Now that the Sarin gas fraud has been exposed—what about Bosnia coverage by Christiane Amanpour who fed the American people a nightly diet of slanted reports and chilling images? Her biased reporting promoted the “We Must Do Something” approach to objectivity that enabled President Clinton to send American GIs to Bosnia without facing the hard questions from American taxpayers and their elected representatives: what national interests justified that decision? Amanpour rarely showed the atrocities committed against Serbs. The photo on the left shows a Saudi mujahid holding the decapitated head of Blagoje Blagojevic, a Serb. This is only one of thousands of war crimes by foreign mujahedin who fought in this war as early as 1992—not one of these Islamic warriors has been indicted. 

The Veterans group participating in this ad certainly does not condone war crimes by any participants. However, Amanpour put her objectivity aside in what she describes as “advocacy journalism.” In a CNN Impact special she falsely labeled the image below which deceived her CNN audience. While the camera scanned over this scene of several mutilated victims, Cherif Bassiouni, the Muslim who headed the Commission of Experts at the UN stated: “...Serbs killed anything that moved.” The ugly truth about this scene and its use by CNN is that the victims were not Croatians as Amanpour implied—they were all Serbs, axed to death by Croatian forces in Borovo Naselje, in 1991. Image manipulation and this macabre use of Serb victims relabeled as either Croatians or Muslims was common among “advocacy journalists” in this Civil War. Time Magazine, Newsweek and 60 Minutes also used this photo without identifying the victims as Serbs. This effort to demonize the Serbs took on many forms, including ridicule of Serbian claims of atrocities by the other side, as evidenced by the following quote by Anthony Lewis, a journalist at the New York Times: 

“Bosnian Serb broadcasts told viewers and listeners that Serbian fighters were being roasted alive on spits. For many, this was the only source of news, and they believed.”—Anthony Lewis, (New Republic, March, 1995). Serbs and the rest of us had good reason to “believe” the story. The photo above right shows the most grotesque Muslim war crime in Bosnia—roasting POWs. Photos of several roasted Serb soldiers taken by Japanese photo journalist Yasunari Mizuguchi, were sent to Anthony Lewis in March, 1995—a retraction was never made. The castration and forced circumcision of hundreds of Serb POWs ranks among the most repugnant of war crimes—these physical mutilations of Serb victims were never made public by CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, nor any major U.S. newspaper. If the American people had been told the truth from the beginning, American GI’s would not be in Bosnia today. According to the Washington Post, American ‘Special Forces’ are in “110 hot spots around the world.” It is time we start asking why and by what Constitutional authority. 

Serbian victims identified by pathologist Dr. Zoran Stankovic who did more than 11,000 autopsies of Serbian victims. His files were presented to the Haugue Tribunal

“The UN concluded that a special group of Bosnian Muslim forces, many of whom had served with Islamic terrorist organizations, committed a series of atrocities... against Bosnian Muslim civilians in Sarajevo as a propaganda ploy to win world sympathy and military intervention.” Yossef Bodansky, author of “Offensive in the Balkans.”

“Here you clearly see a case of the media and its images driving government policy. It was more evident in Bosnia. We’re now seeing it again in Kosovo, where so much of the press coverage doesn’t even make a pretense of objectivity.” Ted Carpenter, Cato Institute, author of “The Captive Press.” 

“This organized anti-Serb and pro-Muslim propaganda should cause anyone believing in democracy and free speech serious concerns. It recalls Hitler’s propaganda against the allies in WWII. Facts are twisted and, when convenient, disregarded.” Yohanan Ramati, Director of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense. 

“Richard Holbrooke, architect of Bill Clinton’s Bosnian policy, was one of the architects of Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam war policies. Round and round the quagmires we go, and up pops one of the same weasels.” Charles Reese, Syndicated Columnist. 

“Want to start a war? Better yet, want the U.S. Britain, France, NATO, the United Nations on your side? Call in the cameras ... It lies in those magic initials CNN, NBC, BBC...” Financial Times, [London] 11 July, 1998.

“The gigantic campaign to brainwash America by our media against the Serbian people is just incredible, with its daily dose of one-sided information and outright lies.” John Ranz, Chairman of Survivors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 

“The Serbs are not fighting to conquer new territory, but to hold on to what was already theirs.” Gen. Charles Boyd, USAF (Ret.) Former Deputy Commander in Chief, European Command. 

“As early as 1992, Izetbegovic outlined a very precise and uncompromising strategic political objective for the Sarajevo regime: to get the West to defeat the Serbs and establish a Muslim-dominated state for him.” Yossef Bodansky, Director, Task Force on Terrorism & Unconventional Warfare, House Republican Research Committee. 

“Now a year ago, I went to Bosnia to see for myself what was meant by ethnic cleansing and the rape stories attributed to the Serb armies in the field. When I visited the Serbian front, I learned to my dismay that the rape story was a total concoction.” Herb Brin, Editor, Heritage Southwest Jewish Press— letter to President Clinton, April 14, 1994. 

“When I was at 50 kilometers from Tuzla, I was told, ‘go to the Tuzla gymnasium; (high school) there you will find 4,000 raped women.’ At 20 kilometers, this figure dropped to 400. At 10 kilometers, only 40 were left. Once at the site, I found only four women to testify.” Jerome Bony, ‘Le Point,’ March 13th, 1993. 

“Almost from the beginning of the Bosnian Civil War in the spring of 1992, there have been persistent reports—readily found in the European media but little reported in the United States—that civilian deaths attributed to the Bosnian Serb Army were in some cases actually inflicted by operatives of the Izetbegovic regime in an (ultimately successful) effort to secure American intervention. These allegations include three major explosions in Sarajevo, attributed to Serbian mortar fire, that claimed the lives of dozens of people... The three were: (1) the May 27, 1992, ‘breadline massacre,’ ... (2) the February 5, 1994, Markale ‘market massacre,’ ... and (3) the August 28, 1995 ‘second market massacre’...’” Each case resulted in measures being taken against the Serbs, the final one being selective large-scale NATO air strikes. (Senate Republican Policy Committee Report, 16, January, 1997). 

“Muslims ‘Slaughter their own people,’ Bosnia breadline queue massacre was propaganda ploy, UN Told.” The Independent [London] 22 August, 1992. 

“Serbs not guilty of massacre, experts warned US mortar was Bosnian” The Sunday Times [London] 1 October, 1995. 

“French journalist, Bernard Volker, who claimed two years ago that Muslims were responsible for the incident at Markale market in Sarajevo has won his case in Paris and thus proved the truthfulness of his report.” April, 1996—Le Monde, Paris 

“The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” Adolf Hitler, 1939. 

Our media continues to promote the propaganda that, “as many as 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were taken as Serb prisoners in Srebrenica, lined up, shot, their bodies placed in mass graves.” Most intelligence reports put the number of Muslim troops inside Srebrenica, an alleged demilitarized “safe-haven,” at 10,000. Missing from these reports however, is any reference to the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) memo, dated 9/13/95, which states: “5,000 Srebrenica Muslims left the enclave prior to its fall and were reassigned to other military duty. Their departure was kept a military secret, even from their families.” John Pomfret of the Washington Post (7/18/95) wrote that he personally saw “4,000 Srebrenica men in Medjedja.” Michael Evans, the Times [London] 8/2/95, wrote, ‘Missing Enclave Troops Found’ ... “2,000 Bosnian government troops were in an area north of Tuzla.” These two news articles account for 6,000 of the alleged 7,000 killed or missing in Srebrenica, without considering the ICRC memo. David Rohde of the Christian Science Monitor received a Pulitzer prize for his alleged discovery of the “Srebrenica mass grave.” Rohde described finding a leg sticking out of the ground and spent shells. One leg sticking out of the ground hardly constitutes a mass grave. Did Serbs kill some of the Srebrenica men? Of course—no war is without atrocities, but most were killed in “ambush and fire fights” according to testimony of Muslim survivors. But what about those Muslims who killed each other in clashes between Bosnian government troops and civilians who wanted to surrender to the Serbs? Charles Lane, a prominent supporter of Bosnian Muslims, said in the New Republic in August, 1995 that “there were at least two such clashes.” Other journalists reported to have seen “bodies of soldiers and civilians lying in the streets as Serbs entered Srebrenica.” Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made international headlines by revealing an image taken by our super “secret” spy satellite of what was alleged to be “the mass grave in Srebrenica.” That photo turned out to be a ruse—no mass grave was found. Furthermore, some 25 journalists, including CBS’s Mike Wallace, went to Srebrenica to find evidence of the “alleged,” “thought-to-be,” and “possible” mass grave. Those journalists neglected to inform the American public that they all came back empty handed. 

The propaganda mill is setting the stage for sending our GI’s to Kosovo. For more than a year the international media, especially CNN, ignored the dozens of Serbs being killed in Kosovo. Amanpour and 60 Minutes covered the killing last year of “60,000 Muslims” by other Muslims in Algeria, no bombing or sanctions were suggested as they were for 300 Albanians. Richard Holbrooke met with the Albanian terrorists mocking the American policy of dealing with terrorists. Serbian nuns and monasteries in Kosovo have been attacked and seized by the KLA, their livestock, beehives and orchards destroyed. Yet the media does not tell this side of the story. More than 13,000 Serbs, originally “cleansed” from Krajina in 1995 by Croatian forces were resettled in Kosovo. They have once again been made refugees according to Mrs. Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugee Affairs. Holbrooke and CNN have glossed over this “double ethnic cleansing” as though Serbs have it coming.