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Those damn serbs again...

You would be suprised who are teh real backers of the chechen cause in the US. This is a snippet from the Chechens American friends

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1299318,00.html


This harshness towards Putin is perhaps explained by the fact that, in the US, the leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled "distinguished Americans" who are its members is a rollcall of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusastically support the "war on terror".

They include Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be "a cakewalk"; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation; Frank Gaffney of the militarist Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin, now president of the US Committee on Nato; Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, a former admirer of Italian fascism and now a leading proponent of regime change in Iran; and R James Woolsey, the former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George Bush's plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines.

The ACPC heavily promotes the idea that the Chechen rebellion shows the undemocratic nature of Putin's Russia, and cultivates support for the Chechen cause by emphasising the seriousness of human rights violations in the tiny Caucasian republic. It compares the Chechen crisis to those other fashionable "Muslim" causes, Bosnia and Kosovo - implying that only international intervention in the Caucasus can stabilise the situation there.

693 thats killed in action

936 is total count

sloppy reporting

Yes your analysis was spot on, one for the history books. Keep it up! You can see how far this all reaches...

This is one the crippled Saudi that just 'surrendered' (or retired?):

Al-Harbi, a native of the holy city of Mecca, is thought to have fought in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan alongside al-Qaida chief bin Ladin during the early 1980s.

Al-Harbi, who was wounded while fighting in Bosnia, taught courses in Islam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, but dropped out of sight after the 11 September attacks. Saudi-born bin Ladin is alleged to have been al-Harbi's associate

From:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8636577D-F324-48F1-97FC-10C3F12D3AD0.htm

These were the guys teh US was (and still are regarding the anti Serb bias) openly suporting! Well major blowback but still not being reported or investigated in teh US 'free' and self censoring press!

What all US press will fail to mention but here it is from Al Jazeera:

Al-Harbi, who was wounded while fighting in Bosnia, taught courses in Islam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, but dropped out of sight after the 11 September attacks. He is believed to have fled to Afghanistan via Iran at the time, and is alleged to have appeared alongside bin Ladin in a video aired by Aljazeera television in December 2001, during which he claimed that Muslim scholars "bless" the al-Qaida's actions

What all US press will fail to mention but here it is from Al Jazeera:

Al-Harbi, who was wounded while fighting in Bosnia, taught courses in Islam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, but dropped out of sight after the 11 September attacks. He is believed to have fled to Afghanistan via Iran at the time, and is alleged to have appeared alongside bin Ladin in a video aired by Aljazeera television in December 2001, during which he claimed that Muslim scholars "bless" the al-Qaida's actions

The US strategic concept:
First create enemy,
then defeat enemy,
create base,
wait for new enemy to emerge!
Meanwhile spend lots of money

Comming soon to a state border near you....

Military Fatalities: By Month:
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
5-2004 53 0 4 57 2.85 20
4-2004 140 0 5 145 4.83 30
3-2004 52 0 0 52 1.68 31
2-2004 20 1 2 23 0.79 29
1-2004 47 5 0 52 1.68 31
12-2003 40 0 8 48 1.55 31
11-2003 82 1 27 110 3.67 30
10-2003 42 1 2 45 1.45 31
9-2003 31 1 1 33 1.1 30
8-2003 35 6 2 43 1.39 31
7-2003 47 1 0 48 1.55 31
6-2003 30 6 0 36 1.2 30
5-2003 37 4 0 41 1.32 31
4-2003 73 6 0 79 2.63 30
3-2003 65 27 0 92 7.67 12
Total 794 59 51 904 2.11 428

It's hot air

More Christian heads....


http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/politics/forbidden_pictures/present/serb_head2.html

Albania soldiers in rape scandal


The trafficking of women is a continuing problem for Albania
Albanian police say several servicemen have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing a 16-year old girl.
The men are accused of raping the girl before selling her to a gang in Kosovo which forced her into prostitution.

UN staff eventually rescued the girl and helped her to return to Albania.

Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Pellumb Qazimi, who issued a public apology to the girl, has suspended the commander of the base in north-western Albania where the men were stationed.

Some reports say four civilians have also been arrested in connection with the case.

The 16-year-old was first abducted at the Bisht Palle naval base in June and sexually abused by soldiers for two months, according to a police spokesman.

She was then "sold" to Albanian hotel owners, before ending up in the southern Kosovo town of Prizren.

UN officials found her in Kosovo with irregular documents and took her to a rehabilitation centre for trafficked women in Durres.

The teenager has decided to bring charges against her abusers, police say.

Crackdown

Human trafficking and the forced prostitution of women continue to plague post-communist Albania.

Attempts by the authorities to address the problems, in an effort to join eventually join Nato and the European Union, have so far been in vain.

Criminal gangs take advantage of police corruption, a weak judicial system and lax border controls to exploit young women.

A new report, co-written by the UN and the 55-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has estimated that 120,000 women and children are trafficked into the EU each year, most of them through the Balkans.

If a RPG can take out a tank, why wouldnt the same happen with a helicopter?

Wonder how this will play out...


In an effort to toughen the Iraqi forces, Abizaid said the U.S. military will reach out to former senior members of Saddam's disbanded army - a reversal in strategy. The military in the past has tried to avoid relying on top officials from the ousted regime.

``It's ... very clear that we've got to get more senior Iraqis involved - former military types involved in the security forces,'' he said. ``In the next couple of days you'll see a large number of senior officers being appointed to key positions in the ministry of defense and the Iraqi joint staff and in Iraqi field commands.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3971862,00.html

US soldiers confirmed missing
From correspondents in Washington
April 10, 2004

TWO US soldiers are missing following an attack by Iraqi insurgents on their convoy west of Baghdad.

Military spokesman Justin McCue said: "There are two soldiers missing as a result of an attack on the convoy today ... the attack occured right around Baghdad International Airport."

McCue said it was unknown if the soldiers had been abducted by insurgents following a flurry of kidnappings of foreigners across Iraq in recent days.

Earlier today, US Central Command announced that a member of the 13th Corps Support Command had been killed and 12 wounded in an attack on their convoy near Baghdad International Airport.

It was not immediately known if the missing soldiers were part of the same convoy.