Another Kosovo Exclusive
On Friday, Balkanalysis.com published an unprecedented interview with a veteran of law enforcement in post-Milosevic Kosovo- Stu Kellock, a Canadian detective and former head of the serious crime unit in Pristina, Kosovo. The Serbian province has been run by a UN administration since the NATO intervention of 1999, as most of you probably know.
In the interview, we get a sense for how trained, professional international investigators and other law enforcement agents within the UN/NATO structures were chronically prevented from targeting local mafia/militant figures with close ties to the nascent political establishment. Numerous other details of interest, for example how American munitions "donated" to a terrorist group might have caused the death of a British journalist in 2001, pop up.
Even for readers already familiar with the situation on the ground, the interview is well worth a read. And, I have to add that it is gratifying to see that the observations of unquestionably impartial professionals such as Mr. Kellock tend to support the case I have made for the past 5 years, that is, that the NATO "humanitarian" intervention was a colossal disaster and the subsequent occupation, a still worse one.
This article represents just a taste of things to come from us this year as we move to survey an ever wider range of informed individuals. The fact that more of them are starting to go on the record too is fantastic, and important, too. Aspiring whistleblowers should always remember that there is strength in numbers!
PS: We received a nice plug in this article on mass-media content theft regarding the UPI plagiarism episode. Thanks to those of you readers who have stood up for us- I appreciate it very much.
