			Foreign Correspondent

		      Inside Track On World News
	    By International Syndicated Columnist & Broadcaster
		 Eric Margolis <emargolis@lglobal.com>

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THE TERROR JAMBOREE
by
Eric Margolis

Yesterday's terror summit in Egypt was a huge success - at
least for the hawkers selling `Stop Terrorism' T-shirts.  

Maybe this political theater even gave a slight boost to the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which was gravely wounded
by four recent bombings that killed 60 Israelis.  If it did,
good.  Moderates on both sides  desperately need help.

Still,  I suspect neither the Israeli nor Arab public  were
impressed by the hugely expensive jamboree in Sinai.
Besides, the meeting's real message was: if you want to get
away with terrorism,  wear a uniform.   

Interestingly, no one seemed to notice that the first anti-terror
summit was co-hosted, by,of all people,  the world's leading
current practitioner of terrorism, Russia's Boris Yeltsin. He
beamed and rubbed elbows with Bill Clinton and a gaggle
of publicity-seeking world leaders, many of whom head
repressive regimes that are serious violators of human rights.

Everyone discussed the hideous suicide bombings in Jerusalem
and Tel Aviv. That ususal suspect, Iran, was ritually denounced.
Bill Clinton, gripped by election-year fever, went on to promise
Israel $100 million `to fight terrorism.' In fact, he seemed far
more preoccupied by the attacks in Israel than the killing of
four American citizens by Castro's MiG's. 

But no one mentioned either Sernovodsk or Nabatiyeh. 

As the terror summit opened,  Russian tanks, heavy
artillery, and rocket batteries poured fire for an eighth
day into the Chechen village of Sernovodsk.  In its ruins,
7,000  Chechen civilians huddle in terror as 122 and 152mm
shells exploded around them. Salvos of 122 and 220mm
artillery rockets, their warheads filled with thousands of
anti-personnel fragments, created a murderous blizzard of
steel. 

Russian artillery has killed at least 700 Chechen civilians
in Sernovodsk alone since last week.  They join the 42,000
other Chechens slaughtered since December, 1994, by Russian
troops. 

Russia is using heavy artillery to relentlessly destroy 
every Chechen city,  town, and village to terrorize Chechens 
into ceasing their 230-year old struggle against  Russian
colonialism. This is terrorism in its purest and most bloody
form.  

Shockingly, President Clinton just arranged a sweetheart 
loan of US$ 10.2 billion to Russia, at least half of which
is going directly  to finance Yeltsin's terror campaign in
Chechnya.  Shame is clearly not a word in Clinton's
vocabulary.  
Last Saturday, Lebanese Hizbullah guerillas, fighting to
oust Israeli occupation forces from southern Lebanon,
attacked Israeli troops, killing one.  The next day, Israel
retaliated, as usual,  firing 155mm shells and 105mm tank
rounds into the densely populated town of Nabatiyeh, and at
other south Lebanese villages, said to harbor guerillas.
While Israel correctly condemns as outrageous terrorism the
brutal murder of Israelis by suicide bombers, it dismisses  
its firing heavy shells at Lebanese civilian centers as
legitimate `retaliation.' 

Serbia's leader, Slobodan Milosevic, a major terrorist,was
not at the summit, but his two closest partners, Bill
Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, were.  Though terror was the
summit subject, they had nothing public to say about the
mass slaughter of 200,000 Bosnian Muslims, and the rape of
25,000 Muslim women. These monstrous crimes were committed
on Milosevic's orders by   units of the regular Serbian
Army, armed, financed and supplied, in good part, by
Yeltsin's Russia, and tacitly backed by Britain and Greece. 

When Yugoslavia collapsed,  Bosnia had no army. Serb
soldiers mercilessly slaughtered helpless Muslim civilians.
Last year, UN troops watched impassively as Serbs murdered 
another 6,000 Muslims at Srebrenica. If this is not
terrorism, what is?  Why is murdering civilians with pipe
bombs in a bus `terrorism,' but murdering them with
artillery, rifles and knives not terrorism?  

Today, Clinton fetes Milosevic as ally and  peacemaker.
Milosevic's henchmen, such war criminals as Karadzic and
Mladic,  are permitted to move about freely. The US, which
rushed `anti-terrorism' forces to Israel after the suicide
bombings, says arresting these Balkan  mass murderers is
`not our job.' So they go free, lest their arrest hinder
Clinton's foreign policy `triumph.' in Bosnia.  A smirking
Mladic even skied before TV cameras last weekend.  

It's bad enough to see Serb war criminals profit from their
terrorism, and America finance genocide in Chechnya. But
observing the high hypocrisy of this week's terror jamboree,
makes even my hardened stomach churn.    

copyright Eric Margolis     1996

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