Fw: Milosevic & Kissinger: A Tale of Two Fugitives

["Nello Margiotta" <animarg@tin.it>]

A Tale of Two Fugitives

Little more than a week prior to Slobodan Milosovic having been spirited
away by the victors to face charges at The Hague, another alleged war
criminal, Henry Kissinger, whilst wiling away a little time at the Ritz, was
being served a somewhat less forceful, though decidedly unappetizing,
summons to appear before the Palace of Justice in Paris.

Judge Roger Le Loire, it seems, had a stack of documents sitting on his desk
implicating the former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor
in the nefarious goings-on of Operation Condor. This was the covert,
coordinated effort in the 1970's of seven South American dictatorships to
hunt down and murder each others political dissidents. The United States was
their senior partner and one Henry Kissinger the inspirational key figure in
the operation's implementation.

Many thousands of journalists, teachers, union leaders, activists, etc. were
'disappeared' under its aegis. A few happened to be of French citizenship.
Judge Le Loire had some questions to ask. Dr. Kissinger, able to exercise
the discretion afforded an elite member of the American establishment,
prudently decided to skip town.

Judge Le Loire, however, wasn't the only one who had questions. About the
same time, Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral and Chilean Judge Juan
Guzman Tapia had both asked U.S. authorities to question Kissinger about
certain 'disappearances'. They were, needless to say, rebuffed.
Nevertheless, these attempted inquiries were, in all truth, small potatoes
compared to the questions that human rights activists and groups around the
world have, for years, posed of Kissinger's (and, to be fair, scores of
other American leaders) involvement in some of the great atrocities of the
latter half of the 20th century.

While Operation Condor in Latin America, and Operation Chaos (the CIA's
secret war on domestic dissidents) stand out for their sheer conniving and
intrigue, the real casualty numbers- game is won by the likes of Angola,
Cambodia, Laos and East Timor.

The late '60's to mid 70's, for instance, saw Kissinger & Co. particularly
energetic in their malevolent machinations. Thus, the 'Secret Bombing' of
Cambodia killed roughly 600,000 Cambodian innocents, and the resulting
decimation of the agrarian economy led to a mass famine that may have killed
another million more. Figures that were then, in classic revisionist style,
just lumped onto the Khmer Rouge scorecard by American propagandists.

Or take East Timor. On Dec. 7, 1975 President Gerald Ford, accompanied by
Henry Kissinger, dropped by Jakarta for a little tête-à-tête with Indonesian
dictator and ally, Suharto. The very next day Indonesia began its assault on
the former Portuguese colony of Timor. Within 4 years, almost one third -
approximately 200,000 - of its people had been murdered. Curiously, these
'killing fields' never made the front pages - or virtually any pages at all
for that matter.

Indeed, the only thing that has surpassed the awe inspiring magnitude of
these and sundry other crimes against humanity has been the heights scaled
by the 'public relations' community in whitewashing both the crimes and the
perpetrators.

Which brings us back to The Hague and Slobodan Milosovic, the latest Hitler
clone as decreed by Washington.

Now there may be some who think that, well, maybe we didn't get 'those'
guys, but, at least, we got 'this' one. Better one than none. This argument,
however, would be simplistic and would ignore two things. First, the rather
ominous fact that it is precisely 'those' guys - our guys - who by
persecuting 'this' guy, are playing us all like a fiddle in pursuit of the
same Machiavellian geo-strategic ploys of old. And second, that despite all
the propaganda, there isn't any real evidence Milosovic is guilty of any
crimes at all.

Let me illustrate what I mean.

The Tribunal set to try Milosovic (the ICTY) is an independent judicial
body, right? Wrong. The Tribunal was never ratified by the UN General
Assembly and is manifestly a creation of the U.S./NATO forces that attacked
Serbia in the first place and that had/have overwhelming
geo-political-economic interests in conquering it. It has received
substantial financial and material donations from private American sources
including the billionaire financier George Soros, Time-Warner, the
Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and directly from the U.S. government
itself. All these in direct violation of its charter.

Now if it walks and talks like a kangaroo then it is a kangaroo, and this is
as blatantly a kangaroo court if there ever was one. That most of the media
have their blinkers drawn tight about this is absolutely frightening.

Even more frightening is the naiveté that is reflected in the notion that
the Pentagon and NATO suddenly forsook all steely-cold political reason,
turned to mush, and went crusading off on a 'humanitarian' mission.
According to this perception, the Great Game is only something that was
played by Alexander and Napoleon and such. Now we've entered the dawn of a
new era.

The American empire - sorry - nation, wasn't really interested in subverting
the last socialist redoubt in Eastern Europe and prying open its economy to
grasping Western transnational corporations; they didn't really have in mind
securing the vital pipeline corridor to the oil-rich Caspian Sea basin; it
never occurred to them that colonization of the Balkans was key to the
expansion of NATO in its growing encirclement of Russia; it was the furthest
thing from their mind to plunder the fabulously wealthy Trepca mining
complex; and it is pure cynicism to suggest they would use the war as
justification for a continued bloating of the American military budget...

....Now you could believe all that - and one day with enough love and
therapy you might wake to the sun of a better world; one replete with an
iota of elementary reasoning.

But what about the 'genocide' in Kosovo, you ask?

Hmm. Well, its true that throughout much of the Western media prior to the
NATO bombardment, the figures of civilian, ethnic Albanian deaths bandied
about ranged up to a 100,000. Pretty horrific right? The strangest thing
happened on the way to the massacre though. When the NATO hostilities ceased
and the forensic teams from a number of countries (including one from
Canada) went in to investigate - hard as they looked, they couldn't find a
genocide. What they found were less than 2000 bodies, the vast majority of
whom were military personnel, and many of whom were Serbian. What they had
uncovered was evidence of a low level civil war with numbers accrued over
more than a year that would have taken mere weeks to accumulate in any of
the U.S. sponsored state pogroms in Central America during the 1980s.

The Kosovo 'genocide' had been a complete fabrication, just as had been the
Iraqi incubator scandal that provided a parallel 'final justification' for
intervention in the Gulf War a decade earlier.

But surely then, Milosovic is guilty of fomenting the bloody conflicts, both
recently in Kosovo, and earlier in Croatia and Bosnia?

Actually not. The Americans and, to a lesser extent, the  other NATO allies
had, since the late 1980s, been instrumental in sabotaging, subverting,
intriguing and generally suborning the entire Yugoslavian peninsula into
war.

A classic contemporary example is presently being played out in Macedonia.
The U.S., while protecting and supplying arms to the NLA (an offshoot of the
former Kosovo Liberation Army) are simultaneously supplying the Macedonian
troops. A well known mercenary group, Military Professional Resources Inc.
(MPRI), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia and allied with the Pentagon,
is similarly offering its services to both sides.

MPRI, which provided such yeoman service in helping to tear apart the former
Yugoslavia, is principally composed of ex-American generals and CIA
officers. Agim Ceku, a former Croatian commander who later headed  the KLA
and is a known war criminal (granted immunity by Carla del Ponte), is one of
its more illustrious foreign members.

Finally, not meaning to burst anyone's bubble, it is yet necessary to note
that our lovable 'freedom fighters', the KLA, have from the get-go been
virtually identical with the Albanian Mafia, and have been responsible over
the past decade (as conceded by virtually every major European drug
enforcement agency and even the American DEA) for a sizeable portion of the
heroin trade for the entire Western hemisphere. Shades of the Taliban.

Is Milosovic guilty, then, of anything? The media seem to find it a small
matter that the ICTY has yet to bring forward any evidence to support its
indictment.  Its case has been based, instead, solely on propaganda, hearsay
and innuendo, much of which was debunked by the international forensic teams
that were sent in shortly following NATO hostilities (and who were then sent
packing when they didn't come up with the 'right' answers). Nevertheless,
Milosovic will be tryed in a patently illegitimate court for the real crime
of having opposed the U.S./NATO drive into Eastern Europe. He may then be
convicted and spend the rest of his life incarcerated as a political
prisoner.

And Henry Kissinger?....Well, we can fancy that he may find it a bit sticky
getting a drink at the Ritz.......... or not.



Antony C. Black
tonyb@interlynx.net





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