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Karadzic demands Holbrooke, Albright appear in court AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic demanded on Wednesday that former U.S. peace mediator Richard Holbrooke and ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appear at the U.N. war crimes tribunal to back his claims of an immunity offer from the United States. Karadzic, who was transferred to the Hague's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia last week to face war crimes and genocide charges after 11 years on the run, challenged the legality of the case against him, a filing released by the tribunal showed. In the document, Karadzic repeated...

Publisher Peter Osnos, who admits to personally working with former Bush White House press secretary Scott McClellan on his new book, What Happened, began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist "journalist" named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin. But the connections don't end there. Boudin's son Chesa was raised by Barack Obama associates Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were Boudin's comrades in the communist terrorist group, after Kathy Boudin went to prison for her involvement in an armed robbery and assault that took the...

Russia Rebuffs Holbrooke’s Allegations The statements of U.S. policymaker Richard Holbrooke about Russia’s implicit incitement to violence by extremist elements in Belgrade are inappropriate, Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told the reporters on Friday. “We regard these allegations as completely inappropriate. It is another way of laying their own fault at the door of somebody else,” the diplomat said. Past night, the rally in Belgrade staged to protest against unilateral declaration of Kosovo’s independence developed into the riots and the U.S. embassy was set on fire. “The people that advocated unilateral declaration of Kosovo independence must have thought of...

The United Nations' Cash for Kim Jong Il scandal is now six months old, so it's a good time to assess progress, if that's the right word. The evidence of misdeeds at the U.N. Development Program in North Korea continues to mount, but there's still no "urgent" and "external" inquiry, as ordered by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in January. Now the U.S. has uncovered evidence that in addition to transferring millions of dollars in cash that may have gone to help prop up Kim's grotesque regime, the UNDP also transferred dual-use technology. It did so without bothering to secure a U.S....

By now, everyone is familiar with the insensitive words uttered by Shock Jock Imus which appeared in Mary Mostert's commentary of 12 May Either Al Sharpton Should be Fired or Don Imus Should Be Re-Hired. We should also not forget what happened to comedian "Kramer," from the Seinfeld Show when he railed against two black hecklers in the audience during a performance by calling them the n-word. Just like Imus, his racist comments cost him his job. But what happens when a U.S. diplomat shows his true character when he rails against an entire race of people during war? Not...

Did the 4 Albanian terrorists have connections to Holbrooke, Clark? May 8th, 2007 According to Bloomberg the Kosovo Albanians that were planning to kill as many Americans as possible are: Dritan Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; Eljvir Duka, 23. Agron Abdullahu, 24. Bloomberg says that: The Dukas and Abdullahu are ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia [read: Muslim-dominated Kosovo], U.S. officials said. The Duka brothers operated roofing businesses based in Cherry Hill… and Abdullahu worked at a supermarket, according to authorities. Now, the New Jersey is stone throw from New York where the big-dog in the roofing business among the...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush should follow British Prime Minister Tony Blair's lead and start withdrawing troops from Iraq, former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said Saturday. "Engaging in a broad-based diplomatic offensive, and beginning a redeployment of U.S. forces in Iraq, represents the best way to secure America's interests in the region and combat the serious threat of terrorist networks," Holbrooke, who served under President Clinton, said in the Democrats' weekly radio address. Britain will withdraw about 1,600 troops in the coming months and aims to cut more by late summer. The announcement came as Bush is implementing his plan...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/23 & 9/24/06The campaign to trash President Bush and beatify President Clinton gets into high gear this week.  Perhaps now we know why the Clintonistas were so frantic to kill or discredit The Path To 9/11, because it had the possibility of preempting their re-re-re-re-launch of the "Clinton Legacy" (Take 843).  This is a contest between the Bush and Clinton world views.  Bush views the world in terms of western civilization representing humanity's progress up from barbarism.  Clinton views the world in terms of America's sins and how we must be...

The punditry world is abuzz with talk of a recent New Yorker article (no link available) by writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who has interviewed Brent Scowcroft, the former national security advisor for the Ford Administration and the Administration of George H.W. Bush. In a number of passages in the piece, Scowcroft takes on the current Bush Administration over the issue of Iraq, something for which he has earned applause from many Democrats and other Bush critics. But when one reads the entire New Yorker piece, one finds that Scowcroft's critique is directed at foreign policy idealism in general. And it's a...

The Talk Shows Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; University of Maryland's men's basketball coach Gary Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. THIS WEEK (ABC): John Kerry, D-Mass.; Reps. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., and Jane Harman, D-Calif., chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee; actor Gary Sinise. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. George Allen, R-Va., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat...

Come June, the American troops helping to maintain peace in Bosnia are scheduled to come home. Recently, however, some senior administration officials have begun murmuring about staying on longer. "A consensus is developing," says Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, "that there will be or should be some form of U.S. military presence" after the current force leaves. "If we pull out on an arbitrary deadline," says the architect of the 1995 Dayton Accord, Richard Holbrooke, "the situation in Bosnia will become chaotic, eroding the achievements so far." Such talk does not sit well with Congress, where many were hostile to...

A story circulating in Washington, perhaps apocryphal, has it that late one evening during last year's annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, after the day's discussions were finished and a few drinks had been downed, Richard Holbrooke began a sentence by saying, "When John Kerry is president and I'm secretary of state and Nicholas Burns here is undersecretary of state for political affairs ..." Mr. Kerry went on to lose the election… ‘snip’ Mr. Holbrooke had written a glowing report in the Washington Post predicting that Mr. Burns would be in the new State Department team, which he described as...

New York -- As a result of a second scathing report on his administration of the scandal plagued U.N.-Iraq Oil-for-Food Prgram by U.N. investigator Paul Volcker, Benon V. Sevan is now threatening to name names. In a news conference, Volcker issued another "interim report" on the activates of Sevan, who ran the $67 billion aid program from 1997-2003. Volcker came to the conclusion that Sevan did indeed accept what amounted to several hundred thousand dollars in bribes funneled to him through various overseas channels. The most disturbing came through an aunt living in Cyprus who died in a mysterious apartment...

The Brooklyn Connection By Julia Gorin Albanian-American roofer Florin Krasniqi has been living in Brooklyn and smuggling American guns into Kosovo to arm the Kosovo Liberation Army--this time for war against its erstwhile saviors, NATO and the UN....Realizing Albanians could lose the good will of Americans once they see the documentary, Krasniqi went on "60 Minutes" last Sunday, to paint himself as a concerned citizen promoting anti-gun legislation...

Democrats' hypocrisy on Bolton exposed Joel Mowbray May 5, 2005 Call it the tale of two confirmation hearings. Two of the four men most recently nominated to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations found their candidacies challenged, though they could not have faced more different receptions.  Both men were supremely qualified, but the similarities end there. The divergent paths for each reveal Democrats' rabid partisanship and belies their claims that they oppose John Bolton on the grounds that character matters. Six years ago, Foreign Service veteran Richard Holbrooke was awaiting Senate confirmation.  As former a ambassador to Germany,...

George F. Kennan, who died last week at 101, was a unique figure in American history. I greatly admired him but disagreed with him profoundly on many critical issues, and, in the 35 years I knew him, I often reflected on this strange paradox. His extraordinary memoirs had made the idea of a life in the Foreign Service seem both exciting and intellectually stimulating to me. He had watched Joseph Stalin at close hand, and sent Washington an analysis of Russia that became the most famous telegram in U.S. diplomatic history. This was followed closely by the most influential article...

Bolton Faces Fight Over U.N. Envoy Post -Holbrooke Mon Mar 21, 2005 01:30 AM ET BANGKOK (Reuters) - John Bolton faces a fight over his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations unless he changes his "strong and extreme" views on the world body, former ambassador to the U.N. Richard Holbrooke said on Monday. "If you read his statements it's clear if he had a choice the United Nations would not exist at all," Holbrooke told a meeting of American/Thai business leaders in Bangkok. "Unless he changes his views it is going to be a very tough confirmation,"...

Defense Witness, French Col. Patrick Barriot presented an Interpol document to the Hague Tribunal on Wednesday. According to the document, Mohammed Atta was present in central Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1994, 1995, and 1999. Atta was one of the suicide hijackers who crashed a civilian jetliner into the World Trade Center in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Both Milosevic and Col. Barriot, who serves on the anti-terrorism task force of the French government, said that this document offers proof of “deep-rooted Islamic terrorism in Bosnia.” The tribunal did its level best to block the evidence regarding terrorism. The judges questioned...

Professional critics have decried President Bush’s three-day “delay” in reacting to the tsunami disasters. But if the President used that time to understand the dimensions of the disaster, and to keep the United Nations from controlling relief efforts, every minute was justified. When the UN handles dollars, tens of millions disappear. When the UN handles protection and relief, tens of thousands of people die. Instead of leaving money and authority to the UN, the US created a “core group” with Japan, Australia and India. The lead personnel are the military of those nations. That makes sense, because military units are...

When the stink threatens to make even bureaucrats gag, somebody has to mop up some of the mess.     When a gaggle of special pleaders met the other night in New York to talk about the puddle in the parlor at the United Nations, it wasn't clear whether they were interested in shaping up the U.N. or merely saving the job of Kofi Annan, the bureaucrats' favorite bureaucrat. [snip]What frightened the coterie to action then, and no doubt Mr. Annan yesterday, is the growing sentiment in Congress to do something about corruption at the U.N., or else. [snip]     There was...

RAHM SERVICE Late Monday, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) removed his name from consideration to replace Rep. Bob Matsui as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. His decision to pull out after being wooed by some members of Democratic House leadership appeared to coincide with the emergence of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a former senior adviser to Pres. Bill Clinton, as the favorite for the post. Emanuel, according to House Democratic sources, has already begun calling colleagues and marshaling support. "He's the natural replacement for Matsui," says a moderate Democratic House member. "He's done the work. He knows Washington, and...

...The ferocious partisan dissension that has broken out at home over the war on terror dangerously subtracts from the nation's war-fighting effectiveness. • Partisan warfare at home has given credibility and confidence to America's enemies abroad.... • Partisan disunity has damaged America's alliances.... • Hyper-partisanship has weakened America's own war-fighting strength.... It's essential to acknowledge mistakes and learn from them.... At home, ...Democrats will do everything they can to stop [Bush].... There are, however, some actions that might help President Bush introduce some useful bipartisanship to American foreign policy. • Listen: For months after 9/11, President Bush met once a...

Defense and Foreign Affairs, October 21, 2004 KLA Video Shows Holbrooke, Clark Raising Funds for Kerry Campaign from KLA-linked Albanians, and Shows Ongoing Acquisitions From GIS Station Amsterdam and other sources. A recent video produced by Albanians who identified themselves as members of the ostensibly-banned Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has been broadcast on Dutch television, showing KLA members giving donations to members of the US Presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry. The video also shows former US Presidential candidate and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark and former US Ass. Sec. of State Richard Holbrooke - now both...

Many governments and populations around the globe are rooting for Sen. John Kerry in tomorrow's U.S. presidential election. Less noticed is that for reasons of trade, shared views of the war on terrorism and sheer realpolitik, President Bush has some big and unlikely names in his corner, too. In Russia, Japan and Iran, Mr. Bush has received barely veiled government support for his re-election campaign -- a breach of the usual diplomatic etiquette whereby governments don't comment on other countries' electoral choices. Meanwhile, Chinese, Indian and Mexican leaders are quietly hoping for a Bush win, too, as are Italian Prime...

...Mr. Bush was granted Bill Clinton's wish to live in "interesting times,"... Instead of inheriting an economic recovery as Mr. Clinton did, Mr. Bush began his term facing the end of the 1990s' investment bubble and a looming recession. And instead of inheriting a placid post-Cold War world, he was presented with September 11.... On the economy, he compromised on his first tax cut to win 12 Democratic Senate votes, but it proved too Keynesian and too long-delayed to pack much punch. So Mr. Bush used his Senate victory in 2002 to double down on his tax cut bet.... Yes,...

Does anybody speak or read Dutch??? There's a dutch documentary out that's 1/3 in english, 1/3 in dutch, and 1/3 in Albanian with Dutch subtitles. The document shockingly shows a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a terrorist outfit, donating money to John Kerry at a Kerry fundraiser and having a laughing conversation with Wes Clark and Little Dickie Holbrooke. It's damning footage, but I can only under stand about a third of it.

FOX...Holbrooke couldn't answer question from OReilly, what would Kerry do in Iraq if elected president. He paused and stuttered and had a dumfounded look on his face.

If John Kerry becomes President he will find himself on the horns of a dilemma - which close friend to ditch when he chooses a new Secretary of State. According to today's Washington Post, Kerry would pick his national security team within a few weeks after winning the White House and two of his closest friends, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) or Richard Holbrooke reportedly want the job of running the State Department.

Secret diner in Washington Holbrooke and Thaqui planned terror Less than a week before the clashes in Kosovo and Metohija occurred, a group of Albanian lobbyists from USA held a meeting at which they decided to help Kosovo Albanians to force international community to give independence to Kosovo. 'Blic' got this information from well-informed sources in the US. As 'Blic' further finds out this informal meeting was held at the initiative of David Philips, deputy director of the Center for preventive action within Council for international relations in New York. The meeting was held at his home with light diner....

Kerry's latest close foreign policy advisor (replacing the disgraced Burger) was pressed by Stefanopolous that Kerry said the war was both a mistake and not a mistake. Holbrooke said while the troops are fighting for their country and Kerry will support them in the "hell" they are going through, that going to war in Iraq and when Bush did was "of course" "a mistake."I don't know why people are fooled into believing Kerry is just a waffler, when he is an unreformed left wing anti-war fool. In the debate, he called us "occupiers," he wants no bases in Iraq, he...

Watch it now. He's confronting every question being asked. Saying all questions are unfair. Says they should just interview themselves rather than having him on.

OK, this is disturbing.

...Mr. Kerry's Web site calls him "a man of conviction" who makes "bold decisions." His party convention sketched a picture of strong, principled leadership. But Mr. Kerry's record as senator and candidate suggests something less flattering: a mainstream Democratic liberal who, knowing most Americans aren't liberal, takes great care to heed prevailing political winds. ...He voted to give Mr. Bush authority for war when that appeared to be the safest move, and voted against funding the war.... [H]e would have taken the cautious route of trying to contain Saddam Hussein rather than removing him. Mr. Kerry has taken a similar...

Adviser to John Kerry, candidate of the Democratic Party for US president, Richard Holbrooke has reiterated that Kosovo should be independent. In an interview for the Sunday edition of German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine he said he believed that Kosovo, if it gained independence, could survive.

ISSUE 3"We have to find a way not to have the politics that looks for the lowest common denominator, but one that reaches for the highest common denominator …"  Sen. John Kerry, Speech To The American Legion National Convention, Nashville, TN, 9/1/04KERRY'S COMMON DENOMINATOR___________________________________________________________________HIGHEST OR LOWEST?    Sen. John Kerry (D-MA):   "'This president has talked about compassion, but he's walked right by. He's seen people in need but crossed right by,' Kerry said. … 'We are not going to allow them to put a "do not enter" sign on the White House door,' Kerry said at the Washington Convention Center."  (Jim...

Today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, one of Senator Kerry’s top advisors, former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, declared that the situation in Iraq is worse than America’s defeat in Vietnam. Here is the excerpt from that interview: WALLACE: ...I want to give you, as one of his top advisers, a chance to clear that up. We're going to first play a series of statements by the senator and also one by one of his opponents in the Democratic primaries. Take a look. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS) U.S. SENATOR JOHN KERRY, D-MA: I think it was the right decision to disarm...

Richard Holbrooke was making the case that Iraq is already another Vietnam. If that's so, he must be signaling that if Kerry is elected, he'll bugout within four months than lie about his Iraq accomplishments in his run for Secretary General of the UN. His band of brothers then will be Carville, Begala, Clinton and probably have the video to prove it.

Security: On the issue of stationing U.S. troops abroad, Democrats are all for fighting the Cold War — and making sure not to displease the Germans.Sen. John Kerry and his team have now taken their shots at President Bush's plan to recall up to 70,000 troops from foreign bases. In the process, they have given voters some useful insight into the way they think about war, diplomacy and the role of American soldiers. The typical voter might find their logic a little hard to follow.For example, the typical voter might believe the point of stationing U.S. soldiers abroad is to...

As most of us yawned our way through the self-serving speeches of the Democratic National Convention and the coast-to-coast tour of the two Johns who want to run Washington next year, a select few were energized. These energized ones -- partly sycophantic and largely opportunistic -- are wannabe Cabinet members. In Boston, we watched claimants for the same job avoid each other. To wit, Rep. Gephardt, beloved by the labor unions, was careful not to run into Bill Clinton's favored claimant for the same job, Alexis Herman. Despite investigations of influence peddling, Herman has ended up with her own consulting...

<p>Ok, this is what I have put together thus far, which I feel needs to be reported as one single story with dots being connected.</p> <p>This is a serious Breach. As he is no longer in Government, what would happen if you or I did that? Would we still be walking around free? Somehow I doubt it.</p>

INTERVIEW Political Science professor at the Belgrade university, Dr. Miroljub Jevtic, says that the extremist Islamic indoctrination in Kosovo is the source of Albanian separatism and that the indoctrination has reached such levels that the Albanian Extremism Is Beyond Control in Kosovo17 years ago you wrote a scenario in which Islam causes wars in the Balkans and uses the acquired lands to make bases out of which to attack the West. What were the causing factors for such a conclusion? The conclusions were the outgrowth of my observations of the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979. The names involved in...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (news - web sites), said on Tuesday that violence in Kosovo was predictable because the international community failed to move on the final status of the Serbian province. Holbrooke, a veteran Balkans trouble-shooter, said in an interview that the European Union (news - web sites), the United Nations and the United States needed to be prepared to go directly to Kosovo's status "but only if the violence subsides on both sides." Clashes between Albanian and Serb communities last week left 28 people dead and 870 injured. Holbrooke...

<p>By saying that "many leaders" would prefer him to George W. Bush, John Kerry caused a lively, if sanctimonious, stampede inside the Beltway. And when he refused to identify those who had indicated that they would prefer him to Mr. Bush -- a perfectly appropriate respect for confidential discussions -- the GOP launched a campaign demanding that he "name names." This included a comment by the president, made in the Oval Office itself, and a drumfire of criticism from Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, many senators, and even Colin Powell (who holds a job that by long tradition is supposed to be kept out of domestic politics).</p>

WASHINGTON — Iraq is a mess, the world resents America and its debt-burdened economy is an international embarrassment. That was the Democratic perspective voiced at a conference that ended here on Wednesday, that things could hardly be more grim. "The bad news is, we're headed in the wrong direction" said Sandy Berger, President Clinton's last national security adviser. "The worse news is we can't afford it." So why, then, was there a smile on Mr. Berger's jowly face? Why was John Podesta, the former Clinton chief of staff, standing in the wings and shouting "Tremendous!" into a cellphone? And wasn't...

How we trained al-Qa’eda Brendan O’Neill says the Bosnian war taught Islamic terrorists to operate abroad For all the millions of words written about al-Qa’eda since the 9/11 attacks two years ago, one phenomenon is consistently overlooked — the role of the Bosnian war in transforming the mujahedin of the 1980s into the roving Islamic terrorists of today. Many writers and reporters have traced al-Qa’eda and other terror groups’ origins back to the Afghan war of 1979–1992, that last gasp of the Cold War when US-backed mujahedin forces fought against the invading Soviet army. It is well documented that America...

The Talk Shows Sunday, August 31st, 2003 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-IN) and former Clinton Administration U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Richard C. Holbrooke. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA). FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT) and California Lt. Gov. Cruz M. Bustamante (D). THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) and JonKyl (R-AZ); and California Gov. Gray Davis (D).LATE EDITION (CNN) :Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ); Reps. Christopher Shays (R-CT), Martin...

The bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Iraq was the United Nations’ 9/11. Now a stricken organization must regain its equilibrium, knowing that its personnel are a target in Iraq, and perhaps elsewhere. As always, though, the future of the United Nations lies not in what is said or done in the dispirited buildings along New York’s East River, but in what the United Nations’ leading members do to strengthen the organization they created in 1945 to deal with just such a challenge. And the primary role should be played by the organization’s founding member, its largest contributor, its host...

In an interview with The Today Show's Matt Lauer, Madeleine Albright just completed a scathing attack on the policy of the Bush administration in Iraq and Afghanistan. Highlights: She understood the "why" but not the "why now" of the war on Saddam. He was not "an imminent threat." This was a war "of choice, of American dominance." She agreed with the tenor of the op-ed piece in yesterday's NY Times to the effect that while there was no Iraq-Al Qaeda link before the war, there is now. Said Albright: "We've turned Iraq into a breeding ground for terrorism." She agreed...

<p>Former ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke entered the State Department debate last week, attacking former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and defending Foggy Bottom. But being a product of the Foreign Service himself, Mr. Holbrooke appears unwilling to address the real issue: the State Department's corrosive culture.</p>

Portraits of Terrorists' Allies In Government: Richard Holbrooke Holbrooke Meets with Albanian Terrorists, Snubs Serb Bishop"Thugs of the World Unite!" - New NWO Slogan? PHOENIX, ARIZONA-------------------------------Topic: BALKAN AFFAIRS--------------------------------------- PHOENIX - Richard Holbrooke, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and evidently America's permanent ambassador to Mira Markovic, met on Wednesday (June 24) with Albanian terrorists in Kosovo while snubbing a Serb Bishop. That's as if the American envoy to the Middle East, Dennis Ross, were to meet with the Hezbollah or Hamas terrorists right after conferring with Benyamin Netanyahu. In other words, it was a clear and...