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To: Les H who wrote (3421)	4/11/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: George Papadopoulos	Respond to of 17770

What the Serbs think of CNN's Christiane: Christiane Amanpur - patron of manipulation April 08, 1999 Politika, 8th April 1999 Bosko Jaksic When Christiane Amanpur - Turner's favorite and close relative of the State Department - appears somewhere, people begin worrying. The truth will be destroyed. Relays will transmit a bestial electronically designed lie. Only naive ones think that it is difficult to make manipulations with pictures. For the facts pictures could be much more dangerous than words. Bird of ill omen. By her voodoo-reporting Amanpur-Rubin proves that for already many years: from Sarajevo's Merkale market to the border town Kukes. It seems that in Kukes she "spontaneously" meets Albanian refugees from Kosovo. She chooses figures and scenarios. Then, not managing to cover her almost non-realistic animosity toward Serbs and everything Serbian, the conceited TV-judge pronounces a sentence. It is known to whom. CNN has its auditorium all around the world. Verbally bombed with descriptions of "the demographic earthquake", a person from Switzerland asks: When Albanians escape, why Serbs do not escape to Belgrade? They also escape from the terror from the sky, but Amanpur does not like to say that. She suppresses since the evil that dived not only onto Serbs but also onto Albanians from Kosmet questions the official motive of the aggression - "Protection of Albanian minority". The patron of manipulation will not mention that about 2 000 Albanian refugees from Kosmet were put into a plain and transported to Norway and Turkey on Tuesday evening. They were sent against their wish. They wanted, when bombing stops, to come back, to accept the invitation that Belgrade sent them three times so far. The professor of conducted publicity stays in Kukes, in one of the poorest regions of Europe, distorts the truth and expects clear sky for new rain of NATO bombs. She fails to connect the massive exodus from Kosmet with an elementary human fear. Fear from rockets is not an ethnical category. "Washington Post" has its reports from Kukes. The notebook of its journalist is not characterized by selectivity of targets. Certainly, there are opponents, revengeful and embittered people. "However, there are also Albanian refugees who criticize NATO, but then someone from the crowd warns. Then, they change their mind. Suddenly it is clear that there is a politically correct answer: NATO bombing is favorable, says "Post". CNN wants only the last words. Camera waits for the staff of "counselors" to bring people intoxicated with animosity. Controlled as he is, he does not take care about the fact that the journalist of "Post" reminds that the north of Albania is the area where secessionists wander in the hills. "In case the refugees comes from territories where there were calm before the beginning of air attacks, there is greater possibility for criticizing NATO actions", says the Washington daily. They are not expelled by Serbs but by "allies' bombs". Such bombs the allies threw already on these territories: on Belgrade in 1944. About Werner Von Braun, German rocket expert who first worked for Nazis and then for Americans, there is observation of one satirist: "When rockets are up, who cares where they will fall down".

To: Les H who wrote (3421)	4/12/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 17770

Interesting article, although I don't agree completely with the commentary. Even though the Milosevic ceasefire was no doubt unsincere, he sent an important message to the religious world that the world would have expected from the U.S.; ceasefire over an important religious holiday. The U.S. did it for Iraq during Ramadan but they did not do it for the Serbs during their Easter. This shows a disrespect of religion and the innocent Serbian civilians who's cities and towns are now being targetted by the U.S. U.S. lost big points on that.