Jo, Nennsy--nuk jam Shqiptar. Une jam Amerikan.
And this is my heritage:
Posted on 03/08/2005 6:43:08 AM PST by Jane_N
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Kosovo's ethnic Albanian prime minister has been charged with war crimes by the United Nations tribunal and will resign his post Tuesday to answer accusations in The Hague, a senior government source said.
Rumours that Ramush Haradinaj was about to be charged by Hague chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte had circulated since before he became prime minister last December, raising fears of violence if NATO peacekeepers were forced to arrest him.
"Yes, the Prime Minister has been informed he has an indictment," a senior official in the Kosovo government told Reuters. "We have to face it.
"He has informed the President (Ibrahim Rugova). He will resign today...and will fly to the Hague tomorrow."
A year ago, mobs of ethnic Albanians attacked Serb enclaves in the United Nations-run province in two days of rioting which left 19 people dead and hundreds of homes in ashes.
Haradinaj had made clear he would not defy the tribunal.
But peacekeepers were taking no chances. Germany flew in extra soldiers to bolster its peacekeeping contingent in the NATO-led KFOR mission, and Britain deployed an extra 500 troops Monday after an urgent request from NATO, a KFOR spokesman said.
The force currently numbers nearly 20,000.
The United Nations mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, Monday raised its security threat assessment to "black" in western Kosovo, ordering non-essential staff to stay off the streets.
HARD MAN TURNED POLITICIAN
Details of the indictment against Haradinaj have not been made public. The U.N. court has investigated him over his role in the 1998-99 guerrilla war against Serb forces and the alleged murder of Kosovo Serb civilians and Albanian "collaborators."
Haradinaj, 36, spent much of the 1990s as an economic migrant in France, Switzerland, Sweden and Finland, drifting between jobs as a construction worker and nightclub bouncer.
He returned to Kosovo in early 1998 to command the western wing of the Kosovo Liberation Army, helping to mount what was to become a full-scale insurgency against Serb oppression and earning a reputation for ruthlessness.
Two of Haradinaj's brothers were killed fighting Serb security forces and a third was found guilty of war crimes against Serbs in 2002.
Haradinaj's political party, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) was the smaller of two parties to emerge from the ranks of the KLA.
He entered Kosovo's first interim government in February 2002 in a coalition with former guerrilla commander Hashim Thaci and veteran pacifist president Rugova, who leads Kosovo's largest political party.
In October 2004 elections, his AAK won nine seats in Kosovo's 120-seat parliament. Haradinaj later announced an surprise coalition deal with President Rugova, becoming prime minister in December 2004 and confining Thaci to the opposition.
Guys, allow me to introduce to you new member F.A.R., who is Kosovo Albanian, and says he is in Kosovo right now.
I don't think you'll be going anywhere.
BondSteel base in Kosovo is that big that it looks like a town. Lots of money invested there.
I doubt that US Army will pack bags and leave, after all that money was spent.
apologies for refering to you as a man..
but if you're not albanian, what are you?
welcome to Free Republic, F.A.R. I've been to Kosovo a few times...
You made me cry.
Please! All of you no matter on what forum I go, have 10 family members killed, 20 000 Albanians killed, all of you are eye witnesses to terrible crimes.
Please post a link to those 200 dead in same day, same field. There has to be a news coverage for such a crime.
I know that very bad, very bad things happened to Albanians in Kosovo. I was here back then, and am here today, but let's get real inhere.
Dragan popovic, Rado Vllahovic, Milorad Vllahovic MIKI that is very fames "protector " in Bosnia ac well, and many more,, were are they diear freind form kosova??!!
You'd have to give more details on these people. I am sorry but I don't know who they are by names only.
It's the same if I'd ask you where are Idriz Baliu, Jakup Ismaili, Salit Berisha, my dear friend from Kosovo??!!
F.A.R = Srebrenica Squawk's bride?
Mark do you have ANY ethnic Albanian heritage? Nennsy believes you are Albanian; I say you aren't. Which of us guessed correctly?
Please post a link to those 200 dead in same day, same field, if you wanna talk facts.
Wat betekent u niet zo snel? u komt hier zegt en alle deze dingen en dan vertelt u mij niet zo snel? ???
Jo, Nennsy--nuk jam Shqiptar. Une jam Amerikan.
And this is my heritage:
you got me on that Albanian-AGAIN! :-)
ok, I hope you'll understand me better now:
What do you mean not so fast? You came here, spoke about crimes (200 dead in same field, same day) ask from people to use facts, and YOU are doing everything possible to avoid answering my question.
Stop repeating yourself as a broken record and POST a link to that crime you refered to, if you want me to take you seriously.
Otherwise you're nothing but a liar.
Bla, bla, bla.
As I said, nothing but LIAR.
that is not danish to poor english text style writing
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