yes sir.....:) However, they are certainly heading to the 1948 dream of the balli Kombetar movement, for a Greater Albania. The Kosovoar Albanians don't really want this, however, they have no say so. The Mafia leadership with is dominate even over NATO and the US, will want it to ensure a criminal empire called Greater Albania. The Serbs will be fair game and the attacks in Macedonia and Southern Presevo will begin. This has been the promise of world powers to keep that carrot of Greater Albania alive and keeping them friendly to the one holding that power. Now, the independent Kosovo may very well be delayed and may not happen at all. This is what i warned folks about back then, 1999-2004....that the Islamic Fundies will be allowed to start terrorist actions of the International community pisses them off......
Kosovo s independence to create dangerous precedent- aide
07.10.2006, 07.00
BAD BOLL, Germany, October 7 (Itar-Tass) -- If Kosovo’s independence is recognised despite Serbia’s will, this will create a “very negative” precedent in international relations, Russian presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky said.
“Kosovo is a severe challenge to the international community and a very important acid test for the wisdom of the world community. If Kosovo’ s independence is recognised despite Serbia’s will, this will create a very negative precedent in international relations,” Yastrzhembsky said at the conference “Russia and Germany” Hopes and Misunderstandings” on Friday.
http://itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=10864823&PageNum=0
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Circa 1998:
There's a military insurrection that is taking shape, backed by the members of the Albania Diaspora in Germany, Switzerland, and right here in New York City, where a lot of Albanians and Albanian-Americans are sending a lot of money and support to Kosovo. (Gosh - NYC? -SG)
Holbrooke: An independent Kosovo would "unravel Southeastern Europe."
JIM LEHRER: And they want an independent Kosovo ruled by Albanians, right?
RICHARD HOLBROOKE: Yes. And more. I met with several Albanian leaders in Kosovo who said their goal is an independent Kosovo, their goal is to recreate the Greater Albania that existed briefly during the 30's and 40's, which includes Albania, Kosovo, and part of Macedonia. That, I can tell you, Jim, would unravel Southeastern Europe and dramatically increase the chances of a general war. And that's why the situation is both not the same as Bosnia and why it's so dangerous.
I really need to stress this point so people do not misunderstand it. The Kosovo Albanians have been very badly treated for over a decade by the Serb minority in Kosovo. Their rights have been denied and the Yugoslav federal constitution was changed to reduce their powers. This was entirely wrong, and it led to the inevitable reaction which we're now seeing. At the same time, the violent solution which is being advocated by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, which is really not an army but a lot of different groups that are gradually forming an infrastructure of resistance, this approach is highly dangerous to stability in the region.
Now--fast-forward Nov 8 2005:
Holbrooke, the architect of the 1995 Bosnian peace deal, who said that independence was the only way forward for Kosovo and its mainly Muslim Albanians.
"I cannot see any final status for Kosovo other than independence," said Holbrooke, who forged the Dayton Peace Accords that ended Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
"But at the same time ... this cannot be achieved without ironclad guarantees for the safety, security, and protection of the rights of the Serbs who live in Kosovo and the protection of their magnificent monuments," he said.
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/02/sp_nation_holbrooke091002.htm