Meldinga nedanfor skreiv og sende eg i går. Ironisk nok sende eg den berre
til meg sjøl, sidan eg brukte reply-tasten. Prøver på nytt. Det kjem eit
innlegg til like etterpå, som eg sende til meg sjøl tidlegare i dag.
Asgeir B
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:54:47 +0200
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From: asgeirbj@student.sv.uio.no
Subject: Re: Montenegro: NATO-truslar og mediesensur.
At 18:54 28.08.00 +0200, skreiv eg:
>
>Kjøpt og betalt av dei same statane som bomba landet hans for eit års tid
>sidan (80% av BNP i følge den danske avisa Information), fortset han
>marsjen mot lausriving. Djukanovic torer tydeligvis ikkje å spørje folket
>om tilslutning til denne linja (Dei kunne jo vere frekke nok til å svare
>feil), men prøver i staden å teie ned den Jugoslavia-lojale opposisjonen.
>
Eg har ikkje tenkt å krangle med meg sjøl, berre påpeike at det i
parantesen over skulle det stå 80% av statsutgiften i republiken, ikkje av
BNP.
Så vil eg trekke fram ein artikkel av Gregory Elich, som går nærare inn på
planar og førebuingar for vidare plyndring og partering av Jugoslavia.
Asgeir Bjørkedal
http://emperors-clothes.com/indexe.htm
Utdrag:
Quietly, NATO is laying plans for a new military strike against Yugoslavia.
On August 13 through 15, CIA Director George Tenet visited Bulgaria. In a
series of extraordinary meetings, Tenet met with Bulgarian President Petur
Stoyanov, as well as the Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Defense
Minister. Officially, the purpose of Tenet's visit was to discuss the
problem of organized crime and narcotics. However, Tenet spent a combined
total of
only 20 minutes at the headquarters of the National Security Service and the
National Service for Combating Organized Crime. Unnamed diplomatic
sources revealed that the proposed oil transit pipeline from the Caspian Sea
was also topic of discussion. The driving motivation for Tenet's visit,
though,was to discuss Yugoslavia. According to an unnamed diplomatic source,
Montenegrin secession from Yugoslavia topped the agenda. Following the
meeting between Tenet and Major General Dimo Gyaurov, Director of the
National Intelligence Service, a public statement was issued which stressed
their "commonality of interests." Reports in the Bulgarian press revealed
that
various options were discussed with Bulgaria's president and prime minister.
Tenet's preferred option is the removal of the Yugoslav government, either as
a result of that country's election on September 24, or by a NATO military
assault that would install a puppet government. Another scenario would
follow the secession of Montenegro from Yugoslavia. If open warfare breaks
out over Montenegro's secession, then the United States plans to wage a
full-scale war against Yugoslavia, as it did in spring 1999. Sofia's Monitor
reported that the "CIA coup machine" is forming. "A strike against Belgrade
is imminent," it adds, and "Bulgaria will serve as a base." (1) The
Italian army recently signed a lease contract to conduct training exercises
beginning in October at the Koren training ground, near Kaskovo in
southeast Bulgaria.
The French army signed a similar agreement, in which French soldiers and
tanks will train at the Novo Selo grounds in central Bulgaria from October 11
to December 12. Talks are also underway for the U.S. military to lease the
Shabla training grounds in northeastern Bulgaria. Scheduled to take place
following the election in Yugoslavia, the training exercises could serve as a
launching pad for NATO's planned military strike. It was recently announced
that the British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible is to be redeployed to the
Adriatic over the next few months in support of a potential conflict over
Montenegro (2) (....)
Etter mykje interessant stoff om vestleg undergravingsarbeid i Jugoslavia,
dukkar dette sitatet opp:
Jonathan Eyal, an advisor to the British government, commented recently,
"I can't say when it will happen, but I can guarantee that Milosevic will
end up dead, and he will be followed by a more pro-Western government." (14)
"Moderniseringa" av Montenegro går langt raskare enn eg var klar over:
(18) The paths of Yugoslavia's two
republics are sharply diverging, and Montenegro has embarked on a program
to place its entire economy at the service of the West. November 1999 saw
the introduction in Montenegro of the German mark as an official currency
and the passage of legislation eliminating socially owned property. One month
later, several large firms were publicly offered for sale, including the
Electric Power Company, the 13th July Agricultural Complex, the
Hotel-Tourist firm Boka and many others. (19) The republic's privatization
program for 2000
calls for the privatization of most state-owned industries, and includes
measures to "protect domestic and foreign investors." Three hundred firms
will be privatized in the initial stage of the plan. (.....)
U.S. policy advisor on the Balkans James Dobbins
indicated that the U.S. viewed the "market-oriented reforms of the
Djukanovic regime as a model and stimulus for similar reforms throughout the
former Yugoslavia." (...)
According to Djukanovic, when he met with President
Clinton on June 21, 1999, the U.S. president gave the privatization process a
push by telling Djukanovic that the U.S. planned to "stimulate the economy"
by "encouraging US corporations and banks to invest capital in Montenegro."
(....)
in July 2000, Madeleine Albright promised that the U.S would provide him
with an additional $16.5 million. That same week, Djukanovic blurted out that
Montenegro "is no longer part of Yugoslavia." He also made the astonishing
claim that he considered it a "priority" for Montenegro to join NATO, the
organization that had bombed his country only the year before. (....)
Western support for secession extends beyond Albright meeting and talking with
Djukanovic. More than half of the population of Montenegro opposes
secession, and any such move is likely to explode into violence. In
preparation for that rift, Djukanovic is building up a private army of over
20,000 soldiers, the Special Police, including special forces armed with
anti-tank weapons. Sources in Montenegro revealed that Western special
forces are training this private army. Djukanovic has requested that NATO
establish an "air shield over Montenegro" as he moves toward secession.
One member of the Special Police, named Velibor, confirmed that they were
receiving training from the British SAS. "If there is a situation where
weapons
will decide the outcome, we are ready," he said. "We are training for
that." At a press conference on August 1, 2000, Minister Goran Matic
declared that
the "British are carrying out part of the training of the Montenegrin special
units. It is also true," he added, that the Special Police "are intensively
obtaining various kinds and types of weapons, starting with anti-aircraft and
anti-helicopter weapons and so on, and they are also being assisted by
Croatia, as the weapons go through Dubrovnik and other places."
Furthermore, Matic pointed out that, "last year, before and after the
aggression, a group from within the Montenegrin MUP [Ministry of Interior
Affairs] structure left for training within the U.S. police structure and
the U.S. intelligence structures." In August, two armored vehicles bound for
Montenegro were discovered in the port of Ancona, Italy. One of the
vehicles was fitted with a turret suitable for mounting a machine gun or
anti-tank weapon. Italian customs officials, reports the Italian news service
ANSA, are "convinced" that arms trafficking to Montenegro "is of far greater
magnitude than this single episode might lead one to believe." Revelling in
anticipation of armed conflict, Djukanovic bragged that "many will tuck their
tails between their legs and will soon have to flee Montenegro." (24) A
violent conflict in Montenegro would provide NATO with its long-desired
pretext for intervention. As early as October 1999, General Wesley Clark
drew up plans for a NATO invasion of Montenegro. The plan envisions an
amphibious assault by more than 2,000 Marines storming the port of Bar and
securing the port as a beachhead for pushing inland. Troops ferried by
helicopters would seize the airport at Podgorica, while NATO warplanes
would bomb and strafe resisting Yugoslav forces. According to U.S. officials,
other Western countries have also developed invasion plans. (25) Richard
Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to the UN declared, "We are in constant
touch with the leadership of Montenegro," and warned that a conflict in
Montenegro "would be directly affecting NATO's vital interest." (26) NATO
General Secretary George Robertson was more explicit. "I say to Milosevic:
watch out, look what happened the last time you miscalculated." (27)
President Milosevic and the ruling coalition enjoy considerable popular
support in Yugoslavia, and many Western analysts admit they are likely to
emerge victorious in the September 24 election. This will set in motion,
possibly within a few months, a NATO strike launched from Bulgaria
intended to overthrow the legally elected government of Yugoslavia. If the
coup fails, then Montenegro could declare independence, setting in motion a
chain of events that would lead to a second all out war by NATO against
Yugoslavia. The war in 1999 brought immense suffering to the Balkans. The
next war promises to be catastrophic.
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Greg Elich was born in LA Rochelle France while his father was serving in
the US army. He now lives in Columbus Ohio. He is a researcher and writer
specializing in political issues in southeast Europe.
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