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US role in Operation Storm in Croatia

The United States not only monitored the complete Operation Storm, but they also actively participated with the Croatian Military in its preparation, and in the end directly initiated the operation. The green light from the White House and then President Clinton for Operation Storm was passed on by Colonel Richard C. Herrick, then US military attaché in Zagreb. Several days prior to the commencement of Operation Storm, Herrick visited Markica Rebić in Zagreb. Rebić, Miroslav Tuđman, then director of HIS and Miro Međimurac, then head of SIS, held the most intensive communications with the American military and intelligence agencies.

 

As such, in 1996, Markica Rebić was awarded the Meritorius Service Medal by Peter Galbraith, then US Ambassador to Croatia.
Herrick passed on the message that the US had no opposition to the beginning of Operation Storm, that the operation had to be 'clean and fast' and had to be completed in 5 days time. As Nacional has learned, Rebić was surprised that such an important political and military message would be passed on through those channels, and following Herrick's visit, he immediately informed the state administration of the message in writing, and there is certain record of this today in the archives. As such, it is important to note the Ambassador Peter Galbraith was completely left out of the chain of 'command', and that this message came directly from President Clinton, Anthony Lake (then National Security Advisor) and William Perry (then Defense Secretary) via Rebić to Minister Gojko Šušak and President Tuđman...

 

 

Koštunica: NATO bombed to create own state

[Serb] Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica late last night issued a statement addressing the anniversary of NATO attacks.

The brutal destruction of Serbia, Koštunica said, had the goal of creating the first NATO state in the territory of Kosovo.

"The illegal construction of a huge American military base Bondsteel and Annex 11 of the Ahtisaari plan, which establishes NATO as the supreme organ of government in Kosovo, reveal the reason why Serbia was mindlessly destroyed, and why a NATO state was declared illegally on February 17," the statement sent to Beta news agency said.

The outgoing prime minister added Serbia is a free country, and that therefore, the message from the free nation and free country can only be that Kosovo is Serbia.

"The policy of force that is used against Serbia is blind and won't last, and just as every other force that came to the Balkans, this one will leave too. A huge number of states and the majority of mankind have not recognized the first NATO state, and instead recognize Serbia in her true and internationally recognized borders," Koštunica said.