Posted on 02/23/2008 4:06:32 AM PST by canuck_conservative
Serbian prosecutors said Saturday they were hunting rioters who targeted the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade leaving one person dead while a senior Serbian minister blamed Washington for the violence triggered by Kosovo's breakaway.
Authorities said they had arrested nearly 200 rioters who took part in the violence on Thursday that prompted the United States to evacuate non-essential embassy staff and warn Serbia it would be held responsible.
"We are collecting evidence and are identifying the culprits," Slobodan Radovanovic said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.
Serbia's Kosovo minister Slobodan Samardzic said Saturday that the U.S. -- which backed Kosovo's breakaway and was among the first countries to recognize its seccession -- was the "main culprit" for the violence, AP reported.
Thursday's violence, some of the worst unrest in Serbia since the removal of strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, was followed by further unrest Friday in Kosovo as Serbs attacked U.N. police in an ethnically divided city.
Some 5,000 protesters hurled bottles and stones as they tried to cross a key bridge in the northern town of Mitrovica, divided between Serbs and the ethnic Albanians who have driven last Sunday's independence declaration.
Speaking to CNN on Friday, a top U.S. diplomat said Serbia had a "fundamental responsibility" to protect U.S. diplomats and citizens, adding that Washington would hold Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica and his government "personally responsible" for assaults on U.S. interests.
"What happened yesterday in Belgrade was absolutely reprehensible," Undersecretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns said. "This kind of thing should not happen in a civilized country."
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Eat pork, troll.
Can’t argue with the content, eh?
Will any of the presidential candidates propose that America end its entaglement in NATO and inform the ignorant savages in Europe (you know, the ones whose respect for America has diminished under President Bush) that when hostilities in the Balkans boil over we will remain neutral?
I’ve got my hands immersed in boiling water waiting for this to happen.
I have no special love for any side in the Balkan conflict. It’s not our business. We should get out and let the Euros/Albanians and Russians/Serbs handle it. It is futile to try to make out sense of the Balkans.
The wonderful Clinton legacy.
How exactly is he a troll?
He's not a troll...
a troll would say that the Serbs, who once were our allies, were totally justified for any action taken against US interests because of our shameful treatment against them from 40,000 feet. Now they hate us.
That's what a troll would say.
: U.S. to blame for violence
It’s all Bush’s fault...No wait, 42 was president then and his commander was Wesley something, who wanted to attack the Russians at the airport. Wasn’t it a French general that said he wasn’t going to start WWW III because of Clinton and Clark.
We can argue all day whether the U.S./NATO action was necessary, but to ignore what the Serbs actually were doing is shameful.
But General Clark's plan was blocked by General Sir Mike Jackson, K-For's British commander.
"I'm not going to start the Third World War for you," he reportedly told General Clark during one heated exchange.
From here.
Good guys are in short supply all around, when you look at actions in the Balkans.
A troll would be parroting the lies spread by Christiane Ahmanpour as gospel.
And an intelligent FReeper would be able to identify those lies and expose them to the light of truth. [hint]
Their shrines and Orthodox churches are being burned in Kosovo by the adherents of the religion of peace (trade mark pending), and as for the Rhine, forget about it. Over half the children in elementary school in Cologne, Germany are now non-German. Camels are drinking out of the Rhine.
"What mess? Detroit is largely muslim, hummmm "
Serbia: U.S. to blame for violence...
no ~ bj clinton is to blame!!!
"I'm not going to start the Third World War for you," he reportedly told General Clark during one heated exchange.
From here.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
You can’t argue with Dhimmitude, so eat that pork!
Kosovo is Serbia.
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