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====Kosovo====
====Kosovo====
There was no internationally significant [[human rights]] crisis in Kosovo immediately prior to the NATO bombardment that justified its intervention on behalf of the ethnic-[[Albania]]n population. The problems of warfare that existed in Kosovo were largely a result of Clinton's support for the [[Kosovo Liberation Army]] (KLA), a narco-[[terrorist]] organization<ref>http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/2002/05/whos-kla.html</ref> linked to [[al Qaeda]], with the intent of causing a crisis that justified intervention. The intervention was not humanitarian. NATO failed to produce evidence of massacres approaching anywhere near its claims. The intervention was illegal, destructive, and based on fraudulent claims.<ref>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=1666</ref>
There was no internationally significant [[human rights]] crisis in Kosovo immediately prior to the NATO bombardment that justified its intervention on behalf of the ethnic-[[Albania]]n population. The problems of warfare that existed in Kosovo were largely a result of Clinton's support for the [[Kosovo Liberation Army]] (KLA), a narco-[[terrorist]] organization<ref>http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/2002/05/whos-kla.html</ref> linked to [[al Qaeda]], with the intent of causing a crisis that justified intervention. The intervention was not humanitarian. NATO failed to produce evidence of massacres approaching anywhere near its claims. The intervention was illegal, destructive, and based on fraudulent claims.<ref>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=1666</ref> According to Professor Robert Hayden from the University of Pittsburgh:
{{quotebox-float|"NATO's attacks have been aimed against civilian targets since literally the first night of the bombing, when a tractor factory in the Belgrade suburb of Rakovica was destroyed by cruise missiles. Since then NATO targets have included roads, railroad tracks and bridges hundreds of miles from Kosovo, power plants, factories of many kinds, food processing and sugar processing plants, water pumping stations, cigarette factories, central heating plants for civilian apartment blocks, television studios, post offices, non-military government administrative buildings, ski resorts, government official residences, oil refineries, civilian airports, gas stations, and chemical plants. NATO's strategy is not to attack Yugoslavia's army directly, but rather to destroy Yugoslavia itself, in order to weaken the army. With this strategy it is military losses that are "collateral damage," because most of the attacks are aimed at civilian targets."}}
The level of damage done to clearly non-military infrastructural targets in [[Serbia]] would seem to render NATO military commanders and at least some NATO political leaders liable to the same charge that was made against Ratko Mladi and Radovan Karadi by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), "extensive destruction of property:" that they
individually and in concert with others planned, instigated, ordered or otherwise aided and abetted in the planning, preparation or execution of the extensive, wanton and unlawful destruction of ... property, not justified by military necessity or knew or had reason to know that subordinates were about to destroy or permit others to destroy ... property or had done so and failed to take necessary and reasonable measures to prevent this destruction or to punish the perpetrators thereof."
The war supposedly in defense of human rights has produced war crimes by NATO, and a civilian casualty rate that is at least three time higher than the casualty rate of the "intolerable" violations of human rights that NATO was supposedly acting to correct.<ref>[http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hayden.htm Humanitarian Hypocrisy.] University of Pittsburgh.</ref>
===Africa===
===Africa===