Dragan Filipovi, a former Serbian spy, has revealed that he organized a “secret reprisal action” in the spring of 1999 that created “great confusion in Europe.”
Milorad Ulemek’s former spymaster has admitted that one of his commandos carried out an attack abroad at around the time Jill Dando was killed.
Dragan Filipović, was a leading member the Serbian security services when he masterminded a “secret reprisal action” in the spring of 1999 that caused “great confusion in Europe”. At the time, Ulemek, then 31, led the unit Filipović used to target opponents of brutal Serb dictator Slobadan Milosevic. The Yugoslav war was raging and UK planes were bombing Serbia when Jill was shot dead on her doorstep on April 26, 1999. Within hours of her murder, the BBC took a call claiming the death was in response.
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Tell your prime minister that there were 15 fatalities in Belgrade, so 14 more must be done, a man said. It was feared that the former Crimewatch presenter had been targeted because she had fronted a charity appeal for Kosovan refugees 20 days earlier.
In response to the bombings that started on March 24, 1999, Filipovi revealed that he had sent several of his special forces soldiers to Europe to carry out retaliation killings.
Known as Major Fića, he wrote: “Among others, Serbs were suspected as potential perpetrators, which resulted in a hunt and increased control of Yugoslav citizens.” A source with knowledge of the Serbian security services told the Daily Mirror he is convinced Filipović’s claim is true.
He claimed, “I have no doubt that some circles in Serbia planned and carried out this murder.”
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It comes as police are being urged to launch a review after a van driver said a man he nearly hit close to Jill’s home looked like Ulemek. And a female witness told us last year that she was certain she had seen the two-time convicted killer on the same stretch of road.
Before Jill’s death, British security officials gave five indications that Serbian commandos might be planning attacks abroad. In April 1999, the MoD and Nato raised concerns repeatedly according to recently declassified documents.
None of the secret files were made available to the Met Police team investigating Jill’s murder, it is understood. Kosovo was described as a “former Yugoslavian region,” which would have irritated ultra-nationalist Filipovic, who saw it as the “cradle” of his country, in a Disasters Emergency Committee appeal made on April 6.
In his 2008 book “Anatomy of the Globalist Stink”, Filipović railed against non-governmental organizations which he says were based on the doctrine of “special war” and were designed to destabilise foreign leaders in the interests of the West.
In Filipovic’s divided opinion, Jill’s BBC appeal was made on behalf of some of the UK’s largest NGOs. The Serbian source said of Jill’s appeal, “The secret service could have taken some]action” and Milosevic and Serbia might have been involved in a “special war.”
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Milorad “Legija” Ulemek was a senior officer in the Serbian Intelligence Service when Filipovic founded and selected his operatives for the 500-man Jedinica za specijalne operacije (JSO).
After meeting while fighting in Bosnia and Croatia during the Yugoslav Wars of the early 1990s, Filipovi, who is now in his 60s, headhunted Ulemek for his JSO unit. Filipović persuaded the former French Foreign Legion soldier to shift allegiances from warlord Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan’s Serbian Volunteer Guard, or Tigers, the source said.
According to the source, Major Fia allegedly accompanied Ulemek when he attempted to kill Serbian politician Vuk Draskovic in October 1999. Ulemek later told a court that he contacted Filipović’s boss to make himself available for a “special operation” on April 15, 1999, eleven days before Jill was killed.
When he made the offer to Radomir Markovic, the head of the security services, the ruthless killer claimed to be fighting in Kosovo. Markovic and Ulemek are serving 40 years in prison for arranging the murders of Mira Markovic, the brutal dictator who died in 2006, and his powerful nationalist wife.
Known as the “Lady Macbeth of the Balkans”, Filipović was close to Mira who was suspected of plotting state-sponsored assassinations. She later fled to Russia where she died in 2019.
The Serbian source said in “the terminal phase” of the Milosevic government the security services were controlled by a “notorious” inner circle close to his wife. According to him, “in their criminal minds, the idea was to get rid of political opponents and journalists.”
One of a handful of European Kung Fu masters to train with Shaolin monks, Filipović is understood to have fled to China as Curuvija’s killers were arrested. He revealed in his book that he was Special Advisor to Radomir Markovic in 1999.
Filipović said his boss, then head of the Serbian State Security Services, known as “DB”, gave him “full independence” and granted him all the personnel, spying technology and cash he needed.
Filipović wrote: “My responsibilities included planning, organizing and carrying out special intelligence and subversive actions against NATO member states, as well as states that supported them during the attack on Yugoslavia, with the aim of endangering their political stability and combat readiness. Particularly challenging were the secret reprisal operations deep within the enemy’s territory.
He also provides an insight into how his unit worked by revealing details of an operation that was aborted. After the Nato bombing started, Filipović sent another JSO soldier to assassinate American billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who he described as a “fanatical enemy of the Serbian people”.
He saw Soros, who has spent billions funding NGOs promoting progressive and liberal causes around the world, as being behind a sinister globalist network.
Filipović claimed: “In a situation where the NATO aggression, which Soros was the initiator of, was taking place intensively, the justification of a radical approach towards him was not questioned”.
He claimed that it was known that Soros, 94, planned to travel to a “small attractive tourist spot” in an unnamed European nation on occasion.
The well-known hitman for that task, codenamed “Mongoose,” was familiar with the target nation’s language and culture and had “many friendly connections there.” Ulemek spoke good English having lived in London as a young man and had a number of contacts in the UK, the source said.
In one of the many books he has written while serving in prison, entitled The Boys from Brazil, Ulemek discusses his involvement in the Kosovo invasion of 1999 with an artillery expert known as “Mongoose.” Only March and May are covered in the two chapters that year. There is no entry for April.
Milenko Prodanovi, a former JSO soldier, has been identified by the Serbian media as “Mongoose.” According to Filipovi, “He was trained to use unconventional means suitable for carrying out this task, which was significant because moving around Europe with any standard weapons was almost impossible due to intensified police controls.”
The specialized ammunition used in the UK’s only previous execution had never been seen. Because there are no markings on the bullet, experts were unable to specify what kind of gun was used, which could indicate that it was also a custom-made pistol that could be brought across borders. Ulemek, now 57, is nicknamed “Legoinnaire” because he was an ex-sergeant in the French Foreign Legion where he specialied in sniper combat and sabotage.
According to Filipovi, Mongoose illegally entered Europe before traveling overland to his final destination. According to the source, Ulemek is likely to have used his connections with gangsters involved in cigarette smuggling to travel through Italy by boat into Europe.
Filipović wrote that he was ordered to halt the plots by Markovic in June 1999, when a peace treaty was signed. He continued, “In the interim, one of the previously initiated actions successfully was implemented, which caused a great confusion in Europe.
Although it is obvious that it was a state-sponsored assassination, he does not specify what the “radical action” was. Mr Soros did not reply when we contacted his Open Society Foundations.
Source: Mirror
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