[Peace-discuss] Holbrooke’s legacy: a gangster regime in Kosovo

[C. G. Estabrook]

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."

On 12/15/10 8:53 AM, David Green wrote:
> 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 Afghanistan.
>
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> *From:* C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
> *To:* Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> *Sent:* Wed, December 15, 2010 8:41:18 AM
> *Subject:* [Peace-discuss] Holbrooke’s legacy: a gangster regime in Kosovo
>
> Holbrooke’s Legacy
> A gangster regime in Kosovo
> by Justin Raimondo <http://original.antiwar.com/author/justin/>, December 15, 
> 2010
>
> As the panegyrics to Richard Holbrooke 
> <http://abcnews.go.com/Health/inside-aortic-dissection-heart-problem-killed-richard-holbrooke/story?id=12393928> 
> spread over the internet like a thickening fog, the real legacy of this State 
> Department apparatchik came across the news wires 
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/14/kosovo-prime-minister-llike-mafia-boss> 
> a few hours after his death:
>
> /“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./
>
> /“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./
>
> /“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.”/
>
> It was Holbrooke, one of the chief architects of the Kosovo war, who midwifed 
> the KLA regime <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Liberation_Army> in 
> Kosovo, and created a gangster state. When Strobe Talbott 
> <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976015,00.html>, then acting 
> Secretary of State, called him for his recommendation on the Kosovo “crisis,” 
> Holbrooke replied <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/military/>: ...
>
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