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To: FReepaholic

Here's something from "The Transatlantic Intelligencer" blog -- http://trans-int.blogspot.com/2005/03/return-of-ruder-finn-background-on-pro.html After the interview from the last link with James Harff (Ruder Finn PR agent who represented the Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians during the Balkan wars), there is this:

"An article published in Wednesday’s New York Sun under the title “Advisor to Annan Triggers Concern” now reveals that David Finn, the chairman of Ruder Finn, has served as a “pro bono” advisor to Kofi Annan since he became UN Secretary General in 1997. Furthermore, the article reveals that Kofi Annan’s nephew Kobina was employed as a paid intern at Ruder Finn – “Kofi Annan asked David Finn if he would give some guidance to his nephew, Kobina Annan,” a Ruder Finn spokesperson is quoted as saying – and that “Ruder Finn's publishing arm is selling Mr. Annan's 2001 Nobel Peace Prize lecture as a hardcover book”. “At the same time that Ruder Finn employed Mr. Annan's nephew,” the article notes,

Two senior Ruder Finn officials, Anne Glauber and Dena Merriam, who is Mr. Finn's daughter, were hired as outside contractors by the U.N. Development Program to revamp its communications office. They were paid $30,000 for two months' work, according to a UNDP spokesman, William Orme.


I do not want here to discuss James Harff’s assessment of the relative responsibility of the warring parties for the ravages of the Bosnian Civil War. But I will recall that it was in Bosnia that the UN essentially lost its innocence and, for better or for worse, abandoned the impartiality among warring parties that had hitherto been the sine qua non for UN peace-keeping operations. The most spectacular event in this process of transformation was the 1995 bombing of Bosnian Serb positions by NATO forces in connection with – though in fact not quite under – a UN mandate. The go ahead for the operation on the part of the UN bureaucracy – which was supposed to hold one of the two “keys” that had to be “turned” to initiate NATO air strikes in Bosnia – was given by none other than Kofi Annan in his capacity as then Under-Secretary General. Richard Holbrooke, in his notably self-aggrandizing account of the Bosnian conflict To End A War (New York: Random House, 1998), goes so far as to claim that it was thanks to this act of indulgence toward NATO that Annan would later become Secretary General: “in a sense Annan won the job on that day” (p. 103).

In his book Dubious Mandate: A Memoir of the UN in Bosnia, Summer 1995 (Durham and London: Duke, 1999), Phillip Corwin has written on the developments in question as follows:

If NATO wanted to declare war against one of the parties to the conflict in Bosnia, then it should have done so under a NATO flag, not under a UN flag. It was disingenuous to enter a country as a peacekeeping force and then to wage war against one of the parties.


Corwin was the UN’s chief political officer in Bosnia. In his book, he also recounts, incidentally, how a Bosnian government official “threatened his life” when he proposed to visit Srebrenica following its fall to Serb forces in July 1995. Shortly after the meeting in question, Corwin would be the target of sniper fire that, he claims, came from Bosnian government positions."


37 posted on 09/08/2006 7:43:41 AM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe
Keep'em coming.
39 posted on 09/08/2006 7:57:59 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: Bokababe; tgambill; Incorrigible
Bokababe, Clintoon's WH was creating the policy and carried execution through NATO, UN was a figleaf to cover blatant aggression. Rudder Finn was merely a tool for providing prefab lies to brainless media consumers.

It worked like a clockwork. Rudder Finn needs approval from DoS in order to accept a client. I suspect they got firm guidelines from DoS. Their role was to create emotionally charged PR scripts in a Goebbels fashion and distribut it to MSM. If he was alive today, Ike would call it "Military-Industrial-Media Complex"

Important point- if Islamonazis destroyed WTC because of "suffering of Muslims in Bosnia" there is a solid ground to sue all MSM who distributed the lies about alleged suffering of Muslims and created such impression.

Imagine being Muslim with a simple mindset watching MSM and reading American press. You could get impression that millions of Muslims died in Bosnia, while the real number is less than 60000 (total death toll in Bosnia was less than 102,000)

Serious propaganda costs serious money. I am still looking for plausible explanation for U.S. role in the Balkan civil wars. It is too much money to cover zippergate. As it is now, I believe that the objective was not to support Muslims, but to ethnicaly cleanse Serbs from the most of the territory of the former Yugoslavia, namely, from Croatia, large swaths of Bosnia and Kosovo.

In the Balkans, U.S. did not meet a Serb enemy she did not like. Islamofascists were U.S. allies and U.S. was even allied with Iran to support them. Only a naive person can not see the bigger picture there, far surpassing Balkan morass.

If the very same scum America armed, trained and supported striked the U.S. soil and killed 2000+ Americans, it is an example of what goes around, comes around.

Clinton's WH, DoS and MSM can be held criminally responsible for the destruction of WTC for aiding and abetting the enemy of the United States.

47 posted on 09/08/2006 9:33:07 AM PDT by DTA
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