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To: Hoplite
Sorry, the numbers didn't come from the KLA.

From the link: "The Wall Street Journal now has learned many of the refugees' tales of atrocities were told not to independent human rights activists but to the KLA, which had a vested interest in embellishing and fabricating the facts."

As for the bodies found in Serbia itself, yup, I'm sure some of the terrorists were executed, just as we would execute them here if we caught them alive. And I'll concede that many others were probably enemies of Milosevic (Serb, Albanian, or other) who were "educated" of the error of their ways. If that's the case, then he should be held responsible. But the KLA is also reported by the HRW to have killed Albanians who "collaborated" with the Serbs. Where is your outrage at this?

That war was going on long before Milosevic came into power, and just because he was a bad guy doesn't mean we allied ourselves with the good guys.

125 posted on 09/19/2001 5:15:46 PM PDT by Balto_Boy
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To: Balto_Boy
This war was going on long before Osama Bin Laden decided to declare a Jihad against America, and Milosevic's assaults on the Muslim residents of Bosnia and Kosovo had nothing to do with fighting Osama Bin Laden.

I reiterate, my info doesn't come from the KLA.

I've always stated that the KLA are a bunch of Marxist losers - Milosevic had the bad sense to follow his political instincts and become a worse player than they were, in the process turning what was a small group of families into the core of a nationalistic movement which offered the only opposition to a police and military force who's abysmal lack of concern for civil rights bit them in the ass whenever a Kosovar Albanian thought to himself "I'm not a KLA member, but the Police don't care about that when they stop us on the street...".

Milosevic made the KLA by sidelining Rugova as a viable alternative, and the KLA was his undoing. There's something fitting there.

Once Macedonia is stabilized, the KLA/NLA/UCPMB/whatever will fade back into the back alleys of the Balkans and get back to their small time hoodlum roots and spend their days competing with the Italian and Turkish Mafias to supply European Herion needs, instead of being relevant players on the international scene.

Lastly, you'll note we give terrorists trials here and don't play 'hide the bodies'.

127 posted on 09/19/2001 5:39:03 PM PDT by Hoplite
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