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My analysis of the situation was several weeks ahead of this story. NATO is slow on the uptake. THE BALKANS: Albanian Guerillas in Serbia Again

Albanians Stall Macedonian Vote on Peace (So Al-Qaeda can move in forces for the winter offensive)

Macedonian Soldier Wounded (The First Round of Al-Qaeda's Winter Offensive)

I wrote this a few weeks ago:

On Friday, the presidents of Yugoslavia and Macedonia pledged to launch a joint struggle against any resurgent ethnic Albanian militant activity, promising defense cooperation and coordinated security efforts along their borders. The leaders did not give specifics on the plans.

Yugo intelligence has warned of the influx of Al-Qaeda cadres entering the Balkans since the air war in Afghanistan. These cadres are linking up with Albanians of the KLA in Kosovo and streaming over from Kosovo into positions around Tetovo. Tensions have been fanned by reports in nationalist media, dismissed by diplomats and even the moderate defense ministry as anti-reform disinformation, that rebels are remobilizing with reinforcements streaming in by night from Kosovo.

The Yugoslavs and FYROMacedonians were stunned that NATO chooses to ignore this information, and even ridiculed it; NATO to FYROM: Those rebels are hairy Albanians not Osama bin Laden's mujahideen. This has forced Yugoslavia and FYROM to unite military and intelligence resources.

NATO is either blind or politically compromised due to its past support for the Albanians.

NATO is finished as a force in the Balkans. The Albanians have taken their measure of NATO's capabilities and have brushed them aside. NATO will be left alone for now until the word is given Christmas time by Al-Qaeda. Camp Bondsteel will provide a plump feast for the holidays for Al-Qaeda's allies the UCK Albanians (KLA). KOSOVO: Prisoners of Fear (The US Military in Kosovo)

Camp Bondsteel's supply life line passes through the ambush country of Kacanik.

Look to the Kacanik Canyon. Watch for snow. The Barbarians are at the gate.

1 posted on 11/24/2001 4:41:11 PM PST by Pericles
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To: Pericles
Valentin declined to offer specifics on what the 44,000 NATO-led peacekeepers might do or whether he believed Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network was using the largely Muslim southern Yugoslav province for operations. But he said he was prepared ``to strike at the right place at the right time.''

It is a hard thing to admit that our current (or is it former allies now?) were in league with al-Qaeda.

Read more about it at BIN LADEN GATE.

2 posted on 11/24/2001 4:46:52 PM PST by Pericles
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To: vooch; Fusion; Travis McGee; Hamiltonian; randalcousins; Black Jade; Hoplite; Putnik_1915
FYI-please bump around.
3 posted on 11/24/2001 4:48:39 PM PST by Pericles
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To: Pericles
I am sure this is a coincidence: Albanian Arrested With False ID at Dam; Sought For Deportation (Feared Water Reservoir Tampering)
4 posted on 11/24/2001 4:51:03 PM PST by Pericles
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To: Wallaby; Anochka; Askel5; aristeides; Black Jade; Boyd; Joe Montana; robbinsj
Come on in the water is fine....
5 posted on 11/24/2001 4:58:13 PM PST by Pericles
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To: Pericles
*************"The United Nations and NATO took control of the province after the alliance's 78-day bombing campaign that forced Milosevic to end his crackdown on independence-minded ethnic Albanians."************************************

Well, that is one way of saying COUNTER-INSURGENCY CAMPAIGN!

6 posted on 11/24/2001 5:01:14 PM PST by Chapita
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To: Pericles
Also check out Amnesty Int'l's latest report. Here: Kosovo Elections
13 posted on 11/24/2001 5:40:41 PM PST by Dragonfly
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To: Pericles
Lez hope that the KLA Mujhadeen don't try anything massively stupid against Kacanik....already they have killed some 75 Kfor soldiers
14 posted on 11/24/2001 6:08:38 PM PST by vooch
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To: Pericles
it's true of course that the Albanian agitators were in fact supported strongly by the Americans since at least 1995 when you consider conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia. and it is true that these people have been allied with Bin Laden, etc. There is overwhelming evidence of this special relationship we had with them even though it is not officially acknowledged and our media is silent on it.

We hope very strongly that after 9/11 the Americans pulled a strong about-face with regards to that relationship. We will not be certain of this until we see the Albanians attack the Americans strongly. This is how I see it.

I think though that if the Albanians are in military conflict with the Americans at Bondsteel that the Albanians will be surprised by our strength and determination.

16 posted on 11/24/2001 6:23:01 PM PST by Red Jones
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To: Pericles; Dragonfly
Obilic, Belgrade - Smiljka Milosavljevic /60/ was killed, while her husband Slobodan /68/ was seriously injured the day before yesterday when Albanians opened fire on them. Smiljka and Slobodan were on train returning from Zvecan to Obilic. This is the first serious incident in Kosovo and Metohija since elections held on November 17.

The train that connects Serbian enclaves in central Kosovo with the north of the province was a target of attack by Albanian population on several occasions.

Chief of Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija Nebojsa Covic sent yesterday severe protest to UNMIK on the occasion of attack on Milosavljevic couple just a hundred of meters away from the railway station in Obilic. 'It is necessary that UNMIK and KFOR find killers [terrorists] as urgent as possible and prevent such crimes in future', Covic said.

Terrorism under their noses

17 posted on 11/24/2001 6:29:12 PM PST by F-117A
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To: Pericles
With efforts to build Kosovo's police going well, NATO's top commander here said alliance forces may be able to focus on keeping the province from becoming a haven for international terrorists and on fighting organized crime.

what is lord robertson going to do when he finds out that the terrorist and organized crime thugs are the very same police force that nato installed? better yet what will the good limey do when he finds out that we already know?

18 posted on 11/24/2001 6:58:14 PM PST by IRtorqued
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To: Pericles
Yes, you have been out ahead on this story. Thank you for tracking it.

The writer's opening sentence is a model of upbeat propaganda, a line flawlessly delivered, with no hint of hypocrisy. "With efforts to build Kosovo's police going well....": This, from a writer fully aware of the murderous aftermath of the illegal attack on Yugoslavia, and the ongoing occupation of Kosovo. No evidence is provided as to why the "efforts to build Kosovo's police" are "going well"--though there is massive evidence to the contrary, evidence that evidently hinders the writer's propaganda model. And to state that NATO now hopes to "focus on keeping the province from becoming a haven for international terrorists and on fighting organized crime,"means that now, deus ex machina, NATO has the power to do what it said it would do anddid not do, nor intend to do: Provide security for the vulnerable, and disarm and arrest criminals and terrorists.

"Troops now engaged in routine tasks such as guarding their own barracks....": One almost imagines a sentence such as this is written for comic relief, or to see if anyone is really listening, or alive. Here in a pathetic image is the policy of "force protection," at the expense, of course, of those that should have been protected.

The writer also states that because the ethnic Albanians and Serbs now "have a greater voice in how the province is run, they will become more accountable for Kosovo's ups and downs...." Ups and downs? Murder and mayhem? Here, the writer diminishes the murders and vicious attacks, veiling the catastrophe: Why? Maybe, it is a simple as maintaining access to sources and staying safe in Pristina.

24 posted on 11/24/2001 10:11:08 PM PST by Oplenac
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To: Pericles
Thanks for the links. I wonder how NATO would react if bin Laden turned up in Kosovo, Bosnia, or Albania.
25 posted on 11/25/2001 2:55:19 PM PST by aristeides
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