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Sat Nov 3, 2012 7:54 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
http://www.thenews.
The News
November 4, 2012
Albright remarks spark anger in Serbia
BELGRADE: Hostile remarks to Serbs made in Prague by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, detested in Serbia for her role in 1999 Nato air strikes against the country, on Friday prompted angry reactions here.
“Disgusting Serbs! Get out!” Albright told members of the association Friends of Kosovo Serbs, asking her to sign posters showing Serb victims of Nato bombings at a book shop where she was launching her book “A winter in Prague” last week. The reaction was prompted after a video of the incident appeared on YouTube.
“Disgusting behaviour of Madeleine Albright,” read the headline on the Internet site of Serbia’s public broadcaster RTS.
Albright “unveiled her great disgust for Serbs in a not very diplomatic manner,” said pro-Serb Czech director Vaclav Dvorzak, who was at the bookstore at the time, in an interview published Friday in the online edition of Serb nationalist weekly Standard.rs.
Dozens of Serbs, notably those from Bosnia, criticised Albright’s outburst on Twitter. A Bosnian Serb politician, Sasa Milovanovic, called Albright “the bloody old witch”.
“She could not resist...” wrote Zeljka Dragicevic, the Bosnian Serb prime minister’s cabinet chief. “She should be sued and held accountable for this,” another comment read at RTS site.
“She has finally said what she really thinks about us. She caused such a harm to us that our government should demand an official apology,” another RTS site visitor wrote.
Albright has long had links with Serbia. Before World War II she lived in Belgrade as a young girl when her father was a member of the then Czechoslovakia’s diplomatic mission in the Serbian capital.
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The News
November 4, 2012
Albright remarks spark anger in Serbia
BELGRADE: Hostile remarks to Serbs made in Prague by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, detested in Serbia for her role in 1999 Nato air strikes against the country, on Friday prompted angry reactions here.
“Disgusting Serbs! Get out!” Albright told members of the association Friends of Kosovo Serbs, asking her to sign posters showing Serb victims of Nato bombings at a book shop where she was launching her book “A winter in Prague” last week. The reaction was prompted after a video of the incident appeared on YouTube.
“Disgusting behaviour of Madeleine Albright,” read the headline on the Internet site of Serbia’s public broadcaster RTS.
Albright “unveiled her great disgust for Serbs in a not very diplomatic manner,” said pro-Serb Czech director Vaclav Dvorzak, who was at the bookstore at the time, in an interview published Friday in the online edition of Serb nationalist weekly Standard.rs.
Dozens of Serbs, notably those from Bosnia, criticised Albright’s outburst on Twitter. A Bosnian Serb politician, Sasa Milovanovic, called Albright “the bloody old witch”.
“She could not resist...” wrote Zeljka Dragicevic, the Bosnian Serb prime minister’s cabinet chief. “She should be sued and held accountable for this,” another comment read at RTS site.
“She has finally said what she really thinks about us. She caused such a harm to us that our government should demand an official apology,” another RTS site visitor wrote.
Albright has long had links with Serbia. Before World War II she lived in Belgrade as a young girl when her father was a member of the then Czechoslovakia’s diplomatic mission in the Serbian capital.
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Sat Nov 3, 2012 7:54 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
http://www.indybay.
Turkish daily: NATO airbase in Turkey to assume a central role in a possible war on Syria
Propaganda alert
Compiled by Cem Ertür
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According to plans prepared by the US and Turkey, Pirinclik Air Base (*) , which is the closest NATO air base to Syria, will assume a central role in the event of an operation against Syria; reports Hurriyet daily.
A delegation of 20 officials from the United States European Command (EUCOM) inspected the air base in Diyarbakir for two days to assess its current readiness for a possible military action.
*Hurriyet’s report refers to the NATO base in Diyarbakir as “2nd Air Force Command” [headquarters]
It is also worth noting that another NATO’s Incirlik Air Base in Adana (southern Turkey) is in a similar proximity to Turkey’s border with Syria. Incirlik is currently being used as a command center of NATO-led covert operations against Syria.
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Sources:
1) Operasyonel mekanizmada ilk adım
[The first step through the operational mechanism]
Hurriyet, 31 October 2012
http://www.hurriyet
2) Turkish military denies presence of US troops in Diyarbakır
Today’s Zaman, 31 October 2012
http://www.todaysza
[Notes: Excerpts from Hurriyet’s report have been translated and edited by Cem Ertür. Today's Zaman is the English version of the Turkish newspaper Zaman]
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From the archives:
“Diyarbakir may become a star, a focal point of the US project for a Greater Middle East. We should make that happen.”
[Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, TV interview on ‘Kanal D’ channel’s 'Teke Tek’ programme, 14 February 2004. This interview was conducted four months before the launch of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative during the 2004 NATO Summit in Istanbul] (*)
(*) Erdogan: Kürtler benim canim cigerim
[Erdogan: The Kurds are my nearest and dearest]
Hurriyet, 18 February 2004
http://hurarsiv.
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Propaganda alerts:
"We struck Syria": Turkish press jubilant as Turkey marches to war
By Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 4 October 2012
http://www.indybay.
Top US general: Turkey is facing an immediate threat to its Syrian border
By Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 19 September 2012
http://www.indybay.
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Turkish daily: NATO airbase in Turkey to assume a central role in a possible war on Syria
Propaganda alert
Compiled by Cem Ertür
____________
According to plans prepared by the US and Turkey, Pirinclik Air Base (*) , which is the closest NATO air base to Syria, will assume a central role in the event of an operation against Syria; reports Hurriyet daily.
A delegation of 20 officials from the United States European Command (EUCOM) inspected the air base in Diyarbakir for two days to assess its current readiness for a possible military action.
*Hurriyet’s report refers to the NATO base in Diyarbakir as “2nd Air Force Command” [headquarters]
It is also worth noting that another NATO’s Incirlik Air Base in Adana (southern Turkey) is in a similar proximity to Turkey’s border with Syria. Incirlik is currently being used as a command center of NATO-led covert operations against Syria.
____________
Sources:
1) Operasyonel mekanizmada ilk adım
[The first step through the operational mechanism]
Hurriyet, 31 October 2012
http://www.hurriyet
2) Turkish military denies presence of US troops in Diyarbakır
Today’s Zaman, 31 October 2012
http://www.todaysza
[Notes: Excerpts from Hurriyet’s report have been translated and edited by Cem Ertür. Today's Zaman is the English version of the Turkish newspaper Zaman]
____________
From the archives:
“Diyarbakir may become a star, a focal point of the US project for a Greater Middle East. We should make that happen.”
[Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, TV interview on ‘Kanal D’ channel’s 'Teke Tek’ programme, 14 February 2004. This interview was conducted four months before the launch of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative during the 2004 NATO Summit in Istanbul] (*)
(*) Erdogan: Kürtler benim canim cigerim
[Erdogan: The Kurds are my nearest and dearest]
Hurriyet, 18 February 2004
http://hurarsiv.
____________
Propaganda alerts:
"We struck Syria": Turkish press jubilant as Turkey marches to war
By Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 4 October 2012
http://www.indybay.
Top US general: Turkey is facing an immediate threat to its Syrian border
By Cem Ertür, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, 19 September 2012
http://www.indybay.
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Sat Nov 3, 2012 7:54 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Rick Rozoff" rwrozoff
http://english.
Voice of Russia
November 1, 2012
EU,US officials attend to 'unfinished business' in the Balkans
Andrey Fedyashin and Vitaly Radnayev
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During the bombardments of Serbia, NATO resorted to the so-called “method of humanitarian intervention” which received a widespread use in Libya later on. But for Russia’s and China’s veto in the UN Security Council, the US and NATO would be happy to repeat the “Serbian scenario” in Syria.
Neither NATO nor the EU want to recall what this unilateral support cost the Serbs and what ethnic cleansing took place in all former republics of Yugoslavia. 300,000 Serbs were driven out of Croatia, 350,000 out of Kosovo. Thousands of Serbian homes, churches and monasteries were burned.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Catherine Ashton have visited Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo since the beginning of the week and are currently winding up a tour of Montenegro and Macedonia in what a US State Department spokesman has described as an attempt to put the finishing touches to “the unfinished business in the Balkans”.
For Hillary Clinton, this so-called “unfinished business” is akin to “family business”. During the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton, NATO and the EU conducted military operations on the territory of former Yugoslavia. NATO took the side of one of the parties to the civil war in Yugoslavia which broke out in the 1990s. During the bombardments of Serbia, NATO resorted to the so-called “method of humanitarian intervention” which received a widespread use in Libya later on. But for Russia’s and China’s veto in the UN Security Council, the US and NATO would be happy to repeat the “Serbian scenario” in Syria.
The current tour of the Balkans has been triggered by Brussels’ and NATO’s fears over Russia’s progressive cooperation with Serbia, Alexander Karasev of the Institute of Slavic Studies says.
"Serbia’s current leadership and President Tomislav Nikolic in particular, are looking to Russia for further economic and political cooperation. Even though certain circles within the EU are far from happy about it, it’s a reality to be reckoned with".
Belgrade will be coming under more and more pressure as US and EU leaders try to force their own variant of a Kosovo settlement on it. This opinion belongs to Slavonic scholar Yelena Guskova.
"The current influx of US and EU officials into the Balkans means that Serbia is going to come under more pressure. Belgrade is invited to join the EU. Membership in NATO is not on the agenda because about 60% of Serbia’s population is against it".
The most common misjudgment of the bloody time of the 1990s is a belief that NATO planes launched the bombardments of Serbia in 1999, because of Kosovo. Nothing of the sort. NATO began to drop bombs on Serb positions in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995, with the participation of German Air Force planes.
Neither NATO nor the EU want to recall what this unilateral support cost the Serbs and what ethnic cleansing took place in all former republics of Yugoslavia. 300,000 Serbs were driven out of Croatia, 350,000 out of Kosovo. Thousands of Serbian homes, churches and monasteries were burned.
According to US newspaper reports, Mrs.Clinton’s visit to the Balkans will become the last of her tenure as Secretary of State as she will leave the post at the beginning of 2013. Experts don’t rule out that she might run for president in the 2016 elections.
Clinton headed for Algeria and Balkans next week
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Algeria to discuss the Mali crisis and to the Balkan states to express support, the Department of State has released today.
The released statement also says that Clinton will meet Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to discuss in detail the recently adopted UN Security Council resolution authorizing West African States to perform a military intervention to oust Islamist rebels from the north of Mali.
Afterwards the Secretary of State will make her way to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo “to demonstrate the enduring US interest, commitment and support for (the Balkans') future in the European and Euro-Atlantic community.”
The top US diplomat will be joined there by Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief.
In Belgrade and Pristina, Clinton and Ashton will “reiterate US-EU resolve for Serbia and Kosovo to build on previous agreements and advance their dialogue, as well as to encourage concrete steps that will allow those countries to progress on their respective paths to EU membership,” the State Department said.
Clinton will end her tour in Croatia and Albania.
Voice of Russia
November 1, 2012
EU,US officials attend to 'unfinished business' in the Balkans
Andrey Fedyashin and Vitaly Radnayev
====
During the bombardments of Serbia, NATO resorted to the so-called “method of humanitarian intervention” which received a widespread use in Libya later on. But for Russia’s and China’s veto in the UN Security Council, the US and NATO would be happy to repeat the “Serbian scenario” in Syria.
Neither NATO nor the EU want to recall what this unilateral support cost the Serbs and what ethnic cleansing took place in all former republics of Yugoslavia. 300,000 Serbs were driven out of Croatia, 350,000 out of Kosovo. Thousands of Serbian homes, churches and monasteries were burned.
====
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the EU’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Catherine Ashton have visited Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo since the beginning of the week and are currently winding up a tour of Montenegro and Macedonia in what a US State Department spokesman has described as an attempt to put the finishing touches to “the unfinished business in the Balkans”.
For Hillary Clinton, this so-called “unfinished business” is akin to “family business”. During the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton, NATO and the EU conducted military operations on the territory of former Yugoslavia. NATO took the side of one of the parties to the civil war in Yugoslavia which broke out in the 1990s. During the bombardments of Serbia, NATO resorted to the so-called “method of humanitarian intervention” which received a widespread use in Libya later on. But for Russia’s and China’s veto in the UN Security Council, the US and NATO would be happy to repeat the “Serbian scenario” in Syria.
The current tour of the Balkans has been triggered by Brussels’ and NATO’s fears over Russia’s progressive cooperation with Serbia, Alexander Karasev of the Institute of Slavic Studies says.
"Serbia’s current leadership and President Tomislav Nikolic in particular, are looking to Russia for further economic and political cooperation. Even though certain circles within the EU are far from happy about it, it’s a reality to be reckoned with".
Belgrade will be coming under more and more pressure as US and EU leaders try to force their own variant of a Kosovo settlement on it. This opinion belongs to Slavonic scholar Yelena Guskova.
"The current influx of US and EU officials into the Balkans means that Serbia is going to come under more pressure. Belgrade is invited to join the EU. Membership in NATO is not on the agenda because about 60% of Serbia’s population is against it".
The most common misjudgment of the bloody time of the 1990s is a belief that NATO planes launched the bombardments of Serbia in 1999, because of Kosovo. Nothing of the sort. NATO began to drop bombs on Serb positions in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995, with the participation of German Air Force planes.
Neither NATO nor the EU want to recall what this unilateral support cost the Serbs and what ethnic cleansing took place in all former republics of Yugoslavia. 300,000 Serbs were driven out of Croatia, 350,000 out of Kosovo. Thousands of Serbian homes, churches and monasteries were burned.
According to US newspaper reports, Mrs.Clinton’s visit to the Balkans will become the last of her tenure as Secretary of State as she will leave the post at the beginning of 2013. Experts don’t rule out that she might run for president in the 2016 elections.
Clinton headed for Algeria and Balkans next week
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Algeria to discuss the Mali crisis and to the Balkan states to express support, the Department of State has released today.
The released statement also says that Clinton will meet Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to discuss in detail the recently adopted UN Security Council resolution authorizing West African States to perform a military intervention to oust Islamist rebels from the north of Mali.
Afterwards the Secretary of State will make her way to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo “to demonstrate the enduring US interest, commitment and support for (the Balkans') future in the European and Euro-Atlantic community.”
The top US diplomat will be joined there by Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief.
In Belgrade and Pristina, Clinton and Ashton will “reiterate US-EU resolve for Serbia and Kosovo to build on previous agreements and advance their dialogue, as well as to encourage concrete steps that will allow those countries to progress on their respective paths to EU membership,” the State Department said.
Clinton will end her tour in Croatia and Albania.
