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Source: http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2002/0726nj1.htm
How to Get Beyond Arafat
(National Journal) James Kitfield - "I believe our experiences with Milosevic offer some degree of hope that the American goal of finding an alternative to Arafat - who I always believed was either unwilling or incapable of making peace - is reachable," said former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. "We had a sustained campaign, run by a special task force...that used overt and covert means....We assisted independent media and reached out to opposition leaders, often in complete secrecy." In Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, career Foreign Service officer Louis Sell detailed this comprehensive, $77 million program of U.S. assistance to Serbian opposition groups. Applying the lessons learned from aiding democratic opposition groups that toppled authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe during the latter stages of the Cold War, the campaign included sanctions to restrict the flow of international money to Milosevic and funding for independent print and broadcast media.