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Yes. In fact the WH is probably right, that it was Holbrooke's
gallows humor. "The realisation that one is to be hanged in the
morning concentrates the mind wonderfully."<br>
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On 12/15/10 8:53 AM, David Green wrote:
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<div>Between Holbrooke and Thomas Friedman, the NYT is unusually
disgusting this morning. And I think we should be wary of
Holbrooke's alleged "deathbed confession" re peace in
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> C. G.
Estabrook <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"><galliher@illinois.edu></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
Peace-discuss <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net"><peace-discuss@anti-war.net></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed,
December 15, 2010 8:41:18 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
[Peace-discuss] Holbrooke’s legacy: a gangster regime in
Kosovo<br>
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<p class="pagesub">Holbrooke’s Legacy<br>
A gangster regime in Kosovo<br>
by <a moz-do-not-send="true" title="Posts by Justin
Raimondo"
href="http://original.antiwar.com/author/justin/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Justin Raimondo</a>,
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<p>As the panegyrics to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/inside-aortic-dissection-heart-problem-killed-richard-holbrooke/story?id=12393928"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richard Holbrooke</a>
spread over the internet like a thickening fog, the real
legacy of this State Department apparatchik came <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/14/kosovo-prime-minister-llike-mafia-boss"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">across the news wires</a>
a few hours after his death:</p>
<p><i>“Kosovo’s prime minister is the head of a
“mafia-like” Albanian group responsible for smuggling
weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern
Europe, according to a Council of Europe inquiry
report on organized crime.</i></p>
<p><i>“Hashim Thaçi is identified as “the boss” of a
network that began operating criminal rackets in the
run-up to the 1999 Kosovo war, and has held powerful
sway over the country’s government since.</i></p>
<p><i>“The report of the two-year inquiry, which cites FBI
and other intelligence sources, has been obtained by
the Guardian. It names Thaçi as having over the last
decade exerted ‘violent control’ over the heroin
trade.”</i> </p>
<p>It was Holbrooke, one of the chief architects of the
Kosovo war, who midwifed the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Liberation_Army"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KLA regime</a> in
Kosovo, and created a gangster state. When <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976015,00.html"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Strobe Talbott</a>,
then acting Secretary of State, called him for his
recommendation on the Kosovo “crisis,” Holbrooke <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/military/"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">replied</a>: ...</p>
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