Posted on 08/24/2006 5:17:20 AM PDT by SJackson
Although Kosovo set a terrifying precedent for Israel, at least two Jews are happy about it. In a recent Wall St. Journal-Europe piece titled “Balkan Choice,” Morton Abramowitz and Mark Schneider write that Serbian President Vojislav Kostunica’s opposition to Kosovo independence risks making his country an “international pariah.” Have these two been asleep for 15 years? Serbia has been a pariah since it began fighting Islamo-nationalist terror without the West’s permission. Serbs were the first ones fingered in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the ones bombed by Bill Clinton in 1995 for a Sarajevo marketplace massacre — despite British intelligence warnings that a Bosnian-Muslim mortar was responsible. That other pariah state, Israel, is familiar with such frame-ups, and it’s no coincidence that Israel quietly aided Serbs militarily, aware of Islamic terrorist ties to the Bosnian army, including Palestinians operating in Bosnia.
When Israel confronts terrorism, it’s called self-defense. When Serbia does, it’s “poisonous nationalism” — as a Washington Post editorial called it the same week ("Serbia’s Intransigence"). Quite strategically, the word “Muslim” appears nowhere in either article, lest the world finally catch on to what we “achieved” in the Balkans. Instead, the authors promote the term “Albanian Kosovar,” a flashback to the journalistic ploy that ensured a multi-national war against European Christians on behalf of Muslims.
Abramowitz and Schneider write that Milosevic’s “attempted ethnic cleansing [has] made anything less than independence totally unacceptable to the people of Kosovo.” The “people of Kosovo” to whom the authors so reverently refer use Serbian children for target practice. Kosovo is dominated by thugs who have attacked Serbs 186 times just since getting the green light for final-status talks last October. The bruises, broken bones and graves of their victims — infant to octogenarian, male or female — are on display in the DVD documentary “Days Made of Fear.” As for Milosevic’s “attempted ethnic cleansing,” all that can be said is that people who haven’t followed even a day of a four-year trial shouldn’t write op-eds relying on popular mythology.
Abramowitz and Schneider even have the poor taste to repeat the disingenuous assurances of a NATO presence enforcing international guarantees to protect the Serb minority — as if oblivious that NATO hasn’t been able to prevent the almost daily kidnappings and attacks on the remaining Serbs, and was helpless even to stop the 2004 pogrom in which NATO troops themselves were attacked by Albanians. Incredibly, the authors write that the Kosovars have “met enough of the standards to get U.N. Security Council endorsement of final status negotiations” — as if one monitoring group after another hasn’t exposed the fact that the internationals have simply given up on any standards being met. (The UN is planning to evacuate tens of thousands of Serbs the moment we hand Kosovo to the terrorists this year.)
“Serbia is going to have to accept Kosovo independence” is code-speak for the West buckling under to terrorism in the Balkans as usual. It’s all the more unconscionable, given that today we know the London and Madrid explosives came from Kosovo.
The authors conclude by saying that Serbia will be better off “living in peace with a new Kosovo.” Just like Israel will be better off living “in peace” with a Hamas-led Palestine.
For its part, The Washington Post criticizes Serbia for “repeatedly [failing] to meet a critical condition for moving forward [toward EU and NATO membership], which is the arrest of indicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic.” While fugitive Serbian war criminals are fixated on, Albanian war criminals are allowed to enjoy political careers. Notice that no such criticism is raised about Kosovo’s prime minister Agim Ceku — a former KLA commander who is indicted in Serbia for command responsibility in terrorist killings of over 600 Serbs, Roma, Albanians and others, including beheading, torture, mutilation, and abducting more than 500 people, most presumed dead. The KLA, meanwhile, trained in al-Qaeda camps prior to our 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia.
When America is leading a global war on jihad terror, it’s difficult to understand how Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warmly greeted this wanted terrorist in Washington this summer.
We cannot fight terrorism with one hand while abetting it with the other. As UN human rights observer Jiri Dienstbier has noted, “If NATO and the UN can’t defeat terrorism in an area the size of one-eighth of the Czech Republic, how do they expect to confront global terrorism?”
Although the intelligence community is fully aware of the Kosovo threat, our political leaders and media are denying it. The Post editors refer to “a firm Western consensus” that the province “should be granted independence before the end of this year.” Translation: America and Europe are taking the Wesley Clark approach and appeasing the Albanian violence meant to persuade us that there can be only one outcome — theirs. Recall that the “firm Western consensus” in 1999 was that Kosovo would have autonomy precisely without becoming independent.
To get back into the West’s good graces, the beaten-down Serbs have lain prostrate for the past seven years throughout the continuing dismemberment of their country and security. And yet, any leader — no matter how democratic and pro-Western (Kostunica is a Constitutional scholar) — who tries to draw the line with the number of concessions Serbs will make to their tormentors sounds “disturbingly like Slobodan Milosevic,” according to The Post.
Terror aside, the criminal rackets (sex slavery, the heroin trade) in Kosovo are closely linked to the KLA leadership that dominates the local Albanian administration operating under UN auspices, and are already a menace to Europe. If organized crime is uncontrolled under UN and NATO supervision, how will Kosovo’s independence improve things when the racketeers become the sovereign government?
It’s time to stop writing in a vacuum about the Balkan region and our handiwork there. It happens to be the MOST key region nearest us in the War on Terror. As the 9/11 Commission found, it was in 1990s Bosnia that the “groundwork for a true terrorist network was being laid.” That network is today known as al Qaeda.
This year, we continue the march toward a Greater (and eventually Muslim-only) Albania that will attach Kosovo (and soon Macedonia and parts of Greece). By signing the Christian Serbs’ Jerusalem over to the terrorists, we will give terrorism the boost it struggled for throughout the 90s. Instead of influencing their government away from such treachery, Americans shrug.
When the Milosevic trial opened in February 2002, the former Serbian “disproportionate force” president showed photos of disembodied Serbian heads. The late Judge Richard May had little patience for this display, calling it irrelevant. To which Milosevic replied:
“It’s not on the screens that the public sees. Right. I see it on this screen now. But this internal screen only. So he is holding a head, the head of a Serb that he cut off. So those are the 20,000 Mujahedin that were brought to the European theatre of war through Clinton’s policy, and most of them remained there and some went to America and to other countries, and they went all around Europe. And then when they start beheading your own people in wars to come, then you will know what this is all about.”
I thought we’d gotten the memo by now.
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As I've written on my own blog, the Serbs are a predominately non-Islamic country that was engaged in a battle against the KLA, an insurgency with close links to Al Qaeda. We joined the wrong side in that little spat. We should've joined the Serbs in defeating the Islamofascist threat in the Balkans.
Julia Gorin Ping!!!
Fight for muslims to become the dhimi.
Still not too late for President Bush to avert the disaster.
I would say your right James.
If Milosevic were to present his defense, his false accusers and false judges would be completely unmasked. That is why he had to die.
Always with the conspiracy theories in the Balkans. Milosevic actually died of eating whatever cholesterol-infused diet that caused his heart attack.
As can be seen in the photo below of Milosevic holding hands with one of his buddies, Slobo has the classic heart attack victim "apple" shape in which a pot belly--even with the lack of excess weight in the rest of the body--is a strong predictor of heart disease. Too much pork in the Serb diet?
But the victim demanded help and presence of the third parties just before. He was murdered all right.
And the motive was there too.
James, first of all, while Serbs are "non-Islamic", it is illuminating to note that their erstwhile leader--Slobodan Milosevic--was charged with more counts of war-crimes against fellow Christians than against any Muslim group. Further, in their war against the Catholic Croats, the Serbs destroyed more Christian churches than the Muslims are accused of doing in Bosnia or the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo (where the Serbs also destroyed/damaged 9 Albanian Christian Churches). The Serbs conveniently leave these facts out as they attempt to gain sympathy in the post 9-11 world by re-casting the nationalistic wars and ethnic cleansing campaigns of the 90s as some sort of defense of Christianity.
Whether someone is CHARGED with one crime or thousand crimes it does not made someone more or less guilty. And the charges in the show trial in Hague are worth as much as charges in Moscow show trials in 1930s. The main difference is that the accused in Moscow were being tortured while in Hague are being poisoned.
A. Pole, conspiracy theories are invented by those who do not wish to confront the facts. And the fact is that Milosevic died a natural death.
The public prosecutor has come to the conclusion that Mr. Milosevic died a natural death and that there are no indications that the death resulted from crime…. The toxicologic examination into the cause of death has now been completed. No indications were found that showed poisoning and neither were toxicologic factors found that might have provoked a cardiac arrest. … the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI) has now definitely come to the conclusion that the cause of death was cardiac arrest.
Further, the Serbs, a Belgian, and Russian pathologists were present at the autopsy and given access to the autopsy results. A second examination of Milosevic’s corpse was made by an independent German team. No objections have been made by anyone involved as to the conclusion of natural death.
The body was seized by the public prosecutor in order to perform a judicial autopsy and was transferred to the Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI). At the request of the Tribunal they waited half a day so that two Serbian pathologists could be present during the autopsy on March 12. The NFI invited a Belgian pathologist to attend the autopsy as an observer. Russian pathologists have been given the opportunity at a later time (March 14) to view the photographs of the autopsy and to study the preliminary autopsy report. Neither the Russian and Serbian pathologists nor the family have commented on the results of the autopsy. During the autopsy extra samples were taken in case a possible counter examination would have to be made. A number of the medicines prescribed to Mr. Milosevic were found in the body material, however, not in toxic concentrations. No traces were found of medicines that had not been prescribed. In order to guarantee the quality of the examination, the Dutch Forensic Institute requested the independent German Institut für Gerichtsmedizin in Bonn to again perform the examination. This institute has reached the same conclusions as the NFI did.
The nationalist aspirations of the former Yugoslavia's constituent groups came into conflict and that is why not just the Muslim Bosniaks, but the Kosovo Albanians, Christian Slovenes, Christian Croats, Christian Macedonians, and Christian Montenegrins have all split away from Belgrade and the Serbs. And the Hungarian Christian minority in Serbia's province of Vojvodina is not real happy right now either.
To those in the Balkans, Christian and Muslim alike, who opposed Belgrade & Milosevic and the "Greater Serbia" ideology; it was not--as the Serbs dishonestly portray it today--a fight against Christianity, it was a struggle for freedom and independence.
Besides, his diet had been provided by the Hague FOR ALMOST 5 YEARS before his death. His health got much worse while at the Hague and he was beset with all kinds of symptoms and extremely high episodes of high blood pressure.
At the beginning of his defense, his health grew even worse. There was also a big commotion at the Hague, when one time his food plate was exchanged with another prisoners - even thought the food appeared to be exactly the same.
They were medically neglectful - if not deliberately murderous, and they would have given him better health care - IF they wanted to see the trial carry out fully. But he was doing such a good job defending himself and proving his accusers wrong - with many important witnesses lined up and yet to come - that the Hague was no doubt relieved to have him die.
You're an exceptional Dhimmi. I'll wager you've even come to enjoy the taste.
Ah yes, when losing an argument, just bring out the tried-and-true junior high lunch-break ploy of calling someone a name and accusing them of having oral sex with some other guy! Yep, FormerLib, you're a real credit to Free Republic and the conservative movement.
As to his guilt, read the transcripts--it's pretty obvious. And if you don't want to do that, let's hear from a couple close observers.
"We are both aware, as God knows, how much evil has been done [in Kosovo] in the course of the last year and especially in the last three months. The great part of the guilt lies with Milosevic."
-Bishop Artemije, senior representative of Serbian Orthodox Church, speaking for himself and Patriarch Pavle, head of the church, NYT, June 29, 1999.
W also has something to say:
"I welcome today's arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia. His arrest represents an important step in bringing to a close the tragic era of his brutal dictatorship. Milosevic was responsible for great suffering throughout the Balkan region. He deserves to be tried for his crimes against the Serbian people. He also deserves to be tried for violations of international law...."
I'm not losing any argument, I'm just pointing out that your loyalties are with the Muslims, first and foremost.
Want to see the sort of folks that marky-mark supports? http://www.youtube.com/v/-HlaVpqUXF0
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