1999 NATO war on Serbia

"...it is more than obvious now that the ruthless destruction of Serbia during the 1999 NATO bombing was carried out with one goal and that is to turn the province of Kosovo-Metohija into the first NATO state in the world..."

The bombing campaign, officially against then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ), was conducted by 19 armies of the Alliance's member states. The sustained attacks lasted for 11 weeks, or 78 days. Germany, France, the U.S. and Italy participated with most soldiers. The bombing was supposed to last 7-10 days and result in a surrender of Serbia, according to a pre-war estimate by General Wesley Clark, then the supreme NATO commander. 36,000 sorties were flown dropping 23,000 bombs and missiles.
Official data shows that 1,002 members of then Yugoslav Army and Serbian MUP were killed, along with around 2,500 civilians, including 89 children. 10,000 people were wounded.
Serbia's infrastructure, commercial buildings, schools, healthcare institutions, media outlets and monuments of culture sustained heavy damage during the war. Estimates differ as to the material damage done to Serbia. The government of that time asked for compensation of damages that it said ran into about USD 100bn. But G17 Plus economists believe the number is at USD 30bn.

The attacks began on March 24, 1999, a little after 20:00 CET, after then NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave the order to start the bombing. During the 78 days of this NATO campaign of air strikes, the capital suffered with almost all RTS transmitters destroyed, as was the TV tower on Mt. Avala, the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, the building of the Yugoslav Army General Staff, and, two hours after midnight on April 23, bombs hit the RTS building in central Belgrade, killing 16 employees and inflicting grave injuries on four others. On the fourth day of the war, Serbian AAA downed F117-stealth bomber. NWO techno-wonder wasn't secret any more. After it became evident that there would be no quick surrender of Serbia, NATO started to change its tactics. After 17 NATO aircraft and three rescue helicopters have been destroyed at Tuzla airport, NATO leaders took out their rage on Serb civilians. For three days in a row, NATO aviation targeted Uzice and its vicinity, including the city center. The most important strategic victory for Serbia that the April 18 Tuzla raid represented was that the Bosnian airport was never again used by NATO during the bombing campaign against Serbia. Especially daring were the two Serbian Air Force attacks on NATO aircraft stationed at the Tirana airport in Albania which also took place in April 1999. That's where NATO had positioned a squadron of 12 Apache helicopters that were supposed to provide air support for the "Atlantic Brigade," a ground force that was supposed to attack Serbia from Albania. The Atlantic Brigade consisted of some 6,000 Albanian volunteers from Diaspora, who were trained by American military instructors. Along with the KLA terrorists who operated inside Kosovo, but retreated to Albania, the Atlantic Brigade and the KLA were to occupy take the southern part of Kosovo since the NATO air campaign had not produced the desired results. So altogether, this was a ground force of some 20,000 fighters, including the foreign, mostly American, instructors and special forces. The first air raid in Albania by the Serbian Air Force took place on April 13, when four Serbian warplanes attacked the preparation camp of the Atlantic Brigade near Kamenica in northern Albania. One of the Apaches was destroyed and serious losses inflicted on the Atlantic Brigade troops. This was repeated on May 5, when three Serbian Eagles and two Seagulls attacked the Atlantic Brigade several times within short intervals. But one of the most spectacular actions the Serbian Air Force had undertaken against NATO took place on April 26, when the U.S. Apache air base near Tirana was attacked. In the wake of the two air raids, five Apache helicopters were destroyed. The strategic significance of this attack was that NATO never used the Apache helicopters again for the duration of the war. NATO succeeded in damaging only 13 of the Serbs' 300 battle tanks in Kosovo, despite alliance claims of large-scale destruction of Belgrade's heavy armor. Hundreds of "dummies" managed to fool the NATO dummies into believing they were bombing Serbian tanks and artillery. The Yugoslav Army used well-practiced Russian camouflage techniques which involved placing dummies around the countryside, some of them next to dummy bridges with strips of black plastic sheeting across fields as fake roads to delude NATO bombers into thinking they had a prime target to hit. By all accounts, the bombing was indiscriminate, killing farmers, suburbanites, city dwellers, factory workers, reporters, diplomats, people in cars, busses and trains, hospital patients, the elderly and children.

Aleksinac. Five Nato missiles hit Aleksinac, a small mining community, on April 6. Seventeen civilians, taking shelter in a basement of a house, were all killed. Although there is no military presence in the residential area that was bombed, more than 400 homes were destroyed.

Belgrade. Near midnight on June 1, 14 missiles destroyed a block of houses in a suburb of Belgrade killing 5 and injuring 20.Around 1 a.m. on May 20, Nato cluster bombs hit "Dragisa Misovic" hospital in downtown Belgrade. The neurological ward, the maternity ward, the gynecological ward and the children's ward for lung diseases were destroyed. Nato later admitted that one of the laser guided bombs overshot its target by about 1,500 feet (460 meters). On May 8, Nato airstrikes hit the Chinese Embassy, destroying half of the building. According to the Chinese Government there were about 30 people in the building at the moment of the attack. Four Chinese citizens were killed and at least 20 injured. On Friday, April 23, around 2 a.m., the building of the Serbian National Broadcasting Network was destroyed by Nato air strikes. The building is in the very center of Belgrade, a few hundred feet from a children's theater, St. Marko's Church, the City Childrens Center and the local market. More than 20 civilian employees of the TV station were killed. On April 13, a cluster bomb hit the Veterans Army Hospital in downtown Belgrade, injuring sixteen patients.

On May 5, Nato forces destroyed the Sloboda plant, the largest factory in Cacak. This factory produced domestic appliances and employed 5,000 workers. A residential area near the factory was also destroyed. Two persons were killed, one of them was a 74-year-old woman. Seven were injured.

Cuprija. On June 1, 2 civilians were killed and 9 wounded when Nato bombs destroyed more than 100 houses in the center of this small town.

Djakovica. On April 21 70 civilians died and 20 were injured in a refugee camp near Djakovica, home for more than 500 people evicted from Krajina (Croatia). The houses were completely destroyed. Just four years ago, more than 400,000 civilian Serbs were ethnically cleansed from the Krajina region by the Croatian government of Franjo Tudjman. There were 53 bomb craters at the site.

Grdelica. Nato hit an international train, on regular service from Belgrade to Thessaloniki (Greece), in the vicinity of Leskovac on Monday, April 12. Sixty passengers were killed, including a 10 year-old child. More than 30 passengers were wounded. All casualties were civilians.
Korisa. On the night of May 13, six Nato missiles struck a farm in the rural village of Korisa in Kosovo. In this attack, 87 Kosovo Albanians died.

Throughout May, Nato repeatedly targeted the town of Kraljevo, destroying its school and a hospital clinic. More than 20 civilians have been injured. A message on one of the bomb casings found at Kraljevo read, "Do You Still Want to Be a Serb Now?"

Luzane. May 1, Nato planes attacked a bridge in Luzane (12 miles from Pristina), hitting the bus filled with civilians, mostly old people and children. There were about 70 passengers on the bus. A missile hit the bus directly and split it in two. They attacked again 25 minutes later, when an ambulance vehicle was damaged and one medical doctor was seriously wounded in the head.

On May 7, 1999, 15 people were killed and 70 injured when cluster bombs fell on the town market in Nis.

Novi Sad. Nato attacked an oil refinery in Novi Sad more than 10 times. A thick cloud of benzene-laden smoke hangs over the city and water from the public water supply is no longer drinkable. Several residential areas in the suburbs of Novi Sad were demolished. As of June 1 there are more than 100 seriously wounded civilians in Novi Sad.

Novi PazarOn May 31, six Nato cluster bombs hit a four-storey apartment complex in the center of town killing 23 and injuring 20.

Nato forces have repeadedly hit the power plant in the Pancevo petroleum refinery complex, which supplied electricity and gas. The refinery was attacked on several more occasions. A huge amount of toxic material was spilled into the Danube River, which flows all the way from Germany to the Black Sea.

In the early afternoon hours on April 14, 1999, a convoy of Albanian refugees was bombed four times by Nato planes. The refugees were moving down Prizren-Djakovica road, mostly on foot, or in tractor trailers. At least 75 people were killed, 100 wounded.

Savine Vode. On May 3, , during the Nato attack on Savine Vode a civilian bus on the Djakovica-Podgorica Road was hit. At least 20 persons were killed, 43 were injured (23 suffered serious injuries). There were large numbers of women and children among the victims. Rescue teams and ambulance cars weren't able to help the victims due to the prolonged attack.

Surdulica. On May 30, 20 patients in a sanitarium and retirement home complex where killed when the buildings were destroyed by five Nato missiles.

Varvarin. Nato planes took out a bridge in this central Serbian city, killing 11 people who were crossing in their cars when the missiles hit.

NATO's war against Serbia ended on June 10, when the United Nations adopted the still valid Resolution 1244.

UNHCR data shows that after the arrival of the NATO ground forces in the province, some 230,000 Serbs and Romas fled to central Serbia, escaping ethnic violence against them perpetrated by Kosovo's Albanians.
Numerous incidents that followed against Serbs and other non-Albanians resulted in the kidnapping and murder of some 1,500 people. Albanian sources put this number at 500. Another wave of violence and ethnic cleansing took place on March 17-19, 2004, when 4,000 Serbs were also exiled from their homes.

The "Clinton Doctrine"
"Bomb the civilians and the civilian structures until that country's military can't stand to watch it anymore." (Col. David Hackworth, one of America's most decorated soldiers)

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WHERE DID THE WHITE MAN GO WRONG?

Indian Chief 'Two Eagles' was asked by a white government official, 'You have observed the white man for 90 years. You've seen his wars and his technological advances. You've seen his progress, and the damage he's done.

The Chief nodded in agreement.

The official continued, 'Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?'

The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. 'When white man find land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water.

Women did all the work, Medicine man free.
Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night with there wife

Then the chief leaned back and smiled. 'Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that.

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Iraq: 5 years of occupation

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There is no longer any doubt that the Iraq War is a moral and strategic disaster for the United States. But what has not yet been fully recognized is that it has also been an economic disaster. To date, the government has spent more than $522 billion on the war, with another $70 billion already allocated for 2008. Recognizing these costs of the Iraq War is even more crucial now that the economy is facing recession.

According to the group Just Foreign Policy, more than a million Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion and occupation, now entering its sixth year.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than four million Iraqis are displaced from their homes, with roughly half of them outside of the country.
Baghdad has become the most dangerous city in the world, largely as a result of a U.S. policy of pitting various Iraqi ethnic and sectarian groups against one another. Ethnic and sectarian cleansing strategies, backed by occupation forces, have virtually eliminated all mixed areas of Baghdad.

War crimes: Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicized incidents of U.S. brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by "a few bad apples," as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of "an increasingly bloody occupation."

All this Cheney calls a "successful endeavor."

So why, exactly, did the U.S. invade Iraq five years ago?

The official reasons -- the threat posed to the U.S. and its allies by Saddam Hussein's alleged programs of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have long since been discarded by the lack of evidence that such a threat ever existed. Is the world safer place now without Saddam? There was no Al Quaeda in Iraq before invasion.

The Iraq war is largely about oil. After all, oil is an absolutely indispensable requirement for running modern economies and militaries. And the invasion was a forceful -- indeed, a shock- and awe-some -- demonstration to the rest of the world, especially potential strategic rivals like China, Russia, or even the European Union, of Washington's ability to quickly and effectively conquer and control an oil-rich nation in the heart of the energy-rich Middle East. Indeed, a demonstration of such power could well be the fastest way to formalize a new international order based on the overwhelming military power of the United States. It would be a "unipolar world".

Bush made his comments in a speech at the Pentagon to mark the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion : "Because we acted the world is better and the United States of America is safer."

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New selfproclaimed albanian terrorist state in Europe! Thank you Bill, Thanks Bush :} Now, everybody would want to be like Kosovae!

Kosova: Retarded newborn

who recognized "Kosova"? My guess is that those must have been the states that have no problems with their own secessionist movements. Who are the "Kosovars"? United States are trying to describe them as a new nation. Majority population of Serbian Province of Kosovo & Metohia are Albanians and majority came from Albania and there's nothing new about them. Flags they are waving are albanian flags and they speak... albanian. They also make majority in other neighboring regions like FormerYugoslavRepublic of Macedonia, or parts of Montenegro and Greece... What's stopping them to declare independence too? Because they are majority and they don't want to live with other nations, anyone has a right for a piece of land, based on that argument. Anyone in the World. Ok, lets say bunch of chinese came to your house, they have brought their relatives too and now they outnumber your family 10 to 1. Would you give them your living room or the whole house just because they said so? Why not, they are freaking majority! Why do you support right of Albanians in Serbia for independence or independent Tibet yet you don't recognize that same right of Kurdistan, Palestine, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Republic of Srpska (Serb Republic), Northern Ireland, Scotland, Corsica, Iraq, Afghanistan...?

In his recognition letter to the "President of Kosovo", George W. Bush said "In your request to establish diplomatic relations with the United States, you expressed Kosovo's desire to attain the highest standards of democracy and freedom. I fully welcome this sentiment. In particular, I support your embrace of multi-ethnicity as a principle of good governance and your commitment to developing accountable institutions in which all citizens are equal under the law. " ...Wow, embrace of multi-ethnicity, highest standards of democracy and freedom, maybe in your la-la land in your fucked up head, Mr. President of the Universe! But not in Kosovo. This newborn was concieved in terror and ethnic cleansing. Terrorist were UCK recognized by CIA as a terrorist group and victims of the ethnic cleansing were Serbs who had lived there for centuries. Oh, you've heard something else? How come? I wonder... You watch tv a lot?

Today, those terrorists are politicians... Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty and that's why Kosovo is NOT independent nor it will be in a near future. By destroying International Law and the role of the UN in global peace and stability, there are no rules, there are no borders, there is no peace.

Kosovo Prime Minister: Hashim Thaci

Kosovo syndrome: Tibet is China?

"We will deal harshly with these criminals in accordance with the law," chairman of the Tibetan government, said. "Calm will be restored very soon."
"The plot of the separatists will fail. We will challenge them firmly, according to law."

After Kosovo, others want to breakaway from their occupators. Ten people have been confirmed killed in riots in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Chinese tanks took the streets. The Tibet regional government said there had been enough evidence to prove that the troubles in Lhasa were organised, premeditated and masterminded by the Dalai Lama himself. The Dalai Lama fled into exile in India after a failed uprising in 1959, nine years after the invasion of Chinese troops. Protesters around the world demand independence for Tibet. Pandora's box is opened with Kosovo and now everybody will rise up. If Taipei gets an idea, we'll have WWIII sooner than we thought.

Arnold THE BEAST

Before he was the Terminator he was Mr. Universe, today he is a Governor and tomorrow... King of the World?

Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen in 1983. He was born in Austria but he would like to run for the White House. Schwarzenegger is blocked by Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution. It reads, "No person except a natural born citizen ... shall be eligible to the office of president." The 12th Amendment says the vice president cannot be foreign-born. Could America's infatuation with Schwarzenegger lead to passage of a constitutional amendment that would drop those bans?

Governator is a Republican and strongly supports U.S. force over diplomacy policy. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born in a small village bordering Graz in Austria. His father Gustav was a local police chief who joined the Nazi party and the SA after the 1938 Anschluss. Gustav was a very strict father and he had a preference for Meinhard, the elder of the two sons. Schwarzenegger claimed that he did not attend his father's funeral because he was training for a bodybuilding contest. He never spoke of his brother who died in a car accident in 1971. Arnie began with bodybuilding at the age of 14, won Mr. Europe at age 19 and became Mr. Universe at 21.

"The Mr. Universe title was my ticket to America — the land of opportunity, where I could become a star and get rich." In 1970, Arnold Schwarzenegger was known as the World's Strongest Man. He had long wanted to move from bodybuilding into acting. His first film was Hercules in New york...

When he arrived in United States in 1968, the Nixon-Humphrey presidential campaign was in full swing. He watched presidential race on tv with his german buddy and he was so impressed with Nixon because the other guy sounded like socialism. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican." And I have been a Republican ever since. He was a strong supporter of George W Bush. At a campaign rally attacking Bush's Democratic opponents, he said to the crowd, "They all look like a bunch of girlie men, right?" Bush named him "Conan the Republican".

"I say, if you have the balls, you will go out there and say this to the people. If not, then you're a girlie man."

Dumb & Dumber

Want more Bush? Vote McCain :) Sounds unbelievable but the future president of the World could be even dumber than Bush! He is a chairman of perhaps the most powerful and certainly the busiest committee in Senate, the Commerce Committee. Virtually every big-hitting corporation with business in Washington needs to see Rove & Co., of course, but they also, quite often, need to see the senator. Hailing from a military family -- his father and grandfather were admirals in the Navy -- he is a strong supporter of the invasion and occupation of Iraq and believes the number of U.S. troops there should be beefed up. If he wins the presidency, the country can expect a continuation of Bush's aggressive foreign policy and ultra-right domestic programs. The president needs McCain's support and credibility as a military man; McCain needs the president to champion their shared belief that force — and only force — can teach the terrorists and their blathering U.N. apologists that America will protect itself at all costs. "That's exactly what we need in a President: somebody that can handle the tough decisions; somebody who won't flinch in the face of danger." said Bush "He's a President, and he's going to be the President who will bring determination to defeat an enemy, and a heart big enough to love those who hurt. "

Speaking at Murrells Inlet VFW Hall in South Carolina, McCain was asked when he thought the US Military might "send an air mail message to Tehran. McCain began his answer by changing the words to a popular Beach Boys song 'Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,' he sang to the tune of Barbara Ann. McCain then added, "Iran is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That alone should concern us but now they are trying for nuclear capabilities. I totally support the President when he says we will not allow Iran to destroy Israel."

McCain is America's biggest flip-flopper and often caught in double-speak. He was against the war in Iraq before he was for it "If you get involved in a major ground war in the Saudi desert, I think support will erode significantly. Nor should it be supported. We cannot even contemplate, in my view, trading American blood for Iraqi blood." {McCain, New York Times Aug 19, 1990}