[NYTr] Galloway: We're on the Brink of a Balkan Bloodbath

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sent by mart

[Important. Please read: Galloway's warning is only one of many from
many quarters lately that the Western "mainstream" media has either, at
best, chosen to downplay or at worst, ignored completely and dismissed
out of hand. Galloway is right. While the media has been focusing
almost solely on the ongoing U.S war on Iraq and U.S., E.U. and NATO 's
threats of war on Iran, we have been literally sleepwalking towards
WWIII starting in the Balkans. Unless U.S., the E.U. and NATO suddenly
change and drop their long, widely stated and now quickly moving plans
to establish an illegal NATO occupied Albanian rump state in the
Serbian province of Kosovo and decide to instead follow both their own
and international law and the U.N Charter, their illegal actions
against *will* lead to a major military conflict between conflict with
Russia that literally could lead to WWIII! -mart]

Daily Record (UK) - Dec 10, 2007
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/comment/columnists/lifestyle-columnists/george-galloway/2007/12/10/we-re-on-the-brink-of-a-balkan-bloodbath-86908-20227765/

OR: http://tinyurl.com/2plybh


We're On The Brink Of A Balkan Bloodbath

by George Galloway

WHILE most were asleep, we've walked to the brink of yet another war in
the Balkans.

Kosovo is a part of Serbia. That's a legal and political fact.

It wants to break away and appears to have secured British and American
agreement, but not, alas, the agreement of either Serbia, whose land it
is, or Russia, which will veto any breakaway in the UN.

The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) rules the roost and has said it will
make a unilateral declaration of independence soon. The Serbs cannot
allow Kosovo, sacred to their orthodox Christian heritage for 1000
years, to go without a fight.

Serbia, with Russian help, outguns the KLA, who can only fight with
outside help. That's where we come in.

In the Nineties, we provided the air force for the breakaway KLA,
branded as late as 2000 by the US as a "terrorist organisation". But
this time we would have to be their infantry as well.

Fancy another war, anyone?

And Serbia is not the only place where there is a substantial Albanian
minority.

One quarter of the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia is
Albanian. They want independence too.

And 50 per cent of Bosnia-Herzegovina is Serb. If Kosovo declares
independence, so might the Bosnian-Serbs. Then we will be back in the
bloody Balkan wars.

Moreover, the principle that astate can be dismembered against its will
is pregnant with problems all over the world.

The Kurdish people are 20 million strong in Turkey and would like to
break away. Would we fight for them? Of course not.

Which goes to show the hypocrisy which has accompanied the break-up of
Yugoslavia all along.

Lord George "Bomber" Robertson was one of the chief propagandists for
the last Kosovo war. You will remember his sonorous claim that the
Serbs had murdered 100,000 Albanians and we must act.

In fact, 3000 people died, less than the death toll in Northern
Ireland, and picture if you will the outrage in Britain if the US Air
Force had started bombing us over that. No one knows how many of the
3000 were Albanians or Serbs, or who killed them and how.

Kosovo is a garrison for foreign soldiers, and at the same time
Europe's major hub for gun-running, drugsmuggling, people-trafficking
and prostitution.

If it becomes independent onthe point of our bayonets, don't say you
weren't warned.

'In the Nineties, we provided the air force for the KLA. This time we
would have to be their infantry as well'