Posted on 12/18/2007 9:07:14 AM PST by DTA
UN official under investigation for alleged improper behavior loses Kosovo job
2007-12-18 17:12:40 -
PRISTINA, Serbia (AP) - A top U.N. official who is being investigated for his ties with Kosovo leaders left the province on Tuesday after being told his contract would not be renewed, a U.N. official told The Associated Press.
Retired U.S. Army General Steven Schook's, whose term as deputy head of the U.N.'s Kosovo mission officially ends Dec. 31, will not be invited back to serve in the mission, a U.N. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity as the case was still pending.
The official gave no reason for Schook being asked to leave, and offered no details of the investigation. Schook told local media in September that the U.N.'s oversight office was inquiring about his relations with Kosovo officials including Energy Minister Et'hem Ceku, who spearheaded a multimillion-dollar (-euro) project to build a power plant. Schook is also said to be close to Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who is accused by a U.N. tribunal of war crimes.
Schook denied allegations of wrongdoing or impropriety, saying in September that he was guilty only of «loving his job.
His departure on Tuesday could be linked, however, to his declared support for Kosovo's independence _ a thorny issue to which the U.N. does not subscribe because of Russia's objection.
Schook, a one-star general, served with the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo before being named as the U.N.'s second in command in the province, dealing mainly with security issues.
The U.N. official said the decision could damage the U.N.'s record in Kosovo, as the province inches toward declaring independence.
The U.N. Security Council was discussing the status issue Tuesday, with Russia expected to support Serbia's request for more negotiations before resolving Kosovo's status. Ethnic Albanians have rejected holding more talks with Serbia.
In a sign of underlying tension, some 3,000 Serbs rallied in Kosovo's northern part, where most of the minority lives, protesting against Kosovo's independence and demanding Russia opens military bases in the province of some 2 million.
Kosovo formally remains part of Serbia, but has been run by the U.N. and NATO since 1999, when NATO airstrikes ended a Serbian military crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in the southern province.
As one insider observed, the only job of Gen. Shook did well was to get drunk with Haradinaj every weekend.
The problem is - United States supports Islamofascists on one spot while fighting them on another.
He may be guilty but the fact that the UN wants to get rid of him makes me think he is doing a good job.
Why are we still there fighting Slick Willie’s war? He said we would be out of there by Dec, 1999. Is it a quagmire that was simply passed on to the UN.
Ramushi Haradinaj comes from a Christian tribe in Western Kosovo. He’s not an islamofascist, he’s an Albanian. Albanians care more about their ethnicity than their religion. As any Albanian will tell you, “the religion of Albanians is Albanianism!”
Historically, the Albanians shift with the wind in religious matters. They side with the group that offers them the best benefits. Right now, the mohammedans from Sudan and Saudi Arabia are offering the best benefits, so that’s where the youth are going.
Do you recall Richard Reid a.k.a Shoe bomber, or David Hicks who fought along KLA terrorists and OBL until captured? They are Islamofascists, regardless of being American or Aussie.
The fact that Haradinaj's family is of Christian background is of no importance to what Haradinaj does.
Interesting you mention that Albanians drift towards the " best benefits". In Kosovo, Kosovo Albanians were always on the side of the Anti-Christian evil, shock troops for Ottomans, Nazis and Communists. It could be said that Kosovo Albanians did not meet the evil they did not like, as long as it allowed them to murder the rightful owners and pillage the spoils of the crime. When they are prevented, they cry of being "oppressed". This is modus operandi of Jihhad, documented from The Phillippines to Kosovo.
I believe that Albanians in Albania are not very happy with what their brethern in Kosovo do in the name of "albanism.
Perhaps the religion of Albanians in Albania is Albanism (after Enver Xohxa eradicated religion), but in Kosovo, feja e Shqiptarit eshte terorizm.
The Albanians in Albania are just as dirty as the ones in Kosovo. The only difference is that Albania is sovereign, so they don’t have anything to complain about right now. Jihad training ne madrasejat is happening at the same rate in Tirane as in Prishtine. If the Christians were to go in offering disco parties, drugs, women, etc. at the same rate as the mohammedans, the youth would have a tougher choice on which side to join.
I dont’ think Haradinaj is an islamofascist because he claims to be Christian. He’s not a muslim, so he can’t be an islamofascist. He is driven by his ethnicity, which dictates a Kosovo free of Serbians. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Serbs are Chistians, and has everything to do with the fact that they are Serbs. Despite what most people are told via the media, the conflict is between ethnic groups. The religion factor is a convenient scapegoat to the real rascism. Serbs hate Albanians at the same rate that Albanians hate Serbs.
The situation stems from the fact that both groups claim Kosovo to be their ancestral homeland, even when historical evidence is not in their favor.
And what rate is that?
Question by Dhimmwit: And what rate is that?
Perhaps you should tell us how fast your heroes take to crank out (no pun on your typical assist to the Jihadists intended) a suicide bomber, pancakes ol' boy!
Well, at least, unlike Hoppi, Skenderbej is willing to admit that the Kosovo Albanians support genocide!
Is this why the Albanians are attempting to erase all Serbian cultural identity from Kosovo such as banning all Serbian books, banning the Serbian language, destroying Serbian Orthodox Churches and Monasteries?
Mind you this is not a recent phenomenon, the ethnic cleansing of Serbs has been a slow process and goes back to the days of Tito's regime.
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