Tuesday, September 20, 2005
RATLINES II ?
The UN's chief prosecutor for former Yugoslavia has accused the Vatican of sheltering wanted war criminal General Ante Gotovina.
Carla del Ponte said yesterday that she believed Gotovina - an indicted war criminal - was in a Franciscan monastery in Croatia.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, del Ponte said the Vatican could probably track down Gotovina "in a few days" to one of Croatia's 80 monasteries, but her attempts to find intelligence had been met with a wall of silence from Vatican officials.
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Are we about to be treated to yet another scandal via our leaders across the pond, or is this news source unreliable?
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UPDATE
Spirit Daily links the News Telegraph's report on Gotovina:
Gen Gotovina, 49, has been a fugitive since 2001 when he was indicted on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. America has placed a £2.8 million bounty on his head.
A former French foreign legion officer, he is accused of overseeing and permitting the killing of at least 150 Serb civilians and the forced deportation of between 150,000 and 200,000 others after Operation Storm, a 1995 offensive to reimpose Croatian control over the Krajina region. Gen Gotovina's whereabouts are of interest not only to lawyers and historians. They are at the heart of a political mystery that has divided the European Union.
In February, the Balkan intrigue took a poisonous turn for Britain when the general's allies inside Croat intelligence "outed" several war crimes investigators in Croatia as serving MI6 and United States intelligence officers.
The next month, Britain led a successful campaign to halt the planned opening of talks with Croatia on joining the EU. Those accession talks remain on hold until Croatia is found to be "fully co-operating" with the tribunal, an assessment to be made by Mrs del Ponte.
This appears to be some sort of cover-up not unlike what took place after World War II and at the time of the Vatican Bank Scandal when Marcinkus was sheltered at the Vatican.
What are the secrets of the war in the Balkans? How is the Vatican implicated in that war and in the "apparitions" that take place in Yugoslavia? Mysteries, mysteries, mysteries...Something is rotten in Rome.
