Re: Humanitarian intervention

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12/07/01 11:58 +0300, you wrote:
> Penners
>
> This is a curious development. Previously I forwarded the list another
> article by this author on this topic which yielded information which, for
> the most part, is simply repeated again in the following article, with a few
> additional interesting snippets (see
> http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/2001II/msg00579.html). Among the questions to
> ask here are 1) Who is Ian Bruce?, 2) Why is the Herald -- a provincial
> Scottish newspaper, with admittedly bigger ambitions -- the conduit for such
> material?

A Google search for ["Ian Bruce" Herald] produced a number of articles
suggesting to me that his sources have included a KLA insider, and someone
close to George Robertson, now Nato Secretary General.

The French position in this article seems less mysterious if you accept
that they were always more pro-Serbian even than the British Foreign Office
under Hurd. Clinton therefore stood back and let them take responsibility
for the Szrebenica massacre in the eyes of the informed upper echelons of NATO.

The Herald is the former Glasgow Herald. Glaswegian would not necessarily
accept that Glasgow is the second city of Scotland. Among its interesting
speculations is that if Scotland were to declare independence, it would
have Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system or England would have to
spend several billion building a new site after overcoming public
controversy about its location. With Britain's nuclear weapons, plus the
Secretary General of Nato its confidant, why should the Herald consider
itself a provincial paper?

Chris Burford