Kosovo minister's statement on Serb return is "supreme cynicism"

 

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Kosovo minister's statement on Serb return is "supreme cynicism" - Serbian body
BBC Monitoring European. London: Dec 23, 2005. pg. 1

Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Belgrade, 22 December: The Coordination Centre [KC] for Kosovo- Metohija has described the statement by the Kosovo minister for local self-administration and the chairman of working groups for return and freedom of movement, Lutfi Haziri, as "supreme cynicism". According to the KC statement, Haziri said that the authorities in Belgrade obstructed the return of Serbs to Kosovo-Metohija, turning these people into political hostages.

"In a situation where there is a very sparse return to Kosovo- Metohija, returnees are exposed to a danger of being killed or, to say the least, physically abused by ethnic Albanians living there - when restored Serb houses are further damaged and attacked, and the freedom of movement limited to the minimum - Haziri's statement comes as merely additional proof that the Albanian side is widening the gap between what it publicly says and what it does in Kosovo- Metohija," the Coordination Centre statement says.

"Especially disturbing is Haziri's statement that, as he put it, 60,000 Serbs have been displaced from Kosovo-Metohija. This statement comes in spite of the uncontested fact confirmed by representatives of the international community in Kosovo - that over 200,000 Serbs have been expelled from Kosovo since 1999," the statement adds.

Credit: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1655 22 Dec 05

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Beta (Serbia and Montenegro)
December 28, 2005


Shots fired at police officer


KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Unidentified attackers fired
shots at a Kosovo Police Service officer yesterday in
the southern section of Kosovska Mitrovica.

The officer was not injured, and the KPS has issued a
statement claiming that the officer was shot at from a
moving vehicle on his way to work.

The attackers fled in an unknown direction.

Police still do not know what the motive of the attack
was.

There was also another armed attack yesterday in
Zvecana.

Unidentified individuals threw a grenade into the yard
of a town home.

There was damage done to the home and the vehicle
parked in the yard.

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Ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo under way, protest rally told
BBC Monitoring European. London: Dec 27, 2005. pg. 1

Text of report by Serbia-Montenegrin radio Kontakt Plus on 27 December

[Announcer] Latest incidents in Kosovo-Metohija have shown that an ethnic cleansing of Serbs is under way in Kosmet [Kosovo- Metohija] and that they are the only people resisting it, it was said today at a Serb protest in northern [Serb-populated] part of Kosovska Mitrovica. Let UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo] heads clearly and loudly state if they could guarantee security for Serbs in Kosmet, and if they cannot do it - the Serbian army and police can, the head of [Kosovska] Mitrovica County, Momir Kasalovic, told the gathering.

[Kasalovic] We have heard a whole lot of statements by various UNMIK and NATO representatives - beginning with those by the commander of NATO's south wing and ending with those by lower rank officials - statements declaring security guarantees for the Serbs.

What does this security look like? You can see it for yourself - the consequence is the wounding of Antovic and Maksimovic [shot in Kosovska Mitrovica on 25 Dec]. Can they guarantee security to the Serbs or not? If they cannot or if they do not want to, there are people who want to do it. The Serb army and police will do it, protecting [word indistinct] its own people. [Applause]

[Announcer] A member of the Serb National Council's executive committee, Vladimir Rakic, appealed to the Serbs in the province and Belgrade officials to be united, emphasizing that [Serbian] President Boris Tadic, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and [Serbia- Montenegro] Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic had a single task of preserving the territorial integrity of Serbia and Kosmet within its borders.

[Rakic] We must finally establish unity among the Serbs, both here and in Belgrade, a unity of government, as far as Kosovo- Metohija is concerned. We must finally, all of us, come forth and say it loud and clear: there is no independent Kosovo, we are fighting for the state of Serbia, and not for some other state. We will not fight for some other state, nor will we allow it [another state] to be formed on our territory.

[Announcer] More than 1,000 citizens took part in the protest going under the banner of Against Albanian Terror and Violence Against the Serbs. No incidents were reported during the rally and Kosovo police units secured the gathering.

Credit: Kontakt Plus, Kosovska Mitrovica, in Serbian 1500 27 Dec 05


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US Strike on the Chinese Embassy Was "Decapitation Attempt"

 

 

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US Strike on PRC Embassy Was "Decapitation Attempt"  

 
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy. Alexandria: Nov/Dec 2005.Vol.33, Iss. 11/12; pg. 3, 1 pgs

Highly-placed NATO sources have confirmed the reason behind the US air strike - with three Tomahawk cruise missiles - against the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Belgrade, (then) Yugoslavia, on May 7, 1999. The then-Clinton Government of the United States said at the time that the strike was accidental, due to faulty maps and intelligence, but this has been disproven by the NATO sources.

The NATO sources told Defense & Foreign Affairs that the attack was based on intelligence that then Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was to have been in the Embassy at the time of the attack. The attack, then, was deliberately planned as a "decapitation" attack, intended to kill Milosevic.

The London Observer, on October 19, 1999, had said that the attack had been deliberate, noting: "... Politiken newspaper in Denmark and Ed Vulliamy cites senior military and intelligence sources in Europe and the US stating that the embassy was bombed after its NATO electronic intelligence (ELINT) discovered it was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications.

"Supportive evidence is provided by three other NATO officers - a flight controller operating in Naples, an intelligence officer monitoring Yugoslav radio traffic from Macedonia and a senior headquarters officer in Brussels.

"All three say they knew in April that the Chinese embassy was acting as a "rebro" (rebroadcast) station for the Yugoslav army. The embassy was also suspected of monitoring NATO's cruise missile attacks on Belgrade, with a view to developing effective countermeasures."

The Clinton Administration blamed the attack on inaccurate intelligence information provided by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), alleging that the three missiles, which landed in one corner of the PRC embassy block, had been meant to target the Yugoslav Federal Directorate for Supply and Procurement (FDSP). US Defence secretary William Cohen said at the time: "One of our planes attacked the wrong target because the bombing instructions were based on an outdated map." Sources within the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency reacted with anger at the allegation that their mapping had been at fault.

Moreover, it was clear that Clinton appointee George Tenet, the CIA Director at the time, was involved in the deception operation built around the failed assassination attack.

There was widespread disbelief of the US Clinton Administration claim that the attack was "accidental", but no accurate background information as to why the attack against the Embassy was scheduled. The rationale cited by The Observer was not the true cause of the targeting.

In July 1999, then-CIA Director Tenet testified in Congress that out of the 900 targets struck by NATO during the three-month bombing campaign, only one was developed by the CIA: the PRC Embassy.

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