Posted on 02/02/2003 2:44:14 PM PST by Destro
Serbia Wants Its Troops Back in Kosovo in Case of Iraq War
VOA News
02 Feb 2003, 20:24 UTC The Serbian government has asked NATO for permission to send its troops back to Kosovo in case of a war in Iraq.
Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic says Serb troops would fill any security vacuum in the province if NATO withdraws its soldiers for military action against Iraq, although there are no immediate plans to do so.
Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations since 1999, after a NATO-led air campaign ended then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on the region's ethnic Albanian majority.
A senior advisor to Kosovo's Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi criticized Mr. Djindjic's request. He said that any tendency to return Serbian forces to Kosovo would be an attempt to destabilize the province and the whole region.
Some information for this report provided by AP.
Now if you and others like you insist on protecting a rogue mafia state (that continues to accept billions from the US to "support" us) that continues to deny and harm those who are not Muslim Turks then so be it.
In short, to call me or anyone else the "lunatic fringe" or "obsessed" is not a problem for me especially when it comes from a holocaust denier and someone ignorant of history.
On January 24, 1995, in the British television aired BBC Program Panorama: "After repeated incidents in which broken cease-fires and suspicious explosions were blamed on Serbian forces, the UN obtained a counterbattery radar to track mortar shells fired in the Sarajevo area. UN Commander Rose takes the BBC camera crew and Foreign Editor John Simpson to the previously secret location of counterbattery radar.
(footage of Sarajevo resident scrambling for cover)
Simpson (voice-over): It was by far the worst outbreak of violence since the cease-fire in February. Nobody knew who was responsible but they assumed it was the Serbs. The UN, though realized it was Bosnian government troops - firing from close beside some of the most sensitive places in the city, including Rose headquarters and the hospital"
At the same program, story and footage of fighting in Gorazde; Simpson: " As we flew over, things seemed completely devastated. Once again things were quite what they seemed even though a Pentagon advisor said a satellite photo showed that nearly every house had been damaged.
ROSE: Yes, nearly every house in Gorazde had been damaged. But most of the damage was done in the fighting that was done two years before (1992), when the Bosnian government forces drove the Serbs from this town. And there were twelve and half thousand Serbs here at that time and they were all driven off.
(View on completely distroyed uninhabited Serbian home)
Rose: the way to distinguish a house that has been damaged by fighting where a shell has hit it, or a house that has been damaged by ethnic cleansing is: If its got no roof, no doors and no window frames and nothing in the house at all and there are burn marks around it and bullets spread around the walls - this is a house that has been damaged by ethnical cleansing.
(View on slightly damaged Muslim home)
A house that has been damaged by shelling has a shell hole in it, and there are still, people trying to live in that building with all their furniture because they got nowhere else to go. That's something that you cannot see from satellite. And of course at that time , the international image of what had happened in Gorazde was very different from the reality.
At the end let me use example from the book "Balkan Odyssey" by Lord David Oven, page 106: "An UNMO team near Kosevo hospital in Sarajevo had witnessed a Bosnian government mortar crew set up in the grounds of the hospital and fire over the hospital into a Serb area. They had quickly packed up and gone, only for the UNMOs to see a television crew arrive and then record the retaliatory Serb shelling of the hospital It was the very hospital that I had visited the month before and which had so shocked me with its shell holes in the recovery room. I asked General Morillon why the UN had not gone public on the issue; he wanted the truth out but said 'we've got to live here"
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