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Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:00 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
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Trend News Agency
August 10, 2012
Meeting held with NATO representatives in Georgian Defense Ministry
N. Kirtskhalia
Tbilisi: Deputy Defence Minister of Georgia Maya Siprashvili met with military attachés of NATO member countries, head of NATO Liaison Office William Lahue and military coordinator Zbigniew Praszczałek.
From the Georgian side the meeting was also attended by other leaders of the ministry and the Joint Staff.
The meeting focused on measures implementation of which will begin in 2013 and envisage certain benefits for military personnel and their family members.
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Trend News Agency
August 10, 2012
Meeting held with NATO representatives in Georgian Defense Ministry
N. Kirtskhalia
Tbilisi: Deputy Defence Minister of Georgia Maya Siprashvili met with military attachés of NATO member countries, head of NATO Liaison Office William Lahue and military coordinator Zbigniew Praszczałek.
From the Georgian side the meeting was also attended by other leaders of the ministry and the Joint Staff.
The meeting focused on measures implementation of which will begin in 2013 and envisage certain benefits for military personnel and their family members.
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Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:00 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
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Voice of Russia
August 10, 2012
NATO war against Yugoslavia based on lies
Timur Blokhin and Iovanna Vukotic
Germany joined the war against Yugoslavia under the pretense of fabricated facts. The sensational confession of German policeman Henning Hentz, who served in the OSCE in Kosovo in the 1990s, confirmed that.
The reason here is that photographs taken by Hentz in late January 1999 were used by then-German Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping to justify the immediate interference of NATO in the Kosovo conflict. He presented the photographs of militants killed in Rugovo as photos of innocent Albanian victims.
What did really happen in Kosovo in late January of 1999, several months before NATO launched its operation against Yugoslavia?
According to Serbian sources, more than two dozen Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists were killed in Rugovo, while the Western mass media insisted that at least nine of them were civilians. Particularly, the daily New York Times wrote with the reference to a local field commander that there were only four KLA militants in the village and he knew nothing about other people. On January 29 OSCE mission representative Henning Hentz was in Rugovo. He shared his impression of the visit with Voice of Russia correspondent Iovanna Vukotic, which gives a real picture of what happened. He said that this had nothing to do with the killing of Albanian civilians.
“We discovered 25 bodies, including 11 in a bus and some others near the vehicle. Several other bodies were laying in a barn which was used as a garage. The territory around the barn was covered with snow but there were no tracks. I thought that the bodies were brought there from another location and, most likely, a day before the clash between Serb police and KLA militants,” Henning Hentz said.
At the time, German Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping showed only some of the photos taken by Henning Hentz and for some reason said those were taken by a German officer. He deliberately ignored the photos that clearly showed the dead bodies of KLA militants. So, Scharping managed to convince the public that “bad guys” or Serbs were again killing innocent Albanians and provoked a wave of refugees, says Hentz.
“For Germans, this meant that they would be involved in a military operation for the first time after the Second World War. My impression is that the situation in Kosovo at the time was exaggerated. When I visited Kosovo, there was no necessity for Albanians to leave their homes en masse. A real exodus started with the beginning of the bombing. A major part of the report on the Kosovo situation was exaggerated and was always against Serbs,” Henning Hentz added.
Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo was used as a pretext for bombing Yugoslavia. And the incident in the village of Rugovo shows once again that the PR campaign against Belgrade was organized using obvious forgeries.
Reportedly, NATO started thinking about an invasion after the killing of 40 civilian Albanians in Racak. However, experts who studied the forensic reports concluded that there was no evidence proving that the killed were civilians, and that they were killed by Serbian servicemen.
This technology is being used even now. For example, photos taken in Iraq in 2003 are used in news broadcasts to show the deaths of Syrian civilians. The dramatic effect is achieved by using photo editing programmes. For example, a Syrian family walking in the streets of an ordinary city is shown in a photo against a background of ruined buildings. Ultimately, they achieve the necessary effect. In the 19th century, the prominent Russian gnomic (pseudonymous) poet Kozma Prutkov said: If you read the world buffalo on a cell of an elephant, please, do not believe it.
Truly, in the 19th century, there was no high-tech to make a fly from an elephant as well as genocide from contract killing.
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Voice of Russia
August 10, 2012
NATO war against Yugoslavia based on lies
Timur Blokhin and Iovanna Vukotic
Germany joined the war against Yugoslavia under the pretense of fabricated facts. The sensational confession of German policeman Henning Hentz, who served in the OSCE in Kosovo in the 1990s, confirmed that.
The reason here is that photographs taken by Hentz in late January 1999 were used by then-German Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping to justify the immediate interference of NATO in the Kosovo conflict. He presented the photographs of militants killed in Rugovo as photos of innocent Albanian victims.
What did really happen in Kosovo in late January of 1999, several months before NATO launched its operation against Yugoslavia?
According to Serbian sources, more than two dozen Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists were killed in Rugovo, while the Western mass media insisted that at least nine of them were civilians. Particularly, the daily New York Times wrote with the reference to a local field commander that there were only four KLA militants in the village and he knew nothing about other people. On January 29 OSCE mission representative Henning Hentz was in Rugovo. He shared his impression of the visit with Voice of Russia correspondent Iovanna Vukotic, which gives a real picture of what happened. He said that this had nothing to do with the killing of Albanian civilians.
“We discovered 25 bodies, including 11 in a bus and some others near the vehicle. Several other bodies were laying in a barn which was used as a garage. The territory around the barn was covered with snow but there were no tracks. I thought that the bodies were brought there from another location and, most likely, a day before the clash between Serb police and KLA militants,” Henning Hentz said.
At the time, German Defence Minister Rudolf Scharping showed only some of the photos taken by Henning Hentz and for some reason said those were taken by a German officer. He deliberately ignored the photos that clearly showed the dead bodies of KLA militants. So, Scharping managed to convince the public that “bad guys” or Serbs were again killing innocent Albanians and provoked a wave of refugees, says Hentz.
“For Germans, this meant that they would be involved in a military operation for the first time after the Second World War. My impression is that the situation in Kosovo at the time was exaggerated. When I visited Kosovo, there was no necessity for Albanians to leave their homes en masse. A real exodus started with the beginning of the bombing. A major part of the report on the Kosovo situation was exaggerated and was always against Serbs,” Henning Hentz added.
Ethnic cleansing in Kosovo was used as a pretext for bombing Yugoslavia. And the incident in the village of Rugovo shows once again that the PR campaign against Belgrade was organized using obvious forgeries.
Reportedly, NATO started thinking about an invasion after the killing of 40 civilian Albanians in Racak. However, experts who studied the forensic reports concluded that there was no evidence proving that the killed were civilians, and that they were killed by Serbian servicemen.
This technology is being used even now. For example, photos taken in Iraq in 2003 are used in news broadcasts to show the deaths of Syrian civilians. The dramatic effect is achieved by using photo editing programmes. For example, a Syrian family walking in the streets of an ordinary city is shown in a photo against a background of ruined buildings. Ultimately, they achieve the necessary effect. In the 19th century, the prominent Russian gnomic (pseudonymous) poet Kozma Prutkov said: If you read the world buffalo on a cell of an elephant, please, do not believe it.
Truly, in the 19th century, there was no high-tech to make a fly from an elephant as well as genocide from contract killing.
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Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:01 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha" mohammad_b_haq
Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:14 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
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Russia & India Report
August 10, 2012
Persian Gulf gets US missile shield
M K Bhadrakumar
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This is a wonderful way of doing arms trade in a volatile region that may blow up anytime: sell a product at fancy price, pocket the money quickly and thereupon keep a contingency plan ready to seize the product if a need arises.
The “unknown unknown” is whether the deployments in the Persian Gulf are going to be integrated at some point with the BMD system that the US is sure to deploy in its upcoming permanent bases in Afghanistan. The probability is high.
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The New York Times has pieced together details of the “regional missile defence system” that the United States is installing in the Persian Gulf region. The system involves deployment of advanced missile defence radars, command, control and communications systems and interceptors in select GCC countries.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are the US’ main partners. The Persian Gulf deployments have certain unique features. For one thing, the deployments in these GCC countries merely supplement the missile defence capabilities of the US’ own military forces deployed in the Persian Gulf region.
Second, the US negotiates at a bilateral level with each of the GCC states the sales of the components of the missile defence. That is to say, the US retains the full engineering blueprint of the missile defence system.
In the estimation of the New York Times, this is because unlike the European allies, the Gulf Arab allies lack team spirit and resist “multilateral security initiatives.” Equally, what emerges is that the primacy on “bilateralism” suits the US as well. The deals are secretly struck through face-to-face negotiations and, evidently, they are highly lucrative.
The Pentagon has generated massive business for US arms manufacturers within the ambit of the missile defence programme in the GCC region. At least $21.9 billion worth arms deals on this account alone have materialized for the US companies in the most recent years.
However, at the end of the day, this will still remain an “ad-hoc” missile defence architecture in comparison with what is coming up in Europe. But then, regional security in the Persian Gulf is in flux. The GCC regimes could get blown away if the Arab Spring visits in the region. Needless to say, the US would like to keep all options on the table – making sure it can quickly dismantle and scoot with the radars and interceptors in case “regime change” occurs and some maverick Islamists storm into power in any of these GCC states.
This is a wonderful way of doing arms trade in a volatile region that may blow up anytime: sell a product at fancy price, pocket the money quickly and thereupon keep a contingency plan ready to seize the product if a need arises. There must be something wrong with the DNA of the GCC elites if they do not comprehend what is going on.
The US insists that the task of the Persian Gulf system is the same as the shield being deployed in Europe – namely, to blunt an Iranian attack. (Russia consistently disputed the stated purpose of the US deployment in Europe.) The US’ ballistic missile defence deployments in the Persian Gulf also is supposed to send a “pointed message” to Iran (although India and Pakistan also come within their reach.)
The “unknown unknown” is whether the deployments in the Persian Gulf are going to be integrated at some point with the BMD system that the US is sure to deploy in its upcoming permanent bases in Afghanistan. The probability is high.
Russia & India Report
August 10, 2012
Persian Gulf gets US missile shield
M K Bhadrakumar
====
This is a wonderful way of doing arms trade in a volatile region that may blow up anytime: sell a product at fancy price, pocket the money quickly and thereupon keep a contingency plan ready to seize the product if a need arises.
The “unknown unknown” is whether the deployments in the Persian Gulf are going to be integrated at some point with the BMD system that the US is sure to deploy in its upcoming permanent bases in Afghanistan. The probability is high.
====
The New York Times has pieced together details of the “regional missile defence system” that the United States is installing in the Persian Gulf region. The system involves deployment of advanced missile defence radars, command, control and communications systems and interceptors in select GCC countries.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are the US’ main partners. The Persian Gulf deployments have certain unique features. For one thing, the deployments in these GCC countries merely supplement the missile defence capabilities of the US’ own military forces deployed in the Persian Gulf region.
Second, the US negotiates at a bilateral level with each of the GCC states the sales of the components of the missile defence. That is to say, the US retains the full engineering blueprint of the missile defence system.
In the estimation of the New York Times, this is because unlike the European allies, the Gulf Arab allies lack team spirit and resist “multilateral security initiatives.” Equally, what emerges is that the primacy on “bilateralism” suits the US as well. The deals are secretly struck through face-to-face negotiations and, evidently, they are highly lucrative.
The Pentagon has generated massive business for US arms manufacturers within the ambit of the missile defence programme in the GCC region. At least $21.9 billion worth arms deals on this account alone have materialized for the US companies in the most recent years.
However, at the end of the day, this will still remain an “ad-hoc” missile defence architecture in comparison with what is coming up in Europe. But then, regional security in the Persian Gulf is in flux. The GCC regimes could get blown away if the Arab Spring visits in the region. Needless to say, the US would like to keep all options on the table – making sure it can quickly dismantle and scoot with the radars and interceptors in case “regime change” occurs and some maverick Islamists storm into power in any of these GCC states.
This is a wonderful way of doing arms trade in a volatile region that may blow up anytime: sell a product at fancy price, pocket the money quickly and thereupon keep a contingency plan ready to seize the product if a need arises. There must be something wrong with the DNA of the GCC elites if they do not comprehend what is going on.
The US insists that the task of the Persian Gulf system is the same as the shield being deployed in Europe – namely, to blunt an Iranian attack. (Russia consistently disputed the stated purpose of the US deployment in Europe.) The US’ ballistic missile defence deployments in the Persian Gulf also is supposed to send a “pointed message” to Iran (although India and Pakistan also come within their reach.)
The “unknown unknown” is whether the deployments in the Persian Gulf are going to be integrated at some point with the BMD system that the US is sure to deploy in its upcoming permanent bases in Afghanistan. The probability is high.
