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Two weeks ago, reporting on the violent arrest of a retired Serbian army colonel on war crimes charges raised by the Hague Inquisition, Reuters and other news media referred to the 1991 conflict as the "Croatian war of independence." That term, however, is false. Many defenders of Slobodan Milosevic see him as the Serbian Abraham Lincoln, standing against the illegal secession of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Milosevic's own defense at the Inquisition centers on the claim that he fought to preserve Yugoslavia, not to destroy it. That argument is also false. Oh, it is true enough that Milosevic was...

An Australian power company is planning to build the world's tallest structure - a solar tower - in the middle of the outback. The project is part of a global campaign to encourage the use of more renewable energy. Enviromission says the tower, at a proposed height of 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), will be more than twice the size of the world's current tallest freestanding building, the Canadian National Tower in Toronto. The one billion Australian dollar (US $0.56 bn) project is being backed by the Australian Government, and is expected to be completed in 2006 in the remote Buronga...

Joint state was created by giants and destroyed by midgets Farewell or Good Bye Yugoslavia by Berislav KOSIER Danas, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia, August 15, 2001 The will of the people has so far created two and a half Yugoslavias in the twentieth century: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Yugoslavia, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [the former Yugoslavia] and finally, until recently, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Today, all of them are gone. Both the first, and the second and the second-and-a-half were abolished violently and despite the will of the people. From the historical point of...

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...

Source: The Serbian Questions in The Balkans, University of Belgrade, publisher - Faculty of Geography, Belgrade 1995. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the twentieth century, South-eastern Europe saw the rise and demise of the Yugoslav idea which resulted in the creation and destruction of the common Yugoslav state. The fate of the Serbian people, the most numerous people in the central part of this region, which gave the greatest contribution to the creation of the common state, but which also became the tragic hostage of its forcible break-up, is closely linked to the fate of this idea and this state. At the end...

Carla del Ponte, it is your duty to immediately indict and publicly call for the immediate arrest of Alija Izetbegovic for genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the laws and customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Between November 18, 1990 and November 21, 1995 acting individually or in concert with Haris Silajdzic, Ejup Ganic and others, Alija Izetbegovic planned, instigated, ordered, committed or otherwise aided and abetted the planning, preparation or execution of the destruction, in whole or in part, of the Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat national, ethnical, racial or religious groups, as such, in...

Personalities: Alija Izetbegovic The Islamic Declaration -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Western media presents him as a 'secular' President, but... THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MR. ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC IS ISLAM FUNDAMENTALIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are excerpts from the book "The Islamic Declaration" ("Islamska deklaracija"), written by Mr. Alija Izetbegovic, current President of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The book was reprinted by "BOSNA", Sarajevo, 1990, 127 pages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... Do we want the Muslim nations to cease moving in circles, to stop being dependent, backward and poverty-stricken; do we want them to once again with a sure step climb the road of dignity and enlightment and...

When the New York Times published the current government’s "National Security Strategy of the United States" last week, the American Empire – already a painful reality – became official. According to one review, "the 31-page document asserts American dominance as the lone superpower – a status no rival power will be allowed to challenge. And it provides a reason the world should accept this state of affairs: the expansion of peace and more freedom." Another review analyzes the "unrestrained arrogance" of American Empire, and the plan to reshape the world any which way it chooses. All eyes are now turned...

Over the past couple of days, two prominent leaders of the "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) have been arrested by the NATO forces occupying Kosovo. Rrustem Mustafa, better known as Commander Remi, is accused of torturing and murdering several people. Ramush Haradinaj was charged with "violent behavior" – a polite way to describe a shooting of a rival politician two years ago. Predictably, the arrests have been touted as a signal of NATO’s determination to "tackle armed extremism" in the province. They are, of course, nothing of the sort. Considering the violent record of Haradinaj and Mustafa, present charges against them...

WHY YUGO-NOSTALGISTS ARE WRONG The problem was not in Yugoslavia’s demise but in the way it was affected by Srdja Trifkovic A few weeks ago I shared the podium at Princeton with an unreconstructed adherent of the “Old Left” from New York. We were both opposed to last year’s NATO bombing of Serbia, and we were invited to speak at an event marking the first anniversary of that infamy. While our broadly similar conclusions on the war itself were reached from very different vantage points, one could say that this was a commendable case of moving “beyond the Left and...

Reports on Islamic Terror Links The KLA's main staging area is in the vicinity of the town of Tropoje in northern Albania [Jane's International Defense Review, 2/1/99]. Tropoje, the hometown and current base of former Albanian president Sali Berisha, a major KLA patron, is also a known center for Islamic terrorists connected with Saudi renegade Osama bin-Ladin. [For a report on the presence of bin-Ladin assets in Tropoje and connections to anti-American Islamic terrorism, see "U.S. Blasts' Possible Mideast Ties: Alleged Terrorists Investigated in Albania, Washington Post, 8/12/98.] The following reports note the presence of foreign mujahedin (i.e., Islamic holy ...

The alleged mastermind of those attacks, Mr bin Laden, has reportedly vowed to celebrate the anniversary with another attack on American interests. And, according to Western diplomats and Nato officers, his supporters continue to live in Bosnia under the protection of Bosnian Muslim government officials. A few thousand mujahedin, foreign Islamic fundamentalists, came here to fight beside their Muslim brethren during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. While many were killed, or left the country at the end of the war, a few hundred remained, were given Bosnian citizenship, and the protection of the government in areas ruled by the Muslim nationalist Party ...