(Once again, much of this information has been written in some form in my other letters and commentaries. The trick is to get it published where it has never been published before. Don't hold your breath!!!! Stella)
From: sparta
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:57 PM
Subject: OPINION in response to "Emancipating Kosovo."
To the editor(s) My bio follows my OPINION.
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The Manila Times
OPINION
"Emancipating Kosovo," or "Creating Another Rogue State?"
by Stella L. Jatras
9 October 2006
When I first read Eric Malloga's OPINION of 9 October titled Emancipating Kosovo, I was reminded of Hitler's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, whose famous quote was, "If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth." Therefore, Mr. Malloga's "OPINION" must not go unchallenged. The question, however, is, how does one undo over a decade of disinformation and hatred against the Serbian people that emanates from the pen of Mr. Malloga and his ilk?
If anything, Mr. Malloga is guilty of presenting a one-sided picture of the events in Kosovo. Therefore, let us take a look at some of the facts.
Mr. Malloga omits, intentionally or otherwise, the fact that the Serbs were once the majority in Kosovo until Hitler's Nazis drove out hundreds of thousands of Serbs, followed by communist dictator Josip Broz Tito, who, in his hatred for the Christian Orthodox Serbs, encouraged Albanian Muslims to cross over illegally into Christian Kosovo.
Let us take a look at Prime Minister Agim Ceku whom Mr. Malloga so admires. Journalist Jeffrey Benner wrote as far back as 1999, "The Kosova Liberation Army (KLA)'s new chief of staff, Agim Ceku, has been linked to two of the grisliest episodes of brutality in the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia."
As though irrelevant, Mr. Malloga also omits atrocities committed against the minority Serb population by Kosovo Albanian mobs with the help of the Kosovo Liberation Army, such as was reported in National Review of March 2004, whereby, "A pogrom started in Europe on Wednesday. A UN official is quoted as saying that a Kristallnacht is underway in Kosovo. Serbs are being murdered and their 800 year old churches are aflame. Much of the Christian heritage in Kosovo and Metohija is on fire and could be lost forever. By these deeds too many of Kosovo's Albanians have shown that all the speeches about democracy and multiethnicity we have been hearing in Kosovo since June 1999, and the naïve repetition of them by the international community, are false. These words too are burning, as is the hope in the hearts of right-thinking policymakers across the world that Kosovo's barbarians can be civilized at little cost to the West." Thus far, over 150 Serbian churches and monasteries in Kosovo have been destroyed or desecrated without any outage from the civilized world.
As a result, today, Serbian culture, language and religion are being eradicated by Kosovo Albanian mobs aided by Agim Ceku's KLA war criminals.
The Wall Street Journal reported on 1 November 2001, "For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri [emphasis added] has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo (FYROM) Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia. This has gone on for a decade."
And let us not forget how the Serbs were accused of murdering 700 Kosovo Albanians at the Trepca mines, grounding the bodies and incinerating them. Daniel Pearl on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, on 31 December 1999, exposed the gruesome massacre as a hoax, when he wrote, "By late summer, stories about a Nazi-like body-disposal facility were so wide-spread that investigators sent a three-man French Gendarmerie team spelunking half a mile down the mine to search for bodies. They found none. Another team analyzed ashes in the furnace. They found no teeth or other signs of burnt bodies." Pearl paid with his life for writing the truth.
Former UNPROFOR Commander, Canadian Major General Lewis MacKenzie said it right, when he said, " The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo. We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early ´90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world."
The Washington Times further reported on 4 May 1999, that "Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden."
In a 1994 letter to President Bill Clinton regarding claims of Serbian rape camps, Herb Brin, editor of Heritage Southwest Jewish Press wrote, "When I visited the Serbian front a year ago, I learned to my dismay that the rape story was a total concoction." Daniel Pearl also reported that allegations of indiscriminate mass murder, rape camps, crematoriums and mutilation of the dead -- haven't been borne out in the six months since NATO troops entered Kosovo.
President Bush said that we would do whatever it takes to defend the United States against Muslim terrorists, yet we denied the Serbs the right to defend themselves against the same Muslim terrorists that we are fighting today.
Efforts, like those of Mr. Malloga, are being made to cede Serbia's Jerusalem to war criminals such as Agim Ceku. To do so would be creating another rogue state in the underbelly of Europe - another mini-Afghanistan which the world certainly doesn't need.
I finish with the following quotes for your readers to ponder:
John Ranz, USA Chairman of Survivors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. "The gigantic campaign to brainwash America by our media against the Serbian people is just incredible, with its daily dose of one-sided information and outright lies."
Yohanan Ramati, Director of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense. "This organized anti-Serb and pro-Muslim propaganda should cause anyone believing in democracy and free speech serious concerns. It recalls Hitler's propaganda against the allies in World War II. Facts are twisted and, when convenient, disregarded."
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Sources:
War Criminal, Ally or Both? http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/total_coverage/kosovo/ceku.html
Kristallnacht in Kosovo http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/krnjevicmiskovic200403190842.asp
Wall Street Journal http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0109&L=twatch-l&D=1&O=D&F=P&S=&P=39796
Daniel Pearl article (Wall Street Journal) on Trepca mine massacre http://www.geocities.com/spyjaguar/311299.html
We bombed the wrong side? http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/apr04/hed6360.shtml
KLA rebels train in terrorist camps http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0109&L=twatch-l&D=1&O=D&F=P&S=&P=39796
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As a career military officer's wife, Stella Jatras has traveled widely and has lived in many foreign countries where she not only learned about other cultures but also became very knowledgeable regarding world affairs and world politics. With the advent of the war in Bosnia, Mrs. Jatras immediately recognized the bias of the Western media and the Clinton administration's flawed foreign policy in the Balkans and began her efforts to present to the American people a more accurate view of that tragic situation. Her letters and articles have been published in The Washington Times, The Washington Post, The Arizona Republic, The Patriot- News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), Chronicles, The Stars and Stripes, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as a number of magazines and periodicals. In addition her writings have had worldwide distribution via the Internet such as Citizen Soldier and Jihad Watch. Stella Jatras lived in Moscow for two years (where her husband, George, was the Senior Air Attaché), and while there, worked in the Political Section of the US Embassy. Stella has also lived in Germany, Greece and Saudi Arabia. Her travels took her to over twenty countries.
