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Free Republic Exclusive: Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and the Third Serb
Free Republic ^ | 3/12/2006 | self

Posted on 03/12/2006 8:51:15 PM PST by Southack

The Three Serbs

After Europe criticized the U.S. for its treatment of war prisoners at Gitmo (where no terrorist ever died), 2 Serb war-crimes prisoners died in European jails in the same week (one was denied medical care). The first to die was Milan Babic. The second to die after his request for medical care was denied was Slobodan Milosevic.

Most of the world will yawn or cheer these developments, of course.

But there is a 3rd Serb who is currently being railroaded by the same EU officials, along with some left-wing American help.

Years ago, CBS's Dan Rather sent Mike Wallace to join with the BBC to do a fascinating, detailed broadcast piece on the humanitarian efforts of Captain Dragan.

This Serb Captain is currently in an Australian prison waiting to see if he will be extradicted to Croatia, a country which he taunted and insulted on Serbian state TV during the Serb's fight against Croatia.

But in considering his request to not be extradited, Australia has been denied the 60 Minutes' news story about Captain Dragan's extensive humanitarian efforts.

CBS has claimed that the BBC controls the Dragan story...that the story is "too old" for its own archives.

Likewise, the BBC is claiming that this is a CBS story in CBS, not BBC, archives.

Which is to say, by duplicitous finger-pointing, CBS and the BBC will manage to spike the one broadcast piece that could give Australia reason-enough to not extradite Captain Dragan back to the European prison system that just killed (or neglected to death) 2 other Serb war prisoners in the past week.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; australia; cbs; cbsspike; dan; danrather; death; dragan; eu; extradite; humanrights; icc; milosevic; prisoner; rather; serb; serbia; worldcourt
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I'm putting this news in the Activist section, but I expect no activism on behalf of Serbs. I fully expect that this will simply be an archival note for future CBS/60 Minutes/Dan Rather searches and research.
1 posted on 03/12/2006 8:51:21 PM PST by Southack
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To: Southack

The Serbs, who are as passionate a people as I've ever met, are strangely not vocal and/or organized here in the States. It surprises me


2 posted on 03/12/2006 10:51:22 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Southack
We have treated our historic Serbian allies of WWII as if they were enemies instead. These people helped defend the West against militant Islam for over eight centuries! Serbian-Americans soldiers reportedly won more Medals of Honor per capita in that conflict than any other distinct ethnic or religious group. Serbians helped rescue over a thousand GI airmen from Gestapo and Utashe camps at great personal risk.

They were only trying to clean up a mess of AlQada linked terrorists in their own backyard--- so we pounded Belgrade to rubble to teach them a lesson. And with depleted uranium! Every time I recall the photo of that witch Madlyn Alldyke caressing missiles on a F-15 before it took off to bomb Serbia it makes me angry.

If we have learned anything from this Iraq fiasco it hopefully is that severe measures are required to control Islamic extremists. But we had the gall to point an accusing finger at the Serbs.

3 posted on 03/12/2006 10:51:41 PM PST by IGNATIUS
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To: IGNATIUS

Well there are limits, and while the Serbs may have needed to do something or take strong measures what they did went beyond all bounds.


4 posted on 03/12/2006 10:57:59 PM PST by Jack Black
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To: IGNATIUS

From Wikipedia:

The Srebrenica massacre was the July 1995 killing of an estimated 8,100 Bosnian males, ranging in age from teenagers to the elderly, in the region of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina by a Serb Army of Republika Srpska under general Ratko Mladiæ including Serbian state special forces "Scorpions". The same special forces commited war crimes in Kosovo in 1999. The Srebrenica massacre is considered one of the largest mass murders in Europe since World War II and one of the most horrific events in recent European history.

Mladiæ and other Serb army officers have since been indicted for various war crimes, including genocide, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).


5 posted on 03/12/2006 11:16:22 PM PST by Jack Black
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To: Southack

All the persecution of Serbs in directly traceable to the Vatican. They don't like their religion.


7 posted on 03/13/2006 6:01:09 AM PST by RoadTest ("- - a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people." - Richard Henry Lee, 1786)
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To: nanottek
nanottek thanks for posting that. Wikopedia should be considered a suspect source on controversial geopolitical issues jmho.
8 posted on 03/13/2006 6:17:01 AM PST by IGNATIUS
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To: IGNATIUS

Yes, I agree, Wikipedia is always a suspect source. Sadly, what sources are not suspect at this point?


9 posted on 03/13/2006 9:09:26 AM PST by Jack Black
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To: nanottek

I think the multiple source evidence of at least the massacre happened. In fact on the 10th year anniversary there were many shows about it from all different points of views. The Dutch peacekeepers who eventually surrendered (and shamelessly were allowed to leave, while those who they had offered refuge to were taken and killed) were among the most disturbing.

All in all the main lesson I take from it is that gun control is a prerequisite for genocide. But thinking people new that already.


10 posted on 03/13/2006 9:15:16 AM PST by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black
>>>>>The Srebrenica massacre is considered one of the largest mass murders in Europe since World War II and one of the most horrific events in recent European history. <<<<

This BS exonerates all mass killers in Europe since WWII. Mass murder of Germans in Czechoslowakia, murders of Soviet war prisoners by Stalin, to name a few grisly examples.

Srebrenica is perhaps the only documented case in history where dead people vote, relocate to other countries or continue to fight in the army. Many allegedly massacred continued their lives elsewhere, including U.S. INS Should know who they are. Many live in St. Louis,Mo. Thousands voted after the war on EU-controlled elections.

The hoax was pulled off by calling all "unaccounted for" as dead, counting dead of natural causes as massacred and counting combattants as "innocent men and boys".

After the WWII, Katyn forrest was attributed to the Nazis for political reasons, although everyone knew Soviets did it. Likewise, everyone knows that there was no genocide in Srebrenica but it is repeated over and over for political reasons.

12 posted on 03/13/2006 10:18:46 AM PST by DTA (Mr. Bush, tear down this kangaroo court !)
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Was Milosevic murdered?

----Milosevic made several speeches in which he discussed how a group of shadowy internationalists had caused the chaos in the Balkans because it was the next step on the road to a 'new world order'.
During a February 2000 Serbian Congressional speech, Milosevic stated, "Small Serbia and people in it have demonstrated that resistance is possible. Applied at a broader level, it was organized primarily as a moral and political rebellion against tyranny, hegemony, monopolism, generating hatred, fear and new forms of violence and revenge against champions of freedom among nations and people---"

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/130306milosevicmurdered.htm


13 posted on 03/13/2006 1:00:21 PM PST by IGNATIUS
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To: Southack; USF

Just what I was looking for. thanks.


14 posted on 03/13/2006 7:03:10 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: Southack

Serb killings 'exaggerated' by west
The Guardian ^ | Friday August 18, 2000 | Jonathan Steele

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595352/posts

Kosovo The final toll of civilians confirmed massacred by Yugoslav forces in Kosovo is likely to be under 3,000, far short of the numbers claimed by Nato governments during last year's controversial air strikes on Yugoslavia.




15 posted on 03/13/2006 7:06:25 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read the bio THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free! Click Fred Nerks for link to my Page.)
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To: Southack

Was Serbia a Practice Run for Iraq?
by Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts154.html


16 posted on 03/15/2006 6:12:57 PM PST by IGNATIUS
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To: IGNATIUS
"Was Serbia a Practice Run for Iraq?"

No.

17 posted on 03/15/2006 7:30:30 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Hildy

Not as vocal? have you been reading Balkan threads?


18 posted on 03/17/2006 6:05:57 PM PST by Joey Silvera
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To: Southack

Two Serb war crimes prisoners "died" in European jails or "committed suicide" in European jails?


19 posted on 03/17/2006 6:07:18 PM PST by Joey Silvera
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To: Joey Silvera

I'm talking about in an organized, National way.


20 posted on 03/17/2006 6:20:54 PM PST by Hildy
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