Posted on 07/23/2004 9:39:46 PM PDT by Destro
THE BALKANS: Suspicious Foreigners in Bosnia
July 23, 2004: Without much publicity, the U.S. is pulling its peacekeepers out of the Balkans.
July 21, 2004: Bulgaria has taken a hard line against al Qaeda terrorists, keeping its troops in Iraq despite the murder of a Bulgarian worker by terrorists there. Bulgaria has long warned of the continuing danger of Islamic terrorists operating in Bosnia and Albania. American and European counter-terrorism experts believe about 300 of the thousand or so foreign Moslems in Bosnia are "suspicious", and thought to be part of al Qaeda related organizations. The al-Tawhid terror group, which openly proclaims itself to be "the European branch of al Qaeda", has long operated in Bosnia.
July 19, 2004: Macedonia has agreed to the establishment of an autonomous Albanian district, in order to obtain popular support from the Albanian minority, and reduce support for Albanian nationalists. The armed Albanians calling for "Greater Albania" are still out there. But much of the muscle for this call to gather all Albanian occupied into one large "Greater Albania" (stretching from southern Serbia to northern Greece and east to parts of Macedonia, as well as Albania and Kosovo) came from criminal gangs, which are now distracted with their criminal activities.
July 12, 2004: The March riots in Kosovo that left 19 dead, and hundreds of Serb homes and churches burned down, were largely the result of the 17,000 peacekeepers in Kosovo being unable to coordinate their response. Some 50,000 Albanians are estimated to have participated in 33 different attacks. In most cases, a mob formed, overwhelmed local police and peacekeepers, and ran wild. The peacekeepers tended to put priority on saving lives, not protecting property.
July 10, 2004: A patrol of Finnish troops in central Kosovo came under fire, and four Finnish troops were wounded. Six Albanians were arrested and the search continues for weapons. Albanian nationalists are determined to chase the remaining Serbs, and other non-Albanians, out of Kosovo (which is not over 90 percent Albania.)
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Go for it, Bulgaria. Take 'em out.
Bulgarians are smart enough not to fold to Muslims. They know with many leftover Ottoman Muslims in their country, they will never want to live under the influence of Muslims again.
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