Next phase of war against Serbs Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source - Pavlovic Dragan-U408 After destroying the Serbs' economy, the next step is to definitively destroy their good name. And the step after that will be to detach more territory... Voivodina, probably. The Serbs of course will deserve all the horrible things that happen to them. So, the "investigators" are heading for Kosovo to "find" the horrifying evidence of Serb criminality that will justify the NATO aggression. They already know that the crimes they are going to find will be "far greater than we think". They can be sure of this because the UK, that most disinterested party, is giving the War Crimes Tribunal "unprecedented access" to British intelligence, which has never been known to engage in any kind of deception. See the following report on the New World Order sleuths at work: London Telegraph, 13 June 1999 Race against time to prove war crimes By Andrew Gilligan, Defence Correspondent THE horrors awaiting Nato troops in the next few days are "far greater than anyone thinks", according to Britain's most senior official in charge of war crimes. David Gowan, who has access to some of the latest surveillance and intelligence information, said: "The scale of the criminality is enormous. The number of people who have been murdered is greater than we think by far. It is going to be chilling." Mr Gowan, Kosovo war crimes co-ordinator at the Foreign Office, will reach Pristina as early as tomorrow to lead Britain's war crimes effort. The Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, has said catching war criminals will have the highest priority. Investigators are also in a race against time to gather evidence before winter comes and it is buried under layers of mud and snow. Meanwhile, the deputy prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has accused Western countries of not providing enough information to help its work. Graham Blewitt, deputy to the chief prosecutor, Louise Arbour, in an interview with The Telegraph, said: "Governments are not giving us the volume of information we need." Mr Blewitt said that intelligence information such as intercepts of phone calls was needed to make the often "hellishly difficult" link between crimes and particular individuals. "That sort of stuff is not shared outside the intelligence community," he said. "We need to break into that, there's a willingness to do that and we're working very hard at it." Yesterday, two senior Scotland Yard detectives from the Anti-Terrorist Squad left for Kosovo to begin the work of setting up a 15-strong British "scene of crime" unit. They will assess the situation in Pristina, organise the equipment needed and co-ordinate the arrival of the rest of the team later this week. Forensic pathologists, anthropologists, ballistics and explosives experts will make up the rest of the team, Mr Gowan said. War crimes investigators are desperate to enter Kosovo, fearing that vital evidence may be destroyed by the Serbs, by arriving KFOR soldiers or by the hordes of journalists now pouring into the province. Mr Gowan said: "There may be quite a narrow time window." The war crimes tribunal will be "prioritising" between 40 and 50 main murder sites, Mr Gowan said. Many others have been identified but, with skilled staff at a premium, smaller killing grounds will have to be left until later. Mr Cook has said that Britain had given the war crimes tribunal "unprecedented access to British intelligence". He said: "We are determined that we should do everything possible to ensure that justice is done. It is essential that the evidence of the horrific crimes committed in Kosovo is gathered and examined as soon as possible." The worst criminality is believed to have taken place in south-west Kosovo, near the Albanian border, with the northern region the least affected. Mr Blewitt said that there was "no evidence" so far of organised concentration camps inside Kosovo, with most murder victims apparently killed in or near their home villages. But he said: "We are going to be alert to crimes not yet brought to our attention." Destruction of evidence by the retreating Serbs was a "significant problem", he admitted. But he said that the Serbs should not be too confident about being able to escape justice by destroying remains. He said: "We have sophisticated reconstruction techniques and we will also have clues of the destruction of evidence." The sheer scale of the task in Kosovo is beginning to bear down on some war crimes investigators. Almost every village seen by the KFOR troops so far has been damaged or destroyed. Returning refugees are being warned that trying to bury relatives or attempting to clean up their homes could destroy any attempt to bring their tormentors to justice. KFOR troops do not expect to arrest more than a few alleged war criminals themselves - most have already fled Kosovo, investigators believe - and there is long-term doubt as to how any individuals against whom evidence of atrocities exists can be apprehended deep inside Serbia. In Bosnia, much evidence of war crimes was lost because on-the-ground investigation did not begin for almost a year after the war ended. Investigators for Kosovo are determined not to repeat the same mistakes. 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