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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:57:58 -0500
From: War Resisters League <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) War Resisters' International Statement on Kosovo

Statement of War Resisters=92 International on Kosovo

The War Resisters' International, an international network of more than 7=
0
pacifist groups in more than 30 countries, including the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and Croatia, condemns the NATO bombing and the hypocrisy of
NATO governments in mounting this war.

The original rationale for threatening military action was to make
Milosevic sign a peace agreement. This fatally misreads Milosevic and the
mood of the Serbian people after years of nationalist propaganda. Far fro=
m
undermining Milosevic, this allows him to tap into the Serbian and Yugosl=
av
traditions of heroic military defence.

Now, the current rationale is that the bombing is to prevent a humanitari=
an
catastrophe. Already at the time of writing, it is clearly precipitating =
an
even greater disaster - and with the evacuation of the OSCE verification
mission and foreign relief workers and expulsion of foreign journalists,
there are now even fewer ways to respond.
NATO has been using the conflicts in the former-Yugoslavia to redefine it=
s
role, pretending to be the world's police force. To this end, it pursues
its own institutional interests - against those of non-military
intergovernmental bodies, such as the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations - and it decides on military
action according to its own organisational logic. It is selective about
which 'crimes' it seeks to redress and what counts as a 'humanitarian
catastrophe'.

Far from weakening the Milosevic regime, and protecting Kosovo Albanians,
the NATO bombings are already having disastrous - and predictable -
consequences. In Kosovo itself, it is now 'open season' for Serbs - be th=
ey
police, military, paramilitary or armed civilians - against the entire
Albanian population and its institutions. In Serbia proper, the Belgrade
regime has already moved against anti-war voices, such as Radio B92.=20

The governments that make up NATO displayed very little active interest i=
n
supporting nonviolent efforts by Kosovo Albanians throughout the nine yea=
rs
in which they refused to take up arms in response to Serbian repression a=
nd
violence. Indeed, they consented to the exclusion of Kosovo from the Dayt=
on
accords. On those occasions when foreign governments did acknowledge that
the wholesale violation of 90 per cent of the population of Kosovo was
anything other than an 'internal affair' of Serbia, it was to offer
assurances that they did not even try to live up to. For eight years the
Albanians of Kosovo persisted in their strategy of refraining from violen=
ce
and concentrating on maintaining their social cohesion and institutions
such as parallel schools. Their nonviolent struggle using strikes,
boycotts, peaceful demonstrations and alternative institutions was largel=
y
ignored by the world.

Instead of a world order based on NATO breaking international law to purs=
ue
military action, War Resisters' International works to strengthen
nonviolent methods of dealing with conflict. We have worked against the
militarism of the Milosevic regime; we have worked through the Balkan Pea=
ce
Team to promote dialogue between Serbs and Albanians; and we have worked =
to
increase awareness of the variety of nonviolent methods of social struggl=
e
that can be deployed in such situations. A more understanding response to
the Kosovo Albanian population on the part of the governments now prepare=
d
to bomb Serbia, Kosovo, Vojvodina and Montenegro could have made a decisi=
ve
difference. Unfortunately, this was not forthcoming. Their decision-makin=
g
is dominated by short term considerations of power-politics and 'military
reality'. The 'criminal' they now want to bomb to the negotiating table i=
s
the man they erected into the 'guarantor of the Dayton peace'.

The mission of the OSCE 'verifiers' was too little, too late. Hastily
improvised, poorly prepared, and with a mandate that was inadequately
articulated, the OSCE verifiers succeed in de-fusing some flashpoints, th=
ey
were beginning to build some cooperation with civil society groups, but
they could not stem the rising tide of violence. Rather they increasingly
were verifying that an atrocity had been committed. Nevertheless, their
deployment was infinitely preferable to the NATO's bombings. =20

NATO does not exist to protect populations condemned to live under crimin=
al
regimes. How can it when its own members include countries like Turkey,
whose methods against the Kurds are equally horrific? NATO's military
strategy in Kosovo is not designed in the interests of the population, bu=
t
rather to minimise the risks to NATO's own soldiers - whatever the
consequences for those who are now hostage to Serbian vengeance. NATO=92s=
 new
strategy seems to be a test for new weapons systems in a large scale atta=
ck
against a Central European country, first use of US Air Force B-2 Bombers=
,
first active battle participation of German Air Force since Second World
War, military integration of new NATO-members into the military command t=
o
European NATO headquarters. NATO=92s attack on Yugoslavia is a first
precedent of the new NATO strategy, which will be passed in April. In thi=
s
strategy NATO explicitly stresses its =91right=92 to intervene everywhere=
 in
the world on its own right, without the need of being mandated by the UN =
or
other intergovernmental bodies.

In the immediate circumstances, WRI calls for a halt of the NATO air
strikes and calls on its members to organise vigils and other
demonstrations against NATO at appropriate embassies or War Ministries or
at air bases. We call on the soldiers of all countries taking part in thi=
s
attack to refuse to participate in this war.

In the medium term, we will try to work alongside our friends in the
anti-war groups in Serbia and with people in Kosovo trying to create a ju=
st
peace.=20

In the longer term, WRI redoubles its commitment to promote civilian
responses to conflict - in particular the development of nonviolence as a
means of waging social struggles and the use of methods of nonviolent
conflict resolution and dialogue.




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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:50:09 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Kosovo statement

>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:09:01 -0500
>Subject: Kosovo statement
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>We  have  written to the NATO Headquarters and to the members of the UN
>Security Council. Pelase use this statement to ask your government, if it
>is a member of NATO, to take urgent action to stop the bombing in
>Yugoslavia.
>
>Lohes Rajeswaran
>
>Geneva, 25 March 1999
>
>Open letter to
>Governments of NATO member states
>Members of the UN Security Council
>
>Dear Excellencies,
>
>The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is outraged over the
>aerial bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by NATO forces. We
>call for an immediate halt to this aggression against a sovereign UN Member
>State and for withdrawal of NATO forces from the region.
>
>We also call on the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to
>halt its brutal attacks against the population of Kosovo and order its
>forces to return to their barracks.
>
>We call on the Security Council of the United Nations to take its
>responsibility under the United Nations Charter and undertake a genuine
>process of negotiation and mediation of the conflict with the aim of
>assisting the search for a solution that allows all the citizens of the
>Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to live in safety and to rebuild the country
>in the interests of all. The military action by NATO only adds more death
>and destruction to an already badly damaged population without finding and
>eliminating the root causes of the conflict.
>
>Surely, the experience of the past few years has shown clearly that
>military actions do not resolve the deeply-rooted conflicts we are
>witnessing in different regions of the world, whether they be internal or
>across borders. It is high time for the Security Council to take truly
>peaceful approaches to the solution of today's conflicts. It requires a
>genuine desire to assist all sides involved in a conflict, use of skilled
>mediators and patience.
>
>We urge you to bring pressure to bear on those engaged in military action
>to halt it and for the United Nations institutions to use all its skills
>and means to bring genuine peace to the Balkan region.
>
>Furthermore, we wish to point out that the decision by NATO to go to war
>against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia shows an appalling disrespect
>its members have for the global institutions, whose mandates are based on
>international treaties and agreements. We are alarmed and deeply concerned
>about the consequences this action may have for the future development of
>civilized relations, based on equality among nations and on values rooted
>in the Charter of the United Nations.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>Bruna Nota                                              Barbara Lochbihler
>President                                               Secretary General
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
>International Secretariat
>1, rue de Varembe
>C.P. 28
>1211 Geneva 20
>Tel: [phone]
>Fax: [phone]
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:54:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) A Solution To The Kosovo Crisis!

I have a solution to the Kosovo crisis!  I propose that KLA guerrillas,
other Albanians, and Serbs be integrated into a Kosovo Peacekeeping Force to
police the Kosovo Peace Pact.  I believe that this would be more acceptable
to the Serbs than a NATO Peacekeeping Force.  I also propose that the Kosovo
Peacekeeping Force be supervised by military officers from Russia, Albania,
and other East European nations.

I don't know if my idea would work, but it sounds better than bombing Serbia
back to the Stone Age.  I believe that its worth a try.

Another idea is a peacekeeping force comprised of troops from Russia,
Albania, and other East European nations.


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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:59:40 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: UK Nuclear News 25 March 1999

>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:36:57 -0500
>Subject: UK Nuclear News 25 March 1999
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
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>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>>>Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
>>>X-Sender: [e-mail]
>>>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:11:37 +0000
>>>To: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
>>>        [e-mail], [e-mail],
>>[e-mail],
>>>        [e-mail]
>>>From: Geoff Adams <[e-mail]>
>>>Subject: NPU Bulletin 25 Mar
>>>X-UIDL: 89f8db5cc02168d586b62b77311e5c01
>>>DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN - NUCLEAR POLICY
>>>
>>>Thurs 25 Mar 1999
>>>
>>>99-8136 Itar Tass news agency warns that Russian tactical n/missiles
>>>        could be moved back into Belarus, on the border with Poland,
>>>        as a retaliatory measure after Nato air strikes on Kosovo.
>>>        G 25 Mar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>Metropolitan House, OLDHAM, Lancs, UK, OL1 1QD
>>>Tel: [phone] / Fax: [phone]
>>><mailto:[e-mail]>
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Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:33:42 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Russia ends Y2K co-operation

>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:35:51 -0500
>Subject: Russia ends Y2K co-operation
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>X-FC-Forwarded-From: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Next, we're going to hold our breath until we turn blue...
>
>
>March 26, 1999 0:18 p.m. ET
>
>Russia calls off Y2K cooperation with US
>
>MOSCOW, March 26 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry
>called off cooperation with the United States on the so-called
>millennium computer bug on Friday in response to NATO air
>strikes on Yugoslavia, Interfax news agency said.
>
>Interfax said a ministry representative had made the
>announcement at a meeting of a government committee trying to  tackle the
>computer glitch, which results from old programmes  that may not
>distinguish
>between the years 1900 and 2000.
>
>Officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
>
>The U.S. Defence Department sent specialists to Russia last  month to
>discuss
>the problem, especially insofar as it may  threaten the functioning of the
>trigger
>to Russia's nuclear  missile arsenal.
>
>Russian and American experts both say it is virtually  impossible for the
>bug to
>spark an accidental nuclear launch,  but have suggested that both sides
>take
>extra precautions to  prevent a computer foul-up from causing a false
>alarm.
>
>The American proposal, which U.S. officials had said was  favourably
>received
>in Moscow, would have placed Russian and  U.S. technicians side-by-side in
>a
>joint nuclear command centre  during the months before and after January 1,
>2000.
>
>But Interfax said the Defence Ministry representative  specifically ruled
>out such
>a move on Friday.
>
>Russia has been deeply outraged by NATO air strikes on  Yugoslavia, which
>President Boris Yeltsin called ``naked  aggression.'' Russia has suspended
>all
>cooperation with the  Western military alliance.
>
>Copyright 1999 Reuters News Service.
>
>--
>Bill Robinson, Project Ploughshares,
>Conrad Grebel College, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada  N2L 3G6
>Phone: [phone] x264  Fax: [phone]
>E-mail: [e-mail]
>http://www.ploughshares.ca
>
>Project Ploughshares is a member of the Canadian Network to Abolish
>Nuclear Weapons (http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~plough/cnanw/cnanw.html)
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:31:32 -0500
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: [csdgen] War in Europe

>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>APPEAL
>OF THE FEDERATION OF PEACE AND CONCILATION,
>RUSSIAN FEDERATION PEACE COMMITTEE,
>RUSSIAN FUND FOR PEACE,
>UN ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIA,
>CENTRE "ECO-ACCORD"
>
>March 25, 1999
>
>The mankind has not succeeded to meet the new Millennium without a war.
>NATO member-states have initiated the war in Europe, having opened "the
>Pandora box" full of new danger.  The norms and rules of the international
>law do not allow any country to use military forces against sovereign
>states without the decision taken by the UN and the UN Security Council.
>These norms are hardly broken down.  All further aggressors will be able to
>refer to the NATO action as to the
>precedent, which has broken down rules and norms of the civil order in the
>world, stated in the UN Charter.  Moreover, the whole world system being
>created after the World War II and the UN existence itself is in danger.
>The Federation of Peace and Conciliation, the Russian Federation Peace
>Committee, the Russian Fund for Peace, UN Association of Russia in advance
>to the NATO aviation bombing have come to the world community with a call
>to prevent new military action against Yugoslavia. We claim today to
>immediately stop the war and use political tools for the conflict
>resolution.
>Unacceptable for Russia military action has led to the serious aggravation
>of the relationship between Russia and the West.  This aggravation tendency
>is not less dangerous then the war, being already initiated in the center
>of Europe. The way to a new age of political and military confrontation
>between Russia and the West should be closed immediately. All
>political forces and parties should act responsibly.
>
>In reply to the provocative military action no one should "add oil to a
>flame" and follow thoughtless appeals to start again weapon supply to the
>conflict area (breaking the UN sanctions) or even move tactical nuclear
>weapon close to this zone. Let us prevent involvement of Russia to the
>military conflict! The peace on Balkans must be restored by political
>means: through negotiations, diplomacy, active role and position of the
>world public opinion. Based on the rules of the international law civilized
>and peaceful order in the world must be restored towards new millennium!
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:02:13 -0800
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fw: Web News Sources Inside Serbia/Kosovo

- -----Original Message-----
From: Carol Moore <[e-mail]>
To: Peace list from <[e-mail]>
Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 10:19 AM
Subject: Web News Sources Inside Serbia/Kosovo


>Go soon to get links....
>
>Source: Wired
>  Country: Yugoslavia
>   Feeling news-deprived because CNN got booted from Belgrade?  Not to
>   worry; first-hand reports are available at the source of all good
>   things -- the Internet.  (3/26/99)
>URL:
>http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/18754.
html
>
>
>
>


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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:36:53 -0500
From: Norm and Karen Cohen <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) [Fwd: ] demonstration in philly on kossovo monday

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fyi to those near philly and who want to oppose our bombing of
serbia/kossovo

peace
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- -Paul Kantner, Shadowlands

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our nation, and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human
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STOP  THE  BOMBING  OF   YUGOSLAVIA!
MONEY FOR JOBS & EDUCATION, NOT WAR!

Demonstrate     Monday    March 29th     4:30pm
=46ederal Building       6th & Market St.
(5:15 marching towards City Hall, in order to reach out to Market Street
pedestrians)

The U.S. is bombing for humanitarian reasons?  LIES! For excellent
background info, check out: =93The BosnianTragedy "
<http://www.iacenter.org/bosnia/tragedy.htm">

There are Saturday protests around the country (& world), but because of
SalemNJ and 3MileIsland protests Sat. & Mumia visibility, and Sunday's
School of the America's protest, we've scheduled Phila. event for
Monday.  THOSE ATTENDING SAT.& Sun. PROTESTS PLEASE ANNOUNCE MONDAY'S
PROTEST!

There is a rally for juvenile rights and against death penalty at city
hall at same time.  If they agree, we can join up with them at end,
demanding =93Money for jobs and education, not for jails and war.=94.

Issued by:    International Action Center;   813 S. 48th St., Phila, PA
19143; 215-724-1618   e-mail:  [e-mail]



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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:09:54 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) War Resisters International Statement on Kosovo

 Subj:=09 WRI Kosov@ Statement
 Date:=093/27/99 7:07:55 AM Eastern Standard Time




 WAR RESISTERS' INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT ON KOSOV@

 The War Resisters' International, an international network of more than 7=
0
 pacifist groups in more than 30 countries, including the Federal Republic
 of Yugoslavia and Croatia, condemns the NATO bombing and the hypocrisy of
 NATO governments in mounting this war.

 The original rationale for threatening military action was to make
 Milosevic sign a peace agreement. This fatally misreads Milosevic and the
 mood of the Serbian people after years of nationalist propaganda. Far fro=
m
 undermining Milosevic, this allows him to tap into the Serbian and Yugosl=
av
 traditions of heroic military defence.

 Now, the current rationale is that the bombing is to prevent a humanitari=
an
 catastrophe. Already at the time of writing, it is clearly precipitating =
an
 even greater disaster - and with the evacuation of the OSCE verification
 mission and foreign relief workers and expulsion of foreign journalists,
 there are now even fewer ways to respond.

 NATO has been using the conflicts in the former-Yugoslavia to redefine it=
s
 role, pretending to be the world's police force. To this end, it pursues
 its own institutional interests - against those of non-military
 intergovernmental bodies, such as the Organisation for Security and
 Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations - and it decides on military
 action according to its own organisational logic. It is selective about
 which 'crimes' it seeks to redress and what counts as a 'humanitarian
 catastrophe'.

 Far from weakening the Milosevic regime, and protecting Kosov@ Albanians,
 the NATO bombings are already having disastrous - and predictable -
 consequences. In Kosov@ itself, it is now 'open season' for Serbs - be th=
ey
 police, military, paramilitary or armed civilians - against the entire
 Albanian population and its institutions. In Serbia proper, the Belgrade
 regime has already moved against anti-war voices, such as Radio B92.

 The governments that make up NATO displayed very little active interest i=
n
 supporting nonviolent efforts by Kosov@ Albanians throughout the nine yea=
rs
 in which they refused to take up arms in response to Serbian repression a=
nd
 violence. Indeed, they consented to the exclusion of Kosov@ from the Dayt=
on
 accords. On those occasions when foreign governments did acknowledge that
 the wholesale violation of 90 per cent of the population of Kosov@ was
 anything other than an 'internal affair' of Serbia, it was to offer
 assurances that they did not even try to live up to. For eight years the
 Albanians of Kosov@ persisted in their strategy of refraining from violen=
ce
 and concentrating on maintaining their social cohesion and institutions
 such as parallel schools. Their nonviolent struggle using strikes,
 boycotts, peaceful demonstrations and alternative institutions was largel=
y
 ignored by the world.

 Instead of a world order based on NATO breaking international law to purs=
ue
 military action, War Resisters' International works to strengthen
 nonviolent methods of dealing with conflict. We have worked against the
 militarism of the Milosevic regime; we have worked through the Balkan Pea=
ce
 Team to promote dialogue between Serbs and Albanians; and we have worked =
to
 increase awareness of the variety of nonviolent methods of social struggl=
e
 that can be deployed in such situations. A more understanding response to
 the Kosov@ Albanian population on the part of the governments now prepare=
d
 to bomb Serbia, Kosov@, Vojvodina and Montenegro could have made a decisi=
ve
 difference. Unfortunately, this was not forthcoming. Their decision-makin=
g
 is dominated by short term considerations of power-politics and 'military
 reality'. The 'criminal' they now want to bomb to the negotiating table i=
s
 the man they erected into the 'guarantor of the Dayton peace'.
 The mission of the OSCE 'verifiers' was too little, too late. Hastily
 improvised, poorly prepared, and with a mandate that was inadequately
 articulated, the OSCE verifiers succeed in de-fusing some flashpoints, th=
ey
 were beginning to build some cooperation with civil society groups, but
 they could not stem the rising tide of violence. Rather they increasingly
 were verifying that an atrocity had been committed. Nevertheless, their
 deployment was infinitely preferable to the NATO's bombings.


 NATO does not exist to protect populations condemned to live under
 criminal regimes. How can it when its own members include countries like
 Turkey, whose methods against the Kurds are equally horrific? NATO's
 military strategy in Kosov@ is not designed in the interests of the
 population, but rather to minimise the risks to NATO's own soldiers -
 whatever the consequences for those who are now hostage to Serbian
 vengeance. NATO=92s new strategy seems to be a test for new weapons syste=
ms
 in a large scale attack against a Central European country, first use of =
US
 Air Force B-2 Bombers, first active battle participation of German Air
 Force since Second World War, military integration of new NATO-members in=
to
 the military command to European NATO headquarters. NATO=92s attack on
 Yugoslavia is a first precedent of the new NATO strategy, which will be
 passed in April. In this strategy NATO explicitly stresses its =91right=
=92 to
 intervene everywhere in the world on its own right, without the need of
 being mandated by the UN or other intergovernmental bodies.

 In the immediate circumstances, WRI calls for a halt of the NATO air
 strikes and calls on its members to organise vigils and other
 demonstrations against NATO at appropriate embassies or War Ministries or
 at air bases. We call on the soldiers of all countries taking part in thi=
s
 attack to refuse to participate in this war.

 In the medium term, we will try to work alongside our friends in the
 anti-war groups in Serbia and with people in Kosov@ trying to create a ju=
st
 peace.

 In the longer term, WRI redoubles its commitment to promote civilian
 responses to conflict - in particular the development of nonviolence as a
 means of waging social struggles and the use of methods of nonviolent
 conflict resolution and dialogue.



 War Resisters' International
 5 Caledonian Road
 London N1 9DX
 England

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:07:37 -0800
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Internal nuclear threat?

[from website reference below]

[Russian and Chinese "Speznatz" or special forces Army teams are always
inserted on strategic recce, assasination and sabotage missions in the enemy
rear. Nuclear weapons, command HQs and VIPs will be their targets. The
weapons are already in the United States. They are stored in hidden caches,
including conventional, nuclear, chemical and nuclear "brief case" bombs.

Colonel Stanislav Lunev - Former GRU Officer]


2 key paragraphs from below story:

       ...."In 1999, I presented the K.S. Wu
            information to Colonel Lunev for his
            evaluation. According to Col. Lunev,
            Russian and Chinese army operatives in
            the U.S. have created large stockpiles of
            arms for use in time of war. These
            communist weapon caches are reportedly
            hidden all over America. According to
            Lunev, the Chinese and Russian weapon
            stockpiles include explosives, nerve gas,
            anthrax and as many as 120 "suitcase"
            nuclear bombs!

            I have confirmed Colonel Lunev's story
            with several members of Congress. Red
            China and Russia have pre-positioned
            nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
            on American soil with the intent of
            destroying our nation. President Clinton
            and Congress are aware that China and
            Russia have smuggled nuclear bombs into
            the United States. "........


[above excerpts from]

"Part 2, Dead Men Tell No Tales"

Softwar, Charles Smith, Tuesday, March 23, 1999

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/19990323_xcsof_dead_men_t.shtml

            In 1994, "American" businessman K.S.
            Wu traveled with Ron Brown to
            Communist China. Today, Mr. Wu is
            reported to be dead, and no one in the
            Democratic Party (Democratic National
            Committee) wants to talk about him.

            In my last column, we learned that, in
            August 1994, Mr. Wu accompanied Ron
            Brown to China and Hong Kong. Wu was
            invited to various special events,
            including a post Hong Kong dinner and
            Democrat fund-raiser.

            Wu traveled with several major DNC
            donors, including Bernard Schwartz, CEO
            of Loral; Sanford Robertson, CEO of
            Robertson & Stephens; Democratic Gov.
            Caperton of West Virginia; and Edwin
            Lupberger, CEO of Entergy Corp.

            Entergy Corp., of course, is part owned by
            the Riady family and the Lippo Group.

            In fact, Wu actually worked for Chinese
            billionaire Li Ka-Shing. According to
            documents provided by the Commerce
            Department, Wu, Lupberger, Caperton and
            Brown met with PRC billionaire Li
            Ka-Shing in Beijing during the 1994 trip.

            K.S. Wu, CEO of a so-called "American"
            firm, traveled at the expense of the U.S.
            taxpayers, to meet his Chinese boss Li
            Ka-Shing. Li Ka-Shing owns the vast
            shipping enterprise, Hutchison Whampoa,
            Ltd. Li works closely with the official
            PRC shipping carrier, COSCO. Li and
            COSCO own both ends of the Panama
            canal. Li and COSCO tried to buy the
            former Navy port at Long Beach.

            Li financed several satellite deals between
            Hughes and China Hong Kong Satellite
            (CHINASAT), a company half owned by
            the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). Li
            Ka-Shing and the Chinese navy nearly
            obtained four huge roll-on/roll-off
            container ships, financed by loans backed
            by U.S. Treasury notes.

            The bio of Li Ka-Shing was forced from
            the White House by this author during a
            lawsuit filed in federal court. The
            Commerce Department claimed the
            material was withheld for review by
            another "agency." In fact, the material was
            secretly sent by Commerce to the real
            authors, the White House, which is not an
            agency. The legal "Catch-22" situation
            was all too obvious to Commerce and
            White House lawyers who caved in rather
            than being made to look stupid in front of a
            Federal Judge.

            The reason for the resistance becomes all
            too clear when Li Ka-Shing's bio is
            compared to the accompanying materials
            forced from the grips of the White House.
            Li was the only so-called "civilian." Li's
            bio was included by the White House
            along with the entire leadership of
            Communist China from Jiang Zemin to the
            mayor of Shanghai.

            The Long Beach affair demonstrated that
            Li Ka-Shing is an agent of Beijing. The
            White House material clearly shows that
            Mr. Li Ka-Shing is a member of the
            Communist government. The Long Beach
            deal led by Li Ka-Shing was clearly a
            national security threat. It was canceled
            after U.S. intelligence sources revealed
            that Li Ka-Shing's empire is used for PRC
            espionage. Li Ka-Shing provides fronts for
            Chinese military operations and "civilian"
            covers for PLA soldiers to enter the U.S.
            under "commercial" camouflage.

            In 1995, Mr. K.S. Wu of Pacific Century --
            a company owned by Li Ka-Shing, teamed
            with Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West
            Virginia to provide Red China with an
            airbase only 50 miles from downtown
            Washington, D.C.

            According to a January 1996 speech by
            Gov. Caperton on the Democrats' website,
            "Mr. Wu was a trusted adviser to Sen.
            Rockefeller and me. He was instrumental
            in helping Senator Rockefeller develop the
            Swearingen aircraft project. He was also
            extremely helpful in expanding our
            relationships with China and Japan. We
            extend to his family our deepest respect
            and sympathy. His death is a deep loss to
            West Virginia."

            Today, Sen. Rockefeller will not comment
            on either the departed Mr. Wu, or the Li
            Ka-Shing airbase at Martinsburg, West
            Virginia. The Jan. 1996 speech by
            Governor Caperton published on the
            Democrats' website was removed from the
            Internet immediately after I submitted a fax
            copy to Sen. Rockefeller's office in
            Washington, D.C.

            Yet, in 1996, Sen. Rockefeller led a
            delegation of Asian investors to
            Martinsburg, West Virginia. According to
            Gov. Caperton, K.S. Wu was instrumental
            in helping Rockefeller bring the Asian
            investors to West Virginia.

            In fact, these investors were so special
            that Rockefeller ran a VIP train to
            transport them to West Virginia from
            Washington, D.C. The joint U.S.-Sino
            delegation broke ground for a new aircraft
            plant now located at the Martinsburg
            airport under a project called
            "Sino-Swearingen SJ-30."

            The Sino-Swearingen plant in West
            Virginia is a joint project between Texas
            based Swearingen aircraft, the AFL-CIO,
            and Sino-Aerospace Investment
            Corporation. The joint interests of PRC
            billionaire Li Ka-Shing, a big U.S. union,
            and Sen. Rockefeller were teamed up to
            manufacture business jets in the remote
            mountains of rural West Virginia.

            The so-called SJ-30 "business" jet is
            state-of-the-art. The SJ-30 can travel
            2,500 miles at nearly the speed of sound
            and is rated to cruise at 49,000 feet. The
            SJ-30 is considered to be the leading edge
            of U.S. commercial aerospace technology
            and includes all the latest in avionics such
            as GPS navigation.

            The immense speed, range and altitude
            capability of the SJ-30 can be attributed to
            the twin Rolls Royce/Williams FJ-44
            turbofans that power it. The Williams
            FJ-44 is also used in the Swedish SK-60
            military attack trainer and powers the
            USAF DarkStar stealth robot spy plane.
            Williams is best known for making the jet
            engines for U.S. Tomahawk and ALCM
            cruise missiles.

            The Sino-Swearingen facility is located at
            the Martinsburg airport just south of the
            town along U.S. Rt. 81. Martinsburg is a
            key point in the West Virginia hills,
            located only 50 miles from downtown
            D.C. The narrow valley is a major
            north/south and east/west crossing for U.S.
            microwave and fiber-optic
            telecommunications. The Martinsburg
            airport is supported by the U.S. taxpayer
            via the National Guard facilities and the
            airport ground facilities, such as fire and
            rescue.

            In 1996, a host of the Asian officials
            attending the groundbreaking included Dr.
            Shih-Chein Yang of Taiwan Aerospace
            and Benjamin Lu of the Taipei Economic
            office. In fact, the entire groundbreaking at
            Martinsburg is covered in detail on Sen.
            Rockefeller's web page, including a
            wonderful photograph of Rockefeller and
            several Asian businessmen with shovels in
            hand.

            In 1996, Jay Rockefeller had very close
            ties to the real money behind the
            Sino-Swearingen aerospace deal, Li
            Ka-Shing. Li Ka-Shing is also a known
            PLA operative. Today, Asian "engineers"
            roam the hills of West Virginia with a
            "commercial" cover. The perfect location,
            complete with jets to test fly and a huge
            facility constructed to order was paid for
            by American and Chinese taxpayers.

            There are two more twists to this tale of a
            PRC base only 50 miles from the White
            House. A fellow reporter, Danny
            Casolaro, was murdered in Martinsburg
            West Virginia while investigating Hillary
            Clinton and her business connections to an
            Arkansas airport called Mena.

            Casolaro was found in his Martinsburg
            hotel with his wrists slashed in 1991. He
            was reportedly trying to meet an informant
            who had documented evidence of the
            involvement of the CIA and NSA in dope
            smuggling to support military operations in
            Central America. Casolaro was murdered
            after he had linked Rose Office clients
            with the NSA attempts to penetrate foreign
            banks to monitor drug dealing and
            money-laundering.

            The worst news comes not from a dead
            reporter but a living hero. Softwar has
            obtained an exclusive interview with
            former GRU Colonel Stanislav Lunev.
            Col. Lunev is the highest-ranking member
            of the former Soviet Union intelligence
            services to defect to America. He is, to
            this day, surrounded by FBI agents for his
            protection.

            In 1999, I presented the K.S. Wu
            information to Colonel Lunev for his
            evaluation. According to Col. Lunev,
            Russian and Chinese army operatives in
            the U.S. have created large stockpiles of
            arms for use in time of war. These
            communist weapon caches are reportedly
            hidden all over America. According to
            Lunev, the Chinese and Russian weapon
            stockpiles include explosives, nerve gas,
            anthrax and as many as 120 "suitcase"
            nuclear bombs!

            I have confirmed Colonel Lunev's story
            with several members of Congress. Red
            China and Russia have pre-positioned
            nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
            on American soil with the intent of
            destroying our nation. President Clinton
            and Congress are aware that China and
            Russia have smuggled nuclear bombs into
            the United States.

            Li Ka-Shing and his new airbase in
            Martinsburg are the perfect delivery points
            for PRC special forces operations.
            Chinese Army operatives in Li Ka-Shing's
            employ can be "activated" years after
            being planted, whenever needed.

            For example Charlie Trie, Johnny Chung,
            John Huang, Hua Di and K.S. Wu all had
            the perfect "civilian" credentials. Trie,
            Chung, and Huang await justice in
            America but Wu is dead and Hua Di has
            "defected" back to China.

            According to Lunev, PRC special forces
            agents are rotated on a regular basis in and
            out of America, usually through diplomatic
            sites at the U.N. or the PRC Embassy.
            Washington and New York are only
            minutes away from Martinsburg by jet.

            A so-called "civilian" project could put
            PRC bombers over the U.S. capitol
            without warning. A single "business" jet
            with a suitcase bomb could fly to ground
            zero with satellite navigation accuracy and
            a GPS autopilot. Such an unmanned flight
            in the crowded skies of Washington D.C.
            would go unnoticed until the final fatal
            second.

            The surprise nuclear attack will kill the
            entire U.S. leadership. U.S. military
            leaders in the Pentagon, the White House,
            Congress, the Supreme Court and nearly a
            million Americans will die in a single
            flash.

            If there were enough concerns to shut
            down the planned PRC takeover of Long
            Beach then the PRC airbase in
            Martinsburg should at least also undergo
            close scrutiny. The relationship between
            Li Ka-Shing, Ron Brown, K.S. Wu, Sen.
            Rockefeller and Bill Clinton should be
            investigated by an FBI director and
            attorney general interested in protecting
            the national security.

            We need to kick out known espionage
            agents and close their front operations.
            Covert operations to put atomic bombs on
            American soil are an act of war. We
            should confront the Red Chinese and
            Russian leadership with a demand to
            remove these devices at once. The threat
            now lies buried in our own soil, next to
            our homes and within minutes of our
            nation's capitol.



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