Posted on 08/20/2007 5:25:21 AM PDT by joan
20 August 2007 | 01:46 | FOCUS News Agency
Pristina. Hundreds of Kosovo Albanians attended a folk concert to celebrate the 61th birthday of former US president Bill Clinton on Sunday, remembering his support for their separatist struggle.
Dancing to Albanian folk music before a huge birthday cake outside the national theatre, they expressed gratitude for Clinton's approval of a NATO bombing campaign to end a Serbian crackdown during the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict.
"I hope president Clinton lives to be 101. I hope his wife Hillary is elected president and rules America as her husband did," said Lutfi Salihu, a 66-year-old pensioner who attended the concert.
"If it wasn't for him you wouldn't have one single Albanian in Kosovo nowadays."
It was the fourth time Kosovo Albanians have publicly celebrated Clinton's birthday and follows the raptuous welcome for US President George W. Bush in Albania earlier this year.
"We confirmed the love that we Albanians feel towards president Clinton and America as well as the American people," Bekim Rexhepi, the head of the Association of Friends of America, told the crowd.
Muslims.
Today is birthday of late Slobodan Milosevic also...
They’re mostly Muslim...I’m sure it was a sheep or a goat instead;-)
The guy who sold out the Serbs and pretended to be a Serb nationalist?
Believe me...Osama Bin Laden is celebrating his birthday as well.
;-)
Bingo!
This needs to be shouted from the housetops!
Who was that guy that sold out the Bosnian Croats? Seems like his name was something like Tudj... Tudjman?
What did he do about Vitez, Miletici, Majine, Krizanicevo Selo and Buhina Kuca?
How about the “camp” at Bugojno? Survivor’s of Bugojno said that Manjaca was a “hotel” compared to Bugojno!
if you go to those places, you’ll find that the Croatians there overwhelmingly favour Tudjman. You can’t win all the battles...but we won the important ones :)
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