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almarst-2001 - 10:54pm Jul 27, 2001 EST (#7527 of 7543)

"As much as their text ["peace plan"] is brutal, more brutal and worrying is the fashion in which they are trying to break up Macedonian state institutions,' … All of the terrorist actions in Macedonia have been supported by the Western democracies… all threats and blackmails have been presented so far, except that NATO will conduct an air-strike on us." (Macedonian Prime Minister Mr. Ljubco Georgievski)

WASHINGTON BEHIND TERRORIST ASSAULTS IN MACEDONIA

by Michel Chossudovsky - http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/behind.htm

ENDNOTES

1. Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg, 27 June 2001, English translation by OK-Macedonia, Skopje, 28 June 2001, http://www.ok.mk/news/story.asp?id=1631 and http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/advise.htm

2. Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2001.

3. Report from informed source in Skopje, 3 July 2001.

4. Christian Science Monitor, op. cit.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. AFP. Paris, 4 July 2001.

8. Statement of Ljubica Acevska, Macedonia's first ambassador to the United States, UPI, 5 July 2001.

9. See Col. David Hackworth, Wanted Guns for Hire, Toogood Reports, July 10, 2001, at http://toogoodreports.com/column/general/hackworth/071001.htm.

10. See The Record, Bergen County New Jersey, 25 March 2001, and the New York Times, 17 July 2001.

11. Washington Times, 14 December 1997 and US Congress, Press Release, "Militant Islamic Base", Congressional Press Releases, 16 January 1997.

12. Scotland on Sunday, Glasgow, 15 June 2001, http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/text_only.cfm?id=SS01025960 , see also UPI, 9 July 2001.

13. New York Times, 19 March 2001. In March 2001, the New York-based Albanian-language newspaper Bota Sot printed an advertisement by the National Liberation Army (NLA) "calling Albanians [in the US] to register as volunteers and to donate money." See The Guardian, London, 20 March 2001.

14. The Guardian, 20 March 2001, available at http://gu.com/Kosovo/Story/0,2763,459596,00.html . See also ITAR Tass, Moscow, 20 March 2001.

15. According to the editor of Bota Sot, Dervish Jahjaga interviewed by The Guardian, London, 20 March 2001.

16. For further details see Sunday Times, London, 10 June 2001 at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/10/stifgneeu01001.html . See also Jared Israel, 'Sorry Virginia, but they are NATO troops, not Rebels,' Emperors Clothes, June 2001 at http://emperors-clothes.com/mac/times2.htm.

17. Irish Times, Dublin, 5 July 2001.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid.

20. See Michel Chossudovsky, The United Nations Appoints an Alleged War Criminal in Kosovo, March 2000, at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/unandthe.htm.

21. Quoted in John Sweeney and Jen Holsoe, "Kosovo Disaster Response Service Stands Accused of Murder and Torture," The Observer, London, 12 March 2000.

22. Ibid

23. Macedonian Information Centre Newsletter, Skopje, 21 March 2000, published by BBC Summary of World Broadcast, 24 March 2000.

24. BBC, 29 January 2001, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1142000/1142478.stm

25. UPI, 8 July 2001.

26. See Michel Chossudovsky, Macedonia: Washington Military Intelligence Ploy, June 2001, at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm . See also MPRI Republic of Macedonia, Stability and Deterrence Program (1998-Present) at http://www.mpri.com/subchannels/int_europe.html .

27. See Michel Chossudovsky, Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the Balkans, April 2001, http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/fin.htm and Michel Chossudovsky, Macedonia: Washington's Military-Intelligence Ploy, June 2001 at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/choss/ploy.htm

28. See ICG's report on Macedonia at http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/projects/showreport.cfm?reportid=318 . Both HRW and ICG are funded by Wall Street financier George Soros.

29. See the OSI Ma

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