A Massacre in Kosovo

The Daily Standard ^ | 04/29/04 | Stephen Schwartz

[Kherghan]

A Massacre in Kosovo A member of the United Nations police force murders his American colleagues. by Stephen Schwartz 04/29/2004 12:00:00 AM

ON APRIL 17, as reported in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, two American women and an American man were slain in Kosovo, and eleven people were injured when they came under armed attack by a Palestinian from Jordan. The killer was a member of the same body in which they served: the United Nations police force in the territory.

The male American, who died of his wounds, was Gary Weston, of Vienna, Illinois. The Palestinian, Sergeant Major Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim Ali, was killed when members of the contingent in which the Americans were traveling returned fire.

In the days since the first reports of the crime were received, more details have emerged, which make what was already a scandal for the United Nations in Kosovo even more alarming. First and most disturbing is that the dead assailant, Ali, is being investigated for connections with Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization. Second is that the same Ali had visited the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, home of the Wahhabi Islamic sect that produced al Qaeda, only a month before he was sent to Kosovo in March.

More thorough descriptions of the incident are horrendous. The group of Americans, along with some Turkish personnel, were leaving a prison in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica when the attack began. It was their first day on the job. According to the Associated Press, they were "trapped between a locked gate and Ali's assault rifle."

The Palestinian carried an M-16, from which he apparently discharged 400 rounds, leading NATO investigators to examine whether his four colleagues in a Jordanian detachment assigned to guard the prison had helped him by feeding his weapon as he fired. All four were detained after the bloody events, but three have now been released, while one of them, whose name has not been disclosed, remains under arrest as a possible accomplice, and his immunity from prosecution has been revoked.

The Americans shot back with pistols. An Austrian guard heard the noise and ran to the scene, but was wounded in the legs by the Palestinian.

The Associated Press account states chillingly, "When he had shot all those he could see, Ali paced around the vans [in which the Americans had been riding], searching for more victims."

The carnage continued until Ali's weapon jammed. The surviving Americans then stormed the Jordanians' guard shack, where they found his four comrades hiding. The Americans grabbed their weapons from them and killed the assailant, firing 16 bullets into his body.

Because Kosovo media operates under heavy U.N. censorship, the whole truth about this atrocity may not be known for some time. But terrorism expert Dan Pipes warned this week, "If the Hamas connection does materialize, it could mean that the organization has in fact begun in earnest its war with the United States."

[Kherghan]

How come we havent heard about this from the mainstream press. It would seem that the 3 major networks should be all over this.

[A. Pole]

NATO bump.

[AuntB]

"Because Kosovo media operates under heavy U.N. censorship"

And these are the folks we are supposed to trust in Iraq. You asked why hasn't the media covered this? They haven't covered anything about Kosovo, at least that's truthful, like the entire place is being run by Muslim extremists. They also don't cover the Oil for Food corruption. Besides the Dems and Pubs were for the Kosovo war. Remember Clinton promised Americans would be out of there in a few months.

Not to worry, the UN will handle it..........

[joltinjoe]

How about a 60 minutes story...tick..tick..tick...How about a niteline story?????

media whores.

[RetiredArmy]

Koffie, Klinton, Kerry, Kennedy, Klintonbeast, and all leftist in the Unknown Nations know nothing about this. It is purely a rumor to them just as Rwanda was.

[AuntB]

"media whores."

Ah, now, flattering them won't make them cover this story.


"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."-~Mark Twain~

[DTA]

>>>>>>How come we havent heard about this from the mainstream press. It would seem that the 3 major networks should be all over this.<<<<<

Did mainstream press inform us about burning of 30 Christian chururches and pogrom of Serbs in March? Did mainstream press inform us how American soldiers saved 1000 Serbs from lynching in the hands of Albanian islamonazis?

Did mainstream media tell us about destruction of 145 Christian churches since 1999 and ethnic cleansing of 250,000 Serbs from Kosovo?

Did mainstream media tell us about the entire Kosovo scam?

Whenever the deeds of islamonazis are in question, mainstream media becomes beter censored than Soviet press in communist times.

That's why we need FR.

[French-American Republican]

Thank you. We never hear a word of the brutalization of the Serbian people.

[Jane_N]

If you want to know what is really going on in the world, avoid the mainstream media and instead get your news from freerepublic. At least here you get a variety of sources and opinions and can in the end decide for yourself what you believe. You will rarely hear anything "anti-albanian" or "pro-serb" on mainstream media sources. Only propaganda and censorship in this world of political correctness that is the mainstream media.

[FierceDraka]

Wipe them out.

That is all.

[Future Useless Eater]

If this is legit, it needs a lot of sunshine.

[NewRomeTacitus]

http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=28195&order=priority&style=headlines

Jordanian policeman detained over Kosovo shooting | 10:19 April 30 | AFP

PRISTINA -- Friday – A Jordanian police officer is suspected of assisting in a fatal shooting in which three UN officers were killed in Kosovo, and will remain in detention for a month, officials said Thursday.

"The Jordanian officer is suspected of assisting murder and grave bodily harm. He will remain in detention for 30 days," UN police spokesperson Neeraj Singh told AFP, without giving the man's name.

An international judge in Kosovo last week ordered four Jordanian police officers be subject to a 30-day pre-trial detention order, pending an investigation.

Two American police officers and a Jordanian were killed in a shootout in the UN-administered province earlier this month, in what unofficial sources said was a dispute over Iraq.

Eleven other officers -- 10 Americans and an Austrian -- were injured in a shootout.

A Jordanian officer opened fire first on a convoy of three vehicles carrying mostly US prison officers leaving a jail in northern Kosovo. The Jordanian was killed in the gunfight.

Earlier, the UN here said three other Jordanian police officers were released, but on Thursday Singh said they would remain in detention until the end of April.

The three were being held in custody on suspicion of "refraining from providing help to victims during the shooting incident" Singh said.

"The law allowed detention of only 15 days on account of the nature of the charges against them," he said.

[dalebert]

Because the Press thinks the terrorists are freedom fighters.

[Criminal Number 18F]

How come we havent heard about this from the mainstream press.

Because Kosovo is part of the Clinton Legacy, and such Presidential Interns as the NY Times are as determined to polish his legacy as previous cohorts of interns were determined to polish his knob.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[FormerLib]

What is really interesting is that the author of this article is Suleyman Ahmad but he often goes by his former name when writing about Moslems. He was a supporter of Clinton's War in Kosovo.

You can read more about him here.

[AuntB]

Thanks for the information.

[judywillow]

ON APRIL 17, as reported in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, two American women and an American man were slain in Kosovo, and eleven people were injured when they came under armed attack by a Palestinian from Jordan. The killer was a member of the same body in which they served: the United Nations police force in the territory.

Anybody in the US military who doesn't see the problem with this is living in a dream world.

[Honorary Serb]

BUMP!!!!!

[Honorary Serb]

What is really interesting is that the author of this article is Suleyman Ahmad but he often goes by his former name when writing about Moslems. He was a supporter of Clinton's War in Kosovo.

Suleyman Ahmad often goes by his former name when writing to the Kuffar!!!! (The better to fool us, of course.)

Suleyman's articles about the islamist attack on our "peacekeepers" have been getting a lot of play here on FR, as if Suleyman were something great. But he's really just a LITTLE NOTHING!!!! There are other sources on this attack, so there is no need to let this islamoNazi get away with his scam, that he is on the side of America and not the ummah!

And the BIG story is what has been happening to Kosovo Serbs lately, and since 1999, which of course Suelyman will NEVER write honestly about. Especially since that story shows just how very wrong the clintonite policy of stealing Kosovo from the Serbs and giving it to the KLA savages really has been and continues to be.

[AuntB]

Bump!