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WayneMadsenReport
November 29, 2007 -- Beware of the Clinton "neocon-lite"
interventionists publication date: Nov 29, 2007 Previous | November 29,
2007 -- Beware of the Clinton "neocon-lite" interventionists
A future Hillary Clinton administration threatens to immerse the United States in even further wars. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Senator Clinton's two top foreign policy advisers -- who could both end up in her administration in senior foreign policy positions -- are known to have hard line positions on two "K countries" -- Kosovo and Kurdistan. And their reasons have very little to do with helping Kosovars or Kurds -- Albright and Holbrooke are known to be extreme Russophobes who would like nothing more than confront the Russians over Kosovo and Iraqi Kurdistan. It should be recalled that the Albright-Holbrooke team plunged the United States into the Balkans war, culminating in the first aerial bombing of a European city, Belgrade, since Adolf Hitler's time. Now Holbrooke is calling for U.S. military intervention once again in Kosovo to bolster Kosovo against Russian and Serb opposition to Kosovo's planned independence. He is also accusing Putin of plying Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik with petrodollars to wean him away from the West and toward a declaration of independence of Bosnia. Holbrooke also obviously sees NATO force being used to put down any Serbian secession from Bosnia. Writing for MaximsNewsNetwork, Holbrooke sounded the call to arms against Russia. Holbrooke charged that Russian President Vladimir Putin was using his petro-dollars to intimidate regional countries against supporting Kosovo independence. Moreover, Holbrooke called for pressure against Russia's threat to have the Serb section of Bosnia, as well as Georgian secessionist regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia, declare independence if Kosovo declares independence. Holbrooke says that two Bush administration representatives, Undersecretary of State for European Affairs Nicholas Burns and Special Envoy Frank Wisner, have sought and received assurance from America's NATO partners that they will recognize Kosovo's independence. NATO's deputy representative in Bosnia, Raffi Gregorian, an American, and US ambassador in Sarajevo, Charles English, have been lobbying for NATO to send more troops to Kosovo to protect its expected unilateral declaration of independence from Serb or Russian counteractions. This will set the stage for another neocon "wet dream," a NATO military confrontation with Russia that has already been stage-set by plans to locate missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. It should be recalled that the Dayton Peace talks, which resulted in the agreement that established peace in Bosnia, involved two leading Bush administration neocons: Richard Perle and arch-Zionist Douglas Feith. Both served as advisers to the Bosnian Muslim delegation in Dayton at a time when U.S. arms and money, courtesy of Perle's and Feith's Bosnia Defense Fund, were pouring into the country, with some bleeding over into the hands of "Al Qaeda" and Iranian Revolutionary Guard units. Osama Bin Laden, himself, was reported to be traveling around the world on at least Bosnian passport, issued by the Bosnian embassy in Vienna. It is one big happy family with the Democratic and Republican interventionist crowd, both the neocon and "neocon-lite" variety: Albright, Holbrooke, Perle, and Feith. Add to that Senator Clinton's military adviser, retired General Wesley Clark, who publicly praised Perle's and Feith's involvement in Dayton on behalf of the Bosnians. Even as then-Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell knew of administration plans to invade and occupy Iraq, he insisted on maintaining U.S. troop levels in Kosovo. Not surprisingly, Senator Clinton recently held out the possibility that Powell could find a job in her administration. The other "K country" where the neocons are hankering for a showdown with Russia is Kurdistan in Iraq. Russia has just opened a consulate in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Erbil. Direct flights between Erbil and Moscow are planned. In addition, a subsidiary of Russia's Alfa Group plans to explore for oil in Kurdistan next year. The consulate deal was celebrated in a ceremony by Russian ambassador to Iraq Vladimir Chanov and Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani. It is noteworthy that Barzani is the grandson of the late longtime Kurdish leader Gen. Mulla Mustafa Barzani and the nephew of current Kurdish Regional Government president Massoud Barzani. The Barzani clan have traditional links with Russia and the Soviet Union. In 1945, the Republic of Mahabad was declared in the Soviet-occupied area of Iran as a Kurdish independent republic. Barzani was named the republic's Defense Minister and Army Commander. Pursuant to the Yalta Agreement, Soviet forces were required to withdraw from Iran. Many of Barzani's Pesh Merga forces were hanged by Iranian troops and Barzani fled to Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan and then on to Moscow, where he enjoyed the patronage of Joseph Stalin's government. Mustafa Barzani received funds from the Nixon administration and Henry Kissinger but was double-crossed after Kissinger helped worked out a deal between Barzani's benefactor, the Shah of Iran, and Saddam Hussein, whom Barzani's forces were fighting. After the typical neocon deal, Barzani was forced to flee to exile in America, where he died in 1979. Now that US and Israeli military, intelligence, and financial interests are deeply embedded in Iraqi Kurdistan, Russia's move into the area is creating new tensions. With the Barzani Kurdistan Democratic Party now renewing its old links with its erstwhile Russian allies and the United States planning a long military stay in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, the neocons have another Russian-American fault line to exploit in their efforts to push American global domination. And it does not matter if Hillary Clinton or any of the Republicans, with the exception of Ron Paul, occupy the White House in January 2009.
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The following is from WayneMadsen Report: Serbia's former President, was found dead in his cell |
March 12, 2006 -- Slobodon Milosevic,
Serbia's former President, was found dead in his cell in The Hague in the
Netherlands. Immediately, the world's corporate media described Milosevic
as the "Butcher of the Balkans," even though he had not yet been
convicted of any crimes. In fact, Russia had been putting pressure on the
UN tribunal to allow Milosevic to travel to Moscow for medical treatment.
Milosevic then complained to his attorney that he was worried about being
poisoned. The Netherlands, which is governed by a neo-con government
aligned with the Bush administration, said its Forensics Institute, part
of the Justice Ministry, would carry out an autopsy but independent
observers point out that the Dutch immediately stated that Milosevic's
death was "probably from natural causes," indicating a
predisposition to steer the media away from death by foul play scenario.
Milosevic: knew more than enough to be dangerous to neocons, Republican and Democratic. With Russia applying pressure for Milosevic's transfer to Moscow, the "other neocons," those in the Clinton administration who supported overt and covert funneling of weapons and funds to anti-Yugoslav forces (MPRI's training contract with Croatian ethnic cleansers and the Richard Perle/Douglas Feith funding, through the Feith&Zell/Riggs Bank Bosnian Defense Fund, of Bosnian regular and irregular forces, including Iranian Pasdarans Revolutionary Guard and Al Qaeda forces, had plenty to be worried about. Milosevic and his intelligence services had collected evidence pointing to the involvement of Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Wesley Clark, Perle, Feith, and others in the political, military, and financial backing of Muslim units in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo associated with Osama Bin Laden and Albanian heroin smugglers tied to the Taliban in Afghanistan. On March 7, 2002, Milosevic charged that Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda helped the Kosovo Liberation Army attack the Balkans. This is from his cross-examination of Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla leader Sabit Kadriu: CROSS EXAMINATION OF SABIT KADRIU Pres. Milosevic: You said you heard about the KLA in 1991. Sabit Kadriu: I read in newspapers that something happened connected with that. Pres. Milosevic: You were involved in public activities as you say since the beginning of the 1990s. Do you know about the activity of the organization of Osama bin laden in Kosovo & Metohija? Sabit Kadriu: I heard about bin Laden this year but never before. Only when the crime was committed against American people. Richard May [ICTY's British chief judge and Laborite who died in July 2004]: Enough about that. Mr. Milosevic. Pres. Milosevic: Do you know about the Mujahideen and their atrocities in Kosovo & Metohija? Sabit Kadriu: That is not true that there were Mujahideen in Kosovo. You have invented that. That is the fruit of your imagination. Pres. Milosevic: Well, just say 'it's not correct' or 'I don't know.' You are spending time. I will read you a passage and you will tell me if that is correct or not. Al Qaeda (Reads) "functions through some of the terrorist organizations that operate under its umbrella or with its support, including..." I'm going to skip over this next bit, "Albania," etc. Do you consider that to be correct? (1) Sabit Kadriu: That is not right, and that is the fruit of your imagination. Pres. Milosevic: [Holds the document in the air. It includes an FBI insignia.] Well, this is the congressional statement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. DOCUMENT ONE: Congressional Testimony December 18, 2001, Tuesday SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS AND TERRORISM COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, UNITED STATES SENATE "GLOBAL REACH OF AL-QAEDA " TESTIMONY-BY: J.T. CARUSO, ACTING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AFFILIATION: COUNTERTERRORISM DIVISION FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION .....STATEMENT OF J. T. CARUSO ACTING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR COUNTERTERRORISM DIVISION FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ... Good morning, Madam Chairwoman and Members of the Subcommittee. My name is J.T. Caruso and I am the Acting Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division. I am pleased to appear before the Subcommittee to discuss Al Qaeda International. From its inception until approximately 1991, the group was headquartered in Afghanistan and Peshawar, Pakistan. Then in 1991, the group relocated to the Sudan where it was headquartered until approximately 1996, when Bin Laden, Mohammed Atef and other members of Al-Qaeda returned to Afghanistan. During the years Al- Qaeda was headquartered in Sudan the network continued to maintain offices in various parts of the world and established businesses which were operated to provide income and cover to Al- Qaeda operatives. AL-OAEDA TIES TO OTHER TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS Although Al-Qaeda functions independently of other terrorist organizations, it also functions through some of the terrorist organizations that operate under its umbrella or with its support, including: [I';m going to skip over this next bit] the Al-Jihad, the Al-Gamma Al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group - led by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and later by Ahmed Refai Taha, a/k/a "Abu Yasser al Masri, "), Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and a number of jihad groups in other countries, including the Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, the Philippines, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, the Kashmiri region of India, and the Chechen region of Russia. Al-Qaeda also maintained cells and personnel in a number of countries to facilitate its activities, including in Kenya, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. By banding together, Al-Qaeda proposed to work together against the perceived common enemies in the West - particularly the United States which Al-Qaeda regards as an "infidel" state which provides essential support for other "infidel" governments. Al-Qaeda responded to the presence of United States armed forces in the Gulf and the arrest, conviction and imprisonment in the United States of persons belonging to Al-Qaeda by issuing fatwahs indicating that attacks against U.S. interests, domestic and foreign, civilian and military, were both proper and necessary. Those fatwahs resulted in attacks against U.S. nationals in locations around the world including Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Yemen, and now in the United States. Since 1993, thousands of people have died in those attacks. |