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Is this not crystal clear? The military-intelligence ploy is to Crosbie Saint, in charge of the company's "International Group", finance both sides of the conflict, provide military aid to one side coordinates MPRI's various operations in Kosovo and Macedonia and finance the other side. And then "make them fight". It's a as well as in Croatia and Bosnia. In turn, Saint, who is a former sinister military-intelligence game, an "insider operation" with US director of military intelligence, is in permanent contact with the military advisers on both sides from the same mercenary outfit Pentagon, KFOR and the CIA."* (the MPRI). Macedonia's Stability and Deterrence Program is in fact largely supported by US foreign military sales (FMS); name- |THE HIDDEN AGENDA ly, MPRI is in charge of delivering to (i.e., dumping on) the So what kind of war is this? Both sides in the Macedonia bor- Macedonian Armed Forces obsolete weapons and hardware that der war are controlled by the US. American military personnel the US Department of Defense wants to from the same private mercenary compa- get rid of. ny are stationed on "both sides of the Moreover, with its various sources of fence", assisting their local counterparts financing (drugs, Islamic organisations, Since the end of the Cold War, to fight a war on Washington's behest. US military aid, contributions from the If this war is allowed to continue, it US-Albanian community), the KLA Washington has been involved will inevitably lead to the escalation of and its Macedonian proxy, the Ushtira In channelling covert financing ethnic hatred, civilian casualties and Clirimtare Komtare, have the upper H H ivi i i refugee numbers. This in turn will edge. The money channelled from vari- and triggering civil conflicts in result in political destabilisation and ous sources, including the drug trade, different parts of the world social unrest in both Macedonia and far exceeds the meagre FMS allocations including Central Africa, the Yugoslavia, thereby providing a pretext granted in the form of surplus military . to Washington and NATO to intervene equipment to the Macedonian Ministry Caucasus and Central Asia. directly under the guise of "peacekeep- of Defence." ing" and "confidence building". Also The friendly and cordial meetings included in the hidden agenda is the held in Skopje in July 2000 between mobilisation of ethnic Albanians in General Henry H. Shelton, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Macedonia to support or become part of the KLA's structure. Staff, and his Macedonian counterpart, General Jovan Andrevski, In other words, Washington is "financing ethnic warfare" as a constitute an obvious smokescreen. While America's top brass means to achieve broad geopolitical, strategic and economic pays lip service to its PfP partner and ally, the KLA—with the objectives using the KLA as a proxy force. support of the Albanian—American community—is actively Meanwhile, the "international community", warning of an recruiting US citizens to fight as volunteers against the impending "humanitarian disaster", has sent in an army of Macedonian Security Forces.'° observers and human rights experts with a mandate to protect the Bear in mind that this pattern of "financing both sides" is not _ political and social rights of ethnic Albanians. This brokered limited to the Balkans. Since the end of the Cold War, "reconciliation"—imposed by NATO under UN auspices—is Washington has been involved in channelling covert financing based on the premise that ethnic Albanians in Macedonia are an and triggering civil conflicts in different parts of the world includ- oppressed social minority. It not only fosters socio-ethnic divi- ing Central Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia. By financing sions within Macedonia; it also provides legitimacy to the KLA- both sides of the conflict, the US controls the outcome of the war. sponsored "freedom fighters" as well as international media sym- pathy. It tends to discredit the Macedonian Security Forces, MPRI OVERSEES THE SHOW thereby weakening their ability to fight the KLA. sh ae MIDPT ws Crosbie Saint, in charge of the company's "International Group", coordinates MPRI's various operations in Kosovo and Macedonia as well as in Croatia and Bosnia. In turn, Saint, who is a former director of military intelligence, is in permanent contact with the Pentagon, KFOR and the CIA."* Since the end of the Cold War, Washington has been involved in channelling covert financing and triggering civil conflicts in different parts of the world including Central Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia. MPRI OVERSEES THE SHOW MPRI, which recruits a wide range of military and intelligence expertise from its databank of former military personnel, is controlled by a andful of former generals and ex-CIA officers. General Rich Griffitts (Retired), responsible for MPRI's program in Macedonia, talks to the Macedonian Chief of Staff. He also talks to KLA Commander Agim Ceku, with whom he has had a longstanding relationship since Operation Storm in Croatia in 1995. Ceku is art of the MPRI's "old boys' network". In col- laboration with MPRI, he was one of the main architects of Operation Storm. In this capacity, e also acted as commander of the artillery divi- sion, which ruthlessly shelled Krajina Serb civilians.” Whether MPRI personnel stationed in Kosovo are in direct contact or communication with their colleagues in Macedonia is not the issue: all MPRI military staff in the field report back to Rich Griffitt, Crosbie Saint and Carl Vuono (President of MPRI) at the company's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. IF THE W.T.O. KEEPS WORKING ITS MAGIC TL FIGURE Ir! ABOUT Tw YEARS WE'LL HAVE A WOODEN- CRATE LEMONADE FRANCHISE on EVERY STREET CORNEL on THE PLANET, ens JUNE — JULY 2001 NEXUS = 31 www.nexusmagazine.com