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Posted on 04/06/2004 4:54:40 PM PDT by DTA
We bombed the wrong side?
Lewis MacKenzie
Five years ago our television screens were dominated by pictures of Kosovo-Albanian refugees escaping across Kosovo's borders to the sanctuaries of Macedonia and Albania. Shrill reports indicated that Slobodan Milosevic's security forces were conducting a campaign of genocide and that at least 100,000 Kosovo-Albanians had been exterminated and buried in mass graves throughout the Serbian province. NATO sprung into action and, in spite of the fact no member nation of the alliance was threatened, commenced bombing not only Kosovo, but the infrastructure and population of Serbia itself -- without the authorizing United Nations resolution so revered by Canadian leadership, past and present.
Those of us who warned that the West was being sucked in on the side of an extremist, militant, Kosovo-Albanian independence movement were dismissed as appeasers. The fact that the lead organization spearheading the fight for independence, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was universally designated a terrorist organization and known to be receiving support from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda was conveniently ignored.
The recent dearth of news in the North American media regarding the increase in violence in Kosovo compared to the comprehensive coverage in the European press strongly suggests that we Canadians don't like to admit it when we are wrong. On the contrary, selected news clips on this side of the ocean continue to reinforce the popular spin that those dastardly Serbs are at it again.
A case in point was the latest crisis that exploded on March 15. The media reported that four Albanian boys had been chased into the river Ibar in Mitrovica by at least two Serbs and a dog (the dog's ethnic affiliation was not reported). Three of the boys drowned and one escaped to the other side. Immediately, thousands of Albanians mobilized and concentrated in the area of the divided city. Attacks on Serbs took place throughout the province resulting in an estimated 30 killed and 600 wounded. Thirty Serbian Christian Orthodox churches and monasteries were destroyed, more than 300 homes were burnt to the ground and six Serbian villages cleansed of their occupants. One hundred and fifty international peacekeepers were injured.
Totally ignored in North America were the numerous statements from impartial sources that said there was no incident between the Serbs, the dog and the Albanian boys. NATO Police spokesman Derek Chappell stated on March 16 that it was "definitely not true" that the boys had been chased into the river by Serbs. Chappell went on to say that the surviving boy had told his parents that they had entered the river alone and that three of his friends had been swept away by the current. Admiral Gregory Johnson, the overall NATO commander, further stated that the ensuing clashes were "orchestrated and well-planned ethnic cleansing" by the Kosovo-Albanians. Those Serbs forced to leave joined the 200,000 who had been cleansed from the province since NATO's "humanitarian" bombing in 1999. The '"cleansees" have become very effective "cleansers."
In the same week a number of individuals posing as Serbs ambushed and killed a UN policeman and his local police partner. During the firefight one of them was wounded which caused an immediate switch from Serbian to Albanian as he screamed, "I've been hit"! The UN pursued the attackers and tracked them to an Albanian-run farm where they discovered weapons and the wounded Albanian who had died from his wounds. Four Albanians were arrested. Once again, the ambush had been reported in the United States but not the follow-up which clearly indicated yet another orchestrated provocation by the Albanian terrorists.
Kosovo is administered by the UN, the very organization many Canadians have indicated they would like to see take over from the United States in Iraq. The fact the UN cannot order its civilian employees to go or stay anywhere -- they have to volunteer -- combined with recent history that saw the UN abandon Iraq after a single brutal attack on their compound in Baghdad and the reality that Kosovo, under the organization's administration, is a basket case, disqualifies it from consideration for such a role.
Since the NATO/UN intervention in 1999, Kosovo has become the crime capital of Europe. The sex slave trade is flourishing. The province has become an invaluable transit point for drugs en route to Europe and North America. Ironically, the majority of the drugs come from another state "liberated" by the West, Afghanistan. Members of the demobilized, but not eliminated, KLA are intimately involved in organized crime and the government. The UN police arrest a small percentage of those involved in criminal activities and turn them over to a judiciary with a revolving door that responds to bribes and coercion. The objective of the Albanians is to purge all non-Albanians, including the international community's representatives, from Kosovo and ultimately link up with mother Albania thereby achieving the goal of "Greater Albania." The campaign started with their attacks on Serbian security forces in the early 1990s and they were successful in turning Milosevic's heavy-handed response into worldwide sympathy for their cause. There was no genocide as claimed by the West -- the 100,000 allegedly buried in mass graves turned out to be around 2,000, of all ethnic origins, including those killed in combat during the war itself.
The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo.We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world.
Funny how we just keep digging the hole deeper!
Maj-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, now retired, commanded UN troops during the Bosnian civil war of 1992.
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Um, yeah. Whatever.
I would expect them to despise us, as well they should. Our siding with radical Muslims in a war against Serb Christians is embarrassing, indefensible, ......horrific.
perhaps you could compare those different approaches for us. How does the approach of Dallaire contrast with the approach of MacKenzie, for example?
The differences are painfully obvious, and they don't reflect well upon Mackenzie.
The Commission is unable to determine the amount of harm and the exact number of violations committed by each of the warring factions. Nevertheless, it is clear that there is no factual basis for arguing that there is a "moral equivalence" between the warring factions. - UN Commission of Experts Report on Bosnia, 1994
Sorry that Mackenzie's statement doesn't conform to your desire to avoid glib generalizations, but that's part of the problem, isn't it?
Let me tell you how this is going to play out:
I'm going to lay out the facts on the ground, and then you're going to deny them in the case of Bosnia.
Ergo, any discussion as to Mackenzie vs. Dallaire is moot, isn't it?
For example, after over a year of preparation, Serbia invaded Bosnia in 1992 and conducted a war of aggression against it's neighbor.
Do you agree with the above statement?
I doubt it, and nothing, to include the submission of reports of various Serbian paramilitaries or an entire JNA Corps travelling across the Drina will suffice, will it?
Germany's erstwhile Arab ally, Iraq, had already been defeated and occupied by the British, and few Palestinian Arabs could or would sneak out of the British mandate, so most of the recruits came from occupied Yugoslavia, including Kosovo.
After the war, instead of hanging al-Husseini as a war criminal, the British restored him to office and he survived into the 1970s as the spiritual leader of the Palestinian people.
Interestingly, al-Husseini had blonde hair and blue eyes. This is not especially rare in that particular clan and may have been a factor in his popularity with the nazis.
Ergo, any discussion as to Mackenzie vs. Dallaire is moot, isn't it?
I can't tell whether it's moot because you hinted at a comparison, even tempting us with the comment it was "interesting" but haven't actually made the comparison yet nor supported it with specifics, which I asked you nicely to do. Please tell me about about Dallaire. A comparison isn't a comparison unless you're comparing 2 things.
We can quote lots of experts on the facts on the ground in Bosnia, can't we? Like the notoriously Serbophile and pro-Milosevic U.S. Information Agency, whose research disclosed that Serbs report the most lost family members of any group in Bosnia during the Bosnian war (not to mention the question of lost land - RS comprises 49% of Bosnia's territory, while Serbs formed a demographic plurality on +/-70% of pre-war Bosnia). Then there's the expert Charles Boyd, the former Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command, from November 1992 to July 1995, who wrote,
Much of what Zagreb calls the occupied territories is in fact land held by Serbs for more than three centuries, ever since imperial Austria moved Serbs to the frontier (the Krajina) to protect the shopkeepers of Vienna (and Zageb) from the Ottomans. The same is true of most Serb land in Bosnia, what the Western media frequently refers to as the 70 percent of was Bosnia seized by rebel Serbs. There were only 500,000 fewer Serbs than Muslims in Bosnia at independence, with the more rural Serbs tending toward larger landholdings. In short, the Serbs are not trying to conquer new territory, but merely to hold on to what was already theirs.
(Foreign Affairs, 1995)
Then there's the experts at the U.S. State Dept., who determined that Serb fatalities and losses in the Bosnian civil war were proportionate to their presence in the pre-war population, and that by the spring of '95, before the massive co-ordinated offensives against BSA-held areas by the Bosnian Army and Nato, total fatalities in the Bosnian war were in the vicinity of 50-60k. And there's the expert report to the Security Council in 1992, which confirmed that the Yugoslav army had withdrawn from Bosnia within the time limit mandated by the SC, and which was suppressed with U.S. connivance, leading to draconian sanctions on Yugoslavia, while "independent" Croatia's army remained on Bosnia's territory illegally, with no sanctions imposed on Croatia. So we just have a plethora of "experts" we can draw upon here can't we?
MacKenzie's consistent account of a civil war in which no side were angels and in which press reporting became parti pris for one side and fact-free stands up very well over time and accords with lots of *experts* actually. Which brings me again to Dallaire. Please answer my question. How does Dallaire's service to the facts come out better? Fyi, here's a report, with transcription, of his cross-exam at the ICTR. NB how he doesn't "defy" the facts or try to invoke "historical animosities", or anything:
Rwandan colonel's lawyer attacks Dallaire's credibility Last Updated Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:19:34 ARUSHA, TANZANIA - Defence lawyers at a United Nations tribunal tried to undermine Roméo Dallaire's testimony Wednesday, attacking his memory of events leading up to the massacre in Rwanda 10 years ago and questioning his fairness when he headed the UN mission in the country.
Rafael Constant
The retired Canadian general has been testifying against Theoneste Bagosora and three other former Rwandan army officials who are accused of instigating the 100-day genocide that left more than half a million Rwandans dead.
Lawyer Rafael Constant, who represents Bagosora, spent hours Wednesday trying to demonstrate that Dallaire had a clear prejudice against the mostly Hutu government that has been blamed for killing Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
He implied that Dallaire had omitted important facts in his book, Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.
"The book is the result of heated debates with my editor," replied Dallaire. "Not everything I know is in the book. It is a compromise."
Constant also questioned Dallaire's accuracy.
Dallaire insisted he had seen Bagosora at a meeting in late August 1993. Constant produced Bagosora's passport, proving he was out of the country at the time, attending a meeting of regional defence officials in Gabon.
Roméo Dallaire
"You have planted a seed of doubt in my mind," said Dallaire. "I can't answer anything else."
Wednesday's session in Tanzania had a distinctly Canadian feel to it.
Dallaire took the stand for cross-examination surrounded by a team of Canadian bodyguards because of death threats against him.
When his book about the genocide was quoted, long minutes were lost trying to reconcile the English and French versions.
And Dallaire himself couldn't seem to decide whether to answer questions in English or French.
"Just go on, general, in whatever language you want," one of the judges finally said.
Dallaire also told the tribunal that the central African country's presidential guard started the massacres after the Rwandan president's jet was shot down over Kigali on April 6, 1994.
In addition, he testified that he resisted having Belgian troops on the UN Assistance Mission because Rwanda was once a Belgian colony. M
CBC, Jan. 21, 2004
Would you consider wasting your time with someone who denied the holocaust or was of the opinion that 9/11 was a hoax?
I doubt it, yet here you are delving deep into the trashcan of Serb disinformation on what happened in the Balkans in the 1990's. Strange how that works.
Serbs report the most lost family members of any group in Bosnia during the Bosnian war
No kidding? Is the USIS's relaying of this fairy tale supposed to impart some credibility to it?
Serbs formed a demographic plurality on +/-70% of pre-war Bosnia
Wrong. That fallacy rests upon the misrepresentation of farm ownership, i.e., that the Serbs were farmers while the Muslims lived in the cities. Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 1995
total fatalities in the Bosnian war were in the vicinity of 50-60k
And some people say only 10,000 perished in Jasenovac, and since that number is out there, it must have some validity, right?
Or does mathematical nullification only apply when it benefits the Serbs?
MacKenzie's consistent account of a civil war in which no side were angels and in which press reporting became parti pris for one side and fact-free stands up very well over time and accords with lots of *experts* actually.
No, it doesn't. Mackenzie tries to portray the belligerents as equals, which was not the case, and his parrotting Bosnian Serb comedy routines regarding the various atrocities their forces were responsible for is beneath contempt - he was repeating BS about the breadline massacre without knowing the first thing about it other than what the Serbs had told him, and never bothered to correct himself when the facts became available.
As to your random Dallaire excerpt - are the Tutsis now supposed to have carried out a slaughter of Hutus at the outset of the genocide? How Bosniac of them.
Right before the slaughter began in Rwanda, General Dallaire proposed a raid on an arms cache - he proposed action, and even though it would have saved a few lives at the most, it would have been something.
His UN superiors instead put the kaibosh on it and told him to inform the Rwandan government, who's arms cache it was, of the existence of said cache. (In the interest of fairness, no doubt.)
I failed, yes. The mission failed. They died by the thousands, hundreds of thousands. - General Dallaire.
Compare that to General Mackenzie, who when tasked with providing food and supplies to a population, did so, blithely ignoring the fact that he was merely allowing them an opportunity to survive in order to be slaughtered by the Serb gunners ringing Sarajevo - not that that concerned him at all, for if the Serbs actually killed any of the people he was supposed to be helping, he could just blame it on the victims and forget about it - his reputation would emerge unscathed, there was nothing he could do, he was powerless in the face of these ancient blood feuds and besides, everybody was equally guilty.
Speaking of the UN's escorting humanitarian convoys in Bosnia.
This, from my perspective, is a dumb idea because people don't interfere with humanitarian convoys with artillery and sniper fire, mortars and tanks. They interfere by sniping women and children in the street. One person stands in front of you and warns that if you drive one more foot down the road, his buddies over the next hill will cut 20 throats. You've then got three choices: You can leave with your tail between your legs. You can keep driving and let them cut. Or you can resist them, which means you're no longer a peacekeeper, you're now taking sides. - General Mackenzie
And that, in a nutshell, is the difference between Dallaire and Mackenzie. One tried to make a stand and take a side, and recognizes the failure, while the other simply declared moral equivalency and ran off with his tail between his legs and now has the temerity to wax idiotic about Kosovo as if anybody gave a damn what he says besides the Serbs, who, to reiterate my point, have utilized him as a paid mouthpiece in the past.
What's worse is finding out how many neo-cons banged the drum to join up with these same radicals. Do a few googles--"McCain neoconservative kosovo biden"--and find yourself swearing off the neocons for good. It only took me a couple of hours' worth of reading.
Kissenger tried to stop us from doing it--and I don't even believe Clinton was all that eager to get involved, though for not the same reasons.
PRISTINA -- Monday Sukri Buja, a former guerrilla commander and a member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, has been released from custody in the UN-governed province.
Buja, a party colleague of Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi, was arrested by NATO-led peacekeepers on March 23 on suspicion of undermining peace and security in Kosovo. His arrest came just days after a wave of violence against the provinces Serb minority.
Media in Pristina report that another former guerrilla commander has also been released. Dzabir Zarko, also of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, was reportedly arrested on Friday on suspicion of involvement in the March 17 and 18 attacks.
UN police on Saturday arrested Kosovo Liberation Army veteran Abdulj Muskoljaj on suspicion of orchestrating attacks in the Decani municipality.
Here are ethnographic maps based on the 1981 census:
NB the relatively small ethnodistributional changes recorded b/w 81 and 91. The data does not rely merely on land title or cadastral records, but looks at population by district, since land title alone is not a comprehensive indicator of how many people live in a region, which is one you and your boy Malcolm can put away in the no duh file. Recently I saw an internaut trying to argue that since most land in Israel belongs to the state, and since Arabs own 3% of the land and Jews 2%, therefore the Arabs are the latifundia of Israel, and the idea that theyve been dispossessed and driven off their land is a myth. Maybe you and he can hook up. He also shares your charming trait of branding anyone who disagrees with him a négationniste, btw, so you should make a cute couple.
If you have data which can withstand any serious scrutiny and which shows that those Slobo-hugging Serbophiles of the State Dept and the CIA had it wrong about fatalities in the Bosnian war in the spring of 1995, before the biggest U.S.-supported onslaughts against the BSA and Serb civilians were to take place, and which show it to be a one-sided slaughter of Muslims running into the 100s of 1000s, its fine with me if you share it with the whole class. Id be interested, MacKenzie would be interested. Former Yugoslav desk officer for the State Dept George Kenney would be interested, since as he explained:
From contacts in the U.S. intelligence community, I am positive the US government doesn't have proof of any genocide. And anyone reading the press critically can see the paucity of evidence, despite interminably repeated claims and bloodcurdling speculation. Last April 23 I published some of my research on fatalities in The New York Times Magazine, in which I challenged allegations of 250,000 dead: my estimate was 25,000 to 60,000 deaths for civilian and military on all sides in Bosnia, from the start of the war to the date of the article. One Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent harangued me for not giving up my sources, but never bothered retracing my steps, which he could have easily done. I have yet to see a written rebuttal, and I don't expect to, because a careful search through press reports shows unambiguously that estimates for huge numbers of fatalities came originally from the Bosnian government without documentation: journalists repeated them without corroboration, or even attribution, until the charges stuck. Reporters covering the Yugoslav war as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli put it (Nieman Reports. Fall 1993) " have been better at pulling emotional strings than at analyzing facts.
By Kenneys own admission, his job was to gin up stories of one-sided massacring and ethnic cleansing by Serbs, which makes him a better man than you, since he at least admits he was a propagandist, and kinda feels bad about it.
And veteran NYT Balkans reporter David Binder would be interested too, since as he pointed out, even if one smacks together all the post-war calculations of humanitarian agencies on dead and missing, and not even counting for all apocryphal and double entries, the figure cant surpass 70,000. But if consigning everyone from the State Dept to the USIA to Kenney to Binder etc to your grab-bag of purveyors of Serb fairy tales was some advertised plea for you not to be taken seriously, Id say: Mission accomplished. Im sorry if you cant fit the fact that all sides prepared for war, raising party- and ethnic-based armies before the independence declaration, that all sides had backers elsewhere, that civilians on all sides took it in the teeth, that the Croatian regular forces were massacring Serb civilians by the dozens in Bosnia in early April of 1992, that the first massacre of the war was the slaughtering of Serbs at Sijekovac in late March.. etc into your comic-book rendition of good guys and bad guys. But thats your problem.
Id vowed not to stoop to responding to your risible suggestion that MacKenzies take on Bosnia is the product of some Serb money pipeline, but since you cart out Rieff and Malcolm, it perhaps bears mentioning that countless Western policy wonks, academics and journalists have much more successfully manicured their résumés and turned much greater personal profit pumping out product supporting the élite line of punitive one-sided intervention in the Yugoslav conflicts and lopsided blaming of Serbia and Serbs for any and all wrongs than MacKenzie ever has inadvertently or otherwise from Serb pressure groups. This shouldve been obvious, but if it hasnt occurred to you yet, you need to get out more.
As to your random Dallaire excerpt - are the Tutsis now supposed to have carried out a slaughter of Hutus at the outset of the genocide? How Bosniac of them.
You actually end up getting it almost right just by accident. But as the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day. As a matter of fact there *was* a murderous invasion of Rwanda by a Tutsi army, hl. A textbook act of aggression by the Nuremburg laws. It was launched by Paul Kagames RPF-RPA, which was a total creation of the Ugandan army, in which the Tutsi emigration in Uganda had a major presence. It was Tutsi-officered and Tutsi-staffed. Kagame had been Ugandas deputy chief of military intelligence. The raids began from Ugandan soil in 1989, prompting USAID to issue a report (ignored) objecting to U.S. military assistance to Uganda on the girly grounds that it had launched an aggressive war against its neighbour. A more robust invasion was launched in Oct. 1990. The aggression claimed 10s of 1000s of lives, overwhelmingly civilian and overwhelmingly Hutu, and created a million internal refugees (overwhelmingly Hutu) by 1993. Perhaps you were napping at the time.
One RPF/RPA offensive alone in early 1993 claimed about 40,000 lives, again overwhelmingly Hutu and overwhelmingly civilian. This alone probably represents more than all the lives lost on any one side in the Bosnian war. I realize this doesnt matter to you, though I can well imagine your heartfelt concern were this to be visited on another people whom youve adopted as your human rights hobbyhorse. The countrys richest agricultural region, which supported a population of over 800,000, was essentially depopulated to 1800 souls by RPF terror. I believe this is whats known as voting with your feet. A couple million more Rwandans voted with their feet when Kagame and the RPF, Dallaires buds, finally conquered power.
3 yrs after the RPF/RPA launched their war, and 100,000 mostly Hutu dead Rwandans and a million mostly Hutu internal refugees later, a peace accord was hatched at Arusha in summer 93, which provided for a multi-party transition government in which the murderers of the RPF could participate, and leading a 22-month transition to free multi-party elections. There was just one problem with that as far as Kagame and RPF were concerned, which was that they didnt stand a chance in Hades of getting elected by the population theyd been terrorizing and slaughtering. A telling curtain-raiser were the free multiparty elections held in the zone tampon the demilitarized zone in 1993, which the RPF lost resoundingly, not electing a single representative and harvesting about 1% of the vote as I recall, while the governing party candidates won handily. Turns out that slaughtering people by the 10s of 1000s and driving them into flight by the 100s of 1000s isnt a vote-getter. Go figure.
So the logic of Arusha, namely elections, had to be circumvented at any cost, and the RPF/RPA at least enjoyed a serious military advantage and could *decide* things that way, with no small assistance from their friend Dallaire. Their own intelligence, along with U.S. intelligence, predicted that if the Rwandan president was assassinated, it would provoke mass killings which would claim up to half a million lives. They actually evoked this scenario, and attached that figure, as now declassified docs show. They also knew the ensuing power vacuum and the mass terror would provide them with both the opportunity and the rationale for seizing power militarily. Sure the Rwandan Tutsi community, and lots of Hutus would be decimated by murderous mobs and militias, cuz the RPA had made so many friends over the years through their good deeds, but they werent Kagames principal support base. This was an invading army of the Tutsi emigration in Uganda with its own agenda, and any real scenario of majority rule + peace would make them toast.
And so on Kagames direct orders, an RPA hit squad shot down the plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, killing them both and the French crew. And the mass slaughter predicted by RPF and U.S. intelligence unfolded pretty much as predicted. The RPF promptly lied and accused their adversaries of the assassination, taking lots of the credulous Hoplites of the world along for the ride, and they along with their backer Clinton did everything they could to resist the demands from various countries for an inquiry into the affair, countries who apparently had the utterly girly notion that an assassination of 2 heads of state might warrant a criminal investigation. An investigation finally did take place under UN/ICTR auspices, and the then-ICTR president, Louise Arbour, to borrow your term, put the kaibosh on it and ordered its findings shelved when the lead investigator, Australian Michael Hourigan, made it clear the evidence pointed directly to Kagame and the RPF. But he and the informants assisting that inquiry the ones Kagame didnt have bumped off then went on to assist French magistrate J-L Bruguière in his 6-yr long criminal investigation into the killings, which had been prompted by the girly demands of some French nationals to find out whod killed their loved ones in the plane. Bruguière came to the same conclusion as Hourigans team in the kaiboshed ICTR inquiry, and the report was leaked to Le Monde a few weeks back, but perhaps you were napping through that one too.
Apropos the infamous 100-day slaughter in the spring/summer of 1994, its interesting to note that researchers are now finding that there was intensive killing even in the areas which the RPF claimed to control before the plane crash, and those who claim to have developed the most comprehensive data base on the 100 days, using Rwandan govt and survivor group data, now think that even in *this* period, which all agree saw the apogee of organized killing of Tutsis, a majority of the victims may have been Hutu. ( http://www.urhome.umd.edu/newsdesk/sociss/release.cfm?ArticleID=898 ). But that doesnt even count the 10s of 1000s of Rwandans killed by the RPA before the April 94 downing of Habyrarimanas plane, nor the millions of Congolese and 100s of 1000s of Rwandans, mostly Hutu, slaughtered by the Rwandan and Ugandan armies since their Clinton-backed invasion of Zaire/Congo (Bubba was nice enough to have U.S. Special Forces there to help right from the get-go). The last UN info I saw on the Kagame/Museveni killing spree in Zaire/DRC put the death toll in the vicinity of 5 million 5 times the top-end estimates of those killed in the 100-days of 94 and used the term genocide.
What to do when the truth which has a stubborn way of surfacing shows that the self-appointed gate-keeper of Rwanda holocaust remembrance turns out to be first-rank génocidaire and whats more, the author of the very act which *everybody* for the last 10 yrs agrees was the catalyst of the 100-day killings of 94, the lit match put to the powderkeg? Gérard Prunier of CNRS, whose 95 book became the gold-standard for the Rwanda genocide industry, has now run afoul of Kagame and been denounced by the latter as a revisionist (sound familiar?) for putting forth the apparently offensive formulation of a double-genocide. But what else is a poor scientifique de service to do in the face of the simple and overwhelming math establishing that over the last decade and a half Kagames U.S.-backed wars have killed millions, and that considerably more Rwandan Hutus and Congolese have been snuffed in the conflicts in the Great Lakes region than have Rwandan Tutsis? Even apologetics has its limits (but not for Dallaire see below). Faustin Twagimamungu, one of Kagames and Bubbas showpiece moderate Hutu and the first prime minister appointed to Kagames govt in July 94 following the RPF conquest, has denounced Kagame as a génocidaire and assassin who has the blood of millions of Congolese and 100s of 1000s of Rwandans on his hands. When Camerounian journalist Charles Onana wrote a book implicating Kagame in the presidential assassination and various war crimes, Kagame tried to sue Onana in France, but dropped his case when Onana didnt back down, since he knew hed get his a** whupped. Sometimes its lonely at the top, and maybe its because the noose of truth is tightening around Kagame that there werent as many high-level types on hand for the last genocide commemoration. Its getting a little uh awkward.
But your boy Dallaire doesnt disguise his affection and admiration for Kagame (an extraordinary man), and he mendaciously refers to the assassination of the Rwandan president in 1994 as an accident or « écrasement ». Hes also a little fuzzy to put it kindly on all the slaughter and RPF ethnic cleansing in the 1990-93 period, since one shouldnt be rude to friends. Kagame and the Clinton administration pushed hard for the complete removal of the UN peacekeeping mission once the 100-day killfest began, but that doesnt dampen Dallaires admiration either. He was very chummy with RPF milieux in his time there, frequently crashing for the night, if youll pardon the expression, at the RPA HQ, and hanging out with the Québécois wife of a Tutsi minister who didnt disguise her enthusiasm for an RPF victory, (« si Dieux le veut, on va gagner!! » ) which could only be achieved militarily, given their, er, PR problems vis-à-vis the ethnic vote (of the countrys 90% majority ethnics ). He was happy to share MINUAR military intelligence with the RPA, which he talks about in the English, but not the French, edition of his book, curiously enough. The first big peacekeeping assignment Dallaire and his mission were tasked with was to escort 600 armed RPA killers sorry soldiers into downtown Kigali where they set up their base at the Parliament building. Kigali residents, including many whod been driven off their land and lost everything to RPF terror, were able to watch this brave and honourable act and draw their own conclusions about Dallaires and MINUARs neutrality. But perhaps Dallaires and MINUARs noblest of all act of peacekeeping was to accede abjectly to the RPAs demand to close Kigali airport for all but *incoming* air traffic, the better that the RPA hit squad could get a clear and unfettered bead on the Rwandan president so they could shoot down his plane and kill him. As an inspired act of peacekeeping, Id rank that right up there with whoever got the idea of passing out the matches for the Reichstag Fire.
Im sorry that the drunkard you put on such a pedestal got sliced to ribbons on the stand at Arusha, but I cant say Im surprised, nor is it clear how the quote is more random than yours of MacKenzie, since it speaks directly to the mans integrity. Guess it was expecting too much for him to be truthful under oath in a criminal trial after all its not his life thats on the line here. If you want a straight shooter who presents well as a witness, well, Id try to call Lew MacKenzie. A week before Kagame had the Rwandan president assassinated, Dallaire briefed foreign ambassadors to the effect that he found it doubtful that there was a master plan by the Rwandan government to provoke a confrontation, genocide, etc. He expressed the same doubts in an interview with Radio-Canada immediately upon his return from Rwanda, which doesnt seem to have stopped his mythical transformation into some maligned, prophetic predictor of the genocide.
Its interesting to ponder how many lives would have been saved by Dallaire and MINUAR doing their job and providing proper security at the airport and for Rwandas governing officials (the RPA hit squad operated from a district for which Dallaire had direct responsibility). Doubtless many more lives than woulda be saved by raiding the puny arms cache. Probably safe to say that if Izetbegovic hadnt reneged, with U.S. encouragement, on the Cutilheiro plan, which wouldve averted war in Bosnia, more lives woulda been saved by that too.
Yes, that was talked about in the documentary, "Yugoslavia the avoidable war."
Needless to say, that documentary was never shown on CBC, they only run pro-Albanian stuff, and those are rerun often.
Your response on the land ownership issue rests upon one link which directly supports Judah's correction of Gen Boyd's take on the issue
Ethnic distribution of the privately-owned land:
Owned by Croats: 3.112 square kilometers, 13% of private, 6.08% of total
Owned by Muslims: 10.710 square kilometers, 45% of private, 20.92% of total
Owned by Serbs: 9.989 square kilometers, 42% of private, 19.51% of total.
and another link which leads to a colored map, which has been referenced here on FR previously, though at a location which also had the Croat and Bosnian Muslim populations maps to go alongside the Serb one. The site you pulled the map from doesn't seem to bother with them - how unsurprising.
But nevertheless, one can find maps of greater granularity which rely upon the same source data.
Go ahead, click the map and you can get maps for various of the Bosnian Opstinas, which have all the ethnicities represented, and then you can key in on those Opstinas which fell under the thrall of Karadzic et al, and imagine all the green, blue, and black circles disappearing courtesy of ethnic cleansing. For example you could look at the map of Bijeljina, and notice that through the magic of "Serbs own farmland", not only do the residents of the city of Bijeljina get a one way ticket to either a shallow grave or some squalid refugee camp somewhere, the farmers in Janja get the boot too. Neat trick that - and it would be even neater if you could justify it through some legitimate means.
But as it stands, you can't. And the Serbs got bombed for their troubles and those that now reside in the RS are living in a third world cesspit of corruption for all their misguided sacrifice. The connection, as I have implied, appears to be beyond your grasp.
Consider it placed in the "no duh" file.
As to the number of casualties in the Bosnian war, considering Sarajevo suffered around 10,000 deaths and Srebrenica accounts for an additional 7,500, Kenney's lower bound is either some form of rude comedy on his part, or the three sides suffered a mere 7,500 casualties in 3 years of fighting exclusive of Sarajevo and Srebrenica in July of '95.
War Casualties
The civilian population bore the brunt of the war in Bosnia. The number of casualties is a matter of debate. the figure 200,000 (or more) dead, injured, and missing was frequently cited in media reports on the war in Bosnia as late as 1994. the October 1995 bulletin of the Bosnian Institute of Public Health of the Republic Committee for Health and Social Welfare gave the numbers as 146,340 killed, and 174,914 wounded on the territory under the control of the Bosnian army. Mustafa Imamovic gave a figure of 144,248 perished (including those who died from hunger or exposure), mainly Muslims. The Red Cross and the UNHCR have not, to the best of our knowledge, produced data on the number of persons killed and injured in the course of the war. A November 1995 unclassified CIA memorandum estimated 156,500 civilian deaths in the country (all but 10,000 of them in Muslim- or Croat-held territories), not including the 8,000 to 10,000 then still missing from the Srebrenica and Zepa enclaves. This figure for civilian deaths far exceeded the estimate in the same report of 81,500 troops killed (45,000 Bosnian government, 6,500 Bosnian Croat, and 30,000 Bosnian Serb)
These data were challened by George Kenney, in an article appearing in spring 1995. Kenney asserted that the Red Cross and other international agencies estimated the number of casualties in the tens of thousands. Kenney himself argued for a figure of between 25,000 and 60,000. The yearbook of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute gave the figure of 25,000 to 55,000 total deaths in the fighting, excluding casualties in the fighting between the Bosnian Serb army and the Bosnian Croat army. According to a Bosnian Serb publication as disseminated by electronic mail in early 1997, the Bosnian Serb republic suffered 18,392 deaths in the military, and 36,543 wounded. This figure apparently does not include Serbs from outside of Bosnia who died in the fighting in Bosnia. On the basis of these data, not only the Kenney and Stockholm Peace Institute estimates, but the CIA estimate of casualties from the war, appear too low.
Source: The War In Bosnia Herzegovina Burg & Shoup, pp 169-170.
What this all comes down to, sjy, is all those non-red circles on the map that wound up on the Serb side of the Bosnian front line, and whether people like you can downplay the fate of those who didn't live to tell the tale or turn Milosevic's wars into something they weren't, being wars fought by equally odious combatants.
I say you cannot, and America has twice emphasized that fact with military force. You can get all the Mackenzies and Kenneys you want, sjy, but if their statements don't line up with the facts, they become irrelevant to anybody save those who look to further a discredited worldview, such as yourself, and merely cause for more confusion when, contrary to the worldview supported in part by their misrepresentation of the facts, you and yours get yourselves bombed again.
My book says quite clearly that we will never know who did the breadline massacre. People say I am accusing the Bosnians of doing it to themselves. And I say, no, absolutely not! - Lewis Mackenzie, 1998
My bad - he did correct himself, 6 years after the fact.
Whatever. We're talking past each other, and that's too bad. Serbia and her expatriate offspring have a choice between the carrot or the stick, and continue to shun the carrot.
Perhaps if we told them that 70+% of the carrot was grown on a Serbian farm they'd seize the opportunity.
Funny you should link to David Rieff in Foreign Affairs and his correction of Boyd. It was Rieff who, scarcely a year into the war, began speaking of 200,000-> a quarter of a million fatalities on the Bosnian govt side alone, taking his acritical cue from the Bosnian govt, whod rifled up the fatality estimate about tenfold within the space of weeks without publicly disclosing a scintilla of proof. How fitting then for Rieff to be counseling others about care with facts. Oh yes, Mr. Rieff, lets all be careful, shall we? Did it cross your mind that the highball CIA estimate to which you make reference accords more with those of Boyd and Kenney than it does with Rieffs and Siladzics apocryphal utterances from early in the war? And how fitting also that you dismiss the USIA study, I gather on the grounds that Serbs are genetically wired to lie and exaggerate, unlike all the studys other participants?
Funny you should cart out Tim Judah also. Cast a glance if you will at page 159 of his book, The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1997) and the ethnographic map entitled 1991: Ethnic Yugoslavia Before the War. NB the small and decidedly minoritarian portion of Bosnia shaded as having a Bosniac Muslim plurality or majority, and the much larger area shaded as having a Serb plurality or majority, but most importantly the quite large area shown in plain white where others (viz., groups other than Serbs/Croats/Muslims!) were a demographic plurality or majority. That others thus defined formed a plurality or majority in this large area is of course a mathematical impossibility over the regions so designated obviously one of Serbs/Croats/Muslims were minimally a plurality, though Judah doesnt tell us who they are. The political motivation for this fudging of the demographic reality, if it isnt already obvious in this revisionist work, becomes obvious 50 pages later, in another map representing maximum extent of Serb control, 1991-95, with which, thanks to the willfully incomplete map of 50 pages earlier, we have no meaningful demographic baseline to compare. This is reaching deep into the dregs of Natophile advocacy journalism hl, but Ill at least give Judah points for having the sophistication as a journeyman serbophobe to grasp that if youre going to practise revisionism, you must extend it back decades to include the NDH Holocaust perpetrated against Serbs, which Judah does with alacrity, embracing the late revisionist demographer Zerjavic, an admirer of the négationniste Tudjman. Otherwise, Serbs wouldve been entitled to take the same umbrage to living under and pledging loyalty to the chequerboard flag as would Polish Jews to living under and pledging loyalty to the Swastika. And we cant have that, of course.
In the NYT Magazine in the spring of 1995 George Kenney estimated total fatalities on all sides in the Bosnian conflict at 25k-60k. At that time his sources in U.S. intelligence were putting the number in the 10s of 1000s and British intelligence was putting the figure at 50-60k, thus highballing in the same vicinity as Kenney interestingly enough. Perhaps this has less to do with a rude comedy on Kenneys part than with the fact that unlike you in your last post, he was situating events on a temporal axis, and these estimates of his were published months before both the fall of Srebrenica and the large-scale co-ordinated offensives by the Croatian and Bosniac armies against Serb-inhabited areas of Croatia and Bosnia enjoying massive NATO/US air support. Its not entirely balmy to surmise that these operations may have claimed as many if not more Serb lives than lives from any other group. Which brings us to Binders post-war reckoning based on comparing fatality figures across humanitarian organizations, yielding a total of less than 70k. Its interesting how this figure meshes plausibly with both Kenneys and UK intelligence estimates from spring 95, and also with Boyds and how different researchers, in a different space of time and using different sources and methods, arrived at such similar findings. And its interesting to compare their methods to yours, which consist of announcing a priori the only correct and serious verdict on the matter permitted to freepers and then string-searching your way to the appropriate footnotes, using such unassailably above-the-fray sources as the Bosnian Congress USA and their pal Dr. Francis Boyle, and Mr. David Rieff of the American Committee to Save Bosnia. Yes, no parti pris pressure groups SVP. Were trying to have a serious discussion here.
You textbite for us from the UN Commission of Experts but spare us such trivia as their methodology, perhaps because to paraphrase a famous quote, this commission had no methodology, only interests. :
International figures
It is unsurprising that there are such vast discrepancies in the casualty figures cited by different sides in the war; however international sources on the numbers of victims in the war also vary greatly. The most commonly cited figure in the media is between 200,000 and 250,000 Bosnians killed, which the journalist Nick Gowing has traced back to Bosnian government officials. Whilst articles in the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) yearbooks contain the figures of 140,000 and 200,000 as the total number of Croats, Muslims and Serbs killed, research published in the SIPRI yearbooks suggests that between 30,000 to 50,000 have been killed (see SIPRI, 1995; 1996). The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Commission on Missing Persons believe there are currently about 20,000 missing persons according to the ICRC tracing requests, although in a press conference in Washington on 7 November 1997, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Senator Robert Dole, who heads the Commission, cited the figure of about 40,000 missing persons. The divergence of the figures reflects their status as estimates. There has been a lack of investigation to back up many of the figures cited. In fact, many of the figures contained in international reports are based on local sources and have not been independently verified.
There has been uneven documentation of human rights abuses, which has been reflected in the major international reports. For example, the UN Commission of Experts, upon whose evidence the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia was set up, did little independent research and only invited submissions and considered existing reports. Areas which have come under the spotlight of the international media and human rights organisations have received attention and witnesses have been sought and interviewed, whilst other areas ignored by the media and NGOs have been neglected.
The earlier dominant position of the Serbs led to a view of the war as Serbian aggression and a tendency to overlook Serbian losses. There were heavier Croatian and Muslim losses in the earlier period of the war but as the Croatian and Bosnian armies became established they were able to inflict losses on the Serbs. However, the early view of the war has persisted.
The international media coverage, mainly from one side in the conflict, has created a certain dynamic in that subsequent investigations chose their remit based on issues already being highlighted. For example, the remit of the EU Investigative Mission into the Treatment of Muslim Women in the Former Yugoslavia led by Dame Ann Warburton included investigations of Muslim and (unofficially) Croatian rape victims, but did not include Serbian women. The EU team was itself critical of this fact, but the limited scope of investigations was repeated in other international commissions looking into atrocities. For example, the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia did not initially feel it needed to set up an investigation of crimes against the Serbs because its first field investigations were selected on the basis of the material and evidence of the UN Commission of Experts, which had not highlighted Serbian victims (see ICTY, 1994: 27-28).
Most of the early international reports, for example the EU Mission report, based their estimates of victims on a limited number of interviews and domestic documentation. The conclusions of these international reports were then cited in local reports as further substantiated proof. During the war, there tended to be a circular substantiation of evidence and repetition of estimated figures rather than a scientific gathering of additional evidence through independent research.
[emphasis added]
Why MacKenzie wouldnt be entitled to skepticism about the 92 breadline massacre is a little unclear. Leaks to the press of allegedly classified UN reports to force commander Nambiar claimed to point to Bosnian govt complicity. Even Serb-basher journalist Carol Off acknowledges theres no proof of Serb culpability- she just wants to believe it nonetheless. Markale I (94) produced an initial verdict of: dont know, with informants in the peacekeeping forces claiming it was an inside job, and Markale II (95) a verdict of Serb responsibility over the strenuous objections of expert dissenters, as Binder pointed out. Then theres the homicidal little show put on for Douglas Hurds visit in July 1992, and as witnessed at close hand and written about directly by Canadian peacekeepers, in which the Bosniac territorial defence force mortared and killed several of its own civilians. Skepticism about the official conclusions or to put it better, non-conclusions or kaiboshed conclusions is vastly better founded in these cases than is Dallaires risible lie, in print and unretracted to this day, about the assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents by his pals in the RPA, operating a hit squad from territory for which Dallaire was directly responsible, being an accident. How long after the fact is this drunk entitled to that sickening charade, or does he just get a pass cuz hes on the DL while MacKenzies still high-functioning? Not to mention his disgusting negligence in the death of the Belgian peacekeepers, about which the UN mission head of the time Jacques Roger Booh Booh has gone public in the European press.
The question of who had the most guns at a given moment or who, in the final reckoning, lost the most lives in a conflict rarely tells us much about the inherent rightfulness or wrongfulness of the sides causes nor whether its a civil war or not, nor about the legitimacy of each sides fears and concerns, unless were approaching the matter from the intellectual level of a nine-year-old. If you think sides getting outside sustenance in a civil war means it isnt a civil war, then theres a big set of civil war history books youd have to rewrite, incl those about most of the civil wars recorded in Africa and Europe. Try Marxs The Civil War in France for starters. John R. Lampe in Yugoslavia as History: Twice there was a Country (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000), believes that of the war dead in Bosnia, about 50% were Muslims, and 30-35% Serbs. This would put Serb fatalities in a range proportionate or even disproportionate to their presence in the pre-war population, 31.4% by the 91 census. But these figures arent definitive or the last word, since Lampe notes the no. of dead/displaced is still disputed, but seems to think the unproven Bosnian govt number seems likely if we include the missing which is open to endless interpretation, and esp since from very early on, as Pupavac points out, those among the internationals measuring victimhood and loss oriented their efforts overwhelmingly to the non-Serb side, since they were the designated good guys.
How unfortunate for you that one can actually access the antebellum 1990's vintage CIA World Factbooks at the Project Gutenberg site.
Lemme guess - you're referring to some CIA factbook who's contents can't be verified, right?
How unfortunate for you that Dallaire is still capable of speech and still given to write. As the French would say, "A suivre..."
It would be only the decent thing to do to resume bombing Kosova any time we are ready to admit our huge mistake.
Massive muslim disinformation and manufactured evidence and flat out lies. That culture thinks nothing of making up the most childish and transparent fabrications in all seriousness.
That we, as a country, swallowed it hook line and sinker doesn't say much for our vigilance toward the party animals in the White House at the time. Or for our collective intelligence.
It is never too late, however, to set things right.
We didn't learn squat. The killers of the Duke were muslims. D'OH!
Footnote 14: See, for example, the "Ethnic Majorities" maps in The Former Yugoslavia: A Map Folio, Central Intelligence Agency, CPAS 93-10003, April 1993, p.3
viz. a wartime CIA map but using antebellum data from the '91 census, to be precise.
What idiot would beleive the Al Qaeda backed KLA Muslims to begin with???!@?
Now that that is settled what idiot would support statehood for Taliban mark II???!@???!??!?!???!
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Comments: first off I'm a huge fan of ike. I figured I would try one. Worst bait ever. Never caught anything on it and the freakin lip busted off. Being 15 I can't afford to fish tourneys and buy crap lures. Don't bother buying this bait get a kvd 1.5 or a 6th sense crush.
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Comments: I have used the crankbait for the past 2 months and all I can say is that it will put fish in the boat. I wish Rapala would make the DT 20 in some of the colors. Come on and help us out Rapala.
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Comments: Bought the DT 10, great bait. Casts well for its size, gets to depth quickly and stays there. Having that extra stinger style hook helps a ton when it comes to catching em, even though all the fish ive had on it wanted the whole bait.By a couple, youll be glad you did.
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Comments: These baits are the bomb! Doing great with the blue back herring color in the DT-6 just bought the Mardi Gras color can't wait to give it a try! Thanks Ike!!
From: Zach: IN
Comments: The bass love them in a pressured lake, and they get down to depth quickly. The bill is not as strong as I would like, and I changed out the hooks.
From: David: IA
Comments: The Smash and Old School is my favorite. Thank god for the one EWG on the back hook
Comments: Just got my 2 DT-16's in Smash. One has glitter on the back, one doesn't. C'mon Rapala, you're better than that!
From: Kyle: MN
Comments: These are great looking cranks. love me the carribean shad and disco shad. the only bad thing is that the fish inhale them and they can be tough to get unhooked
From: G Man, IA
Comments: These colors look a lot nicer when there actually in front of you. Picked up a couple of these and hoping i have great success with them
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TAMPA, Fla. - New York Yankees All-Star third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who once again will be questioned by Major League Baseball regarding his reported involvement with performance-enhancing drugs, will remain in New York and not be with the team during spring training, manager Joe Girardi said Tuesday.
Rodriguez's absence has nothing to do with minimizing distractions in the Yankee camp, Girardi said, but simply to be with specialists to treat his hip in hopes he returns after the All-Star break.
"Him being in New York has nothing to do with trying to get rid of a distraction,'' Girardi said. "It's the best place for him to be, in New York rehabbing under the doctor's supervision.
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"If there comes a point where he's able to do more, that will change. But at this point, he's barely on the crutches - almost off - there's not a lot he can do here.''
Girardi, along with several Yankee players like ace CC Sabathia, said that the Yankees' reported link to performance-enhancing drugs won't be a distraction this spring. Rodriguez, along with catcher Francisco Cervelli, were linked to a South Florida wellness clinic, Biogenesis, that allegedly provided performance-enhancing drugs to athletes.
Rodriguez denied the allegations in the Miami New Times report, and Cervelli said that he received legal supplements from the clinic. Cervelli said Tuesday that he will further address his role with Bigoenesis on Wednesday.
Girardi has had several conversations with Rodriguez during the winter, he said, but never specifically addressed performance-enhancing drugs. Major League Baseball officials said they plan to speak to Rodriguez once they obtain more information.
"I didn't really talk about that,'' Girardi said, "because I know that MLB has to go through what they have to go through. MLB has to go through its steps before any of us are really going to be aware of anything.
"My concern is getting him healthy, that's what I'll focus on. That's what our team is focused on, is to get him healthy.''
Yet, when asked if Girardi were curious about the allegations, he said: "You're always curious about things you read about that are potentially damaging to your players and to baseball, of course.''
Rodriguez, whose locker in spring training is nearly barren, containing only a uniform and a few pair of shoes, still could find himself as a continuing focus point of the spring despite never setting foot in camp. He is the game's highest-paid player, with $114 million remaining over the next five years, and it's unknown when, or if, he'll return this season.
"This club is used to having what people might call distractions,'' Girardi says. "There are things that happen very day in life that you have to deal with. And you just deal with it and go on. You walk on the field, and you put your thoughts coming into your head, that aren't part of the game, and you go do your job.
"Our guys do that. They're used to doing that. I don't think I've ever come to a Yankee camp where there hasn't been what something called a distraction. So this club is used to it.
"Dealing with some of these distractions, a lot of times it's a two-day event, three days, and the story kind of goes away. It may change for a day or two, but there will be something else that will come up that we have to deal with.''
The Yankees may be more worried about how it could affect Cervelli, who is battling to become the Yankees' starting catcher this spring in the absence of Russell Martin. He politely told reporters Tuesday that he plans to address the allegations in a group interview session Wednesday, and explain why he got involved with self-acclaimed biochemist Tony Bosch.
"I want our players to go to our people as much as they can,'' Girardi said, "but you know that's not always going to happen. The important thing is if you see outside opinions, they need to be wise opinion, and you probably need to discuss it with your club.
"At times, you can't control what players are going to do, because everyone is looking to become better, as a player. The important thing is you do it the right way. I had a physical trainer that I went to for 15 years, and it worked for me, so I stuck with him.''
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I love profiteroles (pronounced pruh-FIHT-uh-rohl). I can't imagine why I haven't added this recipe to my blog before today. Profiteroles can be found in Europe, the Mediterranean countries and America. They are small, crisp, hollow rounds of pâte à choux (pastry) that are filled with sweetened whipped cream, pastry cream or ice cream. In America a larger 'profiterole' is called a cream puff. If you pipe out the choux pastry in a long line it is an éclair. These different shapes and sizes can be filled with both sweet and savory fillings. Profiteroles are light, delicate hollow pastry puffs which are easy to make, but everyone will think you are a top-notch pastry chef.
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook & Bake Time: 35 minutes
Ready In: 1 hour 30 minutes
Yield: Serves About 12
To Make the Pâte à Choux (dough for the profiteroles pastry shell):
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter
2 tablespoons Choclatique Dark Chocolate Chips
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 large eggs
To Make the Cream Filling:
1 1/2 cup heavy cream
1 1/2 tablespoon Choclatique Rouge Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
To Make the Chocolate Sauce:
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup Choclatique Dark Chocolate Chips
- Preheat an oven to 425º F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan. Stir in the butter, 2 tablespoons of the chocolate chips and salt until the butter and chocolate have melted. Remove the saucepan from the heat.
- Rapidly stir in the flour until no dry lumps remain. Return to medium heat and stir until dough pulls away from the side of the bowl.
- Transfer dough to stand mixer with a paddle attachment and beat on medium speed for 1 minute.
- While the mixture is still warm beat in the eggs, one at a time, adding the next egg only after the last one has been completely incorporated into the mixture. You should have a smooth, silky paste.
- Drop the pâte à choux onto the prepared baking sheet in evenly spaced dollops about 2 tablespoons or a small scoop each.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes. until the pastries have puffed up and turned golden brown.
- Transfer the pastry from the baking sheet to a wire rack. Cool to room temperature.
- Beat 1 cup of heavy cream to soft peaks; stir in the cocoa powder and confectioners' sugar until the sugar has dissolved.
- Bring the remaining cup of heavy cream to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat. Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate until melted and smooth.
- To assemble, poke a hole into the bottom of each pastry and using a pastry bag fill with the cocoa cream.
- Place the filled profiteroles onto individual serving plates and top with the warm sauce.
ChefSecret: The choux paste can be piped through a pastry bag or dropped with a pair of spoons into small balls and baked to form largely hollow puffs. After cooling the baked pastry balls inject with filling using a pastry bag and narrow piping tip, or slicing off the top, filling, and reassembling.
The most common fillings are whipped cream, pastry cream or ice cream. They can be topped with powdered sugar or chocolate sauce. They can also be served plain, with a crisp caramel glaze or with fruit. Filled and glazed with caramel, they are assembled into a pyramid of pastry and turned into a croquembouches. These sculptures of pastry are often served at weddings in France and Italy, and during the Christmas Holiday in Germany and France.
Leftover profiteroles may be stored sealed in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to 3 days.


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north america / mexico | history | feature Monday November 26, 2012 21:30 by Jerome Raza jerome at riseup dot net
In September 2012, shortly after the end of the largest unlimited general student strike in the history of Quebec, several class-struggle anarchist organisations in Canada along with a few local chapters of the IWW put together a cross-country tour to bring the history and experiences of the Quebec student movement to students and activists outside the province. Stopping in over a dozen cities from Toronto, Ontario to Victoria, BC, the tour brought a participant in the 2012 student strike to audiences in colleges and universities as well as union halls and various cooperatives. The article that follows is based on this conference. Special thanks to Jonathan from Zabalaza for editing help!
The student movement in Quebec has recently written an important chapter in its history. The strike that was launched back in February 2012, against the latest hike in university tuition turned into one of the largest social movements in the province's, and perhaps even Canada's, entire histories.
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by Jerome - 1 of Anarkismo Editorial Group Sun Oct 06, 2013 21:20 jerome at riseup dot net
The website about the 2012 strike is now available at http://www.studentstrike.net/
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by Larry Gambone - IWW Tue Nov 27, 2012 01:23 redlionpress at hotmail dot com
Jerome's talk went over very well in Victoria. I am glad to see it here in full. It was also a very good thing for class struggle organizations to work together on this tour. Just one thing though. The Vancouver Island IWW branch also helped with the tour and is not listed here. http://vanislewobs.wordpress.com/
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Chip Kelly has committed to the Philadelphia Eagles. That's the story the former Oregon coach gave Thursday during his first press conference as head coach.
Well, that one and another one of historical significance to make his point.
"I'm all in. I think it was Cortes who burned the boats; I've burned the boats," Kelly said in reference to the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. "I'm not going back. I'm in. I'm an NFL coach and this is where I want to be. If there was any indecision in terms of I didn't want to be in, then I wouldn't have made the jump. I've made the jump, I'm here and I'm excited to be here."
Kelly had to make that clear because there was some indecision on his part.
After a nine-hour interview with the Eagles after his Ducks beat Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl, Kelly told the Eagles he was returning to Oregon. But shortly thereafter, he began to have second thoughts. A mutual friend informed the Eagles that Kelly was reconsidering their offer. Kelly eventually made it clear he was "all in" to accept the Eagles' offer on Tuesday. The stunning news broke on Wednesday when Kelly accepted the job.
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"The hardest thing for me to leave Oregon was because the people. For me to leave, there had to be (good) people here," Kelly said. "In the time I met with Jeffrey, (general manager) Howie (Roseman) and (team president) Don (Smolenski), it was very evident to me of their passion, very evident to me of their commitment. That was a no-brainer. I knew it was a great fit from the Saturday we had the meeting. It was just, 'Can I leave what I have?'"
Eventually, he did. And Kelly said he cried more than the Oregon players did when he informed them of the news Wednesday morning.
"Sometimes you have to leave the nest to better yourself or leave one nest as a duck and go to another nest as an Eagle," Kelly said.
He added, "My decision was based on nothing to do with any trepidation about this organization. I wanted to be here. It was just my players – I'm going to get emotional again – but I love those guys and I love our staff. And the people in Oregon gave me an opportunity when I was at New Hampshire and that meant a lot to me. It had to be something special for me to leave."
Other notes and quotes out of Kelly's press conference:
— He spoke with Andy Reid during the process. Reid, fired by the Eagles late last month after 14 seasons in Philly, spoke highly of the organization and the city. Kelly also spoke to former Eagles coach Dick Vermeil, who resides in the area.
"The fact Andy reached out to me and told me about his experience here told me what this organization is about," Kelly said of Reid, now the Kansas City Chiefs head coach. "There's not a classier guy. When Andy texted me (Wednesday) when I accepted the job, I told him I had really, really, really big shoes to fill. In typical Andy fashion, he said, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine.'"
— Lurie said Kelly told the Eagles at the end of their first meeting he'd either accept their offer or head back to Oregon. That means the Cleveland Browns and Buffalo Bills, who also interviewed Kelly, were never really serious contenders.
— Kelly said his up-tempo offense can be successful in the NFL and suggested there will be tweaks.
"There's perception and there's reality. The perception is we run our quarterback all the time and this is what we do; the reality is that's not the case," Kelly said. "One of the best qualities in a quarterback is durability and a lot of that has to do with play-calling. Our quarterback is not going to get the direct snap like Dick Kazmaier did at Princeton in the single wing and have him run it 25 times, I can tell you that.
"Part of what we do offensively has always been understanding what personnel is, how we maximize that and what are their best traits? If you're going to ask somebody something they're not capable of doing, obviously that's a recipe for disaster. We're going to analyze everybody in our program. Our scheme offensively, defensive and special-teams wise is always going to be personnel-driven."
— That's good news for Nick Foles. As was Kelly's response to a question about the rookie quarterback who replaced Michael Vick this past season.
"I'm a huge fan of his," said Kelly, whose teams faced Foles in college. "He's tough. It's an attribute that I think a lot of people don't understand how hard it is and what toughness means to the quarterback spot, just to be able to stand in the pocket and throw the football.
"We hit him as many times as we could hit him and he just kept getting up and making plays. He completed a 13-yard pass left-handed against us once. I remember just standing on the sideline shaking my head, going, 'I don't know what we have to do to stop him.' He's a competitor. He's accurate. So I'm excited about that."
— Neither Kelly nor Roseman would speculate on the future of Vick, who is likely to be released.
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