I almost did not notice this bit of news, but it seems that Derek Chappell, the UN police spokesman in occupied Kosovo, has been removed from his post for interfering with the spin the media and the occupiers tried to put on the Albanian pogrom of March 17-20....
Presstitutes’ Darling
It is for some time now that the International Crisis Group has featured prominently in agency reports and newspaper articles, especially when dealing with the Balkans. If just one "expert" is quoted in any report, odds are it will be someone from the ICG. With more...
Taqi Speaks, IWPR Unmasked
Hashim Taqi, the former KLA fuehrer "affectionately" known as Snake, has laid his cards on the table in a screed published (not surprisingly) by the London-based IWPR (a.k.a. Institute for War Propaganda Reporting). In it, Taqi claims his "Kosova" would be: "a...
UNMIK’s situation report, 23 March
A source within Kosovo has forwarded this situation report by UNMIK on the current situation in Kosovo. The tone is "business as usual." It really does seem if they are going to try and pretend nothing happened. In the meantime, the Albanians are supposed to hold...
Kosovo “Blood Libel” originator arrested, released
In the afternoon of March 21, the Belgrade radio B92 reported that one "Halid Berani" was arrested by KFOR troops, as the suspected originator of the "blood libel" about Serbs drowning three Albanian boys. According to B92: “Berani supplied Kosovo Albanian media at...
Photos don’t lie, but the BBC…
As with most Western media, BBC's coverage of the pogrom in Kosovo has been spotty at best, and at worst a deliberate lie. Its three "in-depth" photo essays are a virtual study in spinning away inconvenient facts. First there is the five-photo set from March...
Lying by Inertia
From Serbian daily "Blic," March 19, 2004 (UNMIK summary) A woman, representative of UNMIK Police told Blic on condition of anonymity that she could only repeat the statement given by the spokesman of UN Police Derek Chappell about the tragic death of three Albanian...
Pristina: All Serbs are gone
According to Orthodox priest Miroslav Popadic, special units of UNMIK police evacuated him and the last handful of Pristina Serbs to the besieged enclave of Gracanica. Burned out of their ghetto, they had sought shelter in the parish hall basement next to the torched...
Kosovo Ombudsman: “Intent to cleanse all Serbs”
Serbian Orthodox Church's electronic information service carried the statement of Kosovo Ombudsman Marek Nowicki late Thursday. All emphasis mine: Ombudsman office, Pristina, Kosovo Statement to the Media, 18 March 2004 I once again take the opportunity to appeal to...
“Drowning boys” story a blood libel
In addition to spinning the organized Albanian pogrom of Serbs as "ethnic clashes," newspapers and wire services include in their reports a claim that Albanians rose up after three Albanian boys drowned in the Ibar river "because Serbs chased them with dogs." The...
