[MarMema]

Here is what troubles me somewhat...

that the Greek soldiers protecting this shrine have forbidden the use of the church bells

[FormerLib]

I really wonder if the Greeks were attempting to protect the church and didn't want the Muhammedans to get excited about the bells since the Greeks know what this would lead to.

Let the Serb army return to establish law and order!

[MoJoWork_n]

As far as I know, the "no church bells" policy was written into the KFOR bylaws and rights and responsibilites from the start. Not the fault of that particular contingent of Greek KFOR's...

One good thing I caught on NPR news this afternoon. The cleaning lady herself, dear sweet little stumpy Madeline, was up before the 9/11 commision. She said something along the lines of "well, what you have had us do [about Al-Qaeda], start tossing bombs around willy-nilly -- without any provocation -- like handfulls of paper confetti, or rice at a wedding, contravening all norms of international law..."

And some senator (I didn't catch who it was), said, 'no, you actually *did* do that, but why was Kosovo the target, rather than Afghanistan?' (Or something like that... I was at work and missed half of it.)