Fw: Russian General: Albright, Walker Planned War On Yugoslavia, Support For KLA

[Andrej Tisma]

One more forwarded testimony on Kosovo events before NATO intervention in
1999 at the Hague Tribunal, for your better information and I hope interest.
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Walker "described Kosovo intervention as inevitable"

November 23, 2004



THE HAGUE - Russian General Leonid Ivashov has taken
the stand for the defence in the trial of Slobodan
Milosevic before the Hague Tribunal.

The former commander of Russia's international forces,
told the court that the head of the 1998-99 Kosovo
Verification Mission, William Walker, had said as
early as February 12, 1999, that Serbs had no business
in the province.

"Walker had already said on February 12, 1999, in
answer to my question of what the chances looked for a
peaceful resolution to the Kosovo crisis, that there
would be an inevitable military intervention in the
spring and that Serbs had no business in Kosovo," said
Ivashov.

The witness also told the court that former US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had personally
promised Kosovo Liberation Army leader Hashim Thaci
that there would be a referendum on independence for
Kosovo if the guerrilla organisation agreed to foreign
troops being deployed in the province.

"The Russian General Staff Headquarters had
information about 11 camps in Kosovo and northern
Albanian where terrorists were being trained.  We
passed this information to General Wesley Clark with
the intention of together putting an end to the Kosovo
Liberation Army's terrorist activities.

"Unfortunately General Clark said that NATO had no
good intelligence reports to confirm this, which was
simply not true," said Ivashov.

The witness also told the court that Russian military
leaders had spoken to the ambassadors of fifteen Islam
countries about the training of terrorists and that
the Iranian ambassador had confirmed the participation
of Taliban and Al-Qaida members in Kosovo.