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September 9, 2005

Report Warns of Terrorists' 'Great Ramadan Offensive'

Report Warns of Terrorists' 'Great Ramadan Offensive'
By Sherrie Gossett
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
September 08, 2005

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200509\SPE20050908a.html

(CNSNews.com) - Al Qaeda's plans for a series of spectacular terrorist strikes in October, targeting American interests as well as U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East and said to be coordinated by Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant in Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- are the subject of a non-public report issued by terrorism experts this week.

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Report Warns of Terrorists' 'Great Ramadan Offensive'

Report Warns of Terrorists' 'Great Ramadan Offensive'
By Sherrie Gossett
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
September 08, 2005

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200509\SPE20050908a.html

(CNSNews.com) - Al Qaeda's plans for a series of spectacular terrorist strikes in October, targeting American interests as well as U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East and said to be coordinated by Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant in Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- are the subject of a non-public report issued by terrorism experts this week.

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September 28, 2005

Evil Seed: Bush and Kerry are Related to Dracula (Vlad the Impaler)

Infowars.com
October 25, 2004

They're both members of the Skull and Bones (click here) and, as shown in their family tree (click here), they're cousins. Now Ancestry.com reveals that Bush and Kerry are not only related to Prince Charles, but to their common ancestor, Vlad the Impaler, the real Count Dracula (click here).

http://www.infowars.com/print/Secret_societies/vladtree.htm

Ancestry.com

All family trees take surprising twists and turns. But for sheer irony, nothing can match the paradox linking Dracula to Bush and Kerry. As illustrated above, the common link is the Royal House of Windsor – an ancient line that descends from princes and spawned generations of American elite.
related_bush_kerry.jpg

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Evil Seed: Bush and Kerry are Related to Dracula (Vlad the Impaler)

Infowars.com
October 25, 2004

They're both members of the Skull and Bones (click here) and, as shown in their family tree (click here), they're cousins. Now Ancestry.com reveals that Bush and Kerry are not only related to Prince Charles, but to their common ancestor, Vlad the Impaler, the real Count Dracula (click here).

http://www.infowars.com/print/Secret_societies/vladtree.htm

Ancestry.com

All family trees take surprising twists and turns. But for sheer irony, nothing can match the paradox linking Dracula to Bush and Kerry. As illustrated above, the common link is the Royal House of Windsor – an ancient line that descends from princes and spawned generations of American elite.
related_bush_kerry.jpg

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October 15, 2005

IMMIGRANTS CENTURIES BEHIND

IMMIGRANTS CENTURIES BEHIND
"Norway’s ruling elite, bamboozled by multiculturalism’s farcical insanity and their own isolation from the reality of its growing consequences—imports Third World immigrants from Africa, minorities from Kosovo and other war torn countries. Their leaders refuse examination of skyrocketing rapes, murders, female genital mutilation and drug gangs in Bergen, Tronheim and Oslo. Once they dump the immigrants, now exceeding 400,000 on their hapless four million Norwegian citizens—they scoff at anyone bringing valid complaints. The immigrants ride welfare like a new art form. They bring zero work skills, education and even less academic ability. "

Source:

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IMMIGRANTS CENTURIES BEHIND

IMMIGRANTS CENTURIES BEHIND
"Norway’s ruling elite, bamboozled by multiculturalism’s farcical insanity and their own isolation from the reality of its growing consequences—imports Third World immigrants from Africa, minorities from Kosovo and other war torn countries. Their leaders refuse examination of skyrocketing rapes, murders, female genital mutilation and drug gangs in Bergen, Tronheim and Oslo. Once they dump the immigrants, now exceeding 400,000 on their hapless four million Norwegian citizens—they scoff at anyone bringing valid complaints. The immigrants ride welfare like a new art form. They bring zero work skills, education and even less academic ability. "

Source:

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October 28, 2005

Iran: "Israel should be 'wiped off the map."

Israel calls for Iran's removal from U.N. following Iranian president's statement regarding the destruction of Israel; accuses Iran of advocating genocide. from: Ynetnews.com Worldwide condemnations of Iran ensue
by Ronny Sofer

Danny Gillerman, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N., demanded that the U.N. remove Iran from the organization, following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declaration Wednesday that Israel should be 'wiped off the map."

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Iran: "Israel should be 'wiped off the map."

Israel calls for Iran's removal from U.N. following Iranian president's statement regarding the destruction of Israel; accuses Iran of advocating genocide. from: Ynetnews.com Worldwide condemnations of Iran ensue
by Ronny Sofer

Danny Gillerman, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N., demanded that the U.N. remove Iran from the organization, following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declaration Wednesday that Israel should be 'wiped off the map."

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November 3, 2005

Liberal Diversity & Tolerance rewards Paris with destruction.

France the most heavily Muslim populated country in Western Europe continues to show open arms in the name of diversity. When will they learn that diversity is perversity and their authoritatiaon reactionary response will not end this after many years of appeasement and sweeping smaller problems under the rug. They still try to push their failed liberal agenda even in the face of the problem of unchecked assimilation of their immigrant population. Call it what you will but its a preview of what could happen here if we don't get more selective on who we let in, the quantity, and lay out clear expectations on becoming American citizens.

The violence, which has engulfed a dozen towns around the capital in the past week, was triggered after teenagers Bouna Traore, aged 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, were accidentally electrocuted at an electricity sub-station in Clichy-sous-Bois.

Paris-Area Riots Spread to 20 Towns
By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 3, 4:39 PM ET
AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France - A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state.
(AP Photo: Jean-Louis Cosson)
(The BBC)(The BBC)(drudgereport.com)
(MichaelSavage.com)

Police deployed for a feared eighth night of clashes, after bands of youths lobbing stones and petrol bombs ignored President Jacques Chirac's appeal for calm a day earlier. Highlighting the frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants.

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Liberal Diversity & Tolerance rewards Paris with destruction.

France the most heavily Muslim populated country in Western Europe continues to show open arms in the name of diversity. When will they learn that diversity is perversity and their authoritatiaon reactionary response will not end this after many years of appeasement and sweeping smaller problems under the rug. They still try to push their failed liberal agenda even in the face of the problem of unchecked assimilation of their immigrant population. Call it what you will but its a preview of what could happen here if we don't get more selective on who we let in, the quantity, and lay out clear expectations on becoming American citizens.

The violence, which has engulfed a dozen towns around the capital in the past week, was triggered after teenagers Bouna Traore, aged 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, were accidentally electrocuted at an electricity sub-station in Clichy-sous-Bois.

Paris-Area Riots Spread to 20 Towns
By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 3, 4:39 PM ET
AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France - A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state.
(AP Photo: Jean-Louis Cosson)
(The BBC)(The BBC)(drudgereport.com)
(MichaelSavage.com)

Police deployed for a feared eighth night of clashes, after bands of youths lobbing stones and petrol bombs ignored President Jacques Chirac's appeal for calm a day earlier. Highlighting the frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants.

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November 7, 2005

Paris Burning: How Empires End

by Patrick J. Buchanan: Immigration & Foreign Affairs
Posted Nov 7, 2005
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10116

(Photo: AFP)(us.news)

The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered Rome.

So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the history of the empires of the West.

This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid, the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who were once the colonial subjects of the European empires.

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Paris Burning: How Empires End

by Patrick J. Buchanan: Immigration & Foreign Affairs
Posted Nov 7, 2005
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10116

(Photo: AFP)(us.news)

The Romans conquered the barbarians—and the barbarians conquered Rome.

So it goes with empires. And comes now the penultimate chapter in the history of the empires of the West.

This is the larger meaning of the ritual murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland, the subway bombings in London, the train bombings in Madrid, the Paris riots spreading across France. The perpetrators of these crimes in the capitals of Europe are the children of immigrants who were once the colonial subjects of the European empires.

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November 9, 2005

French solution: Paristinian state, partition France

Paristine
Posted: November 8, 2005,1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
OK, enough is enough.

It's clear France is no longer in control of its population.

It's clear millions within its borders are struggling for freedom and independence.

It's clear that these people are not rioting for the sake of rioting, they are responding to oppression from French authorities.

It's clear that their uprising cannot be met with state violence, because that would only lead to a cycle of violence.

It's clear that these freedom-fighters – whom I have dubbed "Paristinians" – want a state of their own.

It's clear that the international community must force France to the negotiating table with these freedom fighters to begin the peace process that will inevitably lead to the creation of an autonomous, independent state of "Paristine."

Albert Mohler writes in Nov 9th column: France’s Flawed Experiment with Secularism

The world has watched as France has been thrown into a state of emergency, with riots, street fighting and arson enveloping entire neighborhoods of Paris—and now the riots are spreading to other European nations. While they have declared a state of emergency, French authorities still deny the extent of the disorder.

writer Mark Steyn writes, Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands.

Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule. As Thursday's edition of the Guardian reported in London: ''French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.''

''French youths,'' huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn't take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as ''French'': They're young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you're likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ''Arab street,'' but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois.

read more on the Paristinian state below...

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French solution: Paristinian state, partition France

Paristine
Posted: November 8, 2005,1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
OK, enough is enough.

It's clear France is no longer in control of its population.

It's clear millions within its borders are struggling for freedom and independence.

It's clear that these people are not rioting for the sake of rioting, they are responding to oppression from French authorities.

It's clear that their uprising cannot be met with state violence, because that would only lead to a cycle of violence.

It's clear that these freedom-fighters – whom I have dubbed "Paristinians" – want a state of their own.

It's clear that the international community must force France to the negotiating table with these freedom fighters to begin the peace process that will inevitably lead to the creation of an autonomous, independent state of "Paristine."

Albert Mohler writes in Nov 9th column: France’s Flawed Experiment with Secularism

The world has watched as France has been thrown into a state of emergency, with riots, street fighting and arson enveloping entire neighborhoods of Paris—and now the riots are spreading to other European nations. While they have declared a state of emergency, French authorities still deny the extent of the disorder.

writer Mark Steyn writes, Wake up, Europe, you've a war on your hands.

Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule. As Thursday's edition of the Guardian reported in London: ''French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.''

''French youths,'' huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn't take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as ''French'': They're young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you're likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ''Arab street,'' but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois.

read more on the Paristinian state below...

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November 16, 2005

Rice Shafts Israel; Rice Secures Rafah Package Stripped of Adequate Counter-Terror Safeguards

source(debka.com) The White House ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to stay over in Jerusalem until the deal for...
DEBKAfile Special Analysis

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Rice Shafts Israel; Rice Secures Rafah Package Stripped of Adequate Counter-Terror Safeguards

source(debka.com) The White House ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to stay over in Jerusalem until the deal for...
DEBKAfile Special Analysis

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December 11, 2005

Race Riots in Australia: thousands of Australians, Arabs attacking each other...

SYDNEY, Australia
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer
Dec 11 10:43 PM US/Eastern- Thousands of drunken white youths attacked police and people they believed were Arab immigrants at a Sydney beach on Sunday, angered by reports that youths of Lebanese descent had assaulted two lifeguards. Young men of Arab descent retaliated in several Sydney suburbs, fighting with police and smashing 40 cars with sticks and bats, police said.

Thirty-one people were injured and 28 were arrested in hours of violence. Police said they were seeking an Arab man who allegedly stabbed a white man in the back.

Some 5,000 white youths, wrapped in Australian flags and chanting racist slurs, fought with police, attacked people of Arab appearance and assaulted a pair of paramedics at Cronulla beach in southern Sydney, police said. Police fought back with batons and pepper spray.

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Race Riots in Australia: thousands of Australians, Arabs attacking each other...

SYDNEY, Australia
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer
Dec 11 10:43 PM US/Eastern- Thousands of drunken white youths attacked police and people they believed were Arab immigrants at a Sydney beach on Sunday, angered by reports that youths of Lebanese descent had assaulted two lifeguards. Young men of Arab descent retaliated in several Sydney suburbs, fighting with police and smashing 40 cars with sticks and bats, police said.

Thirty-one people were injured and 28 were arrested in hours of violence. Police said they were seeking an Arab man who allegedly stabbed a white man in the back.

Some 5,000 white youths, wrapped in Australian flags and chanting racist slurs, fought with police, attacked people of Arab appearance and assaulted a pair of paramedics at Cronulla beach in southern Sydney, police said. Police fought back with batons and pepper spray.

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January 8, 2006

Sudanese Asylum Seekers Killed after peaceful protest at U.N. building,

- image sudan.net The protestors were demanding that the UN refugee agency review cases of asylum-seekers whose applications it has rejected, and resume resettling refugees in third countries, mainly the United States, Canada and Australia.
from CWNews.com – At least 27 southern Sudanese asylum-seekers have been killed in Cairo, Egypt. see it here click to see it in real player format now
Police attacked a group of 3,500 protesters outside U.N. offices in Cairo, on December 30th. Many of the victims are Christians who fled persecution by Sudan's Islamic government during the 20-year civil war.
Frustrated by the U.N.’s refusal to grant them Refugee Status they began a peaceful protest in September.

- from the Sudan Tribune - The Sudan Human Rights Organization Cairo Office is shocked by the news that the Egyptian security forces used extreme violence to dismantle a peaceful sit-in of Sudanese refugees in Cairo the result of which ten refugees at least were killed and others injured.
The Organization holds the UN Office responsible for the occurrence of these regrettable events since the Office neglected the problems of the refugees and has indirectly called on the Egyptian authorities to deal with the refugees.
The latest official statement by the UN Office indicated the failures of the Office to negotiate with the refugees before occurrence of the launched attack today. That Office statement had clearly transferred the refugees’ problem “unto the hands of Egyptian authorities.”

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Sudanese Asylum Seekers Killed after peaceful protest at U.N. building,

- image sudan.net The protestors were demanding that the UN refugee agency review cases of asylum-seekers whose applications it has rejected, and resume resettling refugees in third countries, mainly the United States, Canada and Australia.
from CWNews.com – At least 27 southern Sudanese asylum-seekers have been killed in Cairo, Egypt. see it here click to see it in real player format now
Police attacked a group of 3,500 protesters outside U.N. offices in Cairo, on December 30th. Many of the victims are Christians who fled persecution by Sudan's Islamic government during the 20-year civil war.
Frustrated by the U.N.’s refusal to grant them Refugee Status they began a peaceful protest in September.

- from the Sudan Tribune - The Sudan Human Rights Organization Cairo Office is shocked by the news that the Egyptian security forces used extreme violence to dismantle a peaceful sit-in of Sudanese refugees in Cairo the result of which ten refugees at least were killed and others injured.
The Organization holds the UN Office responsible for the occurrence of these regrettable events since the Office neglected the problems of the refugees and has indirectly called on the Egyptian authorities to deal with the refugees.
The latest official statement by the UN Office indicated the failures of the Office to negotiate with the refugees before occurrence of the launched attack today. That Office statement had clearly transferred the refugees’ problem “unto the hands of Egyptian authorities.”

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Selective abortion: 10 million KILLED girls 'missing' in India

Selective abortion - AFP 2005, 10 million girls 'missing' in India
Jan 08 7:30 PM US/Eastern
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Around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades because of ultrasound sex screening and a traditional preference for boys, according to a study published online in The Lancet.

Researchers based in Canada and India looked through data from a national survey, conducted among 1.1 million households in 1998, and at information about 133,738 births that took place in 1997.

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Selective abortion: 10 million KILLED girls 'missing' in India

Selective abortion - AFP 2005, 10 million girls 'missing' in India
Jan 08 7:30 PM US/Eastern
Email this story
Around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades because of ultrasound sex screening and a traditional preference for boys, according to a study published online in The Lancet.

Researchers based in Canada and India looked through data from a national survey, conducted among 1.1 million households in 1998, and at information about 133,738 births that took place in 1997.

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January 28, 2006

UN may (WILL) use 'flu-casters' if pandemic hits

The coming of the new world I predict is here. This will be used to wipe out the people and help whittle us down to the "favored 500 million" number and the UN will appoint the new order with regions instead of countries I predict.

According to the Globe and Mail, in the coming decade, more than 500 million people can escape from poverty and tens of millions can avoid certain death if rich countries keep their promises to vastly increase development aid to the world's poorest countries, a UN-sponsored report said Monday

This UN Sponsored report stating poverty could end by 2025 was also stated at boston.com
Candian CBC News
ABC News
San Francisco Gate

and many many others see the search here.

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The United Nations is considering using "flu-casters," modeled on television weather forecasters, to publicize vital information if a global flu pandemic strikes.

They could broadcast latest developments from emergency-response facilities at the U.N.'s World Health Organization in Geneva, according to David Nabarro, the U.N.'s top influenza coordinator.

"The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker," Nabarro told Reuters in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The WHO's Geneva bunker, a $5 million facility built in a former cinema, is the world's nerve-center for tracking bird flu and other deadly diseases.

The room will become a global command center if the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed at least 83 people in Asia since 2003, mutates into a form which spreads easily among humans and sparks a flu pandemic which could kill millions.

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UN may (WILL) use 'flu-casters' if pandemic hits

The coming of the new world I predict is here. This will be used to wipe out the people and help whittle us down to the "favored 500 million" number and the UN will appoint the new order with regions instead of countries I predict.

According to the Globe and Mail, in the coming decade, more than 500 million people can escape from poverty and tens of millions can avoid certain death if rich countries keep their promises to vastly increase development aid to the world's poorest countries, a UN-sponsored report said Monday

This UN Sponsored report stating poverty could end by 2025 was also stated at boston.com
Candian CBC News
ABC News
San Francisco Gate

and many many others see the search here.

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - The United Nations is considering using "flu-casters," modeled on television weather forecasters, to publicize vital information if a global flu pandemic strikes.

They could broadcast latest developments from emergency-response facilities at the U.N.'s World Health Organization in Geneva, according to David Nabarro, the U.N.'s top influenza coordinator.

"The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker," Nabarro told Reuters in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The WHO's Geneva bunker, a $5 million facility built in a former cinema, is the world's nerve-center for tracking bird flu and other deadly diseases.

The room will become a global command center if the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed at least 83 people in Asia since 2003, mutates into a form which spreads easily among humans and sparks a flu pandemic which could kill millions.

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March 3, 2006

The Balkan war's high cost

The Balkan War's high cost Author: Marvin Zonis: Publisher/Date: Boston Globe (US), July 23, 1999
Original location: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/204/oped/The_Balkan_war_s_high_costP.shtml

The war against Serbia was a success from the point of view of US military technology and NATO unity. But the military victory will prove to be a catastrophe for Serbia, Kosovo, and the Balkans as a whole. The final bill for the NATO victory in Kosovo will be staggering, and it is unlikely that the winners will be willing to add to their burden by paying the price necessary to reconstruct Kosovo and Yugoslavia.

Given that aid for reconstruction is not likely to be forthcoming in any great amount, the destruction, the refugees, and the unleashed passions all point to more political instability.

The European Union estimates that the cost of rebuilding Kosovo alone will reach $4 billion. (That does not cover the costs of humanitarian aid or macroeconomic assistance.) The cost of rebuilding Serbia and Montenegro is in the $20 billion range. It appears highly unlikely that NATO will be willing to foot the bill, not when NATO’s 50,000 troops in Kosovo could cost as much as $25 billion a year. Some funds will come from the United States and Europe and international lending agencies, but not nearly enough to restore the damaged economies. Instability will come to haunt the continent.

The United States and Europe have made clear that no aid to reconstruct Serbia will be forthcoming as long as Milosevic remains in power. Almost everyone wants him out. But NATO has discovered that the bombing did far less damage to Serb forces in Kosovo than first estimated. Milosevic withdrew 47,000 troops with virtually all their equipment intact. The Yugoslavs were masters of deception, and NATO probably destroyed more decoys than tanks. Those well-armed troops are now available to protect the Milosevic regime and suppress separatism in Montenegro.

So, no aid to reconstruct Yugoslavia until Milosevic is out. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia’s economy will continue to wither. Worse, the economies of Romania and Bulgaria are suffering as well. NATO attacks destroyed all the bridges across the Danube and interrupted shipping.

In addition, more than 50 road and rail bridges were destroyed, making it virtually impossible to conduct cross-country trucking to and from Romania and Bulgaria. Their economies will decline by 5 percent this year, and their balance-of-payments deficit will balloon to $2 billion.

Were Milosevic to go, the successor regime would not likely be a great improvement. The Serbian Orthodox Church has declared Milosevic unfit to rule Serbia. Patriarch Pavle justified his declaration because, he said, he had seen ‘'evil'’ in Kosovo. But Bishop Atanasije, who often speaks for Patriarch Pavle, said in an interview: ‘'We blame Milosevic not for trying to defend the nation but for failing.'’ Virtually all of Milosevic’s so-called democratic opponents believe that Serbia is entitled to Kosovo and that Serbia’s mission is to protect the interests of Serbs no matter where they are, even if it means national suicide.

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The Balkan war's high cost

The Balkan War's high cost Author: Marvin Zonis: Publisher/Date: Boston Globe (US), July 23, 1999
Original location: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/204/oped/The_Balkan_war_s_high_costP.shtml

The war against Serbia was a success from the point of view of US military technology and NATO unity. But the military victory will prove to be a catastrophe for Serbia, Kosovo, and the Balkans as a whole. The final bill for the NATO victory in Kosovo will be staggering, and it is unlikely that the winners will be willing to add to their burden by paying the price necessary to reconstruct Kosovo and Yugoslavia.

Given that aid for reconstruction is not likely to be forthcoming in any great amount, the destruction, the refugees, and the unleashed passions all point to more political instability.

The European Union estimates that the cost of rebuilding Kosovo alone will reach $4 billion. (That does not cover the costs of humanitarian aid or macroeconomic assistance.) The cost of rebuilding Serbia and Montenegro is in the $20 billion range. It appears highly unlikely that NATO will be willing to foot the bill, not when NATO’s 50,000 troops in Kosovo could cost as much as $25 billion a year. Some funds will come from the United States and Europe and international lending agencies, but not nearly enough to restore the damaged economies. Instability will come to haunt the continent.

The United States and Europe have made clear that no aid to reconstruct Serbia will be forthcoming as long as Milosevic remains in power. Almost everyone wants him out. But NATO has discovered that the bombing did far less damage to Serb forces in Kosovo than first estimated. Milosevic withdrew 47,000 troops with virtually all their equipment intact. The Yugoslavs were masters of deception, and NATO probably destroyed more decoys than tanks. Those well-armed troops are now available to protect the Milosevic regime and suppress separatism in Montenegro.

So, no aid to reconstruct Yugoslavia until Milosevic is out. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia’s economy will continue to wither. Worse, the economies of Romania and Bulgaria are suffering as well. NATO attacks destroyed all the bridges across the Danube and interrupted shipping.

In addition, more than 50 road and rail bridges were destroyed, making it virtually impossible to conduct cross-country trucking to and from Romania and Bulgaria. Their economies will decline by 5 percent this year, and their balance-of-payments deficit will balloon to $2 billion.

Were Milosevic to go, the successor regime would not likely be a great improvement. The Serbian Orthodox Church has declared Milosevic unfit to rule Serbia. Patriarch Pavle justified his declaration because, he said, he had seen ‘'evil'’ in Kosovo. But Bishop Atanasije, who often speaks for Patriarch Pavle, said in an interview: ‘'We blame Milosevic not for trying to defend the nation but for failing.'’ Virtually all of Milosevic’s so-called democratic opponents believe that Serbia is entitled to Kosovo and that Serbia’s mission is to protect the interests of Serbs no matter where they are, even if it means national suicide.

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March 13, 2006

Milosevic's death, was he murdered by the international court?

Img from michaelsavage.com Did the Eu International Criminal Court allegedly kill him, the same court which MANY want jurisdiction OVER! our US Armed Forces with many Ex-Soviet sympathisizers who couldnt' convict the man who tried to protect his country from Muslim takeover through brutal means, whose accusations were questionable, who wasn't really anti-American and wasn't even a real threat to the USA. We went after this guy unilaterally, and even tore off the American Emblems and put on NATO emblems! The Genocide was faked? according to one of many sources.
"In authorizing American troops to take part in the SFOR mission, I said the mission would end in 19 months, in June of 1998." Bill Clinton in 1997 From This next one in 1999 By JANE PERLEZ
President Clinton Friday described the peacekeeping operation in Bosnia as a model for the force that is envisioned to return and protect ethnic Albanian refugees to Kosovo.
When Bill Clinton deployed American troops to Bosnia in 1995, he promised they'd be home by Christmas of 1996. They're still there. World War Two ended in 1945. Today, the United States has over 100,000 troops in Europe, most of them in Germany, and almost 50,000 troops in Japan. The Korean War ended in 1950, and we still have almost 40,000 troops there.
Some top Clinton administration officials wanted to end the Kosovo war abruptly in the summer of 1999, at almost any cost, because the presidential campaign of then-Vice President Al Gore was about to begin, former NATO commander Gen. Wesley K. Clark says in his official papers.
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Milosevic's death, was he murdered by the international court?

Img from michaelsavage.com Did the Eu International Criminal Court allegedly kill him, the same court which MANY want jurisdiction OVER! our US Armed Forces with many Ex-Soviet sympathisizers who couldnt' convict the man who tried to protect his country from Muslim takeover through brutal means, whose accusations were questionable, who wasn't really anti-American and wasn't even a real threat to the USA. We went after this guy unilaterally, and even tore off the American Emblems and put on NATO emblems! The Genocide was faked? according to one of many sources.
"In authorizing American troops to take part in the SFOR mission, I said the mission would end in 19 months, in June of 1998." Bill Clinton in 1997 From This next one in 1999 By JANE PERLEZ
President Clinton Friday described the peacekeeping operation in Bosnia as a model for the force that is envisioned to return and protect ethnic Albanian refugees to Kosovo.
When Bill Clinton deployed American troops to Bosnia in 1995, he promised they'd be home by Christmas of 1996. They're still there. World War Two ended in 1945. Today, the United States has over 100,000 troops in Europe, most of them in Germany, and almost 50,000 troops in Japan. The Korean War ended in 1950, and we still have almost 40,000 troops there.
Some top Clinton administration officials wanted to end the Kosovo war abruptly in the summer of 1999, at almost any cost, because the presidential campaign of then-Vice President Al Gore was about to begin, former NATO commander Gen. Wesley K. Clark says in his official papers.
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May 2, 2006

HU Jin Tao HECKLED ON SOUTH LAWN: 'YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED'

- asia fortune.comfrom drudge report
The arrival ceremony for Chinese president Hu Jintao was interrupted by a protester who appealed to President Bush to stop Hu from 'persecuting the Falun Gong,' a banned religious movement in China.
- US news
The woman began shouting from the top of a camera stand located directly in front of Hu and Bush.
'President Bush, stop him from killing'... 'Stop persecuting the Falun Gong,' she yelled... She also shouted in Chinese, 'President Hu, your days are numbered, No more time for China's ruling party.'
- oltreuomo.blogspot.com

The incident occured right after Bush urged Hu to allow Chinese to 'speak freely'. The woman, had a temporary pass with a big 'T' on it, also unfurled a yellow 'Falun Gong' banner.

The woman was taken away by uniformed secret service officers.

Bush leaned over and whispered to Hu, 'You're okay.' Hu, who had stopped talking briefly, then resumed speaking.

On China TV: As Hu was speaking when yells of protesters became audible, the screen went black. When the feed came back the screen once again went black when woman was again heard. During CNN International's post-speech commentary, at mention of south lawn heckler, the screen also went black again. The CNN feed returned when the incident ended.

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