“We bombed the wrong side!”

Kosovo’s terrorists continue to wage war January 9, 2004

Tanja Gavrilovic

In the midst of conflicts in Southwest Asia and the Middle East, I cannot help but wonder: Whatever happened to the Balkans?

We Americans spent more than a decade listening to and watching CNN and BBC clips of the war-torn region and the countless war crimes that had taken place at the hands of various ethnic groups.

What about Kosovo? A 78-day bombing campaign was undertaken to “liberate Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian population” from the hands of “terror-invoking Serbs.”

Why was there no media follow- up of the accomplishments of peace-loving and newly liberated Kosovo Albanians? Quite simply, because there are no accomplishments.

Could it be because the international community made a grave mistake and has now found itself in a quagmire with no solution in sight? Is it possible that some of the very people NATO was trying to “protect” have turned out, in fact, to be terrorists? Yes!

After spending a grueling 27 months working in Serbia’s Kosovo province, I learned and witnessed far more than I had bargained for. Although I was fully versed in the rich and blood- soaked history of the region, I was not prepared for all that took place.

Albanian rebel offensives resulted in bus explosions of NATO- escorted civilian convoys, brutal murders of civilians tending their fields, random sniper attacks, shootings of children swimming in lakes, night beatings and torture of the elderly, and arson – all against Serbian civilians and all under the watchful eyes of the U.S. and international community.

I once asked a NATO commanding general why ethnic Albanian extremists were not unmasked for what they truly are – bloodthirsty, war-waging terrorists. He looked at me, paused, and replied, “How do you begin to go against the very group you supposedly came to help? We obviously did not know who we were dealing with. We bombed the wrong side.”

I stared at him in disbelief while he merely looked down at his freshly shined boots, straightened his shoulders and turned to walk away. Not quite the response I had expected.

Observations in Kosovo recorded chilling acts from the “peacekeepers” as well. Germany’s military contingent used bright yellow tape to mark large Xs on Serbian homes throughout their designated area of responsibility. Similar to the 1940s Nazi-style branding of Jews and other minorities deemed unworthy of life.

Strangely enough, I was the only one who questioned this and personally brought it to the attention of a senior member of the U.S. Army Command Group.

But let’s focus on something near and dear to all Americans: attacks on U.S. Army and media personnel. While on a border patrol, monitoring Albanian rebel insurgency, the U.S. unit I was working with came under direct mortar fire in a village named Krivenik. An Associated Press journalist, Kerim Lawton, was seriously injured. I administered first aid and attempted to stop the bleeding from the dozens of shrapnel wounds he incurred, to no avail. He died shortly afterward.

How was this incident portrayed to the media? In a noncommittal diplomatic fashion, officials announced that, “An investigation will take place as to the day’s chain of events,” from all sides, U.S. Army, NATO and U.N.

Does this seem all too familiar? Is this not mere repetition of scenarios that got the United States involved in both Bosnia and Kosovo in the first place – only later to discover that “smoking gun” incidences were staged? It is interesting how concrete evidence has surfaced, that incidences were staged by the very groups claiming to have been wronged.

Perhaps the international community should be more forthcoming as to who the real Balkans’ terrorists are and how they are draining our tax dollars, manpower and resources.

The public has a right to know what is happening in the Balkans.

When it comes to the eternally fluctuating Albanian bodycount, I will quote Mr. John Zavales who, at the time of event, “served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1991 to 2001. During the 1999 Kosovo crisis he was based in Albania as a part of Operation Shining Hope, the relief operation in support of Kosovar refugees.”

in his article related specifically to this matter he said, ” In order to mobilize support for military intervention, Western political leaders deployed the word “genocide,” in a way that we now know to have been cavalier and misleading. The number of Albanians allegedly murdered in the course of Milosevic’s campaign has steadily dropped, from the hundred thousand spoken of during the war, to ten thousand in its immediate aftermath, to a final estimate of perhaps a few thousand, including many killed by ground combat and NATO bombing. Mass gravesites, claimed at the time to contain thousands of victims, were investigated and found to have been either exaggerated by orders of magnitude or entirely fictional.”

http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol3Issue33/Vol3Issue33Zavales.html

So cool it off with numbers. It’s a propaganda fabricated by media.

Unlike the Albanian fake Holocaust, Jews in WWII actually suffered the real Holocaust and I have never seen a single mention of creating a Jewish country at the expense of Germany. Why? Because two wrongs never make it good.

When it comes to Resolution 1244…

“A political process towards the establishment of an interim political framework agreement providing for a substantial self-government for Kosovo, taking full account of the Rambouillet accords and the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other countries of the region, and the demilitarization of the KLA;”

So, territorial integrity of Yugoalsvia.

If you say that this is not valid because Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore, then we should apply your principle to everything related to it. Since all the participants of Balkan crisis were Yugoslavian people, they actually don’t exist anymore and since war criminals committed crimes against humanity as Yugoslavians they cannot be considered guilty since they’re not Yugoslavians anymore… Oops, it doesn’t work like that obviously

Should I even mention the demilitarization of KLA? On the contrary, the KLA was transformed into an instiitution in Kosovo thanks to KFOR officials.

If you want to find out more about background of American and Russian involvement in the overall issue, try rather looking up for more info on latest Albanian oil reserves, Transbalkan oil and gas pipeline.

The bottom line is that both countries are major players in the war industry and that they have always plaid this game of warmonging to keep their war industry alive.