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ROMEO AND JULIET BRIDGE. CNN and the other major networks carried the tragic story of the Serb boy and Muslim girl who were shot by Serb snipers as they tried to cross from a Muslim held area of Sarajevo to the Serb side. And to make it worse, CNN made it a point to say that the Serbs had given them permission to cross, then shot them. Japanese TV (Tokyo, Oct. 8, 1994): "Bosnian Muslims Murdered 'Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet'. The Japanese State Television NHK said on Friday that a Muslim-Serb fiance couple was murdered by Bosnian Muslims rather than Serbs on Sarajevo's Vrbanja Bridge in May 1993. A 50-minute documentary containing both Bosnian Serb and Muslim testimonies collected by Japanese reporters, said Muslims were responsible for the murder of Serb Bosko Brckic, 25, and his Muslim fiance Admira Ismic, 25, whom western media have nick-named 'Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet'. The documentary contained testimonies by the couple's parents, Bosko's best friend Misa who has found refuge in Belgrade, and notorious Sarajevo paramilitary leader called 'Celo' who said Bosko and Admira had left Sarajevo's Muslim-held section aiming to cross the Vrbanja Bridge on to the Serb-held section. They said the couple was prompted to do so because the Muslims had beaten andtortured Bosko and threatened to kill him."

3. SNIPER ALLEY. "French peacekeeping troops in the United Nations unit trying to curtail Bosnian Serb snipers at civilians in Sarajevo have concluded that until mid-June some gunfire also came from Government soldiers deliberately shooting at their own civilians. After what it called a 'definitive' investigation, a French marine unit that patrols against snipers said it traced sniper fire to a building normally occupied by Bosnian [i.e., Muslim] soldiers and other security forces. A senior French officer said, 'We find it almost impossible to believe, but we are sure it is true." ("Investigation Concludes Bosnian Government Snipers Shot at Civilians," New York Times, August 1, 1995).

Spiegel TV (German). "An interesting view of 'superficial journalism' is also given by Martin Lettmayer from the Spiegel TV. One of the most embarrassing stories that casts a far from amicable light on the work of certain Western journalists is the story by Zeljko Vukovic about a boy from Sarajevo. A certain Western television crew gave the boy a 10-mark bill to run across an intersection controlled by snipers. While running across for the eighth time, the boy was shot, clutching the corresponding number of bills." What the story doesn't say was that "sniper alley" was a shooting gallery for both sides. Snipers shot at civilians and at each other. Both French and Italian military sources documented that Muslim snipers shot at their own people, again for propaganda purposes.

August 13, 1992. "The [sniper] killing of US broadcaster ABC's producer David Kaplan and the shooting down of an Italian Air Force G.222 transport aircraft on approach to Sarajevo. In both these cases Serbian forces were out of range, and the weapons actually used against the victims were not those claimed by the Bosnian Muslim authorities and the parroting Western media." (Offensive in the Balkans, by Yossef Bodansky). In the case of David Kaplan, who was inside a vehicle in Bosnian Muslim territory, the shot had to have come from ground level. However, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, in interviews such as the Charlie Rose Show, blamed the Serbs for the death of David Kaplan. Christiane Amanpour is CNN's female version of Peter Arnett.

4. MUSLIM BABIES SHOT BY SERB SNIPERS. While U.S. television networks were carrying reports of "Muslim" babies that were shot on a bus by "alleged" Serb snipers, an act that horrified the world, French TV covered the funeral which showed that the babies, in reality, were Serbian babies shot by snipers in an area that was under the control of Bosnian Muslims, The funeral services were conducted by a Serbian Orthodox Christian priest. However, for American TV consumption by CNN, the Serbian Orthodox Christian priest was conveniently cropped out of the picture so that the American audience would continue to believe that the babies were Muslim killed by Serbs rather than the other way around. Furthermore the American people were led to believe that the women at the cemetery against whom there was sniping and a grenade attack were Muslim women even though the graves were marked with Serbian Orthodox crosses.

Although atrocities "alleged" to have been committed by Serbs were shown repeatedly by ABC and the rest of the mainstream media, CNN's Christian Amanpour, who literally controlled what Americans saw or did not see, never showed Americans photos of atrocities committed against the Serbians, such as the photo of a Saudi Arabian mujahedin, in full camouflage gear, holding his "trophy" head of a Serb from the village of Jasenova as far back as 1991. Nor did Ms. Amanpour show you the photos of the Bosnian Serbs who had been roasted live on the spit by the holy warriors of Islam. The video photos were taken by Japanese photo journalist Yasunari Mizuguchi at Milici, Eastern Bosnia. (John Peter Maher, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago). Neither did the American media, which doesn't hesitate to show American GIs bleeding in the jungles of Vietnam or being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, see fit to report on the mutilation and torture of Serbian babies with the bullet holes in their foreheads or an axe taken to crush the skull to some unfortunate victims.

5. BREADLINE/MARKETPLACE MASSACRES.

Almost since the beginning of the Bosnian war in the spring of 1992, there have been persistent reports--readily found in the European media but little reported in the United States--that civilian deaths in Muslim-held Sarajevo attributed to the Bosnian Serb Army were in some cases actually inflicted by operatives of the Izetbegovic regime in an (ultimately successful) effort to secure American intervention on Sarajevo's behalf.

These allegations include instances of sniping at civilians as well as three major explosions, attributed to Serbian mortar fire, that claimed the lives of dozens of people and, in each case, resulted in the international community's taking measures against the Muslim's Serb enemies.
(United States Senate Republican Policy Committee Report, "Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfer Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base," 16 January 1997).

- May 27, 1992. The Sarajevo Breadline Massacre.

"MUSLIMS 'SLAUGHTER THEIR OWN PEOPLE,' Bosnia breadline queue massacre was propaganda ploy, UN told,"
(The Independent [London] 22 August 1992). This was also reported in the Toronto Star on 23 August 1992.

Canadian Major General Lewis MacKenzie, first UNPROFOR Commander writes in his book, "Peacekeeper, the Road to Sarajevo" (unavailable in the United States; we had to send to Canada to get it),

"Our people tell us there were a number of things that didn't fit. The street had been blocked off just before the incident. Once the crowd was let in and lined up, the media appeared but kept their distance. The attack took place, and the media were immediately on the scene. The majority of the victims were alleged to be 'tame Serbs.' "

For his evenhandedness in criticizing all sides ("There's enough blame to go around"), Major General MacKenzie was accused by the Bosnian Muslim government of having raped and murdered four Muslim women and of having a Serbian wife. Further efforts were made to destroy General MacKenzie's bid for a political career.

- February 5, 1994 - The Sarajevo Marketplace Massacre.

"Threat of NATO bombing, stronger U.S. efforts to help the Muslims when this act was committed by the Muslims against their own people."
Source: Gregory Copely, Editor of Defence & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy (London),
and The Times (London) February 19, 1994. Deutsch Press-Agentur reports that "for the first time, a senior UN official has admitted the existance of a secret UN report that blames the Bosnian Moslems for the February 1994 massacre of Moslems at the Sarajevo market."

In his article, "Where there's war there's Amanpour," Stephen Kinzer of the NY Times Magazine (9 Oct 1994) wrote,:

'She pushed CNN to cover the Bosnia story when there really wasn't much interest in it,' said one network insider who requested anonymity.

'She just insisted on going there, and the impact of her coverage forced the other networks to follow. It was another example of her great news instincts.'

But this same insider has doubts about Amanpour's commitment to objective journalism. 'I have winced at some of what she's done, at what used to be called advocacy journalism,' he said. 'She was sitting in Belgrade when that marketplace massacre happened, and she went on the air to say that the Serbs had probably done it. There was no way she could have known that.' "

A BBC documentary titled, "Yugoslavia: The Death Of A Nation," which was widely acclaimed in its original UK version, was aired in the U.S. with the original UK soundtrack removed and a commentary with an anti-Serb spin by CNN's Christiane Amanpour was substituted.

"I saw the original, which was reasonably balanced, and can't compare the two versions. . . To my knowledge, no major UK documentary on a non-American subject, has EVER been mangled in this way. Everyone concerned by the all pervasive manipulation of the media for political ends should flood the Discovery Channel demanding to know why this fine documentary has been manipulated by the media--if not US government--spin-doctors. And, not least, who ordered it done in the first place."
(Johnny Byrne, British author and journalist).

- August 28 1995. The Sarajevo Marketplace Massacre No. 2 (Markale).

"SERBS 'NOT GUILTY' OF MASSACRE, Experts warned US that mortar was Bosnian," (The Sunday Times [London] 1 October 1995).

Wasn't it strange that the attack gave the Clinton administation just the excuse it needed to demand that NATO bomb the Serbs? And it wasn't a coincidence that Peter Jennings and Christiane Amanpour had arrived in Sarajevo just in time to witness the mortar attack. Yet based on this deceit, NATO planes, led primarily by American pilots, dropped over 6,000 tons of bombs on the Serbs. To its shame, the U.S. used a target list provided by the Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Muslim Army, Gen. Rashim Delic. How many of you believe claims that there was little or no collateral damage and no civilians were killed? Then U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright, could barely contain her joy in announcing to the American people that American pilots were bombing the Serbs.

- April 1996. "Le Monde," Paris: "French Journalist, Bernard Volker, who claimed two years ago that Muslims were responsible for the incident at Markale market in Sarajevo has won his case in Paris and thus proved the truthfulness of his report."

Further proof that Muslims committed the Markale Massacre:

Jean Daniel, Editor of the magazine 'Le Nouvel Observateur,' in the August 31, 1995 issue under the revealing title, 'No more lies about Bosnia,' made an unprecedented confession: that the Prime Minister of France at the time of the market massacre, as well as many other ministers and two French generals, had confirmed to him that Muslims were the true authors of that carnage. The following statement is self explanatory: " 'They (the Muslims) have committed this carnage on their own people?' I exclaimed in consternation. 'Yes,' confirmed the Prime Minister [Eduard Balledur] without hesitation, 'but at least they forced NATO to intervene.' "

In his book, "The Sharp End, a Canadian Soldier's Story," Cpl. James R. Davis writes:

"...That evening there were some kids hanging around on a patio at the base of the building. The guys had thrown them some candy until I told them to stop....Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, one of the troops saw something race past...a mortar bomb. In the moment before it detonated, he realized it was heading right for the kids. Before he could shout a warning, the bomb exploded....What he found shocked him to the core. there were little pieces of children everywhere. Arms, legs, and blood covered the patio. The teenage girl had died instantly. The other kids were badly wounded. Brit medics showed up and tried to sort out the mess...They got the kids on stretchers and tried to match the arms and legs with the proper child. It was horrible.

"The next morning, a report came in from the observers that no Serb mortars had fired that they were aware of. The trajectory was calculated and it was determined that the Bosnians had mortared their own children. For public relatioins purposes. Sure enough, the morning news in the city reported that the UN and their Serb allies had killed these children. We could not believe it. I can't speak for the others, but that morning I would have happily killed any TDF (Muslim) troops I saw. I was growing tired of the whole mess. These people did not care. They were animals....It wasn't the last time the Bosnians murdered their own people in well-staged attacks for PR reasons."

6. THE SEIGE OF SARAJEVO.

"There are many misconceptions surrounding the 'seige' of Sarajevo. First of all, it is not really a seige in the accepted sense of the word. The Serbs do not want to take the city or to have it surrender -- they would not know what to do with it...The word 'seige' sounds dramatic, but it hardly conveys the reality of a situation where the Bosnian Serb army, with no pressure being applied to it, wave through convoys of aid into a city which they are supposed to be demolishing. Once, in the street outside our barracks, I met one of the [Bosnian Muslim] government soldiers and asked him rather pointedly why his side was breaking the ceasefires. They had orders, he said. Sarajevo was too quiet: to stay in the centre of the world's attention; it needed to be its 'normal' self - it needed to be shelled." (Interview of British Army soldier, Rod Thornton, by British journalist Johnny Byrne).

The fact of the matter was that rather than being a city under seige, Sarajevo was a divided city, much like Nicosia with its "green line" between the Turks and Greeks, or Beruit. The fact only became clear to most outsiders when, after Dayton, the Serbs turned over control of the whole city to the Muslim government and over 90,000 Serbs fled the city. Less than 2,000 of these refugees have been allowed to return. The Serbs had offered to let the women and children leave Sarajevo before the all-out conflict, but Bosnian President Izetbegovic refused, preferring to keep them there for propaganda purposes. Additionally, those who had enough money could pay their way out. The Serbians were talked into turning Mt. Igman over to the UN as a demilitarized zone. However, the U.N. immediately turned Mt. Igman over to the Muslim forces, which moved in artillery to shell Serb positions.

From "Dagblated," (Oslo) by Morten Strand, 4 November 1995, "Islamic Terrorists get a Stronghold in Bosnia." Strand writes,

"Bosnia is becoming an Islamic State and a stronghold for Muslim terrorism in Europe."