WASHINGTON TIMES COMMENTS ON CROATIAN WORLD CONGRESS LETTER

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Hina) - On Monday, the Washington Times reported about a letter which the Croatian World Congress, an organisation of the Croatian Diaspora, sent to the UN war crimes tribunal last week requesting an investigation against the former U.S administration for its role in the 1995 "Storm" operation. #L# The daily says the Croatian World Congress asked Carla del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), to open the investigation against former US President Bill Clinton, former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, former Deputy National Security Adviser Samuel Berger, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith. A correspondent from Zagreb, Jeffrey Kuhner, reported that the said organisation was convinced that neither an indictee Ante Gotovina nor Clinton administration officials were guilty of war crimes with which General Gotovina, a former Croatian war commander, was charged by the ICTY. The Croatian World Congress claims that the 1995 Operation Storm was carried out after Washington had given the green light for it. It also claims that the campaign was conducted with the American political and diplomatic support as well as military and technical assistance. (hina) ms