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Message of Slobodan Milosevic
'targets' - 15.08.2002 10:42
After the brutal refusal by the Belgrade regime to allow the mass political action in support of the presidential candidacy of Yugoslav and Serbian national leader Slobodan Milosevic, illegally kept in the NATO dungeon at The Hague, all Yugoslav media reported the message President Milosevic sent to all patriotic forces in Serbia. Here is the full text of the message:
Message regarding the Elections
Regarding the forthcoming elections in Serbia, I believe that the whole opposition bloc should appear united in the elections - with a common candidate.
The core of that bloc should be the three parties that constituted the Government of People's Unity until the year 2000. During the war, those three parties defended the country, through the government and by all other means. During the bombing, the leaders of those parties remained in Serbia and put themselves at the disposal of the people and citizens.
Those parties and their representatives should bring together all other opposition parties, in fact all parties and individuals who are patriotically oriented and who have the same attitude towards the policies of the regime in Serbia.
In that sense, in these elections I consider the candidate Vojislav Seselj to be a common candidate of the patriotically oriented opposition parties and individuals. His candidacy should be supported.
To come out with more than one candidate at this moment, especially on behalf of the strongest opposition parties, would lead to the dilution of votes, which would only allow the puppet regime to manipulate the election results.
Today, the main interest of the people and state is to dismantle the puppet regime. That interest has to be more important than the particular interest of any party. And particularly it must be more important than anyone's vanity (collective or individual - no matter).
Until victory.
The Hague, August 10th, 2002
Slobodan Milosevic
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Two-and-half years ago, in February 2000, President Milosevic warned at the Fourth Congress of the SPS:
"At the moment when the country defends itself from the evil looming over it, the left and right should stand together, the religious ones and atheists, those educated and those who are not, the old and the young, those who have not gotten along well or loved each other, those who have stopped talking to each other, those who think that they have forever and definitely parted ways. Those who have one thing in common - the love of their country. And that they feel obliged to defend it from the colonial status where foreign armies will march in, whose economy will be a function of the development of other countries, whose culture will be ruined, whose past will be wiped out and who will be ruled by those bribed or blackmailed hoodlums whom every nation has even at the best times, but at bad times in particular."
President Milosevic has several times sent similar messages from the Hague dungeon to his party comrades in our already-occupied country. Here are quotes from the one he sent in May 2002 to organs and members of the SPS:
"The SPS has to be a political tool in the hands of the people - in the struggle for national interests, and in the first place for freedom, independence and national dignity.
The Party is obliged to be firmly led by the principle of unity of left and patriotic forces in the common struggle against the treason and enslavement of Serbia - for overthrowing the puppet regime of foreign mercenaries organized as DOS.
Unity of left and patriotic forces is the clear and, historically, the only possible and justified response to the policy of dismantling the country and taking over its material resources by foreign capital, the pauperization of the citizens and the turning of educated and qualified workers and peasants into slaves of this 'new world order'.
That is why after October 5 our enemies have as their main goal dismantling the people's unity, breaking the unity of the left and breaking the SPS itself. (...)
The Party at present has one and only one duty - to protect the country and people from slavery.
Only after the freedom and independence of the country has been reestablished can one speak of other goals.
Now Freedom is the only goal."
The Government of People's Unity, during its existence from 1994 to 2000, successfully dealt with numerous difficulties produced by foreign pressures, including the embargo and the NATO aggression in 1999. It protected political and economic independence, social justice and equality and secured the miraculous reconstruction of the bombed country and one of the largest rates of economic growth in Europe.
Three parties took part in the government in its last and most successful years: the Socialist Party of Serbia, the Serbian Radical Party and Yugoslav Left. The Prime minister was Mirko Marjanovic (now acting president of SPS). Dr Vojislav Seselj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party was one of the deputy Prime ministers.
Dr. Seselj's Serbian Radical Party had previously expressed rightist and sometimes nationalist rhetoric. Nevertheless, in the Government of People's Unity and after the coup of October 5, 2000, in word and deed it strongly advocated common socially oriented policies. It recognized that these were a necessity for our country, under colonial siege. It is now acting as the most radical critic of the criminal background and practices of the present puppet regime. Its leader, Dr Vojislav Seselj (47) is considered one of the most talented Serbian politicians and undefeatable in direct political duels.
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| Read more about: europa | | supplements | | | US supported al-Qaeda cells during Balkan War | professor - 17.08.2002 12:00
National Post. 15 March 2002. U.S. supported al-Qaeda cells during Balkan Wars.
TORONTO -- Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network has been active in the Balkans for years, most recently helping Kosovo rebels battle for independence from Serbia with the financial and military backing of the United States and NATO.
The claim that al-Qaeda played a role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s came from an alleged FBI document former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic presented in his defence before the Hague tribunal last week.
Although Hague prosecutors have challenged the veracity of the document, which Mr. Milosevic identified as a Congressional statement from the FBI dated last December, Balkan experts say the presence of al-Qaeda militants in Kosovo and Bosnia is well documented.
Today, al-Qaeda members are helping the National Liberation Army, a rebel group in Macedonia, fight the Skopje government in a bid for independence, military analysts say.
Last week, Michael Steiner, the United Nations administrator in Kosovo, warned of "importing the Afghan danger to Europe" because several cells trained and financed by al-Qaeda remain in the region.
"Many members of the Kosovo Liberation Army were sent for training in terrorist camps in Afghanistan," said James Bissett, former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia and an expert on the Balkans.
"Milosevic is right. There is no question of their participation in conflicts in the Balkans. It is very well documented."
The arrival in the Balkans of the so-called Afghan Arabs, who are from various Middle Eastern states and linked to al-Qaeda, began in 1992 soon after the war in Bosnia.
According to Lenard Cohen, professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, mujahedeen fighters who travelled to Afghanistan to resist the Soviet occupation in the 1980s later "migrated to Bosnia hoping to assist their Islamic brethren in a struggle against Serbian (and for a time) Croatian forces."
The Bosnian Muslims welcomed their assistance.
After the Bosnian war, "hundreds of Bosnian passports were provided to the mujahedeen by the Muslim-controlled government in Sarajevo," said Prof. Cohen in a recent article titled "Bin Laden and the war in the Balkans." Many al-Qaeda members decided to stay in the region after marrying local Muslim women, he said.
They also set up secret terrorist training camps in Bosnia -- activities financed by the sale of opium produced in Afghanistan and secretly shipped through Turkey and Kosovo into central Europe.
In the years immediately before the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the al-Qaeda militants moved into Kosovo, the southern province of Serbia, to help ethnic Albanian extremists of the KLA mount their terrorist campaign against Serb targets in the region.
The mujahedeen "were financed by Saudi and United Arab Emirates money," said one Western military official, asking anonymity. "They were mercenaries who were not running the show in Kosovo, but were used by the KLA to do their dirty work."
The United States, which had originally trained the Afghan Arabs during the war in Afghanistan, supported them in Bosnia and then in Kosovo.
When NATO forces launched their military campaign against Yugoslavia three years ago to unseat Mr. Milosevic, they entered the Kosovo conflict on the side of the KLA, which had already received "substantial" military and financial support from bin Laden's network, analysts say.
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes on the United States, NATO began to worry about the presence in the Balkans of the Islamist terrorist cells it had supported throughout the 1990s.
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