What were the results of more than half a year of this government search? As of July 31, 2001, the government had exhumed in Kosovo "800 to 1,000 bodies," as the New York Times reported in a huge dispatch from Belgrade on that day. So, 800 to 1,000 corpses after 78-days of NATO bombings and fighting for many years between the KLA, the regular government troops, the police, paramilitaries, "different volunteer forces and different local groups," and just common criminal gangs that become active during war.
In more than half a year the Yugoslav government has not published a single official record of the Milosevic era or a single affidavit suggesting his complicity in any harm done to a single civilian.
To defend themselves, those Bosnian Serbs who were tried by the Tribunal for the killing of Bosnian Moslems could have testified that they acted on President Milosevic's orders. But none of them said that, for President Milosevic's orders were to the contrary, to stop the civil war – and he finally stopped it at Dayton.
So what "crimes against humanity" by the Hitler of today did CNN show on July 3, 2001, as Milosevic was arraigned before the International War Crimes Tribunal? Where was his genocide of the Albanian people, for which he had been in prison without bail?
You guessed it: the "Racak massacre." Nothing else had been found by CNN in more than two years.
Imagine what a program CNN could have produced if the "Racak massacre" were a real event, not a KLA fabrication. Forty-five villagers murdered. Their photographs, their homes, their families recalling their murdered children, spouses, siblings, parents, or just neighbors. Interviews, recollections, testimony, concrete details.
Instead, the "coverage," presumably from Racak, was not as detailed, specific or colorful as Clinton's interview of March 19, 1999. All CNN showed more than two years later were some unnamed weeping old women – presumably from Racak and presumably weeping over the "Racak massacre."
The problem for CNN was that those killed were 42 KLA men, two women (the approximate age of one of them is 30), and one youngster of 13, none of whom had anything to do with Racak, and hence the only solution was to show some unnamed weeping old women.
The Hitler of today had been whisked out of Yugoslavia to The Hague Tribunal contrary to the decision of the Yugoslav Constitutional Court, after President Kostunica had failed to receive the approval of the Federal Parliament, and without informing any legal assistant of his, let alone his family or any member of his party.
According to a New York Times report from Belgrade (June 29, 2001, p. A10), a "history professor," opposed to Milosevic, nevertheless said that "we sold our president." He was sold for $1 billion, which was especially coveted, since the NATO bombing damage far exceeded this gift.
The "history professor" added that Milosevic was "guilty," but of "a war," not of any "war crime."
The "history professor" forgot that historically the head of state has always been blamed for his country's unsuccessful war. Thus, a wave of revolutions swept continental Europe after World War I, including eastern Europe and Russia, and Czar Nicholas II was even shot, though how was he to blame for the war with Germany?
Milosevic's alternatives had been either NATO attack or NATO's virtual occupation of the whole of Yugoslavia plus the independence of Kosovo. NATO occupation he could not accept. But what about Kosovo's independence?
Indeed, why had Milosevic not forced the Kosovo Serbs to accept an independent Kosovo as he had forced the Bosnian Serbs to accept an independent Bosnia?
The KLA, nourished from Albania and relying on global Islamic militancy, and with the Kosovo Serbs constituting only a one tenth minority, an independent Kosovo was bound to destroy or banish that tiny minority (along with the Serbian Christian culture going back to the sixth century) and become part of the global Islamic militancy active in Israel and in Chechnya in Russia, and in 2001 showing its hand in the United States as well.
For President Clinton, the bombing of Yugoslavia was safe and suited his own personal goal. On the other hand, before the terrorist attack on America of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. State Department had seemed to be oblivious to the fact that there are about 1 billion Moslems in the world, and that Islamic terrorism may destroy the United States even sooner than will China, if only differently.
The war of which the Belgrade "history professor" accused Milosevic occurred in particular because Milosevic had sensed the danger of Islamic militancy, while the geostrategically lobotomized West had not – until September 2001.
By buying Milosevic for $1 billion in 2001, the West delivered a mighty blow to President Kostunica and his anti-Milosevic coalition: In 2001, quite a few of once pro-Kostunica Serbs came to consider Kostunica a political prostitute, a violator of laws and a traitor.
While a century ago the colonial wars of the West still added to Western global expansion and power, the NATO attack on a small, defenseless country with bombers was an inane farce, doing enormous strategic damage to the West. The buying of Milosevic for $1 billion, to "try" him as the Hitler of today, will merely aggravate that damage.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Milosevic was kept in prison without bail as the Hitler of today, guilty only of having tried to stamp out the KLA as part of global Islamic terrorism. And here the United States was, attacked by Islamic terrorism, the struggle against which Milosevic had been indicted as the Hitler of today, abducted for $1 billion, and kept in prison without bail.
But the good news? President Clinton got rid of the impeachment, all the skeletons were put safely back in his closet, and it all seems to have happened a century or a millennium ago.
The above is an excerpt from Lev Navrozov's book in progress, "Out of Moscow and Into New York: A Life in the Geostrategically Lobotomized West in the Age of Terrorism and Post-nuclear Superweapons."
PUBLISHERS: Should you considering publishing this book (please bear in mind that a substantial advance is expected), the 27-page Proposal and the first 106-page section of the book can be mailed to you if you if you apply to me at navlev@cloud9.net, tel. 001 718 796 6028, or to my literary agent, Lenny Cavallaro, Janus Literary Agency (UBKlene@aol.com).
Source Notes
11. See "Kosovo: The Hoax-Begotten War," AIM Report, April 4, 2000. See http://www.aim.org/;ublications/aim_report/2000/04a.html, p. 2. Return
12. David Binder in the New York Times: see Reed Irvine, AIM Report, April 13, 1999, p. 1. Return
13. Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid, AIM, Media Monitor, Feb. 21, 2001. See http:///www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2001/02/21.html. Return
14. AIM Report, May 4, 1999, p. 1. Return
15. See http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2000/04a.html. Return
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