Introduction - Part 05

12. The Albanians in Macedonia were part of the political system. They were MP’s, ministers, directors of public companies ... and had no basis, no logic and no specific and sustainable need to take up arms and begin shooting at their colleagues with whom yesterday they had sat together in Parliament and in government... First, even with the emergence of the NLA in the hills, the Albanians in Macedonia had no justifiable reasons to pick up arms and fight against their fellow Macedonians. Second, there was no critical mass of discontent in Macedonia because, as unusual as this may sound, at that point in time inter-ethnic relations in Macedonia were on a level of mutual tolerance, even though there were many unresolved issues vital to the Albanians in Macedonia. And third, between Xhaferi and Thachi on one side and Ahmeti and his uncle, Veliu, on the other, they had no chance of finding common ground to start a war. It was difficult if not impossible for them to have started the war in Macedonia. Until the U.S. (Frowick) imposed it, Xhaferi had no need to talk to Ahmeti.

The details of what happened in 2001 are not sufficiently known even today, let alone at that time. Something happened that started the war and still, to this day, no one has investigated and analyzed its causes. In 2001 we knew nothing, today at least we have some ideas.

13. The old folks were right when they said “the wolf may change its hair but will never change its nature”. So the Americans, our “partners”, as many Macedonians even today call them, may have changed the nature of the war but not their goals. They adapted new conditions to achieve the same old goals. Their task was reformulated: “If they couldn’t immediately ‘liberate’ those territories all they needed to do was set the

conditions and be prepared to ‘liberate’ them later”. And this is the situation we are finding ourselves in, all this time later!

13.1. If not before, then certainly when the nature of the war was being changed, the Americans initiated the next phase of the project which would eventually be called the “Ohrid Agreement”. By total restructuring of the political system of Macedonia, they found sophisticated ways which, after a certain period of time, would open opportunities for peaceful albanization of parts of the country. Those processes, over time, would lead to federalization of the country and create conditions for a “legal” separation and alteration of boundaries, without use of arms.

Does anyone have any doubt that this is exactly what is happening in Macedonia, all these years after the 2001 war?

14. The sixth announcement made by the NLA was the transformation of the war from “a war of liberation” to “a humanitarian war”, thus creating the opportunity to legitimize aggression. When this announcement was made, the NLA immediately received open support from the United States and NATO. Experts like Peter Feith, and others of similar expertise, all intelligence operatives, were immediately sent to Macedonia to support the efforts of yesterday’s terrorists and today’s humanitarians. We can reliably assess that these so-called experts, had secretly worked very closely with yesterday’s terrorists, even before. Now working in the open, under a new umbrella, they were doing everything possible to help the “humanitarians” reach their new target - the Ohrid Agreement. Everything had already been made public. Without any scruples the Americans were now using NATO and the OSCE to do the same thing openly, which until yesterday they were doing covertly. Macedonia was blockaded and at war and these people were doing whatever they wanted, including allegedly disposing of hazardous waste materials from their helicopters into Macedonian lakes.

15. There is much more evidence and from several different sources that point to U.S. involvement in the 2001 war in Macedonia. For example, basing his evidence on some secret documents leaked to the Netherlands, Christopher Deliso wrote that “...continuous telephone contact was maintained between the NLA and senior U.S. officials. Such conversations were recorded by European Secret Service personnel. When the Americans found out they broke contact but immediately supplied the NLA with computers that had built-in telephone technology and their communication continued on.” Deliso is an American journalist who lives in Skopje and has written several books about Macedonia.

Another source is Dutch journalist and researcher Hub Jaspers. Jaspers did an interview with KFOR Commander General Klaus Reinhardt, a German officer who served in Kosovo. According to General Reinhardt, “some of the UCK fighters left Kosovo to fight for the NLA in Macedonia.” (“Nova Makedonija”, December 10, 2012, “My story about UCK fighting for the NLA in Macedonia created fears in The Hague”) General Reinhardt also said that “…when KFOR jailed a KLA subject for fighting for the ONA in Macedonia, the next day the Americans ordered his release. The orders always came from the highest ranking American officers in Europe!”

B. How terrorists became “humanitarians”?

16. If someone were to ask “if the Americans were truly behind the 2001 war in Macedonia, then how was it possible for NATO Secretary-General Robertson of Britain, in the beginning, to label the NLA “a terrorist organization”? Isn’t NATO under American control?

Yes, the contradiction is undeniable, but only at first glance. In the beginning the Americans were conducting super covert operations in Kosovo (UCK) and in Macedonia (NLA) about which nobody was allowed to publicly speak, let alone support. The alliance was kept out of the loop and could not have been seen as standing behind the Albanians. There was a lot at stake in the beginning and the implementation of classic American “dirty politics” had to be hidden from everyone. Therefore, Robertson may not have known.

17. The next logical question to ask is “why the turn around?” Why did they not liberate the “Albanian lands”? Why did the NLA, in its sixth announcement, declare itself “humanitarian” and turn its military aggression into a struggle for human rights? Was it possible that the Americans were defeated in Macedonia?

The only possible explanation is that whatever they were trying to do proved unattainable! The same happened with the three South Serbian municipalities, where the short war aimed at their incorporation into Kosovo. There were two short unsuccessful wars in the Balkans but with long lasting and unforeseeable consequences. As it turned out ambitions were much greater than the possibilities. The terrorist’s target was not reached despite Macedonia’s non-readiness for war and despite all the efforts that were made by the MPRI to help the Albanian terrorists…

18. The U.S. took all necessary measures, including supplying the Albanians trainers and advisory personnel, for the 2001 war in Macedonia to succeed. All this was unmistakably planned by U.S. services, including Robert Frowick, who was sent to Macedonia with special status in the OSCE Mission to Skopje at the most critical time in our country’s recent history. He was undoubtedly a CIA operative although he claimed to be a former American diplomat. If he was a diplomat he certainly was working for the Agency. Frowick had been in Skopje before, in the early 1990s, when he unscrupulously interfered in Macedonia’s internal affairs, to the detriment of our long-term Macedonian interests. This time he was sent to Macedonia at exactly the time when the terrorists became “humanitarians”. He came with instructions to a) create the right conditions so that the Ohrid Agreement could be imposed on the Macedonian people and gain their compliance and, b) to make sure that the aggressors were included in the political system of the country. There was no better tool than the OSCE for the realization of this project.

18.1. Reconciling the Albanian leaders in Macedonia with the leaders of the terrorists coming from Kosovo was certainly one of the most difficult tasks for Frowick. Convincing the DPA and PDP leaders of the Albanian political parties in Macedonia to accept the NLA, Frowick in parallel was preparing the text for the future Ohrid Agreement, the draft of which was signed in Prizren. On May 22, 2001, Frowick basically dictated to Xhaferi (DPA), Imer Imeri (PDP) and Ali Ahmeti (NLA) the Prizren Declaration which was to include almost all the basic elements of the forthcoming Framework Agreement. Among other things, there were requirements for serious amendments to the Macedonian Constitution to create “equality between the Albanians and the Slavs in Macedonia” (the word “Slavs” was used and not Macedonians!); for “performing military service in the municipalities of birth” (which practically called for federalization or division of our country!); for “entry of NATO forces into the entire territory of Macedonia”, and so on.

Frowick did all that behind the backs of Macedonian authorities after he was expelled from Macedonia. Did he act on his own or did he follow someone else’s precise instructions? The readers can make up their own minds about that. All we can say with certainty is that a) his father or grandfather did not send him to Macedonia and b) the OSCE had no role in what he did. He used the OSCE to achieve someone else’s interests.

The “Prizren Declaration” is proof that the text for the Ohrid Agreement was an American creation. There is no doubt that the text was prepared in Washington.

18.2. The Albanian parties in Macedonia, the DPA and PDP, had no choice but to accept the NLA because the United States stood behind it. If that were not so, then there was no other chance of drafting the “Prizren Declaration”. One can only imagine how Xhaferi and Thachi must have felt at that time? They were witnessing a war in Macedonia, led by Albanians, in which they were not involved but were forced to support. Do you think that if the United States was not behind all this Xhaferi and Thachi could have been convinced to cooperate with Ahmeti and at the same time be left on the sidelines? Do you think that Xhaferi and Thachi would have listened to some guy named Ali Ahmeti or his uncle, Veliu, and let them be involved in Macedonia’s politics, if not forced by the United States?

And if it was really an “Albanian war” why did they have to be “forced” into it?

18.3. Looking at this from another point of view, if the United States did not lead this dance and did not stand with all its authority behind Ahmeti and his uncle, could the possibility of an armed confrontation have taken place between Xhaferi and Thachi, on one side, and Ahmeti and Veliu, on the other if Xhaferi and Thachi were excluded from this plan? More precisely – would there have been an open inter-Albanian confrontation in Macedonia between these two factions? Most likely yes! Ahmeti and Veliu, the classical aggressors, would have fought for control of what they already had in Macedonia, regardless of the fact that they were all Albanians. The danger was absolutely real. However, the top American diplomacy that pulled the strings from behind eliminated these dangers. That was one of the main reasons why the U. S. was so deeply involved in the conflict – to prevent inter-Albanian misunderstandings.

The relationship between Thachi and Xhaferi (while he was still alive) on one side and Ali Ahmeti on the other, today (2013), is still “uncooperative”! They constantly look at each other through the scope of a rifle!

19. Xhaferi and Thachi were faced with a serious handicap. After the Kosovo war, which gained the U.S. permanent Albanian loyalty, they could not react any differently and ignore American interests. Therefore they had to accept a new secondary and humble role, including the signing of the Ohrid Agreement for which others fought and became their political rivals. The two Albanian parties in Macedonia have sustained “collateral damage” from the 2001 war and are on the margins. (If we exclude the brief period after the 2006 election when the VMRO DPMNE was in coalition with the DPA.)

20. Menduh Thachi, according to an article published by “Dnevnik” on December 30th, 2011, entitled “The Framework Agreement cannot be the reason for a holiday”, confirmed that the DPA knew nothing about the 2001 war at the time. He said: “The 2001 war was a great shame for the Albanian people. It was a Marxist-Islamist war.” Unfortunately Thachi could not have made this statement in 2001 or 2002, although he certainly was thinking the same. Now he can say that after the Ohrid Agreement the state was irreversibly reconstructed in an unacceptable way, with long and unforeseen negative consequences. He would have been a traitor if he had said that at the time; labeled as someone who worked against the Albanian cause. He would have been labeled an anti-American. Then, he and his kind had no choice but to keep quiet and embrace their new American partners. And now, he can only speak on behalf of the DPA, which lost its prestige and position of power, possibly forever, because of the war. But, overall, the Albanians got more than they ever dreamed of in Macedonia, just like they did in Kosovo.

20.1. The same Thachi, according to Lupevka’s channel 5 TV show KOD, which aired on June 26, 2011, said: “Wars are led only for territories. Human rights are acquired by different means…” He was absolutely right and publicly confirmed that the 2001 war was all about carving out parts of Macedonia as directed by the U.S.

The greatest benefactors of the war, however, were the Albanians.

21. MPRI and general Griffiths, the head of it in Skopje, do confirm that Washington played a key role in the NLA creation and in its operations in Macedonia.

Frowick, through the Prizren Declaration, has uncovered Washington’s intentions in regards to the Macedonian state and the Macedonian people.

The seventeen American military trainers, caught in Arachinovo among the NLA fighters when they were surrounded by the Macedonian Army, proves very clearly that the U.S. was directly involved in the 2001 war in Macedonia. This discovery was the jewel in the crown.

22. Overall, in 2001, Macedonia was put in a precarious situation. The same force (MPRI) that was managing the NLA and aggression against Macedonia was also managing the Macedonian military responsible for defending Macedonia. In other words, the Americans were right in the middle and pulling strings on both sides involved in the war. And we know very well that they were helping the Albanians at the expense of the Macedonian people. It was a classic puppet show! The Americans did whatever they wanted while Macedonia was being destroyed and people were dying. The Americans were waging a war for “rights” on behalf of the Albanians in Macedonia without even letting them know!

23. Let us not forget that the aggression in Macedonia received general and widespread condemnation. The world media supported Macedonia and saw it as a victim of Albanian irredentism. In the beginning not all Albanians supported this aggression either. Some were confused by the attacks and even condemned them. This secret American military operation left many people holding their breath. Among them was Ismail Kadare, a world famous writer and a proven Albanian nationalist. He openly condemned the war. He was afraid, like many others that the gains the Albanians made against Milosevich would be lost and this kind of behaviour would jeopardize Kosovo’s independence. Later, after it was discovered that the U.S. and NATO were behind the 2001 war, Kadare and others changed their opinions.

23.1. It was quite different in Kosovo where the Albanians were seen as fighting against Serbian aggression, primarily due to Milosevich’s stern policies. The world was sympathetic to the Albanians largely due to U.S. and NATO propaganda. The Americans and their NATO allies continued to vilify Milosevich and the Serbians while valourizing the Albanian resistance and completely ignoring and covering up repeated Albanian injustices perpetrated against the Serbian population, not to mention the irredentism that was present in Kosovo for decades. Tens of thousand of Serbians, one way or another, for years were forced to move out of Kosovo because they were harassed, but that did not matter to the Americans. Even at The Hague Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, there were no Albanians tried for crimes committed against humanity even though many Albanians were guilty of that. A media campaign waged against Serbia covered up all crimes and abuses committed by the Albanian side. Certainly this was a result of American involvement in the war and their support for the Albanian side. Partners do not try partners. The Haradinai case proved that.

C. General Pande Petrovski’s precious “testimony”

24. In order to fully understand the American role in the 2001 war in Macedonia, you will have to read late General Pande Petrovski’s book “Svedoshtva” (Testimony), (Bitola, “Kiro Dandaro”, 2006). It clearly explains, in detail, America’s treatment of Macedonia. Petrovski was a participant in the 2001 war. We hope quotes from his book will clarify a lot of things.

24.1. On page 7 in his book Petrovski wrote: “The then Macedonian government signed an agreement with the American firm MPRI to send a team of instructors, consisting mainly of retired United States military veterans, to Macedonia to reorganize the Macedonian military. MPRI proposed its own plan for the reorganization but Army General Headquarters and the Ministry of Defense were not prepared to accept it. The MPRI plan called for Macedonia to have a single brigade army, i.e. a light infantry brigade with two light battalions and some special units with no artillery, armoured units, aviation, etc.”

Without being a military expert, one can immediately conclude that what General Petrovski is telling us about the MPRI proposal is that Macedonia would actually have no army! The MPRI literally recommended that Macedonia’s defense institutions get rid of their army! This proposal definitely revealed the essential elements of American strategy towards Macedonia as the Pentagon stood behind the MPRI. And so we come to the core: prepare Macedonia for a military defeat in 2001!

24.2. Again on page 7 Petrovski wrote: “Soon afterwards, in January 2000, around 500 officers were retired, including all of the generals who ‘did not agree’ with the reforms. After the officers were sent into retirement the original MPRI plan was accepted and the army reorganization was launched in 2000 under full MPRI control.”

On page 8 the General explains how and why this was done: “In the beginning of 2001,” he wrote, “before the war had begun, the Army was in its final stages of “reforms” or ‘disbanding’ (3. AK, disbanded, 2. AK – bitolski being disbanded, tank and artillery units disbanded, aviation disbanded) and the border brigade was under formation...” In other words, MPRI had made everything ready for Macedonia to fail miserably if someone were to start a war against it…

24.3 General Pande Petrovski was also included in the group of retired officers. But after the war started and the Macedonian army was facing incomprehensible errors and multiple defeats, President Boris Traikovski requested that Petrovski be reactivated. Surprised by the President’s actions, Petrovski asked Traikovski why he had been retired when he was not of retirement age. Traikovski was honest with him when he said: “General, when I became president I did not know any of the generals. Major General Richard Griffiths of the Unites States, head of MPRI in Skopje, brought me a list of officers to retire and a list of officers replacing them and I signed the lists.” (p. 15)

Griffiths not only retired 500 of the most experienced officers but he staffed General Headquarters with the wrong people. As head of General Staff he appointed an engineer and quartermaster as his deputy! The filling of all top positions with unqualified staff, by MPRI and Griffiths, can only be explained as direct sabotage. From the inside.

In general, this was an unprecedented, audacious American action! The error however was ours and we are to blame for being so naïve and trusting.

25. General Petrovski’s book “Svedoshtva” (Testimony) contains valuable information about the 2001 war and about the role of the main factors that participated in it. On page 160 Petrovski wrote: “On July 21, a KFOR helicopter (Z-47) landed in Shipkovitsa at 16:45 hours and unloaded equipment and people until 17:05 hours. At the same time another Z-47 helicopter landed in the village Brodets. On July 21, 2001 KFOR helicopters of the type Z-47 and Z-53 landed in the village Brodets at 13:53 hours and remained there until 14:30 hours. All of these KFOR flights were carried out without informing the Macedonian authorities... In fact this is when KFOR was preparing to re-establish the NLA command base from Prizren, Kosovo, to Shipkovitsa, Macedonia. During a conversation I had with General Lange of NATO Command in Macedonia, I pointed out to him that NLA command had been moved by KFOR from Prizren to Shipkovitsa. His reply was: ‘You are right, but think of me as a professional that can’t wait to go into retirement’!”

25.1. It is interesting to note what General Petrovski had to say about Peter Feith’s behaviour. Peter Feith is an American and was a personal representative of the NATO Secretary-General. About him Petrovski, on page 122, wrote: “Feith was the person who primarily had direct contact with the Macedonian President and from what I observed he behaved quite arrogantly, he was brazen and constantly threw ultimatums at the President, his behaviour was very strange. During an occasion, in front of a room full of state officials I asked him: ‘Mr. Feith are you the commander of the so-called NLA, why are you so sure about their concerns?’ That was the time when we were working towards a ceasefire.” Perhaps the general was right about Feith’s role…

25.2. Another incident that deserves more attention is the part connected with the Arachinovo operation. After the Macedonian security forces penetrated deep into the village it was only a matter of time before the terrorists were cleaned out. When the forces moved near the village they found two wounded Americans (p. 107)!

Then, on June 25, when General Petrovski was meeting with Traikovski, the Macedonian President informed him that NATO was going to move the terrorists out of Arachinovo. At that point the General said: “Well, we will continue to attack until the conditions are created for extraction”. “No!” yelled the President. “NATO Secretary-General Robertson told me that 30 of his people are in Arachinovo!” “I was dumbfounded as I looked at the President,” Petrovski wrote, “and I could not understand what was happening! So I asked, who are these people and how did they come to be in Arachinovo?” Traikovski looked at me and said: “I don’t know but Robertson promised me that he would give me a list of who these people are!”

25.2.1 What an unpardonable, fatal mistake! In a war, the Supreme commander of the Macedonian Army is told that in the battle zone, surrounded by his forces, among the aggressors were 30 NATO people!!! American, of course! And this information is transferred to him by none other than the General Secretary of NATO!? And that was enough for the Macedonian President to start a rescue operation for our “partners”!? Did they go to the wrong side by chance, by mistake?! So, the President stopped a key operation that would have opened the way for Macedonian victory thus jeopardizing the most fundamental interests of his own country!? And then he permitted the evacuation of the aggressors and their American military advisers and experts, without asking who they were and what they, for God’s sake, were doing in the village!? Even worse, all of them were evacuated fully armed!? However, the President was promised a list, which of course was meaningless and will never be sent.

The NLA fighters and American supporters were transferred to another location where they immediately resumed fighting against the Macedonian Army!?

Everything is obvious; as a nation we have sunk to a new low.

25.2.2 Just to clarify, when preparations for the Arachinovo attack were being made, Traikovski told Petrovski that the Macedonian army had only two days to carry it out (p. 101). Surprised by his comment, the General questioned the President about why only two days? Traikovski replied: “That’s how much time Robertson gave me!”

So when we take this latest information and put it together with the previous information, of the 30 Americans in Arachinovo, then things start to become very clear as to who managed the war in Arachinovo, and in all other places all the time. Robertson began his involvement in the second stage of the war, right after the fifth NLA communication, when the war became a “humanitarian” story (for children only!). Before that, he was left outside of NLA super secret activities.

There is nothing more to be said.

25.3. There is one more important fact noted on pages 77 and 78 in Petrovski’s book. In the middle of May 2001, President Traikovski ordered General Petrovski to meet with a man named David Foley, who was in a diplomatic vehicle with two others, and take him to the village Slupchane, where he was reportedly to negotiate the extraction of civilians. Here is what Petrovski had to say about that: “I requested that my people secretly follow David Foley. The same day I received the following report: ‘Three people were waiting for Foley at the entrance of the village. They were fully bearded and were wearing NLA uniforms. All three welcomed Foley with kisses and embraces’...”

So what else can we say other than the three NLA operatives knew Foley from the days when they were students…

25.4 There is a lot more information in General Petrovski’s book relevant to our topic. For example, on page 195 he wrote about how NATO, by the end of the 2001 war, insisted that Macedonia withdraw all its heavy weapons from the crisis regions, especially the tank battalion with T-22 tanks purchased from the Ukraine. “Knowing the Unit’s ability in combat,” wrote Petrovski, “NATO demanded that the battalion be relocated to Strumitsa, at any price. The daily pressure put on the Macedonian President by NATO was too much so he ordered the tank battalion and the entire military apparatus and officers to relocate to Strumitsa. After that any tank movements out of Strumitsa required NATO approval!”

25.5. Even though the terrorists in Macedonia could have been easily defeated militarily, “President Traikovski”, wrote Petrovski on page 98 of his book, “on June 14, 2001 sent a letter to the NATO Secretary-General asking him to help in resolving the crisis.” The Macedonian Chief of Staff learned about this on July 5, 2001.

This information alone was sufficient to conclude everything that was and how it happened in Macedonia in 2001.

It was like in a fairy tale - Traikovski was asking for help from the executioner!

25.6 There were indications in 2001 that then Prime Minister Georgievski advocated for the proclamation of martial law and he came very close to implementing one. If that were the case then why didn’t he do it? Specifically, who opposed it? It is arguable that the U.S. and its satellites were strongly against such a measure because after that it would have been relatively easy to eliminate the NLA.

25.6.1. Georgievski’s attempts, mentioned above, were also confirmed by General Pande Petrovski, but facts have shown essential differences between what Georgievski said and what he did. About this on page 136, Petrovski wrote: “Every time we started a military operation, and before it was finished, the Prime Minister would visit the command post and cancel the operation. Two classic examples of this were the military operations in Kumanovo and Arachinovo. The Prime Minister and some others near him never publicly advocated for the crisis to be resolved by military means. After canceling the operations they never explained why they were cancelled!”

Petrovski had no doubt about President Traikovski’s position: “He always advocated that the crisis be resolved by political means and with NATO, EU and OSCE support…” (p. 136). This was probably our biggest handicap in the war. The Supreme Commander, who had to lead the Army, thought that a military solution was not necessary!?

This is valuable information for historians.

26. From what we know, President Boris Traikovski was an honest man and a patriot. There is personal proof of that. Unfortunately he was a victim of Balkan manoeuvres by the single superpower. General Griffiths through MPRI, Robert Frowick through OSCE, Perdue, Feith and other “facilitators” and “experts”, belonging to the ranks of the CIA and to other similar services, were there undoubtedly implementing U.S. policy, which proved to be disastrous for Macedonia. Unfortunately the Macedonian leadership believed everything it was told and obeyed every command given without question, especially the Macedonian President!

26.1. Unaware of the great games that were played, Traikovski, apparently without objections, followed U.S. guidelines and was unscrupulously exploited by Washington. And exactly as General Petrovski explained, Traikovski, on trust, retired his most experienced military officers and replaced them with inexperienced ones including his staff at General Headquarters, creating enormous and irreparable damage to his own army.

As a matter of fact, Trakovski knew very well what had happened or what had been done in Kosovo and Macedonia. Could he, one day, be a witness to all these misdoings and political abuses? Journalist Lupevska from the TV show KOD on Channel 5, on February 26, 2012, shortly before Traikovski’s death, reported that Trakovski had said that he would tell all about the Kosovo caper! Did he sign his own death warrant by saying that?

26.2 On page 175 General Pande Petrovski wrote: “I am not sure who planned the military crisis in Macedonia. Nevertheless, it was obvious who did not permit the war to be finished by military means. The Army was definitely not responsible. The Army was certainly not allowed to act...” On page 204 he concludes: “We were blocked in every military operation!”

27. An interesting view on the 2001 war was given by G’zim Ostreni, Chief of the NLA General Staff as noted in the book “A critical review: The 2001 war in Macedonia”, by General Mitre Arsovski, Prof. Dr. Stoian Kuzev and General Prof. Dr. Risto Damianovski, a personal edition, Skopje 2006 (ISBN 9989-2650-1-1).

27.1. On page 25 Ostreni was quoted as saying: “...UNMIK and NATO (KFOR) took strong measures to prevent members of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) from participating in the NLA structures.” Is Ostreni, unwillingly, revealing that all NLA preparations were done in Kosovo? If the war truly was an “uprising” in Macedonia, as Ostreni argued, then what did it have to do with UNMIK and NATO (KFOR)? These organizations were in Kosovo, not in Macedonia! Why was the NLA connected with them, if it was authentically created in Macedonia? This alone is enough proof to show that a relationship was in existence. A very important relationship! How was it possible, for example that Ostreni, Chief of the Kosovo Protection Corps General Staff, paid by the UN, was allowed to transfer to the NLA and perform the same functions? Why were UNMIK’s “strong measures” not valid for him?

27.2. According to what was written in the book, Ostreni does not hide the NLA’s purpose in Macedonia and has repeatedly said that the NLA strove to turn Macedonia into a bi-national state. He also complained that in 1991, in Macedonia’s new constitution, the Albanians “were not recognized as a constituent element in the new state” (p. 34) and this was motive to start a war. At issue is the same grievance that Kosovo had in Yugoslavia, when it strove to become a republic. Being a “republic” in the Yugoslav Federation or having become a “constituent” people in Macedonia means that the Albanians would have the right to secede. There are no differences between the two scenarios.

27.3. On page 90 Ostreni further elaborated on the fundamental causes of the war. He said: “…The parliament, the government and the political parties, including all Albanian political parties in Macedonia, could not find the strength to overcome the problem by political means, a problem created by the Macedonian Constitution since 1991, by excluding the Albanians from the right to statehood and thus discriminating against all their basic human rights and freedoms...”

Ostreni’s position that the “failure” to receive the right to “statehood” meant discrimination for Albanians is obviously preposterous. That would only be true if Ostreni was thinking of the right to secession. And that is exactly what he was thinking and that is why it was denied. There was nothing else there. Attempting to partition Macedonia has absolutely nothing to do with human rights and freedoms, at least on an elementary level. All citizens are equal before the law. It was pure fabrication by Ostreni to show that indeed there was motive for the 2001 war. Albanian attempts to split lands from Macedonia were reliably confirmed by their own admission. The NLA released five announcements which called for the division of our country. Ostreni is mixing human rights with ethnic and collective ones. However his intent is evident: to break Macedonia’s unitary character, as a step to partition.

27.4. In explaining why the Macedonian security forces were defeated, Ostreni again unwittingly confirmed the NLA’s aims in the 2001war: “This inability to destroy the Albanian people’s desire for freedom was expressed through the NLA...” In other words, the NLA worked for “freedom” and not for any “rights”. And his army was so appropriately named a “Liberation” army...” (p. 94)

27.5. In the end, Ostreni has the audacity to teach us: “The Macedonians are only Macedonians together with the Albanians,” he says, “if they were with someone else they would be something else!” According to Ostreni, Macedonians have to be grateful for the treatment they get from Albanians!? Enough, isn’t it?

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28. It is worthwhile to note that during the 2001 war, the only country that helped Macedonia was the Ukraine. The Ukrainians sold us weapons and sent pilots to assist in the flying of helicopters and airplanes that we purchased from them. It is also interesting to note that Condoleezza Rice, in her capacity as National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, put pressure on Kiev to stop all shipments of weapons to Macedonia!

29. At this point there is a need to ask: why did nobody, until today (2013), dare to investigate and document these events so critical to our country? Why didn’t anybody show any interest in examining the period that deformed the Macedonian state? Are we afraid that the United States will retaliate if we reveal its true role in the war? Is there anyone out there who would be willing to show that America’s goal was and still is to break up Macedonia?

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30. According to Petrovski, Slovenia did not accept the MPRI team and Macedonia expelled it in May 2001. But, it is well known that Croatia intensively used the services of MPRI during the War. The MPRI team arrived in Croatia in the fall of 1994 and through it Croatia cooperated militarily with the United States. It is believed that the MPRI had a significant role around operation “Storm” in 1995, which expelled several hundred thousand Serbs from Krajina.

31. Confirmation about the role the Americans played in the wars in Yugoslavia after the dissolution of Yugoslavia was given by the first ambassador to Zagreb, Peter Galbraith. In an interview with the Serbian weekly, according to “Dnevnik” of November 23, 2012 in the article “They achieved ‘Storm’ on account of Srebrenitsa” and the headline “Croatian action joint with the United States”, Galbraith said: “if Bihach fell it would have been much worse than Srebrenitsa, but I had to choose whether to allow another Srebrenitsa or to allow the Croats to attack Krajina”! (Let us remind you that this is how the Croatian operation “Storm” came about to expel nearly 300 thousand Serbs from Krajina!). Galbraith argued that “America would never have allowed the Croats to perform ‘Storm’ if Ratko Mladich had not previously ordered the massacre in Srebrenica”. Nothing remained ambiguous; Galbraith explained that operation “Storm” would have gone even further if the Croats had not committed abominable crimes in Krajina. Galbraith said: “If the Croats in Krajina had not perpetrated atrocities and if they had not killed civilians and burned their houses, maybe Banja Luka would have fallen. Perhaps they would have had our support to continue their actions”! And if Banja Luka, the capital had fallen, Republika Srpska would have most likely disappeared! Galbraith now confirmed what we originally thought!

31.1. From what we have discovered from Galbraith about America’s role in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there should be no doubt as to who was pulling the strings in the atrocious wars on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Logically the question follows: “How much American involvement was there in previous operations in Bosnia and other battlegrounds across the former federation?” Is it possible that the Americans had sat “peacefully” on the sidelines before and done nothing? Thus allowing things to proceed without their “interference?” How many times, on other occasions, and elsewhere did they “permit” certain actions to take place or were they “silently” giving their consent?

31.2. Should we wait for some Americans involved in Macedonia to open the 2001 archives and tell us what was done here? Compared to operation “Storm” the war in Macedonia was short and strictly controlled without too many victims. The incursions from Kosovo were fully controlled. However, given the background, the basis for this war and the involvement of dark American figures, all secret service agents and military personnel, it would be very difficult to expect that someone would speak publicly about our war. No diplomats like Galbraith were involved in Macedonia. But for now, following the facts and arguments, part of which were presented in this analysis, we can assess with deep conviction that the Americans gave more than their implied consent and “silent” permission to the aggression against Macedonia in 2001 (Arachinovo…).

31.3. Those who follow world politics know that there is no mystery about the secret roles the Americans have played in the international arena, especially after World War II. The CIA and other similar American agencies have been active everywhere. They had their own part in many events that changed the history of many countries. This is common knowledge. Unfortunately it may take 30, 40, or 50 years before the archives are opened and before we find out what really happened. But, as was common in the past, when that many years have elapsed no one really gives a damn about what happened. But there is a lesson in all this… history tends to repeat itself… In the last period we have more and more of such cases.

According to a “Dnevnik” story published on August 21, 2013 entitled “The CIA has admitted participation in a military coup in Iran” the CIA organized a coup in Iran in 1953 when Prime Minister Mosadek was ousted and the Shah Reza Pahlavi was put in charge. The reason for the ousting - Mosadek tried to nationalize Iranian oil. Energy was and still is the main reason for odd and inconsistent policies, tolerances, alliances, coups, bombings, etc. They took down Mosadek by launching a strong propaganda campaign against him, by corrupting parliamentarians, politicians and military figures and by organizing various protests and rallies...

Do you think that the CIA has changed its methods since then and it would not use similar tactics in Macedonia today, for example? Of course not, the CIA will do whatever is required of it! They don’t hide the fact that the problem with “the name” is very important to them. If they can ignore the UN Charter so that they can challenge our name, if they don’t respect the judgment of The Hague Court... both of which are internationally respected institutions, do you think they don’t have covert operations in Macedonia? If you add to that various “opinions”, “commitments”, “views”, “policies” and added “analysts”, “columnists”, “journalists”, closed and open societies, NGO’s, etc., that are launched in Macedonia and that they all had only one intention - to undermine the position of the country and to cause confusion... Isn’t it very similar to the actions done by the CIA to push down Mosadek and many others like him over the years?!

31.4. Mosadek certainly was not the only case. There are many others. According to an article published in “Nova Makedonija” on August 22, 2013 entitled “Dictators and democrats assassinated by the CIA”, there have been seven cases of confirmed military coups carried out by the CIA. These are: Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), the Dominican Republic and Congo (1961), Vietnam (1963), Brazil (1964) and Chile (1973).

Compared to these cases, the events in Macedonia were a mild exercise.

31.5 Not so long ago the U.S. military intervened in Grenada, Panama, the Dominican Republic... the last one being an interesting case. The justification for this aggression, which took place in 1965/66, was to restore democracy in the country. About this Henry Kissinger said: “There never was a democracy in the Dominican Republic!”

D. U.S. role in the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement

32. The concept of the Ohrid Agreement, prepared by Washington, is a superb illustration of the U. S. treatment of the Macedonian state and its people. In place of putting the Macedonian people as the central pillar of Macedonia and building everything else around it, they did just the opposite. They marginalized the Macedonian people. In fact, through the Ohrid Agreement, the U.S. prevented the development of a civil society which would have been a foundation for the new structure. Of course, as we now know their intentions were not honourable towards the Macedonian people. Certainly, and not by accident, Washington created a destructive system designed to develop a multi-ethnic confrontational society whose aims ultimately would be to split the country apart. The aim was for the Albanians to take as much control of Macedonia as possible, naturally with Washington’s backing. This is the way the “Greater Albania” project, crucial for the United States’ regional interests, can be realized. Just like the Fascist Italians did in the Second World War.