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What Chris Wallace should have asked Bill? Clinton's Balkan Lies
FrontPageMag.com ^ | 10-09-06 | Julia Gorin

Posted on 10/09/2006 10:02:10 AM PDT by strmenjan

In the much talked-about Chris Wallace-Bill Clinton interview on "Fox News Sunday," Clinton made several pointed insistences to Wallace that "at least I tried" to confront terror. This of course implies that the Clinton administration gave a damn in the first place. But how does one reconcile that with the fact that this man allied us with al Qaeda in the Balkans?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: balkans; clinton; democrats; foreignpolicy; muslims; serbia; terrorism; waronterror
In the much talked-about Chris Wallace-Bill Clinton interview on "Fox News Sunday," Clinton made several pointed insistences to Wallace that "at least I tried" to confront terror. This of course implies that the Clinton administration gave a damn in the first place. But how does one reconcile that with the fact that this man allied us with al Qaeda in the Balkans? That Clinton would consider an obvious question asking why he didn't go after bin Laden a "hit job" is high comedy. This diva, unused to being challenged by the media except on sexual matters, can't even appreciate that in seven years, not one interviewer has ever asked him a single question about why he allied us with al Qaeda-trained terrorists who fabricated a genocide in Kosovo, in a war of aggression against a multi-ethnic European nation that never threatened any of its neighbors, much less the United States.

On page 225 of his new book In the Line of Fire, Pervez Musharraf writes that it is believed that Omar Sheikh, the mastermind behind reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnapping, "was recruited by the British intelligence agency MI-6. It is said that MI-6 persuaded him to take an active part in demonstrations against Serbian aggression in Bosnia and even sent him to Kosovo to join the jihad."

Here we have a Muslim leader admitting what our own leaders will not: that with the U.S.-led mischief in the Balkans, the West was facilitating, supporting and financing a jihad in Europe. Musharraf's statement is consistent with the 9/11 Commission's finding that the "groundwork for a true terrorist network was being laid" in 1990s Bosnia, as former Senate Republican Policy Committee analyst James Jatras described it in his testimony at the Milosevic trial in 2004.

And in the Commission Report this has stayed, never to be spoken of since by any of our hard-nosed journalists of varying political stripes who dutifully "question" politicians' motivations for war. Understandably, they wouldn't want to alienate the President of Peace by bringing up not only that he didn't go after bin Laden, but that he did his bidding. For they would get more than the knee-poking that Chris Wallace got.

But as early as 1997, there was a Senate Republican Policy Committee report titled "Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base." And in 2003 Gregory Copley, president of International Strategic Studies Association, wrote an analysis titled "Bosnian Official Links With Terrorism, Including 9/11, Become Increasingly Apparent as Clinton, Clark Attempt to Justify Support of Bosnian Militants."

MI-6's involvement, meanwhile, is more than just "believed" or "said" to have taken place, and Sheikh wasn't the only one the Brits recruited to wage a terror campaign in Yugoslavia. See this Fox News video/transcript from "Dayside" just three weeks after London got a taste of what it (and we) gave Belgrade.

As the UK Guardian reported late last year, "Britain now faces its own blowback: Intelligence interests may thwart the July bombings investigation."

It is significant that in Musharraf's book Daniel Pearl is mentioned on the same page as the Western-promoted Kosovo jihad -- as it is that Pearl's kidnapper fought in Kosovo. For it was Daniel Pearl who first brought us the following revelation about the alleged Serb "aggression": "[A]llegations -- indiscriminate mass murder, rape camps, crematoriums, mutilation of the dead -- haven't been borne out in the six months since NATO troops entered Kosovo. Ethnic-Albanian militants, humanitarian organizations, NATO and the news media fed off each other to give genocide rumors credibility. Now, a different picture is emerging." The article was printed on the day the jihad was scheduled to come to our shores but was averted -- December 31, 1999.

In retrospect, the Serbian "aggression" Musharraf mentions appears to have been uncannily similar to the "Israeli aggression" that we hear so much about -- that is to say, a military response to provocations that are designed precisely to elicit such response, to be followed by international condemnation and next, international intervention (which then enables the jihad to proceed unhampered, as happened in Bosnia and, with even greater success, in Kosovo).

Forward to pages 242-43 of Musharraf's book: "Before the subway operation, however, al Qaeda...decided not to use too many Arab hijackers, to avoid suspicion. Instead, it planned to use hardened European Muslim veterans of the Bosnian jihad..."

Again, a Muslim leader broaching the subject that our own leaders and media have blacked out: Bosnia was likewise a jihad on whose side we fought -- against the Serbian nation, whose people saved 500 downed U.S. pilots during WWII, at their own peril.

That much hyped (and ever-mutating) figure of 8,000 Bosnian-Muslim bodies in Srebrenica ensures all the immunity the former Clinton officials could hope for, by silencing any poor-taste, would-be questioners. Thanks to which Hillary Clinton -- who, despite her unofficial capacity at the time, green-lit the 1999 Kosovo war crime three days before we embarked on it -- stands a serious chance of becoming a presidential candidate and reinstating the band of war criminals from her husband's administration: Albright, Holbrooke, Clark, Berger and Cohen, et. al.

Peter Brock's new book Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting reveals that of the 8,000 Srebrenica "dead," 5,000 were Muslim troops who fled the enclave before the Serbs took Srebrenica, after regularly ambushing nearby Serb villages, to join other fighting. Their families claimed they had been killed, but 3,000 have since registered to vote in elections (though some of them are no doubt among the voting dead). The 2,000-3,000 bodies that have been unearthed belong to people who died during all three years of fighting around Srebrenica -- not just from the time the Serbs took Srebrenica. Nor is it clear how many of the bodies are Muslim and how many are Serbian. Brock's messier version of the otherwise tidy "8,000 slaughtered" event is consistent with this easy-to-read "Srebrenica Fact Sheet," as it is with this Globe and Mail article last year by the UN's first peacekeeping commander in Sarajevo, retired Maj. General Lewis MacKenzie.

The 2,000-3,000 count is on par with the number of Serb civilians killed in and around Srebrenica, but no agency was tasked with counting dead Serbs and no humanity cries out for or commemorates dead Serbs. Indeed, upon being convicted of war crimes at the Hague, Srebrenica's Serb-hunter-in-chief Naser Oric was immediately released -- and got a hero's welcome home. As most Serb-killers do before pursuing political careers in the region.

Unfortunately, the Bush policy on the Balkans has been to default to the pro-terror policies of the Clinton era, while the still-powerful Clinton cronies, including Wesley Clark and Richard Holbrooke, have been very busy burying their defecation in Kosovo. To that end, Congress, the State Department and almost every last NGO remain committed to Kosovo independence by early 2007, that is to the establishment of a mono-ethnic mafia-terror state headed by indicted war criminals. All the while, the original architects of this nail in our own coffin continue to wax authoritative on talk shows, freely touting their "successful war" in which they "stopped a genocide" -- knowing the statement will go unchallenged. And it does.

Though the dots remain purposefully unconnected, history, karma, and consequence prove that what happens in the Balkans doesn't stay in the Balkans. Witness Madrid, London, Netanya and, as the Commission found, even 9/11.

As Copley wrote of Brock's Media Cleansing: "That there were genuine initial misunderstandings on the part of the world's media with regard to the Balkan situation is clear. But the fact that the media -- on whose judgments governments made policies -- allowed itself [sic] to be duped by propagandists, and that editors then refused to recant when their errors became obvious: there lies the essence of Brock's indictment….If Watergate was the modern starting point for agenda-based reporting, then the Balkan wars showed that, unchecked, the media could, without accountability, bring about the downfall of nations.

"The resultant emergence of terrorist coordinating centers in the Balkans, intimately involved in the 9/11, Madrid, and London attacks, can be laid directly at the door of the editors who allowed bias to rule their coverage of the Balkan wars. We have yet to see the full consequences of the media's shameful unprofessionalism in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Peter Brock's book should be the basis for both Congressional and independent media enquiries."

1 posted on 10/09/2006 10:02:12 AM PDT by strmenjan
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To: strmenjan

Did you get the impression from that interview that Bill would rather talk about Monica?


2 posted on 10/09/2006 10:04:17 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: strmenjan

weren't the troops suposed to be home by Christmas.....um...1998?


3 posted on 10/09/2006 10:05:51 AM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
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To: strmenjan

Mr Clinton. Why did you pardon the Puerto Rican TERRORISTS?


4 posted on 10/09/2006 10:07:15 AM PDT by Young Werther
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To: llevrok

Christmas. No year, century or millenium was mentioned!! Typical Xlintoon equivocation!


5 posted on 10/09/2006 10:08:14 AM PDT by Young Werther
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To: strmenjan

If Bill Clinton had been a virgin, he would still have been the most immoral president in this country's history.

In exchange for illegal campaign contributions from the government of China, he allowed the Chinese to buy American technology, which now makes them capable of hitting American cities with nuclear missiles.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell121602.asp



6 posted on 10/09/2006 10:10:34 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Brilliant

Clinton would rather talk about anything to avoid people questioning about his actual intentions in the Balkans, his support of al-Qaeda, and his accountability for the reason Osama is alive and we are engaged in a War on Terror. Just when the Lewinsky scandal was gaining full steam, Clinton launched an attack to stop a "genocide" that was occuring. What a joke!


7 posted on 10/09/2006 10:12:16 AM PDT by strmenjan
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To: strmenjan

BTTT


8 posted on 10/09/2006 10:13:26 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: llevrok

Our troops should have never been there in the first place. Kosovo is a Serbian Palestine and we should have supported the Serbs as we support the Jews, against the State Department acknowledged terrorists, the KLA and the Kosovo Albananians.


9 posted on 10/09/2006 10:15:16 AM PDT by strmenjan
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To: Brilliant

"Did you get the impression from that interview that Bill would rather talk about Monica?"

This has been a diversion tactic of the Clintons for some time. By steering the conversation in that direction, he avoids tough questions. He may even stipulate that those questions be asked.

He'd rather brag about how he "saved the Constitution froma takeover from the extreme right" than have to explain that he knew before we went int Kosavo that there were no mass graves, no genocide, no real reason to be there (So Clinton Lied- People Died would not be chanted outside his "home" in Chappaqua).


10 posted on 10/09/2006 10:52:11 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: strmenjan
Clinton's pro-Islamist foreign policy had a common theme. By ignoring terror attacks, making Europe safe for al Queda, and mainstreaming Arafat, Clinton and his stooges Albright and Berger hoped to broker an Arab-Israili deal that would give Bubba his Nobel peace prize.

Clinton is the Neville Chamberlain of our time. History will show his plan of Islamist appeasement and "land for peace" is what emboldened Islamists to strike against the West.
11 posted on 10/09/2006 10:59:49 AM PDT by BigBobber
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To: llevrok
weren't the troops suposed to be home by Christmas.....um...1998?

And why did the Clinton administration put out the requirement that all service members heading to the Mideast be immunized with the anthrax vaccine? Either it was to promote the manufacture of the vaccine who now employed a retired military general on it's payroll OR it was because they knew Iraq had WMDs.

12 posted on 10/09/2006 11:37:36 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: strmenjan
Ding, Ding Ding!!! BigBopper wins the prize!

The driving force in Clinton's presidency (besides cocaine) was the pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize for making the Arabs in Gaza, etc. happy. He practically shoved Israel of the cliff to get it. The war against Serbia was directly related. The limited or no response to terrorist acts against the U.S. was directly related. The intentional warning of OBL before the missile attack was directly related. He thought that one would give him a trump card to play. Another miscalculation!
13 posted on 10/09/2006 12:38:28 PM PDT by Revolutionary
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...
Juli Gorin does it again! Thanks Julia!
14 posted on 10/09/2006 1:39:28 PM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org and www.kosovo.net Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: BigBobber
"Clinton is the Neville Chamberlain of our time."

In defense of Chamberlain, I honestly believe that, misguided though he might have been, Chamberlain was at least sincere in his belief that he had done what was best for Europe.

At no time during his administration did Clinton allow what was best for the U.S. to interfere with his personal agenda...

15 posted on 10/09/2006 1:46:56 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: strmenjan
Did you hear Dicky Morris tell O'Reilly the other day that he advised BJ Clinton to go ahead and bomb Bosnia to make him look stronger because all of the Monica debacle was making him look weak(and this would stop the Serbs of their 'genocide'of quarter of a million......they pull these numbers out of their collective asses, don't they?)

Make no mistake this was a wag the dog immoral, illegal war on Serbia/Serbs. Morris stated it right there on TV. How does one get transcripts to these shows?

16 posted on 10/09/2006 2:00:26 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Madeline Albright ZaPeezda, no doubt about it!)
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To: kronos77; Bokababe
Besides being nonsensical, this is just plain insanity. Why hasn't the Bush administration request that the UN/NATO get out of Kosovo and the Provence be returned to Serbian governance, where it rightfully belongs?

 

17 posted on 10/09/2006 2:49:48 PM PDT by Smartass (The stars rule men but God rules the stars)
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To: Smartass

That's an excellent question, but the only problem is that if it is handed back to Serbian governance, the Albanians will declare war on the Serbs again. If Kosovo gets anything less than full independence the Albanian population will undoubtedly raise arms.


18 posted on 10/09/2006 2:53:16 PM PDT by strmenjan
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To: strmenjan
Serbia can handle Muslim Albanians. They just couldn't handle being bombed from 15,000/20,000 foot by people they had trust in. We have to get out the way, and stay out!!!

 

19 posted on 10/09/2006 2:56:55 PM PDT by Smartass (The stars rule men but God rules the stars)
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