[lbo-talk] re conspiramongering

[Joseph Wanzala]

This below (second excerpt) is, I suppose the relevant excerpt from the 
Shalom piece you posted. There are any number of sources who polint to a 
CIA-KLA connection, including this article from 'THE PROGRESSIVE' 
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1295/8_6/55309049/p1/article.jhtml
- which points out that: "MPRI is one of a handful of Pentagon contractors 
known as private military companies providing support to the KLA, according 
to retired Army Colonel David Hackworth, in an interview with Fox News's 
Catherine Crier. According to Hackworth, MPRI has used former U.S. military 
personnel to train KLA forces at secret bases inside Albania."

"... on the left claim that the KLA was already being armed by U.S. and 
German intelligence, but the evidence is extremely dubious (apart from the 
fact that it would make no sense given that Washington denounced the KLA as 
"without any question a terrorist group" in February 1998). For example, 
Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa claims CIA backing for the 
KLA on the basis of an unsupported claim by right-wing conspiracy nut John 
Whitley (who says that the Bilderbergers planned, financed, and started the 
Kosovo war) as quoted by another right-wing source, "Truth in Media," which 
reprints "for what it's worth" an alleged letter from a KLA soldier claiming 
that the KLA has been dressing up as Serbs and then ethnically cleansing 
Albanians. (See Chossudovsky at http://www.globalpolicy.org; Truth in Media 
at http://ww.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/day10up2.html.) For a trenchant 
critique of leftists mucking about with rightwing conspiracy theorists 
during the Gulf War, see Chip Berlet, Right Woos Left: Populist Party, 
LaRouchian, and Other Neo-Fascist Overtures to Progressives, And Why It Must 
Be Rejected, Cambridge, MA: Political Research Associates, Oct. 7, 1992.


>From: Stephen Philion <philion at hawaii.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] re conspiramongering
>Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:13:33 -0600
>
>Furthermore, I have never heard of this 'right-wing
>conspiracy nut John Whitley' in connection with Chossudovsky or any one 
>else
>doing work on Yugoslavia.
>
>--  http://www.wpunj.edu/icip/newpol/issue27/shalom27.htm
>
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