The Return: A Book for Frances about Life and Death
             Preface
            Back Cover
      You're in Charge: A Guide to Becoming Your Own Therapist
            Introduction: The Art of Self Observation
             On Dreaming
            Foreign Editions
   Since the New Deal: An Annotated Chronology of the Events That Have Changed the United States
             The C.I.A. (excerpt)
             Origins of the Cold War (excerpt)
             Some Quotations that Demonstrate the Underlying Philosophy Since the New Deal

 
      Afghanistan, "Terrorism," and Blowback   About Anthrax
     Some Thoughts on 9-11-2001

Spanish experts see no Serbian genocide in Kosovo by Pablo Ordaz
Commentary by Jared Israel (9-27-99)

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"All across Kosovo, we see reminders that America and our allies did the right thing in taking a stand against ethnic cleansing…. The Serb forces responsible for the violence are gone…But there is also tremendous sadness -- from the pain of remembering and the devastation left behind by Milosevic's campaign of hate. And in many victims there is rage, a desire for justice, and sometimes revenge." (Foreign Policy Adviser Sandy Berger, "Remarks to Council on Foreign Relations", July 26, 1999)
In this remarkable speech Mr. Berger a) gives the KLA the green light to attack Serbs because it's all quite understandable considering the "tremendous sadness" and "victims" consumed with "rage" and b) makes the purpose of the war crimes investigations perfectly clear. That purpose is NOT to discover the truth. Discovery is unnecessary; Mr. Berger has discovered the truth in advance. Rather the purpose of investigation is to provide "reminders that America and our allies did the right thing."

Thus the investigation is controlled by two highly interested parties, NATO and the KLA. Their control includes not only the handling of evidence but the recruitment and preparation of witnesses. Obviously such witnesses can be either agents of the KLA or under KLA domination. Any witness providing testimony disliked by the KLA would be risking his or her life. And as a recent story in the mainstream media suggests, the KLA considers lying a perfectly legitimate weapon in winning international support. (See note 2 at end) So much for the witnesses.

Bigots with a heart

And then there is the problem of the graves. The Spanish experts say the cadavers were found in individual graves, not mass graves. That is thoughtful of the Serbs. And even more thoughtful: the graves were "oriented for the most part toward Mecca out of respect for the religious beliefs of the Albanian Kosovars…"

This is curious. I have read many newspaper articles which argue that Serbs are hostile to Albanians because the Albanians are (mostly) Muslims. This supposed hostility was supposedly the motivation for alleged anti-Albanian atrocities. The Serbs say they don't hate anybody, that they have been fighting to preserve a multiethnic society against a terrorist assault by a racist faction among ethnic Albanians - a faction backed by the U.S. and Germany.

Let's assume the newspapers are right and the Serbs are mistaken. So first Serbian troops murdered these 100 Albanians out of religious hatred - and then they buried the Albanians facing Mecca out of religious respect. Isn't this rather strange behavior?

Perhaps the Spanish experts were lied to. Perhaps they were shown the bodies of KLA troops who died fighting the Yugoslav army; hence the bullet wounds (inflicted in battle) and the respectful burial (performed by the KLA army). That at least would make sense.

There are many graves in Kosovo, too many. For a year and a half a fierce war raged between KLA terrorists and the Yugoslav Army and police. Aside from those who died in the fighting, we have credible evidence that the KLA executed many pro-Yugoslav Albanians, as well as non-Albanians (who do not necessarily differ from Albanians in appearance) not to mention Yugoslav soldiers and policemen.

So, thousands of people died and were buried. The KLA has had a free hand in Kosovo since early June, plenty of time to move bodies around, to dress dead soldiers as civilians and to tutor 'grieving relatives' until their stories sound believable. And despite all that the Spanish scientists, sent to the zone of the worst Serbian atrocities, came back virtually empty-handed.

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