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Opgedragen aan de onschuldigen by pIET Friday September 28, 2001 at 12:58 PM |
Death on a Very Small Planet
* "I think no power to your refrigerator, no gas to your stove, you can't get to work because the bridge is down - the bridge on which you held your rock concerts and you all stood with targets on your heads. That needs to disappear at three o'clock in the morning." (U.S. Air Force General Michael Short quoted in 'International Herald Tribune' 14 May 1999.
[Gen. Short was explaining the philosophy behind bombing civilian facilities including hospitals, homes and chemical factories, killing thousands of people in Yugoslavia. Short was in charge of NATO's three month air war. Many of NATO's bombs were encased in uranium.]
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* ter·ror
ter·ror (ter?er) noun
4. Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
- ['American Heritage Dictionary,' 3rd Edition, from Microsoft Bookshelf '98 CD]
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* "Nasir Oric's war trophies don't line the wall of his comfortable apartment. They're on videocassette tape: burned Serb houses and headless Serb men, bodies crumpled in a pathetic heap
'"We had to use cold weapons that night,' Oric explains as scenes of dead men sliced by knives roll over his 21-inch Sony...Reclining on an overstuffed couch, clothed head to toe in camouflage fatigues, a U.S. Army patch proudly displayed over his heart…the Muslim commander is the toughest guy in this town [of Srebrenica], which the U.N. Security Council has declared a protected 'safe area.'" ('Washington Post,' 16 February 1994)
[Nasir Oric was Commander of the Islamist forces in Srebrenica. His forces used terror raids to empty surrounding villages of Serbs and Yugoslav-loyalist Muslims. His Commander in Chief was Bosnian President Alijah Izetbegovic. Izetbegovic was strongly supported by the U.S. government and glorified in the Western media as tolerant and democratic. Oric has never been arrested for his crimes. He runs a discotheque in Tuzla in Bosnia.]
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* Quote from Bosnian President Alijah Izetbegovic's book, "Islamic Declaration:"
"...There can be no peace or coexistence between the "Islamic faith" and non-Islamic societies and political institutions. Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of any strange ideology on its own turf…and the state should be an expression …of the religion. ..." ('Islamska Deklaracija,' p. 22)
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* U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia Zimmerman, interviewed in January, 1992: "As for Mr. Izetbegovic, we heard that some call him a Muslim fundamentalist. We know what fundamentalism really does, as we were its victims in Iran. That is why we do not believe that Izetbegovic is some sort of fundamentalist. Actually, it seems like he is a moderate politician who is trying to do the best in a difficult situation. "
[Interview was published in Croatian newspaper, 'Danas.' Click here for translation of interview with comments.]
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* "No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." (MEDITATION XVII., Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne)