Second US Base in Kyrgyzstan.

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[jack]

Yes RT what about Kosovo?

It is amazing they take a pro-Palestinian/Muslim line (why?) yet totally neglect what happened to the Serbs in the Balkans which has a direct effect in regards to Russia.
Worse is that they give a false impression of what happened in the Balkans which is the standard western narrative.

I was hoping Rozoff when talking about OSCE highlight its connection as a front for western and military intelligence planning the future NATO war.

“The strategy began in late 1998 when “a huge CIA mission (got) underway in Kosovo”. President Miloševic had allowed the Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission to enter Kosovo to monitor the situation in the province. This ad hoc group was immediately stuffed with British and American intelligence agents and special forces – men from the CIA, US naval intelligence, the British SAS and something called “14th intelligence”, a body within the British army which operates side by side with the SAS “to provide what is known as ‘deep surveillance’ ”. The immediate purpose of this operation was “Intelligence Preparation of Battlefield” – a modern version of what the Duke of Wellington used to do, riding up and down the battlefield to get the lie of the land before engaging the enemy. So as Marshall puts it, “Officially, the KDOM was run by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe … unofficially, the CIA ran (it) … The organisation was just packed with them … It was a CIA front.” Many of the officers in fact worked for another CIA front, DynCorp, the Virginia-based company which employs mainly “members of US military elite units, or the CIA”, as Marshall says. They used the KDOM, which later became the Kosovo Verification Mission, for espionage. Instead of doing the monitoring tasks assigned to them, officers would go off and use their global positioning devices to locate and identify targets which would be later bombed by Nato. Quite how the Yugoslavs could allow 2,000 highly trained secret service agents to roam around their territory is difficult to understand, especially since, as Marshall shows, they knew perfectly well what was going on.

The head of the Kosovo Verification Mission was William Walker, the man deputed to oust Manuel Noriega from power in Panama, and a former ambassador to El Salvador whose US-supported government ran death squads. Walker “discovered” the “massacre” at Racak in January 1999, the event which was used as a pretext for starting the process which led to the bombing which began on 24th March. There is much evidence to suggest that Racak was staged, and that the bodies found were in fact those of KLA fighters, not civilians as was alleged. What is certain is that Walker’s role was so key that the country road in Kosovo which leads to Racak has now been renamed after him. Marshall writes that the date for the war – spring 1999 - was not only decided in late December 1998, but also that the date was communicated to the KLA at the time. This means that when the “massacre” occurred and when Madeleine Albright declared, “Spring has come early,” she was behaving rather like Joseph Goebbels who, on hearing the news of the Reichstag fire in 1933, is supposed to have remarked, “What, already?”

At any rate, when the KVM was withdrawn on the eve of the Nato bombing, Marshall says that the CIA officers in it gave all their satellite phones and GPS equipment to the KLA. “The KLA were being trained by the Americans, partially equipped by them, and virtually given territory,” Marshall writes – even though he, like all other reporters, helped propagate the myth of systematic Serb atrocities committed against a totally passive Albanian civilian population.”

http://www.idc-europe.org/showerInformation.asp?Identificateur=29

[Misha]

Jack

More than once, RT has featured Nebojsa Malic, among others, who've provided cogent commentary in support of the Serb position on Kosovo.

Great to see Rick Rozoff featured on RT America. Offhand, I'm not clear on the amount of RT America content making RT.com.

Rick has a great email list of recently released articles dealing with NATO matters. He's on Leos' list of Reads.

[jack]

@Misha

Yes I have read Rozoffs articles on the Global Research website. They are very good and the only person who seems to be tracking what is going on in regards to NATO deployments and Europe.

In regards to RT’s coverage of the Balkans you would never know that western intelligence supported Islamic terrorism or all the lies levelled against the Serbs most of which have been carried over by the same NED funded organisations in Chechnya and the North Caucasus.

RT won’t even cover the Karadicz trial in The Hague.

[jack]

Looks like Turkey is still supporting Chechen terrorism or at least networks in Turkey.

Two Wahabi ideologists hiding in Turkey - Chechen president

Moscow, August 11, Interfax - Two renowned Wahabi ideologists, Isa Umarov and Shamsuddi Batukayev, are hiding in Turkey, the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said.

"Intelligence information indicates that Isa Umarov, one of the main ideologists of Wahhabism, and Shamsuddi Batukayev, the head of the Sharia court of "Ichkeria" and one of the main Wahabis, are hiding in Turkey," Kadyrov said in an interview to Azeri television.

"These people started all this, then escaped and are hiding there and are making efforts to spread Wahhabism and extremism from there," Kadyrov said.

Asked by Azeri journalists whether the leaders of illegal armed groups are receiving aid from Azerbaijan, Kadyrov replied that "this support does not exist today."

"It used to be, that's for sure. Our terrorists hid under the guise of refugees in Azerbaijan, in Turkey, and in other places," he said.

Kadyrov stressed that there is no political agenda in his words. "I don't make political statements. I am talking as a warrior fighting them," he said.

Kadyrov said he had met with the Azeri president while visiting Azerbaijan. "We discussed this issue, and I received answers to all of my questions," he said.

"Terrorists and extremists are not receiving support in Azerbaijan, and we are really grateful to this country's leadership for that," he said.

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=7576

[Misha]

Jack

I recall one 25 minute RT panel on the ICTY and two different segments on that subject with Malic and Trifkovic.

I made it a point to acknowledge their great input before they appeared on RT:

http://www.russiablog.org/2006/11/how_kosovo_factors_into_russoa.php

At a prior AI thread, I gave you a link to an RT segment on foreign Islamic extremists meddling in Russia.

RT has a "global" (to read as Western mass media influenced) side to it. That station undoubtedly has marketing people influencing a good deal of what it airs for the intent to gain a wider audience.

There's nevertheless a difference between RT in relation to RFE/RL and the BBC.

For improvement sake, it's good to provide constructive criticisms and suggestions.

[Leoš Tomíček]

@ jack

I will be translating an article I found recently about extremism among the Crimean Tatars, something you do not normally read. It is a common knowledge that the Tatars supported Chechens, the article says that some Tatars actually fought in Chechnya.

[jack]

@Misha

On the reports I have seen regarding the Balkans they taking the western narrative and nothing of what I have seen would indicate to me that western governments supported OBL and Islamic terrorism in the Balkans and that all the things said about the Serbs.

If the just gave us a brief 10 minute daily report of Karadicz trial or shown a cut down version of part 2 of Yugoslavia The Avoidable War then I would be happy.

@Leoš Tomíček

Should be interesting to read.

Not surprising to hear Crimean Tatars are fighting in Chechnya given that Khattabs network in the 98 DEA report a have posted a few times on this blog includes the Crimea.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/story/2004/nov/defense-intelligence-report-details-al-qaedas-plans-russia-chechnya-and-wmd

Supporting separatism and terrorism is nothing new in regards to Russia there is the obvious Marxist terrorists prior to the coup of 1917 but also in the lead up to WW2 were Polish special services aligned with British and French intelligence conspired to support separatist factions in the USSR in Ukraine, Caucasus, Belarus and Volga region.

http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-09-01/poland-destruction-ussr-ww2.html

Apparently there is a book published in Russia with all the intelligence documents seized by the Russian army during WW2 highlighted in it.
I don’t know if they sell it in book stores in Russia or you have to order it online.

http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/5279323/

[Misha]

Jack

Thru the grape vine, I heard that the documentry you mention had problems making major Russian language TV networks on account of the "global" reference I made.

Some of those claiming that documentary to be biased have their own biases as well, which tend to get favored at venues like CNN, RFE/Rl, PBS and NPR.

Beware of mass media criticisms of media, given the otherwise obvious conflict of interest issue involved.

[jack]

A documentary I would like to see which was aired on Russian state TV Channel 1 a few years ago is "Plan Caucasus" sounds like it has a lot of good information with the connection to Badri Patarkacishvili’s I have not heard before suspected when I found out about him when he died with his relation to Georgia and Berezovsky.

“Russia reveals US plans to capture Caucasus
Russian Channel 1 presents a documentary ‘Plan Caucasus’ about the plan of western intelligence service to make Caucasus the battlefield between the Western world and Russia. The reporter states that the first point was the ignition of Nagorny Karabakh conflict and then in other places of Caucasus via the nationalistic moods strengthening.
A Chechen man Abu Bakar, a news analyst of the German radio station «Freedom” in the 60s, who worked under the pseudonym Berkan Yashar, reveals the secret plans of the US Foggy Bottom. Baker was enrolled by the USA, and even after he left ‘Freedom’ and headed for Turkey, where he became a powerful authority, Abu remained a “grey eminence”, through whom the West controlled the situation in Caucasus and financed separatists’ tribes.
He said that the plan of Chechnya annexation was backed by Germany, France, Great Britain, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. His words were proved with pictures of money, printed in Germany that might still be in the Munich factory, and fake passports, printed in France.
His words are confirmed by some other people. Thus, Shamseddin Yusef, the Foreign Secretary in Dudaev’s government, says: “CIA people even took us to London. Then the war in Iraq started. They planned to take over Chechnya after the victory in Iraq, but that war didn’t finish as soon as they predicted.
Neither does Richard Perl, the ex- US Ministry of Defense counselor and one of the key strategists of the war in Iraq, conceal the fact that America tried to give spiritual and financial support to Dudaev.
The reporter also states, that Western powers pursued in Caucasus not only political, but financial interest as well. Since 1992 with Jokhar Dudaev’s help there operated a contraband canal that exported to the West Russian diamonds and gold. For the right to drive it through Chechnya Dubaev got a quarter of the profit received from diamonds’ gem-cutting and selling.
After the airport in Groznyy was shut in 1994, Berkan changed the scheme of diamonds transportation and started to put them across Pankiyskoe clove to Turkey.
Akhmed, one of Dudaev’s mates, states that the bloody story of Chechen diamonds goes on even now. The money, saved between the First and Second Chechen Wars, was put in the diamond mines of Africa.
The input of money into these mines gives enormous profits to Akhmed Zakaev and Whice Akhmadov, the man, whose name was mentioned in relation to Badri Patarkacishvili’s death.”

THIS is the type of info I want and expect from Russia and I don’t mean Russia Today one simple website with info and articles by former Russian intelligence agents and military would do the job in the vein of Youseff Boudanskys International Strategic Studies Association

http://128.121.186.47/ISSA/reports/Balkan/Balkanindex.htm

@Misha

This is a cop out Russia could give us some information, any information regarding western and Middle Eastern support of Islamic terrorism in Russia and the entire Eurasian sphere as well as all the other major issues.