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              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7  Num. 15
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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BOSNIA: HOW THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND MEDIA
HAVE FAILED AND MISLED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
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Special thanks to my "Chicago connection" for sending a videotape 
of a public access program, "Broadsides", which was taped on June 
6, 1995. Host is Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens' Committee 
to Clean Up the Courts; co-host is Mr. Robert E. Cleveland, an 
attorney and associate of Mr. Skolnick. Guests are James Nagle, 
an attorney with the law firm of Querry & Harrow, Andrew B. 
Spiegel, also an attorney, and Mike Pavlovic, a Serbian-American.
 
Pardon spelling errors. If you know the correct spellings, please 
let me know.
 
Contact info: Andrew B. Spiegel, PO Box 396, Wheaton, IL 60187
 
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Hi. Thanks for watching "Broadsides". I'm Sherman Skolnick, 
sitting in for our moderator, Cliff Kelley.
 
We have an interesting program this evening. It's about "Bosnia: 
How the State Department and the Media Have Failed the American 
People". And we have with us three gentlemen that have just come 
back; they've been on a goodwill tour to promote peace in the 
Bosnia area. We have James Nagle, a trial attorney with Querry & 
Harrow in Wheaton; an International Law expert, Andrew B. 
Spiegel; and Mr. Spiegel's client, Mike Pavlovic. And, as a guest 
panelist, we have a Chicago lawyer, Robert E. Cleveland. And 
we're gonna be discussing some things here that you probably will 
not see on the media because, apparently, the media doesn't want 
you to know this, and apparently the State Department doesn't 
want you to know it. And *were* the American people to know more 
about this (what we're gonna discuss in this program), probably 
there would be peace in that area.
 
Why don't you start, Mr. Spiegel, and tell us about this letter 
which you have, that you feel would've made peace, if Clinton 
would have done something about it.
 
 
ANDREW SPIEGEL:
Well, Sherman, the letter you refer to is a letter dated April 
22nd, 1995. It's a letter that President Radovan Karadzic [CN -- 
Please pardon the levity, but this may help you picture who 
Karadzic is: my nickname for him is "hairdo".], the president of 
the Republic of Srpska, wrote (with our assistance) after we met 
with him in Pale [PALL-ay], which is the capital of the Republic 
of Srpska. (The Republic of Srpska is the Serbian section of 
Bosnia.)
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I think, Mr. Pavlovic, we can start with the history. I think 
you're prepared to tell us about the history of this area from 
about 1914 to 1980. And then Mr. Nagle will take it from there.
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
I can say that, 1914, we had start First World War, from 
Sarajevo. At that time was assassination of Prince Ferdinand(?) 
from Austria. And that time, before world war finished, we had 
monarchs in Yugoslavia; they create country as Yugoslavia. We 
create country from Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia that time. And 
what... From that time, we had monarch until 1941.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Was the arrangement of the boundary lines to promote peace over 
that period, or not?
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
*That* time is not. They had only, they created one country as, 
called Yugoslavia.
 
 
ROBERT CLEVELAND:
That was created by the Versailles Treaty, is that not correct?
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
That's true.
 
And then, after King Peter the First took over the country, that 
was, at that time, monarchy of the, of Yugoslavia.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
During the Second World War, I understand that one of the 
factions that lives in that area, the Croats, very much co- 
operated with the Nazis. In fact, in some ways, they were more 
brutal than the Nazis (if that's possible): the Ustashe(sp?). Can 
you tell us a little bit about that?
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
I can tell you one thing: that is, that time they create, in 
Croatia... they work together, with Germany. They create a 
special army they call Ustashe. And that time, Second World War, 
they kill maybe 750,000 Serbs -- massacred -- in Serbia and 
Croatia.
 
 
ROBERT CLEVELAND:
The Nazis had come in and took over the country; they conquered 
it from the monarchy.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
In other words, the monarchy during that period brought a certain 
amount of peace and tranquility to that region?
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
That time was peace, all the time. But when start Second World 
War, they start separating.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
What about in the postwar period? I think some of us know there 
was a "strong man" by the name of Tito [TEE-toe]. Can you tell us 
a little bit about that?
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
That time, it was 1941 that Tito came in power. And during that 
time of war was several leaders in the Yugoslavia. That time was, 
like General [Unclear] who save all those 750 American pilots. (I 
hope this pilot we have right now... I hope is alive and safe. 
[O'Grady, probably, during June 1995])
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
So was there, in the postwar period, tranquility and peace, 
because you had (more or less) a dictator by the name of Tito?
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
Yes. There was, at that time, a communist system dictating all 
the life until 1980.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well some claim that Tito wasn't *quite* within the Soviet bloc. 
In other words, he was in some instances disagreeing with the 
Moscow government. But it was similar, in other words.
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
Yugoslavia was independent communist system.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And that brought us up to the period of 1980.
 
 
MIKE PAVLOVIC:
1980, yes. Up to 1980.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And I think Mr. Nagle is prepared to tell us a little bit about 
from 1980 until now.
 
 
JAMES NAGLE:
From 1980 to 1991, Yugoslavia was a complex country, and there 
was a saying used to describe this: it was, "One country, with 
two alphabets, three religions, four main languages, five 
nationalities, six republics, and it was bordered by seven 
countries."
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Did they get along over the centuries? Or have they been killing 
each other more or less repeatedly?
 
 
JAMES NAGLE:
What happened in 1980, Tito passed away. In 1990-91, Germany re- 
unified. At that time, Croatia attempted to secede from 
Yugoslavia. Germany was the first country to recognize Croatia. 
At this time, Yugoslavia did not want one of its republics to 
secede. So they called in the Yugoslav National Army in an 
attempt to suppress the secession. But at that time, the 
international community put pressure on Yugoslavia to back off.
 
The situation that gives rise to the current conflict is that 
there are many Serbs who have lived in Croatia for thousands of 
years who do *not* want to live under Croatian rule.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Why is that?
 
 
JAMES NAGLE:
In World War II there were between 750,000 and one-and-a-half 
million Serbs that were killed in concentration camps...
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
By the Ustashe?
 
 
JAMES NAGLE:
Well, in other words, Germany was occupying this portion of the 
country, but the Croatians were Nazi sympathizers. In other 
words, after World War II, when Tito came into power he wanted to 
unify Yugoslavia. So he swept this genocide "under the carpet", 
so to speak. You can imagine how the Jewish people would feel if 
the Holocaust was swept "under the carpet". But now, at this time 
[1990-91], Croatia's saying, "We're going to be our own country, 
govern ourselves." And obviously, the Serbian people living in 
Croatia do not want that to happen.
 
 
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Fifty years after the war, would the Croatians that live in 
Chicago disagree with this? If I, for one, raise the issue that 
even fifty years after the war there still is -- oh, I don't know 
-- a "pro-German" "pro-Nazi" twist to Croatia, is that fair? Or 
is that unfair?
 
 
JAMES NAGLE:
I can only speak from what we saw happen. Obviously, Croatia 
seceded at that time and Germany was the first country to 
recognize Croatia. It's my personal opinion that, obviously, a 
deal was made *before* Croatia seceded.
 
But it's the same conflict that we have in Bosnia-Hercegovina. 
There are many Serbs that have lived in Bosnia for thousands of 
years that don't want to live under Muslim rule. When Bosnia also 
attempted to secede from Yugoslavia... the same situation. The 
president of Bosnia wants to start, basically, a fundamentally 
Islamic state, and have Serbs who are Eastern Orthodox that don't 
want to live under Islamic rule.
 
                   [...to be continued...]
 
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