Lest we forget who our enemies really are---

Enemy of the people of the United States, Bill and Hillery Clintoon.

Out of so many on that list! There are so many more places on these smugglers' circuits which Clintoon, et al, have kept open and thriving, not the least of which is the Columbian Medellin cartel, the China-Viet Nam connection, the African connection, as well as the Near East connections.
Riadi---blood money, (banking and laundry,) weapons, communications, and drugs. Loral---blood money, (stocks and laundry) weapons, prostitution, gambling, communications, and drugs. Rich---money, (stocks and laundry,) weapons, communications, gambling, and drugs. bin Laden, Oxford chum, money, stocks, banking, laundering, communications, drugs, terrorist army, mass murderer. Medillin, all the damned same.
All are responsible for the dismantling of any justice system that could possibly have dealt with them. The last thing on their shopping list was a president of the US with the blackest heart possible they could control. Didn't they just luck out when they got that twofer? A demonrat and a demoness rat with all the peons in place.
If this government can find bin Laden's finances, Clintoon's can't be far removed. I am waiting. Mass hanging isn't good enough.

"Your (the children) eternal blood is a bridge and a passage... a vision of victory and victory's color is red. Your blood is the source of determination and power ... it is also the fire that will burn our enemies."

So this is the kind of wedding "blessing" he gives to his son? What a sick, sick bastard. I hope we find him and slooooowly torture him. Let's see what kind of a "man" this pussy is when he doesn't have his "people" protecting him.

The IMPEACHED ex-42 doesn't even know how to put his hand on his heart the right way. What's with that????

What's with that? It's because his heart is so cold he can't find it's beat to cover it with his hand.

It's because he lost his heart long ago back during his trip to the communist regimes of the USSR and Eastern Europe where he learned his trade and the value of terrorism inside one's own country.

It's because he, like his lovely "wife" Hitlery, loathes America and everything it stands for - except for the power and perks that can be seized with just the right combination of media allies, academic communists, and weak opponents.

It's because his first allegiance is NOT TO AMERICA but to HIMSELF and his allies in the Clinton Crime Gang.

Very interesting.....

I went to the Washington Times site and searched their archive for the article you posted (No offense) and in addition to that one Jerry Seper did another story entitled "KLA finances fight with heroin sales". On the off chance you might have it too please post it. Thanks.

(This is alot of the same information, but, here ya go.)

Front page of May 3rd, Washington Times

KLA finances war with heroin sales

By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Clinton administration has embraced and some members of Congress want to arm as part of the NATO bombing campaign, is a terrorist organization that has financed much of its war effort with profits from the sale of heroin.

Recently obtained intelligence documents show that drug agents in five countries, including the United States, believe the KLA has aligned itself with an extensive organized crime network centered in Albania that smuggles heroin and some cocaine to buyers throughout Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States.

The documents tie members of the Albanian Mafia to a drug smuggling cartel based in Kosovo's provincial capital, Pristina. The cartel is manned by ethic Albanians who are members of the Kosovo National Front, whose armed wing is the KLA. The documents show it is one of the most powerful heroin smuggling organizations in the world, with much of its profits being diverted to the KLA to buy weapons.

The clandestine movement of drugs over a collection of land and sea routes from Turkey through Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia to Western Europe and elsewhere is so frequent and massive that intelligence officials -- (Continued from Front Page) -- have dubbed the circuit the "Balkan Route."

Mr. Clinton has committed air power and is considering the use of ground troops to support the Kosovo rebels against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Last week, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, called on the United States to arm the KLA so ethnic Albanians in Kosovo could defend themselves against the Serbs.

Mr. McConnell and Mr. Lieberman introduced a bill that would provide $25 million to equip 10,000 men or 10 battalions with small arms and anti-tank weapons for up to 18 months.

In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA -- formally known as the Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves, or UCK -- as an international terrorist organization, saying it had bankrolled its operations with proceeds from the international heroin trade and from loans from known terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

"They were terrorists in 1998 and now, because of politics, they're freedom fighters," said one top drug official who asked not to be identified.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in a recent report, said the heroin is smuggled along the Balkan Route in cars, trucks and boats initially to Austria, Germany and Italy, where it is routed to eager buyers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Great Britain. Some of the white powder, the DEA report said, finds its way to the United States.

The DEA report, prepared for the National Narcotics Intelligence Consumer's Committee (NNICC), said a majority of the heroin seized in Europe is transported over the Balkan Route. It said drug smuggling organizations composed of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were considered "second only to Turkish gangs as the predominant heroin smugglers along the Balkan Route." The NNICC is a coalition of federal agencies involved in the war on drugs.

"Kosovo traffickers were noted for their use of violence and for their involvement in international weapons trafficking," the DEA report said.

A separate DEA document, written last month by U.S. drug agents in Austria, said that while the war in the former Yugoslavia had reduced the drug flow to Western Europe along the Balkan Route, new land routes have opened across Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The report said, however, the diversion appeared to be only temporary.

The DEA estimated that between four and six metric tons of heroin leaves each month from Turkey bound for Western Europe, the bulk of it traveling over the Balkan Route.

A second high-ranking U.S. drug official, who also requested anonymity, said government and police corruption in Kosovo, along with widespread poverty throughout the region, had contributed to an increase in heroin trafficking by the KLA and other ethnic Albanians. The official said drug smuggling is "out of control" and little is being done by neighboring states to get a handle on it.

"This is the definition of the wild, wild West," said the official. "The bombing has slowed it down, but has not brought it to a halt. And, eventually, it will pick up where it left off."

The heroin trade along the Balkan Route has been of concern to several countries: The Greek representative of Interpol reported in 1998 that Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were "the primary sources of supply for cocaine and heroin in that country."

Intelligence officials in France said in a recent report the KLA was among several organizations in southern Europe that had built a vast drug-smuggling network. France's Geopolitical Observatory of Drugs said in the report that the KLA was a key player in the rapidly expanding drugs-for-arms business and helped transport $2 billion worth of drugs annually into Western Europe.

German drug agents have estimated that $1.5 billion in drug profits is laundered annually by Kosovo smugglers, through as many as 200 private banks or currency-exchange offices. They noted in a recent report that ethnic Albanians had established one of the most prominent drug smuggling organizations in Europe.

Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in March that drug sales could have netted the KLA profits in the "high tens of millions of dollars." The highly regarded British-based journal noted at the time that the KLA had rearmed itself for a spring offensive with the aid of drug money, along with donations from Albanians in Western Europe and the United States.

Several leading intelligence officials said the KLA has, in part, financed its purchase of AK-47s, semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, handguns, grenade launchers, ammunition, artillery shells, explosives, detonators and anti-personnel mines through drug profits -- cash laundered through banks in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. They also said KLA rebels have paid for weapons using the heroin itself as currency.

The profits, according to the officials, also have been used to purchase anti-aircraft and anti-armor rockets, along with electronic surveillance equipment.

I think this is going to end up like the Loral Archives. Oh well.

Who traffics in metals, folks?
From the Serbs' point of view.....
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Kosovo: 'The war is about the mines'

By Sara Flounders

Wars are at root about economics, and the rapidly expanding war in Kosovo is no different. So why have millions of dollars in high-tech weapons suddenly become available to the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army by way of the U.S. and Germany?

A July 11 report by New York Times Balkans bureau chief Chris Hedges describes the KLA’s new arsenal—the latest anti-tank rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft weapons. These weapons are shifting the balance of power toward the KLA, which is funded fully by outside sources, mostly from the U.S. and Germany.

The KLA is "fed by recruits, money and arms from outside Serbia," Hedges confirms.

It has an "inexhaustible supply line," he reports.

"Rebel soldiers, in full uniform with the red and black patch of the Kosovo Liberation Army, pull thick wads of German marks from their pockets. There are also signs that the arrival of dozens of former professional soldiers as well as some mercenaries are turning the ragtag band into a viable military force of several thousand fighters."

In fact, the KLA is primarily a mercenary army funded by the kind of shadowy sources that have long been associated with U.S. and German intelligence services. It is a contra army.

Kosovo is often portrayed in the media as an isolated mountainous region that’s poor and without resources. It might seem, from these accounts, to be an area of interest only to those who live there.

The New York Times, for example, has carried dozens of such articles by Chris Hedges in the last six months. Only once, on July 8, did Hedges write about the real wealth of Kosovo—the Stari Trg mining complex. It was a tip-off that something more was at stake in this war.

Hedges’ visit to the Stari Trg mining complex is an eye opener. He describes the glittering veins of lead, zinc, cadmium, gold and silver in Stari Trg.

According to Hedges, "The sprawling state-owned Trepca mining complex, the most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans, is worth at least $5 billion."

According to the mine’s director, Novak Bjelic, "The war in Kosovo is about the mines, nothing else. This is Serbia’s Kuwait—the heart of Kosovo. ... In addition to all this, Kosovo has 17 billion tons of coal reserves."

The whole world knows and observed firsthand in the war against Iraq to what horrendous extent the Pentagon was willing to go in order to guarantee control of the oil wealth of Kuwait.

But the enormous mineral wealth of Kosovo is never publicly discussed by U.S. United Nations Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, President Bill Clinton or the Pentagon generals. They speak only of "self-determination" of the Albanian population of Kosovo. Of course, they never mention what U.S.-imposed "self-determination" means. It means colonization under the guise of "liberation," like what the U.S. did to Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines a hundred years ago.

An Internet search for reports on the mines of Kosovo—the Trepca mining complex or Stari Trg—turned up only the one article by Hedges and a small piece in the June 22 Wall Street Journal. All other mentions are in metallurgical journals.

How could this vital fact be omitted from all discussion of what is at stake in Kosovo? It is comparable to describing Kuwait and the oil-rich Gulf states as barren deserts.

The wealth of Kosovo is greater than the rich veins of ore in the mines. Hedges describes the mining complex: "The Stari Trg mine, with its warehouses, is ringed with smelting plants, 17 metal treatment sites, freight yards, railroad lines, a power plant and the country’s largest battery plant."

The labor power of millions of workers throughout socialist Yugoslavia built this mining complex into the powerhouse it is today. It was their wealth that was invested in developing the complex. It belongs not just to those who live in Kosovo, but to the workers of all Yugoslavia.

The Yugoslav web site www.yugo slavia.com describes Trepca as the "richest lead and zinc mines in Europe."

Lignite deposits in the Kosovo mines are, according to experts, sufficient for the next 13 centuries. The capacity of the lead and zinc refineries ranks third in the world.

Miners work round the clock, day and night, in six-hour shifts. According to the mine director, "In the last three years we have mined 2,538,124 tons of lead and zinc crude ore and produced 286,502 tons of lead and zinc and 139,789 tons of pure lead, zinc, cadmium, silver and gold."

Although the average person watching the news in the evening has never heard of Stari Trg, it has been a prize changing hands for two thousand years.

The wealth of Stari Trg is legendary. Precious metals were mined there more than 2,000 years ago, first by the Greeks, then by the Romans.

These mines were the grand prize in the Nazi occupation of the Balkans after Germany grabbed control from the British. The mines have great industrial and military importance. The Nazis used batteries produced there to power their U-boats. Today submarine batteries are still made there.

Profits from these mines are helping to keep the Yugoslav Federation afloat. U.S. and UN sanctions imposed on Serbia and Montenegro, the two remaining republics of Yugoslavia, have taken an enormous toll.

Without investment credits, loans for financing industry, imports and exports, the economy has been stifled. Inflation has weakened the currency. The mines, which once were the largest employer in the province, have also been affected.

The most important words in Hedges’ article are the description of the complex as "state owned." Throughout this decade, as the capitalist market has swept over the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, socialist Yugoslavia has attempted to resist privatization of its industry and natural resources.

To break this resistance, the Western imperialist countries played a major role in the breakup of socialist Yugoslavia.

This huge complex of mines, refining, power and transportation in Kosovo may well be the largest uncontested piece of wealth not yet in the hands of the big capitalists of the U.S. or Europe.

The industry, natural resources and transportation of all the former Soviet republics, the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, and the secessionist republics of Yugoslavia are now being rapidly privatized. No one within the region has the wealth or connections to finance capital to buy controlling shares of these vast state-owned industries. The major Western corporations are gobbling these industries up.

While the fate of some industries is still in negotiation, the lending and credit conditions of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank require the breakup of all state-owned industries. This is true for the oil and natural gas wealth in the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea as well as the diamond mines of Siberia.

The decision on who will own or have controlling interest in the 22 mines and the many processing plants of the Trepca complex will be made by whoever wins the armed struggle raging in Kosovo. NATO domination on the ground would put U.S. corporations in the best ownership position. Nationalist strife advances their position.

Although being forced to privatize in order to survive in today’s global market, Yugoslavia has tried to control the process and to propose Balkan regional development.

According to the June 22 Wall Street Journal, the Yugoslav Federation is in negotiations to sell shares in the Trepca mining complex. Forced by the economic crisis, they have been negotiating with a Greek investor—Mytilineos Holdings SA—for partial ownership.

The former manager of the mines, Byrhan Kavaja—who is now allied with the opposition to the Yugoslav government—has written to all corporations dealing in soft metals to tell them not to make agreements with the Yugoslav government. Kavaja says that once a new government is in power, all past decisions on ownership will be invalidated. The opposition will make "new agreements." Who is likely to be the beneficiary of these agreements?

The progressive movement in the U.S. and throughout Western Europe must be at the forefront in explaining that the billions of dollars spent on the U.S./NATO occupation of the region is not in the interests of any of the people of the Balkans. Nor is it in the interests of poor and working people in the U.S. or Europe. The war is destroying all that was built through collective ownership and collaboration in the Balkans.

This war will mean higher taxes and even more cuts in social programs in the U.S and Europe. But the billions of dollars in profit will go to a few wealthy stockholders in the U.S. or in Western Europe.

KOSOVO: Follow-up...Usual Suspects

NATO troops seize mining complex

By Sara Flounders

Claiming they were concerned about controlling air pollution, some 3,000 NATO soldiers stormed a lead smelting plant in Zvecan at 4:30 in the morning of Aug. 14. The plant was the only functioning industry in the vast Trepca mining complex in northern Kosovo, a few miles from the city of Mitrovica.

At 6:30 a.m., in a further attack that had nothing to do with air pollution, NATO soldiers closed down and confiscated the equipment of Zvecan's Radio S--the only station that dared to report information critical of NATO.

The northern part of Mitrovica is the only remaining multi-ethnic part of Kosovo. Thousands of Serbs, Romani people, Slavic Muslims, other nationalities and peoples of mixed backgrounds have been driven out of other areas by Kosovo Liberation Army thugs and vigilante groups. Many have fled to the north side of the Iber river.

There, with the local Serbian population, they have resisted more than a year of KLA attacks in an economically devastated region.

The surprise attack by NATO shut down the only radio station and the main source of employment for the local population.

The mines, with their smelting, refining and power centers, once constituted one of Yugoslavia's leading export industries and a main source of hard currency. It was the major source of jobs in the region.

Defending the pre-dawn attack, Bernard Kouchner, the head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), said, "As a doctor and chief administrator of Kosovo I would be derelict if I allowed a threat to the health of children and pregnant women to continue for one more day." UNMIK is the police force set up by NATO to administer Kosovo.

Kouchner has never had a word of criticism for the environmental havoc NATO created throughout the entire region with the use of depleted uranium weapons, the bombing of chemical plants and the use of cluster bombs.

If you find it hard to accept that NATO is suddenly concerned with pollution, it's worth looking for what is really at stake.

'Most valuable piece of real estate'

On July 8, 1998, New York Times reporter Chrisopher Hedges wrote, "The sprawling state-owned Trepca mining complex is the most valuable piece of real estate in the Balkans." Hedges described glittering veins of lead, cadmium, zinc, gold and silver.

The Stari Trg mine is ringed with smelting plants, 17 metal treatment sites, warehouses, freight yards, railroad lines, a power plant and the country's largest battery plant. It is the richest lead and zinc mine in Europe. There are also 17 billion tons of coal.

It was George Soros, the multi-billionaire financier, who wrote Kouchner's script.

Paris-based journalist Diana Johnstone, in a Feb. 28 report, described a policy paper by the International Crisis Group. This is a think tank set up by Soros to provide guidance in the NATO-led reshaping of the Balkans.

The think tank publicly called on Kouch ner to take over the management of Trepca and to use the pretext of environmental hazards to shut the Zvecan smelter down.

The Soros group stressed that the takeover should happen before new elections in Yugoslavia so that the opposition could blame Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for the loss of Trepca. The elections are now six weeks away.

At the time this proposal was made there was no pollution--the lead smelter was not even in operation. It was closed for several months after the NATO bombing.

Production in this state-owned industry started again only two months ago, at great sacrifice and expense. The hard currency it could have earned was desperately needed to rebuild Yugoslavia's ravaged economy.

Skimming the profits

With the seizure of the smelting plant in Zvenca, NATO will control the entire Trepca complex.

Proving once again that NATO is the military arm to insure primarily U.S. corporate control, the first move after seizing the complex was to turn it over to a consortium of private mining companies. This consortium--ITT Kosovo Ltd.--is a joint venture of U.S., French and Swedish companies.

The most interesting partner in this deal to control Trepca is the U.S. company Morrison Knudsen International. On July 7 Morrison Knudsen merged with Raytheon Engineers and Constructors, a major military contractor that makes Patriot missiles and radar equipment for the Pentagon.

This is an enormously lucrative deal. ITT Kosovo Ltd. will administer Trepca, appoint executives and a board of directors, develop the investment strategy and skim the greatest profits from every possible deal.

Those in the Albanian population who hold illusions that control by these corporations will mean the return of the thousands of well-paid, secure jobs with benefits that existed before the war should read the plans multi-billionaire Soros has in store.

Once NATO has control of the whole industrial complex, according to the International Crisis Group, foreign investors will develop a very modern, highly profitable facility with a small workforce.

In this outright theft of an industry that was built by the efforts of all the peoples of Yugoslavia, Soros's think tank recommends that the management and administration be made up of foreign executives "in order to prevent corruption"!

Deja Vu all over again!!!

Jacksonville Article

Monday, May 17, 1999

Story last updated at 6:11 p.m. on Friday, May 14, 1999

KOSOVO: Saving the terrorists

Seven weeks into the war over Kosovo, Yugoslavia is in rubbles.

Large parts of Belgrade and other cities have been destroyed. A hundred innocent civilians, at least, have died in the bombing attacks. Many of the survivors are homeless. Of those with homes, many do not have power.

Roads, bridges, broadcast stations, gasoline refineries - all gone.

China has broken off most relations with the United States. Its people, once expected to protest on the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square fiasco, are rallying behind Beijing - a setback for the democratic movement.

Russia's Communists, once faltering, have been energized. In their quest to remove President Boris Yeltsin from office, they now can say he has so emasculated the Russian military that it cannot defend their Yugoslav allies.

Billions of dollars from Social Security taxes are going to pay for the war, despite President Clinton's promise to use all surpluses to save the fund.

All of this is deemed necessary to secure a better deal for rebels in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo than they could engineer either on the battlefield or at the negotiating table.

These rebels call themselves the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA. The State Department concedes the KLA is a terrorist organization. Founded by radical Muslim Communists, the group has killed many moderate ethnic Albanians to squelch dissent as well as gunning down Serb police and civilians.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has published a communique from Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist blamed for bombing two U.S. embassies in August, saying his forces were active with the KLA. The CIA has a similar report.

Now, the San Francisco Chronicle says the KLA has been financing its war with ''enormous heroin trade.''

The president had to know that before he rushed to the KLA's aid.

The newspaper says the federal Drug Enforcement Administration warned in 1995 the KLA was trafficking in drugs.

Interpol, the international police agency, reported in November 1997 that Kosovo Albanians hold the largest share of the heroin market in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Norway and Sweden.

The Chronicle adds: ''On March 25 - the day after NATO's bombardment of Serb forces began - drug enforcement experts from the Hague-based European Office of Police met in an emergency closed session devoted to 'Kosovar Narcotics Trafficking Networks.' ''

For such people, civilians must die and a country must be destroyed?

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Osama bin Laden

"Jihad Is an Individual Duty"

The following is excerpted from the fatwa, or edict, of February 1998, issued by Osama bin Laden, whom U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel Berger calls the "most dangerous nonstate terrorist in the world." U.S. investigators have focused on Bin Laden as the most likely suspect behind the coordinated bombings of the U.S. Embassy buildings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in August of 1998. At least 250 people --including 12 Americans -- and injured more than 5,000 in Nairobi. Ten people died in an almost simultaneous explosion at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam.

For more than seven years, the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors and turning its bases in the peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.

The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people, using the peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, but they are helpless.

...These crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger and Muslims. And ulema [Muslim scholars] have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad [Holy War] is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries.

On that basis, and in compliance with God's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims:

The ruling is to kill the Americans and their allies is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it, in order to liberate the Al Aqsa mosque [Jerusalem] and the Holy Mosque [Mecca]... This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God...

We call on every Muslim who believes in God and wished to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it.

TALEBAN WARN US ON HARSH REACTION IF BIN LADEN IS KILLED
Jan. 23, 2000

KABUL 23 Jan (IPS) - The Taleban warned the United States they will be seriously punished if Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi fundamentalist the American considers as their number one enemy was killed or arrested, Radio Sharia't reported.

According to the Taleban's official Radio, the warning was delivered to the US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Karl Inderfurth and Michael Sheehan, State Department Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator and US ambassador in Pakistan William Milam by Molla Amir Khan Mottaqi, a senior Taleban Minister during a meeting last week in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

"We told Michael Sheehan that the presence of Bin Laden in Afghanistan was in the best interest of Washington because his supporters will not act against the United States until he is here among us", Mr. Mottaqi said in a statement issued by Taleban Embassy in Islamabad. He also pointed out that Washington had turned the Saudi millionaire from a "small individual" to a hero of the Islamic world. "If he is arrested or killed, there would be a strong backlash against the United States by his followers", the statement quoted Mr. Mottaqi as having warned the American expert on counter-terrorism.

"We told Sheehan that we also want Osama's problem to be resolved but every country has its own principles and traditions and we have to do what our people want us to do", the Taleban Information Minister said in the statement that was read by Radio Shari'at.

The meeting was held at the US Embassy in Islamabad.

"We told the US official that we are ready to resolve the issue through talks and assured him that Osama bin Laden is not allowed and cannot engage in anti-US activity from Afghan soil," the statement said.

Mottaqi reiterated the three different solutions the Taleban had in the past presented to resolve the issue of Osama Bin Laden the Americans wanted for the last years' twin bombing in Kenya and Tanzania, killing and wounding more than 400 people, mostly in Nairobi.

The proposals would call on the US to present hard fact documents proving Mr. Bin Laden's involvement in terrorist activities to the Afghan Supreme Court so that he could be on trial or a council of Islamic scholars decide the issue or Ossama's activities to be placed under the surveillance of the Organisation of Islamic Conference, the satement said, indicating that the American envoys did not accepted any of the proposals.

Instead the US insist on the expulsion of bin Laden from Afghanistan to stand trial in America.

Inderfurth was in Pakistan to press for the expulsion of the alleged terrorist Osama Bin Laden.

The United Nations imposed last year a ban on international flights to Afghanistan after the Taleban refused to hand over Mr. Bin Laden to the United States.

Meanwhile, in a move that would anger Moscow, the Taleban who controls more than 80 per cent of Afghanistan announced Sunday the opening in Kabul of the Islamic Republic of Chechnya's first ever Embassy abroad.

Offering an all out support for the Chechen Muslims in their jihad (holy war) against Russian infidels, Taleban's Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Motawakel also called on all Muslim nations to officially recognise the Chechen Republic and offer the Chechen fighters all kind of military, financial and humanitarian assistance.

"Now there is fighting in another Muslim home, it is the religious obligation of all Muslims to rush to the help of their brothers," he said during a joint press conference with Zelimkhan Yanderbiev a visiting Chechen rebel official.

Taleban Supreme Leader Molla Mohammad Omar on Sunday officially opened diplomatic ties with the Chechen government and gave permission for a political mission in the Afghan capital.

"The Russians are pursuing their failed policy in Chechnya where a great human tragedy is taking place, Mr. Yanderbiev told journalists.

He also criticised the international community and the United Nations for not doing more to protect the Chechens, saying the UN and others are not saying anything. ENDS TALEBAN-US 23/1/00

If anyone cares....

Syene, thanks for the heads up.

I am sensing a growing fear among certain politicos both republicans and democrats for the support they had given Chechen, Bosnian and Albanian Muslim rebels. They fear being linked via campaign appearances, donations, etc. Already sources tell me public relations agencies have been contacted by many and in mag rags, etc., suddenly you are seeing or about to see stories about Muslims in the Balkans (but not for Chechnya, curious. Bill Safire must be steaming) who are resisting Osama and his organization, etc.

Savour their fear.

I despise America-haters and evil-doers...and we're not the only freedom lovers under seige... RANCHI, India (Reuters) - A policeman was burned alive and five of his colleagues wounded by leftist extremists who attacked a police post in India's eastern state of Jharkand, police said on Sunday.

I wonder if McCain, Biden, and Gilman will hire Ruder Finn..........

with the tab picked up by the Albanian-"American" "Civic" League of course.

>>>>The KLA members, embraced by the Clinton administration in NATO's 41-day bombing campaign to bring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the bargaining table, were trained in secret camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere, according to newly obtained intelligence reports. The reports also show that the KLA has enlisted Islamic terrorists -- members of the Mujahideen --as soldiers in its ongoing conflict against Serbia, and that many already have been smuggled into Kosovo to join the fight.<<<<

FYI

Media deception and the Yugoslav civil war (excerpt)

"Many of the stories on the Bosnian conflict that we read about and see on TV are actually fed to the media by public relations firms. Jim Harff, President of Ruder Finn Global Public Affairs, the public relations firm that handles the accounts of Bosnia, Croatia, and the Albanian opposition in Kosovo, argues that modern wars cannot be fought and won today without good public relations work. "In terms of persuading and convincing the UN to take proper measures," says Harff, "it’s even more important." According to U.S. Justice Department records, Bosnia and Croatia pay Ruder Finn more than $10,000 a month plus expenses "to present a positive image to members of Congress, administration officials, and the news media.(1)"

The amount of covered "expenses" is many times greater than the disclosed fee. Harff is himself an insider in Washington, where he has worked for three different Representatives over the past decade. Because of international economic sanctions imposed on the Serbs by the UN—largely due to false stories in the media—the Serbs, ironically, are barred from hiring a public relations firm.

(1) Harff is quoted here by Mike Trickey in The Spectator (Hamilton, ON), 12 February 1993. All public relations firms working for foreign governments must register with the Justice Department. I found in documents obtained from the Justice Department that while Croatia was contracted to pay Ruder Finn $16,000 a month and Bosnia was to pay $12,000 in 1992, payments in some later months were as high as $200,000, and total payments per year were ultimately in the millions of dollars. Moreover, Ruder Finn was not the only P.R. firm employed in Bosnia. Hill and Knowlton was also contracted early in the war. Waterman & Associates was employed by Croatia. Financial backing came from countries such as Saudi Arabia, which alone funneled nearly $1 billion to the Sarajevo regime from 1993 to 1996, according to the Washington Post, 2 February 1996. Ruder Finn was also contracted by the non-existent "Republic of Kosovo" for $5,000 a month, according to a Justice Department document dated 1 November 1992."

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