Posted on 02/17/2008 11:41:58 PM PST by HAL9000
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BELGRADE, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Angry Serbs stoned the U.S. embassy in Belgrade to protest at Kosovo's declaration of independence on Sunday, smashing windows before riot police appeared to regain the upper hand."Kosovo is the heart of Serbia," many shouted as up to 2,000 demonstrators, mostly young men, surrounded the embassy, which was guarded by more than 500 police in full riot gear.
Washington has strongly backed Kosovo's bid for independence.
Protesters chanting patriotic songs ripped up paving stones and prised concrete and tiles from nearby buildings to throw them at the police along with bottles, firecrackers and flares. The area was thick with smoke.
"Kill and hang them until there's no Albanians left!" cried some of the protesters.
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Insanity: Performing the same actions repetitively and expecting a different result.
And even, for the most part, getting us on the wrong side with tainted information.
Such occasions make one wonder if Ron Paul isn’t actually on his game when he talks about foreign wars.
I would be pi$$ed if I were a Serb as well. This is not good.
He makes sense to me.
President Bush’s position on recognizing
Kosovo’s independence, is what, if any?
Can't imagine why they'd pull out.
ACtually, we deserve it. We backed the Islamist terrorists and mafia thugs known as the KLA in thier campaign to ethnically cleanse an area for Greater Albania.
Then how about Taiwan, ISrael and even the US>
Should They go back to China, Arabs, and the UK?
I don’t know why Clintoon ever got us into that mess. Worst of all, he put us on the wrong side!
I side with the Serbs on this one. They should have been left to push the Islamists back to Albania.
Now I know we are nuts. Our supposed War on Terror just lost all credibility -- bring all the troops home -- NOW.
In this case, yes, the US is “wrong and bad”. Russia, Putin, and Bush have nothing to do with it however. They are responsible for many other “wrong and bad” things but Kosovo isn’t one of them. Blame for Kosovo goes to that moron Clinton.
Kosovo’s “independence” is a road map for the illegal immigrants who want to steal Aztlan.
I am an American of Serbian descent and I am mad as hell
This is also bad news for Albania itself. Now the Ghegs have their own state. The Tosks who are more dominant in Albania itself, are a bit more civilized. But this could sow the seeds for a future Albanian civil war.
We Bombed the Wrong Side, Kosovo’s Terrorists Continue to Wage War
The Plain Dealer ^ | January 9, 2004 | Tanja Gavrilovic
Posted on 01/11/2004 4:09:44 AM PST by Doctor13
In the midst of conflicts in Southwest Asia and the Middle East, I cannot help but wonder: Whatever happened to the Balkans?
We Americans spent more than a decade listening to and watching CNN and BBC clips of the war-torn region and the countless war crimes that had taken place at the hands of various ethnic groups.
What about Kosovo? A 78-day bombing campaign was undertaken to “liberate Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian population” from the hands of “terror-invoking Serbs.”
Why was there no media follow- up of the accomplishments of peace-loving and newly liberated Kosovo Albanians? Quite simply, because there are no accomplishments.
Could it be because the international community made a grave mistake and has now found itself in a quagmire with no solution in sight? Is it possible that some of the very people NATO was trying to “protect” have turned out, in fact, to be terrorists? Yes!
After spending a grueling 27 months working in Serbia’s Kosovo province, I learned and witnessed far more than I had bargained for. Although I was fully versed in the rich and blood- soaked history of the region, I was not prepared for all that took place.
Albanian rebel offensives resulted in bus explosions of NATO- escorted civilian convoys, brutal murders of civilians tending their fields, random sniper attacks, shootings of children swimming in lakes, night beatings and torture of the elderly, and arson - all against Serbian civilians and all under the watchful eyes of the U.S. and international community.
I once asked a NATO commanding general why ethnic Albanian extremists were not unmasked for what they truly are - bloodthirsty, war-waging terrorists. He looked at me, paused, and replied, “How do you begin to go against the very group you supposedly came to help? We obviously did not know who we were dealing with. We bombed the wrong side.”
I stared at him in disbelief while he merely looked down at his freshly shined boots, straightened his shoulders and turned to walk away. Not quite the response I had expected.
Observations in Kosovo recorded chilling acts from the “peacekeepers” as well. Germany’s military contingent used bright yellow tape to mark large Xs on Serbian homes throughout their designated area of responsibility. Similar to the 1940s Nazi-style branding of Jews and other minorities deemed unworthy of life.
Strangely enough, I was the only one who questioned this and personally brought it to the attention of a senior member of the U.S. Army Command Group.
But let’s focus on something near and dear to all Americans: attacks on U.S. Army and media personnel. While on a border patrol, monitoring Albanian rebel insurgency, the U.S. unit I was working with came under direct mortar fire in a village named Krivenik. An Associated Press journalist, Kerim Lawton, was seriously injured. I administered first aid and attempted to stop the bleeding from the dozens of shrapnel wounds he incurred, to no avail. He died shortly afterward.
How was this incident portrayed to the media? In a noncommittal diplomatic fashion, officials announced that, “An investigation will take place as to the day’s chain of events,” from all sides, U.S. Army, NATO and U.N.
Does this seem all too familiar? Is this not mere repetition of scenarios that got the United States involved in both Bosnia and Kosovo in the first place - only later to discover that “smoking gun” incidences were staged? It is interesting how concrete evidence has surfaced, that incidences were staged by the very groups claiming to have been wronged.
Perhaps the international community should be more forthcoming as to who the real Balkans’ terrorists are and how they are draining our tax dollars, manpower and resources.
The public has a right to know what is happening in the Balkans!
The info from 2004 and the result today!
I agree that we were on the wrong side, Clinton was helping the Drug Cartels made up of Communist Albanians and Sicilians, and Moslem runners in Kosova, this cartel was the scourge of Europe and now will be another sanctioned U.N. drug zone!
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