- The US "fabricated evidence" against former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic during clashes between Serbia and
Bosnia in the mid-1990s, according to a prominent and experienced international
peacekeeping official who served there.
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- Retired Swedish Brigadier General Bo Pellnas, who was
head of UN Military Observers (UNMOs) in Croatia, now says that the US
should not be trusted. Pellnas says that he learned to distrust US-provided
evidence during peacekeeping service in the former Yugoslavia.
- Pellnas's misgivings are described in an article from
the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet.
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- Here is an English-language translation of this article:
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- In an interview with Sweden's leading news-wire TT, retired
Brigadier Bo Pellnas claims that the US "faked evidence to suit their
own interests."
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- "If the US were to present evidence of Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction, the countries of the Western world would have no way
to substantiate these reports due to the technical superiority of the US."
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- These are the words of retired Brigadier Bo Pellnas,
who says he witnessed the US "fabricating fact to suit their own needs."
Pellnas says he witnessed this first-hand when he led an international
force which safeguarded the borders between Serbia and Bosnia in the mid-1990s,
where he gained a very good insight and understanding of US operations.
"The technical superiority of the US gives their politicians the option
of bringing forth fake evidence, in this case in front of the United Nations
Security Council."
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- Pellnas served in Yugoslavia during a time when US efforts,
led by then Secretary of State Madeline Albright, presented evidence to
the UN Security Council that Milosevic's Belgrade government ran unmonitored
arms shipments. Pellnas claims that Albright's staff presented manipulated
satellite photos to document false allegations, leading the Security Council
to act in accordance with the US hard line against Milosevic.
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- "There might be a possibility that Albright thought
the pictures to be true," says Pellnas, "but several incidents
pointed towards the fact that the US lied." The US stood firm by their
claims, refusing to show supporting evidence to Pellnas and other members
of the peacekeeping crew.
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- "If the US were to come forth with evidence against
Iraq which were "difficult to confirm," the permanent members
of the Council will be put in a difficult situation, since they lack the
sufficient tools to research and verify such claims."
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- Pellnas said he hopes that nations of the European Union
make it their responsibility to build their own intelligence agency which
has the capability to act as a counterbalance to the US. "It would
be great indeed if the EU could act as a balance to the world's only true
superpower, which acts alone these days."
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- In addition to his UN duties, Pellnas was also in charge
of an international monitoring mission to Yugoslavia in 1994 sponsored
by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and
worked with the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (ICFY),
a group established in 1991 to find a peaceful solution to the region's
conflicts.
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- http://www.unknownnews.net/fis020603.html
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