.
On October 20, 2011, militia members took Qaddafi prisoner, indelicately sodomized him with a knife, and captured it all on video. They then threw Qaddafi, still breathing, onto a pickup truck. When the truck pulled away, he promptly fell off. Said a giddy Obama in a Rose Garden speech about this Keystone Cops-meets-Mad Max muddle, “The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted.” In claiming victory, Obama championed the victors and made Libya his personal success story. This would have consequences not too far down the road.
If the major media were willing to endorse Obama’s narrative, Alan Kuperman was not. Writing for the Harvard Kennedy School’s International Security journal in 2013, Kuperman unspun the web of deception that the Libyan rebels and their NATO enablers had woven. “The biggest misconception about NATO’s intervention,” wrote Kuperman, “is that it saved lives and benefited Libya and its neighbors.”
In fact, Qaddafi did not attack peaceful protesters. The rebels started the violence, and Qaddafi responded. Barely six weeks after the rebellion started, Qaddafi had all but suppressed it at the cost of about one thousand lives. Then Obama authorized NATO intervention. That intervention prolonged the war seven months and cost roughly seven thousand more lives. At war’s end, rebels killed scores of the former enemy in reprisal killings and exiled some 30,000 black Africans.
Humanitarian War Means … Backing Al Qaeda?
Amazingly, in both Yugoslavia and Libya, America and her allies supported Al Qaeda terrorists so that they would bring down the government.
It has been confirmed time and again that the U.S. supported Al Qaeda to topple Libya’s Gaddafi.
And Cashill notes:
Secretly supplied and trained by Britain’s SAS, many of the “rebels” would become ISIS, whose latest video offering shows the beheading of 21 Coptic Christian workers seized in Sirte, the city destroyed on their behalf by NATO bombers.
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During the insurrection, the Obama administration had been funneling money to Qatar to help arm Libyans rebels. As the Times reported more than a year after the fact, “The weapons and money from Qatar strengthened militant groups in Libya, allowing them to become a destabilizing force since the fall of the Qaddafi government.”
In Yugoslavia, Naval War College professor of strategy and former NSA intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer John R. Schindler documents that the U.S. supported Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda terrorists in Bosnia.
Blum notes:
On Nov. 1, 2001, less than two months after the 9/11 attacks, the Wall Street Journal declared:
“It is safe to say that the birth of al-Qaeda as a force on the world stage can be traced directly back to 1992, when the Bosnian Muslim government of Alija Izetbegovic issued a passport in their Vienna embassy to Osama bin Laden. … for the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al-Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia. This has gone on for a decade.”
A few months later, The Guardian reported on “the full story of the secret alliance between the Pentagon and radical Islamist groups from the Middle East designed to assist the Bosnian Muslims – some of the same groups that the Pentagon is now fighting in ‘the war against terrorism’.”
In 1994 and 1995 US/NATO forces carried out bombing campaigns over Bosnia aimed at damaging the military capability of the Serbs and enhancing that of the Bosnian Muslims. In the decade-long civil wars in the Balkans, the Serbs, regarded by Washington as the “the last communist government in Europe,” were always the main enemy.
Humanitarian War … An Old Ruse
The concept of “humanitarian war” has fooled a lot of people for a long time.
In announcing his invasion of Poland, Hitler said:
I ordered the German Air Force to conduct humanitarian warfare [in Poland] ….
Michael Mandel notes:
The notion of a “humanitarian war” would have rang in the ears of the drafters of the UN Charter as nothing short of Hitlerian, because it was precisely the justification used by Hitler himself for the invasion of Poland just six years earlier.”
After all these years, the concept of “humanitarian war” is still fooling progressives and liberals and playing out places like Syria – even though it never turns out well. And see this.



Trolls, don’t waste your breath, the sweat, or the digital ink. It’s going to roll over you too.
THE GREAT EMPIRE OF NOSTRADAMUS' THIRD ANTICHRIST IS NATO
Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 23:1
The great Empire of the Antichrist will begin where Attila and the new Xerxes [will] descend in numbers great and countless…
TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 23:1
The great Empire of the Third Antichrist will begin [when NATO forces attack Serbia on March 24th, 1999] where Attila first appeared in history and then [when NATO forces attack Iran] where Xerxes once ruled. [The defeat of Western forces will give birth to a New Xerxes, who will lead an Islamic army that will be allied with the Chinese], and they will descend on Europe in great and countless numbers.
Nostradamus and the Age of Desolation, G. A. Stewart, Page 274, 2010
It was President Bill Clinton and Tony Blair who led the NATO intervention in the Kosovo War during the breakup of Yugoslavia. As you will read in Chapter Fifteen, Nostradamus had some very specific predictions concerning this area of the world and the appearance of two of history’s most memorable characters, Attila and Xerxes. Attila first appeared in the Kosovo region and Xerxes, of course, ruled ancient Persia, present day Iran.
http://theageofdesolation.com/
I doesn't say here that the bombing campaign was codenamed: "Merciful Angel".
I was 11 back then, and still remember the first air raid like it was yesterday. We all went calmly into the basement of our apartment building and there stood together with our neighbours in silence as the ground shook.
Enjoy! the cryptome e-mails (pdf) makes ref to Libya (and other items).
http://cryptome.org/2015/03/guccifer-hrc-sid-emails.pdf
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-su...
"Slick Willy" Clinton "laid the foundation" for a number of things besides illegal, unprovoked warfare:
- State Extra-Judicial Terminations - aka "Arkancide"
- State Sanctioned Drug-Running -Mena Airport Ark, SA drug conduit
- State/WallSt Embezzlement of The Middle Class - via repeal Of Glass-Steagall
- State Domestic Terrorism: WACO
.... the list goes on
Bush41 bombed ME + muslims to US - ergo 9/11
USG R Kunts
Reminds me of the Imperial British involvement in South Africa vs. the Boers.
Gold and diamonds cuts a lot of blood.
the Boers were the first to experience the modern wonder of... concentration camps
interestingly, the German Emperor made lots of greenie points all over the world by accusing the British of attempting the genocide of a Germanic tribe
not true Ghordius, the US used them for Cherokee in 1838; the Spanish-American War 1896 had them, the British used them in the Boer War and the Germans used them in SW Africa 1904
the "modern" kind? thanks, I'll have to look into that
Thank you, George, for pointing out that bombing a population doesn't qualify as a 'humanitarian' intervention.
Please note that it was Nicolas Sarcozy who was French president and instigating US lapdog for NATO's Libyan involvement. I am no fan of Hollande (il est nul), but this was a very characteristic Sarcozy (l'Americain) stance... and to think that until a couple of short years before France had showed the good sense to avoid NATO membership.
The issue over Yugoslavia was the CSU party in Bavaria. Interestingly the Bavarian state hosts the Sudetenland German Exile Associations and is Catholic. It took up the cause of Catholic Croatia against Orthodox Serbia and with Edmund Stoiber having become leader in Jan 1999 he needed a cause to overcome the CDU Kohl corruption scandals. Also Tudjman in Croatia died in 1999 so the whole scenario was set for idiots like Blair burning with hubris to reverse the Major-Hurd policy of not getting involved. In fact Major recognised Croatia for Germany in return for an opt-out from the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty 1991.....Blair set out to reverse Major's policies
u blame it on everybody else, but not Washington exceptional people.
It was for the children. Clinton famously fucked for virginity too.
the clintons are straight up garbage.
Humanitarian Wars, the the stuff Nobel Peace Prizes are made of...
Oxymorons R US:
humanitarian war
+1 for concision.
-1 for not being away for a few days
What makes you think I'm not?
tl;dr
I don't think many people actually believe that whole 'humanitarian war' thing...It doesn't convince the ones who want to avoid conflict, but it gives the ones who DO want to fight a perfect excuse...
The big group in between hear the term, and think of exceptional American soldiers handing out bags of UN rice to starving masses of ethnic-type folks in exotic locales. Folks who are eager to be freed of their native shackles, and become Americans too. They don't even know what the word 'humanitarian' MEANS and have no idea WHERE these places are located on a map, but will support, en masse, their leader's desire to get in there and fuck around with shit...
True humanitarian aid does NOT require a military 'presence', and works best when it stays low-key, especially in unstable regions.
If you send your personnel or your equipment, it IS a military operation.
Let's murder and torture some folks, after all it is only for their own good.
The above statement is how I view Big Bro in Washignton DC
Every ISIS beheading video builds the case for the next "humanitarian" war. If those guys were working hand in glove with the U.S. war machine, their actions could not be any different. If not conspiracy, then common interests of two fine groups of scumbags.
""humanitarian" war".
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that lost me.
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SHARE QUESTION
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Did William Casey (CIA Director) really say, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."?
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it is the money system, fiat, demanding
all the fraud and war, death and destruction
to account or erase the fiat balance
of power sheet which never will accept
any humanity, compromise or diplomacy.
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usury and dominance rules by fiat.
there, they know no bounds or restrictions
to the inherent and innate power of the
universe, embedded in each sentient being,
till the lights are entirely blown out.
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lucifarian illumination imbibing foolish
cognition and perception,
the sediment to be buried under
eons of detritus, suffocated and
fossilized where they/it belongs.
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light is light
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beware light bearing mass produced,
factory manufactured and cheap
gifts. still water offers an inverted
reflection of light derived image.
this might tell one something concerning
the image and the light?
anyway poems^tm
If fifty government hacks say it is a good war, it's still a bad war.
Yes. bombing Serbia start on false accusation about Rachak massacre of civilians, which never happend, UN pathalogical team and western journalist later admitted that:
Several pro-war activists and writers wrote of, and quoted, the Finnish team's press-release as if it were the actual report. Both reports were used as evidence by the prosecution and particularly by the defence of the Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloševi? in his trial at The Hague, until the Rachak case was dropped from the indictment because of lack of evidence.
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In October 2008, Helena Ranta, the Finnish pathologist who had conducted the forensic examination on the Ra?ak casualties, stated that she had been pressured to modify the contents of her report, both by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and by William Walker, the head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Kosovo Verification Mission, in order to make more explicit the role of Yugoslav troops in the incident.
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But this was end of story. Bombing of Yugoslavia was ready in late 1998 and everybody waiting that. OSCE mission, like one now in Ukraine, was under USA control William Walker. Later will show that he was paid by Albanians...Rambullet was farce, Serbia accepted USA proposal and than USA change proposal which Serbia can't accepted because USA was ready for bombing. It's connected with Russian crisis 1998 and Putin arrival in kremlin because USA humiliated Russian in that case. But in one moment, at end of bombing there was nearly clash between russia and usa army around Pristina airport, Wesley Clark even wanted start war with Russians there but other Nato members stop that.
Organ theft in KosovoDuring bombing was atrocities against Albanians in Kosovo, several hundreds was kill by mostly serbian paramilitary forces but interesting that bombing just bring more deaths to Albanians than before. Also, Nato kill in bombing Albanians.
Serbs suffer greatly after bombing(and before but after was real hell), hundreds of thousands must leave Kosova or be butchered by KLA literal and Nato do nothing to stop that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_theft_in_Kosovo
And churches was burn by muslim Albanians(yes, they have contact with AQ during war and USA know that), this is only one such case but very massive.
March 2004 unrest in Kosovohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2004_unrest_in_Kosovo
USA sabotage peace plan for Bosnia 1992:
Carrington–Cutileiro planThe Carrington–Cutileiro peace plan, named for its authors Lord Carrington and Portuguese ambassador José Cutileiro, resulted from the EC Peace Conference held in February 1992 in an attempt to prevent Bosnia-Herzegovina sliding into war. It was also referred to as the Lisbon Agreement (Serbo-Croatian: Lisabonski sporazum). It proposed ethnic power-sharing on all administrative levels and the devolution of central government to local ethnic communities. However, all Bosnia-Herzegovina's districts would be classified as Muslim, Serb or Croat under the plan, even where no ethnic majority was evident.
On 18 March 1992, all three sides signed the agreement; Alija Izetbegovi? for the Bosniaks, Radovan Karadži? for the Serbs and Mate Boban for the Croats.
On 28 March 1992, however, Izetbegovi? withdrew his signature and declared his opposition to any type of division of Bosnia, after meeting with then US ambassador to Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmermann, in Sarajevo.
What was said and by whom remains unclear. Zimmerman denies that he told Izetbegovic that if he withdrew his signature, the United States would grant recognition to Bosnia as an independent state. What is indisputable is that Izetbegovic, that same day, withdrew his signature and renounced the agreement.
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Which lead to incredible atrocities in Bosnia and nearly 100 000 dead. Many things that Saudi Arabia, through USA do this because they want some justification for support of USA against Saddam in First Gulf war.
America's humanitarian war in Iraq:
US Sponsored Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012. Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Childrenhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/us-sponsored-genocide-against-iraq-1990-201...
Mandela on American Humanitarism:
“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings,”
Earth: 248 armed conflicts after WW2; US started 201 (81%), killing 30 million so far
Since WW2, Earth has had 248 armed conflicts. The US started 201 of them.
These US-started armed attacks have killed ~30 million and counting; 90% of these deaths are innocent children, the elderly and ordinary working civilian women and men.
The US has war-murdered more than Hitler’s Nazis.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/earth-248-armed-conflicts-ww2-us-...
Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE
It's only humane ... to kill off your enemies
not if youve been lied to about who your enemies really are////
Hey George, don't forget Fuki:
Photo Gallery: Fighting for Justice after Fukushima
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-fighting-for-justice-aft...
and this:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/navy-sailors-possibly-exposed-...
Fuku Nuku Is Not At All Beaucoup ...
Corium - I actually had to look that up, because the word didn't exist before (according to dictionaries it means skin)...and even with my nuclear background, and a more recent stint at a university research reactor, I'd never even heard the word used. So out of curiosity, and if you won't do it, I suppose I'll have to. Trak down when this word was first used to describe the result of a nuclear meltdown...
Seriously, did they pluck that out of a hat? Checked the revisions of the English document...
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_%28kernreactor%29 <- First use of the word corium <- except in this reference it means core.
So, it's pretty much as I thought. Corium as a word for the nuclear slag of a meltdown is completely made up.
noun(plural) -ria (-r??)
Dead seals litter the beaches in Orange County. I saw five dead seals and an emaciated seal pup too weak to move in two miles of beach. There's nothing for them to eat. The ocean is broken. Way to fucking go, Workers of Iniquity, aka Banksters.
As a friendly reminder, Bad-Mustache did not invade Poland ... Bad-Mustache and CCCP/communist Russia invaded Poland in a planned and coordinated attack. At the time, Poland's army was the strongest in all of Europe and could have wiped Bad-Mustache and his army off the planet. Only Germany was targeted by England and France. Churchill really wanted a war with Germany and used the invasion of Poland as the excuse.
Bad-Mustache invaded Poland to protect the German citizens there being killed by the 1000's by the Poles. The event that trigger the invasion was almost 300 Germans rounded up, packed into a church, door locked and set aflame. That night, alone, about 2500 Germans were murdered by Poles.
i think that calls for a little of this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yfl6Lu3xQW0#t=30
and guess which one kept the half of Poland they invaded when the war ended.
Wasn't the Yugoslavia wars all about providing a distraction to the uncomfortable question of who, when, and how Bill Clinton was banging interns in the oval office? So...... who is Obama disenfranchising Michelle with? I know, Samantha Powers. Gotta be Samantha.
I had just read or saw "Wagging the Dog" and was on a sailboat off the coast of Ct when I head o the radio that the US was bombig Yugoslavia. It was the first tremor to my psyche that all was not what it seemed.
If I add to that 911 and all that came as a result, I am stupified by the absolute idiocy of the US population for puttig up with all this shit. Then I recall a story of an executioner in the GuLags that explained that he was given an extra ration of vodka for taking prisoners and shooting them., it was nothig personal,
My sense is that people are the same the world over. Get ready for what the Homeland Security has in store for you!
Clinton bombed a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan pretending it was Osama's hideout to distract from his banging interns ...
I remember the bombing of the baby milk factory in Iraq back in 1991 (Near Abu Ghreib - another disgusting legacy of the US invasion of 2003), how it was spun day after day citing national security for evading questions from journalists (We actually had a few back then) when it became clear from multiple sources that it was indeed a baby milk processing plant and not a bio-weapons depot as the Whitehouse and Pentagon officials insisted.
It's sad as I look at the precipice of yet another war that newspapers and journalists that I once trusted to report facts are either dead, gone from the industry, or simply absurd propaganda mouthpieces that need to be checked for lies - outright lies and lies by omission - on reading.
Nobody asks why the Israelis are supporting and treating ISIS terrorists in Israeli hospitals. Nobody asks why the CIA is funding, training, and arming ISIS terrorists in Jordanian camps. Nobody recants the narratives about Assad's chemical weapons use on his people in 2013 brought by the USA, Israel, and Britain. It turned out to be total bullshit, but nobody is apologizing for it. Nobody even questions the secret agreement to classify the MH17 investigation, nor why the wreckage was left for months while the separatists begged the investigators to come and take it away, nor why last week journalists were forbidden to take photos of the parts of the plane that had high velocity impact holes. I could go on, but it will take all night. The world of mainstream journalism is beyond a farce.
http://watchdog.org/203631/fcc-commissioners-regulations/
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/03/04/back-off-netanyahu-russia-to-produ...
Clinton's legacy
We freed the shit outa some follks
we mighta killed em all, but they are free!
+1, always a classic
NO FED = NO PERPETUAL WAR
Yes , no "free" money = people pay a lot more attention to what's going on
Military draft & war tax makes everyone focus, too. Pay as you go, in both blood & treasure spread evenly.
Strategic Backfire On US Govt Policy
http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1425502800.php
It is very difficult to find a foreign policy deployed by the United States Govt that has been successful in recent years. In fact, almost all aggressive foreign policy initiatives have resulted in profound losses either in financial strategic position or in alliances with previous staid allied nations. They have almost uniformly backfired, while bravado has mixed with stupidity, while arrogance has blended with futility.
The USGovt without given it thought, appears to be acting in reckless manner toward losing its entire set of advantages from a century.
The nation has become hollowed out industrially by outsourcing, defrauded in housing mortgages, undermined in banks by derivatives, contaminated in USTreasury Bonds by the wildly applauded QE bond purchase wreckage, tarnished by exported terrorism, tainted by prevalent espionage, and shamed by reliance upon war to defend the USDollar.
The US is fast becoming recognized as a rogue nations, but worse, as a nation with stupid leadership.
which is surely indicative of a nation being used by a clique for its own interests at the expense of the national interest.