Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Mon, 03/13/2006 - 17:01.
Unfortunately, the entire left media is parroting your malarky. Typical is this post-mortem from Jeremy Scahill on AntiWar.com, "Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can't Talk Anymore."
It is ironic that Milosevic's last legal battle was an attempt to compel his old friend-turned-nemesis Bill Clinton to testify at his trial. If successful, Milosevic would have grilled the man who was U.S. president through the entire Yugoslav war in what would have been a fiery direct examination. Clinton and Milosevic were once pals who talked collective strategy in the 1990s. Milosevic had many damning stories to tell and, without a doubt, uncomfortable questions to ask Clinton. The judges in Milosevic's case clearly worked to keep those moments from ever happening, and the U.S. government made clear its forceful opposition to such subpoenas of U.S. officials, even considering invading a country that would put a U.S. official on trial. With or without Clinton, Milosevic's defense would have brought to light some serious documentation of U.S. war crimes, but he died, muzzled, before he really got started.
Little attention, therefore, has been paid to Milosevic's long-term efforts – which predated 9/11, the 1999 NATO bombing, and his own trial – to expose the presence of al-Qaeda in the Balkans, from Bosnia to Kosovo. With 9/11, Milosevic's talk of al-Qaeda was easily dismissed as laughable, pathetic opportunism. But those who followed Milosevic's career and more importantly the events of the 1990s in Yugoslavia know it was not. Those allegations were based on events the U.S. does not want discussed in an international court. Following the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, many mujahedin eventually turned their sights on Yugoslavia, where they went to fight alongside the Bosnian Muslims against the Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats. Once again, the U.S. and bin Laden were on the same team. To this day, there are reports of training camps in Bosnia, which remains under occupation. It is also a likely training ground for future blowback.
This is typical of the blather the left has always run on Milosevic. A half-hearted concession that yeah, he was a war criminal—and then we move on to glorifying him for raising the alarm about al-Qaeda in the Balkans. And of course al-Qaeda never carried out any acts of terrorism in the Balkans. When Bush and Blair kill Muslims to retaliate for real al-Qaeda terror, we are supposed to oppose it. When Milosevic killed Muslims to retaliate for imagined al-Qaeda terror, he gets a pass. What abhorrent garbage.
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Unfortunately, the entire left media is parroting your malarky. Typical is this post-mortem from Jeremy Scahill on AntiWar.com, "Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can't Talk Anymore."
This is typical of the blather the left has always run on Milosevic. A half-hearted concession that yeah, he was a war criminal—and then we move on to glorifying him for raising the alarm about al-Qaeda in the Balkans. And of course al-Qaeda never carried out any acts of terrorism in the Balkans. When Bush and Blair kill Muslims to retaliate for real al-Qaeda terror, we are supposed to oppose it. When Milosevic killed Muslims to retaliate for imagined al-Qaeda terror, he gets a pass. What abhorrent garbage.