06-07-2010, 08:54 PM
An interesting example of selective amnesia - just where is MI6 and its psychopathic special forces in this portrait? - and the enduring relationship of Langley and its Islamic "opponents":
Quote:Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy, & Paul Beaver, “CIA’s bastard army runs riot in Balkans,” The Observer, 11 March 2001, p.2
The United States secretly supported the ethnic Albanian extremists now behind insurgencies in Macedonia and southern Serbia.
The CIA encouraged former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters to launch a rebellion in southern Serbia in an attempt to undermine the then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, according to senior European officers who served with the international peace-keeping force in Kosovo (K-For), as well as leading Macedonian and US sources.
The accusations were made in a series of interviews…They emerge as America has been forced into a rapid U-turn over its support for Albanian extremists in Kosovo seeking a ‘Greater Kosovo’ that would include Albanian communities in Serbia and Macedonia.
In the past week ethnic Albanian guerrillas have intensified their campaign of attacks in two areas, threatening a new war in the region which last week put US troops in the firing line in the Balkans for the first time.
The accusations have led to tension in K-For. European officers are furious that the Americans have allowed guerrilla armies in its sector to train, smuggle arms and launch attacks across two international borders.
One European K-For battalion commander told…yesterday: ‘The CIA has been allowed to run riot in Kosovo with a private army designed to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. Now he’s gone the US State Department seems incapable of reining in its bastard army.’
He added: ‘Most of last year, there was growing frustration with US support for the radical Albanians. US policy was and still is out of step with the other NATO allies.’
The claim was backed by senior Macedonian officials in the capital, Skopje. ‘What has been happening with the National Liberation Army [which has been responsible for a series of attacks on Macedonia’s borders in recent weeks] and the UCPMB [its sister organisation in southern Serbia] is very similar to what happened when the KLA was launched in 1995-96,’ said one.
‘I will only say this: the US intelligence agencies have not been honest here.’
The claims were given extra credence from an unexpected source – Arben Xharafi, leader of Macdeonia’s main Albanian party who tried to prevent the crisis on the border igniting an ethnic civil war inside Macedonia itself.
A US State Department official blamed the last administration. There had now been ‘a shift of emphasis.’
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche