In August 1992, millions of people were shocked
to see photographs of a supposed Bosnian
Serb death camp.
The photos
were produced by ITN, the British TV news
giant, from footage shot by an ITN film
crew which spent a long day in
Bosnia. The film was shot in a refugee center in the
town of Trnopolje. (Pronounced Tern-op-ol-yay)
Most of
the photographs featured a tall,
emaciated man with a deformed chest,
stripped to the waist, apparently
imprisoned behind barbed wire. Do you remember
those pictures?
They were
a hoax.
This is proved in the
Emperor's Clothes movie, Judgment! To start with, the
barbed wire was staged. As you will see in Judgment!,
the ITN film crew went
inside a storage area surrounded by a
chicken wire and barbed wire fence. They
filmed through the fence, thus creating the false impression that
the people they were filming were fenced in.
That was only their first
cute trick. Step by step, Judgment! shows how these
phony pictures were created. Judgment! is so damning
that ITN's lawyers have threatened the Internet company
that hosts the Emperor's Clothes server with a law suit
because we advertise the film on our website, www.tenc.net!
The fabricated photos were broadcast worldwide starting on
August 6th, accompanied by captions and comments
comparing Trnopolje to Nazi death camps.
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Outraged Bush
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[To order]
On 6
August 1992, just 20 minutes after the
pictures were released, George Bush, Sr.
held a press conference at a Colorado Air
Base:
"Reports say that 20
minutes after the ITN footage was
shown in the United States, President
George Bush changed his hands-off
policy and promised to 'press hard
for quick passage' of a UN Security
Council resolution authorising the
use of force in the Balkans."
--
"Holocaust images of Bosnia
prison camps make the West sit up," The
Straits Times,
by Lee Siew Hua, August 16, 1992, Pg. 4, 907 words.
President
Bush, Sr. demanded that the Serbs
- the Bosnian Serbs and the Republic of
Serbia as well - be harshly punished,
including:
"tighten[ing]
economic sanctions on Serbia so that
all understand that there is a real
price to be paid for the Serbian
government's continued aggression."
-- "Statement
by President Bush, Peterson Air Force Base,
Colorado," Federal News Service, August 6,
1992, Thursday, White House Briefing, 1748 words.
Bush, Sr.
also announced that now the U.S. would
recognize Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia as
independent from Yugoslavia. Thus he used
the phony death camp photos to endorse
the break-up of Yugoslavia. By
recognizing the Bosnian government, run
by the Islamic fundamentalist, Alijah
Izetbegovic, he guaranteed that the
Bosnian war would continue.
[To order]
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Superbush
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Consider
the speed with which President Bush moved
Aug. 6, 1992.
* START! *
ITN's phony death camp photos are shown on TV.
Bush sees
the
pictures. He contacts his cabinet
members. Amazingly, they have all seen
the photos. They confer. In seconds they decide that the
pictures are genuine and that Action Is
Needed. (2.5 minutes)
Fast Dial! They
call leaders in Germany, England and
possibly other countries. (1.5 minutes)
Quick Talk! They plan draconian measures
including economic sanctions that will
cut off Serbia from the world, depriving
industry and ordinary people of
necessities such as medicine. (1.5 minutes)
Roll call! They contact congressional
leaders, who agree that Bush should
recognize the secessionist
Republics of Croatia, Bosnia and
Slovenia as independent states, thus approving the destruction
of the internationally recognized State
of Yugoslavia. (1.5 minutes)
Seven
minutes down, 13 minutes to go.
Next, Bush and
company:
* Discuss
options and decide to call a press conference at a
Colorado Air Base. (Time spent 1.5 minutes)
* Write
a
press release. (Time spent: 1.5 minutes)
* Compose Bush's
speech. (Time spent: 2 minutes)
Bush learns the speech. (Time
spent: 1.5 minutes)
The White
House sends the release to newspapers, wire
services and TV stations (2 minutes). Film crews fly to the Air
base (3.5
minutes) and set up their equipment (10 seconds).
FINISH!
Nineteen minutes 10 seconds - on
time with 50 seconds to spare.
Bush and
co. have planned and organized the
decimation of the Serbian people in less
time than it takes to cook spaghetti with
marinara sauce.
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Reality check
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[To order]
Since what
is described above could not have
happened, what did happen?
One thing is definite: Mr. Bush's press conference was
planned in advance to follow soon after the TV broadcast of the phony
death camp pictures. The idea was to give ordinary
people the idea that Bush had reacted *as they would
react* to images of great suffering - by demanding
action.
But what about the ITN
film crew? Did they really go to Bosnia, as the
Straits Times stated, in order to "investigate claims
that concentration camps had been set up"?
There are two obvious
possibilities.
One possibility is that
the trip was planned with the black ops people at
CIA and/or M16, the British equivalent.
That is, ITN went to Bosnia looking for film footage
that could be doctored to be used as ammunition in the
media war against the Serbs.
Or perhaps no intelligence agency was
involved in planning the visit by this
leading British news station to the
hottest trouble spot in the world. Even so, it must be
true that after the ITN people left Bosnia, ITN worked with
US and or British intelligence officers. How else
could they time the release of the pictures to coincide
with Mr. Bush's press conference?
[To order]
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Mistake
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ITN had a
prior history of aggressively anti-Serbian
coverage of the break-up of Yugoslavia.
So one might ask, why did the Bosnian
Serb leadership give ITN access to
Trnopolje and also to the detention center at Omarska?
Especially since the
Western media was already spreading
lies about these places? (For example, see Newsday, 21 July
1992.)
Perhaps
they hoped that if the ITN reporters
could see for themselves, they would
be fair. Apparently the Serbs did not yet
understand that the attacks on them were not a mistake.
They were the target of an organized campaign of demonization.
Get a copy of
Judgment! If you don't think this
movie proves we were lied to about
Bosnia, Emperor's Clothes will refund every penny.
Judgment! is based
on footage edited by Mihajlo and Petar Ilic of Ilke
Productions, who have graciously permitted Emperor's
Clothes to use their work to produce this film for an
English-speaking audience.
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