Posted on 02/17/2008 8:55:18 AM PST by Regulator
PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Kosovo's parliament declared the territory a nation on Sunday, mounting a historic bid to become an "independent and democratic state" backed by the U.S. and European allies but bitterly contested by Serbia and Russia.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"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.
The precedent is set.
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.”
And they should know. Let the drug lords celebrate their new country.
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.
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....
In a related story, the fox promised to protect the hens in the henhouse.
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.
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.
Of course, judging by how many times Israel has kicked Arab butt, they haven't been doing a very good job of it lately.
["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."
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.
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?
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.
5.56mm
So I guess you have the day off tomorrow....? ;>)
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.
So your prediction is .....?
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