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The Saddam-Serbia Alliance
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | October 28, 2002 | Stephen Schwartz

Posted on 10/28/2002 2:44:49 PM PST by Jacob Kell

A new, but actually old, member of a broader axis of totalitarian evil has reemerged from the shadows. Post-Milosevic Yugoslavia has been caught shipping military equipment to Iraq in violation of international sanctions against Saddam Hussein. For some of us, the arrangement between Belgrade and Baghdad is old news. But it has its shocking aspect: this alliance between two forms of fascism was partly set up by a Communist remnant, the Yugoslav United Left (JUL), headed by Mira Markovic, Milosevic's wife. JUL has a representative, Borisa Vukovic, working in Baghdad as an adviser to Saddam's oldest son, Odai. However, the wheels were further greased - by blood, one might say - thanks to the JUL's fascist allies in the Serbian Radical Party (SRS). SRS members frequently travel to Iraq, just as Ramsey Clark and the puppets of the so-called International ANSWER have done.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; ideologicalwhore; iraq; milosevic; saddamhussein; schwartz; serbia; superbarfalert
If Schwartz has half a brfain, he'd know that the only reason Raimondo cheered Slobo at all is because of opposition to the globalist ICTY. I'm surprised that it took this long for him to start spweing his drivel.
1 posted on 10/28/2002 2:44:49 PM PST by Jacob Kell
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To: Jacob Kell; Honorary Serb
Honory, You have just become famous! LOL
2 posted on 10/28/2002 2:54:12 PM PST by F-117A
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To: Jacob Kell
Sorry, guys, I should have said Extreme Barf Alert
3 posted on 10/28/2002 3:20:23 PM PST by Jacob Kell
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To: Jacob Kell
You're right....you should have.
How convenient of this guy to omit the connection of Izetbegovic and the KLA to Osama..lolol...very convenient.
4 posted on 10/28/2002 6:38:37 PM PST by Celebratelife008
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To: Celebratelife008
Funny thing, because he's so anti-Wahhabi.
5 posted on 10/28/2002 7:43:29 PM PST by Jacob Kell
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To: F-117A
Honorary, You have just become famous! LOL

Stephen Schwartz sounds like he is either on some sort of "controlled substance" that has completely garbled his thinking, or is suffering from long-term sleep deprivation that has done the same thing. He's mixing up such disparate actors as the Serbian people, Saddam, the Wahhabis, CAiR, antiwar.com, Ramsey Clark's International Action Committee, and several others. And then he goes on to dump on the poor Slavic Macedonian Christians, making them the villains when they are caught between a brutal KLA invasion and the New World Order's preventing them from doing anything effective against it. This adds insult to injury!!!!

He should sober up, get some sleep, and eat a good meal before attempting to write anything again! He might then recall that "Honorary Serb" is a MAJOR opponent of Wahhabism, CAiR, the IAC, and all other shills and dupes of islamofascism!! He might also realize that talking of a "Serbian-Saddam alliance" is like talking about an American-Iranian, a Russian-Iranian, or an Armenian-Iranian alliance, i.e., relationships between nations based on (sometimes wrongly) perceived pragmatic national interests, not on ideological agreement, let alone any love between the two parties.

However, the former communist (like Milosevic) Schwartz has always been a Bosnian muslim and Albanian (Catholic and muslim) partisan, and an advocate of forcible conquest of the Serbian people. To his credit, he is against the Wahhabi takeover of Bosnian and Albanian islam. But he has no comprehension that the anti-Serbian and pro-muslim supremacist policies that he advocated would inevitably lead to that takover!!! (Remember, Izetbegovic invited in the Iranian and Arab islamofascist "fighters--with clinton's blessing--and the KLA did likewise!!!!)

He also has no comprehension whatsoever of what being an honorary Serb might mean to a non-Serbian Christian. (How can anyone expect him to?) Hint: "knuckle-dragging" and "fascist" are as far off base as possible!!!! And it has a lot more to do with participating in Divine Liturgy in a Serbian Orthodox church than practicing "witless web warriordom"!!!!

6 posted on 10/28/2002 7:59:53 PM PST by Honorary Serb
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To: Jacob Kell; F-117A
Belgrade Hands US Baghdad Secrets

Officials in Belgrade have given the American government secret details of Saddam Hussein's war machine.

By Aleksandar Radic in Belgrade (BCR No 374, 17-Oct-02)

The authorities have handed the United States Milosevic-era intelligence on Saddam Hussein's regime as proof of their willingness to cooperate with the American-led campaign against terrorism, according to military sources in the Yugoslav capital.

The move came after The Sunday Times newspaper in London reported at the beginning of the month that Belgrade continued to collaborate with the Baghdad regime.

The authorities immediately denied the accusations. But concerned that the claims might undermine the country's prospects of joining NATO's Partnership for Peace programme, they agreed to deliver the Americans confidential files detailing Yugoslav military cooperation with Iraq over the last two decades.

A political source close to the Yugoslav government told IWPR that Washington had been greatly alarmed by the media report and had asked for an explanation. The authorities provided guarantees that it was neither arming Iraq nor providing it advice.

The decision to hand over the entire federal military intelligence archive to the US follows the earlier provision of important details about Saddam's war machinery in the aftermath of the September 11 outrages, according to a top Yugoslav army official, who spoke to IWPR on condition of anonymity.

"Belgrade has (already) provided details about Iraq's integrated anti-aircraft defense system, the communication system which links the main command with operation units, the blueprints of reinforced-concrete shelters and underground edifices and particulars on the Iraqi leader's key personnel," he said.

The political source said that Washington had been pleased by Belgrade's earlier cooperation, but began to express concern following reports earlier this month that the NATO-led stabilisation force SFOR in Bosnia was investigating claims that the Bosnian Serb defence company Orao Aviation Institute in Bijeljina may have helped service Russian-built Iraqi jets.

Their concerns were heightened after The Sunday Times reported that several Yugoslav army officers were presently in Iraq helping to organise the country's air defences, the political source said.

IWPR has learned from several international sources that Belgrade was able to prove that it had no links with Baghdad, but could not rule out the possibility that private arms traders may be making deals without the state's knowledge.

"The period of cooperation with the Iraqi regime ended with Milosevic, so most of the present allegations are coming too late. Belgrade has shown this with very concrete steps (to open up its archives)," the military official told IWPR.

Belgrade's cooperation with Baghdad began in the early Seventies, with groups of Yugoslav and Iraqi military experts shuttling between the two countries. However, it was only after the Iran-Iraq war broke out in 1980 that they began to collaborate in earnest.

Yugoslavia built dozens of fortified-concrete plane shelters, military airports and underground command posts in Iraq. It also provided technology for the mass-production of all calibres of ammunition and rockets for multi-barrel launchers, and Iraqi planes and weaponry were overhauled at Yugoslav army technical institutes.

In the Nineties, sanctions were imposed on both countries preventing official military ties, but a thriving black market trade emerged with arms dealers smuggling vital spare parts to the Iraqi army and air force.

Yugoslavia is now not only seeking to draw a line under the allegiances of the past, but also hopes to bolster its chances of joining NATO's Partnership for Peace programme, which it believes is critical to the country's recovery.

Two years after the fall of Milosevic, internal political problems and unresolved issues such as relations between Serbia and Montenegro and cooperation with The Hague tribunal have slowed down Yugoslavia's bid to participate in the alliance's initiative, whose members already include Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Albania.

The army's acting chief of staff General Branko Krga made an unreported visit to the Pentagon and the US State Department in September to discuss remaining obstacles to Yugoslavia's participation in the programme.

Aleksander Radic is a defence analyst at the Belgrade news agency VIP
7 posted on 10/30/2002 8:29:28 PM PST by Honorary Serb
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To: Jacob Kell
Schwartz has been trying to advance himself and the majority of muslims as 'middle of the road moderates'--only problem with that, is that islam isn't a religion of 'moderate' stances...ask the christians of the Balkans, they can tell ya.
8 posted on 10/31/2002 11:16:29 AM PST by Celebratelife008
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