[Destro]

We made our deal in Kosovo, a breeding ground for fanatics with al-Qaeda links. Our contact was the deputy commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Niam Behljulji, known as Hulji. The group were trained by Bin Laden's men. Astonishingly, we met him under the noses of the British Army and UN forces - who remain as peacekeepers following Kosovo's bloody war with Serbia. Hulji, is said to supply terrorists across Europe and has been accused of massacring Serbian women and children during the war. He even posed grinning for a photograph, holding the severed head of one his victims.

[Hoplite]

Not really supportive of the assertion made by the author in the article at the head of the thread though, is it?

Furthermore, the whole KLA-Al Qaeda links thing, upon investigation, turned out to be more the work of overactive imaginations such as yours, rather than having any basis in reality.

We've been in Kosovo for near 6 years, and though you and your friends would like to have everyone believe it's no different for our troops than Afghanistan or Iraq, prone to attack amongst a religiously fanatic hostile population, but that's not really an honest representation of the matter, is it.

[phoenix0468]

Why is it that every one of these break away states had "a bloody war with Serbia" and no one else? Could it be that the Serbians did want to control the former YR as has been contended? Could it be that the Serbians used ethnic cleansing tactics as has been proven in Bosnia? I know the Croatians got their hands quite bloody as well, so I am not going to defend them either, but to defend the Serbians to me seems ludicrous.