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Kosovo Declares Independence From Serbia
The Washington Post ^ | Sunday, February 17, 2008 | By NEBI QENA and WILLIAM J. KOLE

Posted on 02/17/2008 8:55:18 AM PST by Regulator

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To: MarMema
Bulgaria's nationalists have renewed with a vengeance their calls against recognizing independent Kosovo.

"Ataka party insists that Bulgaria refuse to recognize the independence of this artificially-born country that would bless a handful of criminals at its helm," Volen Siderov, leader of the country's biggest nationalist party, commented in an interview for Darik radio hours before the official proclamation of independence.

121 posted on 02/17/2008 3:15:34 PM PST by MarMema (kosovo will always be Serbian)
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To: Sioux-san
Will California and Arizona be close behind?

The precedent is set.

122 posted on 02/17/2008 3:29:17 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: MarMema

The Bulgarian conservatives say this about narco state
kosovo

“Ataka party insists that Bulgaria refuse to recognize the independence of this artificially-born country that would bless a handful of criminals at its helm,” Volen Siderov, leader of the country’s biggest nationalist party, commented in an interview for Darik radio hours before the official proclamation of independence.

“It is like electing Dimitar Zhelyazkov for prime minister of Bulgaria,” Siderov said, referring to one of the key players on the country’s drug market, who was recently sentenced to a meagre 4,5 years in jail.”


123 posted on 02/17/2008 3:29:21 PM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: eleni121
referring to one of the key players on the country’s drug market

And they should know. Let the drug lords celebrate their new country.

124 posted on 02/17/2008 3:40:26 PM PST by MarMema (kosovo will always be Serbian)
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To: paleorite
NATO won’t stand in Russia’s way if push comes to shove. Bullies always back off against guys tought enought to fight back. Putin will have free reign.

And how is a belligerent, expansionist Russia humiliating our NATO allies and dominating Europe a good thing for the United States? If the choices are supporting Kosovo's independence or allowing Russia and its client states to bully Europe at will, I say the United States is better off siding with Kosovo.

125 posted on 02/17/2008 3:41:39 PM PST by Polonius (It's called logic, it'll help you.)
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To: eleni121

Btw I am eating tzatzike sauce on crackers in my state of mourning. I ate an entire container of it and am considering running out for another container....


126 posted on 02/17/2008 3:42:17 PM PST by MarMema (kosovo will always be Serbian)
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To: canuck_conservative
Wrong. The Kosovo Parliament has already said it will protect the rights of the Serbian minority.

Kosovo Albanian promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. Kosovo will become a jihadist state used by terrorists to launch attacks against Europe and the US, much the same way Afghanistan was once used.
127 posted on 02/17/2008 3:44:17 PM PST by JamesP81 ("I am against "zero tolerance" policies. It is a crutch for idiots." --FReeper Tenacious 1)
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To: Polonius
the province's independence declaration, rejected by Serbia, will be recognized in "three waves". Albania, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and some other Muslim countries will lead the way, the report says.
128 posted on 02/17/2008 3:46:55 PM PST by MarMema (kosovo will always be Serbian)
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To: JamesP81
Wrong. The Kosovo Parliament has already said it will protect the rights of the Serbian minority.

In a related story, the fox promised to protect the hens in the henhouse.

129 posted on 02/17/2008 3:47:43 PM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: HAL9000
Expressing support for a Russian invasion of Kosovo - where U.S. troops are deployed - is effectively treason.

No, only if one expresses support for American deaths would that be true.

Expressing support for a Russian invasion of Kosovo to defend the Serbian and Roma Christians encircled by the Jihadists there is not treason.

130 posted on 02/17/2008 3:56:30 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Regulator
There's no such thing as a moderate Muslim. It's a belief system that does not tolerate that, and always leads to fanaticism. As such, it is a vehicle for political domination, which is what it was started for.

This is the part that, unfortunately, many people don't realize. Islam from its very beginning was developed as a justification for military conquest, and this is inseperable from the religion itself.

By the way, there are plenty of moderate Muslims, but only because they're nominal Muslims who don't really hold to the foundations of their religion. So you were correct in the first place. There may be Muslims who call themselves moderates, and moderates who call themselves Muslims, but these tenets are in reality mutually exclusive.

131 posted on 02/17/2008 4:16:57 PM PST by Zero Sum (Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit! (apologies to Rabbi Benny Lau))
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To: Zero Sum
Islam from its very beginning was developed as a justification for military conquest

Of course, judging by how many times Israel has kicked Arab butt, they haven't been doing a very good job of it lately.

132 posted on 02/17/2008 4:19:01 PM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: canuck_conservative
We have shamefully succeeded in installing a narco state in the heart of Europe..one must wonder to what miserable end?

["Drugs Money Linked to the Kosovo Rebels," The Times (London), 3/24/99]

The Kosovo Liberation Army, which has won the support of the West for its guerrilla struggle against the heavy armour of the Serbs, is a Marxist-led force funded by dubious sources, including drug money. That is the judgment of senior police officers across Europe.

An investigation by The Times has established that police forces in three Western European countries, together with Europol, the European police authority, are separately investigating growing evidence that drug money is funding the KLA's leap from obscurity to power. The financing of the Kosovo guerrilla war poses critical questions and it sorely tests claims to an 'ethical' foreign policy. Should the West back a guerrilla army that appears to be partly financed by organised crime? Could the KLA's need for funds be fuelling the heroin trade across Europe? . . . As well as diverting charitable donations from exiled Kosovans, some of the KLA money is thought to come from drug dealing.

Sweden is investigating suspicions of a KLA drug connection. 'We have intelligence leading us to believe that there could be a connection between drug money and the Kosovo Liberation Army,' said Walter Kege, head of the drug enforcement unit in the Swedish police intelligence service. Supporting intelligence has come from other states. 'We have yet to find direct evidence, but our experience tells us that the channels for trading hard drugs are also used for weapons,' said one Swiss police commander. . . .

One Western intelligence report quoted by Berliner Zeitung says that DM900 million has reached Kosovo since the guerrillas began operations and half the sum is said to be illegal drug money. In particular, European countries are investigating the Albanian connection: whether Kosovan Albanians living primarily in Germany and Switzerland are creaming off the profits from inner-city heroin dealing and sending the cash to the KLA. Albania -- which plays a key role in channelling money to the Kosovans -- is at the hub of Europe's drug trade.

An intelligence report which was prepared by Germany's Federal Criminal Agency concluded: 'Ethnic Albanians are now the most prominent group in the distribution of heroin in Western consumer countries.' Europol, which is based in The Hague, is preparing a report for European interior and justice ministers on a connection between the KLA and Albanian drug gangs. Police in the Czech Republic recently tracked down a Kosovo Albanian drug dealer named Doboshi who had escaped from a Norwegian prison where he was serving 12 years for heroin trading. A raid on Doboshi's apartment turned up documents linking him with arms purchases for the KLA."

133 posted on 02/17/2008 4:22:50 PM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: Polonius
If the choices are supporting Kosovo's independence or allowing Russia and its client states to bully Europe at will, I say the United States is better off siding with Kosovo.

If siding with Kosovo were for a good cause, I would say yes. But Kosovo is another bridgehead of Islamofascism into the heart of Europe. So, why in the name of all that is just and holy have we spent American treasure and spilled American blood to stop Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and yet, we're going to give them a nice safe base of operations in Kosovo? This doesn't make a lick of sense.

134 posted on 02/17/2008 4:33:45 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: HAL9000
Expressing support for a Russian invasion of Kosovo - where U.S. troops are deployed - is effectively treason.

Not treason at all!

If Americans were living in a nation where they were threatened by a mad dictator —let us say Granada or Panama - would you approve of the US going in and defending them?

Serbians - Slavic Orthodox Christians like Russians - have been in Kosovo for 1500 + years and are now effectively disenfranchised and in danger of losing their lives..the few that are left after over 200 churches were destroyed by Albanians..and you dare to describe those who want to defend them treasonous?

135 posted on 02/17/2008 4:33:50 PM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: eleni121

So tell me Eleni, how soon do you think before these Evil, Evil People start slaughtering the NATO troops?

Days? Weeks? Months? Longer?

Let’s get your prediction on the record, right here and now, for future reference.


136 posted on 02/17/2008 4:33:54 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Regulator
Let the games begin.

5.56mm

137 posted on 02/17/2008 4:34:41 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: MarMema

So I guess you have the day off tomorrow....? ;>)


138 posted on 02/17/2008 4:35:46 PM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: canuck_conservative

NATO is on the wrong side!!...this fiasco is the result of the evil Clintonian politics of advancing world socialism/corporatism.

No kidding...an amazingly horrible event we are witnessing.


139 posted on 02/17/2008 4:38:59 PM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: eleni121

So your prediction is .....?


140 posted on 02/17/2008 4:43:10 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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