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US involvement in the Yugoslavian mess preceded the Serbian takeover of Srebrenica.

Google MPRI* and Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and maybe you will see the light. It is clear now, much easier to see now in hindsight, that the wars in the Balkans were in fact pipeline wars, manipulated by the western press and mainly directed by the Pentagon.

Those Muslims who feel like the west is undertaking another crusade are merely misguided by religios ideologues, much to the mirth of the actual players of this game. It is in fact a huge "undertaking", as Breszinski recently pointed out, again, to get the entire region between Egypt and China, between Russia and the Arabian sea under the thumb of US corporations.



* >> Due to the very nature of their task, ‘soldiers of fortune’ - or mercenaries - have played a destabilising role throughout history, and whereas in the past their paymasters have been such as Alexander the Great, and feudal barons, in today’s capitalist world their paymasters are fast becoming business corporations. In his study of mercenaries, David Isenberg notes this phenomenon, stressing that “the important distinction here is that such firms are bound by the terms of a business contract and not necessarily those of international law” (1). On the face of it, this would seem to mean that nothing much has changed since those earlier days of Alexander and the barons, but in view of the enormous potency of modern weaponry coupled with the increasingly global spread of capitalism - with its inherent inequitable class structure - it follows that today the destabilising role of these mercenary groups now poses a far greater and more wide-spread hazard than in times past. Furthermore, this hazard is exacerbated when, as in the case of Western capitalist ‘democracies’, the corporate establishment wields immense political clout. This is particularly true of the USA - that quintessential dominant capitalist state, with its de facto corporate-controlled Administration.

The most influential of these American mercenary groups is the Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI) which, to quote its website homepage “is a professional services company engaged in defense related contracting in the USA and international markets”. A brief resume of some of the more high-profile board members since its incorporation in 1988 confirms its prestigious standing within the military/Intelligence community (though it is of interest to note that these Washington-based corporate mercenaries - all retired military officers - are known , among themselves, as ‘beltway bandits’. This is justified cynicism):

President/CEO: General Carl E. Vuono (US Army Chief of Staff ‘87 to ‘92 - and, as such, oversaw both the invasion of Panama and the Gulf War)

Snr.Vice-Pres.: General Crosbie ‘Butch’ Saint (Commander US Army Europe ‘88 to ‘92)

Executive Vice-Pres.: General Richard H. Griffith (Asst. US Army Commander Intelligence in Europe ‘89 to ‘91)

Vice-Pres Operations: General Ed Soyster (Asst. US Commander Europe ‘82; later Head of Defense Intelligence Agency - retired ‘88)

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