German troops 'hid like rabbits' in Kosovo riots

The Sunday Telegraph UK ^ | 09/05/2004

[Destro]

See #40

[MN_Mike]

Let's be kind here folks, the German government recently passed a bill that affords homosexual soldiers to sleep together. Now isn't that enlightening?

How come nobody has posted a Sgt Schultz?

[Destro]

Funny thing - I posted a picture of Sgt Schultz last night on this thread @#11:

American at Red Square Marks Victory Day (Escaped POW fought with Russians for Berlin)

[Hun in the sun]

"Hell, small wonder the German people want the US troops to stay there"

Are you sure?
I don`t know just *one single* German who wants to keep
US troops in Germany... just a few mayors of small
villages in the South-West and Bavaria.

" It is to protect them, silly me, and I thought it was only about money."

To protect against whom?

...and whose money are you talking about?
About the 1.5$ Billion shared costs Germany pays
for the US bases each year, or the few bucks spend by
underpaid G.I.s in local shops? While the $ is loosing
it`s value nearly every week?

Hun

[Hun in the sun]

You are absolutely on track, Destro.

See http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/frd1003.pdf
Pages 80-83

Hun

[Junior]

The Kaiser must be spinning in his tomb...

[rrrod]

"If it weren't for the US, a batallion of Jihadists could probably take over Germany (and France, and Belgium)."

serves them right....

[JOE43270]

Yes and they were probably celebrating with food from the Oil for Food Program!

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Actually didn't we bomb Christian cities so that muslims could continue their insurgency without hassle?

[Hun in the sun]

Finally, it seems you got it...

Hun

[An.American.Expatriate]

Col Dieter Hintelmann, who heads the German Kfor contingent in Prizren, insisted that his men had simply obeyed Kfor rules of engagement. They prohibit troops from protecting buildings and allow the use of firearms only in self-defence. "We were acting exactly according to the rules," he said.

Kfor rules or german rules? I can not belive that the Kfor is prohibited from acting in such a situation - if so, then their presence in Kosovo is a waste of time and money.

[macrahanish #1]

Interesting. It seems that Hoplite has gone silent. Could it be post #40 that did it?

[Hun in the sun]

"...insisted that his men had simply obeyed Kfor rules of engagement"

There are no special "german" KFOR rules.

...and there`s lot you won`t believe.

Hun

[An.American.Expatriate]

Care to enlighten me then?

[IGOTMINE]

It sure ain't the Wermacht your grand daddy fought...

[Destro]

It seems he forgot or that I forgot about that "escape" see his #39.

[Hoplite]

We didn't let Florim Ejupi walk out, Destro. He escaped.

His three suspected accomplices were let go due to the lack of evidence against them after Ejupi's escape.

Words mean distinct things, Destro, and you have a habit of misrepresenting the facts when you attempt to use them.

Hey what happened to that Albanian terrorist that the Americans let walk out of Camp BondSteel?

Gibberish.

Capisce?

[Destro]

The terrorist escaped from Camp Bondsteel? Is the American military that incompetant? Why was no one court martialed? macrahanish #1 laughs at you as do I.

"My opinion is he did not escape," said Detective Stu Kellock, former head of the United Nations Kosovo Mission´s regional serious crime squad. "I thought a prisoner could not just walk away from Bondsteel. In my opinion he was taken elsewhere for questioning or something and I still do not understand why we, the police in the investigation who held jurisdiction, were not involved."

UN sources believe the suspect, Florim Ejupi, who was wearing a bright orange prison uniform when he vanished and was said to have cut his way through four sets of barbed wire fences with a simple tool, had been working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). His trial would have been a serious embarrassment, they claim.

[Hoplite]

Sh*t happens, Destro, and not everything needs a conspiracy theory to have a valid explanation.

"suspect" & "believe" may be good enough for you, especially if it involves trashing the US military or other government agencies, but then that's just another reason for you to free yourself of the onerous burden of having such an incompetent set of federal employees and trading up to the Serbian models, isn't it?

[Destro]

Not my theory - Detective Stu Kellock, former head of the United Nations Kosovo Mission´s regional serious crime squad's theory!!!!

C.S.I. M*th*rF*ck*r!!!