From
the Kosovo Protection Corps in the Balkans to the White Helmets of
Syria, a group of well-connected people with the fundings of
governments and elite billionaires have sought to wage a war on
public opinion and have recently exploited Jo Cox’s death to do so.
by
Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb
Part
4 - The Bernard Kouchner connection
In 1999,
MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Bernard Kouchner was one of
the original co-founders of MSF and in 1999 he arrived in Pristina as
the UN Special Representative to Kosovo, elected by Kofi Annan, UN
Secretary General at the time. Kouchner served as head of UNMIK from
July 1999 until January 2001. Kouchner also has a history of
high-level involvement in interventionist campaigns from Romania in
1989 and including Haiti, Sudan, Iraq, Libya and the more recent,
ongoing Syrian and Ukrainian NATO-led regime change projects.
According
to the Serbian sources who described Le Mesurier’s role in greater
detail, Le Mesurier would have been under the direction of Kouchner
in Pristina: “Bernard Kouchner was UN Special Representative
until mid-January 2001. Le Mesurier left the British Army (where he
served as an intel coordinator for City of Pristina) in mid-2000.
Therefore, it is clear that he was given a job by Kouchner.”
Kouchner’s
tenure in Kosovo was plagued by controversy and accusations of
involvement in human and organ trafficking masterminded by the
Albanian mafia gangs within the KLA. We will examine this element in
greater detail in the final part of this series, which will outline
the possibility of a far more nefarious role played by the White
Helmets as an integral part of the global human-trafficking schemes
that benefit from the chaos of conflict and war.
In this
video, Kouchner responds to questions about the “yellow houses”
that were the suspected center of the organ-trafficking trade.
Victims, the majority of whom were Serbs, had been taken from Kosovo
to Albania where their organs were brutally removed. Kouchner
responds with laughter and calls the reporter “stupid, insane.”
Carla
Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor for war crimes in former
Yugoslavia, detailed these crimes in her book The Hunt: Me and the
War Criminals, which was published in 2008 just after Kosovo
declared its independence. In 2010 an interim report by the Council
of Europe vindicated Del Ponte’s claims, which had garnered
skepticism and criticism from the NATO-aligned media and
spokespeople. Del Ponte persistently complained, at the time, that UN
authorities in Kosovo were systematically blocking her investigations
into crimes committed by the Kosovan Albanians in the KLA and the
rebranded Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC): “The allegations are
macabre and shocking. In the closing days of the Kosovo conflict,
hundreds of civilians were allegedly kidnapped by Kosovo Liberation
Army (UCK) guerrillas and transported to neighboring Albania. There,
dozens were killed and their organs “harvested” to be sold
abroad. The victims included Serbs, Russians, and at least one
Albanian.” (Allegations of Organ Trafficking in Del Ponte
Memoir Spark Scandal)
So, in
Kosovo we saw the early interconnecting links that would later expand
into Syria and into the establishment of soft-power structures that
would infiltrate Syrian society and provide justification for the
criminalization of the Syrian government and its allies. We witnessed
the curiously coincidental positioning of actors such as Kouchner, Le
Mesurier and even Cox — all of whom would move on to take a pivotal
role in the Syrian regime-change war.
Kouchner
parted company with MSF in 1979 but subsequently founded Medecins du
Monde (Doctors of the World). His has been one of the most strident
anti-Syrian government voices in Western media and among the ruling
elite organizations that have driven the narratives on Syria in the
West. In 2013, Kouchner accompanied John McCain on a clandestine tour
of Syria, smuggled in illegally by armed extremist factions. In 2012,
Huffington Post published an article co-authored by French
war-orchestrator Bernard-Henri Levy and Bernard Kouchner, Jacques
Beres, Mario Bettati and Andre Glucksmann. It was entitled “Enough
Evasion, We Must Intervene in Syria!”
Did
Brendan Cox cross paths with Le Mesurier and Kouchner or both? Was it
a coincidence that they all operated in the same interventionist
theatre at the same time? Why have Cox and Le Mesurier never
emphasized the crimes committed by the Kosovar Albanians against the
Serbs? Why have they been silent (to our knowledge) on the organ
trade and human trafficking that would have potentially preyed on the
very orphanages where Cox worked during his summer holidays?
Probably
the most telling element in the updated description of James Le
Mesurier’s role is that he was instrumental in the conversion of
the KLA, consisting of Al Qaeda elements alongside the Kosovar
Albanian warlords, into the rebranded Kosovo ‘Protection’ Corps.
This blueprint has clearly been carried forward into Syria with the
creation of the White Helmets to merge with and offer protection for
the extremist groups, including Al Qaeda. We have also seen similar
rebranding exercises for Al Qaeda in Syria: Al Nusra Front has been
given a number of new identities in an effort to disassociate it from
its terrorist origins.
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