1. Franz-Josef Hutsch und Cornel Faltin, "US-Berater halfen Albaner-Rebellen. Deutsche Soldaten nach Mazedonien: Muss der Bundestag seine Sommerpause unterbrechen?" in Hamburger Abendblatt v. 28.06.01

     

  2. Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2001.

     

  3. Report from informed source in Skopje, 3 July 2001.

     

  4. Christian Science Monitor, op. cit.

     

  5. Ibid.

     

  6. Ibid.

     

  7. AFP. Paris, 4 July 2001.

     

  8. Statement of Ljubica Acevska, Macedonia´s first ambassador to the United States, UPI, 5 July 2001.

     

  9. See Col. David Hackworth, Wanted Guns for Hire, Toogood Reports, July 10, 2001

     

  10. See The Record, Bergen County New Jersey, 25 March 2001, and the New York Times, 17 July 2001.

     

  11. Washington Times, 14 December 1997 and US Congress, Press Release, "Militant Islamic Base", Congressional Press Releases, 16 January 1997.

     

  12. Scotland on Sunday, Glasgow, 15 June 2001, see also UPI, 9 July 2001.

     

  13. New York Times, 19 March 2001. In March 2001, the New York-based Albanian-language newspaper Bota Sot printed an advertisement by the National Liberation Army (NLA) "calling Albanians [in the US] to register as volunteers and to donate money." See The Guardian, London, 20 March 2001.

     

  14. The Guardian, 20 March 2001. See also ITAR Tass, Moscow, 20 March 2001.

     

  15. According to the editor of Bota Sot, Dervish Jahjaga interviewed by The Guardian, London, 20 March 2001.

     

  16. For further details see Sunday Times, London, 10 June 2001. See also Jared Israel, ´Sorry Virginia, but they are NATO troops, not Rebels´, Emperors Clothes, June 2001.

     

  17. Irish Times, Dublin, 5 July 2001.

     

  18. Ibid.

     

  19. Ibid.

     

  20. See Michel Chossudovsky, The United Nations Appoints an Alleged War Criminal in Kosovo, March 2000.

     

  21. Quoted in John Sweeney and Jen Holsoe, "Kosovo Disaster Response Service Stands Accused of Murder and Torture," The Observer, London, 12 March 2000.

     

  22. Ibid

     

  23. Macedonian Information Centre Newsletter, Skopje, 21 March 2000, published by BBC Summary of World Broadcast, 24 March 2000.

     

  24. BBC, 29 January 2001

     

  25. UPI, 8 July 2001.

     

  26. See Michel Chossudovsky, Macedonia: Washington Military Intelligence Ploy, June 2001. See also MPRI Republic of Macedonia, Stability and Deterrence Program (1998-Present).

     

  27. See Michel Chossudovsky, Washington Finances Ethnic Warfare in the Balkans, April 2001 and Michel Chossudovsky, Macedonia: Washington´s Military-Intelligence Ploy, June 2001

     

  28. See ICG´s report on Macedonia. Both HRW and ICG are funded by Wall Street financier George Soros.

     

  29. See the OSI Macedonia webpage.

     

  30. World Bank, Kosova Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) World Bank, World Bank Launches First Kosovo Project, Washington, November 16, 1999 News Release No. 2000/097/ECA. See also Michel Chossudovsky, Opening Kosovo to Foreign Capital, March 2000.

     

  31. UNHCR Press Briefing, Geneva, 3 July 2001

     

  32. Macedonian Radio, Skopje, in Macedonian, 200 GMT 8 July 2001, BBC Monitoring Service, 8 July 2001.

     

  33. The Red Cross has registered some 34,000 "internally displaced persons", expulsed by the terrorists, See Red Cross, Report Macedonia, 26 June 2001.

     

  34. In this regard, recent evidence suggests that the KLA was instrumental in uprooting the civilian population in Kosovo during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia. See Jared Israel, What´s Behind KLA Strategy in the Balkans? Emperors Clothes, and the interview with Kosovo historian Chedomir Pralinchevich, May 2001.

     

  35. Michel Chossudovsky, NATO Installs a Reign of Terror in the Kosovo, July 1999

     

  36. Quoted in The Independent, London, 19 July 2001.

     

  37. Press Release, Macedonian Information Agency, Skopje, 19 July 2001

     

  38. Ibid.

     

  39. Ibid.

     

  40. Washington Times, 14 December 1997 and US Congress, Press Release, "Militant Islamic Base", Congressional Press Releases, 16 January 1997.

     

  41. Deutsche Presse Agentur, 12 July 2001.