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Wesley Clark’s Ties To Muslim Terrorists and the U.S. Congress failed to authorize the war after it began, as required under the War Powers Act

 Wesley Clark’s Ties To Muslim Terrorists
By Cliff Kincaid
September 17, 2003

The retired General who had been refusing to declare himself a Democrat or Republican is now declaring himself a Democratic presidential candidate. But more important than his party affiliation is Wesley Clark’s bizarre view on how to fight terrorism. The media refer to Clark’s impressive military credentials but they fail to note that his main accomplishment under President Clinton was presiding over the establishment of a base for radical Islamic terrorism, including Osama bin Laden, in Kosovo.Clark, who has been making headlines by claiming that the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq was a misjudgment based on scanty evidence, ran Clinton’s NATO war against Yugoslavia on behalf of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The House of Representatives failed to authorize the war under the War Powers Act, making it illegal. Thousands of innocent people in Serbia, Yugoslavia’s main province, were killed to stop an alleged “genocide” by Yugoslavia that was not in fact taking place. Investigations determined that a couple thousand had died in the civil war there.

Kosovo was a province of Yugoslavia and the military intervention of the U.S. and NATO, a defensive alliance, was unprecedented. It was far more controversial than the policy of regime change in Iraq, which was a policy of Clinton, Bush and the Congress. Kosovo was never a threat to the U.S., and Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic didn’t even pretend to have weapons of mass destruction.

Clark wrote a Time magazine column, “How to Fight the New War,” in which he said we need new tactics and strategies against terrorists. He also said, “We need face-to-face information collection: Who are these people, what are their intentions, and what can be done to disrupt their plans and arrest them?”

For the answer, Clark should ask his old friend, Hashim Thaki, the commander of the KLA. The 1998 State Department human rights report had described the KLA as a group that tortured and abducted people and made others “disappear.” Yet a photograph was taken of Clark and Thaki with their hands together in a gesture of solidarity.

The KLA’s ties to Osama bin Laden were also well-known and reported.

An article in the Jerusalem Post at the time of the Kosovo civil war had said, “Diplomats in the region say Bosnia was the first bastion of Islamic power. The autonomous Yugoslav region of Kosovo promises to be the second. During the current rebellion against the Yugoslav army, the ethnic Albanians in the province, most of whom are Moslem, have been provided with financial and military support from Islamic countries. They are being bolstered by hundreds of Iranian fighters, or Mujahadeen, who infiltrate from nearby Albania and call themselves the Kosovo Liberation Army. U.S. defense officials say the support includes that of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist accused of masterminding the bombings of the U.S. embassies” in Africa.

Another Democratic presidential candidate, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, has tried to prohibit funding for the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), the successor to the KLA now being protected by U.N. troops as a result of the outcome of the conflict. Kucinich said an internal United Nations Report found the KPC responsible for violence, extortion, murder and torture.

After the war, Milosevic was ousted and put on trial, where he has been making the case in his own defense that Serb troops in Kosovo were fighting Muslim terrorists associated with bin Laden. At a hearing before the U.N. court trying him, he brandished an FBI document concerning al Qaeda-backed Muslim fighters in Kosovo.

The FBI document was a congressional statement by J. T. Caruso, the Acting Assistant Director of the CounterTerrorism Division of the FBI, who cited a terrorism problem in Albania, the base for the Muslim terrorists that attacked Serbia forces in Kosovo.

Clark’s presidential decision suggests that he believes the media will not ask him about supporting the same extremist Muslim forces in Kosovo that militarily attacked us on 9/11. He’s right: during interviews on ABC’s Good Morning America and the NBC Today show on September 17, the subject didn’t come up. Clark did say that he would not have gone to war with Iraq, and that he would have turned the matter over to the U.N. There was no “imminent threat” from Iraq, he claimed.

So where was the “imminent threat” to the U.S. from Yugoslavia? And why did the Clinton administration bypass the U.N. on that illegal war? Clark is counting on not hearing those questions from the same media going after Bush on Iraq. They are all worse than hypocrites.

Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at aimeditor@yahoo.com.

http://www.aim.org/publications/weekly_column/2003/09/17.html

The World Terrorist and Gangster Meeting

more infos from AIM 

A Lesson From Kosovo

Media Monitor  |  By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid  |  April 23, 1999

What few Americans realize is that the Kosovo Albanians, on whose behalf we are fighting a very costly war, were trying to drive out the Serbs from Kosovo during most of 1998.

David Binder, a veteran European correspondent of the New York Times was on C-SPAN recently talking about Kosovo and making a lot of sense. A frequent visitor to the Balkans for 35 years, he counts among his good friends both Serbs and Albanians. He said the problem of Kosovo would not be solved by taking one side, as we did in Bosnia when we sided with the Muslims. He said the ancient rivalries of the Croats, Bosnian Muslims and Serbs had not been resolved by the Dayton agreement.

Binder discussed the background of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), saying that it had begun in the early ‘90’s with Marxist-Leninist roots and had received strong support from drug traffickers according to law enforcement agencies in Europe. He said that about a year ago they began attacking Serb police and military, drawing a very sharp response from the Serbians. He asserted that the KLA has killed not only Serbs, but also what they call “Albanian collaborationists,” including women and children. He said the Clinton administration has “swallowed their own propaganda” and that the public is getting only one side of the story.

Binder also criticized the wide use of the word “genocide” to describe what is taking place in Kosovo. He said, “ I’m very wary of terms like genocide and massacre until I see absolutely overwhelming evidence of the one or the other.” We have said in previous commentaries that the number of people killed in Kosovo last year by the Serb security forces and the KLA combined was about 2,000 according to the State Department. The number killed this year in the weeks leading up to the bombing was 45. That is a far cry from genocide, which is killing intended to wipe out an entire people.

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 http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/a-lesson-from-kosovo/

The president has to withdraw those troops after 60 days if he doesn’t get the approval of Congress. The House rejected a bill, in a tie vote, to authorize the bombing of Serbia. Yet Clinton continued it. This bombing was conducted to support the Kosovo Liberation Army, a group linked to Osama bin Laden. All of Clinton’s military actions in the Balkans were designed to help the Muslims-first in Bosnia and then in Kosovo-and punish the Christian Serbs. The radical Muslims showed their gratitude with 9/11. IN A LETTER TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES, LOCAL ACTIVIST AND AIM SUPPORTER STELLA Jatras explained in detail the illegitimate nature of the U.S. attack on Serbia, how it was different than Iraq, and how our “allies” supported that military intervention. She said, “It is important to note that the Serbs did not have weapons of mass destruction.

 Aim-Report

Curiously, the media did not find a “credibility gap” when President Bill Clinton in 1999 waged a unilateral war in Kosovo under false pretenses and without the backing of the United Nations…………

Not only did the U.N. not back the intervention, the U.S. Congress failed to authorize the war after it began, as required under the War Powers Act. This made continuation of the war illegal under U.S. law.

If journalists had any integrity, they would also point out that the war was waged against a Christian country, Serbia, for the benefit of the Islamic terrorists that hit us on 9/11 and are attacking our troops in Iraq now.

Isabel Vincent of Canada’s National Post is one of the few journalists to report the brutal truth. “Four years after it was ‘liberated’ by a NATO bombing campaign,” she recently reported, “Kosovo has deteriorated into a hotbed of organized crime, anti-Serb violence and al Qaeda sympathizers, say security officials and Balkan experts.”

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“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.” -John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Press Release

The Centre for Peace in the Balkans

TORONTO, September 01, 2002 - The Centre for Peace in the Balkans responded to recent media information suggesting that a sister-city relationship may be considered between New York City and Srebrenica.

9-11: If only we could turn back the clock

“There were 9,000 soldiers killed in Srebrenica in the eyes of the U.N. soldiers, who were supposed to protect them. But they didn’t do shit. It’s like watching those airplanes bang into the World Trade Center and not trying to save those people.” - Danis Tanovic, Academy Award winner, Directors World, March 25, 2002 .

Very influential circles in Bosnia and Herzegovina have recently initiated a plan to make Srebrenica the sister town of New York City in order to establish a symbolic link based on their perception of tragedy in face of terror. However, their suggested similarities are unfounded. Their plans are opportunistic attempts to propagate false information. Consider the following:

* Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the convicted mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) was connected to the TWRA, a phony relief agency. Alija Izetbegovic, the President of Bosnia, provided a guarantee for Elfatih Hassanein (head of the TWRA and a personal friend of Izetbegovic) to open an account for the TWRA in Die Erste Österreich Bank in Vienna, Austria in 1993.

* Mohammed Haydar Zammar, the man who recruited key 9-11 hijacker, Mohammad Atta, to the Al-Qaeda network, based his terrorist activities in Bosnia . Zammar also brought two of Atta’s lieutenants into the Al-Qaeda network, namely Ramzi Binalshibh and Said Bahaji.

* Osama Bin Laden was given a Bosnian passport at the Bosnian Embassy in Vienna, Austria . Many other terrorists connected to the Al-Qaeda network also received blank Bosnian passports that enabled them to further propagate their illicit activities.

* Abu el Maali (Abdelkader Mokhtari), a senior representative of Al-Qaida, was based in Bosnia until recently. Just a few years ago, a US official called him a junior Osama Bin Laden.

* Bensayah Belkacem was arrested in October 2001 in Bosnia . Numbers stored in his mobile phone link him to at least one of Bin Laden’s top lieutenants.

The involvement of Al-Quaeda in radical Islamic activities and events in Bosnia is however, frequently mentioned in the media and US government reports. Unfortunately, it is also frequently overlooked.

New Yorkers and other victims of Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist attack were civilians and were not connected to a terrorist network in any way.

Proclaiming New York City and Srebrenica sister towns misrepresents the basis for forging such an important and symbolic relationship. Implying that the terror suffered by 9-11 victims in New York is similar to civil war suffering in Srebrenica is factually wrong. As such, a sister-city relationship between New York City and Srebrenica should not be established since it would be an insult to the memory of 9-11 victims.

For more information or to arrange an interview with a spokesperson, please contact the Centre for Peace in the Balkans at e-mail: scontact@balkanpeace.org. Website: www.balkanpeace.org.

RELATED INFORMATION

[1] Al-Qaida On the Run , Voice of America News Report, June 22 02:

[2] A Bosnian Village’s Terrorist Ties; Links to U.S. Bomb Plot Arouse Concern About Enclave of Islamic Guerrillas, The Washington Post March 11, 2000:

[3] A U.S. Prisoner From Bosnia Is Labeled a Top Qaeda Aide The New York Times, January 23, 2002:

[4] Yossef Bodansky, Director, U.S. Congress’ Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare

[5] US Senate Document

[6] Balkan Wars and terrorist ties

[7] LA Times:Los Angeles Times, October 07, 2001 Terrorists Use Bosnia as Base and Sanctuary

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