Posted on 03/03/2008 5:48:51 AM PST by jhpigott
Serbia has retaken control of a stretch of railway line in northern Kosovo, a senior Serb official has said. Branislav Ristivojevic, who heads Serbia's state-run railway company, said Belgrade had restored control over the 50km (30-mile) Lesak-Zvecan line.
Earlier, Serb rail workers stopped a train on the line, saying they would not work for Kosovo's rail firms.
Belgrade and Kosovo Serbs refuse to recognise Kosovo's declaration of independence last month.
Last week, some 150 Kosovo Serb police officers were suspended for refusing to take orders from the ethnic Albanian authorities in Kosovo's capital, Pristina.
Serb police officers protested in the Gracanica enclave
All are based in the same area of the south-east and they are asking to be put under the direct command of the local United Nations mission (Unmik).
The Kosovo Police Service (KPS) said talks were under way with Serb officers working in other parts of the south.
Serb KPS officers in the northern Serb stronghold around Mitrovica already only take orders from Unmik.
Some 700 ethnic Serbs serve in the 7,000-strong KPS, created by Unmik after it took control of Kosovo at the end of the 1998-99 war.
ping
Gaza goes hot, 3 intel agencies advising their folks to get out of Lebanon, we are moving naval assets right off the Lebanese coast, Chavez and Ecuador recalling their Columbian ambassadors and moving troops and armor to the border . . . and now this story
Whoa.
Not sure I’d do any differently if I was a Serb in Kosovo.
And so it begins......
All against the backdrop of a world financial and commodity crisis.
well, it’s not as if wars haven’t been used in the past as a means to pull economies out of recession/depression
Serbs, seize the rail lines, let the UN resupply by air and truck.Let the UN feed the druglord bandit king ,head chopping, Christian murdering and raping, church burning religion of peace monsters.
Moslem Kosovo is a corrupt narco-entity and will remain a festering sore.
I kind of like your idea!
And the USA Presidential election
You forgot North Korea -— it is buzzing hot.
Cyprus is about to get really hot.
And FYROM
BUMP
Send lawyers, guns and money....the s has hit the fan....
Come on guys. Read the headline ‘re-takes’. What do you think is going to happen? Do you think that Serb troops are going to flood over the border now using the railway line? KFOR controls the border. Serbia can only claim the railway line in name. It can’t officially hold it or stop KFOR from terminating the running of the trains.
I would like to be the first to recognize their hard won independence!
Whom are you referring to?
I meant the remaining Serbs in Kosavo. I mean if we’re going to go around and recognize everyone’s independence will nilly I just wanted to get an early start on it.
I’m thinking of starting my own country at the local little league park. How does Secretary of State sound to you my friend?
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