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Thank's a lot for a search and comments. I could see rationale in Germans trying to reduce drug and human trafficking, crime that comes from Kosovo Albanian gangs.

However, the intended solution does not appear appropriate - to take Kosovo from Serbs and give it to Albanians. US former goverment, Germans, and rest of the Europe jumped willingly into the whole mess in 1999, and contributed to it significantly. Now they should clean it up on their own expenses, not on expenses of Serbian people.

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The commentary I translated irritated me for the reason that the author made the blanket statement that both sides were guilty in the organized crime wave, thus no one should point fingers.

I, in my perhaps naive logic, would ask if the organized crime problem had always existed in Kosovo.

If the answer to that is false, then I would ask when it started.

If there were any conspicuous events that coincided with the start of the lawlessness (such as the influx of refugees with a history of such behavior in their land of origin), I would re-consider any blanket statements as to who was causing what.

There were German cities, at least in Rheinland-Pfalz, already complaining about law and order problems with their Albanian refugees in the late 90's 'fer crissakes. The author of the "Die Welt" commentary might as well be smoking what the Albanians have to offer if he doesn't know that.

I'm trying letting off a little steam, here. If I'm completely wrong about this, I wouldn't mind being told that, it may make me calm down a little.

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