Maybe it has to do with goats?
This area is world class when it comes to producing goats:
The Albanian hero figure is Skanderbeg.
He has a goat on his head
Posted on 02/21/2008 5:04:57 PM PST by canuck_conservative
Angry demonstrators protesting Kosovo's independence from Serbia attacked the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, throwing rocks, breaking windows and setting fires.
Serbian TV showed someone trying to set fire to the U.S. flag at the embassy, which was closed and unstaffed when the masked protesters attacked.
Riot police fired tear gas at the rioters and lines of armored vehicles were on the streets before the embassy perimeter was secured. A State Department official told CNN "things are under control."
Kosovo declared independence last Sunday and the United States was among the first countries to offer official recognition of its split from Serbia.
One charred body -- believed to be a protester -- was found in the U.S. Embassy compound, embassy spokesman in Belgrade William Wanlund said. The only Americans at the embassy during the violence were Marines, who are all said to be accounted for.
Bratislaw Grubacic, chief editor of VIP magazine in Belgrade, said police reported 32 people injured, including 14 police officers.
Video Watch as a protester tries to set fire to the US embassy flag »
Teresa Gould, a translator for Belgrade TV, said the Croatian Embassy next door also was attacked. Police quickly rounded up the demonstrators, witnesses said. Video
Watch as witness says protestesters threw rocks, Molotov cocktail »
Smaller groups attacked police posts outside the Turkish and British Embassies in another part of the city but were beaten back, The Associated Press reported.
Richard Holbrooke, a former negotiator in the Balkans under President Clinton, said: "The fact that (independence has) not happened as peacefully as people had hoped is the direct result of the incitement to violence by extremist elements in Belgrade, implicitly and privately supported by the Russians."
Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, expressed outrage at the "mob attack."
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Empty Serbian promises, as today showed. Probably more to come, given Serbia's demonstrated recent history of violence.
Just more proof that the US really is on the correct side!
Over here.......http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974071/posts
Serbian youths got angry that we were stealing their country and attacked our embassy. Why is this surprising. I think many American’s would do the same if the Mexicans in CA declared independance and Germany recognized California’s independance and sent troops to help protect it from us after have previously bombed our capital and killed many U.S. civilians.
Unless you also believe Texas should be given back to Mexico?
Time to pull the troops out.
This incident is a good way to see who is thinking independently and who is drunk on Bush Family brand Kool-Aid.
You, my friend, have been hogging all the refreshments.
We are so on the wrong side in this and it’s far from over.
That dog don’t hunt. I can’t imagine what our compelling national interest is in Serbia or Kosovo and why we’re involved. We obviously haven’t learned anything about getting involved in local civil wars.
That's easy for you to say as a Canadian when it won't be billions of dollars of your tax money that will build the infrastructure of this Islamic state.
Bush's immense support of the Albanians has baffled me as well. My guess is that it has something to do with pissing off the Russians. I can't see what else it could possibly be.
No it’s not. And it’ll be a shame if in the future, once all the pieces fall together, history remembers Bush as the one who endorsed Kosovo instead of the one who liberated Iraq.
One thing though, if we pull out, the Serbs and Russia move in. This is so NOT GOOD. Americans have grown fat and soft. We have forgotten our own history and maybe have to pay for our collective memory failure with another war.
Put this mess at the feet of our moronic state department. Bush better tell Condi and company to back off.
That’s funny, I was thinking precisely the opposite.
Actually, it makes perfect sense. It's because he's a uniter and not a divider*! And just to prove it he fully adopted BJ Clinton's insane misadventures in the Balkans as his own policy.
*You're supposed to ignore that part about dividing Kosovo from the rest of Serbia...
“...but I am sure that we cannot allow a war.”
And how do we prevent a war when the locals don’t seem to want peace in the first place? Agree that the striped-suit set has boogered this one up royally - seems to me this is a perfect job for the EU to handle. We don’t have a dog in this fight.
Maybe it has to do with goats?
This area is world class when it comes to producing goats:
The Albanian hero figure is Skanderbeg.
He has a goat on his head
The first thing is to back off our support of an "independent" Kosovo and acknowledge its relationship with Serbia.
The second thing is for us to put some pressure on the rest of the EU to bring in their troops to fortify the NATO presence there.
The third thing is that we should refrain from taking any sides in this go back to the uneasy status quo we had before.
Nor will Canada be attacked by the Islamics, like we were on 9-11 and probably will be again.
I hate that our embassy was attacked. No justifying that since we’re again a scapegoat imo (would have been cheering loud if they had attack some muslim site) but I understand their anger with us. Hell, I’m angry with us!
Being on the side of the Jihadists is never the correct side, Dhimmi.
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