[NYC Republican]

Ethnic albanians who lived there' have done a hell of a job of increasing their numbers while continuing to exclude the Serbs who also lived there.... It was an invasion and one that we aided and abetted.

Are you on drugs, or just lying through your teeth? What invasion???

[Burkeman1]

You can be excused because Fox News nor do the rest of American media follow anything at all in Serbia since Clinton.

[Gael]

Sounds like an invasion to me:

Berisha is based on his family estate in Prist, near Tropoje, where he has become the de facto independent ruler of northern Albania. He has allowed the KLA to establish major command centers and training camps at Bajram Curi, Tropoja, Krum, Kuks, and Peskopeja.

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In the same vein as the KLA’s demand that all able bodied men within Kosovo join its ranks, the KLA has also made a similar demand upon Kosovo Albanians living elsewhere. According to the Washington Times (April 20, 1999), the only Albanians that the KLA considers exempt are those who are ill or those who are in a position to significantly aid the KLA financially. According to the same report, the KLA has raised literally thousands of volunteers from the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and other countries. Of course the vast majority of these foreign volunteers have no military experience at all, so they are formed into “foreign units” and largely used as cannon fodder or for propaganda purposes behind the lines.

To supplement their manpower with trained fighters, the KLA has also relied heavily upon foreign mercenaries and Islamic fundamentalist mujahedin from elsewhere. At the training facilities in northern Albania, mercenaries and other former officers from Albania, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and elsewhere have been training KLA volunteers, recruits and conscripts. At the same time, many Islamic mujahedin, many of whom are combat experienced fighters (veterans of other conflicts in Afghanistan, Sudan, the Kashmir, &c), have been identified in Albania proper. However, the U.S. as well as INTERPOL has been working with the legitimate government of Albania to keep these mujahedin out of Albania. Thus far, there has only been one confirmed report of mujahedin actually fighting inside of Kosovo and this was a mixed unit serving in a support role for KLA units in the Drenica region in late 1998. There are exhaustive reports online detailing various stories of KLA-mujahedin cooperation on Kosovo, but it is hard to say exactly how reliable this information is, therefore the full scope of this cooperation remains a mystery.

[norton]

Am I on drugs?
Yeah, you busted me; it's the caffene talking.

Lying?
Not so's you'd notice.
We, the USA, tore up a sovereign nation and handed large parts of it over to Albania and to whichever financial interests in the west (Germany, France come to mind) thought they'd benefit from it.

We did it because (take your pick) our president wanted us looking the other way, our state department wanted to make nice with both the islamic world and revisionist european politicians, or just because Bill Clinton wanted to show that he was indeed the commander in chief.

It was wrong.

It still ain't right.

After witnessing part of the Albanian [Kosovar] influx in your fair city; I believe even more strongly that we backed the bad guys and that we should in some manner step up to it as part of any war on terror.