Hamas link probed in U.N. Kosovo shooting

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[OldFriend]

Horrific.......no other word. Pray for the wounded....

[observer5]

"Ali was smiling during his shooting spree, a U.N. source familiar with the investigation said. The... "

He was looking forward to his 5000 virgins... in hell!

A Billion idiots and counting...

[Fredy]

and we are there WHY ???

[the Real fifi]

Let's hum a bar of "I'll be home for Christmas..." and remember when you read this that Kerry has promised to go Al Jolson style on bended knee to the UN to "rejoin the community of nations". Vote. Drag everyone you know to the polls.

[ma bell]

KFOR is there to protect Western interests.

Ne moze nam niko nista jaci smo od sudbine -- "We were simply defending our fellow Serbs against the Muslims", Arkan

[ma bell]

You stole my tagline, please return it...:)

Ne moze nam niko nista jaci smo od sudbine -- "We were simply defending our fellow Serbs against the Muslims", Arkan

[ma bell]

You may let the Albanians have a piece of your mind HERE. They are involved with this murder.

I would register there and join the fray, it is disgusting and lower then Lib Forum.

[LayoutGuru2]

No one is certain what prompted him to open fire...

Yeah, right! Might need a few rocket scientists to get to the bottom of this incident.

[MarMema]

They can't keep themselves safe and they think they can keep the Serbs safe.

[montag813]

The attack came three days after U.S. President Bush endorsed a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

There you go! The evil JOOOOOOOS made him do it! Gotta love these Muslim AP reporters, so objective.

[dennisw]

Hamas or no Hamas... It's just anoither yellow bellied cowardly Muslim killing non Muslims with no warning

[Travis McGee]

You can always trust smiling Muslims.

To shoot you in the back.

[Neophyte]

the police mission in Kosovo, and others like it, rely on throwing together officers from member countries regardless of political philosophy.

I just loved this bullsh*t!

Regardless whose exactly political philosophy? Yeah right, one can rely on this attitude to bring all sorts of bloody troubles!

[antaresequity]

Finally, they got a break: Ali's weapon jammed. As he scrambled to clear it, the corrections officers counterattacked, managing to get into the guard shack where Ali's four subordinates cowered.

They seized the Jordanians' weapons and attacked Ali with equal firepower: His body took 16 rounds.

In case anyone was wondering...Jordan is our ally

To my feeble brain it appears as if Ali's allies were the Jordanians...who were only 'kind of' cowering...lucky the cowering Jordanians didn't start capping the legitamate officers.

An interesting note to this story is the oblique mention of Sharons declartion in paragraph 3. No other substantive information appears in the piece, and the appearance of this paragraph infers that Sharons action precipitated or perhaps 'excused' the action in the eyes of the reporter...the decision to include the Sharon information was purely the subjective decision of the writer and/or the editor...it has no factual bearing in the context of the remaining information.

[antaresequity]

Edit:
No other substantive

SB: No other 'supporting' substantive

[The Raven]

Maybe they've declared war on the UN.

[Zeppo]

the decision to include the Sharon information was purely the subjective decision of the writer and/or the editor...it has no factual bearing in the context of the remaining information

Very observant... The author/editor could have mentioned the recent shootout that left four Jordanian terrorists dead, or the arrest of the would-be Jordanian chemical bombers, or previous incidents where a Jordanian policeman had murdered innocent people as antecedents to this attack, but instead chose to highlight the unrelated Bush/Sharon events. No media agenda revealed here, is there...

[MadelineZapeezda]

Eleven officers were wounded before the officers shot and killed Ali, a Palestinian from Jordan. No one is certain what prompted him to open fire, but a survivor said Ali was smiling during his shooting spree,

Ba$tards

[I_saw_the_light]

This from another article---

"authorities were examining a trip Ali took to Saudi Arabia only a month before he joined the mission in March to see if it might be connected to the attack. Jordan's government said Ali, 30, was a distinguished member of his homeland's special police unit and had been decorated for helping to ward off an attack on the Israeli Embassy in the Jordanian capital, Amman. The United Nations has refused to discuss details of the investigation."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&e=4&u=/ap/kosovo_prison_shooting