The Kosovo Fraud - Will they ever admit it?

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> "Usually the truth about what has really happened during a war
> will emerge after it is over. Sometimes it takes years and years
> - we are still learning new things about the Second World War.
> But sometimes the truth surfaces quite quickly..."
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> Justin Raimondo
> August 21, 2000
>
>
> THE KOSOVO FRAUD - WILL THEY EVER ADMIT IT?
>
>
> The headline in the London Guardian [18 Aug. 2000]
> http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,405275
> 5,00.htm was really a bit of an understatement: "Serb killings
> 'exaggerated' by West." The subhead, however, underscored the
> enormity of the lie:
>
> "Claims of up to 100,000 ethnic Albanians massacred in Kosovo
> revised to under 3,000 as exhumations near end." Think of what
> this has to mean: Madeleine Albright, James Rubin, and Jamie
> Shea didn't pull this off single-handedly. Not only the US
> government, but the worldwide media fabricated a "genocide" and,
> on that basis, launched a savage war against a sovereign nation
> that had never attacked us, in the name of "humanitarianism - a
> war, I might add, that was stopped but has not ended.
>
>
>
> THE CASE OF THE MISSING CORPUS DELICTI
>
>
>
> In a sense, the NATO-crats have been tripped up by their own web
> of propaganda: in their eagerness to charge Yugoslav strongman
> Slobodan Milosevic with "war crimes," and indict him before
> their self- appointed "War Crimes Tribunal," Western governments
> have had to follow at least the forms of legality: due process,
> the rules of evidence - and, in the case of murder, not to
> mention "genocide," the necessity of producing the corpus
> delicti.( http://www.lectlaw.com/def/c338.htm ) Where are the
> bodies, all 100,000 of them? This became the task of the "war
> crimes experts," as the Guardian describes them: to produce what
> never existed in the first place - a task that naturally had to
> end in failure. The Guardian reports:
>
> "As war crimes experts from Britain and other countries prepare
> to wind down the exhumation of hundreds of graves in Kosovo on
> behalf of the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the
> former Yugoslavia in the Hague, officials concede they have not
> borne out the worst wartime reports. These were given by
> refugees and repeated by western government spokesmen during the
> campaign. They talked of indiscriminate killings and as many as
> 100,000 civilians missing or taken out of refugee columns by the
> Serbs."
>
>
> MADELEINE'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS
>
>
> It was lies, all lies, from beginning to end. They may have
> originated from government sources, in most cases, but in
> spreading these lies far and wide the Western media were more
> than willing accomplices. Keeping in mind that over 5,000
> civilians were slaughtered in the NATO air strikes, the ladies
> and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate might fairly be characterized
> as Madeleine's willing executioners. This is a takeoff, of
> course, on the favored phrase of the New Republic wing of the
> War Party, which condemns the entire Serb nation as "Milosevic's
> willing executioners."
> http://www.thenewrepublic.com/current/coverstory051099.html
>
> Based on the myth of an Albanian Kosovar "holocaust" perpetrated
> by the Serbs, not only Milosevic and his regime but the entire
> Serbian people are condemned as being no better than the "good
> Germans" who voted Hitler into power and tacitly supported the
> Holocaust. Here was classic war propaganda, on a par with
> stories of Belgian babies impaled on German bayonets during
> World War I and tall tales told during the Gulf war of babies
> dumped out of incubators and gasping for breath on the floor of
> a Kuwaiti hospital. The idea is to get public opinion behind the
> complete subjugation and "reeducation" of the Serbian people,
> utilizing the postwar German model.
>
> HEROES TO SHILLS
>
> In a 1999 speech
> http://www.peaceinbalkans.freeserve.co.uk/articles/knightl.htm 
> to the Freedom Forum that bears rereading, Phillip Knightley
> predicted this turn of events, and his prescience is stunning.
>
> Speaking of how he came to write The First Casualty, his famous
> (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1853753769/qid%3D95447
> 8107/sr% 3D1-3/026-7738609-3304421 and recently updated) account
> of wartime propaganda and its intimate relationship with
> "journalism," he relates how he started out wanting to portray
> war correspondents as heroes, but explains that he had to change
> his theme when he discovered that war reporting invariably falls
> into the following pattern:
>
> "1. Although all the right is seldom on one side, the media will
> present the war in stark terms of good and evil.
>
> "2. The evil side will be demonized, its leader depicted as mad,
> bloodthirsty, and subhuman, a modern-day Hitler.
>
> "3. The good side will be presented as the savior of
> civilization, humanitarian, caring, and compassionate, forced to
> act because of the barbarity of the other side.
>
> "4. To this end - ignoring the fact that there are atrocities by
> all sides in all wars - old atrocity stories will be dusted off
> and recycled. Some will be true, many will be false, and it will
> be difficult - if not impossible - to tell while the war is on
> which are true and which are propaganda. After the war, although
> some of the atrocity stories will be confirmed, there will be a
> retreat from many of the most outrageous ones."
>
>
> SOUND THE RETREAT
>
>
> In the case of the Kosovo war, the retreat has already begun.
> Far too late to help the victims of the vicious "Allied" air
> war: they are dead and buried, or else mutilated beyond repair.
> Yet we are still waiting for some acknowledgment - aside from a
> few stories in overseas newspapers - from the media that they
> were wrong. After endless horror stories illustrated with
> fantastically high death tolls were aired day after day on CNN,
> when will we hear a retraction? Christiane Amanpour repeated her
> husband's lies with a perfectly straight face: tens of thousands
> slaughtered, we were told, and the murderous drug-dealing KLA
> were really "freedom fighters," the Albanian equivalent of
> George Washington and his Continental Army! Journalists didn't
> question the government line about alleged Serbian "genocide":
> instead they wanted to know if the President would send in the
> ground troops - and if not, why not?
>
> KNIGHTLEY'S INSIGHT
>
> Knightley gave his speech before an audience of journalists who
> reacted much as one might expect; furiously defensive and
> unrepentant.
> http://www.freedomforum.org/news/2000/03/2000-03-29-07.asp  But
> the predictive power of Knightley's insight into the psychology
> of wartime propaganda has withstood the test of time, and is
> underscored by the following excerpt from his remarks:
>
> "Usually the truth about what has really happened during a war
> will emerge after it is over. Sometimes it takes years and years
> - we are still learning new things about the Second World War.
> But sometimes the truth surfaces quite quickly. Within little
> more than a year after the Gulf War we knew that the claims for
> the pinpoint accuracy of Allied air strikes and the ability of
> the Patriot missiles to intercept Iraqi missiles were all
> nonsense. Within two years we knew that many of the atrocity
> stories attributed to the Iraqis - the incubator babies story,
> for example - had been invented by American public relations
> companies working for the Kuwaiti government. But, of course, by
> then it was too late to make any difference to the outcome of
> the war, and the media caravan had moved on. We are learning
> only now that the CIA helped train the Kosovo Liberation Army
> before the bombing began. We did not realize at the time that
> NATO was lying when it said it did not deliberately attack
> civilian targets. There will be a lot more, believe me."
>
> YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT
>
> Oh, we believe you all right. There's more, a lot more -
> including the story of how and why the media eagerly
> disseminated the oily deceptions of little Jimmy Rubin and his
> cadre of spin-doctors. And it is just now beginning to come out.
> When oh when is the American media going to start reporting
> this? Do we have to turn to the British papers via the Internet
> to get the truth? Most importantly, when are the journalists who
> "reported" Kosovo's phony "holocaust" as fact going to own up to
> their mistakes - giving them the benefit of a doubt that this
> was an error and not deceit. Knightley correctly notes that in a
> war "In which the revolution in communications technology - the
> satellite phone, 'the star of the war'; instant television links
> from the front to the studio and between correspondents in the
> field; electronic transmission of still photographs; and the
> latest arrival at the front, the Internet - should have provided
> the public with an unprecedented overview turned out instead to
> be a disaster for journalism."
>
>
> THE EXCEPTION THAT PROVES THE RULE
>
>
> Except that the Internet was clearly light-years ahead of the
> Old Media in discovering and reporting the truth about the
> nonexistent "genocide" in Kosovo. Antiwar.com reported the truth
> from Day One. We saw the culprits behind the campaign of lies,
> the journalistic auxiliary of the War Party, who collaborated
> with the NATO-crats - whether consciously or not - in the
> biggest hoax since the discovery of "Piltdown Man."
> http://skepdic.com/piltdown.html
>
> In the opening paragraph of my first column
> http://www.antiwar.com/diary1.html for Antiwar.com [26 March
> 1999], I wrote: "It was a sight that doubtless cheered virtually
> everyone who saw it - the American media being chased down the
> street by an angry crowd of their slandered victims. In Skopje,
> Macedonia, thousands of Serbians, outraged by the relentless
> media barrage of anti-Serbian propaganda, converged on news
> crews, destroyed equipment, and literally chased American,
> British, and German reporters down the street and out of town.
> The same journalistic cleansing occurred in Pristina, capital of
> Kosovo province, and in Belgrade, where Western journalists were
> expelled. . . . In a tone of bewildered indignation, CNN
> reporters complained on the air that they had been singled out.
> But those Western journalists who have placed themselves and
> their profession in the service of Allied Force should not be
> too surprised to find that the people they have demonized are
> less than hospitable."
>
> DECADENCE OR IGNORANCE?
>
> If, by some chance, the truth about Kosovo gets out, how will
> the American people react to the revelation that they were lied
> to by Clinton's numerous media enablers? Will they, like the
> Serbs, chase the bums out of town - or will they bask in the
> warm security of their narcotized ignorance, indifferent to the
> truth and immune to righteous indignation except when prompted
> by government propagandists? This is the difference between
> cultural health and decadence, between a truly American
> political culture in the traditional sense and one that has
> become alienated from its roots and degenerate beyond redemption
> or revival. I like to believe that Americans - even these
> Americans, who watched as Waco burned - are not numb to the
> crimes of their government. I like to think that they don't
> react to the crimes of the US against the people of Iraq - daily
> bombing excursions, and 5,000 children a month killed by
> murderous sanctions - because they don't know about it. That is
> why Antiwar.com exists - and must continue to exist.
>
> A STATION BREAK
>
> We told the American people the truth last year, when the rest
> of the media - with a few prominent exceptions, such as Paul
> Watson in the Los Angeles Times - were lying through their
> teeth, avidly transcribing every word out of NATO shill Jamie
> Shea's mouth as if it were holy writ. Let's hope we can continue
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