The Guardian June 27, 2001


UN financing, arming KLA cut-throats

The Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists (Oops! I'm supposed to say, 'The 
National Liberation Army or NLA' and I'm supposed to call them 'rebels,' 
not 'terrorists') are now directly threatening Skopje, capital of 
Macedonia.

The Western media pictures these people as indigenous rebels although some 
of them are mujahideen terrorists from around the world and most of the 
rest are Kosovo Liberation Army members fresh from training camps in 
Northern Albania.

A Sunday London Times articles notes:

"Intelligence agents have pinpointed 16 illegal border crossings from 
Kosovo used by the NLA..." If they really are Macedonian ethnic Albanians 
rebelling against unbearable discrimination, etc., then why are they coming 
in via "16 illegal border crossing from Kosovo?"

The Times article, called "Macedonia on Brink of War," unwittingly supports 
the accusation that despite the media-created image of "indigenous rebels", 
the people attacking Macedonia are a terrorist arm of NATO in general and 
the US military in particular.

The Times report goes on:

"Hundreds of Kosovo Protection Corp (KPC) reservists were called up by 
their Albanian commander, Agim Ceku, in March. They subsequently 
disappeared to former KLA training camps in Albania and are now re-emerging 
in Macedonia."

The KPC was created by the United Nations. In doing so, the UN simply 
adorned the Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists with new uniforms and 
equipment and a new name. Of course, their nature did not change:

"Murder, torture and extortion: these are the extraordinary charges made 
against the UN's own Kosovo Protection Corps in a confidential United 
Nations report written for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

"The KPC stands accused in the document, drawn up on February 29, of 
'criminal activities — killings, ill-treatment, torture, illegal policing, 
abuse of authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and 
hate-speech'.

"The 5,000-strong corps, funded by UN members including Britain, has a #30 
million aid budget for Kosovo. It was set up to provide 'disaster response 
services'; instead, says the UN, it has been murdering and torturing 
people. " (London Observor, March 12)

Kofi Annan has not denied the existence of the UN report. Nor has he denied 
the truth of the charges. But he has also not ordered the KPC dissolved. 
And perhaps most damning, he has not punished the UN officials who gave 
these "murderers, torturers and extortionists" official UN status and put 
them on the UN payroll, thus criminalising the United Nations.

Now the KLA/KPC thugs have invaded Macedonia.

Moreover, UN Security Council Resolution 1244, under which the UN and NATO 
occupy Kosovo, calls on the occupation forces, that is, the UN and NATO, to 
protect the sovereignty of Macedonia.

The objective of NATO is to use the deliberately provoked war in Macedonia 
to militarily occupy Macedonia as they have done in Croatia, Bosnia, and 
Kosovo , thereby, bringing more of the Balkans under their direct military 
and political control.

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Acknowledgement: Extracts from an article by Jared Israel and others from Emperor's Clothes. The full text can be see at http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times2.htm

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