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To: John Lacelle who wrote (14052)	8/18/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

> The investigators even found that if you want an apartment in Sarajevo, you must pay the son of President Alija Isubovic (sp?) $2,000 or you can't get one. That's all? What a bargain<LOL>

To: John Lacelle who wrote (14052)	8/18/1999 5:41:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Russia Raps West Over Kosovo MOSCOW, Aug 18, 1999 -- (Reuters) Russia blamed the Western powers on Tuesday for neglecting what it described as "ethnic cleansing" of Serbs by ethnic Albanian forces in Kosovo and urged swift action to disarm local guerrillas. "In fact 'ethnic cleansing' is going on full steam in Kosovo. This is a result of 'the policy of appeasing' Albanian separatism pursued by a number of Western countries," a Foreign Ministry statement said. The statement clearly referred to widespread reprisals by ethnic Albanians against small communities of Serbs still in Kosovo who are being held responsible for the terror of Serb forces against Kosovo Albanians earlier this year. "One should not turn a blind eye to the terrorism, separatism and 'ethnic cleansing' which are taking place in violation of the will of the international community. "The situation in Kosovo demands energetic and responsible actions to correct it," the statement added. Russia fiercely opposed NATO air strikes against its Slavic, Orthodox Christian brethren in Serbia but also played a key role in negotiating a deal between the alliance and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Moscow has also sent more than 3,000 peacekeepers to the NATO-led international force in the province. Its troops are hated by many local Albanians who see them as Serb allies. The Foreign Ministry statement said Moscow was worried over the slow pace of disarming Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo and added that there were reasons to believe that deadlines set for the process would not be met. It called for the accelerated deployment of a U.N. police mission, expected to number more than 3,000, in Kosovo. One of its duties will be to supplement peacekeepers' efforts to provide additional security for minorities there. The statement said Russia was also stunned by the "passivity" of the international tribunal on former Yugoslavia over the atrocities committed by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Serb ethnic cleansing of ethnic Albanians in 1998 and 1999 displaced more than 1.5 million people from their homes inside Kosovo, driving hundreds of thousands across international borders into neighboring Albania and Macedonia. Non-ethnic Albanian civilians - Serbs, Gypsies and even Serb-speaking Moslems - are now being frequently attacked by recently returned Kosovo Albanian refugees. On Monday evening armed ethnic Albanian thugs locked an elderly Serb woman in her kitchen in the Kosovo capital Pristina while they beat, robbed and tried to rape her daughter-in-law in the next room. (C)1999 Copyright Reuters Limited.

To: John Lacelle who wrote (14052)	8/19/1999 5:55:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Johnny-come-lately, Re: Did you catch that news blurb last night about how over 1 Billion dollars of aid for Bosnia has been stolen by the corrupt government?... AND THAT'S ALL??? 1 Billion peanuts? Hey, Looks like these Yugos are really sweating it for a pittance.... at least by Wall Street's standard: BoNY used in global money-laundering scheme NY Times reports as much as $10b in Russian mafia funds passed through bank August 19, 1999: 12:47 a.m. ET NEW YORK (CNNfn) - The Bank of New York has been used by members of a Russian organized-crime gang to launder as much as $10 billion since early last year, according to the New York Times. [...] Full breaking news: cnnfn.com BTW, sexing up your Bosnia/Muslim fraud story with this $2,000 bribe rap was a good spin but, to weigh it up with the BoNY scam, I guess that $2,000 is the daily compensation of the bank's laundry workers.... Ah! As Tacite put it: Omnia serviliter pro dominatione.... (Histories, Book I, ch. XXXVI). Cabbie Gus.