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Analysis: Kosovo's anxious wait
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5235868.stm ^

Posted on 08/03/2006 9:45:42 AM PDT by kronos77

On the pavement, Dragoljub Mitrovic, 37, is trying to sell a heap of cheese in a blue bucket.

He has travelled from his home village, through an Albanian area, to try and make some money to feed his wife and two children.

"All Serbs, including me, live in constant fear. The UN brings us here on special buses. If Kosovo becomes independent, I'll pack my things and leave and try to get asylum elsewhere. There'd be no life for me here. I'd look for democracy in Europe."

Technically, Kosovo remains a part of Serbia. But in reality it has been run by the United Nations since the end of the war in 1999.

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ass the French troops stationed on the bridge over the River Ibar, that separates the Serb north from the Albanian south, and you enter a different world.

The place is humming: crowded, colourful, energetic. There is a sense of expectation.

Edmond Jolla, 32, is Albanian and the owner of the upmarket restaurant Ex.

"Everyone is expecting independence. In terms of my business, independence would enable me to invest for the future. Everyone will live better. I have two flats in north Mitrovica and when we get independence I hope to get them back. The war is finished," he tells me.

Drive 45 minutes south and you arrive at the air-conditioned, spankingly clean New Government Buildings in the capital, Pristina.

The former Albanian guerrilla leader-turned-prime minister, Agim Ceku, is sharp-suited and smiling when I arrive.

He tells me the government will accept nothing less than independence - and partition is out of the question.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: balkans; christianity; islamicterror; islamicwarcriminals; kosovo; serbia; terrorists
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1 posted on 08/03/2006 9:45:43 AM PDT by kronos77
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To: eleni121; horse_doc; montyspython; RedRover; Lukasz; Freelance Warrior; A. Pole; march; ...

"The former Albanian guerrilla leader-turned-prime minister, Agim Ceku, is sharp-suited and smiling when I arrive."

translation:

"Indicted war criminal (ethnical cleansing, rape, torture of Christians) turned-primeministre by UN..."

That guy deserves .22 cal. dance in his scull.


2 posted on 08/03/2006 9:47:53 AM PDT by kronos77 (www.savekosovo.org say NO to Al-Qaeda new sanctuary)
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To: kronos77

Once you give a war criminal the title of "Prime Minister", what do you think that he is going to expect, other than independence? As far as he is concerned, he is already the leader of "a country"!


3 posted on 08/03/2006 10:03:29 AM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: kronos77

Another legacy of Bill Clinton.


4 posted on 08/03/2006 11:54:59 AM PDT by pankot
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To: Bokababe
Ceku has only been indicted by the Serbs, and, in case you hadn't noticed, various American and NATO leaders, also indicted, have visited Serbia while their indictments were supposedly still in place.

Ergo, Serbian indictments don't mean squat, and Ceku's designation as a "war criminal" is merely for domestic (and ex-pat) Serbian consumption.

So go ahead and work yourselves up into another lather - it's all for naught, and life, though you may dislike the way it goes, will go on.

5 posted on 08/03/2006 12:12:14 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: kronos77

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/2006/06/011919print.html

"When you lie down with wolves you become one" NATO's silence and complicity with this barbaric criminal Ceku will come back to haunt us. In the meantime, he is a Walking Dead Man.


6 posted on 08/03/2006 2:52:21 PM PDT by eleni121 (General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
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To: Hoplite

Why don't you just go get Clinton to give you a b-job & give it up, Hoppie. Your glib lib attitudes don't fly here anymore -- if they ever did.


7 posted on 08/03/2006 5:26:11 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Hoplite

By the way, got Osama?


8 posted on 08/03/2006 5:27:13 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe
So you're going to develop an oral fixation as well, huh?

Good for you - it appears to be the response of last resort amongst your peers.

LOL.

9 posted on 08/03/2006 6:03:19 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

Yawn...........


10 posted on 08/03/2006 6:56:34 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Hoplite; tgambill; Bokababe; montyspython
hey, i'm possibly attending San Jose State Univ for the Four Year program im looking to do. Can we be roommates? That will be next year after my Iraq n PiP return. Deal?

Sweet if you say yes.

dude, think of all the funning we will have! picking up chicks and bringing them back to our batchelors pad and then..ya know? heheehehe

11 posted on 08/04/2006 1:40:20 AM PDT by ma bell ("Take me to Pristine. I want to see the "real terrorists", Former Marine)
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To: ma bell
"picking up chicks and bringing them back to our batchelors pad and then..ya know?"

Yeah Hoplite will wow'em with all his combat experience, he's like the military version of Barney Fife.

Oh, and don't let him get all long winded about his ED, he'll babble on an on about that for hours trying to explain how the only treatment that works for him is his "hunt for Destro" forays on the bloggers all over the net.

12 posted on 08/04/2006 6:45:16 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: Hoplite; ma bell; infidel_and_proud; Bokababe; montyspython; kronos77; joan; zagor-te-nej; ...

How about a dose of reality and the truth for a change? meaning of course that you are mistaken. :))

LOLOL.....


A Superbly Organized Crime
Imperial Occupation of the Balkans

http://www.antiwar.com/malic/m031402.html

Organized And Other Crimes Not exactly. It turns out "several ethnic Albanian politicians are suspected of being linked to the gangs." Like who? Hashim Taqi, head of the KLA, nicknamed "Snake" for assassinating his rivals? Agim Ceku, former general in the Croatian army who specialized in ethnic cleansing? Bajram Rexhepi, the current Prime Minister, who is said to have decapitated a Serb prisoner during the NATO-KLA "war of liberation"? Robertson does not say, and neither does the VOA. All that matters is that NATO (good) is pledging to fight some unspecified organized crime (bad).



Extremist On UN's Payroll
By Scott Taylor

http://www.espritdecorps.ca/newpage25.htm

“Pristina, 2 Jun (Serbian Orthodox Diocese) - In their small office at the UN police headquarters in Kosovo, former Ottawa policeman Derek Chappell and his partner, Barry Fletcher, an ex-New Orleans cop, told me about their frustration in trying to control the ongoing inter-ethnic violence in this war-ravaged Balkan province.

Although he and his soldiers are paid by the UN, Ceku remains openly defiant of Kosovo's interim civil administration. "Whether (the UN) wants to admit it or not, the KPC are the army of Kosovo and I'm their commander," Ceku told the local Albanian media. Despite public denials, the UN police are also aware of the fact that Ceku's KPC are directly involved with the acts of terrorism being conducted throughout the region.
"At any one time, there are at least 15 per cent of the KPC soldiers that cannot be accounted for by their commanders," said Fletcher. "The NATO troops responsible for the KPC know this is because these absent soldiers are somewhere in the Presevo valley (in south Serbia), or in Tetovo (Macedonia)." In recent weeks, NATO has applied direct pressure by ordering Ceku to voluntarily turn over all of the extremists who nominally serve in the ranks of his KPC. "(NATO) has a list of suspects, but they did not supply these names to Ceku," said Fletcher. "He is to come up with his own list and it is hoped that these individuals will match." Unfortunately, even this latest demand on Ceku to cut his ties with the terrorists is seen as another hollow gesture. "There is no 'or else' attached to the ultimatum and no definitive timeline," said Fletcher.

When asked why the UN, to date, has not removed Ceku from his post and sent him to The Hague for his previous war crimes, the American police officer just shrugs and says "politics." This double standard no doubt will not sit well with Canadian soldiers who witnessed the atrocities committed by Ceku.

The first occasion our peacekeepers encountered his bloody handiwork was during the September 1993 Medak Pocket operation. Then serving in the Croatian army, Ceku led a short offensive and captured four Serbian villages. When the soldiers of the Second Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry reoccupied the contested area, they discovered that the Croat forces had perpetrated a violent orgy of rape and murder. Despite the careful cataloguing of the atrocities and the lodging of formal complaints against his conduct, Ceku was promoted to general and put in charge of the Croatian artillery.

It was in this capacity in 1995 that, during a major offensive in southern Croatia, Ceku's gunners deliberately engaged fleeing refugees in the city of Knin. Once more, Canadian officers and soldiers observed this deliberate terror attack and demands were again made for Ceku's indictment at The Hague tribunal. Last year, the Canadian government bestowed upon the soldiers of 2PPCLI a special unit commendation for their bravery in the Medak Pocket. While this honor was long overdue, such recognition seems somewhat meaningless given that the criminal responsible for this massacre not only remains at large, but still wages a terror campaign in the Balkans while collecting a UN paycheck.



13 posted on 08/05/2006 1:49:11 AM PDT by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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To: Hoplite
So you're going to develop an oral fixation as well, huh?

What, you're hoping that more will join your Dhimmi club? You're barking up the wrong tree, O' toothless one!

Now go make us some pancakes!

14 posted on 08/05/2006 11:03:03 AM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here in what some call Aztlan.")
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To: tgambill
How about a dose of reality and the truth for a change? meaning of course that you are mistaken.

How's about you actually backing up these big words with something substantiative, rather than relying upon a couple of Serbian propaganda artists to provide irrelevant material to fill up your post?

Who besides Serbia has indicted Ceku?

15 posted on 08/06/2006 5:46:48 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

Serbia is enough with actual indictments. Who better to indict a war criminal than the ones who he perpetrated the crimes against. However, given your professional knowledge and well read intelligence, I am bound to give you more references. So, I will provide more info later this week as I do my work here and i will find the time to give you more retort.

Oh, guess what I learned this weekend? Wesley Clark was relieved of his command instead of retirement only. He chose retirement. I got this straight from the source....CI did an investigation on him....long story short. I find that very interesting since he wrote a book about the ill fated intervention we were involved in.....

However, granted the Serbs are split between their nationalism and trying to meet with UN/US requirements....for entrance into the mainstream; so to speak. You have a good point...from a neutral point of view...so, in a short while I will respond.

Also, keep in mind that Ceku, Thaqi and Ramush is protected by the U.S. and other UN advocates....beyond acceptable levels......very deep pockets especially when terrorist are released from Bondsteel by covert means.....or released by "lack of evidence"....


16 posted on 08/07/2006 1:06:11 AM PDT by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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To: tgambill
Serbia is enough with actual indictments.

Uh-huh. It's just that nobody gives a rat's ass about Serbia's Milosevic era indictments, and those indicted can visit Serbia itself without having to worry about being arrested, because the Serbian government itself knows it's all nothing but a stupid PR stunt.

Deal with it.

17 posted on 08/07/2006 2:43:33 AM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

Deal with what? Most anything that comes out of the ICTY will be biased and unprofessional. They can't be trusted in any way, shape or form. Much in the same way you label with Serbia.

Also, it find it interesting that Wesley was relieved of his command following several CI investigations to include family members, not to elaborate. This is a fact.....got it first hand.

Anyway, you should give a mouses' buttockette about the Serbian current indictments which are true and should be followed up on....but won't due to the "juice" given to the Kosovo Criminal leaders........that we are supporting. Go figure. One reason they can't indict is that few of the witnesses are still living after most all have been murdered.

it's 6:00 AM EST....don't you ever sleep....? :)) here its 1200 AM...and in one minute will be 1201 PM.....

Can't sleep huh? All those guilty feelings and pent up "energy"...:)))


18 posted on 08/07/2006 2:59:07 AM PDT by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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To: tgambill
Deal with what?

The fact that Serbia's Milosevic era indictments don't mean squat - not even in Serbia.

Is this really too complicated for you?

No wonder you work for the Serbs.

19 posted on 08/07/2006 3:19:03 AM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

Don't work for the Serbs, Son....Everything I write or do is because I'm Patriot. I'm tired of the lies by Clinton and Holbrooke and Walker....to name a few. The indictments are valid but not supported due to the corruption and deep pocket of the ICTY. The ICTY is a laughing stock and a travesity to good order. A complete sham.......It's not complicated for me or you. That is the sad part. You understand it, and yet you support the evil strategy......


20 posted on 08/07/2006 3:40:10 AM PDT by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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