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To: Kunikuni
I see on CNN that they are attacking the UN peacekeepers in Kosovo again today.

Would you care to provide a link to this report over on the CNN site?

Or am I to assume it's as real as those Serbian troops in Afghanistan and Iraq?

42 posted on 07/20/2007 4:27:17 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
Hoppy, don't accuse me of lying, turn your remote on and watch it yourself, I just watched it on satellite in Vancouver. It is not on their website yet as you probably knew and only mentioned to try and throw me a curve. However, according to this 2003 NYT article I found while looking for your link, answers more of your cynicism. The NYT is renowned for it's anti Serb rhetoric since Binder was pushed to the rear, so i am sure even you will have to concede. Next time search your own links in answer to your questions. Because it they still aren't there yet it will be because of people like you, not people like them.

"October 4, 2003 Serbia Will Send Troops and Police to Afghanistan By ELAINE SCIOLINO

BELGRADE, Oct. 3 — The United States has accepted an offer by Serbia and Montenegro to send up to 1,000 combat troops and police officers to Afghanistan to join American forces there, senior Serbian officials and foreign diplomats said today.
The Serbian-Montenegrin force, which will have to be trained to function under American operational command, will be based in the Kandahar region near the Pakistani border, the officials said. The troops are expected to be ready for deployment by March. Afghan officials have not reacted to the plan so far.
Boris Tadic, the defense minister of Serbia and Montenegro, said at a news conference today that Liberia, Iraq and Afghanistan were discussed as possible destinations for Serbian troops and that "it is more likely that Afghanistan is the potential destination."
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/sloth/2003-10-06a.html

"Serbia and Montenegro: Belgrade Offers Washington Soldiers For Afghanistan
By Julia Geshakova Four years after the NATO-led war on Yugoslavia, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic is offering to send Serbian soldiers to serve in missions abroad under U.S. command. Western media are now reporting that the offer has been accepted and that a Serbian unit will likely be deployed in Afghanistan next spring. Prague, 8 October 2003 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. officials reportedly were caught by surprise when, during a visit to Washington in July, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic discreetly offered to send some 1,000 Serbian troops to Iraq, Afghanistan, or wherever the U.S. might like them...."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2003/10/mil-031008-rferl-160259.htm

Serbian Troops to Afghanistan
2003/1014
Question: Do we have any comment on Serbia sending troops to Afghanistan? Will Radosavljevic, head of the Serbian gendarmerie, be leading the delegation? Do we have a comment on that? Answer: As Secretary Powell told reporters at the Foreign Press Center on August 7, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic made an offer of Serbia and Montenegrin troops for international military operations during his July 24 meeting with Secretary Powell. We continue to explore the possibility with the Government of Serbia and Montenegro and the Government of Afghanistan. A delegation from their Ministry of Defense visited Tampa and Washington, DC in late September to discuss this offer in greater detail. No final decisions on Serbia and Montenegrin participation have been made.
No decision has been made on the type of troops that may be provided. Released on October 6, 2003
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/24964.htm
43 posted on 07/20/2007 7:42:28 PM PDT by Kunikuni
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