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Trabalho de conclusão do curso de Engenharia
da Computação - UNISINOS - 2007/2. Aluno
Tiago Roberto Scherer. Máquina de Baixo
Custo para Prototipagem Rápida de Objetos 3D
em Isopor.
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| Bill Clinton, An American Terrorist! |
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source: T h e N a t i o n
By Jeremy Scahill
Monday, 19 June 2006
Read the whole article here:
http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=6&lea
der=1&sp=76
An internal UN report prepared for Annan and
leaked to journalists earlier this year
accuses the KPC of "criminal activities,
killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal
policing, abuse of authority, intimidation,
breaches of political neutrality and hate
speech."
Yet Susan Manuel, spokesperson for the UN
Mission in Kosovo, says, "As far as I know,
no ones been [criminally] charged with
anything." This refusal to prosecute those in
the KPC who commit atrocities has in effect
given the go-ahead to a wider campaign of
terror against Serbs and other civilians.
This campaign, according to the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, has forced more
than 200,000 minorities - mostly Serbs - to
flee Kosovo since NATO forces rolled in last
summer.
The United States is the largest funder of
the KPC, shelling out some $5 million for its
activities to date. But the US connection
doesnt end there.
The man chosen to head the KPC is well-known
to Washington: Gen. Agim Ceku, former
military Chief of Staff of the KLA. Ceku
refined his brutality as a general in the
US-backed Croatian Army during the Balkans
war and was trained by Military Professional
Resources Inc., a private paramilitary firm
founded in 1987 and based in Alexandria,
Virginia, with former high-ranking US
generals and NATO officials on its board [see
Ken Silverstein, "Privatizing War," July
28/August 4, 1997].
In 1995, armed with a contract authorized by
the Clinton Administration, MPRI officially
began to train Croatian forces.
Just months after MPRI arrived on the scene,
Croatian forces carried out the notorious
Operation Storm. In a brutal four-day
blitzkrieg in 1995, these forces expelled
some 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina region of
Croatia after their villages were mercilessly
shelled.
Janes Defence Weekly reported that Ceku was
"one of the key planners" of the operation
that the New York Times called "the largest
single ethnic cleansing of the war."
The criminal tribunal has been investigating
Operation Storm for years. The Sunday Times
of London recently reported that Ceku is also
suspected by the tribunal of war crimes
committed during raids he led in the south of
Croatia in September 1993, when he was
commanding the feared 9th Brigade.
Spokeswoman Manuel says the UN is "aware" of
Cekus history and the accusations against him
but placed him at the head of the KPC
"because he was the leader of the KLA when we
arrived, and he wanted to contribute to the
transformation of the KLA to a constructive
force for the future of Kosovo."
Washington, maneuvering to reward the KLA in
the "new" Kosovo, has sacrificed human tights
and ethnic tolerance to a desire to maintain
a close relationship with the forces it hopes
to do business with for years to come.
In legitimizing Agim Ceku and thousands of
other KLA members by putting them in
positions of authority, Washington is giving
ethnic cleansing a green light. Not
criminally charging KPC members sends a clear
message to those in and outside the KPC that
crimes may continue with impunity. Its not
surprising that some of the worst brutality
against Serbs has occurred in the US sector
of Kosovo.
The only way the UN can begin to have
credibility with minorities, particularly
Serbs, is to remove Ceku from any position of
authority within Kosovo and to dismantle the
KLA, both in name and force. KPC members who
commit crimes should be arrested, prosecuted
and imprisoned, not just fired or internally
disciplined. The United States should
immediately cut all funding of the KPC until
it is verified that it is no longer engaged
in murder, torture, kidnapping and other
atrocities.
http://kosovoliberationarmy.com/
http://www.dojgov.net/Clinton_&_Terrorism-01.
htm
http://www.beograd.org.yu/cms/view.php?id=201
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Durée : 626 s |
| Arming Bosnia - Bosnia |
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April 1998
A historic report filmed during the rising
tensions in Bosnia.
Courtesy of a US led re-arming, the Bosnia
federation has more than 100 tanks and is
alowed another 150 under the Dayton Accord.
Wary of direct military entanglement, the US
has privatised the defence of Bosnia through
Military Professional Resources Inc. The
American policy, via MPRI, is to build in
Bosnia a strong, NATO-standard army: so
strong that the Serbs dare not attack.
Exercises, or war games, take Place long the
border - "We never play in Republika Srpska."
Meanwhile NATO is confiscating weapons from
the Serbs, who are unwilling to hand them
over whilst the Bosnian Muslims are being
rearmed. For almost fifty years, the
equally-matched armies were pivotal in
keeping the peace between NATO and Communist
bloc forces in Northern Europe. But will a
similar strategy work in the Balkans?
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| War S.A. |
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Modern mercenaries are employees of private
companies, whose job it is to
fulfill their company's contract. This
documentary reveals for the first time
the broad range of these private companies
which provide military services all
over the planet. The mercenaries who parade
on the screen have been recruited
in Chile, South Africa, the United States and
India in order to "work" as paid killers
and torturers in Iraq. Also presented are the
owners of these companies, the legal
framework under which they operate, the
profits they make, the manner in which
they influence U.S. policy as well as the
outcome of a war. In the background,
the psychology of modern, paid killers and
their moral instigators is outlined, as
well as a bleak future scenario in which wars
are no longer waged between
nations and their armies but between the
private armies of companies. The
shooting of this documentary lasted one year
and extended over four continents.
Tags : mercenaries war military services private companies blackwater MPRI Iraq exandas corporation |
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Durée : 580 s |
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