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From notes@igc.apc.org Sat Feb 17 03:07:00 1996
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Date: 16 Feb 1996 23:26:25
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Hi,
I would like to correspond with people from Sarajevo.I am
intersted in learning more about the country and the war and
what is
happening there now.If there is anyone interested in a
correspondance with
me please write me.I can be reached through
my E-mail adress or by writing
me directly at my home address of:
Michael Dillon,P.O. box
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hear from ladies especially,but
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Thanks, and God Bless you all and keep you all safe.
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From notes@igc.apc.org Sat Feb 17 03:11:28 1996
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Date: 16 Feb 1996 23:23:07
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From: Ivo Skoric
Subject: State of the Freedom of the Press in Serbia
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From: "Ivo Skoric"
Subject: State of the Freedom of the Press in Serbia
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Subject: Serbs Take Over TV Station
Organization: Copyright 1996 by The Associated Press
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:10:50 PST
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- The Serbian government took over the
country's first independent television station Thursday, annulling
its privatization and dealing the most serious blow yet to freedom
of the press.
Police entered Studio B TV to switch off its broadcast antenna,
interrupting an address to viewers by Milorad Roganovic, the
station's chief editor.
``Only stupid authorities like these can deprivatize something
that existed successfully for six years as a private company,''
said Roganovic, who was ousted.
``Who is now going to invest in Serbia when there's obviously
complete uncertainty for private companies?'' he asked.
The government launched a similar takeover in 1994, when
journalists from the independent daily newspaper Borba were forced
out of the company. Those journalists founded a separate daily,
called Nasa Borba, but circulation has remained low due to high
paper prices and distribution difficulties.
Studio B was founded in 1972 as a state-run radio station with a
liberal streak. It was allowed to privatize in 1990 by the ruling
Socialists as a wave of democratic changes swept through eastern
Europe.
Still, Studio B journalists were under constant pressure because
of critical reports on the nationalist regime headed by Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic.
Despite his involvement in the Bosnian peace accord, Milosevic
has remained an autocrat at home and continues to hold a firm grip
on the economy, media and Parliament.
Several other independent television stations remain in Serbia,
but most carry just entertainment programs.
Studio B returned to the air later Thursday, broadcasting music
videos.
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Date: 16 Feb 1996 23:23:02
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From: Ivo Skoric
Subject: (Fwd) puna skola djaka, niotkuda vrata...
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From: "Ivo Skoric"
Subject: (Fwd) puna skola djaka, niotkuda vrata...
NATO forces have colonial powers in Bosnia and near colonial powers
in Croatia. This is definitively disturbing intrusion on supposed
sovereignty those states got granted by the international community.
But considering what kind of governments we are dealing with there, I
don't see ordinary people there complaining much about NATO powers.
That the Serbs are bad asses we all know. Radovan Karadzic showed
again his recalcitrant position in the interview he gave to Satacy
Sullivan of Newsweek - denying war crimes, telling that mass graves
are actually full of Serbs killed by Muslims, explaining coldly that
Serbs never held detention camps and announcing that the present war
is just a continuation of the World War II (which in his belligerent
mind is of course just a continuation of a great Serbian struggle
against the Ottoman oppressor). The problem is that the others (the
non-Serbs) are not really great guys, either. Croats in Hercegovina
almost killed the Mostar's mayor Hans Koschnick (a German who was
previously mayor of Bremen). That was perhaps a unique Balkan way of
expressing gratitude for Germany politically shooting itself in a
foot by recognizing (and later arming) Croatia behind rest's of the
Europe backs. Even more fantastic was a commitment to democracy of a
high ranking government politician (Skegro) who snatched a pistol
from a security guard in the parliament and threatened a journalist
(Vlahovic - who, nota bene, wrote some nasty lines about his
politics). The one thing that hit the global news is however from
Sarajevo - bad news for Alija's government (not to mention how bad
they are for his intelligence):
ivo
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Reuter) - What NATO forces
called a terrorist training camp complete with booby-trapped
children's toys was actually a legitimate intelligence service
school, the Bosnian government said Friday.
``They are making a lot of fuss over nothing in order to try
to embarrass us,'' a Bosnian government official, who asked not
to be named, told Reuters.
NATO officers told reporters they seized the camp on
Muslim-led government territory Thursday, taking eight Bosnians
and three men presumed to be Iranian instructors into custody.
The camp, based in a former ski chalet about six miles south
of Fojnica, contained classrooms and an extensive armory,
including explosives, handguns, sniper rifles, rocket- and
grenade launchers, assault rifles and ammunition.
Some of the explosive devices captured were built into small
children's plastic toys, including a car, a helicopter and an
ice cream cone.
The Bosnian official denied the base was used to train
terrorists.
``This place was in the process of being closed down. There
were some Iranians arrested but they were about to leave the
country. This is all to put pressure on us at the Rome summit.''
The presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia were scheduled
to attend a weekend summit in Rome where Western mediators would
lobby the Balkan leaders to abide by the Dayton peace agreement.
NATO said the three men thought to be Iranians had not yet
been positively identified but that a quantity of material
including documents in Farsi and open Iran Air tickets supported
that presumption.
NATO officials said there was so much material in the house,
much of it in the Iranian language of Farsi, that it would take
days if not weeks to wade though it all.
The Americans made clear that while Bosnia had every right
to have an intelligence service, the presence of foreign
nationals was a violation of the Dayton peace agreement.
The accord bans foreign military forces from Bosnia and NATO
has the right to take military action against them.
The commander of the NATO peace Implementation Force in
Bosnia, Adm. Leighton Smith, told reporters who visited the site
Friday that the school clearly went beyond instruction in
espionage techniques to terrorist training.
He showed children's toys packed with explosives and
instruction manuals showing how to make and deploy the devices
as evidence for his contention.
``No one can escape the obvious ... this is a terrorist
training activity going on in this building and it has direct
association with people in the government,'' Smith said.
While precise details of the raid have not been disclosed,
the French captain who led the action told reporters the
operation was ``no problem -- no shooting, no casualties, nobody
escaped, we were very quick.''
The NATO team, using helicopters, dropped into a narrow,
snow-clad valley about 25 miles west of Sarajevo at about 2 p.m.
Thursday.
They surrounded the base and captured the three presumed
Iranians in the house. Eight Bosnian men were later detained on
their way to the location.
NATO officials said captured documents made clear the eight
Bosnians captured at the camp were employed by the government's
Interior Ministry as trainee intelligence agents.
``I told (Bosnian) President Alija Izetbegovic last night
that we had taken this place and that there was some very
disturbing evidence in it and that there were foreign forces
involved,'' Smith told reporters Friday.
``President Izetbegovic related to me his conviction that
this was an old training activity, that it was in fact being
closed down and that the people we detained here were here to
remove all of the equipment.''
But NATO investigators on the scene said they had found test
booklets marked as recently as Feb. 5, indicating that the
school had been in operation at least until then.
Asked about NATO's legal authority to detain the men it had
taken into custody, Smith said: ``(NATO) has the authority to
detain for a period of time, after which we would require a
legal review and then could perhaps detain them longer.''
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