J. Adams
July 6th, 1997
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***THE BALKAN TRAP & COMING RUSSIAN COUP***
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July 11th, 1997
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"If we presume the coming transformation of the Communist
Party into the Russian Orthodox Party of the Soviet Union, we
would obtain truly the ideal state, one which would fulfill
the historical destiny of the Russian people. It is a question
of the Orthodoxization of the entire world."
(Gennadii Shimanov)
"The messianic significance of Russia in relation to the West
is beyond doubt. Slavophilism alone can still save the West
from parliamentarism, unbelief, and dynamite."
(Aleksei Kireev)
(Quotes taken from opening page of Alexander Yanov's
'The Russian Challenge and the Year 2000'.)
Recent Relevant Quotes:
"One must underline that such 'cowboy raids' threaten the
whole Dayton Peace process, which is in any case going through
a difficult period."
From a recent Russian foreign ministry statement
in response to NATO's apprehension
of Bosnian Serb war criminals.
"Despite the fact that we have signed a broad, balanced
agreement with NATO, we still consider expansion the biggest
mistake in Europe since the end of World War II."
-Recent quote from Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov
in response to the eastward expansion of NATO
"In a military exercise that involved nuclear forces, Russia
tested its command-and-control facilities against a
hypothetical NATO attack in late-March and early-April."
-Associated Press, July 8th
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It might be said that Russia's leaders don't even go to the
bathroom without a thorough plan. Following the 1917 Communist
Revolution, Moscow learned to shape domestic and eventual world
history according to long-term plans based upon strategies that best
served the perceived interests of the Russian State. There is no
reason to believe that this changed with the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev
in the mid-1980's and the implementation of reforms which seemed to
unexpectedly lead to the collapse of Russian Communism and the Soviet
Union.
As I have long been pointing-out, the odds are that Anatoliy
Golitsyn, an ex-KGB chief who defected to the West in the 1960's, was
right in warning the world that the seeming about-face in Russia's
pursuits in recent history has been nothing but "New Lies For Old"
(1984). In Golitsyn's newest book, "The Perestroika Deception" (1995)
(see- http://www.fatima.org/perestoi.html ), a detailed overview is
presented of how the seeming reforms introduced in the Soviet Union by
Gorbachev in the mid-1980's were nothing but a facade geared to bring
about exactly what has occurred- the breakup of the Soviet Union and
the breakdown of Russian society.
Why would Moscow intentionally bring about the seeming collapse of
Soviet Communism? Because of the "Russian Idea".
The "Russian Idea", as explored in Alexander Yanov's, "The Russian
Challenge and The Year 2000" (1987), is to do away with the atheistic
Communist system and unleash a global war against the "satanic" West
in order to purge the world of sin and establish global "Orthodoxy",
i.e., a worldwide Orthodox "christian" theocracy led by a (false)
messianic leader. In other words, Russia has become the base from
which the antichrist (Mikhail Gorbachev) is going to unleash an
apocalyptic world war and then attempt to establish a global
dictatorship of man that will be falsely labelled a "kingdom of god"
(see http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/anti.html ).
The "New Thinking" introduced by Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev
in the 1980's was guided by the Russian Idea. By introducing
deceptive policies of democratization and Westernization in the Soviet
Union, the path was opened for engineering the end of Communism and
the collapse of the seeming Russian military threat to the West. In
doing this, the way has been opened for replacing Communism with
Orthodoxy. Furthermore, since Western perceptions of the Russian
military threat have been minimized, Western military preparedness has
likewise been minimized. Moscow has secured the element of strategic
surprise (not necessarily tactical surprise) for unleashing a
successful third world war to militarily defeat the Western powers.
In unleashing world war three, Russia's plan is to make war appear
like self-defense against Western aggression, i.e., against the
imperialism of the Capitalist West. With the breakup of the Soviet
Union and the perceived decline in the Russian military threat, the
way has been opened for to lure the West into taking aggressive
actions toward Russia that will seemingly trigger an all-out East/West
conflict.
With this week's NATO meeting in Madrid, a culmination point seems
to have been reached in in the shaping of history toward a surprise
outbreak of war between Russia and the West. (NOTE: The idea of a
culmination point in terms of an extreme of misled Western self-
confidence and hopes for the future is reflected in a peak in the
DJIA, possibly at 8000- i.e., a peak in misled Western expectations.)
Two key developments came out of the most recent NATO meeting. First
off, NATO formally began to expand eastward toward Russia by inviting
the former Soviet bloc foes Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to
become members of the Western alliance. Secondly, a decision was made
that NATO should take direct military action to apprehend Bosnian Serb
war criminals. Both of these decisions are placing the Western
alliance on a head-on collision with Russia just as elements of
Russian military and leadership are openly preparing for a hardline
coup.
Thus, everything is going according to Moscow's plans right now.
The breakdown of Russian society has minimized the perceived Russian
military threat and set the stage for a hardline coup and surprise
East/West war. With NATO expanding eastward toward Russia and getting
militarily involved against the Russia's slavic brethren, the Serbs, a
pretext is being created for the coming coup in Moscow. In this way,
after years of peace and lulling the West into a false sense of
security, the Western powers are about to suddenly find themselves in
a military face-off with a hardline, nationalistic Russia. The
consequence is the grim event Russia has been busy preparing for with
the construction of an underground bunker the size of Washington, D.C.
under Evil Mountain in the Ural Mountain chain, i.e., a global nuclear
war (see- related article ).
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The Following Editorial Appeared In A Local Newspaper As:
***Involvement With Serbia Will Trigger World War Three***
By J. Adams
February, 1994
"If we presume the coming transformation of the Communist
Party into the Russian Orthodox Party of the Soviet Union, we
would obtain truly the ideal state, one which would fulfill
the historical destiny of the Russian people. It is a question
of the Orthodoxization of the entire world."
(Gennadii Shimanov)
"The messianic significance of Russia in relation to the West
is beyond doubt. Slavophilism alone can still save the West
from parliamentarism, unbelief, and dynamite."
(Aleksei Kireev)
(Quotes taken from opening page of Alexander Yanov's
'The Russian Challenge and the Year 2000'.)
As the West prepares to take military action against the Serbs, the
world holds its breath wondering what will happen next. For anyone who
knows the truth, however, the future is clear. Western military
intervention in the Balkans is being intentionally provoked by the
Russian- backed Serbs in order to trigger world war three.
The general strategy is to provoke the West into taking military
action against Russia's slavic brethren in order to create a pretext
for a Zhirinovsky coup and massive Russian military aggression against
the West.
Notably, Zhirinovsky visited Serbia the week prior to the current
crisis and declared that he would consider any action by NATO against
Serbia an act of war against Russia. More specifically, Zhirinovsky
proclaimed: "if a single bomb falls on Serbia we will consider that an
attack on Russia". Last year I wrote an editorial, entitled "A Time
For War", in which I warned that Russia is setting a trap so that,
when Western military action is taken against the Serbs, "a militant
neofacist dictator can be brought to power in Russia....That dictator-
and I'll even tell you his name: Vladimir Zhirinovsky- can then be
used to launch a third world war against Israel, America, and the
Western allies...". Unfortunately, everyone appears to be ignoring the
meaning of my editorials as well as the implications of "The
Zhirinovsky Connection".
The reason I was able to anticipate the crisis the world is currently
being drawn into a year ago is because I believe the world has been
totally deceived. As I see it, ever since Mikhail Gorbachev came to
power in the mid-1980's and introduced his "New Thinking", Russia has
been living by its old thinking in a new and far more dangerous form.
One way to explain the unbelievable reversal in Russia's behavior over
the past decade most likely stems from the "Russian Idea". In his
books, 'The Russian New Right' (1978), and 'The Russian Challenge and
the Year 2000' (1987), Sovietologist Alexander Yanov describes an
ideological transformation that was taking place at the top of the
Soviet power structure during the 1970's and early 1980's. This
transformation stemmed from Russia's historical messianic complex.
According to the "New Right", Russia's mission is to save the world
from the evils of liberalism and democracy by waging an apocalyptic
war against the West so that a global orthodox dictatorship can be
established. Before doing this, however, communism needed to be
overthrown and the Soviet empire disbanded so that Russia could get
back to its "spiritual roots".
As I see it, when Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, the program of the
Russian Right (Slavophiles), not the Left (Westernizers), began to be
implemented. Gorbachev's "New Thinking", based upon the Russian Idea,
was a long-term plan to bring about exactly what we see today:
communism is overthrown, the Soviet empire disbanded, and, now that
the West is most vulnerable, Russia is about to have Zhirinovsky
launch world war three. After the dust settles and the West is
defeated, Gorbachev will undoubtedly reemerge to power and claim he is
saving the world from self-destruction. A global orthodox
dictatorship will then be formed by a man who is a liar and murderer
from the beginning.
The crucial point here is that what we are witnessing is a total lie.
Gorbachev extended Lenin's strategy to defeat the West from "tell them
what they want to hear" to "show them what they want to see". History
has been shaped over the past decade to fit what Westerners *want* to
believe: instead of of communism and dictatorship, there's been
freedom and democracy; instead of an arms race and Cold War, there's
been arms reductions and world peace. Unfortunately, it has all been
literally too good to be true. As KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn
correctly anticipated, we have simply been told 'New Lies for Old'
(1984), while "the fundamental nature and the objectives of the
reformed adversary, i.e., the Soviet Union, have not changed (quote
from a letter written to 20/20 in 1992)". Because the world has
foolishly accepted the lies of "The Old Enemy", it is about to receive
the opposite of what is expected: a third world war and global
dictatorship.
As it stands the West is being provoked into throwing the first
punches of world war three. While Zhirinovsky's rise to power and the
outbreak of global war will appear to stem from, at the least, Western
military action against Russia's historical Serbian ally, let it be
clear that this is deceptive. Countries like Serbia are Russian
puppet states, and Zhirinovsky is KGB. Regardless of what people may
*want* to believe, the West is being framed for triggering world war
three, and Zhirinovsky is the scapegoat for what is truly
*Gorbachev's* ultimate crime against humanity.
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A provocative example that the Russian Right is behind the
transformation taking place in Russia is the following
articles:
Medvedev, A. "Orthodox Church instead of the communist party". 'Moscow
News': 1/24/94; p6.
"Moscow Churches will be restored". 'Moscow News': 1/24/94; p14.
The following recent articles are very noteworthy:
Kaplan, Fred. "Russian church, shedding shady past, seeks new role".
'Boston Globe': 9/27/94; p1.
Stanley, Alessandra. "From Repression to Respect, Russian Church in
Comeback". 'New York Times': 10/3/94; pA1.
-NOTE-
One of the most suspicious features of the move to restore the Russian
Orthodox Church in recent years is the renovation and rebuilding of
churches. Even though the Russian government is supposedly broke
(recently it was reported that electricity had been shut-off to the
command & control center of Russia's strategic nuclear weapons because
the military has failed to pay its utility bills), it has been able to
come up with money for a massive campaign to restore and rebuild
Russian Orthodox Churches. In the Moscow area alone the number of
churches has surged from 130 to 600. Clearly this indicates that the
transformation to an Orthodox state is well underway.
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THE UNREPORTED TRUTH ON MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
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***THE WORLD IS POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL***
By J. Adams
October 29th, 1996
"Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!"
('King John'; Act II, sc.1)
On Friday, October 25, ABC television commentator Charles Gibson asked
Mikhail Gorbachev the following question during an interview:
"It is an interesting paradox to so many Americans- you are so
honored throughout the world for fundamental changes, but, I
don't have to recite the election results to you, in the last
election you got a very small, tiny percent of the vote. Why is
Gorbachev seen so differently outside Russia and inside Russia?"
This was Gorbachev's response:
"Well, let's recall another example. Jesus Christ was pelted
with stones. He was blamed and condemned, and then he was put
with a bandit and they were taken for execution. And when it was
said that one of them could be spared, the people said the
bandit should be spared and Christ was crucified."
Here are some more recent quotes from Mr. Gorbachev:
"Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity.
Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective
of their nationality, justice and equality, peace,
and an end to all hostility between peoples."
(from Gorbachev's new book- 'Memoirs')
"The socialist tradition...
goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx."
(USA Today, October 28th)
"Jesus Christ, he was also a reformer.
He was pelted with stones and insulted."
(New York Times, October 25th)
The above quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev, where the "former" Soviet
Premier is directly comparing himself to Jesus Christ, should come as
no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to my message. As
I have been warning, Gorbachev is literally the prophetic antichrist.
The Bible predicts that the antichrist would appear as an 'angel of
light' and deceive the world into following him as Christ. This, of
course, is precisely what Gorbachev is doing.
How people are falling for The Lie is beyond me. I mean, first
Gorbachev ascends to power in the atheistic, totalitarian,
militaristic, anti-Western Soviet regime faster than anyone in
history, and now he is being upheld as the Christ-like, pro-Western
democrat who has brought forth world peace. Thus, a perfect
contradiction has developed. And what is a "contra"-"diction"?
Something that is the opposite of what it appears to say and mean- a
perfect lie, a perfect liar, the master of deceit- the devil
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CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BALKAN TRAP
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"Angry Bosnian Serbs warn arrests could provoke new war"
PALE, Bosnia-Hercegovina (July 11, 1997 6:04 p.m. EDT) - Angry Bosnian
Serb leaders on Friday slammed NATO's snatch operation against two
suspected war criminals in Bosnia, and warned more arrests could
plunge the country back into war.
Momcilo Krajisnik, the hardline Serb member of Bosnia's three-member
presidency, said the NATO-led international Stabilization Force (SFOR)
that arrested one Serb Thursday and shot dead another had ''exceeded
its authority.''
The Bosnian Serb government accused the British troops who carried out
the mission of ''violating'' their mandate.
Warning more arrests would cause a return to war, Krajisnik said: ''I
am afraid that we have come back to the situation we had before the
(1995) signing of the Dayton peace accords,'' which ended the
fighting.
Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic, locked in a power struggle
with Krajisnik over her support for the Dayton process, urged her
people, police and army to ''keep a cool head'' as she feared their
reactions to the SFOR move.
Belgrade, the main international backer of the Bosnian Serbs, had
earlier also condemned the operation and issued dark warnings. A
spokesman for Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party,
said early Friday the arrests ''could lead to the resumption of war.''
And Russia, which traditionally has strong links with the Serbs,
vigorously condemned the operation.
''These cowboy raids threaten the Dayton peace process which has just
gone through a difficult period,'' the foreign ministry said in a
statement.
Russia ''will not carry responsibility for the consequences of such
unilateral actions, especially when the contingent is part of the
peacekeeping force,'' the ministry said. Russia has a small unit with
NATO forces in Bosnia.
Western leaders however insisted the arrests were right and hinted
more could follow.
After crack British troops swooped on two Bosnian Serb war crime
suspects in the northwestern town of Prijedor, U.S. President Bill
Clinton said in Romania on Friday that SFOR, was entirely justified in
arresting the two men.
''I think what was done was appropriate and within the SFOR mandate,''
he said. U.S. forces had provided logistical support for the
operation.
The top international envoy to Bosnia, Carlos Westendorp added he
'fully supports' the action, Westendorp's spokesman Simon Haselock
said.
The SFOR commander, U.S. General William Crouch, said meanwhile his
force ''operated totaly within its mandate and we'll detain any
indicted war criminal which my troops get in contact with.''
The operation marks an upturn in the activity of NATO troops
patrolling Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Though NATO is empowered to detain war crimes suspects if it
encounters them and is in a position to do so, SFOR had until Thursday
failed to arrest any of those indicted for war crimes in Europe's
worst war in 50 years.
Friday was the second anniversary of fall of Srebrenica to Serb forces
-- which gave cause to the worst single war crime -- the massacres by
Serb forces of thousands of Moslem men.
The U.N. war crimes tribunal, frustrated by the lack of arrests
recently adopted a new tactic of secretly indicting suspects to avoid
tipping them off and then seeking their arrest.
So far few of the big names from the bloody 43-month conflict have
appeared in court but last month the trial started of a commander of
one of the former warring factions -- Bosnian Croat General Tihomir
Blaskic.
Croatian Serb warcrimes suspect Slavko Dokmanovic then fell to the new
UN approach when he was arrested after he crossed from Serbia into the
Croatian region of Eastern Slavonia in late June.
The two targetted Thursday -- Simo Drljaca and Milan Kovacevic -- were
also secretly indicted by the tribunal. Drljaca was shot dead
resisting arrest.
Under Dayton, officials in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia agreed to round
up suspected war criminals indicted by the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) but have mostly failed to do
so.
''The continued presence and influence of war criminals remains one of
the major obstacles to the implementation of the peace,'' Haselock
said.
In Washington, the U.S. Senate called for the withdrawal of U.S.
forces from Bosnia by June next year, but left the door open for
possible stationing of a reserve force in a neighboring country.
Some 9,000 U.S. soldiers are part of NATO's Stabilization Force (SFOR)
deployed in Bosnia. They had been set to leave last December, but
Clinton extended the mission by 18 months.
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"Russia says Bosnia war crime swoop threatens peace"
MOSCOW (July 11, 1997 12:51 p.m. EDT) - Russia on Friday condemned a
sudden swoop on Bosnian Serb war crimes suspects by British soldiers,
saying such "cowboy raids" threatened the Dayton peace process.
"Russia does not bear and does not intend to bear any responsibility
for the consequences of such unilateral actions," a foreign ministry
statement said.
British special forces arrested one suspect and shot dead another on
Thursday in the first NATO operation against indicted war criminals
since a Bosnian peace treaty was signed in Dayton, Ohio in 1995.
"One must underline that such 'cowboy raids' threaten the whole Dayton
Peace process, which is in any case going through a difficult period,"
said the Russian foreign ministry statement.
It said any decision on arrests should be made through direct
cooperation between the parties to the U.N. warcrimes tribunal in The
Hague. Thursday's action had overstepped the peacekeepers' mandate, it
said.
The ministry also hinted Russia, whose troops form part of the
international SFOR peacekeeping force in Bosnia, might review its
participation. "The Russian leadership will draw the corresponding
conclusions from this," it said.
Tensions over international policy in Bosnia have surfaced
periodically since the conflict erupted in 1992, due to Moscow's
sympathies for its fellow-Slav Serbs.
But Western leaders have praised Russia's part in the international
peacekeeping effort in Bosnia as a model of cooperation between former
Cold War enemies.
"We have repeatedly stressed that we support the just punishment of
all those guilty of war crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina," the foreign
ministry said.
"However, the arrest of suspects does not correspond to the mandate of
the international force deployed in Bosnia."
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"NATO warns Serb hardliners not to retaliate"
Thursday July 10 10:31 AM EDT
BRUSSELS, July 10 (Reuter) - NATO Secretary-Gernal Javier Solana
warned hardline Bosnian Serbs on Thursday not to retaliate for the
death of a former police chief killed by NATO forces as they tried to
arrest him.
``We will not tolerate any behaviour by any of the parties contrary to
the Dayton peace agreement,'' he said in a statement.
Simo Srljaca, the former police chief of Prijedor, was killed earlier
on Thursday when he fired on soldiers trying to arrest him on war
crimes charges.
Solana praised NATO forces involved in the operation for their
``professionalism and dedication.''
The statement said NATO-led SFOR (stabilisation force) troops had
returned fire ``in self defence'' after one of the indicted men fired
at them after being challenged.
The statement underlined that the troops' actions were undertaken
under the SFOR mandate which allows troops in Bosnia to detain
indicted war criminals when encountered in the course of their duties.
In Sarajevo, NATO said a British soldier was slightly wounded in the
clash with Drljaca.
``Indicted war crimininal Simo Drljaca, former police chief in
Prijedor, opened fire on SFOR soldiers as they approached for the
purpose of detaining him,'' said the Sarajevo statement.
``One of the SFOR soldiers was wounded in the process. Drjlaca was
killed when fire was returned in self-defence,'' it said.
The NATO-led SFOR detained another suspect, Milan Kovacevic, director
of a hospital in the northwest town of Prijedor, without incident in a
separate operation at about 0730 GMT.
NATO spokesman Major Chris Riley told reporters in Sarajevo that
Kovacevic would be handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal
for Former Yugoslavia and later extradited to The Hague to await
trial.
Riley said NATO's mandate in Bosnia had not changed and that there
were no orders to hunt down war crimes suspects.
He said that SFOR troops had encountered the two suspects during their
regular duties as both men held official positions.
Drljaca became an adviser to the Bosnian Serb interior ministry after
he was forced to step down as police chief in Prijedor.
The alliance has ruled out ``man hunts'' and said its troops in Bosnia
will only arrest suspects encountered during peacekeeping duties.
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"NATO forces capture one Bosnian war crimes suspect, kill another"
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (July 10, 1997 6:45 p.m. EDT) -- NATO
forces captured one Serb war crimes suspect and killed another
Thursday, delivering a stark warning to Bosnia's most wanted: NATO no
longer will turn a blind eye to their continued presence and power.
British troops, backed by U.S. transport, arrested two other Bosnian
Serbs in the unprecedented raid in northwest Bosnia. But they didn't
target the biggest suspects -- Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic
and his former military chief, Gen. Ratko Mladic.
The operations, the first of their kind since NATO sent troops into
Bosnia 18 months ago, signal a tough new effort to nail suspects who
move freely, sometimes ostentatiously, in the republic despite the
30,000 foreign troops there.
Western nations worry that if such people remain free, the Dayton
peace agreement will collapse and new fighting will break out when
NATO-led foreign troops leave next year. The troops came to Bosnia as
part of the Dayton accords that ended a 3 1/2-year war and split the
country between the Serbs and a Muslim-Croat federation.
Western officials insisted there was no change in the NATO force's
orders, which bar troops from tracking down war crime suspects but
allow their capture if soldiers happen to come upon them. The rules
allow plenty of room for interpretation, and the latest interpretation
appeared to be aimed at taking stronger action.
American soldiers contributed transportation and other logistical
support to the raid. "It was the appropriate thing to do," President
Clinton said.
British troops descended on the suspects in Prijedor, 120 miles
northwest of Sarajevo, the site of some of the worst Serb prison camps
at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992.
When they tried to arrest Simo Drljaca, a former Prijedor police
chief, he "immediately drew a pistol and shot and wounded one of our
soldiers," said Defense Secretary George Robertson of Britain.
Drljaca was killed in the shootout that followed, and the British
soldier was hit in the leg.
Bosnian Serb television claimed that Drljaca was "brutally murdered."
It showed an alleged witness -- unidentified -- who claimed that
Drljaca was shot twice, the second time as he lay bleeding and
shivering on the ground.
The local hospital chief, Milan Kovacevic, was arrested without
incident and sent Thursday to the international war crimes tribunal in
The Hague, Netherlands.
Two other men who accompanied Drljaca also were turned over to
tribunal officials in Bosnia, said NATO spokesman Maj. Chris Riley in
Sarajevo. Tribunal officials in the Netherlands said the two
companions of the slain man were not under indictment, and were not
expected to be sent to the court.
Official Bosnian Serb media reported Kovacevic was grabbed by four
British soldiers who entered the hospital claiming to have a Red Cross
package for him. It said the other group was nabbed on its way back
from a fishing trip.
Drljaca and Kovacevic had been indicted on charges of complicity in
genocide for their actions in 1992, when non-Serbs in the region were
rounded up, expelled or killed.
According to New York-based Human Rights Watch, Drljaca helped set up
and run prison camps where inmates were allegedly interrogated,
tortured and killed.
Kovacevic allegedly oversaw transport of Muslim prisoners to one of
the camps, the human rights group said.
The roundup occurred one day after Clinton -- at the NATO summit in
Madrid -- reaffirmed the alliance's mission to arrest suspected war
criminals if "the risk is appropriate."
NATO commanders previously interpreted their orders narrowly. But on
Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said it was enough that
the suspects were in the sector of Bosnia controlled by British
troops, and were known to them.
"There are a lot of people who are not going to be sleeping very
easily," said British Defense Secretary George Robertson.
But bigger catches may be harder for NATO to come by.
Karadzic recently boosted security in his headquarters in Pale, east
of Sarajevo. Townspeople say he sleeps in different houses to avoid
nighttime raids and has surrounded his own house with mine fields. He
also controls the Bosnian police and wields considerable influence
with the army.
Bosnian officials in Sarajevo greeted the move as a turning point in
the effort to put Bosnia back together. Serbs were furious, saying
they would fight any effort to grab Karadzic.
The chief aide to Karadzic, Momcilo Krajisnik, denounced what he said
was "liquidation of Serbs in Bosnia." The move jeopardized peace, he
said.
Serbs interviewed in Pale said they feared the troops would next go
after Karadzic, and vowed to fight.
"This proves that the Americans are enemies of the Serb people," said
35-year-old Ljuba Jovanovic. "But they will never get a hold of
Radovan, even if we all have to die for him."
The operation was likely to strengthen Karadzic in his power struggle
against the Bosnian Serb president, Biljana Plavsic. She protested the
operation Thursday, charging that it undermined her efforts against
Karadzic.
-- By SRECKO LATAL, the Associated Press.
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CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS TOWARD THE COMING RUSSIAN COUP
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"Russia Denounces NATO Expansion as Big Mistake"
Tuesday July 8 5:07 PM EDT
By Timothy Heritage
MOSCOW (Reuter) - Russia denounced NATO's expansion into formerly
Communist Eastern Europe Tuesday as the worst mistake on the continent
since World War II.
Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov said Moscow still opposed
enlargement despite signing a partnership deal with its former Cold
War foe in May.
"Regarding the question of NATO expansion, I can only say that we
confirm our stand," Primakov told reporters in Moscow.
"Despite the fact that we have signed a broad, balanced agreement with
NATO, we still consider expansion the biggest mistake in Europe since
the end of World War II."
Primakov, speaking after talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar
Ayub Khan, made no further comment on the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization's summit in Madrid.
He was repeating Moscow's already routine opposition to NATO's plans
to admit Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Russia, fearing isolation from decision-making on European security
matters, says enlargement threatens its security and creates new
divisions instead of building a security system that encompasses all
European countries.
President Boris Yeltsin resisted NATO's expansion plans until he
signed what is known as the Founding Act with the alliance in May. The
agreement created a joint council which gives Moscow a say, but not a
veto, in some security matters.
Yeltsin was on vacation in northwestern Russia Tuesday and made no
immediate comment on the Madrid summit.
Yeltsin's Communist and nationalist opponents have accused him of
betraying national interests by making a deal with NATO.
"July 8, 1997, will go down forever as a day of national shame for
Russia," the pro-Communist newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya said Tuesday.
It said NATO's border was moving closer to Russia's frontier "as a
result of the Kremlin's line of capitulation."
But a government official, who declined to be named, portrayed
Russia's recent diplomacy in a positive light.
The official told Interfax news agency that Russia had outplayed the
Eastern European countries seeking admission to NATO. They would
become full members in two years, he said, but Russia had secured an
immediate say in alliance affairs.
"As for Russia, it already has an opportunity to really influence
alliance policy in the framework of the permanent council which, in
line with the Founding Act, will get down to business no later than
September 27," the official said.
Some Western analysts have said NATO enlargement might strengthen
ultra-nationalists and Communists in Russia who are opposed to
significant democratic reform and closer relations with the West while
dreaming of a restored Russian empire.
But even Yeltsin's immediate circle and liberals in his reformist
government are troubled by NATO expansion.
A Russian military official told Interfax that Moscow regretted NATO's
refusal to make written guarantees that it will not offer membership
at some time in the future to former Soviet republics.
"The refusal to state this in the text of the Russia-NATO Founding Act
raises doubts about the sincerity of the NATO leaders' intentions,"
said the official, who was not named.
Moscow has said it will review relations with NATO if the alliance
lures in former Soviet republics and has expressed particular concern
that it will reach out to the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania.
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"NATO Hails Summit as Dawn of New Era"
Wednesday July 9 2:22 PM EDT
By Matt Spetalnick
MADRID (Reuter) - Wrapping up an historic two-day summit, NATO leaders
Wednesday hailed the alliance's eastward expansion as the dawning of a
new era of European peace and security.
U.S. President Bill Clinton predicted that would create "a new, deeper
and broader alliance" and would help erase Cold War divisions between
East and West.
But the debate among NATO members over enlargement also bared serious
differences over the U.S. role as the world's sole remaining
superpower and exposed simmering resentment about what is seen as
growing American heavy-handedness.
The bickering that marked the summit's closed-door sessions came into
public view at the leaders' final news conferences, with Clinton and
French President Jacques Chirac at odds over the costs of the biggest
expansion in NATO's 48-year history.
Chirac, who had differed sharply with Clinton on how far and how fast
the alliance should expand, told reporters that France would not pay
an extra franc toward NATO's budget to finance the admission of new
members.
"We took a very simple position, that enlargement should be done at
zero cost," he said, arguing that there was no longer a military
threat in Europe and the alliance needed lighter structures and
smaller forces.
But at a separate news conference, Clinton said the United States and
its allies would have to bear "modest costs" for building military
infrastructure in the new member states.
Cost estimates for NATO's eastward enlargement have varied wildly,
with the Clinton administration putting the pricetag at $27-35 billion
by 2009 while the U.S. Congress budget office put it as high as $100-
200 billion.
"The negotiations were difficult, sometimes sharp, but we were able to
build a bridge," German Chancellor Helmut Kohl told reporters. "This
is a huge success."
NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana said: "The decisions we have
taken here yesterday and today have been fundamental ... for the
security of our continent."
Chirac, who led a bloc urging wider enlargement, told reporters: "You
can always say that it's not enough and not fast enough but you can't
ignore that progress has been very rapid."
Chirac had pressed hard for Romania and Slovenia to be included in the
first wave. But he ultimately accepted a compromise under which the
alliance pledged to keep the door open for future enlargement rounds.
Clinton had steadfastly maintained that the three favourites were the
only ones among the 12 NATO applicants politically, economically and
militarily ready for membership. His view prevailed.
But after the summit ended, Chirac told reporters he was certain NATO
would invite Romania and Slovenia to join in 1999 when it marks its
50th anniversary.
During the second day of the summit, NATO took another major step
toward redrawing the European security map, inaugurating a new council
of nations spanning North America, Europe and former Soviet Asia.
Leaders of the alliance and 28 partners formally launched the Euro-
Atlantic Partnership Council, an organization intended to meet the
security concerns of non-NATO members.
NATO also signed a sweeping new security charter with Ukraine, sealing
the Slav nation's shift away from the former Soviet sphere of
influence and closer to the Western orbit.
The new grouping includes countries seeking alliance membership like
Romania and Slovenia, neutrals such as Switzerland and Austria, and
former Soviet republics like Lithuania and Tajikistan.
Russia is also a member, but in a clear sign of protest against NATO's
enlargement, President Boris Yeltsin snubbed the alliance by sending
only a deputy prime minister to head its delegation at the inaugural
ceremony. Almost all other delegations were headed by presidents and
prime ministers.
The council, which will have a permanent secretariat at NATO's
Brussels headquarters, is intended to fill the security vacuum created
after the collapse of European communism.
It gives a direct channel of communication to NATO in case of any
external threat, a forum for political consultation and a basis for
joint military exercises.
Unspoken at the NATO summit is the fear that Russia may some day
abandon the road to democratic reforms and again threaten its
neighbors.
Moscow called NATO's expansion the worst mistake on the continent
since World War Two, and has warned against offering alliance
membership to former Soviet republics, saying it would consider this a
threat to its security.
Risking Russia's wrath, the Baltic states Lithuania, Latvia and
Estonia have applied anyway. Latvian President Guntis Ulmanis told
reporters on Wednesday: "I think we will join in the near future,
within the next five to seven years."
Critics of NATO enlargement say it could revive Cold War tension by
isolating Russia and sowing envy among nations who are excluded from
the alliance.
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"Moscow tested nuclear forces against NATO attack"
MADRID (July 8, 1997 7:09 p.m. EDT) -- In a military exercise that
involved nuclear forces, Russia tested its command-and-control
facilities against a hypothetical NATO attack in late March and early
April.
The exercise did not provoke a confrontation with the United States.
"We did not see this as a challenge," a Clinton administration
official said Tuesday, confirming the substance of an account in "The
Washington Times."
The exercise involved Russian planes carrying nuclear weapons and also
some troops, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Russia's aim was to see how its command-and-control system and
communications might function in the event of a military conflict.
A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Michael Doubleday, declined to
comment "on information from intelligence sources."
Doubleday added that NATO officials have been working hard to counter
the perception among some in Russia that the alliance is hostile to
it.
"NATO is a defensive alliance, and any perception that NATO is going
to be aggressive against another country is absurd," he added.
The exercise came to light as NATO decided to invite Poland, Hungary
and the Czech Republic to join the alliance in 1999.
Russia, itself, has been granted stronger ties with NATO but no direct
involvement in alliance military decisions.
The "Times," quoting a Pentagon intelligence report, said the exercise
simulated attacks invading NATO, Lithuanian and Polish military forces
and counterattacks with nuclear weapons.
The exercise was viewed by many Pentagon officials as a sign the
Russian military continues to regard NATO as its key threat and
primary enemy, despite the agreement reached at the summit in Finland
in March outlining Moscow's cooperation with NATO, and Western
assurances that no nuclear weapons would be placed in the new NATO
states, the "newspaper" said.
The Russian maneuvers began a few days after the summit between
President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki.
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
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"Russian military warns Yeltsin of mutiny over cuts"
By Richard Beeston in Moscow
THE Russian military establishment has given President Yeltsin a
warning that he faces the first mutiny in the armed forces for nearly
two centuries if he goes ahead with unpopular reforms to slash the
number of men in uniform.
Threatened with the loss of 600,000 troops under plans currently
being drawn up by General Igor Sergeyev, the newly-appointed Defence
Minister, several retired generals have urged serving officers to
"take the matter into their own hands".
The issue came to the surface last week when General Lev Rokhlin,
a popular former combat officer who now heads the parliamentary
defence committee, issued a damning seven-page open letter to Mr
Yeltsin blaming him for the destruction of the armed forces.
General Rokhlin, who commanded Russian troops during the bloody
capture of Grozny, the Chechen capital, before running for parliament
in a pro-Yeltsin faction, said he had been forced to act to prevent
the collapse of the armed forces.
"You fooled the nation and the military, failing to fulfil your
pre-election promises," said General Rokhlin, whose outburst may cost
him his position in the Our Home is Russia faction. "You have destined
the armed forces to destruction."
In the letter, General Rokhlin predicted that if the military was
weakened any further, Russia would lose control of the Far East and
Siberia in the next century. He said Russia's future as a nuclear
power was also under threat, and blamed Mr Yeltsin personally for the
disastrous military campaign in Chechnya.
By far his most inflammatory remarks were addressed to serving
officers. He advised them to mobilise and issue the Kremlin with
demands. "Unite, elect your leaders and demand that your legitimate
rights be exercised," he said. "Do not hope that someone else will do
this for you. Our unity in resisting the disintegration of the army is
the guarantee of our success."
Not surprisingly, the comments sent a chill through the Kremlin.
Although there has not been a military insurrection since the
Decembrist uprising of 1825, the present lamentable state of the armed
forces could provide a fertile ground for mutiny.
General Sergeyev, whose plans to reduce the armed forces from 1.8
million to 1.2 million must be completed by July 25, on Sunday
denounced the letter as incitement "to revolt".
"We now have to choose between a large but insufficiently capable
army, or a smaller but combat-ready army," he said, defending his
plans, which propose radical measures such as merging the army and
navy . "I think the choice is clear."
However, the military establishment has yet to be persuaded. Most
commentators believe that General Rokhlin was prompted to take action
at the behest of powerful senior officers in the military, who may be
among the first to be sacked under the reform plan.
Senior figures in politics and the military have been eager to
line up alongside General Rokhlin. He has won the backing of General
Aleksandr Lebed, the former paratrooper and presidential candidate,
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultra-nationalist leader, and leading
communists, like Viktor Ilyukhin, the chairman of the parliamentary
security committee.
"Rokhlin is right, the army is going to pieces," General Lebed
said. "This is clear even to those who are far from the army. It is
clear that the Commander-in-Chief (Yeltsin) is not competent."
Although in the past there has been talk of rebellion in the armed
forces, there is so far no evidence of any serious conspiracy, despite
unpaid wages, low morale, and a sharp rise in the number of suicides
among both soldiers and officers.
Nevertheless, the Kremlin cannot afford to be complacent after the
rabble-rousing remarks by General Rokhlin.
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Russian Press Digest
July 10, 1997
"Movement In Support For The Army Or A New Coup?"
By Lyubov Poleshanina
New movement being formed by rebellious General Lev Rokhlin is joined
by retired army and KGB top brass opposed to military reform and
threatening with "insurgence of dissatisfied officers."
The organizing committee of the Movement for Support to the Army,
the Defense Industry and Military Research being formed by rebellious
General Lev Rokhlin, Chairman of the parliamentary Defense Committee,
held its first meeting yesterday, July 9, reports KOMMERSANT-DAILY.
Addressing the meeting, Rokhlin said that if army officers "rise in
rebellion and march to Moscow," he would be among them. Answering a
question put by Colonel-General Grigory Yakshin, a close ally of
Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, Rokhlin said: "I am prepared to go
under a red banner." Meanwhile, Rokhlin's closest associate in the new
movement, ex-Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, told a KOMMERSANT-DAILY
correspondent that the best presidential candidate for servicemen was
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
The backbone of the new organization is comrpomises former leaders
of the abortive coup in August 1991 -- former KGB chief Vladimir
Kryuchkov and army general Valentin Varennikov; Stanislav Terekhov,
head of the Officers' Union, who took part in another coup attempt in
October 1993; and Vladislav Achalov, former Deputy Defense Minister of
the USSR, who took part in both coups. The paper does not rule out a
possibility that the movement will be joined by General Alexander
Lebed.
Persons who previously preferred to remain in the shadow and did
not disclose their political views are in the movement. One of them is
Leonid Shebarshin, former chief of the Main Department of the KGB in
the Soviet years. The movement has been joined also the Club of State
Security Veterans, the Council of Military Intelligence Veterans, the
All-Russia of War Veterans, and some other organizations.
The retired officers of the army and the KGB intend to demand an
end to the military reform and the reform of the secret services
announced by the President. In their view, the reform will lead to the
disintegration of the state. Otherwise, they threaten to launch an
"insurgence of dissatisfied officers."
The paper writes further that these veterans, who are considered
to have been behind the attempted coups, have for the first time come
into the open and declared that they are an influential force. This
may signify that, first, the statements of the new presidential team
about the start of an army reform and the anti-corruption purge in the
"power structures" are not empty words, and that the most conservative
part of the power structures are making the last attempt to regain
their lost power. Second, they might have learned lessons from the
previous abortive coups. The fact that people like Shebarshin have
blown their cover and appeared in company with the organizers of the
1991 and 1993 coups leaves no doubt that if they decide to stage
another coup, they will try their best to achieve their goal.
Another paper, NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA 07/10/97, p. 1â writes that
Rokhlin's stand is shared by the opposition in the State Duma. At the
same time, the paper writes, there is an impression that the
communists do not want to irritate the Kremlin for the time being and
prefer to elaborate a common strategy secretly. One of Zyuganov's
associates was seen visiting Lev Rokhlin's office quite often.
Boris Yeltsin could have ignored this development if it were not
for the fact that Rokhlin is going to call an All-Army Officers'
Meeting to discuss whether Commander-in-Chief Yeltsin suits this post.
Depending on Yeltsin's response, various developments may follow. The
worst scenario is that armored divisions may enter Moscow to "picket
the Government building." The mechanism of calling an Officers'
Meeting was developed in detail by Igor Rodionov before his dismissal
from the post of Defense Minister. In this situation Rokhlin may use
Rodionov's ideas in order to launch an offensive on the Kremlin,
jointly with the communist and nationalist opposition in fall.
Yet another paper, IZVESTIA 07/10/97, p. 1â writes that the main
thought uttered by Rokhlin at the meeting of the organizing committee
was -- to solve the proclaimed goals it would be necessary to unite
the entire opposition and come out against the negative course of the
country's leadership.
Though political party formally take no part in Rokhlin's
movement, a large part of its founders are in the communist-dominated
People's Patriotic Union, and generals from the Communist Party
leadership are quite active in this affair as well, writes SEGODNYA
07/10/97. p. 3â.
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The Moscow Times
July 11, 1997
"Something's Fishy on Yeltsin's Holiday"
By Charles Digges
PETROZAVODSK, Northwest Russia - When President Boris Yeltsin
arrived in a Karelian lakeside village for his two-month fishing
vacation, his entourage included his wife, his daughter, a big
security detail - and about 10,000 fish.
Yeltsin arrived Monday for a holiday at the town of Shuya on Lake
Ukshe, about 30 kilometers north of Petrozavodsk.
Russian media have billed the trip as a working-fishing vacation.
Although Yeltsin was never known before as a big fisherman, Russian
media reports have him doing spectacularly well - thanks apparently to
the Karelian Fisheries Commission.
"We were told by the (Petrozavodsk) city administration to make
sure (Yeltsin) had a good time, and that's what we're doing," said a
commissioner with the fisheries commission in a telephone interview.
"There are probably an extra 10,000 fish that were specially stocked
for the president."
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