Dateline 15th November 2004
INTRODUCTION
We at freenations are pleased to reproduce an edited version of this article by Andy Wilcoxson on the Vatican’s primary charity organisation “Caritas” which has always dutifully followed the proselytising and converting aims of the Vatican, in war and peace. Caritas was active in the support of the fascist Ustashe regime during the Second World War in Croatia both in the forced conversions of terrorised Orthodox Christians and in the running of the Jasenovac concentration camp. Ustashe troops were blessed by the papal legate and were received in the Vatican. The founder of Caritas in Croatia was Archbishop Stepinac who oversaw the collaboration with Ustashe fascism. The Orthodox Church, he wrote in his diaries, “is Europe’s greatest curse almost greater than Protestantism. It knows no morals, principles, truth, justice or decency”. He was beatified in 1998! Caritas has been equally active in the 1990s break up of Yugoslavia and in the Kosovo war as this article shows. As a result Croatia is now the most ethnically and religiously pure state in Europe (see the results on this website: www.freenations.freeuk.com/news-2003-07-28.html)
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CARITAS IN THE BALKANS
Written by: Andy Wilcoxson
In 1934 Croatia’s Catholic Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac established the Croatian branch of Caritas. Stepinac has been dubbed “the patron saint of genocide” because of the role he played in the genocide committed by Croatia’s World War II-era fascist regime. During the war, Caritas was active in Croatian concentration camps. The organization was tasked with forcibly re-baptizing and converting Orthodox Christians to Roman Catholicism.
POSSIBLE CARITAS TRAFFICKING OF IRANIAN ARMS IN BOSNIA
According to a report issued by the U.S. congressional subcommittee set-up to investigate Iranian arms transfers to Croatia and Bosnia the humanitarian aid flow to Bosnia consisted
primarily of convoys, organized by Muslim humanitarian organizations that later played a significant role in the Iranian arms pipeline to Bosnia. According to a US Congressional report, the leader of the Islamic community in Croatia, Imam Sevko Omerbasic, was the lynch-pin figure in the establishment and operation of the Iranian arms pipeline.
Caritas, although not an Islamic charity, was linked directly to Omerbasic by a witness at the Hague Tribunal. Sefkija Djidic, a witness at the Blaskic trial testified that Omerbasic led a Caritas convoy to the Croatian stronghold of Vitez during the war.
The effectiveness of Caritas as a humanitarian agency is called into question by the testimony of another witness at the Blaskic trial. A protected witness testified that nobody dared go to Caritas to seek assistance. The witness, a Muslim from Kiseljak, said that if they tried to obtain any help from Caritas that they would suffer reprisals at the hands of the Croatian army. The witness said people preferred to go hungry than go to Caritas to get some aid from them. (Note that Croatia, the Vatican’s “Jewel in the Crown” of Roman Catholicism, sees religious ethnicity as critical, even in humanitarian matters – ed.)
CARITAS CAUGHT SMUGGLING NATO WEAPONRY TO THE KLA
On April 12 1999, a huge haul of arms and ammunition, destined for the KLA, was found in the Italian port of Ancona aboard trucks leased by Caritas. The cargo had officially been declared as a German Caritas humanitarian aid shipment for Kosovo refugees. The trucks were loaded at the Caritas center in Sarajevo. The customs officials, who searched the trucks, found 30 tons of war material, including anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, rocket
launchers and machine guns.
Most of the arms were of Russian or East European origin (these certainly came from East Germany and were available to the German Secret Services following the fall of communist East Germany – ed), but many bore NATO markings. More than 1,000 mortars said to have been stolen from a NATO arsenal in Germany were found onboard the trucks. There was some legitimate humanitarian aid onboard the trucks, but it was of poor quality, much of the food had already passed its expiration date.
Italian customs officials arrested three drivers, Robert Buellesbach, Sead Klakar, and Drasco Kovacevic. The Italian authorities claimed that Buellesbach had links to German intelligence. On that basis one could speculate that he’s the one who stole the mortars from the German NATO base.
The 15-meter-long trucks had been rebuilt to transport illegal cargo. One truck was fitted with a double floor, while another one had a secret closet behind the driver’s cabin big enough for six people. The Italian authorities said that the arms were destined for a training camp of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Scutari in northern Albania. The name of the consignee on the export documents, was one Father Luciano Augustino, a parish priest in Scutari.
General Alberto D’Amico, the military commander in charge of customs for the region that includes Ancona, confirmed claims by Italian security sources that it was impossible that British and American intelligence could have been unaware of the smuggling. A NATO spokesman said that while the Alliance had no contact with the KLA, “Some individual countries which are member countries of NATO may have some contacts. Of course that is not a guarantee that such things are not happening, smuggling and so on.”
Caritas denied that it had any role in the arms smuggling. It issued a statement saying, “These trucks are not from Caritas, even if the logo (on the trucks) is the same.”
CONCLUSION
The trucks were leased by Caritas, and loaded at the Caritas center in Sarajevo, and were supposed to believe Caritas when it says that it had nothing to do with this? Just like we are supposed to believe that somebody managed to walk onto a German NATO installation and steal over 1,000 mortars? The conclusion is obvious. The Vatican was using its Caritas charity to provide a cover for NATO, or at least German, arms smuggling to the KLA. They may also have provided Iran, the world’s leading terrorist state, with the same cover in Bosnia when Omerbasic led the Caritas convoy to Vitez.
The Vatican’s goals are the same now as they were when Stepinac founded the Croatian branch of Caritas (and, as so often in European history, in harnessing the power of Germany, the Vatican takes further steps towards its goal of a single European Catholic Super-State – ed).
Other articles on The Vatican’s politics on this site:
www.freenations.freeuk.com/news-2002-02-01.html
www.freenations.freeuk.com/news-2000-01-12.html
www.freenations.freeuk.com/news-2003-07-28.html
