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NATO soldier shot in Kosovo
Associated Press ^ | February 27, 2008 12:12 PM | Staff

Posted on 02/28/2008 12:59:05 PM PST by Bokababe

PRISTINA, Kosovo-A NATO peacekeeper caught in a shootout in western Kosovo is being treated for slight injuries.

NATO officials say a stray bullet hit the soldier in the leg Wednesday when two rival groups opened fire at each other in the town of Prizren, 80 kilometers west of the capital Pristina (50 miles).

The soldier, who is not being named, sustained slight injuries to the leg but is able to walk.

Three people died in the shootout that took place in the center of the town. Authorities believe it was a conflict between two ethnic Albanian criminal gangs.

NATO has 16,000 peacekeepers stationed in Kosovo are in charge of securing the country.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alabnian; albanianmafia; clintonswar; illegalimmigrants; islamofascists; jihad; kosovo; nato; serbia
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Risking NATO soldiers' lives to keep the Albanian Mafia from killing one another. Yes, I am sure this is what they signed on for!
1 posted on 02/28/2008 12:59:08 PM PST by Bokababe
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To: Bokababe; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; joan; ...
We warned them that they were guarding criminals. More such incidents are virtually guaranteed, and not from the Serbian side!
2 posted on 02/28/2008 1:02:47 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Bokababe

The UN is going to write a really really nasty letter over this.


3 posted on 02/28/2008 1:04:26 PM PST by MaxMax (I need a life after politics)
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To: Bokababe
"Authorities believe it was a conflict between two ethnic Albanian criminal gangs.

KNUCKLE HEADED FREEPERS AND McCAIN LOVERS WHO HATE SERBS PLEASE NOTE IT WAS A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO(2) ALBANIAN CRIMINAL GANGS, NOT CHRISTIAN SERBS, WHO ARE YOUR ALLIES AGAINST ISLAMIC TERROR.

4 posted on 02/28/2008 1:09:02 PM PST by gitmogrunt (Conservative and Republican are NOT synonymous.)
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To: FormerLib
More such incidents are virtually guaranteed, and not from the Serbian side!

I'm reminded of the words of Serbian criminal known as "Arkan" - “NATO can expect hell. I promise them. We will fight with everything we have … until the last man. It’s an honor for me as a soldier to die fighting in Kosovo.”

So we should expect more incidents from both Albanians and Serbs. But NATO will not cut-and-run from their mission because of these two-bit thugs.

5 posted on 02/28/2008 1:20:24 PM PST by HAL9000 ("If someone who has access to the press says something over and over again, people believe it"- B.C.)
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To: HAL9000
"I'm reminded of the words of Serbian criminal known as "Arkan" - “NATO can expect hell. I promise them. We will fight with everything we have … until the last man. It’s an honor for me as a soldier to die fighting in Kosovo.”So we should expect more incidents from both Albanians and Serbs. But NATO will not cut-and-run from their mission because of these two-bit thugs.

The slight difference being that Arkan & his people were always who you were always fighting AGAINST. These two-bit Albanian Mafia thugs are now who you are fighting FOR. When you make a deal with the Devil, you wind up with some very ugly bedfellows!

But if it is just a matter of needing to expend testosterone, real guts would be turning the guns the other way to defend churches and helpless Serb Christian old people who get beaten up by these thugs who we are defending, instead of defending Albanian church destroyers, drug-running and sex slavery. But no one has the stones for that. Better to keep running in the same direction -- off that cliff -- and pretend you are "a hero" than to actually be one!

6 posted on 02/28/2008 2:00:57 PM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe
Perhaps the Albanian mafia has issued similar threats as the Serbs have, but I'm not aware of them.

I expect this latest incident will prompt NATO to crack down on the Albanian mobsters. It's time to drop the hammer on those criminals.

7 posted on 02/28/2008 2:28:22 PM PST by HAL9000 ("If someone who has access to the press says something over and over again, people believe it"- B.C.)
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To: HAL9000; Bokababe
I expect this latest incident will prompt NATO to crack down on the Albanian mobsters.

Dream on! NATO's mission in Kosovo is to avoid conflict!

8 posted on 02/28/2008 2:39:44 PM PST by F-117A (Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: HAL9000
"I expect this latest incident will prompt NATO to crack down on the Albanian mobsters. It's time to drop the hammer on those criminals."

They've had nine years to "drop the hammer" on them. If they didn't do it then, they aren't going to start now.

Jim Jatras of the American Council on Kosovo was at a Conference on Kosovo last year with senior EU Reps. Virtually all of these EU ministers acknowledged the truth about the Albanian drug-running and sex-slavery that the Albanian Mafia was running in Kosovo, along with the destruction to Serbian churches.

So Jim asks them, "So why are you still willing to grant them independence if you know all this?". The reply, "Because we are afraid of them."

9 posted on 02/28/2008 2:57:51 PM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: gitmogrunt
KNUCKLE HEADED FREEPERS AND McCAIN LOVERS WHO HATE SERBS PLEASE NOTE IT WAS A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO(2) ALBANIAN CRIMINAL GANGS, NOT CHRISTIAN SERBS, WHO ARE YOUR ALLIES AGAINST ISLAMIC TERROR.

You forgot to put that in bold. (-;

10 posted on 02/28/2008 3:01:51 PM PST by PeterFinn (I am not voting for McCain. No way, no how.)
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To: HAL9000
So we should expect more incidents from both Albanians and Serbs.

Only in anti-Serb fantasies is that true; reality will show differently.

11 posted on 02/28/2008 4:04:55 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: PeterFinn
Thanks for the assist.. I agree it looks much better in Bold.
12 posted on 02/28/2008 4:17:20 PM PST by gitmogrunt (Conservative and Republican are NOT synonymous.)
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To: Bokababe

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38b7e6657eee.htm.


13 posted on 02/28/2008 4:20:29 PM PST by gitmogrunt (FACT:Johnny and his backers are on the wrong side of this fight, must be blind in one eye.)
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To: PeterFinn; gitmogrunt
KNUCKLE HEADED FREEPERS AND McCAIN LOVERS WHO HATE SERBS PLEASE NOTE IT WAS A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO(2) ALBANIAN CRIMINAL GANGS, NOT CHRISTIAN SERBS, WHO ARE YOUR ALLIES AGAINST ISLAMIC TERROR.

Put it in bold and emphasize with links.

John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists

McCAIN AND THE KLA CONNECTION

14 posted on 02/28/2008 6:43:26 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Bokababe; Kronos; DTA
The three killed are all ethnic Albanians (of course Serbs don't live in that area anymore) and one of them was only 16. Wasn't Srbica where the KLA was first formed or the place its main headquarters?

...Umsak added that the KFOR soldier had been on patrol, and had got caught up near the scene of the crime by chance.

An argument, followed by an armed confrontation with three fatalities and injuries took place in Prizren's central square, Šadrvan, at around 1530.

The regional police said that the victims were Arber Kransiqi (24), Jon Kuzini (16) and Nue Kqira (40). Two of the men were from Srbica, and one from the village of Smac; in the Prizren municipality.

The police have arrested one person on suspicion of triple murder, though the individual has not been named. The motive of the attack is not yet known and an investigation is under way.

Šadrvan Square is increasingly becoming a scene of clashes, fights, and murders.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=02&dd=28&nav_id=48033


15 posted on 02/29/2008 8:09:53 AM PST by joan
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To: HAL9000
A pox on both their houses.

There's not one single strategic American interest at risk in that rat hole.

Let 'em kill each other for the next thousand years.

L

16 posted on 02/29/2008 8:31:56 AM PST by Lurker (Pimping my blog: http://lurkerslair-lurker.blogspot.com/)
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To: TigersEye; gitmogrunt

Amen - more substantiation for my tag line.


17 posted on 02/29/2008 4:31:13 PM PST by PeterFinn (I am not voting for McCain. No way, no how.)
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To: MaxMax

There have been American Soldiers that were wounded and a few killed courtesy of our allies, the Albanians....mainly in the northern sector closer to the Serbian partition.


18 posted on 02/29/2008 11:17:01 PM PST by ma bell (bollocks... its just bollocks)
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To: PeterFinn

I am sure glad that we don’t have any criminal gangs shooting at each other in the USA!! /sarc


19 posted on 02/29/2008 11:30:57 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?)
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To: Bokababe
The NATO peace keeper was probably raping some woman and got caught by her boyfriend.
20 posted on 02/29/2008 11:33:30 PM PST by antiunion person (President McCain, what a disgusting phrase.)
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